{"id":188944,"date":"2025-01-18T16:20:28","date_gmt":"2025-01-18T14:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-stop-this-nonsense-chamisa-blasts-zanu-pfs-push-for-mnangagwas-third-term\/"},"modified":"2025-01-18T16:20:28","modified_gmt":"2025-01-18T14:20:28","slug":"zimbabwe-stop-this-nonsense-chamisa-blasts-zanu-pfs-push-for-mnangagwas-third-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-stop-this-nonsense-chamisa-blasts-zanu-pfs-push-for-mnangagwas-third-term\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Stop This Nonsense! Chamisa Blasts Zanu-PF&#8217;s Push for Mnangagwa&#8217;s Third Term"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">Opposition politician Nelson Chamisa has slammed President Emmerson Mnangagwa&#8217;s bid for a third term, describing it as &#8220;nonsense&#8221; that will only worsen Zimbabwe&#8217;s problems.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">The ruling Zanu-PF party wants to extend Mnangagwa&#8217;s term in office and delay the 2028 elections by two years until 2030 and has already started canvassing for support.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">Zimbabwe&#8217;s constitution limits the presidential office to two five-year terms, and Mnangagwa is currently serving his second and final term.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Chamisa who lost&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202501170347.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 politician Nelson Chamisa has slammed President Emmerson Mnangagwa&#8217;s bid for a third term, describing it as &#8220;nonsense&#8221; that will only worsen Zimbabwe&#8217;s problems. The ruling Zanu-PF party wants to extend Mnangagwa&#8217;s term in office and delay the 2028 elections by two years until 2030 and has already started canvassing for support. Zimbabwe&#8217;s constitution limits [&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":[258,256,9606,17330,16781,257,45974,6354,254,8652,7557,22525,4686,421],"class_list":["post-188944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-blasts","tag-chamisa","tag-mnangagwas","tag-news","tag-nonsense","tag-push","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stop","tag-term","tag-zanupfs","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188944","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=188944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188944\/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=188944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}