{"id":4259,"date":"2024-09-16T10:20:18","date_gmt":"2024-09-16T10:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/?p=4259"},"modified":"2024-09-16T10:20:20","modified_gmt":"2024-09-16T10:20:20","slug":"sybeth-musengezi-favours-vp-chiwenga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/?p=4259","title":{"rendered":"Sybeth Musengezi Favours VP Chiwenga"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Political Correspondent<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sybeth Musengezi, a Zanu-PF youth, has pledged his support for Vice President Constantino Chiwenga amid reports of factionalism within the party.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Musengezi believes Chiwenga&#8217;s sacrifices in the 2017 coup should not be forgotten.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;If it&#8217;s true that VP Chiwenga is no longer wanted in Zanu-PF, we&#8217;ll fully support him as a matter of principle,&#8221; Musengezi said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;These idiots are forgetting that he sacrificed his life in 2017 for Mnangagwa to be where he is now.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This comes as President Emmerson Mnangagwa&#8217;s allies push to amend the Constitution to extend his term beyond 2028. Zanu-PF Harare provincial chairperson Godwills Masimirembwa stated,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The Constitution of Zimbabwe needs to be amended to allow him (Mnangagwa) to remain in power beyond 2028.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, not all party officials agree, with some opposing the extension of Mnangagwa&#8217;s term. The situation has created a fertile ground for factionalism within the ruling party.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Zim GBC News\u00a92024<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Political Correspondent Sybeth Musengezi, a Zanu-PF youth, has pledged his support for Vice President Constantino Chiwenga amid reports of factionalism within the party. Musengezi believes Chiwenga&#8217;s sacrifices in the 2017&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4260,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4259"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4261,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4259\/revisions\/4261"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}