{"id":32276,"date":"2026-04-17T12:31:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T10:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=32276"},"modified":"2026-04-17T12:31:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T10:31:13","slug":"zimbabwe-to-celebrate-its-independence","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/zimbabwe-to-celebrate-its-independence\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe to celebrate its independence"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">Zimbabwe is set to mark its 46th Independence anniversary on Saturday.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\" dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">The anniversary (comes at a time) is a time of economic strain and renewed political debate over governance and development.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\" dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">While the government points to infrastructure projects and its decentralisation drive as signs of progress, critics say many citizens continue to feel left behind amid rising living costs and unemployment.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\" dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">Professor Ibbo Mandaza, Zimbabwean political analyst says the commemoration of Zimbabwe&#8217;s Independence is a sombre time in the country.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\" dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">&#8211;Channel Africa&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":26978,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-32276","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":"Zimbabwe is set to mark its 46th Independence"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/32276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/32276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32277,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/32276\/revisions\/32277"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=32276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}