{"id":223777,"date":"2026-02-14T12:33:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T10:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-ccc-backs-controversial-constitutional-overhaul\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T12:33:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T10:33:08","slug":"zimbabwe-ccc-backs-controversial-constitutional-overhaul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-ccc-backs-controversial-constitutional-overhaul\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: CCC Backs Controversial Constitutional Overhaul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">Opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) says its parliamentary caucus has agreed to support the <em>&#8220;spirit and intent&#8221;<\/em> of Constitutional Amendment Bill No. 3, which proposes wide-ranging changes to the country&#8217;s political system.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">The announcement follows the first Cabinet meeting of 2026 chaired by President Emmerson Mnangagwa which resolved to introduce what the government has described as far-reaching constitutional reforms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">Speaking after a caucus meeting, CCC chief whip <strong>Charles Moyo<\/strong> said&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602130027.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>Opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) says its parliamentary caucus has agreed to support the &#8220;spirit and intent&#8221; of Constitutional Amendment Bill No. 3, which proposes wide-ranging changes to the country&#8217;s political system. The announcement follows the first Cabinet meeting of 2026 chaired by President Emmerson Mnangagwa which resolved to introduce what the government has [&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":[258,256,7102,41401,9729,11087,257,17947,254,4686,421],"class_list":["post-223777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-backs","tag-ccc","tag-constitutional","tag-controversial","tag-news","tag-overhaul","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223777","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=223777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223777\/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=223777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}