{"id":187934,"date":"2025-01-05T02:13:43","date_gmt":"2025-01-05T00:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-let-the-pipe-dream-be-buried-says-former-harare-mayor-on-capitals-failed-attempt-to-achieve-world-class-city-status-by-2025\/"},"modified":"2025-01-05T02:13:43","modified_gmt":"2025-01-05T00:13:43","slug":"zimbabwe-let-the-pipe-dream-be-buried-says-former-harare-mayor-on-capitals-failed-attempt-to-achieve-world-class-city-status-by-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-let-the-pipe-dream-be-buried-says-former-harare-mayor-on-capitals-failed-attempt-to-achieve-world-class-city-status-by-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Let the Pipe Dream Be Buried &#8211; Says Former Harare Mayor On Capital&#8217;s Failed Attempt to Achieve World Class City Status By 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">FORMER Harare mayor, Bernard Manyenyeni has trashed the capital&#8217;s attempts at achieving world class city status, saying it is a pipe dream which should just be buried.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">Manyenyeni, who was in office from 2013 to 2018, said until conditions that allowed Harare to be run like a normal metropolis were restored, the local authority&#8217;s dream would never come true.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">City of Harare (CoH) had been targeting to have turned the capital into a world class city by 2025, a target it missed dismally.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">Attempts by&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202501030104.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 Harare mayor, Bernard Manyenyeni has trashed the capital&#8217;s attempts at achieving world class city status, saying it is a pipe dream which should just be buried. Manyenyeni, who was in office from 2013 to 2018, said until conditions that allowed Harare to be run like a normal metropolis were restored, the local authority&#8217;s dream [&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":[12464,258,256,8083,11340,10622,6603,6285,7421,9281,500,7625,257,13693,254,8912,5093,4686,421],"class_list":["post-187934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-achieve","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-attempt","tag-buried","tag-capitals","tag-city","tag-class","tag-dream","tag-failed","tag-harare","tag-mayor","tag-news","tag-pipe","tag-south-africa-today","tag-status","tag-world","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187934","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=187934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187934\/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=187934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}