{"id":181717,"date":"2024-10-02T23:53:35","date_gmt":"2024-10-02T21:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-sona-parliament-ordered-to-finalise-controversial-pvo-bill-during-the-second-session\/"},"modified":"2024-10-02T23:53:35","modified_gmt":"2024-10-02T21:53:35","slug":"zimbabwe-sona-parliament-ordered-to-finalise-controversial-pvo-bill-during-the-second-session","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-sona-parliament-ordered-to-finalise-controversial-pvo-bill-during-the-second-session\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: SONA &#8211; Parliament Ordered to Finalise Controversial PVO Bill During the Second Session"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has ordered the 10th Parliament to finalise the Private Voluntary Organisations (PVO) Bill in a development that will restrict the operations of NGOs in the country, shrinking the civic space.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">The Zimbabwean government introduced the Private Voluntary Organisation (PVO) Amendment Bill in November 2021 to &#8220;counter terrorism and prohibit political lobbying from non-governmental organisations&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"52\">Civic Society Organisations castigated the legislative piece for attempting to&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202410020670.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>PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has ordered the 10th Parliament to finalise the Private Voluntary Organisations (PVO) Bill in a development that will restrict the operations of NGOs in the country, shrinking the civic space. The Zimbabwean government introduced the Private Voluntary Organisation (PVO) Amendment Bill in November 2021 to &#8220;counter terrorism and prohibit political lobbying from [&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":[258,256,7292,11087,15042,257,12270,2412,40751,6473,7011,254,4686,421],"class_list":["post-181717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bill","tag-controversial","tag-finalise","tag-news","tag-ordered","tag-parliament","tag-pvo","tag-session","tag-sona","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181717","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=181717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181717\/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=181717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}