{"id":179280,"date":"2024-08-26T10:06:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-26T08:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-an-oasis-of-hope-for-drought-hit-mwenezi\/"},"modified":"2024-08-26T10:06:00","modified_gmt":"2024-08-26T08:06:00","slug":"zimbabwe-an-oasis-of-hope-for-drought-hit-mwenezi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-an-oasis-of-hope-for-drought-hit-mwenezi\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: An Oasis of Hope for Drought-Hit Mwenezi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"45\">From a dry and desolate area where both humans and livestock shared dirty water from shallow wells for survival, Mwenezi District&#8217;s Ward 14 under Chief Neshuro and adjacent wards are being transformed into a green belt with thriving community nutrition gardens and small irrigation plots.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">Mwenezi is vast and what most Zimbabweans are familiar with is the side synonymous with perennial drought and food insecurity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">Yet now, there is a side of Mwenezi that is green. Villagers are sitting on a gold&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202408260056.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>From a dry and desolate area where both humans and livestock shared dirty water from shallow wells for survival, Mwenezi District&#8217;s Ward 14 under Chief Neshuro and adjacent wards are being transformed into a green belt with thriving community nutrition gardens and small irrigation plots. Mwenezi is vast and what most Zimbabweans are familiar with [&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":[258,256,10757,8868,4658,257,12627,254,4686,421],"class_list":["post-179280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-droughthit","tag-hope","tag-mwenezi","tag-news","tag-oasis","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179280","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=179280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179280\/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=179280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}