{"id":195981,"date":"2025-04-13T23:08:14","date_gmt":"2025-04-13T21:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-it-is-their-land-local-government-ministry-says-after-public-uproar-over-mps-upmarket-stands\/"},"modified":"2025-04-13T23:08:14","modified_gmt":"2025-04-13T21:08:14","slug":"zimbabwe-it-is-their-land-local-government-ministry-says-after-public-uproar-over-mps-upmarket-stands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-it-is-their-land-local-government-ministry-says-after-public-uproar-over-mps-upmarket-stands\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: It Is Their Land &#8211; Local Government Ministry Says After Public Uproar Over MPs&#8217; Upmarket Stands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">The Local Government Ministry has come out in defence of legislators fingered in questionable land grabs that might see them get between 300sqm and 1,000sqm of prime residential stands within Harare&#8217;s leafy Borrowdale district.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Members of Parliament (MPs), including those from opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC), are on a list of beneficiaries that has been circulated widely via social media.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">Questions had been raised after noting that some of the benefiting MPs received between&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202504110031.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 Local Government Ministry has come out in defence of legislators fingered in questionable land grabs that might see them get between 300sqm and 1,000sqm of prime residential stands within Harare&#8217;s leafy Borrowdale district. Members of Parliament (MPs), including those from opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC), are on a list of beneficiaries that has [&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":[258,256,6427,6122,7823,6857,7260,257,5751,254,6443,22148,16699,4686,421],"class_list":["post-195981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-government","tag-land","tag-local","tag-ministry","tag-mps","tag-news","tag-public","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stands","tag-upmarket","tag-uproar","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195981","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=195981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195981\/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=195981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}