{"id":194564,"date":"2025-03-26T10:27:24","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T08:27:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-lt-gen-sanyatwe-retired-replaces-coventry-as-sports-minister\/"},"modified":"2025-03-26T10:27:24","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T08:27:24","slug":"zimbabwe-lt-gen-sanyatwe-retired-replaces-coventry-as-sports-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-lt-gen-sanyatwe-retired-replaces-coventry-as-sports-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Lt-Gen Sanyatwe Retired, Replaces Coventry As Sports Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">President\u00a0Mnangagwa has retired Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) Commander, Lieutenant-General Anselem Sanyatwe and appointed him Sport, Recreation, Arts and Culture Minister with immediate effect.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">He replaces Dr Kirsty Coventry, the newly-elected president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), who will now assume the most powerful position in the world of sports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">Her tenure begins on June 23 and she will be based at the IOC headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">Lt-Gen Sanyatwe is a&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503260103.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>President\u00a0Mnangagwa has retired Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) Commander, Lieutenant-General Anselem Sanyatwe and appointed him Sport, Recreation, Arts and Culture Minister with immediate effect. He replaces Dr Kirsty Coventry, the newly-elected president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), who will now assume the most powerful position in the world of sports. Her tenure begins on June [&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":[258,256,18748,50963,5941,257,22817,20247,50964,254,8045,4686,421],"class_list":["post-194564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-coventry","tag-ltgen","tag-minister","tag-news","tag-replaces","tag-retired","tag-sanyatwe","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sports","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194564","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=194564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194564\/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=194564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}