{"id":231042,"date":"2026-04-22T15:37:39","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T13:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-highlanders-in-deep-financial-crisis-as-players-boycott-training-mwaruwari-owed-salaries\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T15:37:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T13:37:39","slug":"zimbabwe-highlanders-in-deep-financial-crisis-as-players-boycott-training-mwaruwari-owed-salaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-highlanders-in-deep-financial-crisis-as-players-boycott-training-mwaruwari-owed-salaries\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Highlanders in Deep Financial Crisis As Players Boycott Training, Mwaruwari Owed Salaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">Highlanders Football Club are facing a deepening financial crisis, with players reportedly going unpaid since February.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">The situation escalated on Monday morning when Bosso players refusing to train ahead of their scheduled league clash against Chicken Inn on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">The financial woes extend beyond the playing squad, with head coach Benjani Mwaruwari also reportedly owed salaries and allowances dating back to February.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nKeep up with the latest headlines on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaIdDi8Bqbr263erhw1K\" rel=\"noopener\">WhatsApp<\/a> | <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/allafrica\/\" rel=\"noopener\">LinkedIn<\/a><br \/>\n  <\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\"...<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604220492.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>Highlanders Football Club are facing a deepening financial crisis, with players reportedly going unpaid since February. The situation escalated on Monday morning when Bosso players refusing to train ahead of their scheduled league clash against Chicken Inn on Wednesday. The financial woes extend beyond the playing squad, with head coach Benjani Mwaruwari also reportedly owed [&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":[258,256,8351,3723,6390,5063,7432,50850,257,13456,9444,19058,254,4287,4686,421],"class_list":["post-231042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-boycott","tag-crisis","tag-deep","tag-financial","tag-highlanders","tag-mwaruwari","tag-news","tag-owed","tag-players","tag-salaries","tag-south-africa-today","tag-training","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231042","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=231042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231042\/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=231042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}