{"id":197031,"date":"2025-04-29T11:41:46","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T09:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/africa-all-of-africa-today-april-29-2025\/"},"modified":"2025-04-29T11:41:46","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T09:41:46","slug":"africa-all-of-africa-today-april-29-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/africa-all-of-africa-today-april-29-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: All of Africa Today &#8211; April 29, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"1\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"8\"><strong>Former Namibia Minister Denied Bail in Rape Case<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"111\">Namibia&#8217;s Agriculture Minister, Mac-Albert Hengari, was <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202504290042.html\" rel=\"noopener\">dismissed<\/a> after being accused of raping a 16-year-old girl five years ago.\u00a0He was arrested after allegedly attempting to bribe the now 21-year-old survivor to drop the case. He was denied <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202504290034.html\" rel=\"noopener\">bail<\/a> after appearing in court\u00a0and faces charges of kidnapping, rape, and assault.\u00a0The 59-year-old denied wrongdoing.\u00a0Hengari told The Namibian he\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202504280023.html\" rel=\"noopener\">resigned<\/a> from his position, which marked the first&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202504290098.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>\u00a0 Former Namibia Minister Denied Bail in Rape Case Namibia&#8217;s Agriculture Minister, Mac-Albert Hengari, was dismissed after being accused of raping a 16-year-old girl five years ago.\u00a0He was arrested after allegedly attempting to bribe the now 21-year-old survivor to drop the case. He was denied bail after appearing in court\u00a0and faces charges of kidnapping, rape, [&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":[258,256,8142,257,254,6637,421],"class_list":["post-197031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-april","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-today","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197031","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=197031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197031\/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=197031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}