{"id":225627,"date":"2026-03-01T01:08:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T23:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-zanu-pf-aims-to-recycle-mnangagwa-through-a-constitutional-coup\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T01:08:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T23:08:19","slug":"zimbabwe-zanu-pf-aims-to-recycle-mnangagwa-through-a-constitutional-coup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-zanu-pf-aims-to-recycle-mnangagwa-through-a-constitutional-coup\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Zanu-PF Aims to Recycle Mnangagwa Through a &#8216;Constitutional Coup&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">A constitutional amendment could give Zimbabwe&#8217;s president at least another two years in office, continuing Africa&#8217;s growing trend of lawfare.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa is uniting his political opponents &#8211; both in and outside the ruling party &#8211; with efforts to extend his tenure in office. But whether that will strengthen their resistance remains to be seen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">The so-called ED2030 campaign (referring to Mnangagwa&#8217;s first names, Emmerson Dambudzo) has been simmering within the ruling&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602270344.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>A constitutional amendment could give Zimbabwe&#8217;s president at least another two years in office, continuing Africa&#8217;s growing trend of lawfare. Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa is uniting his political opponents &#8211; both in and outside the ruling party &#8211; with efforts to extend his tenure in office. But whether that will strengthen their resistance remains to [&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":[258,256,14488,9729,3835,7476,257,22633,254,8841,4686,421],"class_list":["post-225627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-aims","tag-constitutional","tag-coup","tag-mnangagwa","tag-news","tag-recycle","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zanupf","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225627","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=225627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225627\/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=225627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}