{"id":230040,"date":"2026-04-10T14:38:05","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T12:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-student-in-court-over-alleged-u-s-3-000-school-theft-to-buy-car\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T14:38:05","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T12:38:05","slug":"zimbabwe-student-in-court-over-alleged-u-s-3-000-school-theft-to-buy-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-student-in-court-over-alleged-u-s-3-000-school-theft-to-buy-car\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Student in Court Over Alleged U.S.$3 000 School Theft to Buy Car"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">A 19-year-old Form Six student from St James Zongoro High School in Mutasa has appeared in court accused of stealing more than US$3 000 from his school&#8217;s administration office, allegedly to buy a car.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">Martin Chitembwe was brought before the Mutare Magistrates&#8217; Court this week, facing charges of unlawful entry and theft.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">He denied the allegations when he appeared before Provincial Magistrate Poterai Gwezhira and was remanded out of custody.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"9\">He is expected to stand trial on 26 April.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nFollow us&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604100384.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>A 19-year-old Form Six student from St James Zongoro High School in Mutasa has appeared in court accused of stealing more than US$3 000 from his school&#8217;s administration office, allegedly to buy a car. Martin Chitembwe was brought before the Mutare Magistrates&#8217; Court this week, facing charges of unlawful entry and theft. He denied the [&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":[258,256,4305,11632,302,6185,257,4362,254,11431,9201,45490,4686,421],"class_list":["post-230040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-alleged","tag-buy","tag-car","tag-court","tag-news","tag-school","tag-south-africa-today","tag-student","tag-theft","tag-u-s-3","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230040","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=230040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230040\/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=230040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}