{"id":195900,"date":"2008-06-06T17:55:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-06T22:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/06\/zimbabwe-seems-to-be-getting-worst\/"},"modified":"2008-06-06T17:55:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-06T22:55:00","slug":"zimbabwe-seems-to-be-getting-worst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/06\/zimbabwe-seems-to-be-getting-worst\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe Seems to Be Getting Worst"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.voanews.com\/english\/2008-06-06-voa10.cfm\">Tsvangirai was detained again<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/latestCrisis\/idUSL04243842\">currency crash inflation problem<\/a> is accelerating, the Mugabe government has <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/africa\/7440237.stm\">banned opposition rallies<\/a>, and the so called &#8220;war veterans&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2008\/WORLD\/africa\/06\/05\/zimbabwe.violence\/index.html\">threatened to burn diplomats alive<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Helen Zille, leader of South Africa&#8217;s opposition party, the Democratic Alliance,  has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetimes.co.za\/News\/Article.aspx?id=780525\">called for President Thabo Mbeki to speak out over what is going on in Zimbabwe<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p>Won&#8217;t happen.  Mbeki won&#8217;t ever say a word against Mugabe, for reasons that are not clear to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tsvangirai was detained again, the currency crash inflation problem is accelerating, the Mugabe government has banned opposition rallies, and the so called &#8220;war veterans&#8221; threatened to burn diplomats alive. Helen Zille, leader of South Africa&#8217;s opposition party, the Democratic Alliance, has called for President Thabo Mbeki to speak out over what is going on in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1095,971,970,1000],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-civil-rights","category-corruption","category-elections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195900"}],"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=195900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}