{"id":197325,"date":"2025-05-03T11:49:44","date_gmt":"2025-05-03T09:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-man-douses-mother-in-law-with-petrol-sets-her-ablaze-in-murder-attempt\/"},"modified":"2025-05-03T11:49:44","modified_gmt":"2025-05-03T09:49:44","slug":"zimbabwe-man-douses-mother-in-law-with-petrol-sets-her-ablaze-in-murder-attempt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-man-douses-mother-in-law-with-petrol-sets-her-ablaze-in-murder-attempt\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Man Douses Mother-in-Law With Petrol, Sets Her Ablaze in Murder Attempt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">A JILTED man from Rusape, Manicaland province, has been arrested for drenching his estranged wife&#8217;s mother with petrol before setting her alight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"13\">The suspect, identified as 43-year-old Abraham Muchapondwa, now faces an attempted murder charge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) national spokesperson, Commissioner Paul Nyathi, confirmed the incident, which left the victim hospitalised after sustaining serious injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">&#8220;Police in Rusape arrested Loveridge Abraham Muchapondwa (43) in connection with a&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202505020082.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 JILTED man from Rusape, Manicaland province, has been arrested for drenching his estranged wife&#8217;s mother with petrol before setting her alight. The suspect, identified as 43-year-old Abraham Muchapondwa, now faces an attempted murder charge. Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) national spokesperson, Commissioner Paul Nyathi, confirmed the incident, which left the victim hospitalised after sustaining serious [&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":[31931,258,256,8083,51272,6867,36877,304,257,7453,7123,254,4686,421],"class_list":["post-197325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-ablaze","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-attempt","tag-douses","tag-man","tag-motherinlaw","tag-murder","tag-news","tag-petrol","tag-sets","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197325","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=197325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197325\/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=197325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}