{"id":240772,"date":"2026-08-10T07:56:59","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T05:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-four-zna-soldiers-die-in-harare-mutare-road-accident\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T07:56:59","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T05:56:59","slug":"zimbabwe-four-zna-soldiers-die-in-harare-mutare-road-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-four-zna-soldiers-die-in-harare-mutare-road-accident\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Four ZNA Soldiers Die in Harare-Mutare Road Accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">FOUR members of the Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) have died, while three others were injured following a road traffic accident along the Harare-Mutare highway Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">The soldiers were travelling from Harare towards Mutare in a BAW military vehicle when the accident occurred at the 45-kilometre peg along the Harare-Mutare Road. The four victims reportedly died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">The deceased have been identified as Warrant Officer Class 1 Philimon Chamisa, Warrant Officer Class 2 Chindowa Lydia,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202608100061.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow 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>FOUR members of the Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) have died, while three others were injured following a road traffic accident along the Harare-Mutare highway Friday. The soldiers were travelling from Harare towards Mutare in a BAW military vehicle when the accident occurred at the 45-kilometre peg along the Harare-Mutare Road. The four victims reportedly died [&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":[7264,258,256,9028,55107,257,7414,4401,254,4686,421,31180],"class_list":["post-240772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-accident","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-die","tag-hararemutare","tag-news","tag-road","tag-soldiers","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news","tag-zna"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240772","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=240772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240772\/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=240772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}