{"id":242337,"date":"2026-08-27T08:30:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T06:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-mnangagwas-daughter-in-law-accuses-police-of-scandalising-first-family-in-drug-dealing-case\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T08:30:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T06:30:12","slug":"zimbabwe-mnangagwas-daughter-in-law-accuses-police-of-scandalising-first-family-in-drug-dealing-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-mnangagwas-daughter-in-law-accuses-police-of-scandalising-first-family-in-drug-dealing-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Mnangagwa&#8217;s Daughter-in-Law Accuses Police of &#8216;Scandalising&#8217; First Family in Drug Dealing Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">President Emmerson Mnangagwa&#8217;s daughter-in-law, Kelsea Tafirenyika, has accused police of sensationalising her drug and forgery case to tarnish the reputation of the First Family, alleging that investigators inflated figures and falsely linked her to a US$20 million property empire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">Tafirenyika, through her lawyers Admire Rubaya, Everson Chatambudza, Malvern Mapako and Kangai, challenged police to prove that she owns the 22 Harare properties allegedly acquired with proceeds from drug dealing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"7\">This&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202608270073.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 Tafirenyika, has accused police of sensationalising her drug and forgery case to tarnish the reputation of the First Family, alleging that investigators inflated figures and falsely linked her to a US$20 million property empire. Tafirenyika, through her lawyers Admire Rubaya, Everson Chatambudza, Malvern Mapako and Kangai, challenged police to prove [&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":[5070,258,256,6683,51594,16735,6949,5203,16781,257,662,55289,254,4686,421],"class_list":["post-242337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-accuses","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-case","tag-daughterinlaw","tag-dealing","tag-drug","tag-family","tag-mnangagwas","tag-news","tag-police","tag-scandalising","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242337","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=242337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242337\/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=242337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}