{"id":218087,"date":"2025-12-25T22:36:51","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T20:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-zta-in-crisis-as-senior-staff-purged-and-governance-storm-deepens\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T22:36:51","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T20:36:51","slug":"zimbabwe-zta-in-crisis-as-senior-staff-purged-and-governance-storm-deepens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-zta-in-crisis-as-senior-staff-purged-and-governance-storm-deepens\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: ZTA in Crisis As Senior Staff Purged and Governance Storm Deepens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">The Zimbabwe Tourism Authority (ZTA) is said to have retrenched several senior managers over the past two weeks in a move that has raised concerns among employees about internal procedures and governance at the state tourism body.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">An employee affected by the retrenchments, who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals said three senior directors and about a dozen heads of departments and managers had been laid off.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">&#8220;The retrenchments started with directors and were later extended to&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512240039.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 Zimbabwe Tourism Authority (ZTA) is said to have retrenched several senior managers over the past two weeks in a move that has raised concerns among employees about internal procedures and governance at the state tourism body. An employee affected by the retrenchments, who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals said three [&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":[258,256,3723,9626,6866,257,53233,6468,254,6221,11234,4686,421,18799],"class_list":["post-218087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-crisis","tag-deepens","tag-governance","tag-news","tag-purged","tag-senior","tag-south-africa-today","tag-staff","tag-storm","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news","tag-zta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218087","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=218087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218087\/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=218087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}