{"id":226103,"date":"2026-03-05T13:18:48","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T11:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-chatunga-mugabe-co-accused-bail-application-postponed-after-power-outage-at-gauteng-court\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T13:18:48","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T11:18:48","slug":"zimbabwe-chatunga-mugabe-co-accused-bail-application-postponed-after-power-outage-at-gauteng-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-chatunga-mugabe-co-accused-bail-application-postponed-after-power-outage-at-gauteng-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Chatunga Mugabe, Co-Accused Bail Application Postponed After Power Outage At Gauteng Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">Power outage at the Alexandra Magistrate&#8217;s Court delayed the case against Bellarmine Chatunga Mugabe and Tobias Matonhodze.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">The pair made a brief court appearance on Thursday morning, but the case was postponed to 11 March due to an electricity interruption.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"10\">Mugabe and Matonhodze are expected to face additional new charges.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">Prosecutors have now added two counts of pointing a firearm and contravening the Immigration Act.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">The duo is accused of shooting a 23-year-old employee of Mugabe&#8217;s at his Hyde&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603050392.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>Power outage at the Alexandra Magistrate&#8217;s Court delayed the case against Bellarmine Chatunga Mugabe and Tobias Matonhodze. The pair made a brief court appearance on Thursday morning, but the case was postponed to 11 March due to an electricity interruption. Mugabe and Matonhodze are expected to face additional new charges. Prosecutors have now added two [&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":[258,256,11814,7900,53827,19288,6185,26960,427,257,21058,7397,7047,254,4686,421],"class_list":["post-226103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-application","tag-bail","tag-chatunga","tag-coaccused","tag-court","tag-gauteng","tag-mugabe","tag-news","tag-outage","tag-postponed","tag-power","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226103","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=226103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226103\/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=226103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}