{"id":188323,"date":"2025-01-10T14:25:41","date_gmt":"2025-01-10T12:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-lake-chivero-ecological-disaster-was-due-to-industrial-waste-and-not-raw-sewage-local-government-minister\/"},"modified":"2025-01-10T14:25:41","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T12:25:41","slug":"zimbabwe-lake-chivero-ecological-disaster-was-due-to-industrial-waste-and-not-raw-sewage-local-government-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-lake-chivero-ecological-disaster-was-due-to-industrial-waste-and-not-raw-sewage-local-government-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Lake Chivero Ecological Disaster Was Due to Industrial Waste and Not Raw Sewage &#8211; Local Government Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">Government has disputed claims from certain quarters that hordes of fish and four rhinos that were found dead at Lake Chivero were as a result of human waste or raw sewage discharged into the water reservoir.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">Addressing journalists in Harare Monday, Local Government minister Daniel Garwe said human waste is not dangerous and does not cause such a calamity, but the deaths were due to industrial waste being deposited into the lake by some private companies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Social media was awash with news that&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202501080492.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>Government has disputed claims from certain quarters that hordes of fish and four rhinos that were found dead at Lake Chivero were as a result of human waste or raw sewage discharged into the water reservoir. Addressing journalists in Harare Monday, Local Government minister Daniel Garwe said human waste is not dangerous and does not [&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":[258,256,32139,8985,6605,27077,6427,7190,6920,7823,5941,257,12278,21128,254,11569,4686,421],"class_list":["post-188323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-chivero","tag-disaster","tag-due","tag-ecological","tag-government","tag-industrial","tag-lake","tag-local","tag-minister","tag-news","tag-raw","tag-sewage","tag-south-africa-today","tag-waste","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188323","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=188323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188323\/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=188323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}