{"id":223874,"date":"2026-02-15T12:35:02","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T10:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-mwonzora-warns-against-alleged-2030-term-extension-plot\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T12:35:02","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T10:35:02","slug":"zimbabwe-mwonzora-warns-against-alleged-2030-term-extension-plot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-mwonzora-warns-against-alleged-2030-term-extension-plot\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Mwonzora Warns Against Alleged 2030 Term Extension Plot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">Opposition MDC party has accused the ruling ZANU-PF of attempting to undermine the country&#8217;s Constitution by extending the President&#8217;s term of office beyond 2028.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Addressing journalists in Harare, MDC president Douglas Mwonzora said Cabinet had approved a Bill that would circumvent the Constitution and strip citizens of their right to elect their head of state.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">&#8220;Today Zimbabwe stands at the precipice of a constitutional cataclysm. A small elite group is inches away from depriving an entire nation&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602130025.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 MDC party has accused the ruling ZANU-PF of attempting to undermine the country&#8217;s Constitution by extending the President&#8217;s term of office beyond 2028. Addressing journalists in Harare, MDC president Douglas Mwonzora said Cabinet had approved a Bill that would circumvent the Constitution and strip citizens of their right to elect their head of state. [&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":[258,256,4305,11644,23237,257,4365,254,7557,6853,4686,421],"class_list":["post-223874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-alleged","tag-extension","tag-mwonzora","tag-news","tag-plot","tag-south-africa-today","tag-term","tag-warns","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223874","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=223874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223874\/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=223874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}