{"id":59989,"date":"2013-12-18T21:36:17","date_gmt":"2013-12-18T17:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=59989"},"modified":"2013-12-18T21:36:17","modified_gmt":"2013-12-18T17:36:17","slug":"mugabe-orders-victoria-falls-to-be-renamed-the-smoke-that-thunders-to-get-rid-of-its-colonial-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=59989","title":{"rendered":"Mugabe orders Victoria Falls to be renamed &#8216;the smoke that thunders&#8217; to get rid of its colonial history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Zimbabwe-Robert-Mugabe.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-59985\" alt=\"\u0544\u0578\u0582\u0563\u0561\u0562\u0565\u0576, \u054e\u056b\u056f\u057f\u0578\u0580\u0575\u0561 \u057b\u0580\u057e\u0565\u056a\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Zimbabwe-Robert-Mugabe.jpg\" width=\"306\" height=\"423\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Zimbabwe-Robert-Mugabe.jpg 306w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Zimbabwe-Robert-Mugabe-217x300.jpg 217w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 306px) 100vw, 306px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>President Robert Mugabe wants Victoria Falls to be renamed &#8216;the smoke that thunders&#8217; to get rid of its colonial history.<\/p>\n<p>The president of Zimbabwe believes Victoria Falls does not reflect its liberation heritage.<\/p>\n<p>The waterfall, which is along the ZambeziRiver at the border of Zimbabwe and Zambia. is one of the Seven Wonders of the World.<\/p>\n<p>Locals already refer to the landmark as Mosi Oa Tunya &#8211; which means &#8216;the smoke that thunders&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling party, Zanu PF, said the government would be instructed to get rid of all colonial names for towns and schools.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Victoria-Falls.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-59986\" alt=\"\u054e\u056b\u056f\u057f\u0578\u0580\u0575\u0561 \u057b\u0580\u057e\u0565\u056a\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Victoria-Falls.jpg\" width=\"444\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Victoria-Falls.jpg 634w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Victoria-Falls-300x229.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Victoria-Falls-392x300.jpg 392w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 444px) 100vw, 444px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was first discovered by Scottish explorer David Livingstone who named it after Queen Victoria.<\/p>\n<p>President Mugabe\u2019s party came to power in 1980 and changed names of some cities and towns such as Harare.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/\">\u00a0\u0531\u0576\u056f\u0561\u056d<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Robert Mugabe wants Victoria Falls to be renamed &#8216;the smoke that thunders&#8217; to get&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":59986,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,155,137],"tags":[5062,5063],"class_list":["post-59989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-other-countries","category-world","tag-mugabe","tag-victoria-falls","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/59986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}