{"id":16648,"date":"2019-12-12T18:14:11","date_gmt":"2019-12-12T16:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/zimbabwe\/?p=16648"},"modified":"2019-12-12T18:14:11","modified_gmt":"2019-12-12T16:14:11","slug":"zanu-pf-as-a-political-party-doesnt-exist-anymore-hopewell-chinono","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/zanu-pf-as-a-political-party-doesnt-exist-anymore-hopewell-chinono","title":{"rendered":"\u201cZANU PF As A Political Party Doesn\u2019t Exist Anymore!\u201d Hopewell Chin\u2019ono"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prominent journalist and filmmaker,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pindula.co.zw\/Hopewell_Chin%27ono\">Hopewell Chin\u2019ono<\/a>\u00a0has claimed that ZANU PF is no longer a party but a vessel that is being used by the security sector in the country to manipulate elections.<\/p>\n<p>His remarks resonate with those of several other political analysts who believe that the military has a large stake hence stakeholders and stockholders of the \u201cparty\u201d. Posting on Twitter, Chin\u2019ono said:<\/p>\n<div class=\"QogpXo5t amp-wp-1267f15\">\n<p>ZANU-PF as a political party doesn\u2019t exist anymore!<\/p>\n<p>If the army &amp; other security services decided to be professional today, THAT will be the END of ZANU-PF!<\/p>\n<p>We have a shell that is used to STEAL elections backed up by the military!<\/p>\n<p>That is why we talk of security sector REFORMS!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prominent journalist and filmmaker,\u00a0Hopewell Chin\u2019ono\u00a0has claimed that ZANU PF is no longer a party but a vessel that is being used by the security sector in the country to manipulate elections. His remarks resonate with those of several other political analysts who believe that the military has a large stake hence stakeholders and stockholders of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":16649,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[38,120],"class_list":{"0":"post-16648","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all-news","8":"category-parties","9":"tag-zanu-pf","10":"tag-parties"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.1 (Yoast SEO v24.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>\u201cZANU PF As A Political Party Doesn\u2019t Exist Anymore!\u201d Hopewell Chin\u2019ono - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Prominent journalist and filmmaker,\u00a0Hopewell Chin\u2019ono\u00a0has claimed that ZANU PF is no longer a party but a vessel that is being used by the security\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/zanu-pf-as-a-political-party-doesnt-exist-anymore-hopewell-chinono\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"\u201cZANU PF As A Political Party Doesn\u2019t Exist Anymore!\u201d Hopewell Chin\u2019ono\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Prominent journalist and filmmaker,\u00a0Hopewell Chin\u2019ono\u00a0has claimed that ZANU PF is no longer a party but a vessel that is being used by the security\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/zanu-pf-as-a-political-party-doesnt-exist-anymore-hopewell-chinono\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"zimbabwe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-12-12T16:14:11+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2019\/12\/Military-Generals-Ed-Inauguration-W.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"344\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/zanu-pf-as-a-political-party-doesnt-exist-anymore-hopewell-chinono\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/zanu-pf-as-a-political-party-doesnt-exist-anymore-hopewell-chinono\",\"name\":\"\u201cZANU PF As A Political Party Doesn\u2019t Exist Anymore!\u201d Hopewell Chin\u2019ono - 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