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Herald Reporter<\/em><\/p>\n WHAT was turning out to be a worthless life, a little over seven years ago, owing to substance abuse, is now one that is positively impacting society in fighting the global menace.<\/p>\n This is the life of Mr Jacob Shamuyarira, a survivor of substance abuse who started drinking alcohol at the tender age of 15.<\/p>\n Today, he has been sober for seven-and-a-half years and is a champion in pushing initiatives that combat the life-threatening vice.<\/p>\n Narrating his story at the launch of the…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Herald Reporter WHAT was turning out to be a worthless life, a little over seven years ago, owing to substance abuse, is now one that is positively impacting society in fighting the global menace. This is the life of Mr Jacob Shamuyarira, a survivor of substance abuse who started drinking alcohol at the tender age […]<\/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":[5099,258,256,6949,10970,257,254,12397,5056,4686,421],"class_list":["post-175581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-abuse","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-drug","tag-nation","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stand","tag-takes","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175581","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=175581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175581\/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=175581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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