{"id":176336,"date":"2024-07-11T08:08:30","date_gmt":"2024-07-11T06:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-army-commander-threatens-election-integrity\/"},"modified":"2024-07-11T08:08:30","modified_gmt":"2024-07-11T06:08:30","slug":"zimbabwe-army-commander-threatens-election-integrity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-army-commander-threatens-election-integrity\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Army Commander Threatens Election Integrity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Johannesburg \u2014 <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/africa\/zimbabwe\" rel=\"noopener\">Zimbabwe<\/a>&#8216;s army commander has openly stated that the country&#8217;s security forces intend to play a partisan political role, threatening future elections and those participating in them, Human Rights Watch said today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"92\">On June 29, 2024, the Zimbabwe National Army commander, Lt. General <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/home.treasury.gov\/news\/press-releases\/sm935\" rel=\"noopener\">Anselem Sanyatwe<\/a>, was <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.news24.com\/news24\/africa\/news\/zanu-pf-will-rule-until-donkeys-grow-horns-says-zimbabwe-army-chief-and-promises-forced-voting-20240703\" rel=\"noopener\">quoted as saying<\/a> that people would be marched to polling stations &#8220;whether you like it or not,&#8221; and that the ruling party, ZANU-PF, would &#8220;rule forever.&#8221; Since the August 2023&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202407110031.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Johannesburg \u2014 Zimbabwe&#8216;s army commander has openly stated that the country&#8217;s security forces intend to play a partisan political role, threatening future elections and those participating in them, Human Rights Watch said today. On June 29, 2024, the Zimbabwe National Army commander, Lt. General Anselem Sanyatwe, was quoted as saying that people would be marched [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,4361,6771,3119,8339,257,254,10413,4686,421],"class_list":["post-176336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-army","tag-commander","tag-election","tag-integrity","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-threatens","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}