{"id":218145,"date":"2025-12-26T10:38:01","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T08:38:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-oscar-pambukas-comeback-story-celebrated-with-gift-from-chivayo\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T10:38:01","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T08:38:01","slug":"zimbabwe-oscar-pambukas-comeback-story-celebrated-with-gift-from-chivayo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-oscar-pambukas-comeback-story-celebrated-with-gift-from-chivayo\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Oscar Pambuka&#8217;s Comeback Story Celebrated With Gift From Chivayo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">A once-familiar voice of Zimbabwean television news has been thrust back into the national spotlight this time not behind a news desk but as a symbol of recovery, resilience and second chance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">Oscar Pambuka, a former prime-time news anchor whose signature introduction <em>&#8220;The News at Eight, read by Oscar Pambuka,&#8221;<\/em> became synonymous with broadcast excellence has been commended for overcoming drug and substance abuse and turning his life around by businessman Wicknell Chivayo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">In a social media post,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512240038.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>A once-familiar voice of Zimbabwean television news has been thrust back into the national spotlight this time not behind a news desk but as a symbol of recovery, resilience and second chance. Oscar Pambuka, a former prime-time news anchor whose signature introduction &#8220;The News at Eight, read by Oscar Pambuka,&#8221; became synonymous with broadcast excellence [&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":[258,256,9558,18483,9733,16206,257,22250,53237,254,12231,4686,421],"class_list":["post-218145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-celebrated","tag-chivayo","tag-comeback","tag-gift","tag-news","tag-oscar","tag-pambukas","tag-south-africa-today","tag-story","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218145","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=218145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218145\/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=218145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}