{"id":5691,"date":"2024-11-04T15:28:34","date_gmt":"2024-11-04T15:28:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/?p=5691"},"modified":"2024-11-04T15:28:36","modified_gmt":"2024-11-04T15:28:36","slug":"gutu-ccc-loyalist-and-activist-walks-free-after-assaulting-village-head-over-free-food-aid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/?p=5691","title":{"rendered":"Gutu CCC Loyalist and Activist Walks Free After Assaulting Village Head Over Free Food Aid"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><br>Political Reporter<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gutu CCC activist Wilson Guvamatanga, 62, left the local magistrate court with a smile after being acquitted of assault charges against his uncle, Village Head Takakurumbira Guvamatanga, 79.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Magistrate Edwin Marecha ruled in Wilson&#8217;s favor, citing lack of evidence and the absence of supporting witnesses from the complainant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Takakurumbira had alleged that Wilson attacked him after being denied government food aid on political grounds, but he failed to substantiate his claims in court. Advocate Martin Mureri, a human rights lawyer, challenged Takakurumbira&#8217;s testimony, resulting in heated exchanges during the proceedings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wilson, who spent a night in police custody following his arrest, maintained his innocence, attributing the accusations to political differences. He noted that his uncle is a Zanu PF loyalist, which he believes influenced the allegations against him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Zim GBC News\u00a92024<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Political Reporter Gutu CCC activist Wilson Guvamatanga, 62, left the local magistrate court with a smile after being acquitted of assault charges against his uncle, Village Head Takakurumbira Guvamatanga, 79.&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5692,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5691","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=5691"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5693,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5691\/revisions\/5693"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}