{"id":237802,"date":"2026-06-30T06:16:04","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T04:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-govt-expands-fight-against-drug-and-substance-abuse\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T06:16:04","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T04:16:04","slug":"zimbabwe-govt-expands-fight-against-drug-and-substance-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-govt-expands-fight-against-drug-and-substance-abuse\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Govt Expands Fight Against Drug and Substance Abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">Deputy Minister of Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare, Advocate Mercy Dinha says the government is strengthening efforts to fight drug and substance abuse through public awareness campaigns, rehabilitation and reintegration programmes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">Speaking at Messianic Family International Church, Dinha said the anti-drug awareness programme had brought together young people, churches, schools, communities and inmates from the Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Service (ZPCS) to raise awareness about&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606290459.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>Deputy Minister of Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare, Advocate Mercy Dinha says the government is strengthening efforts to fight drug and substance abuse through public awareness campaigns, rehabilitation and reintegration programmes. Speaking at Messianic Family International Church, Dinha said the anti-drug awareness programme had brought together young people, churches, schools, communities and inmates from [&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":[5099,258,256,6949,9758,4345,4357,257,254,40088,4686,421],"class_list":["post-237802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-abuse","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-drug","tag-expands","tag-fight","tag-govt","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-substance","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237802","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=237802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237802\/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=237802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}