{"id":178844,"date":"2024-08-19T21:43:56","date_gmt":"2024-08-19T19:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-civic-society-decries-zimbabwes-shrinking-democratic-space-likens-situation-with-a-war-zone\/"},"modified":"2024-08-19T21:43:56","modified_gmt":"2024-08-19T19:43:56","slug":"zimbabwe-civic-society-decries-zimbabwes-shrinking-democratic-space-likens-situation-with-a-war-zone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-civic-society-decries-zimbabwes-shrinking-democratic-space-likens-situation-with-a-war-zone\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Civic Society Decries Zimbabwe&#8217;s Shrinking Democratic Space, Likens Situation With &#8216;A War Zone&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">CIVIC society organisations (CSOs) have described as unfortunate the plunging of the country into &#8220;a war zone&#8221; before and during the just-ended Southern African Development Community (SADC) Summit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">The remarks emerged during the civic society&#8217;s human rights, democracy and governance symposium held in Harare recently as part of the main summit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"13\">The meeting was attended by civic society members from various southern African countries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\">Dzikamai Bere, the national director of the Zimbabwe Human Rights&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202408190445.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>CIVIC society organisations (CSOs) have described as unfortunate the plunging of the country into &#8220;a war zone&#8221; before and during the just-ended Southern African Development Community (SADC) Summit. The remarks emerged during the civic society&#8217;s human rights, democracy and governance symposium held in Harare recently as part of the main summit. The meeting was attended [&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":[258,256,10592,10717,6404,46648,257,19327,6325,7120,254,5215,6618,4686,421,7726,7073],"class_list":["post-178844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-civic","tag-decries","tag-democratic","tag-likens","tag-news","tag-shrinking","tag-situation","tag-society","tag-south-africa-today","tag-space","tag-war","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news","tag-zimbabwes","tag-zone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178844","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=178844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178844\/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=178844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}