{"id":230719,"date":"2026-04-19T15:28:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T13:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/south-africa-mugabe-attempted-murder-case-resumes-south-african-news-briefs-april-17-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T15:28:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T13:28:27","slug":"south-africa-mugabe-attempted-murder-case-resumes-south-african-news-briefs-april-17-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/south-africa-mugabe-attempted-murder-case-resumes-south-african-news-briefs-april-17-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa: Mugabe Attempted Murder Case Resumes &#8211; South African News Briefs &#8211; April 17, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"1\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"10\"><strong>Mugabe and Co-Accused Return to Court Over Hyde Park Shooting<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"84\">The case against Bellarmine Mugabe and his co-accused, Tobias Matonhodze, returns to the Alexandra Magistrates Court, reports <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ewn.co.za\/2026\/04\/17\/bellarmine-mugabe-co-accused-return-to-court\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>EWN.<\/em><\/a>\u00a0The pair face charges including defeating the ends of justice, possession of a firearm, and contravening South Africa&#8217;s immigration laws. The charges relate to a shooting incident involving an employee at the Mugabe residence in Hyde Park in February. Mugabe and Matondze have been remanded in custody&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604170092.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>\u00a0 Mugabe and Co-Accused Return to Court Over Hyde Park Shooting The case against Bellarmine Mugabe and his co-accused, Tobias Matonhodze, returns to the Alexandra Magistrates Court, reports EWN.\u00a0The pair face charges including defeating the ends of justice, possession of a firearm, and contravening South Africa&#8217;s immigration laws. The charges relate to a shooting incident [&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":[258,256,4380,8142,16253,7716,6683,427,304,257,7542,5069,254,421],"class_list":["post-230719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-african","tag-april","tag-attempted","tag-briefs","tag-case","tag-mugabe","tag-murder","tag-news","tag-resumes","tag-south","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230719","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=230719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230719\/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=230719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}