{"id":174851,"date":"2024-06-20T01:02:34","date_gmt":"2024-06-19T23:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/southern-africa-condolence-message-on-the-passing-on-of-journalist-lucy-yasini\/"},"modified":"2024-06-20T01:02:34","modified_gmt":"2024-06-19T23:02:34","slug":"southern-africa-condolence-message-on-the-passing-on-of-journalist-lucy-yasini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/southern-africa-condolence-message-on-the-passing-on-of-journalist-lucy-yasini\/","title":{"rendered":"Southern Africa: Condolence Message On the Passing On of Journalist Lucy Yasini"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">A longstanding member of MISA Zimbabwe, Yasini was also a leader in her own right and once served as a member of the organisation&#8217;s Harare Advocacy Committee in defence of media freedom and citizens&#8217; right to access information.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">The passing of senior journalist Lucy Yasini will undoubtedly create a void in the number of female journalists who report from the &#8216;frontlines&#8217; in the otherwise male-dominated Zimbabwean media landscape.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">Yasini was always in the thick of things, toe-to-toe with her male&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202406190507.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A longstanding member of MISA Zimbabwe, Yasini was also a leader in her own right and once served as a member of the organisation&#8217;s Harare Advocacy Committee in defence of media freedom and citizens&#8217; right to access information. The passing of senior journalist Lucy Yasini will undoubtedly create a void in the number of female [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":174852,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,8701,7277,22245,8147,724,257,9062,254,7153,48820],"class_list":["post-174851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-condolence","tag-journalist","tag-lucy","tag-message","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-passing","tag-south-africa-today","tag-southern","tag-yasini"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174851","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=174851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}