{"id":177196,"date":"2024-07-24T20:37:14","date_gmt":"2024-07-24T18:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-vp-chiwenga-expected-in-paris-for-olympic-games\/"},"modified":"2024-07-24T20:37:14","modified_gmt":"2024-07-24T18:37:14","slug":"zimbabwe-vp-chiwenga-expected-in-paris-for-olympic-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-vp-chiwenga-expected-in-paris-for-olympic-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: VP Chiwenga Expected in Paris for Olympic Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"5\"><em>Wallace Ruzvidzo in PARIS, France<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">VICE President Dr Constantino Chiwenga is expected to arrive here today to attend the 2024 Paris Olympic Games opening ceremony to be held on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">Zimbabwe has seven athletes who will compete at the games, which run until August 11.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"10\">They will represent the country in athletics, rowing and swimming.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">In the athletics field, Zimbabwe will be represented by sprinters Makanakaishe Charamba and Tapiwanashe Makarawu, who both qualified for the 200m dash, while Isaac&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202407240552.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>Wallace Ruzvidzo in PARIS, France VICE President Dr Constantino Chiwenga is expected to arrive here today to attend the 2024 Paris Olympic Games opening ceremony to be held on Friday. Zimbabwe has seven athletes who will compete at the games, which run until August 11. They will represent the country in athletics, rowing and swimming. [&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":[258,256,8862,6474,6731,257,9702,15620,254,4686,421],"class_list":["post-177196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-chiwenga","tag-expected","tag-games","tag-news","tag-olympic","tag-paris","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177196","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=177196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177196\/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=177196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}