{"id":226995,"date":"2026-03-16T01:41:04","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T23:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-state-seeks-court-order-to-compel-walter-magaya-to-enter-plea\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T01:41:04","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T23:41:04","slug":"zimbabwe-state-seeks-court-order-to-compel-walter-magaya-to-enter-plea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-state-seeks-court-order-to-compel-walter-magaya-to-enter-plea\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: State Seeks Court Order to Compel Walter Magaya to Enter Plea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">The State has applied to the Harare Regional Magistrates&#8217; Court seeking an order to compel prominent cleric Walter Magaya to enter a plea in a criminal case he is facing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">In a statement, the National Prosecuting Authority of Zimbabwe (NPAZ) said it had filed a formal application requesting the court to direct the accused to plead to the charge before it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">The application was made in terms of provisions of the Criminal Procedure and Evidence Act specifically Section 168 as read together with Section&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603130088.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 State has applied to the Harare Regional Magistrates&#8217; Court seeking an order to compel prominent cleric Walter Magaya to enter a plea in a criminal case he is facing. In a statement, the National Prosecuting Authority of Zimbabwe (NPAZ) said it had filed a formal application requesting the court to direct the accused to [&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":[258,256,27764,6185,7605,24801,257,7576,11062,8111,254,6017,7341,4686,421],"class_list":["post-226995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-compel","tag-court","tag-enter","tag-magaya","tag-news","tag-order","tag-plea","tag-seeks","tag-south-africa-today","tag-state","tag-walter","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226995","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=226995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226995\/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=226995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}