{"id":8348,"date":"2013-08-02T07:46:33","date_gmt":"2013-08-02T07:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=8348"},"modified":"2013-08-02T07:46:33","modified_gmt":"2013-08-02T07:46:33","slug":"it-feels-like-1980-in-zimbabwe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=8348","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;It feels like 1980 in Zimbabwe&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_8349\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8349\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/psychologymaziwisa.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8349\" alt=\"Psychology Maziwisa (right)\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/psychologymaziwisa-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/psychologymaziwisa-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/psychologymaziwisa.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8349\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Psychology Maziwisa (right)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Zimbabwe&#8217;s Zanu-PF party has dismissed allegations of vote rigging as \u201cabsolute hogwash\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Speaking in an interview with SABC, a spokesperson for Zanu-PF Psychology Maziwisa predicted more than two thirds in parliament would go to Zanu-PF.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;It looks like we will surpass the two thirds majority in parliament. The feeling, the environment in Zimbabwe right now is one of excitement. It feels like we are in 1980 where we\u2019ve reclaimed our independence, our sovereignty as a nation. We look forward to charting the best way for the people of Zimbabwe,&#8221; said Maziwisa, who was born well after 1980.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0He said these were the most credible elections to be held on the African continent.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;You don\u2019t judge an election using perfection as a standard. You\u2019ve got to look at circumstances objectively and I think if you look at the situation here, what prevailed on July 31<sup>st<\/sup>, if you look at it objectively, I think you can only come to one conclusion and that is that we had an election that was free, that was fair, that was credible. In fact this could very well be the freest, the fairest and the most credible election to be held on the African continent,&#8221; said Maziwisa.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zimbabwe&#8217;s Zanu-PF party has dismissed allegations of vote rigging as \u201cabsolute hogwash\u201d. Speaking in an interview with SABC, a spokesperson for Zanu-PF Psychology Maziwisa predicted more than two thirds in parliament would go to Zanu-PF. &#8220;It looks like we will surpass the two thirds majority in parliament. The feeling, the environment in Zimbabwe right now &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=8348\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8216;It feels like 1980 in Zimbabwe&#8217;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8349,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[4642,4641,4643,181,180],"class_list":["post-8348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-independence-1980","tag-psychology-maziwisa","tag-sovereignity","tag-zanu-pf","tag-zimbabwe"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/psychologymaziwisa.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8348"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8350,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8348\/revisions\/8350"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}