{"id":211719,"date":"2025-10-29T08:16:54","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T06:16:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-sapes-trust-firebombed-guard-abducted-ahead-of-national-press-conference-challenging-mnangagwas-term-extension\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T08:16:54","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T06:16:54","slug":"zimbabwe-sapes-trust-firebombed-guard-abducted-ahead-of-national-press-conference-challenging-mnangagwas-term-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-sapes-trust-firebombed-guard-abducted-ahead-of-national-press-conference-challenging-mnangagwas-term-extension\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Sapes Trust Firebombed, Guard Abducted Ahead of National Press Conference Challenging Mnangagwa&#8217;s Term Extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">The Southern Africa Political Economy Series (SAPES) Trust&#8217;s premises were gutted by fire in a suspected arson attack and a security guard on duty was allegedly abducted by unknown assailants around midnight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">SAPES Trust Director, Ibbo Mandaza, said the attack targeted the seminar room, which is regularly used as a venue for meetings and press conferences.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">SAPES Trust is scheduled to host a National Press Conference this morning against ZANU PF&#8217;s Agenda 2030, which Mandaza says will go ahead&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510280166.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>The Southern Africa Political Economy Series (SAPES) Trust&#8217;s premises were gutted by fire in a suspected arson attack and a security guard on duty was allegedly abducted by unknown assailants around midnight. SAPES Trust Director, Ibbo Mandaza, said the attack targeted the seminar room, which is regularly used as a venue for meetings and press [&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":[3271,258,256,7019,15314,5739,11644,52715,7445,16781,6687,257,6010,52714,254,7557,8641,4686,421],"class_list":["post-211719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-abducted","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ahead","tag-challenging","tag-conference","tag-extension","tag-firebombed","tag-guard","tag-mnangagwas","tag-national","tag-news","tag-press","tag-sapes","tag-south-africa-today","tag-term","tag-trust","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211719","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=211719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211719\/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=211719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}