{"id":212858,"date":"2025-11-07T20:42:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T18:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-job-sikhala-arrested-in-south-africa-over-suspected-attempt-to-smuggle-explosives-into-zimbabwe\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T20:42:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T18:42:06","slug":"zimbabwe-job-sikhala-arrested-in-south-africa-over-suspected-attempt-to-smuggle-explosives-into-zimbabwe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-job-sikhala-arrested-in-south-africa-over-suspected-attempt-to-smuggle-explosives-into-zimbabwe\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Job Sikhala Arrested in South Africa Over Suspected Attempt to Smuggle Explosives Into Zimbabwe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">OPPOSITION leader Job Sikhala has been arrested in South Africa after allegedly attempting to smuggle a considerable amount of explosives into Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">The firebrand Sikhala, who was arrested by the South African Police Service (SAPS) is currently detained at Pretoria Central.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">&#8220;Job Sikhala has been arrested after being caught with explosives on his way to Zimbabwe,&#8221; said a source who declined to be named.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"5\">No further details were shared.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">In images shared with with NewZimbabwe.com, Sikhala can be&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202511070400.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>OPPOSITION leader Job Sikhala has been arrested in South Africa after allegedly attempting to smuggle a considerable amount of explosives into Zimbabwe. The firebrand Sikhala, who was arrested by the South African Police Service (SAPS) is currently detained at Pretoria Central. &#8220;Job Sikhala has been arrested after being caught with explosives on his way to [&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":[258,256,4304,8083,904,9679,257,29299,8472,5069,254,7846,4686,421],"class_list":["post-212858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-arrested","tag-attempt","tag-explosives","tag-job","tag-news","tag-sikhala","tag-smuggle","tag-south","tag-south-africa-today","tag-suspected","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212858","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=212858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212858\/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=212858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}