{"id":201712,"date":"2025-07-05T14:05:58","date_gmt":"2025-07-05T12:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-zesa-chairman-dr-sydney-gata-passes-away\/"},"modified":"2025-07-05T14:05:58","modified_gmt":"2025-07-05T12:05:58","slug":"zimbabwe-zesa-chairman-dr-sydney-gata-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-zesa-chairman-dr-sydney-gata-passes-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: ZESA Chairman Dr. Sydney Gata Passes Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">ZESA Holdings executive chairman Dr. Sydney Zikuzo Gata has died at the age of 78, the power utility has announced<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">In a statement, the organization described his passing as a &#8220;devastating loss&#8221; and paid tribute to his &#8220;unwavering commitment to the energy sector and national development.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">&#8220;He leaves behind a legacy of unwavering commitment to the energy sector. Dr. Gata dedicated his life to advancing energy solutions and infrastructure development. His leadership at ZESA transformed the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507040515.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>ZESA Holdings executive chairman Dr. Sydney Zikuzo Gata has died at the age of 78, the power utility has announced In a statement, the organization described his passing as a &#8220;devastating loss&#8221; and paid tribute to his &#8220;unwavering commitment to the energy sector and national development.&#8221; &#8220;He leaves behind a legacy of unwavering commitment to [&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":[258,256,6888,40338,257,9871,254,49681,20786,4686,421],"class_list":["post-201712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-chairman","tag-gata","tag-news","tag-passes","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sydney","tag-zesa","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201712","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=201712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201712\/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=201712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}