{"id":230993,"date":"2026-04-22T03:35:04","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T01:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-government-urges-nurses-to-end-strike-as-talks-begin\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T03:35:04","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T01:35:04","slug":"zimbabwe-government-urges-nurses-to-end-strike-as-talks-begin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-government-urges-nurses-to-end-strike-as-talks-begin\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Government Urges Nurses to End Strike As Talks Begin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">The Government has called on striking nurses to return to work as authorities move to address concerns over low wages and working conditions in public hospitals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">The appeal follows reports that some nurses have withdrawn their services for three days citing poor pay and deteriorating conditions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"10\">The industrial action was raised by the Zimbabwe Nurses Association.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Addressing journalists in Harare yesterday, Health and Child Care Minister Dr. Douglas Mombeshora said the government had acknowledged&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604210207.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 Government has called on striking nurses to return to work as authorities move to address concerns over low wages and working conditions in public hospitals. The appeal follows reports that some nurses have withdrawn their services for three days citing poor pay and deteriorating conditions. The industrial action was raised by the Zimbabwe Nurses [&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":[258,256,6427,257,9468,254,2080,5038,6810,4686,421],"class_list":["post-230993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-government","tag-news","tag-nurses","tag-south-africa-today","tag-strike","tag-talks","tag-urges","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230993","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=230993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230993\/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=230993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}