{"id":197818,"date":"2025-05-10T12:07:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-10T10:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-trio-arrested-for-torturing-suspected-vegetable-thief-to-death\/"},"modified":"2025-05-10T12:07:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-10T10:07:10","slug":"zimbabwe-trio-arrested-for-torturing-suspected-vegetable-thief-to-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-trio-arrested-for-torturing-suspected-vegetable-thief-to-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Trio Arrested for Torturing Suspected Vegetable Thief to Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">Three Mutare men have been arrested for fatally assaulting a suspected vegetable thief after tying him to a tree.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"9\">The incident occurred on Tuesday in Mutare&#8217;s Dangamvura suburb.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"12\">Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) national spokesperson, Commissioner Paul Nyathi, confirmed the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">&#8220;Police in Mutare arrested Brighton Kaisa (27), Oliver Kaisa (28) and Garikai Saungwena (50) in connection with a case of murder which occurred at a house in Dangamvura on May 6, 2025,&#8221; said Nyathi.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">&#8220;The suspects&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202505090162.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>Three Mutare men have been arrested for fatally assaulting a suspected vegetable thief after tying him to a tree. The incident occurred on Tuesday in Mutare&#8217;s Dangamvura suburb. Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) national spokesperson, Commissioner Paul Nyathi, confirmed the incident. &#8220;Police in Mutare arrested Brighton Kaisa (27), Oliver Kaisa (28) and Garikai Saungwena (50) in [&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":[258,256,4304,6974,257,254,7846,30845,18440,9775,11447,4686,421],"class_list":["post-197818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-arrested","tag-death","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-suspected","tag-thief","tag-torturing","tag-trio","tag-vegetable","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197818","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=197818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197818\/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=197818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}