{"id":246046,"date":"2026-09-30T20:30:32","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T18:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-chamisa-warns-of-distracted-nation-challenges-politics-of-power\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T20:30:32","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T18:30:32","slug":"zimbabwe-chamisa-warns-of-distracted-nation-challenges-politics-of-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-chamisa-warns-of-distracted-nation-challenges-politics-of-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Chamisa Warns of &#8216;Distracted Nation&#8217; Challenges Politics of Power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"44\">Former opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa has criticised what he described as a growing culture of political &#8220;deception and pretence&#8221;, warning that the country&#8217;s debate over the future of political power risks overshadowing citizens&#8217; constitutional right to choose their leaders.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">Chamisa made the remarks in a statement reflecting on his recent #NoTo2050 campaign which has focused on opposition to proposals or political discussions that could extend the tenure of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202609300430.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>Former opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa has criticised what he described as a growing culture of political &#8220;deception and pretence&#8221;, warning that the country&#8217;s debate over the future of political power risks overshadowing citizens&#8217; constitutional right to choose their leaders. Chamisa made the remarks in a statement reflecting on his recent [&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":[258,256,6977,17330,55557,10970,257,6916,7047,254,6853,4686,421],"class_list":["post-246046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-challenges","tag-chamisa","tag-distracted","tag-nation","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-power","tag-south-africa-today","tag-warns","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246046","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=246046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246046\/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=246046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}