{"id":227193,"date":"2026-03-18T01:44:44","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T23:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-robert-mugabes-son-back-in-court-after-plea-deal-hearing-postponed\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T01:44:44","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T23:44:44","slug":"zimbabwe-robert-mugabes-son-back-in-court-after-plea-deal-hearing-postponed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-robert-mugabes-son-back-in-court-after-plea-deal-hearing-postponed\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Robert Mugabe&#8217;s Son Back in Court After Plea Deal Hearing Postponed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Robert Mugabe&#8217;s son Bellarmine and co-accused Tobias Matonhodze face seven charges and are negotiating a plea deal with the State.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Bellarmine Mugabe and Tobias Matonhodze&#8217;s plea deal hearing was postponed on Tuesday after the senior prosecutor was not in court.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Robert Mugabe&#8217;s son Bellarmine and his co-accused Tobias Matonhodze were due to enter a plea deal in court on Tuesday. The court postponed the hearing because the senior prosecutor was absent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">The two men face seven charges linked to an&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603170437.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>Robert Mugabe&#8217;s son Bellarmine and co-accused Tobias Matonhodze face seven charges and are negotiating a plea deal with the State. Bellarmine Mugabe and Tobias Matonhodze&#8217;s plea deal hearing was postponed on Tuesday after the senior prosecutor was not in court. Robert Mugabe&#8217;s son Bellarmine and his co-accused Tobias Matonhodze were due to enter a plea [&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":[258,256,6185,7012,6636,9272,257,11062,7397,13322,10619,254,4686,421],"class_list":["post-227193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-court","tag-deal","tag-hearing","tag-mugabes","tag-news","tag-plea","tag-postponed","tag-robert","tag-son","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227193","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=227193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227193\/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=227193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}