{"id":32386,"date":"2017-11-27T11:45:17","date_gmt":"2017-11-27T11:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/?p=32386"},"modified":"2017-11-27T11:45:17","modified_gmt":"2017-11-27T11:45:17","slug":"mugabes-birthday-now-a-public-holiday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/mugabes-birthday-now-a-public-holiday\/","title":{"rendered":"Mugabe’s birthday now a public holiday"},"content":{"rendered":"

Zimbabwe’s new government has declared ousted President Robert Mugabe’s birthday an annual public holiday to honour his contribution to the nation, the state-run Herald newspaper reports<\/p>\n

The decision to celebrate Robert Gabriel Mugabe National Youth Day on 21 February was gazetted on Friday – the day President Emmerson Mnangagwa took office, ending the 93-year-old Mr Mugbae’s 37-year rule, it adds.<\/p>\n

Mr Mugabe’s government had decided in August to declare his birthday a national holiday, following intense lobbying by the ruling Zanu-PF party’s youth wing, the Herald\u00a0reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Mr Mugabe was forced out of office last week after pressure from the military and his Zanu-PF party.<\/p>\n

By Bbc News<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Zimbabwe’s new government has declared ousted President Robert Mugabe’s birthday an annual public holiday to honour his contribution to the nation, the state-run Herald newspaper reports The decision to celebrate Robert Gabriel Mugabe National Youth Day on 21 February was gazetted on Friday – the day President Emmerson Mnangagwa took office, ending the 93-year-old Mr Mugbae’s 37-year rule, it adds. Mr Mugabe’s government had decided in August to declare his birthday a national holiday, following intense lobbying by the ruling Zanu-PF party’s youth wing, the Herald\u00a0reports. Mr Mugabe was forced out of office last week after pressure from the military and his Zanu-PF party. By Bbc News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":32387,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32386"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}