{"id":247617,"date":"2026-10-20T07:00:06","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T05:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-govt-grants-gun-owners-one-month-amnesty-to-surrender-illegal-firearms\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T07:00:06","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T05:00:06","slug":"zimbabwe-govt-grants-gun-owners-one-month-amnesty-to-surrender-illegal-firearms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-govt-grants-gun-owners-one-month-amnesty-to-surrender-illegal-firearms\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Govt Grants Gun Owners One-Month Amnesty to Surrender Illegal Firearms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">Zimbabwe has launched a one-month national firearm amnesty allowing individuals and institutions to surrender unlicensed or illegally acquired guns and ammunition without facing prosecution under the amnesty arrangements.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">The amnesty, which runs from 12 October to 12 November 2026 was granted by President Emmerson Mnangagwa in line with the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Protocol on Firearms Control.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">In a statement, national police spokesperson Commissioner Paul Nyathi said the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202610200120.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>Zimbabwe has launched a one-month national firearm amnesty allowing individuals and institutions to surrender unlicensed or illegally acquired guns and ammunition without facing prosecution under the amnesty arrangements. The amnesty, which runs from 12 October to 12 November 2026 was granted by President Emmerson Mnangagwa in line with the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Protocol [&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":[258,256,3023,10476,4357,10875,20300,6918,257,28059,12366,254,10836,4686,421],"class_list":["post-247617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-amnesty","tag-firearms","tag-govt","tag-grants","tag-gun","tag-illegal","tag-news","tag-onemonth","tag-owners","tag-south-africa-today","tag-surrender","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247617","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=247617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247617\/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=247617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}