{"id":199867,"date":"2025-06-10T01:12:04","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T23:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-ex-dembare-midfielder-stands-with-nathan-mutasa-amid-social-media-backlash\/"},"modified":"2025-06-10T01:12:04","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T23:12:04","slug":"zimbabwe-ex-dembare-midfielder-stands-with-nathan-mutasa-amid-social-media-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-ex-dembare-midfielder-stands-with-nathan-mutasa-amid-social-media-backlash\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Ex-Dembare Midfielder Stands With Nathan Mutasa Amid Social Media Backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Europe-based former Dynamos attacking midfielder Musareka Jenitala has publicly thrown his support behind Scotland FC midfielder Nathan Mutasa following a wave of social media criticism aimed at the 21-year-old.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">&#8220;As a former player, I stand with Nathan Mutasa,&#8221; Jenitala wrote in a Facebook post.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">His comments come in response to online trolls questioning Mutasa&#8217;s talent and accusing him of riding on his family background to advance his football career.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">The criticism appears to be fueled by the fact&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202506090410.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>Europe-based former Dynamos attacking midfielder Musareka Jenitala has publicly thrown his support behind Scotland FC midfielder Nathan Mutasa following a wave of social media criticism aimed at the 21-year-old. &#8220;As a former player, I stand with Nathan Mutasa,&#8221; Jenitala wrote in a Facebook post. His comments come in response to online trolls questioning Mutasa&#8217;s talent [&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":[258,256,7686,51578,4959,4371,9035,16696,257,3577,254,6443,4686,421],"class_list":["post-199867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-backlash","tag-exdembare","tag-media","tag-midfielder","tag-mutasa","tag-nathan","tag-news","tag-social","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stands","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199867","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=199867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199867\/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=199867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}