{"id":197521,"date":"2025-05-06T11:56:59","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T09:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-ndebele-king-bulelani-responds-to-minister-garwes-uncivil-letter-urges-respect-and-dialogue\/"},"modified":"2025-05-06T11:56:59","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T09:56:59","slug":"zimbabwe-ndebele-king-bulelani-responds-to-minister-garwes-uncivil-letter-urges-respect-and-dialogue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-ndebele-king-bulelani-responds-to-minister-garwes-uncivil-letter-urges-respect-and-dialogue\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Ndebele King Bulelani Responds to Minister Garwe&#8217;s Uncivil Letter &#8211; Urges Respect and Dialogue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">Ndebele King Bulelani Khumalo has responded in a dignified manner to Local Government Minister Daniel Garwe&#8217;s rude letter that disparaged his office and described him as a &#8216;charlatan.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">Garwe had been angered by King Bulelani&#8217;s visit to Bulawayo Mayor David Coltart last week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">King Bulelani is a descendant of King Mzilikazi, who founded <em>uMthwakazi<\/em>, a name used to refer to the Ndebele nation, having fled north from Zulu King Shaka to present-day Bulawayo during the <em>uMfecane<\/em> era.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Garwe&#8217;s dismissive&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202505060115.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>Ndebele King Bulelani Khumalo has responded in a dignified manner to Local Government Minister Daniel Garwe&#8217;s rude letter that disparaged his office and described him as a &#8216;charlatan.&#8217; Garwe had been angered by King Bulelani&#8217;s visit to Bulawayo Mayor David Coltart last week. King Bulelani is a descendant of King Mzilikazi, who founded uMthwakazi, a [&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":[258,256,51291,6688,51292,8946,5747,5941,4550,257,7571,6129,254,51293,6810,4686,421],"class_list":["post-197521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bulelani","tag-dialogue","tag-garwes","tag-king","tag-letter","tag-minister","tag-ndebele","tag-news","tag-respect","tag-responds","tag-south-africa-today","tag-uncivil","tag-urges","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197521","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=197521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197521\/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=197521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}