{"id":231595,"date":"2026-04-27T15:49:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T13:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-chivayo-coltart-clash-over-zitf-presidential-tour\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T15:49:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T13:49:19","slug":"zimbabwe-chivayo-coltart-clash-over-zitf-presidential-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-chivayo-coltart-clash-over-zitf-presidential-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Chivayo, Coltart Clash Over ZITF Presidential Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\">A war of words has erupted between businessman Wicknell Chivayo and Bulawayo Mayor David Coltart following their sharply contrasting views over Chivayo&#8217;s presence alongside Presidents Emmerson Mnangagwa and Duma Boko during a tour of stands at the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair (ZITF).<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">The public exchange began after Coltart criticised the decision to have Chivayo accompany the Zimbabwean and Botswana leaders during Thursday&#8217;s visit to the annual trade showcase in Bulawayo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">In a post on social&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604270173.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>A war of words has erupted between businessman Wicknell Chivayo and Bulawayo Mayor David Coltart following their sharply contrasting views over Chivayo&#8217;s presence alongside Presidents Emmerson Mnangagwa and Duma Boko during a tour of stands at the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair (ZITF). The public exchange began after Coltart criticised the decision to have Chivayo accompany [&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":[258,256,18483,7647,27979,257,6438,254,8160,4686,421,2459],"class_list":["post-231595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-chivayo","tag-clash","tag-coltart","tag-news","tag-presidential","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tour","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news","tag-zitf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231595","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=231595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231595\/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=231595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}