{"id":197892,"date":"2025-05-12T00:11:16","date_gmt":"2025-05-11T22:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-court-boots-out-defiant-tenant-after-10-months-of-rent-dodging\/"},"modified":"2025-05-12T00:11:16","modified_gmt":"2025-05-11T22:11:16","slug":"zimbabwe-court-boots-out-defiant-tenant-after-10-months-of-rent-dodging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-court-boots-out-defiant-tenant-after-10-months-of-rent-dodging\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Court Boots Out Defiant Tenant After 10 Months of Rent Dodging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">A long-frustrated Westgate landlord has finally seen relief as a tenant who had accrued US$4200 in rent arrears over 10 months and resisted all eviction attempts has yielded to legal pressure and agreed to vacate the property following a court order.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">As per their agreement, Ms. Wendy Kugara was obligated to pay the landlord US$350 in monthly rent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">However, Kugara had been occupying the residential property without paying rent for over 10 months, consistently refusing the property owner&#8217;s repeated&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202505090070.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 long-frustrated Westgate landlord has finally seen relief as a tenant who had accrued US$4200 in rent arrears over 10 months and resisted all eviction attempts has yielded to legal pressure and agreed to vacate the property following a court order. As per their agreement, Ms. Wendy Kugara was obligated to pay the landlord US$350 [&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":[258,256,32936,6185,23660,39340,7061,257,20632,254,51324,4686,421],"class_list":["post-197892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-boots","tag-court","tag-defiant","tag-dodging","tag-months","tag-news","tag-rent","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tenant","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197892","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=197892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197892\/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=197892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}