{"id":17479,"date":"2026-01-11T18:11:30","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T18:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/17479\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T18:11:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T18:11:30","slug":"chipinge-man-hacks-wife-with-machete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/17479\/","title":{"rendered":"Chipinge man hacks wife with machete"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-expand=\"600\" class=\"lazyload\" viewbox=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/3mob_topbanner.jpg\" width=\"1128\" height=\"191\" alt=\"\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" data-expand=\"600\" viewbox=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/pexels-photo-923681-1024x682.jpeg\" alt=\"crime scene do not cross signage\" class=\"lazyload wp-image-67058\"\/>Photo by kat wilcox on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pexels.com\/photo\/crime-scene-do-not-cross-signage-923681\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pexels.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A 37-year-old man from Chipinge has been sentenced to nine years in prison by the Chipinge Magistrates\u2019 Court for the attempted murder of his wife during a violent domestic dispute.<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred on the night of November 15, 2025, around 11:00 PM in the Chief Mapungwana area. The offender returned home to find his 34-year-old wife absent. When she returned and could not provide a satisfactory explanation for her whereabouts, a dispute escalated.<\/p>\n<p>In a fit of rage, the man armed himself with a machete and attacked his wife, striking her once on the left cheek and three times on the hand, inflicting deep and serious injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Three years of the sentence were suspended on condition of good behavior, resulting in an effective prison term of six years.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaE9gCp9xVJlEgRF2u40\" class=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-expand=\"600\" class=\"lazyload\" viewbox=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/click-to_whatsapp_channel.jpg\"  width=\"1000\" height=\"250\" alt=\"\"\/> <\/a><\/p>\n<p>from the <a href=\"https:\/\/3-mob.com\/tag\/national-prosecuting-authority-of-zimbabwe\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"22937\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">National Prosecuting Authority of Zimbabwe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Related<\/p>\n<p> Join 797 other subscribers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo by kat wilcox on Pexels.com A 37-year-old man from Chipinge has been sentenced to nine years in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17480,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[106],"class_list":{"0":"post-17479","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-zimbabwe","8":"tag-zimbabwe"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}