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Chamisa's MDC to discipline members for using WhatsApp
THE desperate state of affairs within the country’s unravelling opposition has once again been thrust into the spotlight after the MDC Alliance ordered its feuding officials this week to stop discus...Published: 09 Dec 2020 at 21:26hrs | 1576 | by Staff reporter
Squabbles keep Zimbabwe opposition busy
THE desperate state of affairs within the country’s unravelling opposition has once again been thrust into the spotlight after the MDC Alliance ordered its feuding officials this week to stop di...Published: 09 Dec 2020 at 06:21hrs | 1963 | by Staff reporter
3 candidates withdraw from Zanu-PF DCC elections
Three candidates who were contesting for positions in the upcoming Zanu-PF District Coordination Committee (DCC) elections have pulled out at the 11th hour due to what some party insiders believe is a...Published: 05 Dec 2020 at 06:22hrs | 1675 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa threatens to cut loose errant Zanu-PF bigwigs
A LIVID President Emmerson Mnangagwa has warned Zanu-PF bigwigs to be loyal to the party or risk being cut loose, as he bids to contain growing divisions in the former liberation movement.Addr...Published: 27 Nov 2020 at 17:18hrs | 6477 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa stuns key associates
MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa, pictured, is facing a rebellion from former legislators and councillors who were recently recalled from their positions by Thokozani Khupe - after he ordered them t...Published: 14 Nov 2020 at 21:30hrs | 9011 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF supporters storm party offices
SCORES of disgruntled Zanu-PF supporters in Marondera on Tuesday night stormed the ruling party's provincial party offices accusing their leaders of imposing candidates ahead of primaries for the Maro...Published: 31 Oct 2020 at 06:16hrs | 2404 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF targets Harare seats
THE Zanu-PF Harare province has completed primary elections and is now geared for by-elections following the recall of seven MDC-T legislators and 22 councillors. The party's provincial interi...Published: 28 Oct 2020 at 06:25hrs | 327 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF primaries worsen party wars
Zanu-PF has failed to announce the results of its elections to choose the party's parliamentary and council candidates for Harare, amid claims that the polls were riddled with bribery and rampant chea...Published: 22 Oct 2020 at 11:25hrs | 1054 | by Staff Reporter
Zanu-PF primaries worsen party wars
ZANU-PF has failed to announce the results of its elections to choose the party's parliamentary and council candidates for Harare, amid claims that the polls were riddled with bribery and rampant chea...Published: 21 Oct 2020 at 22:19hrs | 1306 | by Staff reporter
Hostilities persist in Chamisa party
HOSTILITIES in the Nelson Chamisa-led MDC Alliance are escalating with each passing day amid complaints that its elections directorate approved unqualified candidates to contest the Highfield West pri...Published: 21 Oct 2020 at 22:18hrs | 3703 | by Staff reporter
Trouble in General Chiwenga's backyard?
Marondera town is a constituency by the official name Marondera central constituency with around 40 000 voters and was under MDC MP Caston Matewu before being recalled. So there is a pending by-electi...Published: 20 Oct 2020 at 18:53hrs | 29278 | by Anonymous
Chamisa's selection of by-election candidates raises temperatures
FRESH trouble is brewing in the MDC Alliance, with its leaders now standing accused of overlooking an agreement which allows the group that came with one of the coalition's deputies, Welshman Ncube, t...Published: 15 Oct 2020 at 20:37hrs | 4534 | by Staff reporter
Violence, chaos rock Zanu-PF primaries
VIOLENCE and chaos rocked Zanu-PF primary elections in Harare over the weekend as the ruling party was forced to postpone the Kuwadzana East polls amid allegations of electoral malpractices.Th...Published: 13 Oct 2020 at 18:49hrs | 420 | by Staff reporter
Protests stall MDC Alliance primaries
BULAWAYO MDC Alliance women's assembly members on Sunday staged a demonstration against the party's leadership, stalling the holding of primary elections to replace the late ward 8 councillor, Ronia M...Published: 13 Oct 2020 at 06:58hrs | 2786 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF ready for by-elections, says Chinamasa
ZANU-PF is ready for by-elections and is proceeding with its primary elections despite an indefinite ban by the government for any plebiscite to be held to curb the spread of Covid-19.The ruli...Published: 11 Oct 2020 at 10:54hrs | 519 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF bigwigs box over positions, power spoils
THIS weekend's Zanu-PF elections to choose the party's parliamentary candidates for Harare are the latest activities of the former liberation movement to be hit by debilitating chaos - with senior off...Published: 09 Oct 2020 at 21:36hrs | 1420 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa allies defect to MDC-T, EFF Zimbabwe
