{"id":23666,"date":"2011-12-29T14:22:52","date_gmt":"2011-12-29T14:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/12\/zimbabwe-explosion-hits-ruling-party-office\/"},"modified":"2011-12-29T14:22:52","modified_gmt":"2011-12-29T14:22:52","slug":"zimbabwe-explosion-hits-ruling-party-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/12\/29\/zimbabwe-explosion-hits-ruling-party-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Explosion &#8216;Hits Ruling Party Office&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rnw.nl\/africa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/img\/static\/publishers\/minibanners\/rnw180.png\" alt=\"Radio Netherlands Worldwide (Hilversum)\" title=\"Visit Radio Netherlands Worldwide (Hilversum)\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>29 December 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>An explosion hit the provincial office of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe&#8217;s ZANU-PF in the central city of Gweru, causing only material damage, state media reported on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are still investigating the cause of the explosion&#8221; which occurred late Tuesday, police inspector Patrick Chademana told The Herald newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>He said nobody was injured by the blast, which took place in the city of Gweru, 275 kilometres (170 miles) south of the capital Harare, and shattered the building&#8217;s windows.<\/p>\n<p>Passmore Washaya, ZANU-PF&#8217;s provincial administrator, said the blast was &#8220;an act of aggression by our enemies, especially the MDC,&#8221; referring to the Movement for Democratic Change.<\/p>\n<p>The MDC, which is led the country&#8217;s prime minister and Mugabe&#8217;s uneasy governing coalition partner Morgan Tsvangirai, denied the allegation as unfounded.<\/p>\n<p>Mutual recrimination has intensified between the two parties in recent weeks and the country is expected to hold a fresh election in 2012. &#8211; <em>ANP\/AFP<\/em><\/p>\n<p>AllAfrica &#8211; All the Time<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<fieldset>\n<legend align=\"center\"><strong>More News on allAfrica.com<\/strong><\/legend>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 29 December 2011 An explosion hit the provincial office of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe&#8217;s ZANU-PF in the central city of Gweru, causing only material damage, state media reported on Thursday. &#8220;We are still investigating the cause of the explosion&#8221; which occurred late Tuesday, police inspector Patrick Chademana told The Herald newspaper. He said nobody was injured by the blast, which took place in the city of Gweru, 275 kilometres (170 miles) south of the capital Harare, and shattered the building&#8217;s windows<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Zimbabwe: Explosion &#039;Hits Ruling Party Office&#039; - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\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.ghanamma.com\/2011\/12\/29\/zimbabwe-explosion-hits-ruling-party-office\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Zimbabwe: Explosion &#039;Hits Ruling Party Office&#039; - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"29 December 2011 An explosion hit the provincial office of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe&#039;s ZANU-PF in the central city of Gweru, causing only material damage, state media reported on Thursday. &quot;We are still investigating the cause of the explosion&quot; which occurred late Tuesday, police inspector Patrick Chademana told The Herald newspaper. 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