{"id":182990,"date":"2024-10-21T12:33:25","date_gmt":"2024-10-21T10:33:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwes-state-security-agencies-take-aim-at-political-dissidents\/"},"modified":"2024-10-21T12:33:25","modified_gmt":"2024-10-21T10:33:25","slug":"zimbabwes-state-security-agencies-take-aim-at-political-dissidents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwes-state-security-agencies-take-aim-at-political-dissidents\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe&#8217;s State Security Agencies Take Aim At &#8216;Political Dissidents&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">A COVERT operation to weed out dissenting voices is reportedly in full swing as Zimbabwe&#8217;s political environment hots up ahead of President Emmerson Mnangagwa&#8217;s power retention schemes facing strong resistance from within and outside the ruling establishment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Exclusive information from high-ranking Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO), army intelligence and police officials has shed light on a secretive and widespread operation targeting outspoken individuals labelled as &#8220;political dissidents&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202410210188.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>A COVERT operation to weed out dissenting voices is reportedly in full swing as Zimbabwe&#8217;s political environment hots up ahead of President Emmerson Mnangagwa&#8217;s power retention schemes facing strong resistance from within and outside the ruling establishment. Exclusive information from high-ranking Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO), army intelligence and police officials has shed light on a [&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":[258,256,6905,12953,5292,257,6378,4586,254,6017,421,7726],"class_list":["post-182990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-agencies","tag-aim","tag-dissidents","tag-news","tag-political","tag-security","tag-south-africa-today","tag-state","tag-zimbabwe-news","tag-zimbabwes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182990","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=182990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182990\/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=182990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}