{"id":2940,"date":"2014-06-21T10:51:21","date_gmt":"2014-06-21T03:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=2940"},"modified":"2014-06-21T10:51:30","modified_gmt":"2014-06-21T03:51:30","slug":"jonathan-moyo-speaks-on-sunday-mail-editors-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/jonathan-moyo-speaks-on-sunday-mail-editors-arrest\/","title":{"rendered":"Jonathan Moyo speaks on Sunday Mail editor\u2019s arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Information minister Jonathan Moyo on Friday spoke out for the first time on the arrest of Sunday Mail editor, Edmund Kudzayi.<\/p>\n<p>Kudzayi was arrested on Thursday and will appear in court Saturday charged with undermining the authority of President Robert Mugabe and subverting or attempting to subvert a constitutionally-elected Government.<\/p>\n<p>He will also be charged with allegedly keeping ammunition in an unsecure place which is a crime under the Firearms Act.<\/p>\n<p>Moyo ruled out any sinister motive in Thursday\u2019s dramatic arrest which has sparked fear among the country\u2019s media of a renewed crackdown against journalists&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Zimbabwe News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.newzimbabwe.com\/news-16355-Moyo+speaks+on+Mail+editor%E2%80%99s+arrest\/news.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>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<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Information minister Jonathan Moyo on Friday spoke out for the first time on the arrest of Sunday Mail editor, Edmund Kudzayi. Kudzayi was arrested on Thursday and will appear in court Saturday charged with undermining the authority of President Robert Mugabe and subverting or attempting to subvert a constitutionally-elected Government. He will also be charged [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,1297,1293,424,1296,257,426,254,4693,1292,1294,1295,4686,421],"class_list":["post-2940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-crackdown-against-journalists","tag-edmund-kudzayi","tag-jonathan-moyo","tag-keeping-ammunition-in-an-unsecure-place","tag-news","tag-robert-mugabe","tag-south-africa-today","tag-southern-africa","tag-sunday-mail","tag-sunday-mail-editor","tag-undermining-the-authority-of-president-robert-mugabe","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2940","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2940\/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=2940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}