{"id":237647,"date":"2026-06-28T06:08:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T04:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/zimbabwe-govt-spokesperson-calls-former-botswana-president-a-washed-up-has-been-for-criticising-controversial-cab3\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T06:08:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T04:08:14","slug":"zimbabwe-govt-spokesperson-calls-former-botswana-president-a-washed-up-has-been-for-criticising-controversial-cab3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/zimbabwe-govt-spokesperson-calls-former-botswana-president-a-washed-up-has-been-for-criticising-controversial-cab3\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Govt Spokesperson Calls Former Botswana President a &#8216;Washed-Up Has-Been&#8217; for Criticising Controversial CAB3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">GOVERNMENT spokesperson Ndabaningi Mangwana has called former Botswana President Ian Khama a washed-up has-been for criticising President Emmerson Mnangagwa&#8217;s controversial Constitutional Amendment Bill No. 3 (CAB3).<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">CAB3 seeks to extend Mnangagwa&#8217;s stay in office, lengthen the life of Parliament and totally do away with Presidential elections by introducing a system where legislators will be the only ones with that mandate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">It has already been debated and passed in the National Assembly and looks&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606240099.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Botswana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/botswana\/\">Botswana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GOVERNMENT spokesperson Ndabaningi Mangwana has called former Botswana President Ian Khama a washed-up has-been for criticising President Emmerson Mnangagwa&#8217;s controversial Constitutional Amendment Bill No. 3 (CAB3). CAB3 seeks to extend Mnangagwa&#8217;s stay in office, lengthen the life of Parliament and totally do away with Presidential elections by introducing a system where legislators will be the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":237648,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2461],"tags":[258,256,4718,2462,54495,6137,11087,21098,4357,54717,257,2450,254,7181,54716,4686],"class_list":["post-237647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-cab3","tag-calls","tag-controversial","tag-criticising","tag-govt","tag-hasbeen","tag-news","tag-president","tag-south-africa-today","tag-spokesperson","tag-washedup","tag-zimbabwe"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237647","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=237647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}