{"id":5022,"date":"2014-08-28T18:50:17","date_gmt":"2014-08-28T11:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=5022"},"modified":"2014-08-28T18:50:33","modified_gmt":"2014-08-28T11:50:33","slug":"zimbabwe-police-beat-opposition-marchers-demanding-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-police-beat-opposition-marchers-demanding-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe police beat opposition marchers demanding jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zimbabwean riot police have beaten opposition protesters who were trying to march to parliament to demand jobs.<\/p>\n<p>About 20 people were injured and two opposition MPs were among a dozen people briefly detained.<\/p>\n<p>The 100-strong crowd demanded measures to help reduce the unemployment rate, which stands at about 80%.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, the central bank said foreign investment in Zimbabwe had more than halved this year because of negative perceptions of the country.<\/p>\n<p>The landslide victory of President Robert Mugabe and his Zanu-PF party in elections in July 2013 has coincided with a rapid slowdown in the economy&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Zimbabwe News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-africa-28958878\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>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<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zimbabwean riot police have beaten opposition protesters who were trying to march to parliament to demand jobs. About 20 people were injured and two opposition MPs were among a dozen people briefly detained. The 100-strong crowd demanded measures to help reduce the unemployment rate, which stands at about 80%. Earlier this week, the central bank [&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":[248],"tags":[258,256,3795,3796,257,426,254,4693,334,4686,421,3794],"class_list":["post-5022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-demand-jobs","tag-dictator-mugabe","tag-news","tag-robert-mugabe","tag-south-africa-today","tag-southern-africa","tag-zanu-pf","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news","tag-zimbabwean-riot-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5022","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=5022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5022\/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=5022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}