{"id":241963,"date":"2026-08-23T20:24:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T18:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-president-mnangagwas-daughter-in-law-granted-u-s-1000-bail-in-drug-dealing-case\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T20:24:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T18:24:00","slug":"zimbabwe-president-mnangagwas-daughter-in-law-granted-u-s-1000-bail-in-drug-dealing-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-president-mnangagwas-daughter-in-law-granted-u-s-1000-bail-in-drug-dealing-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: President Mnangagwa&#8217;s Daughter-in-Law Granted U.S.$1,000 Bail in Drug Dealing Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">President Emmerson Mnangagwa&#8217;s daughter-in-law, Kelsea Tadiwa Tafirenyika, and her co-accused Isaac Arab Jessub have been granted bail by the High Court after successfully appealing against a magistrate&#8217;s decision to keep them in custody.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">Justice Pisirayi Kwenda on Thursday allowed the appeal by consent and set aside the magistrate&#8217;s August 13 decision denying them bail.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">The two were each ordered to pay US$1,000 bail and comply with a series of conditions, including surrendering their passports,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202608210078.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>President Emmerson Mnangagwa&#8217;s daughter-in-law, Kelsea Tadiwa Tafirenyika, and her co-accused Isaac Arab Jessub have been granted bail by the High Court after successfully appealing against a magistrate&#8217;s decision to keep them in custody. Justice Pisirayi Kwenda on Thursday allowed the appeal by consent and set aside the magistrate&#8217;s August 13 decision denying them bail. 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":[258,256,7900,6683,51594,16735,6949,10683,16781,257,2450,254,54340,4686,421],"class_list":["post-241963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bail","tag-case","tag-daughterinlaw","tag-dealing","tag-drug","tag-granted","tag-mnangagwas","tag-news","tag-president","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\/241963","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=241963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241963\/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=241963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}