{"id":241213,"date":"2026-08-16T08:07:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T06:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambia-votes-whos-who-and-what-issues-are-shaping-the-elections\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T08:07:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T06:07:08","slug":"zambia-votes-whos-who-and-what-issues-are-shaping-the-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambia-votes-whos-who-and-what-issues-are-shaping-the-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Zambia Votes &#8211; Who&#8217;s Who and What Issues Are Shaping the Elections?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"45\">Zambia&#8217;s election, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/audio\/play\/w3ct8n2y\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">scheduled for 13 August<\/a>, has shaped up into a battle between two alliances. The ruling United Party for National Development alliance is backed by 15 smaller parties. The Tonse-Pamodzi Alliance is headed by presidential newcomer <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.parliament.gov.zm\/node\/5615\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Brian Mundubile<\/a> and his running mate, Makebi Zulu.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"54\">The Tonse-Pamodzi alliance includes a group of smaller political parties without parliamentary representation, and many of the remaining structures of the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patrioticfront.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Patriotic Front<\/a>. Mundubile was formerly in the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202608110055.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zambia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zambia\/\">Zambia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zambia&#8217;s election, scheduled for 13 August, has shaped up into a battle between two alliances. The ruling United Party for National Development alliance is backed by 15 smaller parties. The Tonse-Pamodzi Alliance is headed by presidential newcomer Brian Mundubile and his running mate, Makebi Zulu. The Tonse-Pamodzi alliance includes a group of smaller political parties [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":241214,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00610525:59ad79b27a8ea21e9209389161529edc:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[825],"tags":[258,256,821,8008,257,17897,254,10348,22433,4709,881],"class_list":["post-241213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-elections","tag-issues","tag-news","tag-shaping","tag-south-africa-today","tag-votes","tag-whos","tag-zambia","tag-zambia-news"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00610525:59ad79b27a8ea21e9209389161529edc:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241213","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=241213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}