{"id":231349,"date":"2026-04-25T03:43:32","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T01:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-chatunga-mugabe-and-co-accused-paid-shooting-victim-r250000-cash-to-silence-him-court-hears\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T03:43:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T01:43:32","slug":"zimbabwe-chatunga-mugabe-and-co-accused-paid-shooting-victim-r250000-cash-to-silence-him-court-hears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-chatunga-mugabe-and-co-accused-paid-shooting-victim-r250000-cash-to-silence-him-court-hears\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Chatunga Mugabe and Co-Accused Paid Shooting Victim R250,000 Cash to Silence Him &#8211; Court Hears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"9\">Discover moreZimbabwean travel packagesMobile news app subscriptionZimbabwe news app<em>IOL<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\">R250,000 in cash and a promise of R150,000 more &#8212; that is what the youngest son of the late former Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe, Bellarmine Chatunga and his cousin allegedly paid the man they shot so he would keep his mouth shut.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">The Alexandra Magistrate&#8217;s Court heard on Friday that 23-year-old Sipho Mahlangu, who was shot twice in the back at the Mugabe family&#8217;s Hyde Park residence in February,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604240574.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>Discover moreZimbabwean travel packagesMobile news app subscriptionZimbabwe news appIOL R250,000 in cash and a promise of R150,000 more &#8212; that is what the youngest son of the late former Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe, Bellarmine Chatunga and his cousin allegedly paid the man they shot so he would keep his mouth shut. The Alexandra Magistrate&#8217;s Court [&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":[258,256,5197,53827,19288,6185,9866,427,257,12206,54261,6855,6992,254,7179,4686,421],"class_list":["post-231349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cash","tag-chatunga","tag-coaccused","tag-court","tag-hears","tag-mugabe","tag-news","tag-paid","tag-r250000","tag-shooting","tag-silence","tag-south-africa-today","tag-victim","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231349","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=231349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231349\/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=231349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}