{"id":25141,"date":"2021-07-19T10:11:53","date_gmt":"2021-07-19T07:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=25141"},"modified":"2021-07-19T10:11:55","modified_gmt":"2021-07-19T07:11:55","slug":"zimbabwe-ruling-party-denies-plan-to-ban-miniskirts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2021\/07\/19\/zimbabwe-ruling-party-denies-plan-to-ban-miniskirts\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe Ruling Party Denies Plan To Ban Miniskirts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Zimbabwe&#8217;s ruling party has denied reports it intends to ban women and girls from wearing miniskirts and trousers in public places.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Zanu-PF national spokesman Simon Khaya Moyo&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ZANUPF_Official\/status\/1416761001979092992?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in a statement<\/a>&nbsp;described such reports as fake news.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It followed reports that the party was planning to introduce legislation that would make it illegal for women aged 16 and above to wear trousers and miniskirts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Zanu-PF distances itself from circulating fake news saying the party is lobbying for the disbandment of miniskirts and trousers,&#8221; said the statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The party accused an NGO allied to opposition party MDC for spreading the rumours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mr Moyo said Zimbabwe&#8217;s liberation struggle was fought by both men and women (through the Women&#8217;s League) and the party had made &#8220;significant strides&#8221; to advance women&#8217;s rights in a number of ways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;It is therefore ridiculous that a giant mass party formed and existing on the shoulders of an empowered Women&#8217;s League can be attributed such trivia on dressing,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zimbabwe&#8217;s ruling party has denied reports it intends to ban women and girls from wearing miniskirts and trousers in public places. Zanu-PF national spokesman Simon Khaya Moyo&nbsp;in a statement&nbsp;described such reports as fake news. It followed reports that the party was planning to introduce legislation that would make it illegal for women aged 16 and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":25143,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_paywall_metabox":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[161],"tags":[31,197],"class_list":["post-25141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-featured","tag-zimbabwe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27983"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25144,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25141\/revisions\/25144"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}