{"id":230628,"date":"2026-04-18T03:09:52","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T01:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-british-parliament-says-zimbabwe-stands-better-chance-of-rejoining-commonwealth-if-mnangagwa-steps-down\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T03:09:52","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T01:09:52","slug":"zimbabwe-british-parliament-says-zimbabwe-stands-better-chance-of-rejoining-commonwealth-if-mnangagwa-steps-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-british-parliament-says-zimbabwe-stands-better-chance-of-rejoining-commonwealth-if-mnangagwa-steps-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: British Parliament Says Zimbabwe Stands Better Chance of Rejoining Commonwealth If Mnangagwa Steps Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">LORD David Howell of the British House of Lords has urged his government to explain to President Emmerson Mnangagwa that Zimbabwe stands a better chance of being accepted back into the Commonwealth if he steps down after his two terms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">Zimbabwe was suspended from the group of nations in 2002 over disputed elections and land seizures sanctioned by late President Robert Mugabe. A year later he pulled the country out of the union.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Upon being handed the reigns of power by the army in 2017, Mnangagwa&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604170112.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>LORD David Howell of the British House of Lords has urged his government to explain to President Emmerson Mnangagwa that Zimbabwe stands a better chance of being accepted back into the Commonwealth if he steps down after his two terms. Zimbabwe was suspended from the group of nations in 2002 over disputed elections and land [&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":[258,256,409,12844,6405,7476,257,2412,45228,254,6443,9150,4686,421],"class_list":["post-230628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-british","tag-chance","tag-commonwealth","tag-mnangagwa","tag-news","tag-parliament","tag-rejoining","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stands","tag-steps","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230628","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=230628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230628\/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=230628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}