FORMER Chiredzi West MP Moses Mare and several other members of the opposition MDC Alliance have crossed the floor to join the MDC-T led by Thokozani Khupe.Mare said he had no choice after he ...Published: 08 Oct 2020 at 06:57hrs | 4542 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF Mkoba primary poll results out
EDUCATIONIST William Gondo will represent Zanu-PF in the Mkoba constituency by-elections after trouncing four other candidates who were contesting in the party primary elections.Last week, Gov...Published: 05 Oct 2020 at 17:18hrs | 694 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF not to blame for MDC internal strife
ZANU-PF cannot be blamed for the divisions rocking the MDC, a senior ruling party official has said. The MDC is mired in a vicious internal strife with party leader, Dr Thokozani Khupe recalli...Published: 05 Oct 2020 at 06:43hrs | 282 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF to elect candidate for Kwekwe Central
ZANU--PF party is set to conduct primary elections to elect a candidate to stand for the party in the looming Kwekwe Central Constituency by-election.The seat fell vacant following the death i...Published: 01 Oct 2020 at 22:13hrs | 795 | by Staff reporter
Political novice wins Zanu-PF Chivi primary
A ZANU-PF activist considered a political novice has been elected to represent the party in a December by-election to replace sacked Chivi South MP Killer Zivhu.Nine party candidates contested...Published: 01 Oct 2020 at 07:54hrs | 4184 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF conducts Chivi South primaries
Zanu-PF will tomorrow conduct primary elections to choose its parliamentary candidate in Chivi South to fill a vacancy left following the expulsion of Mr Killer Zivhu, who was legislator for the area....Published: 29 Sep 2020 at 18:27hrs | 641 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Ambassador to Israel denies having links with NIKUV
The recently appointed Honorary Consul of Zimbabwe in Israel Ronny Levy Musan has denied allegations that he is linked to Nikuv International Projects a company that was contracted to rig the 2013&nbs...Published: 31 Aug 2020 at 07:49hrs | 2876 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mliswa body-shames 'flat-bottomed' Zanu-PF rivals
FIERY Norton legislator, Temba Mliswa has waded into simmering Zanu-PF factional wars, accusing some party elements of plotting to oust President Emmerson Mnangagwa.In a leaked 16-minute audio...Published: 08 Aug 2020 at 09:41hrs | 4422 | by newzimbabwe
Importance of holding 'primary elections', 'elective ordinary congresses' & 'elective extra ordinary congresses' to choose deser
Ladies and gentlemen with all that is currently happening within opposition politics in our beloved country Zimbabwe, and now with Harvest House reportedly taken over by the so called "constitutionali...Published: 06 Jun 2020 at 18:37hrs | 468 | by Tondo
Why was Energy Mutodi fired?
Energy Mutodi has been hogging the lime light for all sorts of reasons. He has risen in Politics to be a deputy minister of Information. This was a ...Published: 23 May 2020 at 05:59hrs | 16427 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Arrogance vs ignorance: How the MDC's lurching deeper into chaos
RECENTLY, I wrote two articles which were both published in the Zimbabwe Independent. The first was an opinion piece titled The MDC imbroglio is devastating for the opposition. In the opinion piece, I...Published: 15 May 2020 at 08:16hrs | 758 | by Jonathan Chando
Nguluvhe details Manama wartime recruitment
IN January 1977, the ring of a bell, usually alerting pupils at Manama High School in Gwanda District, Matabeleland South, of the time to go to the dining hall for supper, signalled a new chapter for ...Published: 04 May 2020 at 07:48hrs | 1545 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa is 'illegitimate' says Zanu-PF chairman |
THE recent Supreme Court "Corona judgement" has inadvertently opened opportunities for as Zanu-PF district chairman to be the ‘Mashavira' of the ruling party as he plots to approach the courts to ch...Published: 28 Apr 2020 at 19:47hrs | 9424 | by Staff reporter
Before his downfall, a man's heart is proud, but Humility comes before Honour - The MDC Supreme Court Judgment
It's been 3 weeks and the Supreme Court judgment on the MDC case has come and gone, but questions remain in people's minds. Was the judgment just and fair, given the material facts and evidence presen...Published: 23 Apr 2020 at 14:23hrs | 3096 | by Jonathan Chando
Chamisa ring-fences sitting MPs
OPPOSITION MDC leader Nelson Chamisa has dissuaded his party councillors from challenging siting MPs to avoid destabilising the party, a move likely seen by observers as an act of ring-fencing his cur...Published: 16 Mar 2020 at 07:09hrs | 2475 | by Staff reporter
Matemadanda blasts Mukupe as ungrateful spoiled child
Some youths have become the prisoners of erratic selfish morons known for demanding loyalty and recognition but not famous for repaying it. ZANU PF through comrade Emerson Mnangagwa has empowe...Published: 04 Mar 2020 at 07:04hrs | 5023 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Is the US ready for a gay president?
