{"id":55888,"date":"2022-03-13T00:20:10","date_gmt":"2022-03-12T22:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/?p=55888"},"modified":"2022-03-13T00:20:10","modified_gmt":"2022-03-12T22:20:10","slug":"thousands-of-ccc-supporters-occupy-rudhaka-open-grounds-despite-police-deployment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/thousands-of-ccc-supporters-occupy-rudhaka-open-grounds-despite-police-deployment","title":{"rendered":"Thousands Of CCC Supporters Occupy Rudhaka Open Grounds Despite Police Deployment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. <\/strong><\/span>Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa on Saturday briefly addressed thousands of party supporters at the Rudhaka Open Grounds after the police had locked the gates to Rudhaka Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Chamisa told his supporters that the police was not to blame for the disrupted rally but those who sent them in reference to the ZANU PF-led Government.<\/p>\n<p>Last month the police also blocked Chamisa from addressing a rally in Gokwe and used tear gas, batons and water cannon to disperse CCC supporters.<\/p>\n<p>In spite of the heavy police presence, thousands of CCC supporters gathered to listen to Chamisa\u2019s brief address.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\">Zimbabwe<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa on Saturday briefly addressed thousands of party supporters at the Rudhaka Open Grounds after the police had locked the gates to Rudhaka Stadium. Chamisa told his supporters that the police was not to blame for the disrupted rally but those who sent them in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":55887,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8,35,12,15],"tags":[1493,2189,8936,711,8934,8935,8980,19],"class_list":{"0":"post-55888","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-ccc-marondera-rally","15":"tag-marondera","16":"tag-rudhaka","17":"tag-rudhaka-open-grounds","18":"tag-rudhaka-stadium","19":"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>Thousands Of CCC Supporters Occupy Rudhaka Open Grounds Despite Police Deployment - zimbabwe<\/title>\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\/thousands-of-ccc-supporters-occupy-rudhaka-open-grounds-despite-police-deployment\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Thousands Of CCC Supporters Occupy Rudhaka Open Grounds Despite Police Deployment\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa on Saturday briefly addressed thousands of party supporters at the Rudhaka Open Grounds after the police had locked the gates to Rudhaka Stadium. Chamisa told his supporters that the police was not to blame for the disrupted rally but those who sent them in [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/thousands-of-ccc-supporters-occupy-rudhaka-open-grounds-despite-police-deployment\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"zimbabwe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-03-12T22:20:10+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2022\/03\/img-622d0b6d117ea.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"649\" \/>\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\/thousands-of-ccc-supporters-occupy-rudhaka-open-grounds-despite-police-deployment\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/thousands-of-ccc-supporters-occupy-rudhaka-open-grounds-despite-police-deployment\",\"name\":\"Thousands Of CCC Supporters Occupy Rudhaka Open Grounds Despite Police Deployment - zimbabwe\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/thousands-of-ccc-supporters-occupy-rudhaka-open-grounds-despite-police-deployment#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/thousands-of-ccc-supporters-occupy-rudhaka-open-grounds-despite-police-deployment#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2022\/03\/img-622d0b6d117ea.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-03-12T22:20:10+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-03-12T22:20:10+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/#\/schema\/person\/2e02b5816e71b1149d79877f669a85e4\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/thousands-of-ccc-supporters-occupy-rudhaka-open-grounds-despite-police-deployment#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/thousands-of-ccc-supporters-occupy-rudhaka-open-grounds-despite-police-deployment\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/thousands-of-ccc-supporters-occupy-rudhaka-open-grounds-despite-police-deployment#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2022\/03\/img-622d0b6d117ea.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2022\/03\/img-622d0b6d117ea.jpg\",\"width\":720,\"height\":649,\"caption\":\"Thousands Of CCC Supporters Occupy Rudhaka Open Grounds Despite Police Deployment\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/thousands-of-ccc-supporters-occupy-rudhaka-open-grounds-despite-police-deployment#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Thousands Of CCC Supporters Occupy Rudhaka Open Grounds Despite Police Deployment\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/\",\"name\":\"zimbabwe\",\"description\":\"\u0623\u062e\u0628\u0627\u0631 \u064a\u0648\u0645\u064a\u0629 \u0639\u0644\u0649 \u0645\u062f\u0627\u0631 \u0627\u0644\u0633\u0627\u0639\u0629\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/#\/schema\/person\/2e02b5816e71b1149d79877f669a85e4\",\"name\":\"cfeditoren\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Thousands Of CCC Supporters Occupy Rudhaka Open Grounds Despite Police Deployment - zimbabwe","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/thousands-of-ccc-supporters-occupy-rudhaka-open-grounds-despite-police-deployment","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Thousands Of CCC Supporters Occupy Rudhaka Open Grounds Despite Police Deployment","og_description":"Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa on Saturday briefly addressed thousands of party supporters at the Rudhaka Open Grounds after the police had locked the gates to Rudhaka Stadium. Chamisa told his supporters that the police was not to blame for the disrupted rally but those who sent them in [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/thousands-of-ccc-supporters-occupy-rudhaka-open-grounds-despite-police-deployment","og_site_name":"zimbabwe","article_published_time":"2022-03-12T22:20:10+00:00","og_image":[{"width":720,"height":649,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2022\/03\/img-622d0b6d117ea.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"cfeditoren","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"cfeditoren","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/thousands-of-ccc-supporters-occupy-rudhaka-open-grounds-despite-police-deployment","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/thousands-of-ccc-supporters-occupy-rudhaka-open-grounds-despite-police-deployment","name":"Thousands Of CCC Supporters Occupy Rudhaka Open Grounds Despite Police Deployment - zimbabwe","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/thousands-of-ccc-supporters-occupy-rudhaka-open-grounds-despite-police-deployment#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/thousands-of-ccc-supporters-occupy-rudhaka-open-grounds-despite-police-deployment#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2022\/03\/img-622d0b6d117ea.jpg","datePublished":"2022-03-12T22:20:10+00:00","dateModified":"2022-03-12T22:20:10+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/#\/schema\/person\/2e02b5816e71b1149d79877f669a85e4"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/thousands-of-ccc-supporters-occupy-rudhaka-open-grounds-despite-police-deployment#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/thousands-of-ccc-supporters-occupy-rudhaka-open-grounds-despite-police-deployment"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/thousands-of-ccc-supporters-occupy-rudhaka-open-grounds-despite-police-deployment#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2022\/03\/img-622d0b6d117ea.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2022\/03\/img-622d0b6d117ea.jpg","width":720,"height":649,"caption":"Thousands Of CCC Supporters Occupy Rudhaka Open Grounds Despite Police Deployment"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/thousands-of-ccc-supporters-occupy-rudhaka-open-grounds-despite-police-deployment#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Thousands Of CCC Supporters Occupy Rudhaka Open Grounds Despite Police Deployment"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/","name":"zimbabwe","description":"\u0623\u062e\u0628\u0627\u0631 \u064a\u0648\u0645\u064a\u0629 \u0639\u0644\u0649 \u0645\u062f\u0627\u0631 \u0627\u0644\u0633\u0627\u0639\u0629","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/#\/schema\/person\/2e02b5816e71b1149d79877f669a85e4","name":"cfeditoren"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}