{"id":196306,"date":"2025-04-18T11:17:42","date_gmt":"2025-04-18T09:17:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-bulawayo-gears-up-for-45th-independence-day-celebrations\/"},"modified":"2025-04-18T11:17:42","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T09:17:42","slug":"zimbabwe-bulawayo-gears-up-for-45th-independence-day-celebrations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-bulawayo-gears-up-for-45th-independence-day-celebrations\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Bulawayo Gears Up for 45th Independence Day Celebrations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">It&#8217;s a drizzling morning in Bulawayo, with overcast clouds, as the City prepares to celebrate the country&#8217;s 45th independence, which also coincides with the start of the Easter weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">On this day, Jesus Christ shed blood as he was crucified to cleanse the world of its sins and bring peace.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"55\">For Zimbabwe, its sons and daughters took up arms to fight the brutal colonial regime and during the armed conflict, blood was shed, lives were lost, as brave sons and daughters of the soil were eager to&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202504180121.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>It&#8217;s a drizzling morning in Bulawayo, with overcast clouds, as the City prepares to celebrate the country&#8217;s 45th independence, which also coincides with the start of the Easter weekend. On this day, Jesus Christ shed blood as he was crucified to cleanse the world of its sins and bring peace. For Zimbabwe, its sons and [&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":[37495,258,256,3691,7637,7165,14065,7690,257,254,4686,421],"class_list":["post-196306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-45th","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bulawayo","tag-celebrations","tag-day","tag-gears","tag-independence","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196306","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=196306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196306\/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=196306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}