{"id":196566,"date":"2025-04-22T23:27:56","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T21:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-business-as-usual-in-harare-as-gezas-stay-away-is-ignored\/"},"modified":"2025-04-22T23:27:56","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T21:27:56","slug":"zimbabwe-business-as-usual-in-harare-as-gezas-stay-away-is-ignored","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-business-as-usual-in-harare-as-gezas-stay-away-is-ignored\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Business As Usual in Harare As Geza&#8217;s Stay Away Is Ignored"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">Residents of Harare ignored war veteran Blesses Geza&#8217;s call for a stay away on Tuesday, with most businesses operating as usual.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">From as early as 5 am, commuter omnibuses were touting for commuters, most of whom are vendors headed to Harare&#8217;s main vegetable market in Mbare.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">There was no indication of any change in Dzivarasekwa Extension, Madokero, Westlea and Warren Park, Waterfalls, Greendale and Chitungwiza when NewZimbabwe.com toured.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">The same applied in the Central Business District (CBD) and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202504220311.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>Residents of Harare ignored war veteran Blesses Geza&#8217;s call for a stay away on Tuesday, with most businesses operating as usual. From as early as 5 am, commuter omnibuses were touting for commuters, most of whom are vendors headed to Harare&#8217;s main vegetable market in Mbare. There was no indication of any change in Dzivarasekwa [&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":[4338,258,256,50909,500,257,254,9311,27781,4686,421],"class_list":["post-196566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-business","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-gezas","tag-harare","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stay","tag-usual","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196566","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=196566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196566\/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=196566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}