{"id":231225,"date":"2026-04-24T03:41:03","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T01:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-seven-mdc-members-abducted-ahead-of-planned-protest-against-constitutional-amendment-bill-party-says\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T03:41:03","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T01:41:03","slug":"zimbabwe-seven-mdc-members-abducted-ahead-of-planned-protest-against-constitutional-amendment-bill-party-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-seven-mdc-members-abducted-ahead-of-planned-protest-against-constitutional-amendment-bill-party-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Seven MDC Members Abducted Ahead of Planned Protest Against Constitutional Amendment Bill &#8211; Party Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">SEVEN members of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) have reportedly been abducted by unknown assailants on the eve of a planned demonstration by the party.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">Decent Dzaida, Tonderayi Makuyana, Shingirai Chitaure and Austin Name, along with other members, were reportedly taken by armed men in the early hours of Thursday morning in Chitungwiza.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"13\">MDC leader Douglas Mwonzora&#8217;s spokesperson, Lloyd Damba, confirmed the development in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">&#8220;Meanwhile, 7 MDC members were abducted today in&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604230575.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>SEVEN members of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) have reportedly been abducted by unknown assailants on the eve of a planned demonstration by the party. Decent Dzaida, Tonderayi Makuyana, Shingirai Chitaure and Austin Name, along with other members, were reportedly taken by armed men in the early hours of Thursday morning in Chitungwiza. MDC [&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":[3271,258,256,7019,11010,7292,9729,2505,4326,257,7024,7665,2194,254,4686,421],"class_list":["post-231225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-abducted","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ahead","tag-amendment","tag-bill","tag-constitutional","tag-mdc","tag-members","tag-news","tag-party","tag-planned","tag-protest","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231225","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=231225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231225\/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=231225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}