{"id":179157,"date":"2024-08-24T10:00:16","date_gmt":"2024-08-24T08:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-muzorewa-appeals-to-president-mnangagwa-for-release-of-detained-activists\/"},"modified":"2024-08-24T10:00:16","modified_gmt":"2024-08-24T08:00:16","slug":"zimbabwe-muzorewa-appeals-to-president-mnangagwa-for-release-of-detained-activists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-muzorewa-appeals-to-president-mnangagwa-for-release-of-detained-activists\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Muzorewa Appeals to President Mnangagwa for Release of Detained Activists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Opposition United African National Council (UANC) leader Gwinyai Muzorewa has called on President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa to release all political party members and civilians detained before, during, and after the recent <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sadc.int\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Southern African Development Community<\/a> (SADC) summit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">Addressing the media, Muzorewa urged President Mnangagwa to exercise mercy and forgiveness by granting a &#8220;presidential pardon&#8221; to those currently in custody.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"45\">&#8220;The UANC wishes to humbly appeal to President Cde Emmerson&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202408230375.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>Opposition United African National Council (UANC) leader Gwinyai Muzorewa has called on President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa to release all political party members and civilians detained before, during, and after the recent Southern African Development Community (SADC) summit. Addressing the media, Muzorewa urged President Mnangagwa to exercise mercy and forgiveness by granting a &#8220;presidential pardon&#8221; to [&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":[6008,258,256,4344,3707,7476,49362,257,2450,6011,254,4686,421],"class_list":["post-179157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-activists","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-appeals","tag-detained","tag-mnangagwa","tag-muzorewa","tag-news","tag-president","tag-release","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179157","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=179157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179157\/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=179157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}