{"id":175540,"date":"2024-06-29T19:41:40","date_gmt":"2024-06-29T17:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-2nd-republic-tackles-drug-abuse-menace\/"},"modified":"2024-06-29T19:41:40","modified_gmt":"2024-06-29T17:41:40","slug":"zimbabwe-2nd-republic-tackles-drug-abuse-menace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-2nd-republic-tackles-drug-abuse-menace\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: 2nd Republic Tackles Drug Abuse Menace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">The Government has employed a whole-of-society approach to decisively deal with the scourge of drugs and substance abuse which could undermine the country&#8217;s development goals if left unchecked, President Mnangagwa has said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"48\">Speaking at the launch of the Zimbabwe Multi-Sectoral Drug and Substance Abuse Plan at State House in Harare yesterday, President Mnangagwa said the drug and substance abuse menace needed all hands-on deck as no nation could develop fully if a portion of its citizens is&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202406280525.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 Government has employed a whole-of-society approach to decisively deal with the scourge of drugs and substance abuse which could undermine the country&#8217;s development goals if left unchecked, President Mnangagwa has said. Speaking at the launch of the Zimbabwe Multi-Sectoral Drug and Substance Abuse Plan at State House in Harare yesterday, President Mnangagwa said the [&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":[7577,5099,258,256,6949,16514,257,5935,254,14967,4686,421],"class_list":["post-175540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-2nd","tag-abuse","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-drug","tag-menace","tag-news","tag-republic","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tackles","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175540","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=175540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175540\/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=175540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}