{"id":236978,"date":"2026-06-21T05:56:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T03:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-constitution-amendment-bill-3-passes-national-assembly-as-216-mps-vote-in-favour-42-against\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T05:56:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T03:56:14","slug":"zimbabwe-constitution-amendment-bill-3-passes-national-assembly-as-216-mps-vote-in-favour-42-against","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-constitution-amendment-bill-3-passes-national-assembly-as-216-mps-vote-in-favour-42-against\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Constitution Amendment Bill 3 Passes National Assembly As 216 MPs Vote in Favour, 42 Against"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">THE contentious Constitution of Zimbabwe Amendment (No. 3) Bill (CAB3) has sailed through the National Assembly, moving a step closer to becoming law after securing the constitutionally required two-thirds majority.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">The Bill passed comfortably on Thursday, with 216 legislators voting in favour of the proposed constitutional changes while 42 voted against.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">Announcing the results, Speaker of Parliament Jacob Mudenda said the Bill had met the threshold required under the Constitution.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">&#8220;The confirmed&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606190188.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>THE contentious Constitution of Zimbabwe Amendment (No. 3) Bill (CAB3) has sailed through the National Assembly, moving a step closer to becoming law after securing the constitutionally required two-thirds majority. The Bill passed comfortably on Thursday, with 216 legislators voting in favour of the proposed constitutional changes while 42 voted against. Announcing the results, Speaker [&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":[258,256,11010,7269,7292,3994,24897,7260,6687,257,9871,254,8588,4686,421],"class_list":["post-236978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-amendment","tag-assembly","tag-bill","tag-constitution","tag-favour","tag-mps","tag-national","tag-news","tag-passes","tag-south-africa-today","tag-vote","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236978","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=236978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236978\/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=236978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}