{"id":195887,"date":"2008-06-07T22:02:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-08T03:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/07\/zimbabwe-mugabes-zanu-pf-hits-a-new-low\/"},"modified":"2008-06-07T22:02:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-08T03:02:00","slug":"zimbabwe-mugabes-zanu-pf-hits-a-new-low","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/07\/zimbabwe-mugabes-zanu-pf-hits-a-new-low\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Mugabe&#8217;s ZANU-PF Hits a New Low"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, now we know why Mugabe shut down the NGOs distributing food aid to Zimbabae:  They are demanding voting cards in order to get food aid, and if the card does not say ZANU-PF member, they <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/africa\/vote-mugabe-or-starve-ndash-the-latest-ploy-from-a-regime-clinging-on-to-power-842097.html\">confiscate the card<\/a>, preventing that person from voting.<\/p>\n<p>So it&#8217;s give up your right to vote, or starve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, now we know why Mugabe shut down the NGOs distributing food aid to Zimbabae: They are demanding voting cards in order to get food aid, and if the card does not say ZANU-PF member, they confiscate the card, preventing that person from voting. So it&#8217;s give up your right to vote, or starve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1095,970,1000],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-corruption","category-elections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195887"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}