{"id":29769,"date":"2020-11-04T22:33:56","date_gmt":"2020-11-04T20:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/zimbabwe\/?p=29769"},"modified":"2020-11-04T22:33:56","modified_gmt":"2020-11-04T20:33:56","slug":"zanu-pf-bigwigs-son-killed-by-mashurugwi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/zanu-pf-bigwigs-son-killed-by-mashurugwi","title":{"rendered":"ZANU PF Bigwig\u2019s Son Killed By MaShurugwi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The son of ZANU PF Midlands provincial chairperson Daniel Mackenzie Ncube was last week killed by a suspected machete gang in Zhombe, Midlands Province.<\/p>\n<p>Brian Mackenzie Ncube, a well-known gold buyer in Zhombe, was murdered on Saturday by a MaShurugwi gang following a gold rush in the Senkwasi area.<\/p>\n<p>His father, Daniel, confirmed the development to NewZimbabwe.com but said details leading to the death of Brian were still unclear as police are still carrying out investigations. He said:<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s true, last week I lost my son to machete gangs. His name is Brian Mackenzie Ncube.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not quite clear. Gold was discovered at his grandmother\u2019s homestead.<\/p>\n<p>That was the source of the problem. What really happened nobody has a straight answer.<\/p>\n<p>Reports suggest that following a gold rush in Senkwasi near Mackenzie\u2019s homestead on Friday, an unidentified gang called Daniel near the gate later that evening saying that they wanted to confirm something from him.<\/p>\n<p>His friends reportedly became worried after he took long to return before went out to look for him. They found his mutilated body in the early hours of Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The son of ZANU PF Midlands provincial chairperson Daniel Mackenzie Ncube was last week killed by a suspected machete gang in Zhombe, Midlands Province. Brian Mackenzie Ncube, a well-known gold buyer in Zhombe, was murdered on Saturday by a MaShurugwi gang following a gold rush in the Senkwasi area. His father, Daniel, confirmed the development [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":29771,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[38],"class_list":["post-29769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-parties","tag-zanu-pf"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>ZANU PF Bigwig\u2019s Son Killed By MaShurugwi - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The son of ZANU PF Midlands provincial chairperson Daniel Mackenzie Ncube was last week killed by a suspected machete gang in\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/zanu-pf-bigwigs-son-killed-by-mashurugwi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"ZANU PF Bigwig\u2019s Son Killed By MaShurugwi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The son of ZANU PF Midlands provincial chairperson Daniel Mackenzie Ncube was last week killed by a suspected machete gang in\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/zanu-pf-bigwigs-son-killed-by-mashurugwi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"zimbabwe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-11-04T20:33:56+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2020\/11\/Daniel-Mackenzie-Ncube.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"400\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"400\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/zanu-pf-bigwigs-son-killed-by-mashurugwi#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/zanu-pf-bigwigs-son-killed-by-mashurugwi\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"ZANU PF Bigwig\u2019s Son Killed By MaShurugwi\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-11-04T20:33:56+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/zanu-pf-bigwigs-son-killed-by-mashurugwi\"},\"wordCount\":198,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/zanu-pf-bigwigs-son-killed-by-mashurugwi#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2020\/11\/Daniel-Mackenzie-Ncube.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"#Zanu PF\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"parties\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/zanu-pf-bigwigs-son-killed-by-mashurugwi#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/zanu-pf-bigwigs-son-killed-by-mashurugwi\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/zanu-pf-bigwigs-son-killed-by-mashurugwi\",\"name\":\"ZANU PF Bigwig\u2019s Son Killed By MaShurugwi - 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