{"id":234569,"date":"2026-05-27T04:54:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T02:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-govt-condemns-violence-after-abandoned-hard-rock-dynamos-match\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T04:54:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T02:54:11","slug":"zimbabwe-govt-condemns-violence-after-abandoned-hard-rock-dynamos-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-govt-condemns-violence-after-abandoned-hard-rock-dynamos-match\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Govt Condemns Violence After Abandoned Hard Rock-Dynamos Match"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"45\">The Ministry of Sport, Recreation, Arts and Culture has condemned the violence that forced the abandonment of a Premier Soccer League match between Hard Rock FC and Dynamos FC at Chahwanda Stadium warning that such incidents threaten efforts to restore the country&#8217;s international football reputation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">In a statement following Sunday&#8217;s disturbances, the ministry said it was deeply concerned by the violence that disrupted the fixture.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">&#8220;Concerned by the violence that led to the abandonment of the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202605260360.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 Ministry of Sport, Recreation, Arts and Culture has condemned the violence that forced the abandonment of a Premier Soccer League match between Hard Rock FC and Dynamos FC at Chahwanda Stadium warning that such incidents threaten efforts to restore the country&#8217;s international football reputation. In a statement following Sunday&#8217;s disturbances, the ministry said it [&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":[10480,258,256,7610,4357,9309,8778,257,54475,254,2148,4686,421],"class_list":["post-234569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-abandoned","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-condemns","tag-govt","tag-hard","tag-match","tag-news","tag-rockdynamos","tag-south-africa-today","tag-violence","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234569","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=234569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234569\/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=234569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}