{"id":211573,"date":"2025-10-28T08:14:52","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T06:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-thank-you-sir-wicknell-manases-heart-beats-strong-again-after-lifesaving-surgery\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T08:14:52","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T06:14:52","slug":"zimbabwe-thank-you-sir-wicknell-manases-heart-beats-strong-again-after-lifesaving-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-thank-you-sir-wicknell-manases-heart-beats-strong-again-after-lifesaving-surgery\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Thank You Sir Wicknell&#8230;&#8230; Manase&#8217;s Heart Beats Strong Again After Lifesaving Surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">Just a year ago, little Manase then four could barely walk or run across the room without gasping for air.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Today, like any other normal child runs around laughing with friends, her once-failing heart now beating strong after a life-saving surgery in India.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">Her remarkable recovery has captured the hearts of many Zimbabweans not only for her resilience but also for the wave of kindness that made her journey possible led by businessman Sir Wicknell Chivayo who donated US$10 000 towards her&#8230;<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510280024.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>Just a year ago, little Manase then four could barely walk or run across the room without gasping for air. Today, like any other normal child runs around laughing with friends, her once-failing heart now beating strong after a life-saving surgery in India. Her remarkable recovery has captured the hearts of many Zimbabweans not only [&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":[258,256,8798,5264,19905,52701,257,11119,254,6948,12008,50333,4686,421],"class_list":["post-211573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-beats","tag-heart","tag-lifesaving","tag-manases","tag-news","tag-sir","tag-south-africa-today","tag-strong","tag-surgery","tag-wicknell","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211573","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=211573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211573\/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=211573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}