{"id":193381,"date":"2025-03-12T07:03:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-12T05:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-i-will-not-subscribe-to-mining-in-national-parks-mudenda-slams-sunny-yi-fengs-application-to-prospect-for-coal-in-hwange-national-park\/"},"modified":"2025-03-12T07:03:00","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T05:03:00","slug":"zimbabwe-i-will-not-subscribe-to-mining-in-national-parks-mudenda-slams-sunny-yi-fengs-application-to-prospect-for-coal-in-hwange-national-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-i-will-not-subscribe-to-mining-in-national-parks-mudenda-slams-sunny-yi-fengs-application-to-prospect-for-coal-in-hwange-national-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: I Will Not Subscribe to Mining in National Parks &#8211; Mudenda Slams Sunny Yi Feng&#8217;s Application to Prospect for Coal in Hwange National Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">The Speaker of Parliament, Jacob Mudenda, has strongly opposed coal mining in Hwange National Park, citing alternative locations with abundant coal deposits.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">This comes after a Chinese company, Sunny Yi Feng, recently proposed a coal mining project in Sinamatella, a section of Hwange National Park.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">The proposed site is a critical habitat for black rhinos and currently supports a growing population of this endangered species.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">Speaking during a parliamentary session on tourism, Mudenda expressed&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503110383.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>The Speaker of Parliament, Jacob Mudenda, has strongly opposed coal mining in Hwange National Park, citing alternative locations with abundant coal deposits. This comes after a Chinese company, Sunny Yi Feng, recently proposed a coal mining project in Sinamatella, a section of Hwange National Park. The proposed site is a critical habitat for black rhinos [&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":[258,256,11814,8488,50837,2699,6477,26962,6687,257,7191,22017,12848,9757,254,19977,50836,4686,421],"class_list":["post-193381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-application","tag-coal","tag-fengs","tag-hwange","tag-mining","tag-mudenda","tag-national","tag-news","tag-park","tag-parks","tag-prospect","tag-slams","tag-south-africa-today","tag-subscribe","tag-sunny","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193381","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=193381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193381\/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=193381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}