{"id":1375,"date":"2019-02-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-05T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stopkorrupsie.afriforum.co.za\/duduzane-zuma-face-culpable-homicide-charge-march-afriforum-intervenes\/"},"modified":"2019-02-05T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T00:00:00","slug":"duduzane-zuma-face-culpable-homicide-charge-march-afriforum-intervenes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stopkorrupsie.co.za\/en\/duduzane-zuma-face-culpable-homicide-charge-march-afriforum-intervenes\/","title":{"rendered":"Duduzane Zuma to face culpable homicide charge in March after AfriForum intervenes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Duduzane Zuma, son of former President Jacob Zuma, today heard in the Randburg Magistrate\u2019s Court that he must appear on 26\u00a0March\u00a02019 for two charges of culpable homicide and one charge of negligent driving.<\/p>\n<p>The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) initially decided not to prosecute Zuma Jr in connection with a vehicle accident that occurred on 1\u00a0February\u00a02014 on the M1 highway in Johannesburg, in which a young, female passenger, Mekelina Dube, had died on impact. After AfriForum\u2019s Private Prosecution Unit applied to privately prosecute Zuma Jr, the NPA overturned their initial decision and instituted prosecution.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWe view the fact that Duduzane will finally appear in court as a victory. We will monitor the process closely to ensure that justice prevails,\u201d says Adv. Gerrie Nel, Head of AfriForum\u2019s Private Prosecution Unit.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Duduzane Zuma, son of former President Jacob Zuma, today heard in the Randburg Magistrate\u2019s Court that he must appear on 26\u00a0March\u00a02019 for two charges of culpable homicide and one charge of negligent driving. The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) initially decided not to prosecute Zuma Jr in connection with a vehicle accident that occurred on 1\u00a0February\u00a02014&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":1032,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-private-prosecutions"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":55,"label":"Private Prosecutions"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/stopkorrupsie.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Duduzane-Zuma-1024x576.jpg",1024,576,true],"author_info":{"display_name":"afriforum","author_link":"https:\/\/stopkorrupsie.co.za\/en\/author\/afriforum\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":55,"name":"Private Prosecutions","slug":"private-prosecutions","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":55,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":52,"filter":"raw","term_order":"0","cat_ID":55,"category_count":52,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Private Prosecutions","category_nicename":"private-prosecutions","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"fimg_url":"https:\/\/stopkorrupsie.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Duduzane-Zuma.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stopkorrupsie.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stopkorrupsie.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stopkorrupsie.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stopkorrupsie.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stopkorrupsie.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stopkorrupsie.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stopkorrupsie.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stopkorrupsie.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stopkorrupsie.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stopkorrupsie.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}