{"id":5575,"date":"2015-02-09T17:01:58","date_gmt":"2015-02-09T10:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=5575"},"modified":"2015-02-09T17:01:58","modified_gmt":"2015-02-09T10:01:58","slug":"mugabes-embarrassing-fall-27-guards-suspended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/mugabes-embarrassing-fall-27-guards-suspended\/","title":{"rendered":"Mugabe&#8217;s embarrassing fall, 27 guards suspended"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Heads have started rolling as the fallout over President Robert Mugabe&#8217;s embarrasing fall at Harare International Airport on Wednesday begins.<\/p>\n<p>Sources said up to 27 members of the presidential security and advance team who seemed immobilised as Mugabe tripped and tumbled after addressing hundreds of Zanu-PF supporters who had been bussed to welcome him on his return from the African Union summit, have been suspended.<\/p>\n<p>According to the sources, the guards were handed their suspension letters on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Officials at Munhumutapa government building said an investigation was launched on the night that Mugabe fell at the airport on his return from Ethiopia where he had just taken charge as the new chairperson of the African Union&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Zimbabwe News\" href=\"http:\/\/bulawayo24.com\/index-id-news-sc-national-byo-62372.html\" 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>Heads have started rolling as the fallout over President Robert Mugabe&#8217;s embarrasing fall at Harare International Airport on Wednesday begins. Sources said up to 27 members of the presidential security and advance team who seemed immobilised as Mugabe tripped and tumbled after addressing hundreds of Zanu-PF supporters who had been bussed to welcome him on [&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":[258,256,580,4430,4427,427,257,254,4693,4686,421],"class_list":["post-5575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-african-union","tag-embarrasing-fall","tag-harare-international-airport","tag-mugabe","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\/5575","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=5575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5575\/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=5575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}