{"id":199059,"date":"2025-05-29T12:39:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T10:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zimbabwe-south-africa-in-talks-with-zimbabwe-and-zambia-over-dr-congo-power-line\/"},"modified":"2025-05-29T12:39:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T10:39:09","slug":"zimbabwe-south-africa-in-talks-with-zimbabwe-and-zambia-over-dr-congo-power-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zimbabwe-south-africa-in-talks-with-zimbabwe-and-zambia-over-dr-congo-power-line\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: South Africa in Talks With Zimbabwe and Zambia Over DR Congo Power Line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">South Africa&#8217;s Minister of Mineral and Petroleum Resources, Gwede Mantashe, has announced that the country is in discussions with Zambia and Zimbabwe regarding the possibility of routing an electricity transmission line from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) through their territories.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">This line is set to be a crucial part of the ambitious Grand Inga Hydropower Project, a significant energy development on the Congo River.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">The project is expected to provide South Africa up to 2,500 megawatts&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202505290070.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>South Africa&#8217;s Minister of Mineral and Petroleum Resources, Gwede Mantashe, has announced that the country is in discussions with Zambia and Zimbabwe regarding the possibility of routing an electricity transmission line from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) through their territories. This line is set to be a crucial part of the ambitious Grand Inga [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":199060,"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":[258,256,4554,6402,257,7047,5069,254,5038,4709,881,4686],"class_list":["post-199059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-congo","tag-line","tag-news","tag-power","tag-south","tag-south-africa-today","tag-talks","tag-zambia","tag-zambia-news","tag-zimbabwe"],"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\/199059","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=199059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}