{"id":237068,"date":"2026-06-22T06:02:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T04:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/zimbabwe-ambassador-to-eswatini-and-mozambique-victor-matemadanda-dies\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T06:02:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T04:02:19","slug":"zimbabwe-ambassador-to-eswatini-and-mozambique-victor-matemadanda-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/zimbabwe-ambassador-to-eswatini-and-mozambique-victor-matemadanda-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe Ambassador to Eswatini and Mozambique Victor Matemadanda Dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">FORMER Zanu PF political commissar and Zimbabwe&#8217;s ambassador to Mozambique and Eswatini, Victor Matemadanda, has died.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"3\">He was 66.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Information Ministry Perm Sec Nick Mangwana confirmed his death Sunday, saying the veteran politician and liberation war fighter passed away on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"13\">&#8220;Ambassador Victor Matemadanda passed away last night. This is a deeply saddening loss.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">&#8220;Dr. Matemadanda served as Zimbabwe&#8217;s Ambassador to the Republic of Mozambique and the Kingdom of Eswatini. Sincere&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606220133.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Mozambique\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/\">Mozambique<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FORMER Zanu PF political commissar and Zimbabwe&#8217;s ambassador to Mozambique and Eswatini, Victor Matemadanda, has died. He was 66. Information Ministry Perm Sec Nick Mangwana confirmed his death Sunday, saying the veteran politician and liberation war fighter passed away on Saturday night. &#8220;Ambassador Victor Matemadanda passed away last night. This is a deeply saddening loss. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":237069,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[654],"tags":[258,256,6269,6868,21368,26529,4704,682,257,254,23737,4686],"class_list":["post-237068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ambassador","tag-dies","tag-eswatini","tag-matemadanda","tag-mozambique","tag-mozambique-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-victor","tag-zimbabwe"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237068","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=237068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}