{"id":219817,"date":"2026-01-09T23:10:54","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T21:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-medical-doctor-convicted-of-perjury-escapes-jail\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T23:10:54","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T21:10:54","slug":"zimbabwe-medical-doctor-convicted-of-perjury-escapes-jail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-medical-doctor-convicted-of-perjury-escapes-jail\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Medical Doctor Convicted of Perjury Escapes Jail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"57\">A senior medical doctor and former Registrar of the Medical and Dental Practitioners Council of Zimbabwe, Dr. Collin Benyure who was convicted of perjury after deliberately misleading the court by falsely claiming he had authority to testify on the council&#8217;s behalf has escaped jail by a whisker after a Harare magistrate handed down a wholly suspended sentence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">Magistrate Donald Ndirowei sentenced Benyure to six months wholly suspended for five years on condition of good behaviour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">Dr. Benyure (64)&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601090396.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>A senior medical doctor and former Registrar of the Medical and Dental Practitioners Council of Zimbabwe, Dr. Collin Benyure who was convicted of perjury after deliberately misleading the court by falsely claiming he had authority to testify on the council&#8217;s behalf has escaped jail by a whisker after a Harare magistrate handed down a wholly [&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":[258,256,11361,19813,7848,7354,7417,257,41332,254,4686,421],"class_list":["post-219817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-convicted","tag-doctor","tag-escapes","tag-jail","tag-medical","tag-news","tag-perjury","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219817","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=219817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219817\/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=219817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}