{"id":42584,"date":"2026-08-14T15:54:49","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T13:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=42584"},"modified":"2026-08-14T15:54:49","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T13:54:49","slug":"zimbabwe-police-release-names-of-44-lake-kariba-ferry-victims","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/zimbabwe-police-release-names-of-44-lake-kariba-ferry-victims\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe police release names of 44 Lake Kariba ferry victims \u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Zimbabwe Republic Police have released the first batch of 44 names out of the 46 victims confirmed to have died after a passenger ferry capsized on Lake Kariba on Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Of the 44 victims whose names have been released, at least 18 were children under the age of 10.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Authorities have yet to establish the exact number of people who were on board when the ferry capsized.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>However, initial information indicated that the vessel was carrying about 120 people, but authorities fear the ferry may have been carrying more passengers than initially reported.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Seventy-seven people were rescued from the ferry.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Police say investigations and recovery operations are still under way, including efforts to recover and identify the remaining bodies.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":42589,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-42584","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Zimbabwe police identify most victims in Lake Kariba boat tragedy","published_date":"2026-08-14 15:53:32","news_description":"Zimbabwe police identify most victims in Lake Kariba boat tragedy","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/42584","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\/42584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42590,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/42584\/revisions\/42590"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=42584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}