{"id":177898,"date":"2024-08-04T21:05:20","date_gmt":"2024-08-04T19:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-anger-at-huge-jump-in-zimbabwean-passport-price\/"},"modified":"2024-08-04T21:05:20","modified_gmt":"2024-08-04T19:05:20","slug":"zimbabwe-anger-at-huge-jump-in-zimbabwean-passport-price","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-anger-at-huge-jump-in-zimbabwean-passport-price\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Anger At Huge Jump in Zimbabwean Passport Price"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"7\"><em> Petition gathers over 1,100 signatures <\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A petition launched to urge the Zimbabwean government to reconsider a decision to hike the price of the Zimbabwean passport in South Africa has gathered more than 1,100 signatures in a few days.<\/li>\n<li>The Zimbabwean consulate in Johannesburg said that from 29 July all passport applications would be handled as express applications and would cost 250 US dollars instead of 170.<\/li>\n<li>Organisations representing Zimbabweans in South Africa have said the government should&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202408020078.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>Petition gathers over 1,100 signatures A petition launched to urge the Zimbabwean government to reconsider a decision to hike the price of the Zimbabwean passport in South Africa has gathered more than 1,100 signatures in a few days. The Zimbabwean consulate in Johannesburg said that from 29 July all passport applications would be handled as [&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":[258,256,15139,8409,12398,257,4346,8689,254,4686,421,325],"class_list":["post-177898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-anger","tag-huge","tag-jump","tag-news","tag-passport","tag-price","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news","tag-zimbabwean"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177898","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=177898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177898\/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=177898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}