{"id":178888,"date":"2024-08-20T09:45:38","date_gmt":"2024-08-20T07:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-after-concluding-sadc-summit-zanu-pf-calls-for-release-of-jailed-activists-ruling-party-says-there-is-nothing-more-to-disturb\/"},"modified":"2024-08-20T09:45:38","modified_gmt":"2024-08-20T07:45:38","slug":"zimbabwe-after-concluding-sadc-summit-zanu-pf-calls-for-release-of-jailed-activists-ruling-party-says-there-is-nothing-more-to-disturb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-after-concluding-sadc-summit-zanu-pf-calls-for-release-of-jailed-activists-ruling-party-says-there-is-nothing-more-to-disturb\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: After Concluding SADC Summit, Zanu-PF Calls for Release of Jailed Activists &#8211; Ruling Party Says There Is Nothing More to Disturb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">Zanu PF spokesperson Christopher Mutsvangwa says the incarcerated pro-democracy activists should be set free as there is &#8220;nothing to disturb anymore&#8221;, admitting the influence of the ruling party on the judicial system.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Several opposition supporters and activists are languishing in remand prison following a clampdown that preceded the just ended Southern African Development Community (SADC) summit that was held in Harare.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"12\">They were arrested in response to anticipated protests against President&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202408200025.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>Zanu PF spokesperson Christopher Mutsvangwa says the incarcerated pro-democracy activists should be set free as there is &#8220;nothing to disturb anymore&#8221;, admitting the influence of the ruling party on the judicial system. Several opposition supporters and activists are languishing in remand prison following a clampdown that preceded the just ended Southern African Development Community (SADC) [&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":[6008,258,256,6137,30438,24965,5696,257,7024,6011,7870,1412,254,5757,8841,4686,421],"class_list":["post-178888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-activists","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-calls","tag-concluding","tag-disturb","tag-jailed","tag-news","tag-party","tag-release","tag-ruling","tag-sadc","tag-south-africa-today","tag-summit","tag-zanupf","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178888","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=178888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178888\/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=178888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}