{"id":32960,"date":"2026-04-24T20:52:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T18:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=32960"},"modified":"2026-04-24T20:52:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T18:52:22","slug":"bellarmine-mugabe-tobias-matonhodze-to-be-sentenced","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/bellarmine-mugabe-tobias-matonhodze-to-be-sentenced\/","title":{"rendered":"Bellarmine Mugabe, Tobias Matonhodze to be sentenced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bellarmine Mugabe, the son of the late former Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and co-accused Tobias Matonhodze are expected to be sentenced in the Alexandra Regional Court in Johannesburg on Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The two appeared in court last week, where they pleaded guilty to several charges, including attempted murder.<\/p>\n<p>Mugabe pleaded guilty to pointing a firearm and contravening South Africa\u2019s immigration laws.<\/p>\n<p>While Matonhodze pleaded guilty to charges of attempted murder, illegal immigration, possession of ammunition and defeating ends of justice.<\/p>\n<p>The postponement to this week was to give the defence time to find the weapon used in the attempted murder of Sipho Mahlangu.<\/p>\n<p>Mahlangu, who was employed at the Mugabe residence in Hyde Park, Johannesburg, was shot and wounded in February.<\/p>\n<p>The gun that was used is yet to be found.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":32961,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-32960","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Mugabe pleaded guilty to pointing a firearm and contravening South Africa\u2019s immigration laws.","published_date":"","news_description":"Mugabe pleaded guilty to pointing a firearm and contravening South Africa\u2019s immigration laws.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/32960","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\/32960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32962,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/32960\/revisions\/32962"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=32960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}