{"id":80957,"date":"2023-07-22T18:51:53","date_gmt":"2023-07-22T16:51:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/just-in-mwonzoras-secretary-for-information-dumps-him-for-zanu-pf"},"modified":"2023-07-22T22:12:24","modified_gmt":"2023-07-22T20:12:24","slug":"just-in-mwonzoras-secretary-for-information-dumps-him-for-zanu-pf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/just-in-mwonzoras-secretary-for-information-dumps-him-for-zanu-pf","title":{"rendered":"JUST IN: Mwonzora\u2019s Secretary for Information dumps him for Zanu PF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. <\/strong><\/span><b>By Staff Reporter<\/b><\/p>\n<p>MDC President Douglas Mwonzora\u2019s Secretary for Information Witness Dube is at Zanu PF\u2019s rally in Centenary, Mashonaland West where expectations are that he will be paraded before tens of thousands as an opposition defactor.<\/p>\n<p>Dube announced his resignation Saturday morning before sharing an image of himself brandishing a fist Zanu PF-style while seated beside fellow defactor Blessing Chebundo at the rally.<\/p>\n<p>Like Chebundo, Dube was clad in full Zanu PF regalia including a barrette, a jacket and tshirt with President Emmerson Mnangagwa\u2019s face on the front.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlease accept this letter as formal notification that I am resigning from my position as the party\u2019s National Secretary for Information and Publicity with immediate effect,\u201d read Dube\u2019s resignation letter addressed to Mwonzora and members of the MDC.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI also wish to terminate my membership of the party which I have held since 11 November 1999, also with immediate effect.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRegrettably there will be nothing more I can do to wrap up my duties as I will be joining a new political home which I am looking forward to instantly serving to the best and all of my abilities.\u201d<\/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. By Staff Reporter MDC President Douglas Mwonzora\u2019s Secretary for Information Witness Dube is at Zanu PF\u2019s rally in Centenary, Mashonaland West where expectations are that he will be paraded before tens of thousands as an opposition defactor. Dube announced his resignation Saturday morning before sharing an image of himself brandishing a fist [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":80955,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,12],"tags":[1493,2189,19],"class_list":["post-80957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","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>JUST IN: Mwonzora\u2019s Secretary for Information dumps him for Zanu PF - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"By Staff Reporter MDC President Douglas Mwonzora\u2019s Secretary for Information Witness Dube is at Zanu PF\u2019s rally ...\" \/>\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\/just-in-mwonzoras-secretary-for-information-dumps-him-for-zanu-pf\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"JUST IN: Mwonzora\u2019s Secretary for Information dumps him for Zanu PF\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"By Staff Reporter MDC President Douglas Mwonzora\u2019s Secretary for Information Witness Dube is at Zanu PF\u2019s rally ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/just-in-mwonzoras-secretary-for-information-dumps-him-for-zanu-pf\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"zimbabwe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-07-22T16:51:53+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-07-22T20:12:24+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2023\/07\/sm_1690040439.428684.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1080\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"799\" \/>\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\/just-in-mwonzoras-secretary-for-information-dumps-him-for-zanu-pf#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/just-in-mwonzoras-secretary-for-information-dumps-him-for-zanu-pf\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"JUST IN: Mwonzora\u2019s Secretary for Information dumps him for Zanu PF\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-07-22T16:51:53+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-07-22T20:12:24+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/just-in-mwonzoras-secretary-for-information-dumps-him-for-zanu-pf\"},\"wordCount\":215,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/just-in-mwonzoras-secretary-for-information-dumps-him-for-zanu-pf#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2023\/07\/sm_1690040439.428684.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Zimbabwe\",\"Zimbabwe\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/just-in-mwonzoras-secretary-for-information-dumps-him-for-zanu-pf#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/just-in-mwonzoras-secretary-for-information-dumps-him-for-zanu-pf\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/just-in-mwonzoras-secretary-for-information-dumps-him-for-zanu-pf\",\"name\":\"JUST IN: Mwonzora\u2019s Secretary for Information dumps him for Zanu PF - zimbabwe\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/just-in-mwonzoras-secretary-for-information-dumps-him-for-zanu-pf#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/just-in-mwonzoras-secretary-for-information-dumps-him-for-zanu-pf#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2023\/07\/sm_1690040439.428684.