{"id":207186,"date":"2025-09-15T06:41:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T04:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-parliament-concerned-by-governments-snub-of-mzilikazi-day\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T06:41:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T04:41:12","slug":"zimbabwe-parliament-concerned-by-governments-snub-of-mzilikazi-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-parliament-concerned-by-governments-snub-of-mzilikazi-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Parliament Concerned By Government&#8217;s Snub of Mzilikazi Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"14\">Parliament has raised concerns over the government&#8217;s continued non-recognition of the annual Mzilikazi Day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Mzilikazi Day is celebrated in honour of the founding father of the Ndebele Kingdom, Mzilikazi ka Matshobane, who died on 9 September 1868.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">On Saturday, thousands thronged Mhlahlandlela to honour the legacy of Mzilikazi, which began in 1823 when he broke ranks from Shaka Zulu to forge the Ndebele Kingdom.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">Conspicuous by their absence were government officials, including the Minister of Home&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509120171.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>Parliament has raised concerns over the government&#8217;s continued non-recognition of the annual Mzilikazi Day. Mzilikazi Day is celebrated in honour of the founding father of the Ndebele Kingdom, Mzilikazi ka Matshobane, who died on 9 September 1868. On Saturday, thousands thronged Mhlahlandlela to honour the legacy of Mzilikazi, which began in 1823 when he broke [&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":[258,256,10495,7165,6201,31309,257,2412,7635,254,4686,421],"class_list":["post-207186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-concerned","tag-day","tag-governments","tag-mzilikazi","tag-news","tag-parliament","tag-snub","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207186","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=207186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207186\/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=207186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}