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A controversial housing development on Harare’s protected Monavale Wetland has been halted after residents staged a dramatic protest that drew the attention of senior government officials.<\/p>\n
The breakthrough came on Wednesday after days of mounting public pressure against land clearing activities at the Monavale Wetland, a Ramsar-designated site recognised internationally for its ecological importance.<\/p>\n
Residents and environmental campaigners under the banner of the #SaveMonavaleVlei Campaign accused…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> A controversial housing development on Harare’s protected Monavale Wetland has been halted after residents staged a dramatic protest that drew the attention of senior government officials. The breakthrough came on Wednesday after days of mounting public pressure against land clearing activities at the Monavale Wetland, a Ramsar-designated site recognised internationally for its ecological importance. Residents […]<\/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":[258,256,16666,8522,7260,257,7586,2194,7301,254,54350,33631,4686,421],"class_list":["post-232646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-halted","tag-housing","tag-mps","tag-news","tag-plan","tag-protest","tag-save","tag-south-africa-today","tag-vlei","tag-wetland","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232646","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=232646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232646\/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=232646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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