{"id":209257,"date":"2025-10-08T19:30:50","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T17:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-negligent-driver-lands-behind-bars-for-culpable-homicide\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T19:30:50","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T17:30:50","slug":"zimbabwe-negligent-driver-lands-behind-bars-for-culpable-homicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-negligent-driver-lands-behind-bars-for-culpable-homicide\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Negligent Driver Lands Behind Bars for Culpable Homicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">A Chegutu magistrate has sentenced a 44-year-old Kadoma man to 13 months in prison for causing the death of a pedestrian through negligent driving.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">Panganai Mutize was convicted of culpable homicide when he appeared before the Chegutu Magistrates Court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">The presiding magistrate sentenced Mutize to 13 months&#8217; imprisonment, of which five months were suspended on condition of good behaviour. He will, therefore, serve an effective eight months behind bars. Further, he was banned from driving for three&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510080196.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 Chegutu magistrate has sentenced a 44-year-old Kadoma man to 13 months in prison for causing the death of a pedestrian through negligent driving. Panganai Mutize was convicted of culpable homicide when he appeared before the Chegutu Magistrates Court. The presiding magistrate sentenced Mutize to 13 months&#8217; imprisonment, of which five months were suspended on [&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":[258,256,8212,28887,7768,27021,10639,14484,257,254,4686,421],"class_list":["post-209257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bars","tag-culpable","tag-driver","tag-homicide","tag-lands","tag-negligent","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209257","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=209257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209257\/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=209257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}