{"id":216189,"date":"2025-12-09T22:00:57","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T20:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-magaya-rape-and-fraud-trial-slated-for-january\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T22:00:57","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T20:00:57","slug":"zimbabwe-magaya-rape-and-fraud-trial-slated-for-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-magaya-rape-and-fraud-trial-slated-for-january\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Magaya Rape and Fraud Trial Slated for January"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">The trial date for Prophetic Healing and Deliverance Ministries founder Walter Magaya, who is accused of rape, has been set for January 26, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">In a case of fraud where Magaya, his wife Tendai, Planet Africa and Yadah Connect&#8211;in which they are all co-accused&#8211;was also remanded to January 26, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">This follows after the State, represented by Clemence Chimbari, indicated the High Court would hear the case once indictments are finalised.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"7\">Magistrate Marehwanazvo Gofa presided over the matter.<\/p>\n<p><!--\/.story-footer-link--><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512090412.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>The trial date for Prophetic Healing and Deliverance Ministries founder Walter Magaya, who is accused of rape, has been set for January 26, 2026. In a case of fraud where Magaya, his wife Tendai, Planet Africa and Yadah Connect&#8211;in which they are all co-accused&#8211;was also remanded to January 26, 2026. This follows after the State, [&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":[258,256,8666,8971,24801,257,305,10959,254,6564,4686,421],"class_list":["post-216189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-fraud","tag-january","tag-magaya","tag-news","tag-rape","tag-slated","tag-south-africa-today","tag-trial","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216189","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=216189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216189\/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=216189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}