{"id":201201,"date":"2025-06-29T13:52:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-29T11:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-shamva-man-jailed-30-years-for-murder\/"},"modified":"2025-06-29T13:52:00","modified_gmt":"2025-06-29T11:52:00","slug":"zimbabwe-shamva-man-jailed-30-years-for-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-shamva-man-jailed-30-years-for-murder\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Shamva Man Jailed 30 Years for Murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">High Court judge Justice Esther Muremba has slapped a 24-year-old Shamva man with a 30-year jail term following his conviction for killing an artisanal miner in cold blood back in 2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">Claude Makoto was convicted after a full trial with the court hearing that he was only 18 when he killed Christopher Samu, a 37-year-old man, on 3 August 2019 at Nherera Mine in Shamva.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">It was proved that Makoto was part of a gang that included Onias Sindura, Robert Sindura, Tinashe Zvinairo, Bhaureni Chingwaru,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202506270493.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>High Court judge Justice Esther Muremba has slapped a 24-year-old Shamva man with a 30-year jail term following his conviction for killing an artisanal miner in cold blood back in 2019. Claude Makoto was convicted after a full trial with the court hearing that he was only 18 when he killed Christopher Samu, a 37-year-old [&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":[258,256,5696,6867,304,257,25315,254,5114,4686,421],"class_list":["post-201201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-jailed","tag-man","tag-murder","tag-news","tag-shamva","tag-south-africa-today","tag-years","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201201","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=201201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201201\/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=201201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}