{"id":232554,"date":"2026-05-07T04:09:05","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T02:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-poor-roads-network-lack-of-legal-training-blocking-access-to-justice-for-women-girls-chiefs\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T04:09:05","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T02:09:05","slug":"zimbabwe-poor-roads-network-lack-of-legal-training-blocking-access-to-justice-for-women-girls-chiefs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-poor-roads-network-lack-of-legal-training-blocking-access-to-justice-for-women-girls-chiefs\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Poor Roads Network, Lack of Legal Training Blocking Access to Justice for Women, Girls &#8211; Chiefs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">Discover moreOnline News SubscriptionDigital Newspaper AccessNews Archive AccessTRADITIONAL leaders have admitted to lacking formal legal training, raising concern over their ability to effectively handle justice matters, particularly gender-based violence (GBV) cases in rural areas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">The concerns were raised by traditional leader Chief Zimunya of Zimunya village during an Indaba on access to justice for women and girls organised by Women and Law in Southern Africa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"12\">The Indaba aimed to strengthen&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202605060730.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 moreOnline News SubscriptionDigital Newspaper AccessNews Archive AccessTRADITIONAL leaders have admitted to lacking formal legal training, raising concern over their ability to effectively handle justice matters, particularly gender-based violence (GBV) cases in rural areas. The concerns were raised by traditional leader Chief Zimunya of Zimunya village during an Indaba on access to justice for women [&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":[6450,258,256,13466,7493,7010,6852,7112,6393,8265,257,8943,9013,254,4287,6524,4686,421],"class_list":["post-232554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-access","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-blocking","tag-chiefs","tag-girls","tag-justice","tag-lack","tag-legal","tag-network","tag-news","tag-poor","tag-roads","tag-south-africa-today","tag-training","tag-women","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232554","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=232554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232554\/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=232554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}