{"id":36591,"date":"2017-12-23T17:52:48","date_gmt":"2017-12-23T17:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/zimbabwe-s-former-military-commander-appointed\/"},"modified":"2017-12-23T17:52:33","modified_gmt":"2017-12-23T17:52:33","slug":"zimbabwe-s-former-military-commander-appointed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/zimbabwe-s-former-military-commander-appointed\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe&#8217;s former military commander appointed ruling party&#8217;s vice president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Charamba said in a statement that Chiwenga, who retired from the military last week after leading a military intervention that resulted in former president Robert Mugabe&#8217;s resignation in November, was appointed to the same position together with Minister of Defense and War Veterans Kembo Mohadi.<\/p>\n<p>Mohadi belongs to the old PF-Zapu, which was led by late Vice President Joshua Nkomo who signed a unity accord with then President Mugabe&#8217;s Zanu-PF to form the united Zanu-PF.<\/p>\n<p>The two&#8217;s appointments pave the way for them to be appointed the country&#8217;s vice presidents.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-23460 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/chiweng.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Zimbabwe Defense Forces commander Constantino Chiwenga has been appointed vice president and second secretary of the ruling Zanu-PF, Presidential spokesperson George Charamba said Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[2878],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-36591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-xhinua"],"bylines":[{"id":2878,"name":"Xhinua","slug":"xhinua","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"contributors":[{"id":2878,"name":"Xhinua","slug":"xhinua","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36591"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=36591"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=36591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}