{"id":226656,"date":"2026-03-12T01:31:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T23:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/south-africa-chatunga-mugabe-withdraws-bail-bid-over-johannesburg-shooting-case\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T01:31:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T23:31:17","slug":"south-africa-chatunga-mugabe-withdraws-bail-bid-over-johannesburg-shooting-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/south-africa-chatunga-mugabe-withdraws-bail-bid-over-johannesburg-shooting-case\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa: Chatunga Mugabe Withdraws Bail Bid Over Johannesburg Shooting Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">Bellarmine Chatunga Mugabe, son of former late president Robert Mugabe has withdrawn his bail application in a South African court while facing attempted murder and firearms charges linked to a shooting at his Johannesburg home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">Chatunga appeared alongside his co-accused Tobias Mugabe Matonhodze at the Alexandra Magistrate&#8217;s Court on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">The hearing had been delayed several times previously due to technical problems at the court, including power outages.<\/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\" rel=\"noopener\">WhatsApp<\/a> | <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/allafrica\/\" \/a rel=\"noopener\"><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603110322.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Bellarmine Chatunga Mugabe, son of former late president Robert Mugabe has withdrawn his bail application in a South African court while facing attempted murder and firearms charges linked to a shooting at his Johannesburg home. Chatunga appeared alongside his co-accused Tobias Mugabe Matonhodze at the Alexandra Magistrate&#8217;s Court on Wednesday. The hearing had been delayed [&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":[258,256,7900,10798,6683,53827,4108,427,257,6855,5069,254,7626,421],"class_list":["post-226656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bail","tag-bid","tag-case","tag-chatunga","tag-johannesburg","tag-mugabe","tag-news","tag-shooting","tag-south","tag-south-africa-today","tag-withdraws","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226656","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=226656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226656\/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=226656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}