{"id":42500,"date":"2026-08-14T10:05:24","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T08:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=42500"},"modified":"2026-08-14T10:09:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T08:09:21","slug":"42500","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/42500\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Amendment of the constitution led to the extension of President Mnangagwa&#8217;s term\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-family: var(--global--font-secondary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);\">Zimbabwe&#8217;s Foreign Affairs Minister, \u00a0Amon Murwira says the amendment of the constitution that led to the extension of the President Emmerson Mnangagwa&#8217; term of office was done in line with the laws of that country.<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"ms-outlook-mobile-signature\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">The opposition in Zimbabwe has criticised the process of amending the constitution saying it did not follow due processes.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Murwira exclusively spoke to the SABC on the sidelines of the SADC Summit currently underway in Durban in KwaZulu Natal province.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>\u201cZimbabwe did a sovereign act to amend the Constitution. The Constitution now when it comes to Presidential is now exactly what is practiced in South Africa, exactly the way you elect the President. Exactly now in the Constitution we are electing the President there is no problem.\u201d<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\u2014ChannelAfrica\u2014<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":26978,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[],"class_list":["post-42500","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"The opposition in Zimbabwe has criticised the process of amending the constitution.","published_date":"","news_description":"The opposition in Zimbabwe has criticised the process of amending the constitution.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/42500","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":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/42500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42504,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/42500\/revisions\/42504"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=42500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}