{"id":232455,"date":"2026-05-06T04:07:01","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T02:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-mzembi-granted-u-s-1000-bail-pending-judgement\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T04:07:01","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T02:07:01","slug":"zimbabwe-mzembi-granted-u-s-1000-bail-pending-judgement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-mzembi-granted-u-s-1000-bail-pending-judgement\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Mzembi Granted U.S.$1,000 Bail Pending Judgement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Former Tourism minister Walter Mzembi has been granted bail pending judgment in his criminal abuse of office case, with the High Court expected to deliver its ruling on May 13, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">In a brief ruling handed down on Monday, High Court judge Benjamin Chikowero allowed Mzembi&#8217;s application for bail pending judgment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">&#8220;It is ordered that: The application for bail pending handing down of judgment be and is granted,&#8221; ruled Justice Chikowero.<\/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&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202605050279.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>Former Tourism minister Walter Mzembi has been granted bail pending judgment in his criminal abuse of office case, with the High Court expected to deliver its ruling on May 13, 2026. In a brief ruling handed down on Monday, High Court judge Benjamin Chikowero allowed Mzembi&#8217;s application for bail pending judgment. &#8220;It is ordered that: [&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":[258,256,7900,10683,10202,15503,257,8067,254,54340,4686,421],"class_list":["post-232455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bail","tag-granted","tag-judgement","tag-mzembi","tag-news","tag-pending","tag-south-africa-today","tag-u-s-1000","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232455","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=232455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232455\/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=232455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}