{"id":199008,"date":"2025-05-29T00:47:41","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T22:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-zanu-pf-will-winnow-out-anyone-with-hidden-ambitions-mutsvangwa-says-as-business-tycoon-tagwirei-eyes-presidency\/"},"modified":"2025-05-29T00:47:41","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T22:47:41","slug":"zimbabwe-zanu-pf-will-winnow-out-anyone-with-hidden-ambitions-mutsvangwa-says-as-business-tycoon-tagwirei-eyes-presidency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-zanu-pf-will-winnow-out-anyone-with-hidden-ambitions-mutsvangwa-says-as-business-tycoon-tagwirei-eyes-presidency\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Zanu-PF Will Winnow Out Anyone With Hidden Ambitions &#8211; Mutsvangwa Says As Business Tycoon Tagwirei &#8216;Eyes&#8217; Presidency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">ZANU PF will not tolerate businessmen who join the party with &#8220;hidden ambitions&#8221;, the party spokesperson Christopher Mutsvangwa has said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">This follows reports that businessman Kudakwashe Tagwirei, who was recently nominated for the party&#8217;s Central Committee by Zanu PF&#8217;s Harare Province, is eyeing the presidency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"11\">The Central Committee is one of ZANU PF&#8217;s most powerful organs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">Addressing journalists in Harare, Mutsvangwa said while the ruling ZANUPF welcomes any businessmen who want to join the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202505280380.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>ZANU PF will not tolerate businessmen who join the party with &#8220;hidden ambitions&#8221;, the party spokesperson Christopher Mutsvangwa has said. This follows reports that businessman Kudakwashe Tagwirei, who was recently nominated for the party&#8217;s Central Committee by Zanu PF&#8217;s Harare Province, is eyeing the presidency. The Central Committee is one of ZANU PF&#8217;s most powerful [&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":[4338,258,256,19589,4342,9101,10995,257,8404,254,35018,21732,51469,8841,4686,421],"class_list":["post-199008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-business","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ambitions","tag-eyes","tag-hidden","tag-mutsvangwa","tag-news","tag-presidency","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tagwirei","tag-tycoon","tag-winnow","tag-zanupf","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199008","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=199008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199008\/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=199008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}