{"id":47056,"date":"2026-10-01T19:45:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T17:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=47056"},"modified":"2026-10-01T19:45:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T17:45:10","slug":"zimbabwe-police-revise-death-toll-in-chivayo-helicopter-crash-to-five","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/zimbabwe-police-revise-death-toll-in-chivayo-helicopter-crash-to-five\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe police revise death toll in Chivayo helicopter crash to five \u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zimbabwean police have revised the death toll in the helicopter crash that killed prominent businessperson Wicknell Chivayo and his wife, Lucy and their deaths were confirmed to the media by the family Spokesperson Herbert Chivayo.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Police now say five people were onboard, correcting an earlier report of six. The other three victims have been identified as Lucy Chivayo\u2019s aide, Senelisiwe Magagula, and pilots Captain Kelvin T. Soda and Captain Courage Mutavirwa.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The helicopter crashed on Wednesday evening in rural Marondera, east of Harare. The cause of the crash remains under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":47057,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-47056","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Zimbabwean police have revised the death toll in the helicopter crash","published_date":"2026-10-01 19:43:49","news_description":"Zimbabwean police have revised the death toll in the helicopter crash","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/47056","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\/47056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47058,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/47056\/revisions\/47058"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=47056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}