{"id":211780,"date":"2025-10-29T20:17:51","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T18:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-zctu-slams-resurgence-of-politically-motivated-bombings\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T20:17:51","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T18:17:51","slug":"zimbabwe-zctu-slams-resurgence-of-politically-motivated-bombings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-zctu-slams-resurgence-of-politically-motivated-bombings\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: ZCTU Slams Resurgence of Politically Motivated Bombings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">The Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) has strongly condemned the resurgence of politically motivated bombings, warning that the latest incidents signal a potential return to an era of anarchy and intimidation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">This follows a suspected arson attack on the Southern Africa Political Economy Series (SAPES) Trust premises and the alleged abduction of a security guard on duty ahead of a National Press Conference challenging President Emmerson Mnangagwa&#8217;s term extension.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">SAPES Trust Director, Dr&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510290486.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 Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) has strongly condemned the resurgence of politically motivated bombings, warning that the latest incidents signal a potential return to an era of anarchy and intimidation. This follows a suspected arson attack on the Southern Africa Political Economy Series (SAPES) Trust premises and the alleged abduction of a security [&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":[258,256,2098,11219,257,17810,13657,9757,254,17581,4686,421],"class_list":["post-211780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bombings","tag-motivated","tag-news","tag-politically","tag-resurgence","tag-slams","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zctu","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211780","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=211780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211780\/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=211780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}