{"id":189029,"date":"2025-01-19T16:22:39","date_gmt":"2025-01-19T14:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-former-information-minister-chen-chimutengwende-dies\/"},"modified":"2025-01-19T16:22:39","modified_gmt":"2025-01-19T14:22:39","slug":"zimbabwe-former-information-minister-chen-chimutengwende-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-former-information-minister-chen-chimutengwende-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Former Information Minister Chen Chimutengwende Dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"13\">FORMER Information, Posts and Telecommunications Minister Cde Chenhamo &#8220;Chen&#8221; Chakezha Chimutengwende has died.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"3\">He was 81.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"7\">Cde Chimutengwende died yesterday at around 5pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">His son, Mr Tawanda Chimutengwende, confirmed the death last night. He said his father had chronic kidney disease.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"8\">Burial arrangements will be announced in due course.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">Born on August 28 1943, Cde Chimutengwende first became a Zanu PF Member of Parliament in 1985 in Mazowe, and would be a legislator for over 25 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"10\">He also&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202501170133.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 Information, Posts and Telecommunications Minister Cde Chenhamo &#8220;Chen&#8221; Chakezha Chimutengwende has died. He was 81. Cde Chimutengwende died yesterday at around 5pm. His son, Mr Tawanda Chimutengwende, confirmed the death last night. He said his father had chronic kidney disease. Burial arrangements will be announced in due course. Born on August 28 1943, Cde [&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":[258,256,18545,50428,6868,422,5941,257,254,4686,421],"class_list":["post-189029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-chen","tag-chimutengwende","tag-dies","tag-information","tag-minister","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189029","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=189029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189029\/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=189029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}