{"id":209947,"date":"2025-10-15T19:48:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T17:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-tears-and-tributes-as-first-lady-bids-farewell-to-brave-adrian\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T19:48:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T17:48:17","slug":"zimbabwe-tears-and-tributes-as-first-lady-bids-farewell-to-brave-adrian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-tears-and-tributes-as-first-lady-bids-farewell-to-brave-adrian\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Tears and Tributes As First Lady Bids Farewell to Brave Adrian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"44\">Mutare \u2014 A sombre atmosphere filled St Joseph&#8217;s Primary School in Mutare yesterday as First Lady Dr Auxillia Mnangagwa joined multitudes of people gathered to bid farewell to 13-year-old Adrian Tavonga Gurumbadza, whose bravery in the face of a life-threatening illness touched hearts across the nation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Dr Mnangagwa joined scores of mourners, including Adrian&#8217;s family, classmates, teachers, and members of the Mutare community, for a heartfelt funeral service to pay her respects to the young boy,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510150411.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>Mutare \u2014 A sombre atmosphere filled St Joseph&#8217;s Primary School in Mutare yesterday as First Lady Dr Auxillia Mnangagwa joined multitudes of people gathered to bid farewell to 13-year-old Adrian Tavonga Gurumbadza, whose bravery in the face of a life-threatening illness touched hearts across the nation. Dr Mnangagwa joined scores of mourners, including Adrian&#8217;s family, [&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":[30051,258,256,8632,12113,8633,6669,257,254,23916,10951,4686,421],"class_list":["post-209947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-adrian","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bids","tag-brave","tag-farewell","tag-lady","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tears","tag-tributes","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209947","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=209947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209947\/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=209947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}