{"id":248156,"date":"2026-10-26T04:30:05","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T02:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-mnangagwa-wins-the-latest-round-of-zimbabwes-succession-battle\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T04:30:05","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T02:30:05","slug":"zimbabwe-mnangagwa-wins-the-latest-round-of-zimbabwes-succession-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-mnangagwa-wins-the-latest-round-of-zimbabwes-succession-battle\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Mnangagwa Wins the Latest Round of Zimbabwe&#8217;s Succession Battle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">ZANU-PF&#8217;s conference strengthened the president&#8217;s position, but Chiwenga&#8217;s defiance signals that the struggle for power is far from over.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">The intense power struggle that has been simmering between Zimbabwe&#8217;s President Emmerson Mnangagwa and First Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga resurfaced at last week&#8217;s Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) annual conference in Chinhoyi.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"51\">The media made much about Chiwenga&#8217;s speech in which he appeared to warn Mnangagwa that he was in danger&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202610230273.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>ZANU-PF&#8217;s conference strengthened the president&#8217;s position, but Chiwenga&#8217;s defiance signals that the struggle for power is far from over. The intense power struggle that has been simmering between Zimbabwe&#8217;s President Emmerson Mnangagwa and First Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga resurfaced at last week&#8217;s Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) annual conference in Chinhoyi. The media made much [&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":[258,256,7887,5037,7476,257,254,20034,6552,4686,421,7726],"class_list":["post-248156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-battle","tag-latest","tag-mnangagwa","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-succession","tag-wins","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news","tag-zimbabwes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248156","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=248156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248156\/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=248156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}