{"id":42232,"date":"2026-08-12T09:39:02","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T07:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=42232"},"modified":"2026-08-12T09:39:02","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T07:39:02","slug":"zambia-gears-up-for-elections-as-excitement-builds","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/zambia-gears-up-for-elections-as-excitement-builds\/","title":{"rendered":"Zambia gears up for elections as excitement builds"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>With just under 24 hours before Zambians head to the polls, excitement is building up amongst citizens.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>About 8 million registered voters are expected to cast their ballots on August 13, when the country holds presidential and parliamentary elections.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The vote comes amid concerns of high cost of living and unemployment.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Economist Kelvin Chisanga says Zambia has entered this political period with a much stronger macroeconomic foundation, characterised by lower inflation, improved foreign exchange reserves, progress in debt restructuring and renewed investor confidence.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>He says however, the real economic test is whether this stability can now going forward translate into tangible improvements and benefits in citizens&#8217; lives.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;ChannelAfrica&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":23660,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-42232","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"Zambians head to the polls","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/42232","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\/42232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42233,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/42232\/revisions\/42233"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=42232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}