{"id":207948,"date":"2025-09-23T06:57:55","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T04:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-grieving-mother-wins-case-against-police-following-childs-death-in-traffic-chaos-police-to-pay-u-s-42000-in-damages\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T06:57:55","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T04:57:55","slug":"zimbabwe-grieving-mother-wins-case-against-police-following-childs-death-in-traffic-chaos-police-to-pay-u-s-42000-in-damages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-grieving-mother-wins-case-against-police-following-childs-death-in-traffic-chaos-police-to-pay-u-s-42000-in-damages\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Grieving Mother Wins Case Against Police Following Child&#8217;s Death in Traffic Chaos, Police to Pay U.S.$42,000 in Damages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">The High Court of Zimbabwe has ruled in favour of a grieving mother, Patricia Dengezi whose one-year-old son was tragically killed during a chaotic traffic incident between pirate taxi operators and the police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">High Court judge Regis Dembure awarded Dengezi US$42,000 in damages, ruling that the police&#8217;s conduct created a chaotic environment that directly contributed to the fatal accident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"10\">Dengezi was represented by Tendai Biti of Biti Law Chambers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nFollow us on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaIdDi8Bqbr263erhw1K\" rel=\"noopener\">WhatsApp<\/a> | <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/allafrica\/\" rel=\"noopener\">LinkedIn<\/a> for the&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509230012.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 High Court of Zimbabwe has ruled in favour of a grieving mother, Patricia Dengezi whose one-year-old son was tragically killed during a chaotic traffic incident between pirate taxi operators and the police. High Court judge Regis Dembure awarded Dengezi US$42,000 in damages, ruling that the police&#8217;s conduct created a chaotic environment that directly contributed [&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":[258,256,6683,6604,7901,10204,6974,30137,7753,257,9105,662,254,9527,52413,6552,4686,421],"class_list":["post-207948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-case","tag-chaos","tag-childs","tag-damages","tag-death","tag-grieving","tag-mother","tag-news","tag-pay","tag-police","tag-south-africa-today","tag-traffic","tag-u-s-42000","tag-wins","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207948","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=207948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207948\/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=207948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}