{"id":210984,"date":"2025-10-23T20:04:27","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T18:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-roman-catholic-priest-found-not-guilty\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T20:04:27","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T18:04:27","slug":"zimbabwe-roman-catholic-priest-found-not-guilty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-roman-catholic-priest-found-not-guilty\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Roman Catholic Priest Found Not Guilty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">A Bulawayo-based Roman Catholic Priest who had been dragged to court for allegedly blocking Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) officers from arresting his relative, who is accused of defrauding Grain Marketing Board of close to US$100 000, has been found not guilty.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">Father John Sewera appeared on Thursday before Bulawayo Provincial magistrate Richard Ramaboea facing a charge of defeating or obstructing the course of justice under section 184 of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform)&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510230645.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 Bulawayo-based Roman Catholic Priest who had been dragged to court for allegedly blocking Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) officers from arresting his relative, who is accused of defrauding Grain Marketing Board of close to US$100 000, has been found not guilty. Father John Sewera appeared on Thursday before Bulawayo Provincial magistrate Richard Ramaboea facing a [&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":[258,256,10991,11061,257,16224,24866,254,4686,421],"class_list":["post-210984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-catholic","tag-guilty","tag-news","tag-priest","tag-roman","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210984","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=210984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210984\/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=210984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}