{"id":4395,"date":"2024-10-02T11:37:07","date_gmt":"2024-10-02T11:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/?p=4395"},"modified":"2024-10-02T11:37:10","modified_gmt":"2024-10-02T11:37:10","slug":"chatunga-skips-court-because-of-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/?p=4395","title":{"rendered":"Chatunga Skips Court Because of Surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><br>Crimes and Courts Correspondent<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chatunga Bellamine Mugabe, the 27-year-old son of Zimbabwe&#8217;s late President Robert Mugabe, has landed in hot water after missing a court hearing, prompting Magistrate Miss Vavariro Gavi to issue an arrest warrant at the Beitbridge court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chatunga&#8217;s lawyer, Muchihwande Forbes Sithole, explained that his client&#8217;s absence was due to ongoing medical treatment, revealing that &#8220;he is currently undergoing a throat surgery in Harare and should be released by Friday&#8221;. Sithole added,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We expect that he will attend the court on Monday, at which point we will seek a warning, caution, and discharge&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The young Mugabe is facing charges related to disorderly conduct and possession of a prohibited knife, stemming from an altercation on August 30th near Beitbridge. The incident began when police requested a passport from one of Chatunga&#8217;s companions during a routine checkpoint.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Allegedly frustrated, Chatunga became unruly, verbally assaulting officers and physically handling one of them, while asserting his urgency to attend a wedding in Harare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Charges Against Chatunga:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Disorderly Conduct: Chatunga allegedly became unruly and verbally assaulted officers<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Possession of a Prohibited Knife: A flick knife was discovered in his possession<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The case has sparked public discourse surrounding the Mugabe family and potential preferential treatment in legal matters. In a surprising twist, a social media post allegedly from Chatunga apologized to President Emmerson Mnangagwa, Home Affairs Minister Kazembe Kazembe, and Police Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga. However, Chatunga&#8217;s legal team swiftly disavowed the post, stating it was not from their client.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Zim GBC News\u00a92024<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crimes and Courts Correspondent Chatunga Bellamine Mugabe, the 27-year-old son of Zimbabwe&#8217;s late President Robert Mugabe, has landed in hot water after missing a court hearing, prompting Magistrate Miss Vavariro&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4396,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[125],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime-and-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4395"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4397,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4395\/revisions\/4397"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}