{"id":4241,"date":"2014-07-18T11:48:17","date_gmt":"2014-07-18T04:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=4241"},"modified":"2014-07-18T11:48:28","modified_gmt":"2014-07-18T04:48:28","slug":"tanzania-confirms-tazara-split-zambia-not-aware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/tanzania-confirms-tazara-split-zambia-not-aware\/","title":{"rendered":"Tanzania confirms TAZARA split, Zambia not aware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zambia Government has refuted reports that the Tanzania-Zambia Railway Authority (TAZARA) &#8211; the joint venture between Tanzania and Zambia &#8211; will end on August 1 this year to allow the two countries operate separate railway firms.<\/p>\n<p>Minister of Transport, Works, Supply and Communications Yamfwa Mukanga said the reported pronouncement by Tanzania is not what was discussed at a recent TAZARA Council of Ministers meeting in Lusaka.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Mukanga, however, said if that is what Tanzania wants, Zambia is able to operate an independent entity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe did not discuss that, but we spoke about a mapping strategy on how we will enhance the operations of Tazara and the introduction of call centres&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Zambia News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.daily-mail.co.zm\/index.php\/local-news\/item\/6361-tanzania-confirms-tazara-split-zambia-not-aware\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zambia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zambia\/\">Zambia<\/a> News<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zambia Government has refuted reports that the Tanzania-Zambia Railway Authority (TAZARA) &#8211; the joint venture between Tanzania and Zambia &#8211; will end on August 1 this year to allow the two countries operate separate railway firms. Minister of Transport, Works, Supply and Communications Yamfwa Mukanga said the reported pronouncement by Tanzania is not what was [&hellip;]<\/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":[825],"tags":[258,256,987,257,2918,254,4693,746,2916,2917,4709,881],"class_list":["post-4241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-lusaka","tag-news","tag-railway","tag-south-africa-today","tag-southern-africa","tag-tanzania","tag-tanzania-zambia-railway-authority","tag-tazara","tag-zambia","tag-zambia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4241","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=4241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4241\/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=4241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}