{"id":227301,"date":"2026-03-19T01:46:35","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T23:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-muvevis-trial-finally-kicks-off-former-detective-says-he-was-being-haunted-by-goblins-when-he-killed-four-people\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T01:46:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T23:46:35","slug":"zimbabwe-muvevis-trial-finally-kicks-off-former-detective-says-he-was-being-haunted-by-goblins-when-he-killed-four-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-muvevis-trial-finally-kicks-off-former-detective-says-he-was-being-haunted-by-goblins-when-he-killed-four-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Muvevi&#8217;s Trial Finally Kicks Off, Former Detective Says He Was Being Haunted By Goblins When He Killed Four People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">The trial of murder-accused former cop Jaison Muvevi has finally commenced before High Court judge Justice Gibson Mandaza.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">The former Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) detective made headlines three years ago after he shot and killed four people in movie-style attacks, leaving four others for dead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">He is being charged with four counts of murder and four counts of attempted murder.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"8\">He pleaded not guilty to all the charges.<\/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\/\" rel=\"noopener\">LinkedIn<\/a> for the latest headlines<br \/>\n  <\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">In his&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603180448.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 trial of murder-accused former cop Jaison Muvevi has finally commenced before High Court judge Justice Gibson Mandaza. The former Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) detective made headlines three years ago after he shot and killed four people in movie-style attacks, leaving four others for dead. He is being charged with four counts of murder and [&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":[258,256,53942,8415,53943,12660,7023,4327,53941,257,6321,254,6564,4686,421],"class_list":["post-227301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-detective","tag-finally","tag-goblins","tag-haunted","tag-kicks","tag-killed","tag-muvevis","tag-news","tag-people","tag-south-africa-today","tag-trial","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227301","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=227301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227301\/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=227301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}