{"id":223096,"date":"2026-02-07T12:17:33","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T10:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-blessed-bombshell-geza-dies-in-south-africa\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T12:17:33","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T10:17:33","slug":"zimbabwe-blessed-bombshell-geza-dies-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-blessed-bombshell-geza-dies-in-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Blessed &#8216;Bombshell&#8217; Geza Dies in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Outspoken war Veteran and former Zanu PF Blessed Runesu Geza, popularly known as &#8220;Bombshell&#8221; has died at a cardiac hospital in South Africa, his family has announced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">In a statement, the Geza family confirmed that he passed away earlier this morning, describing him as &#8220;our hero&#8221; who dedicated his life to fighting for justice and the aspirations of Zimbabweans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">&#8220;Mr Geza touched many lives with his fight for justice to ensure that all Zimbabweans realise their aspirations,&#8221; the family said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"14\">Geza&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602060550.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>Outspoken war Veteran and former Zanu PF Blessed Runesu Geza, popularly known as &#8220;Bombshell&#8221; has died at a cardiac hospital in South Africa, his family has announced. In a statement, the Geza family confirmed that he passed away earlier this morning, describing him as &#8220;our hero&#8221; who dedicated his life to fighting for justice and [&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":[258,256,39827,13900,6868,50582,257,5069,254,4686,421],"class_list":["post-223096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-blessed","tag-bombshell","tag-dies","tag-geza","tag-news","tag-south","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223096","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=223096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223096\/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=223096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}