{"id":46752,"date":"2026-09-29T10:15:23","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T08:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=46752"},"modified":"2026-09-29T10:15:23","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T08:15:23","slug":"tragedy-strikes-zimbabwes-international-football-return","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/tragedy-strikes-zimbabwes-international-football-return\/","title":{"rendered":"Tragedy strikes Zimbabwe\u2019s international football return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Tragedy has marred Zimbabwe&#8217;s long-awaited return to international football in Harare.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Police say one person died in a stampede at the National Sports Stadium during Zimbabwe&#8217;s 2027 Africa Cup of Nations (CAF) qualifier against the Democratic Republic of Congo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Thousands of fans had packed the venue for Zimbabwe&#8217;s first international home match there in five years, after the stadium was previously barred for failing to meet CAF standards.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Police have launched an investigation and say a full report will follow.<br \/>\nZimbabwe lost the match 2\u20131.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8211;ChannelAfrica&#8211;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":20579,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-46752","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"Tragedy marred Zimbabwe's long-awaited return to international football","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/46752","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\/46752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46759,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/46752\/revisions\/46759"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=46752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}