{"id":212184,"date":"2025-11-01T20:24:04","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T18:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-mnangagwas-third-term-bid-foments-violence\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T20:24:04","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T18:24:04","slug":"zimbabwe-mnangagwas-third-term-bid-foments-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-mnangagwas-third-term-bid-foments-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Mnangagwa&#8217;s Third Term Bid Foments Violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">The ruling party&#8217;s decision to extend President Mnangagwa&#8217;s second term in office is inflaming tensions in Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"56\">Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa&#8217;s bid for an unconstitutional third term turned violent this week. A hall in Harare was <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thezimbabwean.co\/2025\/10\/sapes-trust-firebombed-guard-abducted-ahead-of-national-press-conference-challenging-mnangagwas-term-extension\/#google_vignette\" rel=\"noopener\">torched<\/a> hours before his opponents were to meet there to launch a campaign against his efforts to run again. And in the country&#8217;s second largest city Bulawayo, riot police <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thezimbabwean.co\/2025\/10\/police-block-bulawayo-meeting-as-harare-venue-torched\/#google_vignette\" rel=\"noopener\">forcefully<\/a> prevented a similar meeting from taking place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">Opposition politicians&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202511010024.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 ruling party&#8217;s decision to extend President Mnangagwa&#8217;s second term in office is inflaming tensions in Zimbabwe. Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa&#8217;s bid for an unconstitutional third term turned violent this week. A hall in Harare was torched hours before his opponents were to meet there to launch a campaign against his efforts to run again. [&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":[258,256,10798,52761,16781,257,254,7557,2148,4686,421],"class_list":["post-212184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bid","tag-foments","tag-mnangagwas","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-term","tag-violence","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212184","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=212184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212184\/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=212184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}