{"id":247718,"date":"2026-10-21T11:30:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T09:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-chief-chireya-in-the-dock-over-alleged-murder-of-elderly-relative\/"},"modified":"2026-10-21T11:30:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T09:30:14","slug":"zimbabwe-chief-chireya-in-the-dock-over-alleged-murder-of-elderly-relative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-chief-chireya-in-the-dock-over-alleged-murder-of-elderly-relative\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Chief Chireya in the Dock Over Alleged Murder of Elderly Relative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">A traditional leader and two police officers have appeared before the Nembudziya Magistrates Court facing murder allegations over the killing of a 72-year-old relative in a dispute over chieftainship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">Chief Chireya, born Henry Chidzivo was remanded in custody on Tuesday joining six co-accused who had appeared in court a day earlier.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">The other accused are Jethro Dymbura, Chenjerayi Chidzivo, Kelvin Panashe Musariri, Kasiyani Mudyachawaona and Nembudziya-based police officers Moses Sibanda and Agent&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202610210116.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>A traditional leader and two police officers have appeared before the Nembudziya Magistrates Court facing murder allegations over the killing of a 72-year-old relative in a dispute over chieftainship. Chief Chireya, born Henry Chidzivo was remanded in custody on Tuesday joining six co-accused who had appeared in court a day earlier. The other accused are [&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":[258,256,4305,6510,55680,10607,5624,304,257,18277,254,4686,421],"class_list":["post-247718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-alleged","tag-chief","tag-chireya","tag-dock","tag-elderly","tag-murder","tag-news","tag-relative","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247718","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=247718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247718\/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=247718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}