{"id":33346,"date":"2026-04-30T07:37:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T05:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=33346"},"modified":"2026-04-30T07:37:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T05:37:16","slug":"former-zimbabwe-leaders-son-deported-from-sa","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/former-zimbabwe-leaders-son-deported-from-sa\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Zimbabwe leader&#8217;s son deported from SA"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span style=\"font-family: var(--global--font-secondary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);\">Bellarmine Mugabe, the son of former Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has been deported from South Africa (SA).<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"x_ms-outlook-mobile-signature\">\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0This after the Alexandra Magistrate&#8217;s Court handed him a non-custodial sentence following the shooting of his gardener at his Hyde Park home in February.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Bellarmine had pleaded guilty to pointing a firearm and being in the country illegally earlier this month. He was ordered to pay a fine of $36 000.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0His co-accused, Tobias Matonhodze was sentenced to a total of three years in jail for contravening the immigration laws, \u00a0defeating the ends of justice and possession of a firearm and ammunition.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u2014ChannelAfrica\u2014<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":32961,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-33346","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/33346","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\/33346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33347,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/33346\/revisions\/33347"}],"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=33346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=33346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}