{"id":4856,"date":"2014-08-16T16:36:48","date_gmt":"2014-08-16T09:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=4856"},"modified":"2014-08-16T16:38:40","modified_gmt":"2014-08-16T09:38:40","slug":"zimbabwes-grace-mugabe-enters-zanu-pf-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwes-grace-mugabe-enters-zanu-pf-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe&#8217;s Grace Mugabe enters Zanu-PF politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The wife of Zimbabwe&#8217;s President Robert Mugabe has entered politics after being endorsed to become head of the ruling Zanu-PF party&#8217;s women&#8217;s league.<\/p>\n<p>Grace Mugabe, 49, will take over the role in December at the party&#8217;s annual congress.<\/p>\n<p>The BBC&#8217;s Brian Hungwe in Zimbabwe says the post will allow Mrs Mugabe to sit on Zanu-PF&#8217;s powerful politburo.<\/p>\n<p>There has been tension in Zanu-PF over who should succeed Mr Mugabe, who was re-elected president last year&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Zimbabwe News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-africa-28812801\" 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>The wife of Zimbabwe&#8217;s President Robert Mugabe has entered politics after being endorsed to become head of the ruling Zanu-PF party&#8217;s women&#8217;s league. Grace Mugabe, 49, will take over the role in December at the party&#8217;s annual congress. The BBC&#8217;s Brian Hungwe in Zimbabwe says the post will allow Mrs Mugabe to sit on Zanu-PF&#8217;s [&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":[258,256,3273,427,257,3611,426,254,4693,334,4686,421],"class_list":["post-4856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-grace-mugabe","tag-mugabe","tag-news","tag-politburo","tag-robert-mugabe","tag-south-africa-today","tag-southern-africa","tag-zanu-pf","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4856","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=4856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4856\/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=4856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}