{"id":204164,"date":"2025-08-07T15:13:25","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T13:13:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-deathtrap-highways-churches-demand-crackdown-as-road-carnage-soars\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T15:13:25","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T13:13:25","slug":"zimbabwe-deathtrap-highways-churches-demand-crackdown-as-road-carnage-soars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-deathtrap-highways-churches-demand-crackdown-as-road-carnage-soars\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: &#8216;Deathtrap Highways&#8217; Churches Demand Crackdown As Road Carnage Soars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">The Zimbabwe Council of Churches (ZCC) has issued a warning over the country&#8217;s worsening road safety crisis, calling for urgent government action following a sharp rise in deadly traffic accidents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">In a statement, the church body expressed &#8220;deep sorrow&#8221; over the mounting loss of life, urging sweeping reforms to the country&#8217;s embattled public transport system and stronger enforcement of road safety regulations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">&#8220;We are particularly heartbroken by the tragic accident&#8230; where seventeen precious&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202508070459.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>The Zimbabwe Council of Churches (ZCC) has issued a warning over the country&#8217;s worsening road safety crisis, calling for urgent government action following a sharp rise in deadly traffic accidents. In a statement, the church body expressed &#8220;deep sorrow&#8221; over the mounting loss of life, urging sweeping reforms to the country&#8217;s embattled public transport system [&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":[258,256,8579,9516,14409,52049,7617,8602,257,7414,9029,254,4686,421],"class_list":["post-204164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-carnage","tag-churches","tag-crackdown","tag-deathtrap","tag-demand","tag-highways","tag-news","tag-road","tag-soars","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204164","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=204164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204164\/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=204164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}