{"id":203365,"date":"2025-07-27T02:48:52","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T00:48:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-harare-set-for-thrilling-zimbabwe-spelling-bee-regional-finals\/"},"modified":"2025-07-27T02:48:52","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T00:48:52","slug":"zimbabwe-harare-set-for-thrilling-zimbabwe-spelling-bee-regional-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-harare-set-for-thrilling-zimbabwe-spelling-bee-regional-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Harare Set for Thrilling Zimbabwe Spelling Bee Regional Finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">Harare is gearing up to host the regional finals of the Zimbabwe Spelling Bee, a major fixture on the academic calendar, with more than 260 top spellers expected to compete for a chance to represent their provinces on the national stage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">The two-day event, slated for August 4 and 5 at Lord Brighton College in Nyabira, will see junior contestants take to the stage on the first day, followed by seniors on the second.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">Organisers say the competition will serve as a crucial warm-up ahead of the highly&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507250175.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>Harare is gearing up to host the regional finals of the Zimbabwe Spelling Bee, a major fixture on the academic calendar, with more than 260 top spellers expected to compete for a chance to represent their provinces on the national stage. The two-day event, slated for August 4 and 5 at Lord Brighton College in [&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":[258,256,3675,9777,500,257,4268,7106,254,44889,26544,4686,421],"class_list":["post-203365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bee","tag-finals","tag-harare","tag-news","tag-regional","tag-set","tag-south-africa-today","tag-spelling","tag-thrilling","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203365","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=203365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203365\/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=203365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}