{"id":36550,"date":"2021-03-14T14:12:21","date_gmt":"2021-03-14T12:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/?p=36550"},"modified":"2021-03-14T13:47:34","modified_gmt":"2021-03-14T11:47:34","slug":"polad-members-demanding-diplomatic-passports-farms-and-vehicles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/polad-members-demanding-diplomatic-passports-farms-and-vehicles","title":{"rendered":"POLAD Members Demanding Diplomatic Passports, Farms And Vehicles"},"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>Political actors in President Mnangagwa\u2019s preferred dialogue platform POLAD are reportedly demanding farms, diplomatic passports and vehicles for them to effectively carry out their duties, The Standard reports.<\/p>\n<p>President Mnangagwa is reportedly actively considering honouring the requests of the POLAD (Political Actors\u2019 Dialogue) Members according to a source that spoke to the publication and said:<\/p>\n<p>\u2026There is also an issue of diplomatic passports and vehicles. We are getting fuel coupons now and there has been an element of discontent from some of us to say they also need to be capacitated.<\/p>\n<p>POLAD members were reportedly told to put their requests before Justice Ministry Permanent Secretary Virginia Mabhiza by President Mnangagwa who refused to comment on the issue when she was contacted for comment.<\/p>\n<p>POLAD was incorporated in 2019 by President Mnangagwa and it is made up of parties that participated in the 2018 elections except for the MDC Alliance which stated that they will not be joining the POLAD \u201ccharade\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>More: The Standard<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. Political actors in President Mnangagwa\u2019s preferred dialogue platform POLAD are reportedly demanding farms, diplomatic passports and vehicles for them to effectively carry out their duties, The Standard reports. President Mnangagwa is reportedly actively considering honouring the requests of the POLAD (Political Actors\u2019 Dialogue) Members according to a source that spoke to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":36549,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,35,12,15],"tags":[1493,2189,19],"class_list":["post-36550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-policy","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-zimbabwe-2","tag-zimbabwe"],"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>POLAD Members Demanding Diplomatic Passports, Farms And Vehicles - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Political actors in President Mnangagwa\u2019s preferred dialogue platform POLAD are reportedly demanding farms, diplomatic p ...\" \/>\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\/polad-members-demanding-diplomatic-passports-farms-and-vehicles\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"POLAD Members Demanding Diplomatic Passports, Farms And Vehicles\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Political actors in President Mnangagwa\u2019s preferred dialogue platform POLAD are reportedly demanding farms, diplomatic p ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/polad-members-demanding-diplomatic-passports-farms-and-vehicles\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"zimbabwe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-03-14T12:12:21+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2021\/03\/img-604df7ba73a01.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1008\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"640\" \/>\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\/polad-members-demanding-diplomatic-passports-farms-and-vehicles#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/polad-members-demanding-diplomatic-passports-farms-and-vehicles\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"POLAD Members Demanding Diplomatic Passports, Farms And Vehicles\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-03-14T12:12:21+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/polad-members-demanding-diplomatic-passports-farms-and-vehicles\"},\"wordCount\":173,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/polad-members-demanding-diplomatic-passports-farms-and-vehicles#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2021\/03\/img-604df7ba73a01.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Zimbabwe\",\"Zimbabwe\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"policy\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/polad-members-demanding-diplomatic-passports-farms-and-vehicles#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/polad-members-demanding-diplomatic-passports-farms-and-vehicles\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/polad-members-demanding-diplomatic-passports-farms-and-vehicles\",\"name\":\"POLAD Members Demanding Diplomatic Passports, Farms And Vehicles - 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