{"id":235300,"date":"2026-06-04T05:12:04","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T03:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-opposition-accuses-zanu-pf-of-fast-tracking-constitutional-amendment-bill-as-mudenda-rejects-calls-to-delay-debate\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T05:12:04","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T03:12:04","slug":"zimbabwe-opposition-accuses-zanu-pf-of-fast-tracking-constitutional-amendment-bill-as-mudenda-rejects-calls-to-delay-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-opposition-accuses-zanu-pf-of-fast-tracking-constitutional-amendment-bill-as-mudenda-rejects-calls-to-delay-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Opposition Accuses Zanu-PF of Fast-Tracking Constitutional Amendment Bill As Mudenda Rejects Calls to Delay Debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">SPEAKER of Parliament Jacob Mudenda has dismissed opposition objections to a motion by Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi to suspend normal parliamentary business and prioritise debate on the contentious Constitutional Amendment Bill No. 3.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">Ziyambi has read the Bill for the second time, with debate on the contentious proposed law following.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">Dzivarasekwa Member of Parliament (MP) Edwin Mushoriwa opposed the move, accusing Ziyambi and the ruling party ZANU PF of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606030614.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>SPEAKER of Parliament Jacob Mudenda has dismissed opposition objections to a motion by Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi to suspend normal parliamentary business and prioritise debate on the contentious Constitutional Amendment Bill No. 3. Ziyambi has read the Bill for the second time, with debate on the contentious proposed law following. Dzivarasekwa [&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":[5070,258,256,11010,7292,6137,9729,9086,8036,54533,26962,257,5675,8440,254,8841,4686,421],"class_list":["post-235300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-accuses","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-amendment","tag-bill","tag-calls","tag-constitutional","tag-debate","tag-delay","tag-fasttracking","tag-mudenda","tag-news","tag-opposition","tag-rejects","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zanupf","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235300","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=235300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235300\/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=235300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}