{"id":2512,"date":"2014-06-11T10:33:07","date_gmt":"2014-06-11T03:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=2512"},"modified":"2014-06-11T10:33:07","modified_gmt":"2014-06-11T03:33:07","slug":"zimbabwe-military-not-involved-in-any-party-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-military-not-involved-in-any-party-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe military not involved in any party politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Air Force of Zimbabwe Commander Air Marshal Perrance Shiri, says the military was not involved in any party politics, but concentrated on defending Zimbabwe\u2019s sovereignty.<\/p>\n<p>In his address to the students at the National Defence College, Air Marshal Shiri said Zimbabwean citizenship could only be guaranteed through holistic independence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe citizenship of Zimbabweans is only guaranteed when the people can claim total ownership of every inch of their country,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTherefore, our obligation is to bequeath to future generations the right and means to defend this God-given wealth and freedom through ensuring adequate resources, command and control structures and management processes.\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Source\" href=\"http:\/\/www.herald.co.zw\/were-here-to-defend-nation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Africa News Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Air Force of Zimbabwe Commander Air Marshal Perrance Shiri, says the military was not involved in any party politics, but concentrated on defending Zimbabwe\u2019s sovereignty. In his address to the students at the National Defence College, Air Marshal Shiri said Zimbabwean citizenship could only be guaranteed through holistic independence. \u201cThe citizenship of Zimbabweans is only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[298,248],"tags":[258,256,491,492,493,257,254,4693,4686,421],"class_list":["post-2512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-southern-africa","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-air-force-of-zimbabwe","tag-air-marshal-perrance-shiri","tag-national-defence-college","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-southern-africa","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2512","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2512\/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=2512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}