{"id":209790,"date":"2025-10-14T07:42:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T05:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-president-mnangagwa-mourns-sa-bus-crash-victims-directs-govt-to-offer-state-assistance\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T07:42:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T05:42:16","slug":"zimbabwe-president-mnangagwa-mourns-sa-bus-crash-victims-directs-govt-to-offer-state-assistance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-president-mnangagwa-mourns-sa-bus-crash-victims-directs-govt-to-offer-state-assistance\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: President Mnangagwa Mourns SA Bus Crash Victims, Directs Govt to Offer State Assistance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has expressed shock and extended his condolences to the families who lost their relatives in a bus accident that killed 42 people among them Malawians and Zimbabweans in South Africa&#8217;s Limpopo province on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">He has since directed relevant Government agencies to provide State assistance towards the repatriation of the remains of the victims and similar assistance towards burial.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">In a statement Monday, President Mnangagwa said he received the news with shock and grief.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size:...<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510140035.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>PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has expressed shock and extended his condolences to the families who lost their relatives in a bus accident that killed 42 people among them Malawians and Zimbabweans in South Africa&#8217;s Limpopo province on Sunday. He has since directed relevant Government agencies to provide State assistance towards the repatriation of the remains of the [&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":[258,256,9651,3011,7750,9251,4357,7476,9061,257,10280,2450,254,6017,8402,4686,421],"class_list":["post-209790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-assistance","tag-bus","tag-crash","tag-directs","tag-govt","tag-mnangagwa","tag-mourns","tag-news","tag-offer","tag-president","tag-south-africa-today","tag-state","tag-victims","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209790","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=209790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209790\/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=209790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}