{"id":214689,"date":"2025-11-24T09:20:33","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T07:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-mpofu-says-shadowy-figures-trying-to-tarnish-his-name\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T09:20:33","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T07:20:33","slug":"zimbabwe-mpofu-says-shadowy-figures-trying-to-tarnish-his-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-mpofu-says-shadowy-figures-trying-to-tarnish-his-name\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Mpofu Says Shadowy Figures Trying to Tarnish His Name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">Constitutional lawyer Advocate Thabani Mpofu believes his hard stance on corruption has made him the anonymous target of malcontents and judges seeking to tarnish his reputation as a legal practitioner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Following an anonymous letter to the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) alleging a conflict of interest with High Court Judge Munangati-Manongwa, Advocate Mpofu believes the attack is direct retaliation for his consistent exposure of corruption within the courts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">The anonymous letter claims&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202511240164.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>Constitutional lawyer Advocate Thabani Mpofu believes his hard stance on corruption has made him the anonymous target of malcontents and judges seeking to tarnish his reputation as a legal practitioner. Following an anonymous letter to the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) alleging a conflict of interest with High Court Judge Munangati-Manongwa, Advocate Mpofu believes the attack [&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":[258,256,10244,9782,257,48741,254,52944,4686,421],"class_list":["post-214689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-figures","tag-mpofu","tag-news","tag-shadowy","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tarnish","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214689","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=214689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214689\/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=214689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}