{"id":198554,"date":"2025-05-22T00:31:37","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T22:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-ccc-mp-chidziva-acquitted-of-rape\/"},"modified":"2025-05-22T00:31:37","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T22:31:37","slug":"zimbabwe-ccc-mp-chidziva-acquitted-of-rape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-ccc-mp-chidziva-acquitted-of-rape\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: CCC MP Chidziva Acquitted of Rape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">Opposition lawmaker for Glenview South, Happymore Chidziva who was accused of raping his wife&#8217;s 16 year old relative has been acquitted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Chidziva, also known as Bvondo, was accused of sexually abusing the minor on three occasions, twice at a local hotel and at a lodge in Waterfalls.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">Prosecutors alleged that the legislator sweet-talked the girl into believing that he would secure employment for her before raping her.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">At one time, he allegedly told the girl that he would secure employment for her&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202505210415.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>Opposition lawmaker for Glenview South, Happymore Chidziva who was accused of raping his wife&#8217;s 16 year old relative has been acquitted. Chidziva, also known as Bvondo, was accused of sexually abusing the minor on three occasions, twice at a local hotel and at a lodge in Waterfalls. Prosecutors alleged that the legislator sweet-talked the girl [&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":[6617,258,256,41401,44962,257,305,254,4686,421],"class_list":["post-198554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-acquitted","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ccc","tag-chidziva","tag-news","tag-rape","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198554","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=198554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198554\/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=198554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}