{"id":237361,"date":"2026-06-25T06:04:24","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T04:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-23-ccc-senators-vote-in-favour-of-cab3-as-mnangagwa-gets-his-way\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T06:04:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T04:04:24","slug":"zimbabwe-23-ccc-senators-vote-in-favour-of-cab3-as-mnangagwa-gets-his-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-23-ccc-senators-vote-in-favour-of-cab3-as-mnangagwa-gets-his-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: 23 Ccc Senators Vote in Favour of Cab3 As Mnangagwa Gets His Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has moved one step closer to achieving his dream of a term extension after Senate voted yes to Constitutional Amendment Bill No. 3 after it&#8217;s third reading.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">Of the 27 opposition members of the Upper House only four voted against it, meaning 23 of them voted in favour of its promulgation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">The Senate is made up of 80 members and 75 voted in favour, only 4 against and one absent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"14\">The Bill now goes to Mnangagwa for assent before it is gazetted into law.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">CAB3 seeks to&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606250068.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>PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has moved one step closer to achieving his dream of a term extension after Senate voted yes to Constitutional Amendment Bill No. 3 after it&#8217;s third reading. Of the 27 opposition members of the Upper House only four voted against it, meaning 23 of them voted in favour of its promulgation. The [&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":[258,256,54495,41401,24897,7476,257,9179,254,8588,4686,421],"class_list":["post-237361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cab3","tag-ccc","tag-favour","tag-mnangagwa","tag-news","tag-senators","tag-south-africa-today","tag-vote","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237361","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=237361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237361\/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=237361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}