{"id":209897,"date":"2025-10-15T07:45:29","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T05:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-josephine-mutongi-arrested-over-kuwadzana-extension-tragedy\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T07:45:29","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T05:45:29","slug":"zimbabwe-josephine-mutongi-arrested-over-kuwadzana-extension-tragedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-josephine-mutongi-arrested-over-kuwadzana-extension-tragedy\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Josephine Mutongi Arrested Over Kuwadzana Extension Tragedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">SOCIAL media personality Josephine Mutongi has been arrested in connection with the tragedy in Kuwadzana Extension in which three kids were found dead in the trunk of a car.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"9\">National Police spokesperson Commissioner Paul Nyathi confirmed the arrest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"7\">Mutongi gained notoriety during the recent tragedy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"12\">She organised a public march, urging participants to wear white in solidarity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"7\">However, her actions have sparked significant backlash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">At the funeral, she allegedly collected cash donations from&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510150061.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>SOCIAL media personality Josephine Mutongi has been arrested in connection with the tragedy in Kuwadzana Extension in which three kids were found dead in the trunk of a car. National Police spokesperson Commissioner Paul Nyathi confirmed the arrest. Mutongi gained notoriety during the recent tragedy. She organised a public march, urging participants to wear white [&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":[258,256,4304,11644,52583,32644,52584,257,254,13662,4686,421],"class_list":["post-209897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-arrested","tag-extension","tag-josephine","tag-kuwadzana","tag-mutongi","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tragedy","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209897","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=209897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209897\/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=209897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}