{"id":214521,"date":"2025-11-22T21:17:04","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T19:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-advocate-mpofu-retraction-and-apology\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T21:17:04","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T19:17:04","slug":"zimbabwe-advocate-mpofu-retraction-and-apology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-advocate-mpofu-retraction-and-apology\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Advocate Mpofu Retraction and Apology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"46\">NewZimbabwe.com unreservedly retracts and apologises for an article published under the headline &#8220;Leaked letter accuses judge, top lawyer of conflict of interest.&#8221; The article was based on an anonymous letter alleging a conflict of interest between High Court Judge, Justice Priscilla Munangati-Manongwa, and Advocate Thabani Mpofu.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">By publishing the story without affording Advocate Mpofu his right of response, we fell short of the standards of fairness, balance, and accuracy that we are duty-bound&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202511210151.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>NewZimbabwe.com unreservedly retracts and apologises for an article published under the headline &#8220;Leaked letter accuses judge, top lawyer of conflict of interest.&#8221; The article was based on an anonymous letter alleging a conflict of interest between High Court Judge, Justice Priscilla Munangati-Manongwa, and Advocate Thabani Mpofu. By publishing the story without affording Advocate Mpofu his [&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":[9521,258,256,11938,9782,257,51173,254,4686,421],"class_list":["post-214521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-advocate","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-apology","tag-mpofu","tag-news","tag-retraction","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214521","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=214521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214521\/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=214521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}