{"id":200262,"date":"2025-06-16T13:14:52","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T11:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zimbabwe-mnangagwa-reiterates-his-law-school-training-claim-in-zambia-alongside-late-president-lungu\/"},"modified":"2025-06-16T13:14:52","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T11:14:52","slug":"zimbabwe-mnangagwa-reiterates-his-law-school-training-claim-in-zambia-alongside-late-president-lungu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zimbabwe-mnangagwa-reiterates-his-law-school-training-claim-in-zambia-alongside-late-president-lungu\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Mnangagwa Reiterates His Law School Training Claim in Zambia Alongside Late President Lungu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has claimed a shared history with the late former Zambian President Edgar Lungu, asserting they were contemporaries at law school.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">Speaking at the Zambian Embassy on Thursday, where he signed the Book of Condolences following Lungu&#8217;s passing, Mnangagwa insisted on a connection stretching back to his student days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">&#8220;We were students together at law school. There is a lot of history between me and him and several other Zambians, I did my education in Zambia, of course he&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202506160063.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>PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has claimed a shared history with the late former Zambian President Edgar Lungu, asserting they were contemporaries at law school. Speaking at the Zambian Embassy on Thursday, where he signed the Book of Condolences following Lungu&#8217;s passing, Mnangagwa insisted on a connection stretching back to his student days. &#8220;We were students together [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":200263,"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":[258,256,8667,8262,7077,7280,7476,257,2450,9502,4362,254,4287,4709,881,4686],"class_list":["post-200262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-claim","tag-late","tag-law","tag-lungu","tag-mnangagwa","tag-news","tag-president","tag-reiterates","tag-school","tag-south-africa-today","tag-training","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\/200262","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=200262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}