{"id":8649,"date":"2013-08-07T07:20:53","date_gmt":"2013-08-07T07:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=8649"},"modified":"2013-08-07T07:25:36","modified_gmt":"2013-08-07T07:25:36","slug":"8649","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=8649","title":{"rendered":"Oldest Zim voter was 135 years old"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/sadczim.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8653\" alt=\"sadczim\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/sadczim.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/sadczim.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/sadczim-70x40.jpg 70w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Various allegations of rigging have been levied against Zimbabwe\u2019s ZANU-PF following their victory in last week\u2019s elections one of the allegations being that the oldest person who voted in Zimbabwe\u2019s 31 July poll is 135 years old and still serves in the Zimbabwe National Army.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This particular allegation was levied by Zimelections13.com in a tweet.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe oldest person who voted in Zimbabwe\u2019s July 31 poll is 135 years old and still serves in the Zimbabwe National Army\u201d, it tweeted.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The allegation comes as the outcry over the outcome of the just ended disputed elections in Zimbabwe continues to rattle the country and the international community, with the US saying it noted a \u201cnumber of serious concerns\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Zimbabwe\u2019s incumbent president Robert Mugabe won overwhelmingly in the polls which have been dismissed as a \u2018sham\u2019 by his long-time arch rival Morgan Tsvangirai of the Movement Democratic Change.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tsvangirai and his MDC party are preparing to mount a legal and political challenge against the vote that looks set to extend Mugabe\u2019s 33-year rule.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The case could delay 89-year-old Mugabe\u2019s inauguration for another five-year term. &#8211; nairaland.com<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Various allegations of rigging have been levied against Zimbabwe\u2019s ZANU-PF following their victory in last week\u2019s elections one of the allegations being that the oldest person who voted in Zimbabwe\u2019s 31 July poll is 135 years old and still serves in the Zimbabwe National Army. This particular allegation was levied by Zimelections13.com in a tweet. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=8649\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Oldest Zim voter was 135 years old&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8653,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,123],"tags":[4852,1250,4851,4853,181,180],"class_list":["post-8649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","category-world","tag-disputed-elections","tag-mdc","tag-oldest-zim-voter","tag-voters-roll","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\/sadczim.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8649","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=8649"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8656,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8649\/revisions\/8656"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}