{"id":203492,"date":"2025-07-29T02:53:49","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T00:53:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-zanu-pf-reduced-to-a-commodity-liberation-icons-betrayed-biti\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T02:53:49","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T00:53:49","slug":"zimbabwe-zanu-pf-reduced-to-a-commodity-liberation-icons-betrayed-biti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-zanu-pf-reduced-to-a-commodity-liberation-icons-betrayed-biti\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Zanu-PF Reduced to a Commodity, Liberation Icons Betrayed &#8211; Biti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"48\">Constitutional lawyer and Former Finance Minister in the Government of National Unity (GNU) Tendai Biti has launched a blistering attack on the ruling ZANU-PF party accusing it of betraying the values of the liberation struggle by allowing political influence to be bought and sold like a market commodity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Speaking during an interview with <em>263Chat<\/em>, Biti lamented what he described as the moral decay and commodification of politics within the ruling party, warning that the legacy of liberation war&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507280523.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>Constitutional lawyer and Former Finance Minister in the Government of National Unity (GNU) Tendai Biti has launched a blistering attack on the ruling ZANU-PF party accusing it of betraying the values of the liberation struggle by allowing political influence to be bought and sold like a market commodity. Speaking during an interview with 263Chat, Biti [&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":[258,256,11374,13178,12679,18694,8332,257,9736,254,8841,4686,421],"class_list":["post-203492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-betrayed","tag-biti","tag-commodity","tag-icons","tag-liberation","tag-news","tag-reduced","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zanupf","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203492","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=203492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203492\/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=203492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}