{"id":225162,"date":"2026-02-26T13:01:56","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T11:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-can-fund-its-health-sector-with-minerals-says-hwende-labels-u-s-367-million-american-deal-a-joke\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T13:01:56","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T11:01:56","slug":"zimbabwe-can-fund-its-health-sector-with-minerals-says-hwende-labels-u-s-367-million-american-deal-a-joke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-can-fund-its-health-sector-with-minerals-says-hwende-labels-u-s-367-million-american-deal-a-joke\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe Can Fund It&#8217;s Health Sector With Minerals Says Hwende, Labels U.S.$367 Million American Deal a Joke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">Opposition legislator Chalton Hwende has said that Zimbabwe possesses the capacity to finance its own healthcare system without relying on external support, provided that corruption in the mineral resources sector is addressed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">Hwende&#8217;s sentiments follow President Emmerson Mnangagwa&#8217;s decision to terminate a proposed five-year health funding deal with the United States, worth US$367 million.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">In response to Harare&#8217;s position, the American Embassy announced it would begin winding down its health&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602260312.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>Opposition legislator Chalton Hwende has said that Zimbabwe possesses the capacity to finance its own healthcare system without relying on external support, provided that corruption in the mineral resources sector is addressed. Hwende&#8217;s sentiments follow President Emmerson Mnangagwa&#8217;s decision to terminate a proposed five-year health funding deal with the United States, worth US$367 million. In [&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":[258,256,2332,7012,5111,5731,25447,8646,21939,5118,9587,257,5991,254,53766,4686,421],"class_list":["post-225162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-american","tag-deal","tag-fund","tag-health","tag-hwende","tag-joke","tag-labels","tag-million","tag-minerals","tag-news","tag-sector","tag-south-africa-today","tag-u-s-367","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225162","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=225162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225162\/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=225162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}