{"id":9614,"date":"2013-08-25T10:09:51","date_gmt":"2013-08-25T10:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=9614"},"modified":"2013-08-25T10:09:51","modified_gmt":"2013-08-25T10:09:51","slug":"another-top-mugabe-ally-dies-suddenly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=9614","title":{"rendered":"Another top Mugabe ally dies suddenly"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"articleBodyPrint\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_9615\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9615\" style=\"width: 268px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/kangai.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9615\" alt=\"Kumbirai Kangai\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/kangai.jpg\" width=\"268\" height=\"188\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9615\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kumbirai Kangai<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Former Zimbabwean government minister Kumbirai Kangai, a close ally of President Robert Mugabe and key leader in the fight to end British rule, died on Saturday, a party official said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;I can confirm that one of our party stalwarts, comrade Kumbirai Kangai, died suddenly this morning,&#8221; Rugare Gumbo, spokesperson for Mugabe&#8217;s Zanu-PF party, told AFP.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kangai collapsed at his home and died on admission at a private clinic in the capital. He was 75.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;We don&#8217;t know yet the cause of his death but we suspect it might be a heart attack. It is a sad hour for Zanu-PF and the people of Zimbabwe,&#8221; said Gumbo.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kangai&#8217;s death came just days after that of Enos Nkala, another top ally of Mugabe. &#8211; AFP<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Zimbabwean government minister Kumbirai Kangai, a close ally of President Robert Mugabe and key leader in the fight to end British rule, died on Saturday, a party official said. &#8220;I can confirm that one of our party stalwarts, comrade Kumbirai Kangai, died suddenly this morning,&#8221; Rugare Gumbo, spokesperson for Mugabe&#8217;s Zanu-PF party, told AFP. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=9614\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Another top Mugabe ally dies suddenly&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9615,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[5486,5488,5485,5487,4768],"class_list":["post-9614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-close-ally","tag-colonial-rule","tag-former-zimbabwean-government-minister-kumbirai-kangai","tag-heart-attack","tag-president-robert-mugabe"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/kangai.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9614"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9617,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9614\/revisions\/9617"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}