{"id":21005,"date":"2020-03-22T18:03:51","date_gmt":"2020-03-22T16:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/zimbabwe\/?p=21005"},"modified":"2020-03-22T18:03:51","modified_gmt":"2020-03-22T16:03:51","slug":"mdc-retains-ward-2-in-chegutu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/mdc-retains-ward-2-in-chegutu","title":{"rendered":"MDC retains ward 2 in Chegutu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria:<\/p>\n<p>MDC on Saturday retained Chegutu by-election with party candidate Tinokura Rydes Machekera clinching the council seat with 240 votes against Zanu PF\u2019s Prosper Matongerwa who polled 184 votes.<\/p>\n<p>The seat fell vacant last year following the death of Memory Banda on MDC.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to NewZimbabwe.com soon after victory was confirmed, Machekera said people in Chegutu had spoken and it was now time for him to deliver.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would like to thank people in Chegutu Ward 2 for having faith in me. I am promising to be a listening and a report back councillor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy victory in the ward has proven that people here have faith in a popular brand led by President Nelson Chamisa,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cZanu is no longer needed because of its culture of impunity, corruption and above all it doesn\u2019t deliver.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, the youthful politician told this publication that the country\u2019s leadership must be given to its youth because the old generation has failed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLeadership of the country needs to be given to young people because they have the vision. The old madalas of Zanu PF do not have the vision, what they do is looting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am working to show the electorate and convince them that it\u2019s the system it is rotten and we need to remove it and it\u2019s not about this ward but nation,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria: MDC on Saturday retained Chegutu by-election with party candidate Tinokura Rydes Machekera clinching the council seat with 240 votes against Zanu PF\u2019s Prosper Matongerwa who polled 184 votes. The seat fell vacant last year following the death of Memory Banda on MDC. Speaking to NewZimbabwe.com soon after victory was confirmed, Machekera said people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":21007,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[38,113,88],"class_list":["post-21005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-parties","tag-zanu-pf","tag-chamisa","tag-mdc"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>MDC retains ward 2 in Chegutu - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:MDC on Saturday retained Chegutu by-election with party candidate Tinokura Rydes Machekera clinching the council seat with\" \/>\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\/mdc-retains-ward-2-in-chegutu\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"MDC retains ward 2 in Chegutu\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:MDC on Saturday retained Chegutu by-election with party candidate Tinokura Rydes Machekera clinching the council seat with\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/mdc-retains-ward-2-in-chegutu\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"zimbabwe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-03-22T16:03:51+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2020\/03\/Rydes-Machekera-5e778b832d7fa.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"798\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"561\" \/>\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\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/mdc-retains-ward-2-in-chegutu#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/mdc-retains-ward-2-in-chegutu\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"MDC retains ward 2 in Chegutu\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-03-22T16:03:51+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/mdc-retains-ward-2-in-chegutu\"},\"wordCount\":235,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/mdc-retains-ward-2-in-chegutu#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2020\/03\/Rydes-Machekera-5e778b832d7fa.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"#Zanu PF\",\"Chamisa\",\"MDC\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"parties\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/mdc-retains-ward-2-in-chegutu#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/mdc-retains-ward-2-in-chegutu\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/mdc-retains-ward-2-in-chegutu\",\"name\":\"MDC retains ward 2 in Chegutu - 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