{"id":21730,"date":"2020-04-08T19:44:07","date_gmt":"2020-04-08T17:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/zimbabwe\/?p=21730"},"modified":"2020-04-08T19:44:07","modified_gmt":"2020-04-08T17:44:07","slug":"another-zimbabwean-dies-of-covid-19-in-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/another-zimbabwean-dies-of-covid-19-in-the-uk","title":{"rendered":"Another Zimbabwean dies of COVID-19 in the UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A popular Zimbabwean mother, Matho Thobela has died in England.<\/p>\n<p>Prominent journalist Ezra Tshisa Sibanda posted on Facebook announcing Mathobela\u2019s tragic death, saying she succumbed to COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is shattering, I\u2019m heartbroken and lost for words. Surely l still cant understand how Mathobela has gone like that. A super woman who has also succumbed to COVID-19, her family has confirmed. She was a lovely person, very caring and a true humanitarian. She leaves behind a 13 year old girl who is now with a friend.<\/p>\n<p>Mathobela\u2019s mum Matshuma is devastated and cant believe what has happened to her loving daughter and recently she also lost her own sister in Zimbabwe and Mathobela went there not knowing a month later she would be dead as well. A very dark cloud has descended on this family, very sad.<\/p>\n<p>To Mathobela l couldn\u2019t help with your request Mzukulu, it\u2019s a process, it wasn\u2019t easy and this thing has taken you before your sister had managed to join you here. Only a moment you stayed Matho, but what an imprint your footprints have left on our hearts. Rest In Peace our loving angel. I know you are in a better place #shocked\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A popular Zimbabwean mother, Matho Thobela has died in England. Prominent journalist Ezra Tshisa Sibanda posted on Facebook announcing Mathobela\u2019s tragic death, saying she succumbed to COVID-19. \u201cThis is shattering, I\u2019m heartbroken and lost for words. Surely l still cant understand how Mathobela has gone like that. A super woman who has also succumbed to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":14823,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1361,7],"tags":[1279,229],"class_list":{"0":"post-21730","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all-news","8":"category-coronavirus-in-zimbabwe","9":"category-files","10":"tag-coronavirus-in-zimbabwe","11":"tag-sibanda"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.1 (Yoast SEO v24.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Another Zimbabwean dies of COVID-19 in the UK - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A popular Zimbabwean mother, Matho Thobela has died in England.Prominent journalist Ezra Tshisa Sibanda posted on Facebook\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/another-zimbabwean-dies-of-covid-19-in-the-uk\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Another Zimbabwean dies of COVID-19 in the UK\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A popular Zimbabwean mother, Matho Thobela has died in England.Prominent journalist Ezra Tshisa Sibanda posted on Facebook\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/another-zimbabwean-dies-of-covid-19-in-the-uk\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"zimbabwe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-04-08T17:44:07+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/2019\/10\/General-Valerio-Sibanda.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"536\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/another-zimbabwean-dies-of-covid-19-in-the-uk\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/another-zimbabwean-dies-of-covid-19-in-the-uk\",\"name\":\"Another Zimbabwean dies of COVID-19 in the UK - 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