{"id":206086,"date":"2025-09-02T05:57:54","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T03:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-cut-graduate-dies-in-car-crash-a-few-hours-after-graduation-ceremony-parents-and-sibling-battling-for-life\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T05:57:54","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T03:57:54","slug":"zimbabwe-cut-graduate-dies-in-car-crash-a-few-hours-after-graduation-ceremony-parents-and-sibling-battling-for-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-cut-graduate-dies-in-car-crash-a-few-hours-after-graduation-ceremony-parents-and-sibling-battling-for-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Cut Graduate Dies in Car Crash a Few Hours After Graduation Ceremony &#8211; Parents and Sibling Battling for Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">A CHINHOYI University of Technology (CUT) graduate died following a road traffic accident just a few hours after being conferred with a degree.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">Panashe Mwinga graduated with a Bachelor&#8217;s degree in Visual and Multimedia Communication on Thursday and was involved in the fatal crash in the Mapinga area as she and her family returned to Harare, where her dad was on a working visit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">The now deceased&#8217;s father, an engineer, was driving the vehicle. Also in the ill-fated car was Panashe&#8217;s mother and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509010589.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 CHINHOYI University of Technology (CUT) graduate died following a road traffic accident just a few hours after being conferred with a degree. Panashe Mwinga graduated with a Bachelor&#8217;s degree in Visual and Multimedia Communication on Thursday and was involved in the fatal crash in the Mapinga area as she and her family returned 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":[258,256,8853,302,6358,7750,8021,6868,24390,21533,9088,6448,257,9998,30503,254,4686,421],"class_list":["post-206086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-battling","tag-car","tag-ceremony","tag-crash","tag-cut","tag-dies","tag-graduate","tag-graduation","tag-hours","tag-life","tag-news","tag-parents","tag-sibling","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206086","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=206086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206086\/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=206086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}