{"id":235107,"date":"2026-06-02T05:07:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T03:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-late-former-vp-mphoko-son-claims-top-lawyer-welshman-ncube-duped-him-over-u-s-1-million-in-choppies-share-deal-police-reluctant-to-act\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T05:07:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T03:07:08","slug":"zimbabwe-late-former-vp-mphoko-son-claims-top-lawyer-welshman-ncube-duped-him-over-u-s-1-million-in-choppies-share-deal-police-reluctant-to-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-late-former-vp-mphoko-son-claims-top-lawyer-welshman-ncube-duped-him-over-u-s-1-million-in-choppies-share-deal-police-reluctant-to-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Late Former VP Mphoko Son Claims Top Lawyer Welshman Ncube Duped Him Over U.S.$1 Million in Choppies Share Deal, Police &#8216;Reluctant&#8217; to Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">THE son of late former Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko has accused prominent lawyer and opposition figure Welshman Ncube of defrauding him over US$1 million in a share deal involving retail chain Choppies Enterprises.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Siqokoqela Mphoko has come out guns blazing accusing the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) of dragging its feet to arrest the top lawyer, who allegedly duped him back in 2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"46\">The complainant says the renowned legal practitioner and opposition activist, acting as his legal&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606010085.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>THE son of late former Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko has accused prominent lawyer and opposition figure Welshman Ncube of defrauding him over US$1 million in a share deal involving retail chain Choppies Enterprises. Siqokoqela Mphoko has come out guns blazing accusing the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) of dragging its feet to arrest the top lawyer, [&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":[6991,258,256,16831,8117,7012,42157,8262,8000,5118,9425,7815,257,662,54515,7294,10619,254,7319,45453,47885,4686,421],"class_list":["post-235107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-act","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-choppies","tag-claims","tag-deal","tag-duped","tag-late","tag-lawyer","tag-million","tag-mphoko","tag-ncube","tag-news","tag-police","tag-reluctant","tag-share","tag-son","tag-south-africa-today","tag-top","tag-u-s-1","tag-welshman","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235107","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=235107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235107\/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=235107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}