{"id":250275,"date":"2026-11-14T04:30:20","date_gmt":"2026-11-14T02:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-mnangagwa-clips-ally-tagwireis-wings-says-he-can-only-administer-two-acts-in-new-ministerial-role\/"},"modified":"2026-11-14T04:30:20","modified_gmt":"2026-11-14T02:30:20","slug":"zimbabwe-mnangagwa-clips-ally-tagwireis-wings-says-he-can-only-administer-two-acts-in-new-ministerial-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-mnangagwa-clips-ally-tagwireis-wings-says-he-can-only-administer-two-acts-in-new-ministerial-role\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Mnangagwa Clips Ally Tagwirei&#8217;s Wings &#8211; Says He Can Only Administer Two Acts in New Ministerial Role"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa appears to have significantly clipped close ally Kudakwashe Tagwirei&#8217;s power in his new ministerial role, barely a month after elevating the businessman to Cabinet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Tagwirei, who is widely seen as Mnangagwa&#8217;s siccessor, has been enjoying a meteoric rise in Zimbabwean politics, having been fasttracked into Senate, Zanu PF&#8217;s Central Committee and Politburo from the terraces.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">He was appointed <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newzimbabwe.com\/mnangagwa-appoints-close-ally-tagwirei-minister-of-economic-development\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Minister of Economic Development and Investment Promotion<\/a> a month ago and his&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202611130218.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>PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa appears to have significantly clipped close ally Kudakwashe Tagwirei&#8217;s power in his new ministerial role, barely a month after elevating the businessman to Cabinet. Tagwirei, who is widely seen as Mnangagwa&#8217;s siccessor, has been enjoying a meteoric rise in Zimbabwean politics, having been fasttracked into Senate, Zanu PF&#8217;s Central Committee and Politburo [&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":[11003,13565,258,256,7477,47581,14185,7476,257,8225,254,51923,10846,4686,421],"class_list":["post-250275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-acts","tag-administer","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ally","tag-clips","tag-ministerial","tag-mnangagwa","tag-news","tag-role","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tagwireis","tag-wings","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250275","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=250275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250275\/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=250275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}