{"id":205870,"date":"2025-08-30T05:50:51","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T03:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-kombi-driver-jailed-given-life-ban-from-driving\/"},"modified":"2025-08-30T05:50:51","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T03:50:51","slug":"zimbabwe-kombi-driver-jailed-given-life-ban-from-driving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-kombi-driver-jailed-given-life-ban-from-driving\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Kombi Driver Jailed, Given Life Ban From Driving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">The Harare Magistrates Court has sentenced a 32-year-old man to two years in prison after he was caught driving against oncoming traffic during rush hour endangering the lives of motorists and pedestrians.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Ruzvidzo Freedom of Hatcliffe was driving a Toyota Hiace when he ignored traffic signals and entered a one-way lane at the busy Second Street (Sam Nujoma) and Upper East Road intersection.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">The incident, which occurred during peak-hour traffic caused major obstruction and panic among other road&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202508290132.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 Harare Magistrates Court has sentenced a 32-year-old man to two years in prison after he was caught driving against oncoming traffic during rush hour endangering the lives of motorists and pedestrians. Ruzvidzo Freedom of Hatcliffe was driving a Toyota Hiace when he ignored traffic signals and entered a one-way lane at the busy Second [&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":[258,256,7185,7768,9694,5696,13430,6448,257,254,4686,421],"class_list":["post-205870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ban","tag-driver","tag-driving","tag-jailed","tag-kombi","tag-life","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205870","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=205870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205870\/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=205870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}