{"id":216626,"date":"2025-12-14T10:09:51","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T08:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-gazaland-university-fundraising-dinner-raises-hype-for-2026-opening\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T10:09:51","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T08:09:51","slug":"zimbabwe-gazaland-university-fundraising-dinner-raises-hype-for-2026-opening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-gazaland-university-fundraising-dinner-raises-hype-for-2026-opening\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Gazaland University Fundraising Dinner Raises Hype for 2026 Opening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">The United Church of Christ in Zimbabwe (UCCZ) has intensified national anticipation for the launch of Gazaland University following a high-profile fundraising dinner held recently at the Royalgate Gardens in Chisipite, Harare.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">The event, themed &#8220;Actualising the Ideal Admin Block and Lecture Rooms,&#8221; drew an impressive gathering of church leadership, academics, community stakeholders, and respected national figures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"59\">Guest of Honour former Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Governor Dr. John Mangudya and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512110299.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>The United Church of Christ in Zimbabwe (UCCZ) has intensified national anticipation for the launch of Gazaland University following a high-profile fundraising dinner held recently at the Royalgate Gardens in Chisipite, Harare. The event, themed &#8220;Actualising the Ideal Admin Block and Lecture Rooms,&#8221; drew an impressive gathering of church leadership, academics, community stakeholders, and respected [&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":[258,256,10377,14434,53131,19042,257,11416,5234,254,5148,4686,421],"class_list":["post-216626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-dinner","tag-fundraising","tag-gazaland","tag-hype","tag-news","tag-opening","tag-raises","tag-south-africa-today","tag-university","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216626","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=216626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216626\/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=216626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}