{"id":47614,"date":"2021-10-04T17:17:31","date_gmt":"2021-10-04T15:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/?p=47614"},"modified":"2021-10-04T16:38:42","modified_gmt":"2021-10-04T14:38:42","slug":"sibangilizwe-nkomo-leads-in-zapu-presidential-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/sibangilizwe-nkomo-leads-in-zapu-presidential-race","title":{"rendered":"Sibangilizwe Nkomo Leads In ZAPU Presidential Race"},"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>Sibangilizwe Nkomo, the son of the late Vice-President Joshua Nkomo, is the leading candidate for the ZAPU\u2019s presidency.<\/p>\n<p>ZAPU is preparing for its elective congress to be held from October 28 to 30 in Bulawayo and Sibangilizwe has more nominations than all other contestants.<\/p>\n<p>The Party last month reaffirmed a resolution barring presidential aspirants who have not been card-carrying members of the party for the past five years from contesting the presidency, a move that was viewed as a strategy to block Sibangilizwe, Read more on Pindula News.<\/p>\n<p>The party\u2019s secretary for mobilisation and organisation, Derek Katsenga, Sunday confirmed that the nomination process was going on well.<\/p>\n<p>Five presidential candidates, Nkomo, Bernard Magugu, Strike Mkandla, Mark Mbaiwa, and Sithembiso Mpofu, would battle it out for the post of party president. Katsenga said:<\/p>\n<p>Yes it\u2019s a tight contest, but it\u2019s good for the party because people need to sweat for these leadership positions.<\/p>\n<p>He said all provinces had already held their conferences except for Harare and Bulawayo, with Nkomo winning all the provinces.<\/p>\n<p>Katsenga said nominations for Harare and Bulawayo were postponed to Saturday after the process was discontinued due to irregularities.<\/p>\n<p>Indications are that in Manicaland Province:<\/p>\n<p>In Mashonaland West:<\/p>\n<p>In Mashonaland East:<\/p>\n<p>In Matabeleland North:<\/p>\n<p>Nkomo\u2019s supporters said his nomination rekindled hopes that the party would be strong enough to contest the 2023 elections.<\/p>\n<p>More: NewsDay (Silas Nkala)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. Sibangilizwe Nkomo, the son of the late Vice-President Joshua Nkomo, is the leading candidate for the ZAPU\u2019s presidency. ZAPU is preparing for its elective congress to be held from October 28 to 30 in Bulawayo and Sibangilizwe has more nominations than all other contestants. The Party last month reaffirmed a resolution barring [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":47613,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,35,12,15],"tags":[1493,2189,6437,1840,19],"class_list":{"0":"post-47614","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all-news","8":"category-homepage-english","9":"category-policy","10":"category-twitter","11":"tag-africa-press","12":"tag-africa-press-zimbabwe-2","13":"tag-children-of-zpra-and-zapu-veterans","14":"tag-joshua-nkomo","15":"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>Sibangilizwe Nkomo Leads In ZAPU Presidential Race - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Sibangilizwe Nkomo, the son of the late Vice-President Joshua Nkomo, is the leading candidate for the ZAPU\u2019s presidency. ...\" \/>\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\/sibangilizwe-nkomo-leads-in-zapu-presidential-race\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sibangilizwe Nkomo Leads In ZAPU Presidential Race\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Sibangilizwe Nkomo, the son of the late Vice-President Joshua Nkomo, is the leading candidate for the ZAPU\u2019s presidency. ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/sibangilizwe-nkomo-leads-in-zapu-presidential-race\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"zimbabwe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-10-04T15:17:31+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-10-04T14:38:42+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2021\/10\/img-615b11dadbc2f.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"532\" \/>\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\/sibangilizwe-nkomo-leads-in-zapu-presidential-race\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/sibangilizwe-nkomo-leads-in-zapu-presidential-race\",\"name\":\"Sibangilizwe Nkomo Leads In ZAPU Presidential Race - 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