{"id":187667,"date":"2025-01-01T02:05:41","date_gmt":"2025-01-01T00:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/south-africas-zille-blasts-zimbabwes-post-independence-failures-argues-colonialism-was-not-entirely-negative\/"},"modified":"2025-01-01T02:05:41","modified_gmt":"2025-01-01T00:05:41","slug":"south-africas-zille-blasts-zimbabwes-post-independence-failures-argues-colonialism-was-not-entirely-negative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/south-africas-zille-blasts-zimbabwes-post-independence-failures-argues-colonialism-was-not-entirely-negative\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa&#8217;s Zille Blasts Zimbabwe&#8217;s Post-Independence Failures &#8211; Argues Colonialism Was Not &#8216;Entirely Negative&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">South African politician Helen Zille says Zimbabwe&#8217;s failure to maintain colonial infrastructure and gains has hindered the country&#8217;s development in the post-colonial era.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">Since gaining independence in 1980, Zimbabwe has experienced economic decline, shifting from the &#8220;breadbasket of Africa&#8221; to an impoverished state.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">This decline has been attributed to several factors, including the fast-tracked land reform program at the turn of the millennium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Democratic Alliance (DA) federal chairperson Helen&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202412310372.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>South African politician Helen Zille says Zimbabwe&#8217;s failure to maintain colonial infrastructure and gains has hindered the country&#8217;s development in the post-colonial era. Since gaining independence in 1980, Zimbabwe has experienced economic decline, shifting from the &#8220;breadbasket of Africa&#8221; to an impoverished state. This decline has been attributed to several factors, including the fast-tracked land [&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":[258,256,6287,32560,9606,6296,23961,10265,257,50311,5069,254,50310,421,7726],"class_list":["post-187667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-africas","tag-argues","tag-blasts","tag-colonialism","tag-failures","tag-negative","tag-news","tag-postindependence","tag-south","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zille","tag-zimbabwe-news","tag-zimbabwes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187667","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=187667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187667\/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=187667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}