{"id":213780,"date":"2025-11-16T09:01:31","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T07:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-sikhala-applauds-south-africas-independent-judiciary-after-release-on-bail\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T09:01:31","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T07:01:31","slug":"zimbabwe-sikhala-applauds-south-africas-independent-judiciary-after-release-on-bail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-sikhala-applauds-south-africas-independent-judiciary-after-release-on-bail\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Sikhala Applauds South Africa&#8217;s &#8216;Independent Judiciary&#8217; After Release On Bail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">Opposition leader Job Sikhala has praised South Africa&#8217;s judiciary as &#8220;independent and professional&#8221; following his release on R10,000 bail after spending five days in custody on charges of possessing explosives.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">Sikhala was arrested last Friday, together with his elderly uncle, Alexander Thema, after explosives were reportedly found in his vehicle following a tip-off to the South African Police Service (SAPS). The pair deny the allegations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">According to the prosecution, a search of the vehicle by&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202511140084.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 praised South Africa&#8217;s judiciary as &#8220;independent and professional&#8221; following his release on R10,000 bail after spending five days in custody on charges of possessing explosives. Sikhala was arrested last Friday, together with his elderly uncle, Alexander Thema, after explosives were reportedly found in his vehicle following a tip-off to the [&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":[258,256,6287,9919,7900,7523,9830,257,6011,29299,5069,254,4686,421],"class_list":["post-213780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-africas","tag-applauds","tag-bail","tag-independent","tag-judiciary","tag-news","tag-release","tag-sikhala","tag-south","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213780","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=213780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213780\/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=213780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}