{"id":249277,"date":"2026-11-07T00:00:04","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T22:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-manhunt-for-chitungwiza-man-accused-of-killing-mother\/"},"modified":"2026-11-07T00:00:04","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T22:00:04","slug":"zimbabwe-manhunt-for-chitungwiza-man-accused-of-killing-mother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-manhunt-for-chitungwiza-man-accused-of-killing-mother\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Manhunt for Chitungwiza Man Accused of Killing Mother"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">Police have launched a manhunt for a 44-year-old man accused of killing his 72-year-old mother with a hammer following a domestic dispute in Chitungwiza.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) identified the suspect as Bob Nobert Luwaca who is being sought in connection with the murder of his mother, Rosemary Luwaca.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"10\">The incident reportedly occurred on Thursday in Unit L, Chitungwiza.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">According to police, Luwaca allegedly struck his mother twice on the head with a six-pound hammer before fleeing the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202611060407.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 a 44-year-old man accused of killing his 72-year-old mother with a hammer following a domestic dispute in Chitungwiza. The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) identified the suspect as Bob Nobert Luwaca who is being sought in connection with the murder of his mother, Rosemary Luwaca. The incident reportedly occurred on [&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":[7083,258,256,4591,7805,6867,15126,7753,257,254,4686,421],"class_list":["post-249277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-accused","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-chitungwiza","tag-killing","tag-man","tag-manhunt","tag-mother","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249277","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=249277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249277\/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=249277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}