{"id":27449,"date":"2026-03-02T09:58:47","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T07:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=27449"},"modified":"2026-03-02T09:58:47","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T07:58:47","slug":"zimbabwean-constitutional-law-expert-brutally-attacked","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/zimbabwean-constitutional-law-expert-brutally-attacked\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwean constitutional law expert brutally attacked"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Zimbabwean constitutional law expert and leader of the opposition, the National Constitutional Assembly, Professor Lovemore Madhuku, was assaulted by unknown people at his offices in the capital, Harare.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Madhuku has openly opposed the recently gazetted Constitutional Amendment Number three, which seeks to extend President Emmerson Mnangagwa&#8217;s term of office and change the presidential term from five to seven years.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The attack is likely to trigger fears of a return to violence in Zimbabwe&#8217;s political sphere.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Also growing fear of intimidation of those opposed to the Constitutional Amendment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":27450,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-27449","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"Professor Lovemore Madhuku was assaulted by unknown people","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/27449","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\/27449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27451,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/27449\/revisions\/27451"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=27449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}