{"id":4504,"date":"2014-07-28T17:16:57","date_gmt":"2014-07-28T10:16:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=4504"},"modified":"2014-07-28T17:17:14","modified_gmt":"2014-07-28T10:17:14","slug":"mugabes-wife-grace-making-move-into-frontline-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/mugabes-wife-grace-making-move-into-frontline-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Mugabe\u2019s wife, Grace, making move into frontline politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Robert Mugabe\u2019s wife, Grace, is set to lead the Zanu (PF) women\u2019s league after being unanimously recommended by the party\u2019s 10 provinces yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Newsday reported that the endorsement of Grace Mugabe has raised fears within Zanu-PF that this was part of her husband&#8217;s plan to groom her to take over the presidency.<\/p>\n<p>Party officials told the newspaper that they suspected Mugabe wanted his wife to succeed him to safeguard his business and family interests once he leaves active politics&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Zimbabwe News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thezimbabwean.co\/news\/zimbabwe\/72697\/grace-mugabe-to-lead-zanu.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>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<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Robert Mugabe\u2019s wife, Grace, is set to lead the Zanu (PF) women\u2019s league after being unanimously recommended by the party\u2019s 10 provinces yesterday. Newsday reported that the endorsement of Grace Mugabe has raised fears within Zanu-PF that this was part of her husband&#8217;s plan to groom her to take over the presidency. Party officials [&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":[248],"tags":[258,256,3273,257,426,254,4693,334,3274,4686,421],"class_list":["post-4504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-grace-mugabe","tag-news","tag-robert-mugabe","tag-south-africa-today","tag-southern-africa","tag-zanu-pf","tag-zanu-pf-womens-league","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4504","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=4504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4504\/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=4504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}