{"id":231747,"date":"2026-04-29T03:51:59","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T01:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-chivayo-gifts-erstwhile-chamisa-loyalist-a-vehicle-u-s-50000-for-singing-mnangagwa-praises\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T03:51:59","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T01:51:59","slug":"zimbabwe-chivayo-gifts-erstwhile-chamisa-loyalist-a-vehicle-u-s-50000-for-singing-mnangagwa-praises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-chivayo-gifts-erstwhile-chamisa-loyalist-a-vehicle-u-s-50000-for-singing-mnangagwa-praises\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Chivayo Gifts Erstwhile Chamisa Loyalist a Vehicle, U.S.$50,000 for Singing Mnangagwa Praises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">After recently showering praises on President Emmerson Mnangagwa, Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) Member of Parliament, Susan Matsunga, has been rewarded with a motor vehicle by controversial businessman Wicknell Chivayo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">Matsunga, once loyal to Chamisa, pulled a shocker recently when she lyrically praised Mnangagwa and his advisor, Paul Tungwarara, for installing boreholes in Mufakose.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"13\">Matsunga received a backlash from fellow opposition members, who questioned her political standing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size:...<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604280247.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>After recently showering praises on President Emmerson Mnangagwa, Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) Member of Parliament, Susan Matsunga, has been rewarded with a motor vehicle by controversial businessman Wicknell Chivayo. Matsunga, once loyal to Chamisa, pulled a shocker recently when she lyrically praised Mnangagwa and his advisor, Paul Tungwarara, for installing boreholes in Mufakose. Matsunga [&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":[258,256,17330,18483,47715,17631,19939,7476,257,7691,40801,254,43444,7765,4686,421],"class_list":["post-231747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-chamisa","tag-chivayo","tag-erstwhile","tag-gifts","tag-loyalist","tag-mnangagwa","tag-news","tag-praises","tag-singing","tag-south-africa-today","tag-u-s-50000","tag-vehicle","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231747","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=231747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231747\/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=231747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}