{"id":230292,"date":"2026-04-13T14:47:28","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T12:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-charamba-says-constitution-amendments-routine-dismisses-claims-of-overhaul\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T14:47:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T12:47:28","slug":"zimbabwe-charamba-says-constitution-amendments-routine-dismisses-claims-of-overhaul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-charamba-says-constitution-amendments-routine-dismisses-claims-of-overhaul\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Charamba Says Constitution Amendments &#8216;Routine&#8217;, Dismisses Claims of Overhaul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Presidential spokesperson George Charamba has dismissed claims that the country is undergoing sweeping constitutional changes insisting the current process is a routine amendment rather than a replacement of the supreme law.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">In a video address, Charamba said opposition to the proposed changes had been fuelled by widespread disinformation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">&#8220;There is lots of disinformation&#8230; We are amending the constitution; we are not changing or throwing away the current constitution,&#8221; he said stressing that the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604130421.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>Presidential spokesperson George Charamba has dismissed claims that the country is undergoing sweeping constitutional changes insisting the current process is a routine amendment rather than a replacement of the supreme law. In a video address, Charamba said opposition to the proposed changes had been fuelled by widespread disinformation. &#8220;There is lots of disinformation&#8230; We are [&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":[258,256,16481,17114,8117,3994,12843,257,17947,12212,254,4686,421],"class_list":["post-230292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-amendments","tag-charamba","tag-claims","tag-constitution","tag-dismisses","tag-news","tag-overhaul","tag-routine","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230292","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=230292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230292\/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=230292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}