{"id":211069,"date":"2025-10-24T08:05:42","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T06:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-top-u-s-legislator-says-extending-mnangagwas-term-will-erode-zimbabwes-democracy\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T08:05:42","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T06:05:42","slug":"zimbabwe-top-u-s-legislator-says-extending-mnangagwas-term-will-erode-zimbabwes-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-top-u-s-legislator-says-extending-mnangagwas-term-will-erode-zimbabwes-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Top U.S. Legislator Says Extending Mnangagwa&#8217;s Term Will Erode Zimbabwe&#8217;s Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">GREGORY Meeks, the American government&#8217;s House Committee Representative Responsible for Foreign Policy Legislation and Oversight, has warned that extending President Emmerson Mnangagwa&#8217;s term could seriously harm Zimbabwe&#8217;s democratisation foundation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Efforts to &#8220;lengthen&#8221; Mnangagwa&#8217;s second term in office have been sped up by his party, Zanu PF, with recent reports indicating a plan to suspend the 2028 elections up till 2030.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">The move is part of broader factional fights that have once again&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510230693.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>GREGORY Meeks, the American government&#8217;s House Committee Representative Responsible for Foreign Policy Legislation and Oversight, has warned that extending President Emmerson Mnangagwa&#8217;s term could seriously harm Zimbabwe&#8217;s democratisation foundation. Efforts to &#8220;lengthen&#8221; Mnangagwa&#8217;s second term in office have been sped up by his party, Zanu PF, with recent reports indicating a plan to suspend the [&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":[258,256,4854,52666,17371,31341,16781,257,254,7557,7319,2282,4686,421,7726],"class_list":["post-211069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-democracy","tag-erode","tag-extending","tag-legislator","tag-mnangagwas","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-term","tag-top","tag-u-s","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news","tag-zimbabwes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211069","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=211069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211069\/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=211069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}