{"id":206795,"date":"2025-09-11T06:20:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T04:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-kadewere-not-dropped-for-warriors-last-match-sources-explain-as-nees-begs-for-peace\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T06:20:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T04:20:00","slug":"zimbabwe-kadewere-not-dropped-for-warriors-last-match-sources-explain-as-nees-begs-for-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-kadewere-not-dropped-for-warriors-last-match-sources-explain-as-nees-begs-for-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Kadewere Not Dropped for Warriors Last Match, Sources Explain &#8211; As Nees Begs for Peace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">REPORTS that Warriors coach Michael Nees was forced to drop forward Tino Kadewere for their World Cup qualifier against Rwanda following his altercation with journalist Yvonne Mangunda, have been dismissed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">Kadewere and Mangunda had a short touchline bust-up at Orlando Stadium in South Africa where Zimbabwe were training ahead of their match against Rwanda.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">His absence from the matchday squad had sent tongues wagging, with many arguing he had been dropped by Nees, a case that has been dismissed by&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509100362.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>REPORTS that Warriors coach Michael Nees was forced to drop forward Tino Kadewere for their World Cup qualifier against Rwanda following his altercation with journalist Yvonne Mangunda, have been dismissed. Kadewere and Mangunda had a short touchline bust-up at Orlando Stadium in South Africa where Zimbabwe were training ahead of their match against Rwanda. His [&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":[258,256,9070,9943,11084,25144,8778,49183,257,6157,7910,254,10304,4686,421],"class_list":["post-206795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-begs","tag-dropped","tag-explain","tag-kadewere","tag-match","tag-nees","tag-news","tag-peace","tag-sources","tag-south-africa-today","tag-warriors","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206795","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=206795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206795\/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=206795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}