{"id":193701,"date":"2025-03-16T19:12:16","date_gmt":"2025-03-16T17:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-war-veterans-fund-ignites-guruve-farmers-hopes\/"},"modified":"2025-03-16T19:12:16","modified_gmt":"2025-03-16T17:12:16","slug":"zimbabwe-war-veterans-fund-ignites-guruve-farmers-hopes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-war-veterans-fund-ignites-guruve-farmers-hopes\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: War Veterans Fund Ignites Guruve Farmer&#8217;s Hopes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">Before the Covid-19 pandemic, war veteran and farmer Cde Fellow Chivhenge was running a thriving strawberry project at his farm in Guruve.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">He had a lucrative market for his produce around Mvurwi and Harare. At the peak of his business, Cde Chivhenge was supplying about 30kg of strawberries daily.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">However, the Covid-19 pandemic came by and like many other businesses; Cde Chivhenge&#8217;s strawberry enterprise was negatively affected.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">The launch of the Presidential War Veteran Fund has reignited Cde&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503140094.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>Before the Covid-19 pandemic, war veteran and farmer Cde Fellow Chivhenge was running a thriving strawberry project at his farm in Guruve. He had a lucrative market for his produce around Mvurwi and Harare. At the peak of his business, Cde Chivhenge was supplying about 30kg of strawberries daily. However, the Covid-19 pandemic came by [&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":[258,256,3030,5111,48672,10002,8697,257,254,8016,6618,4686,421],"class_list":["post-193701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-farmers","tag-fund","tag-guruve","tag-hopes","tag-ignites","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-veterans","tag-war","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193701","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=193701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193701\/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=193701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}