{"id":42351,"date":"2026-08-13T09:15:40","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T07:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=42351"},"modified":"2026-08-13T09:15:40","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T07:15:40","slug":"zambians-brave-cold-weather-to-vote-in-elections","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/zambians-brave-cold-weather-to-vote-in-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Zambians brave cold weather to vote in elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Zambians have braved the cold weather and come out in their numbers to vote in the 2026 general elections.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Most of those at the University of Zambia polling station are students who are first time voters and they have expressed optimism about the elections,\u00a0 &#8220;I&#8217;m a first time voter. I was curious at first. I was trying to think about the Members of Parliament, the councillors.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;I was only sure about the president, but for the other positions I didn&#8217;t know that we had to vote for like more than two. So my experience was quite amazing and the agents are so polite and yeah, I feel great,&#8221; says another voter.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;ChannelAfrica\/NhlanhlaMahlangu&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":42353,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-42351","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Most of those at the University of Zambia polling station are students who are first time voters.","published_date":"","news_description":"Most of those at the University of Zambia polling station are students who are first time voters.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/42351","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":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/42351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42358,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/42351\/revisions\/42358"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=42351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}