{"id":211494,"date":"2025-10-27T20:11:49","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T18:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambia-needs-an-updated-constitution-and-the-people-will-shape-it\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T20:11:49","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T18:11:49","slug":"zambia-needs-an-updated-constitution-and-the-people-will-shape-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambia-needs-an-updated-constitution-and-the-people-will-shape-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Zambia Needs an Updated Constitution, and the People Will Shape It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\"><em> What will define the success of this constitutional reform process is whether Zambians believe it reflects their voice. That is the standard we should be judged by. This is an opportunity we cannot waste. <\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"69\">Reform of Zambia&#8217;s constitution has been attempted many times before but has often stalled or been derailed by politics. This time, we have no choice but to do better. We must do better. If we are serious about deepening our democracy, strengthening our institutions, and driving our country&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510270166.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zambia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zambia\/\">Zambia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What will define the success of this constitutional reform process is whether Zambians believe it reflects their voice. That is the standard we should be judged by. This is an opportunity we cannot waste. Reform of Zambia&#8217;s constitution has been attempted many times before but has often stalled or been derailed by politics. This time, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":211495,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[825],"tags":[258,256,3994,257,6321,14777,254,10007,4709,881],"class_list":["post-211494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-constitution","tag-news","tag-people","tag-shape","tag-south-africa-today","tag-updated","tag-zambia","tag-zambia-news"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211494","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=211494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}