{"id":194963,"date":"2025-03-30T22:37:13","date_gmt":"2025-03-30T20:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-is-zimbabwe-at-risk-of-another-coup\/"},"modified":"2025-03-30T22:37:13","modified_gmt":"2025-03-30T20:37:13","slug":"zimbabwe-is-zimbabwe-at-risk-of-another-coup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-is-zimbabwe-at-risk-of-another-coup\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Is Zimbabwe At Risk of Another Coup?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">President Mnangagwa looks beyond his second term, prompting war veterans backing Vice President Chiwenga to threaten an &#8216;uprising&#8217; on 31 March.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"44\">Tensions are rising in Zimbabwe over <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/edmnangagwa?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor\">President Emmerson Mnangagwa<\/a><\/strong>&#8216;s evident intention to remain in power after his second term ends in 2028. Zimbabwe&#8217;s constitution explicitly prohibits serving more than two terms, but there are suspicions that Mr Mnangagwa intends somehow to circumvent that provision.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"66\">This is fuelling criticism not just from the political&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503280417.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 Mnangagwa looks beyond his second term, prompting war veterans backing Vice President Chiwenga to threaten an &#8216;uprising&#8217; on 31 March. Tensions are rising in Zimbabwe over President Emmerson Mnangagwa&#8216;s evident intention to remain in power after his second term ends in 2028. Zimbabwe&#8217;s constitution explicitly prohibits serving more than two terms, but there are [&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":[258,256,3835,257,9590,254,4686,421],"class_list":["post-194963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-coup","tag-news","tag-risk","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194963","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=194963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194963\/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=194963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}