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The national and African rugby fraternity have been plunged into mourning following the death of the domestic game’s legend and ex-Zimbabwe Rugby Union president Aaron Jani yesterday.<\/p>\n
He was 55.<\/p>\n
Jani yesterday succumbed to colon cancer, which he had been bravely battling for nearly a decade.<\/p>\n
A former Old Miltonians and Sables winger, Jani rose through the administrative ranks of the game, chairing the national Under-20 committee before winning through to become the ZRU president.<\/p>\n
His astute…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> The national and African rugby fraternity have been plunged into mourning following the death of the domestic game’s legend and ex-Zimbabwe Rugby Union president Aaron Jani yesterday. He was 55. Jani yesterday succumbed to colon cancer, which he had been bravely battling for nearly a decade. A former Old Miltonians and Sables winger, Jani rose […]<\/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":[258,256,6868,50753,22212,257,8495,254,4686,421],"class_list":["post-192557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-dies","tag-jani","tag-legend","tag-news","tag-rugby","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192557","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=192557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192557\/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=192557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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