{"id":225797,"date":"2026-03-02T13:10:59","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T11:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-police-accused-of-watching-as-prof-madhuku-nca-members-were-attacked-for-opposing-constitutional-amendment\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T13:10:59","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T11:10:59","slug":"zimbabwe-police-accused-of-watching-as-prof-madhuku-nca-members-were-attacked-for-opposing-constitutional-amendment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-police-accused-of-watching-as-prof-madhuku-nca-members-were-attacked-for-opposing-constitutional-amendment\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Police Accused of Watching As Prof Madhuku, NCA Members Were Attacked for Opposing Constitutional Amendment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">National Constitutional Assembly (NCA) leader Professor Lovemore Madhuku and several members of his party were left nursing serious injuries after unidentified assailants stormed their offices and violently attacked them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">The incident allegedly occurred in the presence of two police trucks, with uniformed officers said to have watched as the assault unfolded.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"50\">According to Madhuku, the attackers made it clear that he had become a target because of his strong opposition to the Constitutional&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603020346.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>National Constitutional Assembly (NCA) leader Professor Lovemore Madhuku and several members of his party were left nursing serious injuries after unidentified assailants stormed their offices and violently attacked them. The incident allegedly occurred in the presence of two police trucks, with uniformed officers said to have watched as the assault unfolded. According to Madhuku, the [&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":[7083,258,256,11010,5355,9729,43329,4326,8929,257,13273,662,6416,254,12424,4686,421],"class_list":["post-225797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-accused","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-amendment","tag-attacked","tag-constitutional","tag-madhuku","tag-members","tag-nca","tag-news","tag-opposing","tag-police","tag-prof","tag-south-africa-today","tag-watching","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225797","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=225797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225797\/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=225797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}