{"id":206333,"date":"2025-09-05T18:06:25","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T16:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-former-central-bank-governor-gonos-bid-to-avoid-trial-in-u-s-3-million-debt-case-hits-a-snag\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T18:06:25","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T16:06:25","slug":"zimbabwe-former-central-bank-governor-gonos-bid-to-avoid-trial-in-u-s-3-million-debt-case-hits-a-snag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-former-central-bank-governor-gonos-bid-to-avoid-trial-in-u-s-3-million-debt-case-hits-a-snag\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Former Central Bank Governor Gono&#8217;s Bid to Avoid Trial in U.S.$3 Million Debt Case Hits a Snag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">A bid by the former Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) Governor, Gideon Gono, to avoid trial in a US$3 million debt case has hit a snag after the High Court overturned the latest application for absolution.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">Gono, in his personal capacity and as director of his associate companies, among them Lunar Chickens was dragged to the court for failing to settle a US$3 million loan owed to a South Africa-based firm, ASP Marketing CC.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">The South Africa-based firm ASP Marketing, through Chambati, Mataka &amp; Makonese&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509050145.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>A bid by the former Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) Governor, Gideon Gono, to avoid trial in a US$3 million debt case has hit a snag after the High Court overturned the latest application for absolution. Gono, in his personal capacity and as director of his associate companies, among them Lunar Chickens was dragged to [&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":[258,256,8728,7089,10798,6683,5934,6861,52261,4269,7111,5118,257,31259,254,6564,45490,4686,421],"class_list":["post-206333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-avoid","tag-bank","tag-bid","tag-case","tag-central","tag-debt","tag-gonos","tag-governor","tag-hits","tag-million","tag-news","tag-snag","tag-south-africa-today","tag-trial","tag-u-s-3","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206333","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=206333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206333\/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=206333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}