{"id":36968,"date":"2018-02-15T06:47:02","date_gmt":"2018-02-15T06:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/zimbabwe-opposition-leader-morgan-tsvangirai-dies\/"},"modified":"2018-02-15T06:46:58","modified_gmt":"2018-02-15T06:46:58","slug":"zimbabwe-opposition-leader-morgan-tsvangirai-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/zimbabwe-opposition-leader-morgan-tsvangirai-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai dies aged 65"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mr Tsvangirai, 65, a former prime minister, had reportedly been suffering from colon cancer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He died this evening. The family communicated this to me,&#8221; MDC vice president Elias Mudzuri told Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Tsvangirai&#8217;s career was marked by a long political struggle against former President Robert Mugabe.<\/p>\n<p>He had been beaten and imprisoned numerous times.<\/p>\n<p>Announcing Mr Tsvangirai&#8217;s death, Mr Mudzuri said on Twitter that the MDC had &#8220;lost our icon and fighter for democracy&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Tsvangirai founded the MDC (Movement for Democratic Change) in 2000, repeatedly challenging Mr Mugabe during the ex-president&#8217;s long grip on power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zimbabwe&#8217;s main opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai has died in South Africa, a senior official in his MDC party has said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[249],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-36968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-bbc"],"bylines":[{"id":249,"name":"BBC","slug":"bbc","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":104}],"contributors":[{"id":249,"name":"BBC","slug":"bbc","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":104}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36968"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=36968"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=36968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}