{"id":199611,"date":"2025-06-06T01:03:48","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T23:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-boardroom-battle-erupts-at-matabeleland-engineering-italian-mafia-accused-of-political-posturing\/"},"modified":"2025-06-06T01:03:48","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T23:03:48","slug":"zimbabwe-boardroom-battle-erupts-at-matabeleland-engineering-italian-mafia-accused-of-political-posturing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-boardroom-battle-erupts-at-matabeleland-engineering-italian-mafia-accused-of-political-posturing\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Boardroom Battle Erupts At Matabeleland Engineering, Italian &#8216;Mafia&#8217; Accused of Political Posturing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">The ongoing conflict among Matabeleland Engineering Private Limited directors Wayne Williams, Regis Maburutse, and former director Tony Renato Sarpo has escalated, with Williams and Maburutse questioning Sarpo&#8217;s consistent habit of name-dropping politicians who are not involved in their company dispute.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">This follows after Sarpo has repeatedly contacted a local publication, frequently name-dropping figures like President Emmerson Mnangagwa, the late former President Robert Mugabe, and the late Vice&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202506050289.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>The ongoing conflict among Matabeleland Engineering Private Limited directors Wayne Williams, Regis Maburutse, and former director Tony Renato Sarpo has escalated, with Williams and Maburutse questioning Sarpo&#8217;s consistent habit of name-dropping politicians who are not involved in their company dispute. This follows after Sarpo has repeatedly contacted a local publication, frequently name-dropping figures like President [&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":[7083,258,256,7887,14496,13300,9231,11712,45028,5290,257,6378,28090,254,4686,421],"class_list":["post-199611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-accused","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-battle","tag-boardroom","tag-engineering","tag-erupts","tag-italian","tag-mafia","tag-matabeleland","tag-news","tag-political","tag-posturing","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199611","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=199611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199611\/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=199611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}