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\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Zimbabwe President Mnangagwa Appoints New Commander of Defence Forces<\/strong><\/p>\n President Emmerson Mnangagwa\u00a0announced<\/a>\u00a0major leadership changes within Zimbabwe’s military, promoting two senior officers to head the country’s top defence institutions.\u00a0Mnangagwa elevated Lieutenant General Emmanuel Matatu to the rank of General and named him Commander of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF), effective 21 November 2025.\u00a0Matatu was promoted following the retirement of long-serving ZDF Commander General…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> \u00a0 Zimbabwe President Mnangagwa Appoints New Commander of Defence Forces President Emmerson Mnangagwa\u00a0announced\u00a0major leadership changes within Zimbabwe’s military, promoting two senior officers to head the country’s top defence institutions.\u00a0Mnangagwa elevated Lieutenant General Emmanuel Matatu to the rank of General and named him Commander of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF), effective 21 November 2025.\u00a0Matatu was promoted […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":214262,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00660790:31c3b799d93fc32e89804bf0300237d4:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[784],"tags":[258,256,257,16554,254,1613,6637],"class_list":["post-214261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-news","tag-november","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan-news","tag-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00660790:31c3b799d93fc32e89804bf0300237d4:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214261","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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