{"id":226705,"date":"2026-03-12T13:32:31","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T11:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-didymus-mutasa-back-in-active-politics-joins-zanu-pf-elders-council\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T13:32:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T11:32:31","slug":"zimbabwe-didymus-mutasa-back-in-active-politics-joins-zanu-pf-elders-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-didymus-mutasa-back-in-active-politics-joins-zanu-pf-elders-council\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Didymus Mutasa Back in Active Politics, Joins Zanu-PF Elders Council"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Former Cabinet minister and Zanu PF Secretary for Administration Didymus Mutasa has been readmitted into the ruling party and will now serve in the party&#8217;s Elders Council.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"45\">Mutasa was expelled from Zanu PF in 2015 on allegations that he was plotting to topple then-President Robert Mugabe and replace him with the then Vice President Joice Mujuru. At the time, he was labelled part of the &#8220;Gamatox&#8221; faction, which was aligned with Mujuru.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Following his expulsion, Mutasa teamed up with Mujuru to form&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603120354.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>Former Cabinet minister and Zanu PF Secretary for Administration Didymus Mutasa has been readmitted into the ruling party and will now serve in the party&#8217;s Elders Council. Mutasa was expelled from Zanu PF in 2015 on allegations that he was plotting to topple then-President Robert Mugabe and replace him with the then Vice President Joice [&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":[11002,258,256,6158,53889,9585,5046,9035,257,6916,254,8841,4686,421],"class_list":["post-226705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-active","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-council","tag-didymus","tag-elders","tag-joins","tag-mutasa","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zanupf","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226705","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=226705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226705\/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=226705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}