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Delivering his victory speech Machekera said:<\/p>\n<p>I would like to thank people in Chegutu Ward 2 for having faith in me. I am promising to be a listening and a report back councillor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The MDC candidate for Chegutu Ward 2 Tinokura Rydes Machekera yesterday managed to retain the seat that was left vacant by Memory Banda who died last year, New Zimbabwe reports. Machekera only managed to garner 56 votes more than Zanu PF\u2019s Prosper Matongerwa who polled 184 votes. Delivering his victory speech Machekera said: I would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":21039,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[38,113,88],"class_list":{"0":"post-21038","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-chamisa","11":"tag-mdc"},"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>MDC Candidate Wins Chegutu Council Seat 56 Votes Ahead Of The Zanu PF Candidate - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The MDC candidate for Chegutu Ward 2 Tinokura Rydes Machekera yesterday managed to retain the seat that was left vacant by Memory Banda who\" \/>\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\/mdc-candidate-wins-chegutu-council-seat-56-votes-ahead-of-the-zanu-pf-candidate\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"MDC Candidate Wins Chegutu Council Seat 56 Votes Ahead Of The Zanu PF Candidate\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The MDC candidate for Chegutu Ward 2 Tinokura Rydes Machekera yesterday managed to retain the seat that was left vacant by Memory Banda who\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/mdc-candidate-wins-chegutu-council-seat-56-votes-ahead-of-the-zanu-pf-candidate\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"zimbabwe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-03-22T18:58:14+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2020\/03\/CHEGUTU-RESIDENTS.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"700\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"525\" \/>\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<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\/mdc-candidate-wins-chegutu-council-seat-56-votes-ahead-of-the-zanu-pf-candidate\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/mdc-candidate-wins-chegutu-council-seat-56-votes-ahead-of-the-zanu-pf-candidate\",\"name\":\"MDC Candidate Wins Chegutu Council Seat 56 Votes Ahead Of The Zanu PF Candidate - 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