{"id":22287,"date":"2021-03-12T11:35:16","date_gmt":"2021-03-12T08:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=22287"},"modified":"2021-03-12T11:35:19","modified_gmt":"2021-03-12T08:35:19","slug":"zulu-king-goodwill-zwelithini-dies-aged-72","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/12\/zulu-king-goodwill-zwelithini-dies-aged-72\/","title":{"rendered":"Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini Dies Aged 72"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>King Goodwill Zwelithini of the Zulu nation in South Africa has died in hospital where he was being treated for diabetes-related issues.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The king, 72, was the leader of South Africa&#8217;s largest ethnic group and an influential traditional ruler.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He had been admitted to hospital in KwaZulu-Natal last week to monitor his ongoing diabetes condition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The king&#8217;s prime minister thanked South Africa for its &#8220;continued prayers and support in this most difficult time&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">King Goodwill Zwelithini had ruled the Zulu nation under the Traditional Leadership clause of South Africa&#8217;s republican constitution since the death of his father in 1968.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Around 10 million people live in KwaZulu-Natal province.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>King Goodwill Zwelithini of the Zulu nation in South Africa has died in hospital where he was being treated for diabetes-related issues. The king, 72, was the leader of South Africa&#8217;s largest ethnic group and an influential traditional ruler. He had been admitted to hospital in KwaZulu-Natal last week to monitor his ongoing diabetes condition. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":22288,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_paywall_metabox":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[356,98],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-22287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-big-story","category-news","tag-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27983"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22287"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22289,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22287\/revisions\/22289"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}