{"id":233599,"date":"2026-05-18T04:34:55","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T02:34:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-man-held-over-alleged-fake-army-recruitment-scam\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T04:34:55","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T02:34:55","slug":"zimbabwe-man-held-over-alleged-fake-army-recruitment-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-man-held-over-alleged-fake-army-recruitment-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Man Held Over Alleged Fake Army Recruitment Scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">A 42-year-old man from Waterfalls has been arrested for allegedly posing as a member of the Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) and running a fake recruitment scheme targeting job seekers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Authorities say Hardlife Nyoni was apprehended by the Zimbabwe Military Police on 13 May in Harare&#8217;s central business district following a tip-off from members of the public.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">According to investigators, Nyoni who is employed as a general hand at Mkoba Teachers College allegedly pretended to be a military official and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202605140189.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 42-year-old man from Waterfalls has been arrested for allegedly posing as a member of the Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) and running a fake recruitment scheme targeting job seekers. Authorities say Hardlife Nyoni was apprehended by the Zimbabwe Military Police on 13 May in Harare&#8217;s central business district following a tip-off from members of 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":[258,256,4305,4361,6891,7297,6867,257,8960,13731,254,4686,421],"class_list":["post-233599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-alleged","tag-army","tag-fake","tag-held","tag-man","tag-news","tag-recruitment","tag-scam","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233599","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=233599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233599\/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=233599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}