{"id":181980,"date":"2024-10-06T12:00:17","date_gmt":"2024-10-06T10:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-zanu-pf-in-turmoil-as-mnangagwa-chiwenga-fight-intensifies-party-commissar-moves-to-douse-flames\/"},"modified":"2024-10-06T12:00:17","modified_gmt":"2024-10-06T10:00:17","slug":"zimbabwe-zanu-pf-in-turmoil-as-mnangagwa-chiwenga-fight-intensifies-party-commissar-moves-to-douse-flames","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-zanu-pf-in-turmoil-as-mnangagwa-chiwenga-fight-intensifies-party-commissar-moves-to-douse-flames\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Zanu-PF in Turmoil As Mnangagwa, Chiwenga Fight Intensifies &#8211; Party Commissar Moves to Douse Flames"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">THE ongoing factional fights within Zanu PF have reached a crescendo with party functionaries positioning themselves to either consolidate their power or oust incumbent officeholders before the expiry of their tenure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"48\">Chief among the reasons Vice President Constantino Chiwenga&#8217;s camp is plotting President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his acolytes&#8217; removal is endemic corruption and the tanking economy, which has seen the value of the new Zimbabwe Gold (ZiG) currency plummet against the US$. This has led&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202410040071.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>THE ongoing factional fights within Zanu PF have reached a crescendo with party functionaries positioning themselves to either consolidate their power or oust incumbent officeholders before the expiry of their tenure. Chief among the reasons Vice President Constantino Chiwenga&#8217;s camp is plotting President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his acolytes&#8217; removal is endemic corruption and the tanking [&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":[258,256,8862,49687,49688,4345,16114,8013,7476,6858,257,7024,254,8513,8841,4686,421],"class_list":["post-181980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-chiwenga","tag-commissar","tag-douse","tag-fight","tag-flames","tag-intensifies","tag-mnangagwa","tag-moves","tag-news","tag-party","tag-south-africa-today","tag-turmoil","tag-zanupf","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181980","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=181980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181980\/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=181980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}