{"id":178728,"date":"2024-08-17T21:38:10","date_gmt":"2024-08-17T19:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-shivambu-leaves-eff-joins-mk-party\/"},"modified":"2024-08-17T21:38:10","modified_gmt":"2024-08-17T19:38:10","slug":"zimbabwe-shivambu-leaves-eff-joins-mk-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-shivambu-leaves-eff-joins-mk-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Shivambu Leaves EFF, Joins Mk Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">Leader of South Africa&#8217;s Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) party, Julius Malema, has said his party is going through a &#8220;testing moment&#8221; after deputy president Floyd Shivambu resigned to join former president Jacob Zuma&#8217;s uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK) party.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"47\">Shivambu, also a co-founder of the EFF, told media on Thursday that the decision to join the rival MK Party should not be read as a &#8220;vote of no confidence&#8221; in the EFF which admitted it is now expecting more members loyal to Shivambu to follow him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">In&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202408160605.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>Leader of South Africa&#8217;s Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) party, Julius Malema, has said his party is going through a &#8220;testing moment&#8221; after deputy president Floyd Shivambu resigned to join former president Jacob Zuma&#8217;s uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK) party. Shivambu, also a co-founder of the EFF, told media on Thursday that the decision to join the [&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":[258,256,1741,5046,9647,257,7024,49303,254,4686,421],"class_list":["post-178728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-eff","tag-joins","tag-leaves","tag-news","tag-party","tag-shivambu","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178728","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=178728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178728\/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=178728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}