{"id":226741,"date":"2026-03-13T01:33:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T23:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/south-africa-attempted-murder-accused-bellarmine-mugabe-drops-bail-bid-wants-plea-deal\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T01:33:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T23:33:06","slug":"south-africa-attempted-murder-accused-bellarmine-mugabe-drops-bail-bid-wants-plea-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/south-africa-attempted-murder-accused-bellarmine-mugabe-drops-bail-bid-wants-plea-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa: Attempted Murder Accused Bellarmine Mugabe Drops Bail Bid, Wants Plea Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\"><em>Bellarmine Mugabe and co-accused Tobias Matonhodze will remain behind bars for the duration of their attempted murder trial after their legal team abandoned bail applications because of charges related to their legal status in South Africa.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"45\">Bellarmine Chatunga Mugabe (28), son of late Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe, and his co-accused, Tobias Tamirepi Matonhodze (33), will remain behind bars after their legal team abandoned their bail application and pivoted to possible plea negotiations at&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603120750.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 Mugabe and co-accused Tobias Matonhodze will remain behind bars for the duration of their attempted murder trial after their legal team abandoned bail applications because of charges related to their legal status in South Africa. Bellarmine Chatunga Mugabe (28), son of late Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe, and his co-accused, Tobias Tamirepi Matonhodze (33), will [&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":[7083,258,256,16253,7900,53894,10798,7012,6520,427,304,257,11062,5069,254,421],"class_list":["post-226741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-accused","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-attempted","tag-bail","tag-bellarmine","tag-bid","tag-deal","tag-drops","tag-mugabe","tag-murder","tag-news","tag-plea","tag-south","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226741","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=226741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226741\/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=226741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}