{"id":240926,"date":"2026-08-12T08:00:31","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T06:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-police-hunt-two-dangerous-convicts-after-prison-escape\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T08:00:31","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T06:00:31","slug":"zimbabwe-police-hunt-two-dangerous-convicts-after-prison-escape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-police-hunt-two-dangerous-convicts-after-prison-escape\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Police Hunt Two Dangerous Convicts After Prison Escape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Police have launched a manhunt for two convicted prisoners who escaped from Mutimurefu Prison in Masvingo on Saturday, August 8, 2026, with authorities warning members of the public to exercise caution.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"14\">The escapees have been identified as Tafadzwa Janyure Zimirenyika (27) and James Masunda (34).<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">In a statement, Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) national spokesperson Commissioner Paul Nyathi appealed for information that could lead to the arrest of the two men.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nKeep up with the latest headlines&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202608100712.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow 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>Police have launched a manhunt for two convicted prisoners who escaped from Mutimurefu Prison in Masvingo on Saturday, August 8, 2026, with authorities warning members of the public to exercise caution. The escapees have been identified as Tafadzwa Janyure Zimirenyika (27) and James Masunda (34). In a statement, Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) national spokesperson Commissioner [&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":[258,256,7646,5134,4329,6644,257,662,5115,254,4686,421],"class_list":["post-240926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-convicts","tag-dangerous","tag-escape","tag-hunt","tag-news","tag-police","tag-prison","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240926","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=240926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240926\/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=240926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}