{"id":193833,"date":"2025-03-18T07:15:07","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T05:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-drama-as-unidentified-youths-disrupt-war-veterans-press-conference\/"},"modified":"2025-03-18T07:15:07","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T05:15:07","slug":"zimbabwe-drama-as-unidentified-youths-disrupt-war-veterans-press-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-drama-as-unidentified-youths-disrupt-war-veterans-press-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Drama As Unidentified Youths Disrupt War Veterans Press Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">The Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association (ZNLWVA) press conference in Bulawayo was disrupted by a group of unidentified men who claimed they had booked the same venue for their business.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"13\">The group, which refused to identify themselves, claimed to be from Youth Connect.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">&#8220;We are not here to provoke anyone, but we are here for our own meeting. We have our own business to attend to, just like you,&#8221; said the man leading the group.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">ZNLWVA chairman Ethan Mathibela stated that they had&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503180015.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 Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association (ZNLWVA) press conference in Bulawayo was disrupted by a group of unidentified men who claimed they had booked the same venue for their business. The group, which refused to identify themselves, claimed to be from Youth Connect. &#8220;We are not here to provoke anyone, but we are here [&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":[258,256,5739,23872,10335,257,6010,254,13692,8016,6618,8619,4686,421],"class_list":["post-193833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-conference","tag-disrupt","tag-drama","tag-news","tag-press","tag-south-africa-today","tag-unidentified","tag-veterans","tag-war","tag-youths","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193833","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=193833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193833\/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=193833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}