{"id":197029,"date":"2025-04-29T11:33:44","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T09:33:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zimbabwe-business-grinds-to-a-halt-at-chirundu-border-post-as-zambians-zimbabweans-square-off\/"},"modified":"2025-04-29T11:33:44","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T09:33:44","slug":"zimbabwe-business-grinds-to-a-halt-at-chirundu-border-post-as-zambians-zimbabweans-square-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zimbabwe-business-grinds-to-a-halt-at-chirundu-border-post-as-zambians-zimbabweans-square-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Business Grinds to a Halt At Chirundu Border Post As Zambians, Zimbabweans Square Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Business came to a halt at Chirundu Border Post on Monday following counter-protests by Zambian and Zimbabwean nationals over alleged unfair treatment on either side.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">The potentially explosive situation resulted in hours of a stand-off that saw Zambian nationals protesting and blocking Zimbabweans from entering the neighbouring country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">Although efforts to get comments from Immigration officials were futile, media reports say in recent weeks, Zambian authorities have been arresting Zimbabweans&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202504290091.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zambia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zambia\/\">Zambia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Business came to a halt at Chirundu Border Post on Monday following counter-protests by Zambian and Zimbabwean nationals over alleged unfair treatment on either side. The potentially explosive situation resulted in hours of a stand-off that saw Zambian nationals protesting and blocking Zimbabweans from entering the neighbouring country. Although efforts to get comments from Immigration [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":197030,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[825],"tags":[4338,258,256,1900,30009,34994,7520,257,9145,254,11896,881,9005,4686,1487],"class_list":["post-197029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-business","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-border","tag-chirundu","tag-grinds","tag-halt","tag-news","tag-post","tag-south-africa-today","tag-square","tag-zambia-news","tag-zambians","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabweans"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197029","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=197029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}