{"id":212818,"date":"2025-11-07T08:35:50","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T06:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-mnangagwa-orders-by-election-to-fill-vacant-nkulumane-seat\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T08:35:50","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T06:35:50","slug":"zimbabwe-mnangagwa-orders-by-election-to-fill-vacant-nkulumane-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-mnangagwa-orders-by-election-to-fill-vacant-nkulumane-seat\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Mnangagwa Orders By-Election to Fill Vacant Nkulumane Seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has ordered a by-election to choose a new legislator for Nkulumane constituency in Bulawayo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">The proclamation follows the death, on October 10, of then Member of Parliament (MP) Desire Moyo, who tragically died after his car hit an elephant along the Gweru-Bulawayo highway on his way from Parliament.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">Moyo, popularly known as Moyoxide, was from the opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC), and served in Parliament&#8217;s sport, recreation, arts and culture&#8230;<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202511070057.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>PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has ordered a by-election to choose a new legislator for Nkulumane constituency in Bulawayo. The proclamation follows the death, on October 10, of then Member of Parliament (MP) Desire Moyo, who tragically died after his car hit an elephant along the Gweru-Bulawayo highway on his way from Parliament. Moyo, popularly known as [&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":[258,256,9913,21370,7476,257,52810,6186,8545,254,29914,4686,421],"class_list":["post-212818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-byelection","tag-fill","tag-mnangagwa","tag-news","tag-nkulumane","tag-orders","tag-seat","tag-south-africa-today","tag-vacant","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212818","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=212818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212818\/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=212818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}