{"id":241094,"date":"2026-08-14T20:05:40","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T18:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-mnangagwa-orders-replacement-ferry-for-ill-fated-mbuya-nehanda-boat-rehabilitation-of-abandoned-road\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T20:05:40","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T18:05:40","slug":"zimbabwe-mnangagwa-orders-replacement-ferry-for-ill-fated-mbuya-nehanda-boat-rehabilitation-of-abandoned-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-mnangagwa-orders-replacement-ferry-for-ill-fated-mbuya-nehanda-boat-rehabilitation-of-abandoned-road\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Mnangagwa Orders Replacement Ferry for Ill-Fated Mbuya Nehanda Boat, Rehabilitation of Abandoned Road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">GOVERNMENT has pledged to replace the passenger ferry involved in Tuesday&#8217;s Lake Kariba disaster and urgently rehabilitate the impassable road linking Kariba, Siakobvu and Chalala, but the commitments have come only after dozens of people lost their lives.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"59\">Speaking at a memorial service for the victims at Nyamhunga Stadium Thursday, Local Government Minister Daniel Garwe said President Emmerson Mnangagwa had directed authorities to find a passenger ferry to replace the ill-fated boat owned and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202608140151.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>GOVERNMENT has pledged to replace the passenger ferry involved in Tuesday&#8217;s Lake Kariba disaster and urgently rehabilitate the impassable road linking Kariba, Siakobvu and Chalala, but the commitments have come only after dozens of people lost their lives. Speaking at a memorial service for the victims at Nyamhunga Stadium Thursday, Local Government Minister Daniel Garwe [&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":[10480,258,256,7202,14240,10091,42001,7476,27966,257,6186,5998,8146,7414,254,4686,421],"class_list":["post-241094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-abandoned","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-boat","tag-ferry","tag-illfated","tag-mbuya","tag-mnangagwa","tag-nehanda","tag-news","tag-orders","tag-rehabilitation","tag-replacement","tag-road","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241094","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=241094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241094\/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=241094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}