{"id":211125,"date":"2025-10-24T20:06:52","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T18:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-teen-terror-caged-19-year-old-jailed-for-village-armed-robbery\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T20:06:52","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T18:06:52","slug":"zimbabwe-teen-terror-caged-19-year-old-jailed-for-village-armed-robbery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-teen-terror-caged-19-year-old-jailed-for-village-armed-robbery\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Teen Terror Caged! 19-Year-Old Jailed for Village Armed Robbery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">A 19-YEAR-OLD villager from Tshibizwa under Chief Matibe in Beitbridge has been sentenced to eight years behind bars after joining a knife- and gun-wielding gang that robbed a neighbour of cash in a daring midnight raid.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"44\">Givers Mbedzi and three accomplices, who are still on the run, pounced on the unsuspecting villager around 1 AM on 2 June this year. Armed with knives, a pistol and a garden pick, they smashed their way into the man&#8217;s home before demanding money.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">The terrified victim was robbed of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510240431.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 19-YEAR-OLD villager from Tshibizwa under Chief Matibe in Beitbridge has been sentenced to eight years behind bars after joining a knife- and gun-wielding gang that robbed a neighbour of cash in a daring midnight raid. Givers Mbedzi and three accomplices, who are still on the run, pounced on the unsuspecting villager around 1 AM [&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":[35309,258,256,9663,24557,5696,257,1460,254,15459,5045,10217,4686,421],"class_list":["post-211125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-19yearold","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-armed","tag-caged","tag-jailed","tag-news","tag-robbery","tag-south-africa-today","tag-teen","tag-terror","tag-village","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211125","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=211125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211125\/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=211125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}