{"id":225581,"date":"2026-02-28T13:06:55","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T11:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-hands-off-the-constitution-churches-warn-over-term-extension-bill\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T13:06:55","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T11:06:55","slug":"zimbabwe-hands-off-the-constitution-churches-warn-over-term-extension-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-hands-off-the-constitution-churches-warn-over-term-extension-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: &#8216;Hands Off the Constitution!&#8217; Churches Warn Over Term Extension Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Local church leaders have launched a blistering attack on proposed constitutional changes warning that the country risks sliding backwards if controversial amendments extending political power are pushed through without public approval.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">In a statement, the Zimbabwe Heads of Christian Denominations (ZHOCD) accused authorities of attempting to fundamentally reshape the 2013 Constitution in ways that could silence citizens and concentrate power at the top.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">The bishops said the proposed Constitution&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602270513.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>Local church leaders have launched a blistering attack on proposed constitutional changes warning that the country risks sliding backwards if controversial amendments extending political power are pushed through without public approval. In a statement, the Zimbabwe Heads of Christian Denominations (ZHOCD) accused authorities of attempting to fundamentally reshape the 2013 Constitution in ways that could [&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":[258,256,7292,9516,3994,11644,7888,257,254,7557,12313,4686,421],"class_list":["post-225581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bill","tag-churches","tag-constitution","tag-extension","tag-hands","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-term","tag-warn","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225581","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=225581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225581\/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=225581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}