{"id":21592,"date":"2025-12-24T07:48:43","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T05:48:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/chamisa-announces-his-return-to-zimbabwes-politics\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:32:37","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:32:37","slug":"chamisa-announces-his-return-to-zimbabwes-politics","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/chamisa-announces-his-return-to-zimbabwes-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Chamisa announces his return to\u00a0 Zimbabwe&#8217;s politics\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Zimbabwe&#8217;s former opposition leader, Nelson\u00a0Chamisa, has announced his return to the political arena.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>Chamisa\u00a0shook the political world in January 2024 when he announced that he had quit his party and abandoned politics.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>At the time, he claimed that his political party, the Citizens Coalition for Change, which he had founded in 2022, had been contaminated and hijacked by his rival,\u00a0Emmerson\u00a0Mnangagwa, and his government.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>Chamisa\u00a0was\u00a0Mnangagwa&#8217;s\u00a0main challenger in 2023.<\/div>\n<div>\nHe garnered 44%\u00a0of the vote, while\u00a0Mnangagwa\u00a0won with 52%.<\/div>\n<div>\nChamisa\u00a0has also vowed to fight hard against\u00a0Zanu-PF&#8217;s bid to extend\u00a0Mnangagwa&#8217;s\u00a0tenure.<\/p>\n<p>A new rallying call from a captain who once abandoned his ship and left it in limbo, divided and without a leader.<\/p><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":21593,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-21592","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":null,"news_description":"Nelson\u00a0Chamisa, has announced his return","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/21592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/21592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25203,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/21592\/revisions\/25203"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=21592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}