{"id":200359,"date":"2025-06-18T01:27:03","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T23:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-legislator-leads-skills-revolution-in-mudzi-with-500-trained-for-a-better-future\/"},"modified":"2025-06-18T01:27:03","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T23:27:03","slug":"zimbabwe-legislator-leads-skills-revolution-in-mudzi-with-500-trained-for-a-better-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-legislator-leads-skills-revolution-in-mudzi-with-500-trained-for-a-better-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Legislator Leads Skills Revolution in Mudzi With 500 Trained for a Better Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">A total of 500 people in Mudzi District have graduated with certificates after completing a government-backed basic skills training programme aimed at fighting drug and substance abuse while promoting economic empowerment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">The initiative, implemented by the Tonganyika Trust in partnership with Mudzi West MP Knowledge Kaitano, offered practical courses in welding, baking, cutting and designing, detergent production, and driving.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">Graduates hailed the programme as a life-changer, expressing readiness&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202506170502.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>A total of 500 people in Mudzi District have graduated with certificates after completing a government-backed basic skills training programme aimed at fighting drug and substance abuse while promoting economic empowerment. The initiative, implemented by the Tonganyika Trust in partnership with Mudzi West MP Knowledge Kaitano, offered practical courses in welding, baking, cutting and designing, [&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":[258,256,5760,9429,31341,41709,257,14191,6781,254,12737,4686,421],"class_list":["post-200359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-future","tag-leads","tag-legislator","tag-mudzi","tag-news","tag-revolution","tag-skills","tag-south-africa-today","tag-trained","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200359","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=200359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200359\/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=200359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}