{"id":231274,"date":"2026-04-24T15:41:52","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T13:41:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-manica-diamonds-players-threaten-to-boycott-hardrock-fc-match-over-unpaid-salaries\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T15:41:52","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T13:41:52","slug":"zimbabwe-manica-diamonds-players-threaten-to-boycott-hardrock-fc-match-over-unpaid-salaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-manica-diamonds-players-threaten-to-boycott-hardrock-fc-match-over-unpaid-salaries\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Manica Diamonds Players Threaten to Boycott Hardrock FC Match Over Unpaid Salaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Discover moreCyber assurance solutionsGovernance risk complianceePaper subscriptionsManica Diamonds players have threatened to boycott their league fixture against Hardrock scheduled for Saturday, amid growing frustration over unpaid sign-on fees and outstanding salaries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">A source told NewZimbabwe.com that players are refusing to travel for the match unless club management provides clear a concrete plan on how to settle the debts owed to them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">As part of the protest, the team on Thursday morning&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604240209.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>Discover moreCyber assurance solutionsGovernance risk complianceePaper subscriptionsManica Diamonds players have threatened to boycott their league fixture against Hardrock scheduled for Saturday, amid growing frustration over unpaid sign-on fees and outstanding salaries. A source told NewZimbabwe.com that players are refusing to travel for the match unless club management provides clear a concrete plan on how to [&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":[258,256,8351,1167,54258,13384,8778,257,9444,19058,254,7002,10393,4686,421],"class_list":["post-231274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-boycott","tag-diamonds","tag-hardrock","tag-manica","tag-match","tag-news","tag-players","tag-salaries","tag-south-africa-today","tag-threaten","tag-unpaid","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231274","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=231274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231274\/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=231274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}