{"id":181863,"date":"2024-10-04T23:57:10","date_gmt":"2024-10-04T21:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-mliswa-calls-for-starlink-rollout-to-rural-zimbabwe-for-national-development\/"},"modified":"2024-10-04T23:57:10","modified_gmt":"2024-10-04T21:57:10","slug":"zimbabwe-mliswa-calls-for-starlink-rollout-to-rural-zimbabwe-for-national-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-mliswa-calls-for-starlink-rollout-to-rural-zimbabwe-for-national-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Mliswa Calls for Starlink Rollout to Rural Zimbabwe for National Development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">Former Norton legislator and now village head, Temba Mliswa, has called for the urgent adoption of Elon Musk&#8217;s <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.starlink.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Starlink<\/a>, satellite internet service, to accelerate development and bridge Zimbabwe&#8217;s digital divide, particularly in rural areas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">Speaking at the Media Alliance of Zimbabwe (MAZ) and Voluntary Media Council of Zimbabwe (VMCZ) Annual Media Stakeholders Conference in Harare, Mliswa said Starlink had the potential to transform the country&#8217;s education and access to information.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">&#8220;Starlink is&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202410040471.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>Former Norton legislator and now village head, Temba Mliswa, has called for the urgent adoption of Elon Musk&#8217;s Starlink, satellite internet service, to accelerate development and bridge Zimbabwe&#8217;s digital divide, particularly in rural areas. Speaking at the Media Alliance of Zimbabwe (MAZ) and Voluntary Media Council of Zimbabwe (VMCZ) Annual Media Stakeholders Conference in Harare, [&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":[258,256,6137,5989,20962,6687,257,18095,6309,254,42446,4686,421],"class_list":["post-181863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-calls","tag-development","tag-mliswa","tag-national","tag-news","tag-rollout","tag-rural","tag-south-africa-today","tag-starlink","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181863","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=181863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181863\/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=181863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}