{"id":245069,"date":"2026-09-21T09:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T07:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-football-must-break-its-poverty-trap\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T09:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T07:00:11","slug":"zimbabwe-football-must-break-its-poverty-trap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-football-must-break-its-poverty-trap\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe Football Must Break Its Poverty Trap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">Zimbabwean football is caught in a difficult cycle: we are trying to build tomorrow while using almost everything we have to survive today. Imagine a family whose child attends Chegama School in Rumumha, Gokwe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"46\">Income is limited and unpredictable. Whenever money comes into the household, there is already a long list of urgent needs waiting for it &#8212; food, school fees, medicine, seed, fertiliser, perhaps repairs to the roof before the rains come. Every one of those needs is real.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"47\">None can simply be&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202609210077.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>Zimbabwean football is caught in a difficult cycle: we are trying to build tomorrow while using almost everything we have to survive today. Imagine a family whose child attends Chegama School in Rumumha, Gokwe. Income is limited and unpredictable. Whenever money comes into the household, there is already a long list of urgent needs waiting [&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":[258,256,6913,3299,257,7121,254,23875,4686,421],"class_list":["post-245069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-break","tag-football","tag-news","tag-poverty","tag-south-africa-today","tag-trap","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245069","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=245069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245069\/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=245069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}