{"id":198791,"date":"2025-05-25T12:39:59","date_gmt":"2025-05-25T10:39:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-mnangagwa-urges-traditional-leaders-government-ministries-to-deal-with-gbv-drug-abuse-and-child-marriages\/"},"modified":"2025-05-25T12:39:59","modified_gmt":"2025-05-25T10:39:59","slug":"zimbabwe-mnangagwa-urges-traditional-leaders-government-ministries-to-deal-with-gbv-drug-abuse-and-child-marriages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-mnangagwa-urges-traditional-leaders-government-ministries-to-deal-with-gbv-drug-abuse-and-child-marriages\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Mnangagwa Urges Traditional Leaders, Government Ministries to Deal With GBV, Drug Abuse and Child Marriages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has urged traditional leaders and key government ministries to intensify efforts to combat social ills such as drug abuse, gender-based violence (GBV), child pregnancies, and early marriages.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">Mnangagwa was speaking at the launch of the cultural month in Chiredzi Thursday where he said these challenges threaten the moral fabric of Zimbabwean society despite progress in cultural revival.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">&#8220;While our commemorations continue to chronicle our success stories in cultural&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202505230187.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>PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has urged traditional leaders and key government ministries to intensify efforts to combat social ills such as drug abuse, gender-based violence (GBV), child pregnancies, and early marriages. Mnangagwa was speaking at the launch of the cultural month in Chiredzi Thursday where he said these challenges threaten the moral fabric of Zimbabwean society [&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":[5099,258,256,8438,7012,6949,14080,6427,4381,11610,6116,7476,257,254,9464,6810,4686,421],"class_list":["post-198791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-abuse","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-child","tag-deal","tag-drug","tag-gbv","tag-government","tag-leaders","tag-marriages","tag-ministries","tag-mnangagwa","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-traditional","tag-urges","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198791","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=198791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198791\/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=198791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}