{"id":234258,"date":"2026-05-24T04:47:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T02:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-controversial-businessman-chivayo-drops-charges-against-ex-wife\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T04:47:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T02:47:06","slug":"zimbabwe-controversial-businessman-chivayo-drops-charges-against-ex-wife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-controversial-businessman-chivayo-drops-charges-against-ex-wife\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Controversial Businessman Chivayo Drops Charges Against Ex-Wife"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">Businessman Wicknell Chivayo has dropped charges against his former wife, Sonja Madzikanda, and her mother, Tabitha Madzikanda.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">The two initially appeared before Harare magistrate Nyaradzo Manokore on Wednesday on charges of cyberbullying and harassment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">The State had alleged that during Chivayo and Sonja&#8217;s marriage, she unlawfully accessed his cellphone and downloaded several photographs and videos and shared them with her mother.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">The State further alleges that the two used artificial&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202605220258.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>Businessman Wicknell Chivayo has dropped charges against his former wife, Sonja Madzikanda, and her mother, Tabitha Madzikanda. The two initially appeared before Harare magistrate Nyaradzo Manokore on Wednesday on charges of cyberbullying and harassment. The State had alleged that during Chivayo and Sonja&#8217;s marriage, she unlawfully accessed his cellphone and downloaded several photographs and videos [&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":[258,256,18594,7578,18483,11087,6520,10285,257,254,4686,421],"class_list":["post-234258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-businessman","tag-charges","tag-chivayo","tag-controversial","tag-drops","tag-exwife","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234258","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=234258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234258\/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=234258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}