{"id":209048,"date":"2025-10-06T07:24:52","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T05:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-opposition-draws-line-in-the-sand-over-zanu-pfs-unconstitutional-2030-plan\/"},"modified":"2025-10-06T07:24:52","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T05:24:52","slug":"zimbabwe-opposition-draws-line-in-the-sand-over-zanu-pfs-unconstitutional-2030-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-opposition-draws-line-in-the-sand-over-zanu-pfs-unconstitutional-2030-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Opposition Draws Line in the Sand Over Zanu-PF&#8217;s &#8216;Unconstitutional&#8217; 2030 Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">FRINGE opposition party, the National Progressive Democrats (NPD), has waded into Zanu PF&#8217;s audacious bid to extend President Emmerson Mnangagwa&#8217;s tenure beyond the constitutionally mandated two terms, vowing to halt the strategy in its tracks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">With the Zanu PF conference in the offing, the bid for President Mnangagwa to rule up to 2030 is gaining momentum and is expected to be a priority.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Addressing the media at the official launch of his party, NPD president Togare Fambi said the country cannot&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510060063.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>FRINGE opposition party, the National Progressive Democrats (NPD), has waded into Zanu PF&#8217;s audacious bid to extend President Emmerson Mnangagwa&#8217;s tenure beyond the constitutionally mandated two terms, vowing to halt the strategy in its tracks. With the Zanu PF conference in the offing, the bid for President Mnangagwa to rule up to 2030 is gaining [&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":[258,256,13650,6402,257,5675,7586,18838,254,11723,22525,4686,421],"class_list":["post-209048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-draws","tag-line","tag-news","tag-opposition","tag-plan","tag-sand","tag-south-africa-today","tag-unconstitutional","tag-zanupfs","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209048","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=209048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209048\/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=209048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}