{"id":210834,"date":"2025-10-22T20:02:20","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T18:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-from-cancer-survivor-to-zoc-ceo-the-inspiring-journey-of-marlene-chiedza-gadzirayi\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T20:02:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T18:02:20","slug":"zimbabwe-from-cancer-survivor-to-zoc-ceo-the-inspiring-journey-of-marlene-chiedza-gadzirayi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-from-cancer-survivor-to-zoc-ceo-the-inspiring-journey-of-marlene-chiedza-gadzirayi\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: From Cancer Survivor to Zoc CEO &#8211; the Inspiring Journey of Marlene Chiedza Gadzirayi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"49\">When life tested her with one of its toughest battles, Marlene Chiedza Gadzirayi faced it with remarkable courage and grace. Today, she stands not only as a cancer survivor but also as the Chief Executive Officer of the Zimbabwe Olympic Committee (ZOC), a symbol of resilience, leadership, and hope.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"52\">Marlene&#8217;s journey took a sudden turn in September 2019 when she was diagnosed with stage three colorectal cancer, a diagnosis that would challenge her both physically and emotionally. The road to&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510220454.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>When life tested her with one of its toughest battles, Marlene Chiedza Gadzirayi faced it with remarkable courage and grace. Today, she stands not only as a cancer survivor but also as the Chief Executive Officer of the Zimbabwe Olympic Committee (ZOC), a symbol of resilience, leadership, and hope. Marlene&#8217;s journey took a sudden turn [&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":[258,256,6808,7213,52648,52649,22973,7369,52647,257,254,10724,4686,421,52646],"class_list":["post-210834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cancer","tag-ceo","tag-chiedza","tag-gadzirayi","tag-inspiring","tag-journey","tag-marlene","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-survivor","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news","tag-zoc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210834","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=210834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210834\/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=210834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}