{"id":185906,"date":"2024-12-05T01:04:29","date_gmt":"2024-12-04T23:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-cabinet-approves-educational-threshold-for-security-guards\/"},"modified":"2024-12-05T01:04:29","modified_gmt":"2024-12-04T23:04:29","slug":"zimbabwe-cabinet-approves-educational-threshold-for-security-guards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-cabinet-approves-educational-threshold-for-security-guards\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Cabinet Approves Educational Threshold for Security Guards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">All security guards should have minimum educational qualifications and must be screened through a watertight security vetting system before being equipped with requisite training to maintain high standards required by the profession.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">Cabinet has since approved principles of the Private Investigators and Security Guards (Control) Amendment Bill that seeks to address several issues include educational thresholds that should be met.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"47\">Responding to questions from the media during a post-Cabinet&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202412040443.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>All security guards should have minimum educational qualifications and must be screened through a watertight security vetting system before being equipped with requisite training to maintain high standards required by the profession. Cabinet has since approved principles of the Private Investigators and Security Guards (Control) Amendment Bill that seeks to address several issues include educational [&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":[258,256,8326,6467,7326,7648,257,4586,254,14449,4686,421],"class_list":["post-185906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-approves","tag-cabinet","tag-educational","tag-guards","tag-news","tag-security","tag-south-africa-today","tag-threshold","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185906","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=185906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185906\/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=185906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}