{"id":201861,"date":"2025-07-07T14:09:49","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T12:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/south-africa-zimbabwes-stolen-elections-now-draining-south-africa-says-opposition-leader-maimane-accuses-anc-of-abating-zanu-pf-tyranny\/"},"modified":"2025-07-07T14:09:49","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T12:09:49","slug":"south-africa-zimbabwes-stolen-elections-now-draining-south-africa-says-opposition-leader-maimane-accuses-anc-of-abating-zanu-pf-tyranny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/south-africa-zimbabwes-stolen-elections-now-draining-south-africa-says-opposition-leader-maimane-accuses-anc-of-abating-zanu-pf-tyranny\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa: &#8216;Zimbabwe&#8217;s Stolen Elections Now Draining South Africa&#8217; &#8211; Says Opposition Leader Maimane, Accuses ANC of Abating Zanu-PF Tyranny"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">SOUTH African opposition leader, Mmusi Maimane, has accused his country&#8217;s government of &#8220;folding its arms&#8221; in the face of Zimbabwe&#8217;s political crisis<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Maimane says President Cyril Ramaphosa and his African National Congress (ANC) party are failing to hold Zanu PF to account, a situation that has had ripple effects in the neighbouring country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">There is growing sentiment in South Africa that Zimbabwean nationals are burdening public institutions, straining service delivery to locals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">Maimane argues&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507070423.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>SOUTH African opposition leader, Mmusi Maimane, has accused his country&#8217;s government of &#8220;folding its arms&#8221; in the face of Zimbabwe&#8217;s political crisis Maimane says President Cyril Ramaphosa and his African National Congress (ANC) party are failing to hold Zanu PF to account, a situation that has had ripple effects in the neighbouring country. There is [&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":[29647,5070,258,256,5006,14877,821,7079,9756,257,5675,5069,254,8996,21105,8841,421,7726],"class_list":["post-201861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-abating","tag-accuses","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-anc","tag-draining","tag-elections","tag-leader","tag-maimane","tag-news","tag-opposition","tag-south","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stolen","tag-tyranny","tag-zanupf","tag-zimbabwe-news","tag-zimbabwes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201861","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=201861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201861\/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=201861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}