{"id":242072,"date":"2026-08-24T20:26:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T18:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-world-rugby-chair-and-african-continent-leadership-expected-in-zimbabwe-as-part-of-sables-world-cup-preparations-assessment\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T20:26:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T18:26:16","slug":"zimbabwe-world-rugby-chair-and-african-continent-leadership-expected-in-zimbabwe-as-part-of-sables-world-cup-preparations-assessment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-world-rugby-chair-and-african-continent-leadership-expected-in-zimbabwe-as-part-of-sables-world-cup-preparations-assessment\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: World Rugby Chair and African Continent Leadership Expected in Zimbabwe As Part of Sables&#8217; World Cup Preparations Assessment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">World Rugby chairman Brett Robinson and Rugby Africa president Herbert Mensah are expected in Zimbabwe this Sunday as the country steps up preparations for its return to the Rugby World Cup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">Robinson will lead a five-day visit to Zimbabwe from August 23 to 27, accompanied by Mensah, who is also a World Rugby Executive Board member, and World Rugby Chief of International Federations David Carrigy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">The entourage is expected to engage government officials, Zimbabwe Rugby Union representatives, sports&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202608240741.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>World Rugby chairman Brett Robinson and Rugby Africa president Herbert Mensah are expected in Zimbabwe this Sunday as the country steps up preparations for its return to the Rugby World Cup. Robinson will lead a five-day visit to Zimbabwe from August 23 to 27, accompanied by Mensah, who is also a World Rugby Executive Board [&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":[258,256,4380,16711,6412,13298,6674,6474,8771,257,7140,10078,8495,7971,254,5093,4686,421],"class_list":["post-242072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-african","tag-assessment","tag-chair","tag-continent","tag-cup","tag-expected","tag-leadership","tag-news","tag-part","tag-preparations","tag-rugby","tag-sables","tag-south-africa-today","tag-world","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242072","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=242072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242072\/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=242072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}