{"id":195141,"date":"2025-04-01T22:40:48","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T20:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-high-court-blocks-robbers-freedom-bid-citing-dishonest-submissions\/"},"modified":"2025-04-01T22:40:48","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T20:40:48","slug":"zimbabwe-high-court-blocks-robbers-freedom-bid-citing-dishonest-submissions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-high-court-blocks-robbers-freedom-bid-citing-dishonest-submissions\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: High Court Blocks Robber&#8217;s Freedom Bid Citing Dishonest Submissions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Fidelis Munyoro \u2014 Suspected armed robber Thulani Munetsi&#8217;s plea for bail after two years in pretrial detention has yet again been rejected by the High Court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Munetsi, accused of participating in four armed robberies in Harare alongside five accomplices, faces allegations of wielding firearms, issuing threats, and committing violent acts to steal cash, goods, and personal belongings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Justice Esther Muremba, presiding over the case, described Munetsi as unsuitable for bail, citing his dishonesty&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202504010494.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fidelis Munyoro \u2014 Suspected armed robber Thulani Munetsi&#8217;s plea for bail after two years in pretrial detention has yet again been rejected by the High Court. Munetsi, accused of participating in four armed robberies in Harare alongside five accomplices, faces allegations of wielding firearms, issuing threats, and committing violent acts to steal cash, goods, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,10798,7415,6339,6185,16792,7636,6184,257,1840,254,22811,4686,421],"class_list":["post-195141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bid","tag-blocks","tag-citing","tag-court","tag-dishonest","tag-freedom","tag-high","tag-news","tag-robbers","tag-south-africa-today","tag-submissions","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}