{"id":3454,"date":"2014-07-01T17:33:22","date_gmt":"2014-07-01T10:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=3454"},"modified":"2014-07-01T17:33:34","modified_gmt":"2014-07-01T10:33:34","slug":"shopping-spree-27-zimbabwe-mps-stuck-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/shopping-spree-27-zimbabwe-mps-stuck-in-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Shopping spree: 27 Zimbabwe MPs stuck in China"},"content":{"rendered":"

About 27 Zimbabwe MPs are reportedly stranded in Guangdong Province, China, after they went on a shopping visit to Beijing and missed their Harare flight last week.<\/p>\n

The source added: \u201cThey did not have enough money and now they are stranded. We do not know where they are sleeping, what they are eating and how they will come back.\u201d<\/p>\n

The high-speed bullet train tickets from Beijing to Guangdong were said to have cost about $150.<\/p>\n

Guangdong province is in South China and the distance between Beijing and Guangzhou, the capital of Guangdong Province, is about 2 294 kilometres in railway length.<\/p>\n

We used Air Zimbabwe and the next plane will be on July 10<\/strong>. I do not know how they will be faring until the 10th and how they will pay for the trip back as they did not have enough money,\u201d the source said.<\/p>\n

Parliament sittings resume today and the 27 legislators will miss sessions in both Senate and the National Assembly…<\/p>\n

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About 27 Zimbabwe MPs are reportedly stranded in Guangdong Province, China, after they went on a shopping visit to Beijing and missed their Harare flight last week. The source added: \u201cThey did not have enough money and now they are stranded. We do not know where they are sleeping, what they are eating and how […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,1821,434,1942,257,254,4693,4686,421],"class_list":["post-3454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-beijing","tag-china","tag-guangdong-province","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-southern-africa","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3454","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3454\/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=3454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}