{"id":249460,"date":"2026-11-09T09:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T07:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-mugabes-son-bellarmine-chatunga-arrested-over-luxury-car-smuggling-assault-of-zacc-officer\/"},"modified":"2026-11-09T09:00:07","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T07:00:07","slug":"zimbabwe-mugabes-son-bellarmine-chatunga-arrested-over-luxury-car-smuggling-assault-of-zacc-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-mugabes-son-bellarmine-chatunga-arrested-over-luxury-car-smuggling-assault-of-zacc-officer\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Mugabe&#8217;s Son Bellarmine Chatunga Arrested Over Luxury Car Smuggling, Assault of ZACC Officer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Late former President Robert Mugabe&#8217;s son, Bellarmine Chatunga, and four others have been arrested over the alleged smuggling of two luxury vehicles into Zimbabwe, with the cars seized by the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) as investigations continue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Bellarmine, Terrence Johannes Chinyemba, Fredson Peter, Solomon Pamire and Munashe Mubhawu are being held at Highlands Police Station following an operation at a property in Newlands, Harare.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">Police documents identify the Zimbabwe Revenue&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202611050086.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>Late former President Robert Mugabe&#8217;s son, Bellarmine Chatunga, and four others have been arrested over the alleged smuggling of two luxury vehicles into Zimbabwe, with the cars seized by the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) as investigations continue. Bellarmine, Terrence Johannes Chinyemba, Fredson Peter, Solomon Pamire and Munashe Mubhawu are being held at Highlands Police Station [&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":[258,256,4304,11975,53894,302,53827,12064,9272,257,10869,9688,10619,254,5868,4686,421],"class_list":["post-249460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-arrested","tag-assault","tag-bellarmine","tag-car","tag-chatunga","tag-luxury","tag-mugabes","tag-news","tag-officer","tag-smuggling","tag-son","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zacc","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249460","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=249460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249460\/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=249460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}