{"id":236472,"date":"2026-06-16T05:43:01","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T03:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-suspended-zanu-pf-dcc-chair-musararas-levy-challenge-rejected-as-farmers-govt-defend-food-security-strategy\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T05:43:01","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T03:43:01","slug":"zimbabwe-suspended-zanu-pf-dcc-chair-musararas-levy-challenge-rejected-as-farmers-govt-defend-food-security-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-suspended-zanu-pf-dcc-chair-musararas-levy-challenge-rejected-as-farmers-govt-defend-food-security-strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Suspended Zanu-PF Dcc Chair Musarara&#8217;s Levy Challenge Rejected As Farmers, Govt Defend Food Security Strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"53\">Suspended ZANU-PF Mazowe District Coordinating Committee (DCC) chairman Tafadzwa Musarara has found himself at the centre of a growing political and economic storm after leading a court challenge against Government&#8217;s grain import levy framework, a policy authorities say is critical for protecting local farmers, financing irrigation infrastructure and reducing Zimbabwe&#8217;s dependence on imports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"59\">Musarara, who is also chairman of the Grain Millers Association of Zimbabwe (GMAZ), fronted legal&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606150402.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>Suspended ZANU-PF Mazowe District Coordinating Committee (DCC) chairman Tafadzwa Musarara has found himself at the centre of a growing political and economic storm after leading a court challenge against Government&#8217;s grain import levy framework, a policy authorities say is critical for protecting local farmers, financing irrigation infrastructure and reducing Zimbabwe&#8217;s dependence on imports. Musarara, who [&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":[258,256,6412,7485,54627,11846,3030,5074,4357,12638,54628,257,9170,4586,254,6986,4314,8841,4686,421],"class_list":["post-236472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-chair","tag-challenge","tag-dcc","tag-defend","tag-farmers","tag-food","tag-govt","tag-levy","tag-musararas","tag-news","tag-rejected","tag-security","tag-south-africa-today","tag-strategy","tag-suspended","tag-zanupf","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236472","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=236472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236472\/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=236472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}