{"id":204005,"date":"2025-08-05T03:07:23","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T01:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-zanu-pf-admits-tagwirei-into-central-committee-amid-deepening-factionalism-chinamasa-says-decision-irreversible\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T03:07:23","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T01:07:23","slug":"zimbabwe-zanu-pf-admits-tagwirei-into-central-committee-amid-deepening-factionalism-chinamasa-says-decision-irreversible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-zanu-pf-admits-tagwirei-into-central-committee-amid-deepening-factionalism-chinamasa-says-decision-irreversible\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Zanu-PF Admits Tagwirei Into Central Committee Amid Deepening Factionalism &#8211; Chinamasa Says Decision Irreversible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">ZANU PF Legal Secretary Patrick Chinamasa has said controversial businessman Kudakwashe Tagwirei is now a member of the party&#8217;s Central Committee and the matter is &#8220;over and irreversible&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Tagwirei&#8217;s co-option into the Central Committee has dragged on, with a faction within the ruling party reportedly opposed to his endorsement into the influential organ.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"52\">In a statement posted on social media, Chinamasa said, &#8220;The Zanupf Department of Legal Affairs is relieved and takes note that the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202508040473.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 Legal Secretary Patrick Chinamasa has said controversial businessman Kudakwashe Tagwirei is now a member of the party&#8217;s Central Committee and the matter is &#8220;over and irreversible&#8221;. Tagwirei&#8217;s co-option into the Central Committee has dragged on, with a faction within the ruling party reportedly opposed to his endorsement into the influential organ. In a [&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":[7988,258,256,5934,15410,5857,7430,16034,24809,32852,257,254,35018,8841,4686,421],"class_list":["post-204005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-admits","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-central","tag-chinamasa","tag-committee","tag-decision","tag-deepening","tag-factionalism","tag-irreversible","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tagwirei","tag-zanupf","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204005","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=204005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204005\/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=204005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}