{"id":196917,"date":"2025-04-27T23:38:45","date_gmt":"2025-04-27T21:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-zru-boss-explodes-at-lady-sables\/"},"modified":"2025-04-27T23:38:45","modified_gmt":"2025-04-27T21:38:45","slug":"zimbabwe-zru-boss-explodes-at-lady-sables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-zru-boss-explodes-at-lady-sables\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: ZRU Boss Explodes At Lady Sables"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Don Makanyanga \u2014 The most explosive scandal in Zimbabwean rugby history has erupted and the fire is squarely at the feet of Zimbabwe Rugby Union (ZRU) president Losson Mtongwiza.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">A leaked audio of Mtongwiza viciously dressing down the Lady Sables, the Zimbabwe national women&#8217;s rugby team, has blown the lid off what seems to be a festering culture of abuse, arrogance and contempt at the heart of the ZRU.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">The recording, now spreading like wildfire on social media, captures Mtongwiza telling the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202504250466.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>Don Makanyanga \u2014 The most explosive scandal in Zimbabwean rugby history has erupted and the fire is squarely at the feet of Zimbabwe Rugby Union (ZRU) president Losson Mtongwiza. A leaked audio of Mtongwiza viciously dressing down the Lady Sables, the Zimbabwe national women&#8217;s rugby team, has blown the lid off what seems to be [&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":[258,256,6962,22705,6669,257,7971,254,4686,421,16001],"class_list":["post-196917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-boss","tag-explodes","tag-lady","tag-news","tag-sables","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news","tag-zru"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196917","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=196917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196917\/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=196917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}