{"id":4407,"date":"2024-10-02T11:44:10","date_gmt":"2024-10-02T11:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/?p=4407"},"modified":"2024-10-02T11:44:11","modified_gmt":"2024-10-02T11:44:11","slug":"ed-was-supposed-to-be-on-crashed-chopper-govt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/?p=4407","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;ED Was Supposed to Be on Crashed Chopper: Govt&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><br>Political Correspondent<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Zimbabwean government confirmed yesterday that President Emmerson Mnangagwa was scheduled to board the helicopter that crash-landed in Masvingo on Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The helicopter was supposed to fly the President, Dr. ED Mnangagwa, but experienced a technical fault and crash-landed,&#8221; Information Minister Jenfan Muswere said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The President, Dr. ED Mnangagwa, was not on board. The helicopter had crew members only on board, and there were no fatalities.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Civil Aviation Authority of Zimbabwe is investigating the incident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In other news, Muswere announced updates on the Urban Cash for Cereal Scheme and the Emergency School Feeding Programme, which has collected over 3.8 million metric tonnes of mealie-meal\/maize grain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cabinet also approved the Broadcasting Services Amendment Bill, requiring vehicle owners to obtain a radio license from the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The Bill mandates the national broadcaster to broadcast 75% local content,&#8221; Muswere said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Zim GBC News\u00a92024<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Political Correspondent The Zimbabwean government confirmed yesterday that President Emmerson Mnangagwa was scheduled to board the helicopter that crash-landed in Masvingo on Sunday. &#8220;The helicopter was supposed to fly the&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4408,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4407"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4409,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4407\/revisions\/4409"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}