{"id":4746,"date":"2025-11-28T13:43:50","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T13:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pioneers.org.zw\/?page_id=4746"},"modified":"2025-12-08T14:33:56","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T14:33:56","slug":"updates","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/pioneers.org.zw\/?page_id=4746","title":{"rendered":"Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style>\n<figure class=\"blockart-image blockart-image-e503ca06\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"711\" class=\"wp-image-4791 hover-effect-static filter-none mask mask-none\" src=\"http:\/\/pioneers.org.zw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/news2-scaled.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/pioneers.org.zw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/news2-scaled.png 2560w, http:\/\/pioneers.org.zw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/news2-300x83.png 300w, http:\/\/pioneers.org.zw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/news2-1024x285.png 1024w, 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