{"id":195098,"date":"2025-04-01T10:39:42","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T08:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-rufaro-stadium-still-needs-u-s-2-million-for-renovations-despite-scottland-lease-deal-harare-mayor\/"},"modified":"2025-04-01T10:39:42","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T08:39:42","slug":"zimbabwe-rufaro-stadium-still-needs-u-s-2-million-for-renovations-despite-scottland-lease-deal-harare-mayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-rufaro-stadium-still-needs-u-s-2-million-for-renovations-despite-scottland-lease-deal-harare-mayor\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Rufaro Stadium Still Needs U.S.$ 2 Million for Renovations Despite Scottland Lease Deal &#8211; Harare Mayor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Harare Mayor Jacob Mafume says close to US$ 2 million is needed to complete ongoing renovations at Rufaro stadium despite a lease deal with Scottland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Rufaro Stadium, the ceremonial home of football, was opened last year for local Premier Soccer League games after being inactive for five years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">However, despite the touch-ups, the venue still does not meet international standards to host CAF-approved games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">The stadium is yet to have bucket seats fitted around throughout all terraces, electronic&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202504010083.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>Harare Mayor Jacob Mafume says close to US$ 2 million is needed to complete ongoing renovations at Rufaro stadium despite a lease deal with Scottland. Rufaro Stadium, the ceremonial home of football, was opened last year for local Premier Soccer League games after being inactive for five years. However, despite the touch-ups, the venue still [&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":[258,256,7012,500,11161,7625,5118,257,5119,43937,50777,254,9328,2282,4686,421],"class_list":["post-195098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-deal","tag-harare","tag-lease","tag-mayor","tag-million","tag-news","tag-renovations","tag-rufaro","tag-scottland","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stadium","tag-u-s","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195098","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=195098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195098\/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=195098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}