{"id":231848,"date":"2026-04-30T03:54:49","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T01:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-chatunga-mugabe-deported-allafrica-com\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T03:54:49","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T01:54:49","slug":"zimbabwe-chatunga-mugabe-deported-allafrica-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-chatunga-mugabe-deported-allafrica-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Chatunga Mugabe Deported &#8211; allAfrica.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Chatunga Bellarmine Mugabe is set to be deported today after a South African court ordered him to pay fines totalling R600 000 or face jail time for firearm-related and immigration offences.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">The court ruled Mugabe must pay R400 000 or serve 24 months in prison for pointing a firearm as well as a further R200 000 or 18 months for violating immigration laws.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"8\">His deportation is expected to follow the ruling.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">His co-accused, Tobias Matonhodze was sentenced to an effective three years in prison after&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604290389.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>Chatunga Bellarmine Mugabe is set to be deported today after a South African court ordered him to pay fines totalling R600 000 or face jail time for firearm-related and immigration offences. The court ruled Mugabe must pay R400 000 or serve 24 months in prison for pointing a firearm as well as a further R200 [&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":[258,256,42655,53827,7249,427,257,254,4686,421],"class_list":["post-231848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-allafrica-com","tag-chatunga","tag-deported","tag-mugabe","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231848","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=231848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231848\/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=231848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}