{"id":237977,"date":"2026-07-02T06:20:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T04:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-defender-gerald-takwara-completes-move-to-hardrock-fc\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T06:20:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T04:20:21","slug":"zimbabwe-defender-gerald-takwara-completes-move-to-hardrock-fc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-defender-gerald-takwara-completes-move-to-hardrock-fc\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Defender Gerald Takwara Completes Move to Hardrock FC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">WARRIORS defender Gerald Takwara has completed a move to Hardrock FC after agreeing terms with the ambitious Castle Lager Premier Soccer League side.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">He joins Hardrock as a free agent following his departure from Libyan outfit Al Ittihad Misurata SC.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Takwara was among several high-profile targets identified by the club, with Europe-based defender Munashe Garananga also understood to have been on Hardrock&#8217;s radar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">His arrival is expected to bolster Hardrock FC&#8217;s defensive options as the club seeks&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202607010188.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>WARRIORS defender Gerald Takwara has completed a move to Hardrock FC after agreeing terms with the ambitious Castle Lager Premier Soccer League side. He joins Hardrock as a free agent following his departure from Libyan outfit Al Ittihad Misurata SC. Takwara was among several high-profile targets identified by the club, with Europe-based defender Munashe Garananga [&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":[258,256,6222,22636,30077,54258,4367,257,254,54755,4686,421],"class_list":["post-237977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-completes","tag-defender","tag-gerald","tag-hardrock","tag-move","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-takwara","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237977","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=237977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237977\/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=237977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}