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-07-22T16:51:53+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-07-22T20:12:24+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"description\":\"By Staff Reporter MDC President Douglas Mwonzora\u2019s Secretary for Information Witness Dube is at Zanu PF\u2019s rally ...\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/just-in-mwonzoras-secretary-for-information-dumps-him-for-zanu-pf#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/just-in-mwonzoras-secretary-for-information-dumps-him-for-zanu-pf\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/just-in-mwonzoras-secretary-for-information-dumps-him-for-zanu-pf#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2023\/07\/sm_1690040439.428684.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2023\/07\/sm_1690040439.428684.jpg\",\"width\":1080,\"height\":799,\"caption\":\"JUST IN: Mwonzora\u2019s Secretary for Information dumps him for Zanu PF\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/just-in-mwonzoras-secretary-for-information-dumps-him-for-zanu-pf#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"JUST IN: Mwonzora\u2019s Secretary for Information dumps him for Zanu PF\"}]},{\"@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\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\",\"name\":\"cfeditoren\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"JUST IN: Mwonzora\u2019s Secretary for Information dumps him for Zanu PF - zimbabwe","description":"By Staff Reporter MDC President Douglas Mwonzora\u2019s Secretary for Information Witness Dube is at Zanu PF\u2019s rally ...","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\/just-in-mwonzoras-secretary-for-information-dumps-him-for-zanu-pf","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"JUST IN: Mwonzora\u2019s Secretary for Information dumps him for Zanu PF","og_description":"By Staff Reporter MDC President Douglas Mwonzora\u2019s Secretary for Information Witness Dube is at Zanu PF\u2019s rally ...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/just-in-mwonzoras-secretary-for-information-dumps-him-for-zanu-pf","og_site_name":"zimbabwe","article_published_time":"2023-07-22T16:51:53+00:00","article_modified_time":"2023-07-22T20:12:24+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1080,"height":799,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2023\/07\/sm_1690040439.428684.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":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/just-in-mwonzoras-secretary-for-information-dumps-him-for-zanu-pf#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/just-in-mwonzoras-secretary-for-information-dumps-him-for-zanu-pf"},"author":{"name":"cfeditoren","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"headline":"JUST IN: Mwonzora\u2019s Secretary for Information dumps him for Zanu PF","datePublished":"2023-07-22T16:51:53+00:00","dateModified":"2023-07-22T20:12:24+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/just-in-mwonzoras-secretary-for-information-dumps-him-for-zanu-pf"},"wordCount":215,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/just-in-mwonzoras-secretary-for-information-dumps-him-for-zanu-pf#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2023\/07\/sm_1690040439.428684.jpg","keywords":["Africa Press","Africa Press-Zimbabwe","Zimbabwe"],"articleSection":["all news","policy"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/just-in-mwonzoras-secretary-for-information-dumps-him-for-zanu-pf#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/just-in-mwonzoras-secretary-for-information-dumps-him-for-zanu-pf","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/just-in-mwonzoras-secretary-for-information-dumps-him-for-zanu-pf","name":"JUST IN: Mwonzora\u2019s Secretary for Information dumps him for Zanu PF - zimbabwe","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/just-in-mwonzoras-secretary-for-information-dumps-him-for-zanu-pf#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/just-in-mwonzoras-secretary-for-information-dumps-him-for-zanu-pf#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2023\/07\/sm_1690040439.428684.jpg","datePublished":"2023-07-22T16:51:53+00:00","dateModified":"2023-07-22T20:12:24+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"description":"By Staff Reporter MDC President Douglas Mwonzora\u2019s Secretary for Information Witness Dube is at Zanu PF\u2019s rally ...","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/just-in-mwonzoras-secretary-for-information-dumps-him-for-zanu-pf#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/just-in-mwonzoras-secretary-for-information-dumps-him-for-zanu-pf"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/just-in-mwonzoras-secretary-for-information-dumps-him-for-zanu-pf#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2023\/07\/sm_1690040439.428684.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2023\/07\/sm_1690040439.428684.jpg","width":1080,"height":799,"caption":"JUST IN: Mwonzora\u2019s Secretary for Information dumps him for Zanu PF"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/just-in-mwonzoras-secretary-for-information-dumps-him-for-zanu-pf#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"JUST IN: Mwonzora\u2019s Secretary for Information dumps him for Zanu PF"}]},{"@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\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb","name":"cfeditoren"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}