{"id":202704,"date":"2025-07-18T02:31:31","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T00:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-ramaphosa-appoints-gwede-mantashe-as-acting-police-minister\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T02:31:31","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T00:31:31","slug":"zimbabwe-ramaphosa-appoints-gwede-mantashe-as-acting-police-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-ramaphosa-appoints-gwede-mantashe-as-acting-police-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Ramaphosa Appoints Gwede Mantashe As Acting Police Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">In a decisive move to address escalating concerns within South Africa&#8217;s police ministry, President Cyril Ramaphosa has appointed Mineral and Petroleum Resources Minister Gwede Mantashe as the acting Minister of Police, effective immediately as of Tuesday evening, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.capetownetc.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><em>Cape {town} Etc<\/em><\/em> <\/a>reports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">This temporary appointment comes as allegations of misconduct and malfeasance involving high-ranking officials cast a shadow over the law enforcement agency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Mantashe&#8217;s role will be short-lived as he is slated to&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507170634.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>In a decisive move to address escalating concerns within South Africa&#8217;s police ministry, President Cyril Ramaphosa has appointed Mineral and Petroleum Resources Minister Gwede Mantashe as the acting Minister of Police, effective immediately as of Tuesday evening, Cape {town} Etc reports. This temporary appointment comes as allegations of misconduct and malfeasance involving high-ranking officials cast [&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":[8865,258,256,8752,35632,7246,5941,257,662,8878,254,4686,421],"class_list":["post-202704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-acting","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-appoints","tag-gwede","tag-mantashe","tag-minister","tag-news","tag-police","tag-ramaphosa","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202704","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=202704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202704\/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=202704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}