{"id":199529,"date":"2025-06-05T01:01:53","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T23:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-sponsored-lies-chamisa-dismisses-claims-he-is-forming-new-party\/"},"modified":"2025-06-05T01:01:53","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T23:01:53","slug":"zimbabwe-sponsored-lies-chamisa-dismisses-claims-he-is-forming-new-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-sponsored-lies-chamisa-dismisses-claims-he-is-forming-new-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: &#8216;Sponsored Lies&#8217; &#8211; Chamisa Dismisses Claims He Is Forming New Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Opposition leader Nelson Chamisa has dismissed as &#8220;sponsored lies&#8221; social media rumours suggesting he is launching a new movement at the end of this month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">Since his resignation as Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) president in January 2024, following what he described as the hijacking of his party by Zanu PF, Chamisa has kept both supporters and opponents guessing over his next move.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">Chamisa has repeatedly emphasised that he has not left politics but was forced to abandon the CCC due to its&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202506040400.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 leader Nelson Chamisa has dismissed as &#8220;sponsored lies&#8221; social media rumours suggesting he is launching a new movement at the end of this month. Since his resignation as Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) president in January 2024, following what he described as the hijacking of his party by Zanu PF, Chamisa has kept both [&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":[258,256,17330,8117,12843,18712,16559,257,7024,254,12519,4686,421],"class_list":["post-199529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-chamisa","tag-claims","tag-dismisses","tag-forming","tag-lies","tag-news","tag-party","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sponsored","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199529","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=199529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199529\/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=199529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}