{"id":239821,"date":"2026-07-29T19:31:25","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T17:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-residents-predict-dog-eat-dog-situation-after-cabinet-approves-principles-of-bill-that-will-grant-council-officers-arresting-powers\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T19:31:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T17:31:25","slug":"zimbabwe-residents-predict-dog-eat-dog-situation-after-cabinet-approves-principles-of-bill-that-will-grant-council-officers-arresting-powers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-residents-predict-dog-eat-dog-situation-after-cabinet-approves-principles-of-bill-that-will-grant-council-officers-arresting-powers\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Residents Predict Dog-Eat-Dog Situation After Cabinet Approves Principles of Bill That Will Grant Council Officers Arresting Powers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">SOME residents of Harare and Bulawayo have expressed worry after Cabinet approved a Bill that will grant municipal officers arresting powers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Commenting on official council pages after Cabinet approved principles of the Municipal Police and Courts Bill, residents predicted a dog-eat-dog situation with the poorly rated officers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">In its social media posts, Harare City Council misrepresented that its officers had already been granted arresting powers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nKeep up with the latest headlines on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaIdDi8Bqbr263erhw1K\" \/a rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202607290577.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow 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>SOME residents of Harare and Bulawayo have expressed worry after Cabinet approved a Bill that will grant municipal officers arresting powers. Commenting on official council pages after Cabinet approved principles of the Municipal Police and Courts Bill, residents predicted a dog-eat-dog situation with the poorly rated officers. In its social media posts, Harare City Council [&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":[258,256,8326,7736,7292,6467,6158,9459,13356,257,6749,12139,23376,21695,4288,6325,254,4686,421],"class_list":["post-239821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-approves","tag-arresting","tag-bill","tag-cabinet","tag-council","tag-dogeatdog","tag-grant","tag-news","tag-officers","tag-powers","tag-predict","tag-principles","tag-residents","tag-situation","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239821","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=239821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239821\/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=239821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}