{"id":226293,"date":"2026-03-07T13:22:58","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T11:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-mutare-man-jailed-20-years-for-car-theft-and-violent-robbery\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T13:22:58","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T11:22:58","slug":"zimbabwe-mutare-man-jailed-20-years-for-car-theft-and-violent-robbery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-mutare-man-jailed-20-years-for-car-theft-and-violent-robbery\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Mutare Man Jailed 20 Years for Car Theft and Violent Robbery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">A 24-year-old Mutare man has been sentenced to 20 years in prison after being convicted of theft of a motor vehicle and another count of robbery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">In a statement, the National Prosecuting Authority of Zimbabwe said Devine Humure was convicted by the Mutare Regional Magistrates&#8217; Court after finding him guilty on a series of committed crimes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">&#8220;The victim had left his Honda Fit motor vehicle idling when the offender took advantage and drove the vehicle away,&#8221; the authority said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nFollow us on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaIdDi8Bqbr263erhw1K\" \/a rel=\"noopener\"><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603060521.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 24-year-old Mutare man has been sentenced to 20 years in prison after being convicted of theft of a motor vehicle and another count of robbery. In a statement, the National Prosecuting Authority of Zimbabwe said Devine Humure was convicted by the Mutare Regional Magistrates&#8217; Court after finding him guilty on a series of committed [&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":[258,256,302,5696,6867,16774,257,1460,254,9201,4979,5114,4686,421],"class_list":["post-226293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-car","tag-jailed","tag-man","tag-mutare","tag-news","tag-robbery","tag-south-africa-today","tag-theft","tag-violent","tag-years","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226293","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=226293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226293\/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=226293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}