{"id":1253,"date":"2026-02-24T06:24:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T06:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/doontv.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/24\/robert-mugabes-son-charged-with-attempted-murder-over-johannesburg-shooting\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T06:24:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T06:24:07","slug":"robert-mugabes-son-charged-with-attempted-murder-over-johannesburg-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doontv.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/24\/robert-mugabes-son-charged-with-attempted-murder-over-johannesburg-shooting\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Mugabe\u2019s son charged with attempted murder over Johannesburg shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Bellarmine Chatunga Mugabe, known for lavish lifestyle, also accused of theft and being illegal immigrant after man allegedly shot in back<\/p>\n<p>A son of the late Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe has been charged with attempted murder after a 23-year-old man was allegedly shot in the back on 19 February in an upmarket area of Johannesburg.<\/p>\n<p>Bellarmine Chatunga Mugabe, 28, appeared in court on Monday for a brief hearing alongside co-accused Tobias Mugabe Matonhodze. Mugabe\u2019s lawyer Sinenhlanhla Mnguni declined to comment when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.enca.com\/news-top-stories\/mugabes-son-makes-first-court-appearance-shooting\">asked by reporters<\/a> whether the two men were related. Mnguni said he would request bail for his clients at the next hearing on 3 March.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/feb\/23\/robert-mugabe-son-bellarmine-mugabe-charged-with-crimes\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bellarmine Chatunga Mugabe, known for lavish lifestyle, also accused of theft and being illegal immigrant after man allegedly shot in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uttarakhand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/doontv.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/doontv.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/doontv.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doontv.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doontv.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/doontv.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/doontv.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doontv.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doontv.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}