{"id":174485,"date":"2024-06-14T07:06:07","date_gmt":"2024-06-14T05:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-govt-to-tackle-road-traffic-accidents-with-stringent-measures\/"},"modified":"2024-06-14T07:06:07","modified_gmt":"2024-06-14T05:06:07","slug":"zimbabwe-govt-to-tackle-road-traffic-accidents-with-stringent-measures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-govt-to-tackle-road-traffic-accidents-with-stringent-measures\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Govt to Tackle Road Traffic Accidents With Stringent Measures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">The Minister of Transport and Infrastructural Development, Felix Mhona has outlined urgent measures to combat the alarming rate of road traffic accidents in the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Responding to an inquiry from Midlands proportional representation MP Perseverance Zhou, Mhona highlighted the critical need for action to curb the daily toll of fatalities and injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\">&#8220;Given the numbers that we have in our country, for us to continue having &#8211; precisely it is about five deaths per day which actually comes to 150&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202406130488.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minister of Transport and Infrastructural Development, Felix Mhona has outlined urgent measures to combat the alarming rate of road traffic accidents in the country. Responding to an inquiry from Midlands proportional representation MP Perseverance Zhou, Mhona highlighted the critical need for action to curb the daily toll of fatalities and injuries. &#8220;Given the numbers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[8599,258,256,4357,7305,257,7414,254,31050,11164,9527,4686,421],"class_list":["post-174485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-accidents","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-govt","tag-measures","tag-news","tag-road","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stringent","tag-tackle","tag-traffic","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}