{"id":202454,"date":"2025-07-15T02:25:49","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T00:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-former-minister-mzembis-freedom-bid-flops\/"},"modified":"2025-07-15T02:25:49","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T00:25:49","slug":"zimbabwe-former-minister-mzembis-freedom-bid-flops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-former-minister-mzembis-freedom-bid-flops\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Former Minister Mzembi&#8217;s Freedom Bid Flops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">Harare magistrate Donald Ndirowei has dismissed an application by former Foreign Affairs minister, Walter Mzembi who was challenging his placement on remand.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"11\">No reasons for dismissal of the application were given in court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"12\">Mzembi will be back in court this Friday for trial date allocation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">Mzembi launched the present freedom bid after his bail was revoked for skipping court over the past seven years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Following his arrest last month, Mzembi had his bail revoked by a Harare magistrate who trashed&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507140732.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>Harare magistrate Donald Ndirowei has dismissed an application by former Foreign Affairs minister, Walter Mzembi who was challenging his placement on remand. No reasons for dismissal of the application were given in court. Mzembi will be back in court this Friday for trial date allocation. Mzembi launched the present freedom bid after his bail was [&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":[258,256,10798,16459,7636,5941,51866,257,254,4686,421],"class_list":["post-202454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bid","tag-flops","tag-freedom","tag-minister","tag-mzembis","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202454","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=202454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202454\/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=202454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}