{"id":196432,"date":"2025-04-20T11:21:37","date_gmt":"2025-04-20T09:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-independence-ball-kicks-off-birthday-festivities\/"},"modified":"2025-04-20T11:21:37","modified_gmt":"2025-04-20T09:21:37","slug":"zimbabwe-independence-ball-kicks-off-birthday-festivities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-independence-ball-kicks-off-birthday-festivities\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Independence Ball Kicks Off Birthday Festivities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"3\"><em>17 April 1986<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">The sixth independence anniversary celebrations kicked off in Harare Province last night with an independence ball held at the Chitungwiza Town Council head office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">The chairman of the Harare Independence celebrations committee, Cde Edward Kanangoni, told The Herald that his committee had raised about $54 000 by yesterday and more contributions were expected this morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">The celebrations committee for Harare Province, which includes Harare and Chitungwiza, has hired 68 buses one bus&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202504180272.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>17 April 1986 The sixth independence anniversary celebrations kicked off in Harare Province last night with an independence ball held at the Chitungwiza Town Council head office. The chairman of the Harare Independence celebrations committee, Cde Edward Kanangoni, told The Herald that his committee had raised about $54 000 by yesterday and more contributions were [&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":[258,256,7653,15911,17344,7690,7023,257,254,4686,421],"class_list":["post-196432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ball","tag-birthday","tag-festivities","tag-independence","tag-kicks","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196432","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=196432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196432\/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=196432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}