{"id":199368,"date":"2025-06-03T00:57:57","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T22:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-mom-kills-toddler-says-childs-father-failing-to-support-upkeep\/"},"modified":"2025-06-03T00:57:57","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T22:57:57","slug":"zimbabwe-mom-kills-toddler-says-childs-father-failing-to-support-upkeep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-mom-kills-toddler-says-childs-father-failing-to-support-upkeep\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Mom Kills Toddler, Says Child&#8217;s Father Failing to Support Upkeep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">Police in Matebeleland North have arrested a 29-year-old woman over the alleged murder of her daughter citing the child&#8217;s father&#8217;s neglect.<\/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=\"27\">&#8220;On May 30, 2025, police in Nyamandlovu arrested Simangaliso Dube (29) in connection with a murder case which occurred in Seafield Estate village on May 28, 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">&#8220;The suspect allegedly strangled her one-year-seven-month-old daughter, Shylet Sibanda, citing&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202506020926.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>Police in Matebeleland North have arrested a 29-year-old woman over the alleged murder of her daughter citing the child&#8217;s father&#8217;s neglect. Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) national spokesperson, Commissioner Paul Nyathi confirmed the incident. &#8220;On May 30, 2025, police in Nyamandlovu arrested Simangaliso Dube (29) in connection with a murder case which occurred in Seafield Estate [&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":[258,256,7901,21944,7903,7500,19066,257,254,6096,25522,32879,4686,421],"class_list":["post-199368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-childs","tag-failing","tag-father","tag-kills","tag-mom","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-support","tag-toddler","tag-upkeep","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199368","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=199368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199368\/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=199368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}