{"id":27562,"date":"2026-03-03T11:15:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T09:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=27562"},"modified":"2026-03-03T11:34:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T09:34:19","slug":"bail-postponed-for-mugabess-son-co-accused","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/bail-postponed-for-mugabess-son-co-accused\/","title":{"rendered":"Bail \u00a0postponed for Mugabes&#8217;s son, co-accused"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">South Africa&#8217;s (SA) Alexandra Magistrate&#8217;s Court in Johannesburg, Gauteng Province, has postponed the bail application of Bellarmine Mugabe and his co-accused, Tobias Matonhodze, to Thursday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Mugabe, the last born son of late and former Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, and his cousin Matonhodze made a brief appearance, after the defence told the court that they were still missing some crucial documents.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The pair face charges of attempted murder following a shooting incident at Mugabe&#8217;s Hyde Park property in Johannesburg last month.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">It&#8217;s alleged that a 23-year-old man, believed to be an employee at the property, was wounded during the incident.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kigk7SYc7bY?si=pCIakbGo0RAzTpZP\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":24012,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-27562","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"Bail application of Bellarmine Mugabe and his co-accused postponed ","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/27562","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":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/27562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27567,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/27562\/revisions\/27567"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=27562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}