{"id":9328,"date":"2013-08-19T07:09:56","date_gmt":"2013-08-19T07:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=9328"},"modified":"2013-08-19T07:12:04","modified_gmt":"2013-08-19T07:12:04","slug":"mugabe-to-be-sworn-in-on-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=9328","title":{"rendered":"Mugabe to be sworn in on Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_9329\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9329\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/zimpoverty2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9329\" alt=\"Waiting for indigenization\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/zimpoverty2-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/zimpoverty2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/zimpoverty2.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9329\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Waiting for indigenization<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Robert Mugabe will be sworn in on Thursday, beginning a fresh five-year mandate as Zimbabwe&#8217;s president following a disputed election, his spokesperson said Sunday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;It is now this Thursday,&#8221; George Charamba told <em>AFP<\/em> on the sidelines of a summit of southern African leaders in Malawi.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Friday Mugabe&#8217;s main challenger, opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai, withdrew a legal challenge to the election result, claiming the courts would not be fair.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">That removed the last hurdle to 89-year-old Mugabe&#8217;s inauguration for a seventh term.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mugabe, Africa&#8217;s oldest leader, first took the reins of a newly independent Zimbabwe in 1980 as prime minister. He became president following a constitutional amendment in 1987.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Southern African leaders attending the summit had earlier endorsed the result of the election that extended his 33-year rule, congratulating him for holding peaceful elections.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Asked whether regional leaders would attend the swearing-in, Charamba said that &#8220;everybody will be invited&#8221;. &#8211; AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Mugabe will be sworn in on Thursday, beginning a fresh five-year mandate as Zimbabwe&#8217;s president following a disputed election, his spokesperson said Sunday. &#8220;It is now this Thursday,&#8221; George Charamba told AFP on the sidelines of a summit of southern African leaders in Malawi. On Friday Mugabe&#8217;s main challenger, opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai, withdrew &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=9328\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mugabe to be sworn in on Thursday&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9329,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[5261,2457,179,180],"class_list":["post-9328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-five-year-mandate","tag-inauguration","tag-robert-mugabe","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\/zimpoverty2.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9328","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=9328"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9332,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9328\/revisions\/9332"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}