{"id":338761,"date":"2017-07-24T10:39:18","date_gmt":"2017-07-24T10:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=338761"},"modified":"2017-07-24T10:39:18","modified_gmt":"2017-07-24T10:39:18","slug":"mugabe-gives-sister-in-law-60000-birthday-gift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=338761","title":{"rendered":"Mugabe gives sister-in-law $60,000 birthday gift"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"lx-stream-post__header gs-o-media\" data-reactid=\".1tg90rgptz4.2.0.0.1.0.0.0.2.0.0.$k5975baa5e4b0c2b9f1262d4c.0\">\n<div class=\"gs-o-media__body\" data-reactid=\".1tg90rgptz4.2.0.0.1.0.0.0.2.0.0.$k5975baa5e4b0c2b9f1262d4c.0.1\">\u00a0Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe has given his sister-in-law $60,000 (\u00a346,000) as a birthday gift, the state-owned\u00a0Herald newspaper reports.<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"lx-stream-post__body gel-body-copy\" data-reactid=\".1tg90rgptz4.2.0.0.1.0.0.0.2.0.0.$k5975baa5e4b0c2b9f1262d4c.3\">\n<div class=\"lx-rta \" data-reactid=\".1tg90rgptz4.2.0.0.1.0.0.0.2.0.0.$k5975baa5e4b0c2b9f1262d4c.3.0\">\n<div class=\"lx-stream-post-body\" data-reactid=\".1tg90rgptz4.2.0.0.1.0.0.0.2.0.0.$k5975baa5e4b0c2b9f1262d4c.3.0.0\">\n<p>It says that the gift was to thank Junior Gumbochuma, who is the first lady&#8217;s eldest sister, for helping to Mr Mugabe&#8217;s children.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs Gumbochuma is a pastor and the Herald reports that the president used the opportunity of her birthday celebrations to criticise Pentecostal preachers who make money from their congregants by stage-managing miracles.<\/p>\n<p>Zimbabwe&#8217;s economy is currently struggling to grow and the country is experiencing a cash shortage as there are not enough dollar notes, one of the currencies used in the country, are in circulation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe has given his sister-in-law $60,000 (\u00a346,000) as a birthday gift, the state-owned\u00a0Herald newspaper reports. It says that the gift was to thank Junior Gumbochuma, who is the first lady&#8217;s eldest sister, for helping to Mr Mugabe&#8217;s children. Mrs Gumbochuma is a pastor and the Herald reports that the president used the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-338761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=338761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338761\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=338761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=338761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=338761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}