{"id":181788,"date":"2024-10-03T23:55:13","date_gmt":"2024-10-03T21:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-vp-chiwenga-in-hwedza-to-bury-his-aunt\/"},"modified":"2024-10-03T23:55:13","modified_gmt":"2024-10-03T21:55:13","slug":"zimbabwe-vp-chiwenga-in-hwedza-to-bury-his-aunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-vp-chiwenga-in-hwedza-to-bury-his-aunt\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: VP Chiwenga in Hwedza to Bury His Aunt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">Vice President Dr Constantino Chiwenga is in his rural home of Hwedza for the burial of his aunt Gogo Martha Chikata.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Gogo Chikata died on Sunday at the age of 102. Ministers and several senior Government officials have thronged Hwedza to commiserate with VP Chiwenga and his family.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"13\">Ministers present are Cdes Apollonia Munzverengi, Felix Mhona, Tatenda Mavetera and Tinoda Machakaire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Gogo Chikata also had a hand in the country&#8217;s liberation struggle as her homestead was a well-known sanctuary for&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202410030661.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>Vice President Dr Constantino Chiwenga is in his rural home of Hwedza for the burial of his aunt Gogo Martha Chikata. Gogo Chikata died on Sunday at the age of 102. Ministers and several senior Government officials have thronged Hwedza to commiserate with VP Chiwenga and his family. Ministers present are Cdes Apollonia Munzverengi, Felix [&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":[258,256,49667,23782,8862,49666,257,254,4686,421],"class_list":["post-181788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-aunt","tag-bury","tag-chiwenga","tag-hwedza","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181788","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=181788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181788\/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=181788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}