{"id":42814,"date":"2026-08-17T09:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T07:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=42814"},"modified":"2026-08-17T09:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T07:40:09","slug":"zimbabwes-lake-kariba-boat-disaster-death-toll-rises-to-84","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/zimbabwes-lake-kariba-boat-disaster-death-toll-rises-to-84\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe&#8217;s Lake Kariba boat disaster death toll rises to 84"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: var(--global--font-secondary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);\">The death toll from the Zimbabwe&#8217;s Lake Kariba boat disaster has risen to 84.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Authorities revealed that there were 77 survivors, meaning at least 161 people were on the boat, which had a capacity of 90.<\/p>\n<p>Zimbabwean police say the search for more bodies is continuing, guided by information provided by relatives.<\/p>\n<p>Two of the bodies were discovered by fishermen in the early hours of Saturday, while the remaining bodies were recovered by search and recovery teams floating on the lake.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities say no bodies have so far been found beneath the wreckage of the ferry, which was towed several days ago to a nearby island.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u2014SABC\u2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":42750,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-42814","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Authorities say no bodies have so far been found beneath the wreckage of the ferry.","published_date":"","news_description":"Authorities say no bodies have so far been found beneath the wreckage of the ferry.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/42814","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\/42814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42815,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/42814\/revisions\/42815"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=42814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}