{"id":47039,"date":"2021-09-23T19:42:50","date_gmt":"2021-09-23T17:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/?p=47039"},"modified":"2021-09-23T19:07:32","modified_gmt":"2021-09-23T17:07:32","slug":"zanu-pf-official-threatens-taliban-style-in-response-to-us-call-for-elections-in-zimbabwe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/zanu-pf-official-threatens-taliban-style-in-response-to-us-call-for-elections-in-zimbabwe","title":{"rendered":"ZANU PF Official Threatens \u201cTaliban Style\u201d In Response To US Call For Elections In Zimbabwe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\">Zimbabwe<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Zanu PF Director of Information and Publicity Tafadzwa Mugwadi has threatened the \u201cTaliban way\u201d in response to the United States\u2019 call for Zimbabwe to hold by-elections.<\/p>\n<p>Zimbabwe last year postponed by-elections indefinitely citing a surge in the number of coronavirus infections in the country.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S., however, through its Embassy in Harare, believes Zimbabwe can successfully and safely conduct elections the same way its neighbours, Zambia and South Africa as well as Malawi have. Said the U.S. Embassy in Harare:<\/p>\n<p>When will the Zimbabwean government resume by-elections? Long-standing parliamentary vacancies have left over 754,000 voters in 26 constituencies without elected representation. Only by-elections will restore these citizens\u2019 rights to representation. #ZimVotesMatter<\/p>\n<p>In response, the Secretary for Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services, Nick Mangwana said:<\/p>\n<p>Surely, the US Embassy knows where the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is located. Should there be a need for a conversation on this subject you can easily engage them and get a briefing. These highly inflammatory tweets are as much disrespectful as they are unnecessary.<\/p>\n<p>However, Tafadzwa Mugwadi, who is a former ZINASU leader said the U.S. must brace for humiliation if they \u201cmeddle\u201d in Zimbabwean politics. He said:<\/p>\n<p>We will do it the Taliban way!! Stay far from our lane or the consequences will be humiliating the Taliban style.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t ask me what is the Taliban style. Ask the gringos who created a puppet Gvt, supported it for 20 years with war, only to be over-ran by Talibans leaving guns, war jets, helicopters, cash, whiskey &amp; their puppets at the hands of Afghan Talibans kkk. Lesson: Puppets are losers.<\/p>\n<p>His remarks come as the Taliban, an Islamist militant group, recently seized power in Afghanistan following a two-decade-long war with the U.S. and its allied forces.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. ousted the Taliban government in 2001 accusing it of harbouring Ossama Bin Laden and widespread human rights abuses.<\/p>\n<p>More: Pindula News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. Zanu PF Director of Information and Publicity Tafadzwa Mugwadi has threatened the \u201cTaliban way\u201d in response to the United States\u2019 call for Zimbabwe to hold by-elections. Zimbabwe last year postponed by-elections indefinitely citing a surge in the number of coronavirus infections in the country. The U.S., however, through its Embassy in Harare, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":47038,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8,35,12,15],"tags":[1493,2189,1693,1926,5968,19],"class_list":{"0":"post-47039","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all-news","8":"category-head-lines","9":"category-homepage-english","10":"category-policy","11":"category-twitter","12":"tag-africa-press","13":"tag-africa-press-zimbabwe-2","14":"tag-by-elections","15":"tag-tafadzwa-mugwadi","16":"tag-taliban","17":"tag-zimbabwe"},"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>ZANU PF Official Threatens \u201cTaliban Style\u201d In Response To US Call For Elections In Zimbabwe - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Zanu PF Director of Information and Publicity Tafadzwa Mugwadi has threatened the \u201cTaliban way\u201d in response to the Unite ...\" \/>\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-official-threatens-taliban-style-in-response-to-us-call-for-elections-in-zimbabwe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"ZANU PF Official Threatens \u201cTaliban Style\u201d In Response To US Call For Elections In Zimbabwe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Zanu PF Director of Information and Publicity Tafadzwa Mugwadi has threatened the \u201cTaliban way\u201d in response to the Unite ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/zanu-pf-official-threatens-taliban-style-in-response-to-us-call-for-elections-in-zimbabwe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"zimbabwe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-09-23T17:42:50+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-09-23T17:07:32+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2021\/09\/img-614cb40fcd668.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"404\" \/>\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=\"2 minutes\" \/>\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-official-threatens-taliban-style-in-response-to-us-call-for-elections-in-zimbabwe\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/zanu-pf-official-threatens-taliban-style-in-response-to-us-call-for-elections-in-zimbabwe\",\"name\":\"ZANU PF Official Threatens \u201cTaliban Style\u201d In Response To US Call For Elections In Zimbabwe - 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