{"id":208438,"date":"2025-09-28T19:10:51","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T17:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-high-court-lifts-asset-freeze-on-businessman-zangairais-24-properties-slams-prosecutor-general-for-inaction\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T19:10:51","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T17:10:51","slug":"zimbabwe-high-court-lifts-asset-freeze-on-businessman-zangairais-24-properties-slams-prosecutor-general-for-inaction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-high-court-lifts-asset-freeze-on-businessman-zangairais-24-properties-slams-prosecutor-general-for-inaction\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: High Court Lifts Asset Freeze On Businessman Zangairai&#8217;s 24 Properties, Slams Prosecutor-General for &#8216;Inaction&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">The High Court has lifted a two-year asset freeze on properties belonging to businessman Tobias Zangairai, ruling that the Prosecutor-General failed to act on allegations of unexplained wealth despite obtaining an interim order in 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">Justice Benjamin Chikowero said it would be &#8220;unjust&#8221; to keep the order in place indefinitely without prosecution or civil forfeiture proceedings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"55\">&#8220;The order was never meant to remain in force in perpetuity,&#8221; ruled Justice Chikowero. &#8220;The Prosecutor-General has not&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509260118.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 has lifted a two-year asset freeze on properties belonging to businessman Tobias Zangairai, ruling that the Prosecutor-General failed to act on allegations of unexplained wealth despite obtaining an interim order in 2023. Justice Benjamin Chikowero said it would be &#8220;unjust&#8221; to keep the order in place indefinitely without prosecution or civil forfeiture [&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":[258,256,6396,18594,6185,11538,6184,14479,7840,257,14665,52442,9757,254,52441,4686,421],"class_list":["post-208438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-asset","tag-businessman","tag-court","tag-freeze","tag-high","tag-inaction","tag-lifts","tag-news","tag-properties","tag-prosecutorgeneral","tag-slams","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zangairais","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208438","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=208438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208438\/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=208438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}