{"id":227089,"date":"2026-03-17T01:43:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T23:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-four-days-is-too-short-war-veterans-say-in-petition-to-parliament-over-restrictive-hearings-on-constitutional-amendment-number-3-bill\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T01:43:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T23:43:09","slug":"zimbabwe-four-days-is-too-short-war-veterans-say-in-petition-to-parliament-over-restrictive-hearings-on-constitutional-amendment-number-3-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-four-days-is-too-short-war-veterans-say-in-petition-to-parliament-over-restrictive-hearings-on-constitutional-amendment-number-3-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: &#8216;Four Days Is Too Short&#8217;- &#8211; War Veterans Say in Petition to Parliament Over &#8216;Restrictive&#8217; Hearings On Constitutional Amendment Number 3 Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">War veterans have petitioned the Parliament of Zimbabwe demanding an urgent review and extension of the ongoing consultations on the proposed constitutional amendments, arguing that the current process excludes the majority of citizens, particularly those in rural areas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">The petition comes as Parliament continues nationwide consultations on proposed changes to the Constitution, with public hearings beginning on March 30 and ending on April 2 in every province.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">The consultations will be conducted&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603160172.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>War veterans have petitioned the Parliament of Zimbabwe demanding an urgent review and extension of the ongoing consultations on the proposed constitutional amendments, arguing that the current process excludes the majority of citizens, particularly those in rural areas. The petition comes as Parliament continues nationwide consultations on proposed changes to the Constitution, with public hearings [&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":[258,256,11010,7292,9729,6192,6832,257,7043,2412,5653,32609,5196,254,8016,6618,4686,421],"class_list":["post-227089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-amendment","tag-bill","tag-constitutional","tag-days","tag-hearings","tag-news","tag-number","tag-parliament","tag-petition","tag-restrictive","tag-short","tag-south-africa-today","tag-veterans","tag-war","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227089","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=227089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227089\/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=227089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}