{"id":224444,"date":"2026-02-20T00:47:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T22:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/south-africa-robert-mugabes-son-arrested-after-security-guard-shot-in-hyde-park\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T00:47:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T22:47:18","slug":"south-africa-robert-mugabes-son-arrested-after-security-guard-shot-in-hyde-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/south-africa-robert-mugabes-son-arrested-after-security-guard-shot-in-hyde-park\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa: Robert Mugabe&#8217;s Son Arrested After Security Guard Shot in Hyde Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Bellarmine Chatunga Mugabe, youngest son of late former Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe, was arrested at the Hyde Park property after the shooting.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Police say Bellarmine Chatunga Mugabe allegedly shot the guard after an argument at the house, with investigations ongoing into the incident.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">A security guard is fighting for his life in hospital after being shot at a house in Hyde Park, Johannesburg.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">Emergency services found the guard in a critical condition and rushed him to hospital. Colonel&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602190533.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>Bellarmine Chatunga Mugabe, youngest son of late former Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe, was arrested at the Hyde Park property after the shooting. Police say Bellarmine Chatunga Mugabe allegedly shot the guard after an argument at the house, with investigations ongoing into the incident. A security guard is fighting for his life in hospital after being [&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":[258,256,4304,7445,14372,9272,257,7191,13322,4586,5352,10619,5069,254,421],"class_list":["post-224444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-arrested","tag-guard","tag-hyde","tag-mugabes","tag-news","tag-park","tag-robert","tag-security","tag-shot","tag-son","tag-south","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224444","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=224444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224444\/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=224444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}