{"id":226914,"date":"2026-03-15T01:38:52","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T23:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-high-court-grants-stay-of-proceedings-in-magaya-rape-trial\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T01:38:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T23:38:52","slug":"zimbabwe-high-court-grants-stay-of-proceedings-in-magaya-rape-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-high-court-grants-stay-of-proceedings-in-magaya-rape-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: High Court Grants Stay of Proceedings in Magaya Rape Trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">The High Court has halted PHD leader Walter Magaya&#8217;s criminal trial, pending a review of a magistrate&#8217;s earlier ruling.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">Justice Tawanda Chitapi halted the trial following an urgent chamber application by Magaya&#8217;s legal team&#8211;Admire Rubaya, Everson Chatambudza, and Panashe Chivhenge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">Magaya is challenging Regional Magistrate Esthere Chivasa&#8217;s decision to move his rape trial to a Victim Friendly Court (VFC), arguing that this issue must be resolved before the trial proceeds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Magaya want the High&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603130102.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>The High Court has halted PHD leader Walter Magaya&#8217;s criminal trial, pending a review of a magistrate&#8217;s earlier ruling. Justice Tawanda Chitapi halted the trial following an urgent chamber application by Magaya&#8217;s legal team&#8211;Admire Rubaya, Everson Chatambudza, and Panashe Chivhenge. Magaya is challenging Regional Magistrate Esthere Chivasa&#8217;s decision to move his rape trial to a [&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":[258,256,6185,10875,6184,24801,257,13026,305,254,9311,6564,4686,421],"class_list":["post-226914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-court","tag-grants","tag-high","tag-magaya","tag-news","tag-proceedings","tag-rape","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stay","tag-trial","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226914","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=226914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226914\/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=226914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}