{"id":244304,"date":"2026-09-14T07:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T05:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-ferry-disaster-why-did-the-mbuya-nehanda-sail-that-day\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T07:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T05:00:10","slug":"zimbabwe-ferry-disaster-why-did-the-mbuya-nehanda-sail-that-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-ferry-disaster-why-did-the-mbuya-nehanda-sail-that-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe Ferry Disaster &#8211; Why Did the Mbuya Nehanda Sail That Day?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\"><em> There were warnings long before the boat tragedy in which 97 people died <\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A month ago today, the Mbuya Nehanda ferry capsized on Lake Kariba, killing at least 97 people.<\/li>\n<li>Authorities have blamed the captain, who died in the tragedy, and one official has been arrested.<\/li>\n<li>But an investigation by news agency Pachena reveals senior political figures and officials were warned several times that the vessel was in poor condition.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">A month ago, on 11 August, the Mbuya Nehanda ferry capsized on Lake Kariba,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202609110188.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>There were warnings long before the boat tragedy in which 97 people died A month ago today, the Mbuya Nehanda ferry capsized on Lake Kariba, killing at least 97 people. Authorities have blamed the captain, who died in the tragedy, and one official has been arrested. But an investigation by news agency Pachena reveals senior [&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":[258,256,7165,8985,14240,42001,27966,257,16785,254,4686,421],"class_list":["post-244304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-day","tag-disaster","tag-ferry","tag-mbuya","tag-nehanda","tag-news","tag-sail","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244304","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=244304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244304\/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=244304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}