{"id":6031,"date":"2024-11-20T15:08:24","date_gmt":"2024-11-20T15:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/?p=6031"},"modified":"2024-11-20T15:08:25","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T15:08:25","slug":"magistrate-in-no-show-to-deliver-judgment-in-ccc-leader-and-supporters-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/?p=6031","title":{"rendered":"Magistrate in No Show to Deliver Judgment in CCC Leader and Supporters Case"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><br>Crimes and Courts Correspondent<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The judgment for Jameson Timba, the interim leader of the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC), along with 68 of his supporters, has been postponed to Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This decision came after the presiding Magistrate, Collet Ncube, failed to appear in Court, leading to the hearing being rescheduled by his colleague, Donald Ndirowei.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The group has been in custody since their arrest in June on charges related to participating in an unlawful gathering.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Initially, there were 80 suspects in the case, but 12, including Timba&#8217;s son, Sean, were discharged during the proceedings.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The entire group was acquitted of the charge of disorderly conduct.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The postponement means that the fate of Timba and his supporters remains uncertain as they await the new judgment date.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The lack of explanation for the Magistrate&#8217;s absence adds to the ongoing complexities of the case, which has drawn significant attention from the public and political observers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Zim GBC News\u00a92024<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crimes and Courts Correspondent The judgment for Jameson Timba, the interim leader of the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC), along with 68 of his supporters, has been postponed to Friday.&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6032,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[125,109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime-and-court","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6031","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=6031"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6033,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6031\/revisions\/6033"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}