{"id":205153,"date":"2025-08-21T15:46:24","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T13:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-mps-demand-crackdown-on-killer-firearms\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T15:46:24","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T13:46:24","slug":"zimbabwe-mps-demand-crackdown-on-killer-firearms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-mps-demand-crackdown-on-killer-firearms\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: MPs Demand Crackdown On Killer Firearms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Parliament has voiced deep concern over the growing use of unlicensed firearms in violent crimes with legislators pressing government to tighten gun control measures and border security.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">During a heated session in the National Assembly, legislator Thomas Muwodzeri asked what government policy was regarding the surge in armed robberies targeting businesspeople.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Responding on behalf of the Leader of Government Business, Agriculture Minister Dr. Anxious Masuka said possession of unlicensed firearms&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202508210437.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>Parliament has voiced deep concern over the growing use of unlicensed firearms in violent crimes with legislators pressing government to tighten gun control measures and border security. During a heated session in the National Assembly, legislator Thomas Muwodzeri asked what government policy was regarding the surge in armed robberies targeting businesspeople. Responding on behalf of [&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":[258,256,14409,7617,10476,5036,7260,257,254,4686,421],"class_list":["post-205153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-crackdown","tag-demand","tag-firearms","tag-killer","tag-mps","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205153","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=205153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205153\/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=205153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}