{"id":196678,"date":"2025-04-24T11:30:56","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T09:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-the-regime-has-resorted-to-intimidation-and-harassment-of-dissent-opposition-leaders-ngarivhume-chibaya-dismiss-police-claims-of-inciting-violence\/"},"modified":"2025-04-24T11:30:56","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T09:30:56","slug":"zimbabwe-the-regime-has-resorted-to-intimidation-and-harassment-of-dissent-opposition-leaders-ngarivhume-chibaya-dismiss-police-claims-of-inciting-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-the-regime-has-resorted-to-intimidation-and-harassment-of-dissent-opposition-leaders-ngarivhume-chibaya-dismiss-police-claims-of-inciting-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: &#8216;The Regime Has Resorted to Intimidation and Harassment of Dissent&#8217; &#8211; Opposition Leaders Ngarivhume, Chibaya Dismiss Police Claims of Inciting Violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Opposition figure and former MP for Mkoba North, Amos Chibaya, and Transform Zimbabwe (TZ) leader Jacob Ngarivhume have dismissed the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) statement accusing them of being ringleaders of anticipated protests against President Emmerson Mnangagwa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">The duo argues that police intelligence has crossed its wires, asserting that they are not involved in any plan to organise or mobilise citizens to demonstrate against the government.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">In a statement released on Wednesday, national&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202504240140.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 figure and former MP for Mkoba North, Amos Chibaya, and Transform Zimbabwe (TZ) leader Jacob Ngarivhume have dismissed the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) statement accusing them of being ringleaders of anticipated protests against President Emmerson Mnangagwa. The duo argues that police intelligence has crossed its wires, asserting that they are not involved in any [&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":[258,256,51200,8117,11466,18208,2898,15233,7612,4381,257,18514,5675,662,11801,51199,254,2148,4686,421],"class_list":["post-196678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-chibaya","tag-claims","tag-dismiss","tag-dissent","tag-harassment","tag-inciting","tag-intimidation","tag-leaders","tag-news","tag-ngarivhume","tag-opposition","tag-police","tag-regime","tag-resorted","tag-south-africa-today","tag-violence","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196678","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=196678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196678\/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=196678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}