{"id":23983,"date":"2026-02-19T15:46:37","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T13:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/sa-police-search-for-gun-in-shooting-at-zimbabwe-leaders-sons-home\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:34:44","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:34:44","slug":"sa-police-search-for-gun-in-shooting-at-zimbabwe-leaders-sons-home","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sa-police-search-for-gun-in-shooting-at-zimbabwe-leaders-sons-home\/","title":{"rendered":"SA Police search for gun in shooting at Zimbabwe leader\u2019s son\u2019s home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South African (SA) Police say they are searching for a firearm allegedly used to shoot a gardener at the Hyde Park home of the son of a former Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe\u00a0, north of Johannesburg.<\/p>\n<p>Two people, aged 28 and 33, including the son of the former statesman, have been taken in for questioning following the incident.<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old victim has been taken to the hospital and is in critical condition.<\/p>\n<p>Gauteng province Police Spokesperson Dimakatso Nevhuhulwi says cartridges have been discovered at the property.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the moment we don\u2019t have the firearm, but our dog unit, like I indicated, we do have our dog unit inside. They are searching through, but we did manage to find a cartridge, and that cartridge will be taken in to form part of the investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":20615,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-23983","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"The 23-year-old victim has been taken to the hospital and is in critical condition.","published_date":null,"news_description":"The 23-year-old victim has been taken to the hospital and is in critical condition.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/23983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/23983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26799,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/23983\/revisions\/26799"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=23983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}