{"id":206545,"date":"2025-09-08T18:14:43","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T16:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-zanu-pf-legislator-calls-for-prosecution-and-lengthy-incarceration-of-drug-lords\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T18:14:43","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T16:14:43","slug":"zimbabwe-zanu-pf-legislator-calls-for-prosecution-and-lengthy-incarceration-of-drug-lords","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-zanu-pf-legislator-calls-for-prosecution-and-lengthy-incarceration-of-drug-lords\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Zanu-PF Legislator Calls for Prosecution and Lengthy Incarceration of Drug Lords"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">ZANU PF Member of Parliament for Rushinga Tendai Nyabani has called for stiffer penalties on drug lords, who are fuelling the menace of drugs and substance abuse.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">On a point of national interest in the National Assembly last Tuesday, Nyabani suggested that those dealing with drugs must be sentenced to life in prison.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">The MP&#8217;s call comes hardly a week after Youth Minister Tino Machakaire&#8217;s allegation that some top government and party officials were bringing into the country drugs that have&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509080238.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 Member of Parliament for Rushinga Tendai Nyabani has called for stiffer penalties on drug lords, who are fuelling the menace of drugs and substance abuse. On a point of national interest in the National Assembly last Tuesday, Nyabani suggested that those dealing with drugs must be sentenced to life in prison. The MP&#8217;s [&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":[258,256,6137,6949,11776,31341,20032,44269,257,4545,254,8841,4686,421],"class_list":["post-206545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-calls","tag-drug","tag-incarceration","tag-legislator","tag-lengthy","tag-lords","tag-news","tag-prosecution","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zanupf","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206545","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=206545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206545\/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=206545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}