{"id":196483,"date":"2025-04-21T11:24:05","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T09:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-5-years-jail-for-possessing-diamonds\/"},"modified":"2025-04-21T11:24:05","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T09:24:05","slug":"zimbabwe-5-years-jail-for-possessing-diamonds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-5-years-jail-for-possessing-diamonds\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: 5 Years Jail for Possessing Diamonds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">A MAN from Gwalia Farm in Beatrice, Cephas Mukombwe, has been sentenced to five years in prison for unlawful possession of diamonds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"10\">The ruling was delivered by Harare magistrate Mr Isheunesu Matova.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">Mukombwe (45) was found with two diamond pieces valued at US$174,93 while attempting to sell them illegally.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">The case was prosecuted by Ms Faith Mavudzi, representing the State alongside Zimbabwe Republic Police officer Edmore Godo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">On April 4, Mukombwe was reportedly looking for buyers of the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202504210054.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>A MAN from Gwalia Farm in Beatrice, Cephas Mukombwe, has been sentenced to five years in prison for unlawful possession of diamonds. The ruling was delivered by Harare magistrate Mr Isheunesu Matova. Mukombwe (45) was found with two diamond pieces valued at US$174,93 while attempting to sell them illegally. The case was prosecuted by Ms [&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":[258,256,1167,7354,257,20834,254,5114,4686,421],"class_list":["post-196483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-diamonds","tag-jail","tag-news","tag-possessing","tag-south-africa-today","tag-years","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196483","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=196483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196483\/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=196483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}