{"id":216952,"date":"2025-12-17T10:15:30","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T08:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-seven-killed-as-mine-shaft-collapses-in-chegutu\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T10:15:30","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T08:15:30","slug":"zimbabwe-seven-killed-as-mine-shaft-collapses-in-chegutu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-seven-killed-as-mine-shaft-collapses-in-chegutu\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Seven Killed As Mine Shaft Collapses in Chegutu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Seven miners have been killed and four others injured after a mine shaft collapsed at <em>Stewart 3 Mine in Pickstone near Chegutu<\/em> police have confirmed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">In a brief statement, the <strong>Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP)<\/strong> said the fatal accident occurred on Monday while the miners were working underground.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">&#8220;<strong>The ZRP confirms a fatal mine accident which occurred at Stewart 3 Mine, Pickstone, Chegutu&#8230; Seven miners were killed while four others were injured when the shaft they were working in collapsed,<\/strong>&#8221; the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512170042.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>Seven miners have been killed and four others injured after a mine shaft collapsed at Stewart 3 Mine in Pickstone near Chegutu police have confirmed. In a brief statement, the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) said the fatal accident occurred on Monday while the miners were working underground. &#8220;The ZRP confirms a fatal mine accident which [&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":[258,256,33336,11333,4327,257,45100,254,4686,421],"class_list":["post-216952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-chegutu","tag-collapses","tag-killed","tag-news","tag-shaft","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216952","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=216952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216952\/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=216952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}