When the ancient Romans saw the African horse (the zebra), they announced that those who want to experience wonders must visit Africa. Today, the surprising showing of 37-year-old Pete Buttigieg, a ga...Published: 16 Feb 2020 at 08:41hrs | 637 | by Kenneth Mufuka
'Zanu-PF bigwigs should retire from govt'
THE Zanu-PF women's league has called on ageing party bigwigs to retire from government and pave way for younger women in a bid to revive the shrinking economy.Speaking at a national gender fo...Published: 25 Nov 2019 at 07:02hrs | 1764 | by Staff reporter
Zesn urges parties to invest in campaigns
INDEPENDENT election watchdog, Zimbabwe Election Support Network (Zesn) has urged political parties to invest in campaign processes to ensure a large voter turnout during polling elections.Zes...Published: 20 Sep 2019 at 07:38hrs | 154 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa 2023 victory inevitable, says Hungwe
While the country continues on its economic freefall, plunging the majority of Zimbabweans into extreme poverty with all fingers now pointing at Zanu-PF, politburo member Josaya Hungwe has said Presid...Published: 07 Sep 2019 at 19:54hrs | 1901 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF approves 10 candidates for Zaka East primaries
It is all systems go for the Zanu-PF's Zaka East primaries set for this Saturday, August 03, with the provincial elections directorate having now approved 10 applications out of 12 submissions....Published: 03 Aug 2019 at 09:43hrs | 359 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF 'candidate' in 3 accidents in 2 weeks
Prospective Zanu-PF candidate for Zaka East parliamentary by-election, Talent Chivange was involved in three road traffic accidents in the past fortnight, TellZim News can report.Chivange was ...Published: 27 Jul 2019 at 17:02hrs | 2480 | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai's son seek to preserve the legacy of the Tsvangirai family
LATE MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai's son Vincent is eying a seat in Parliament after winning the party's internal primary elections ahead of the September 7, Glen View South constituency by-election....Published: 24 Jul 2019 at 08:17hrs | 1627 | by Staff reporter
Ex-Zanu-PF MP's life in danger
Former Zanu-PF legislator for Mutasa South, Irene Zindi says her life is under threat after unknown persons besieged her farm last week and kidnapped her supervisor.Writing on her Twitter, the...Published: 22 Jul 2019 at 08:17hrs | 1894 | by newzimbabwe
Late Zanu-PF MP's widow selected for by-election
ZANU-PF Matabeleland South Province has selected the widow of the late Mangwe MP, Obedingwa Mguni, Hlalani Mguni to represent the party in the upcoming by-election in the constituency.The Nomi...Published: 19 Jul 2019 at 07:31hrs | 3169 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF starts campaign for Lupane East by-election
ZANU-PF has officially launched its campaign to drum up support for its Lupane East by-election candidate, Mbongeni Dube, ahead of the election set for August 3. The launch was done at a rally...Published: 12 Jul 2019 at 07:40hrs | 319 | by Staff reporter
Ex-MDC mayor gets Mercedes-Benz as golden handshake
The Municipality of Marondera is set to give former mayor Anthony Makwindi a Mercedes-Benz C200 or equivalent as part of his golden handshake.This was revealed in a full council meeting held a...Published: 20 Jun 2019 at 08:05hrs | 2319 | by Staff reporter
9 to contest in Lupane East by-election
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) has said preparations for the Lupane East constituency by-election are at an advanced stage after nine candidates successfully filed their papers at the Nominat...Published: 20 Jun 2019 at 07:53hrs | 883 | by Staff reporter
The oxymoron of democracy in Chamisa's MDC
The MDC-Alliance led by Nelson Chamisa is a party full of contradictions. It is common cause that the party is called the Movement for Democratic Change, itself a presumption of its "democratic" crede...Published: 14 Jun 2019 at 07:50hrs | 359 | by Philemon Mutedzi
Chibaya blames MDC bigwigs for chaotic structures
MDC Alliance national organising secretary Amos Chibaya last week blamed the party's top leadership for the party's loss in Chiredzi West during the harmonised elections last year, saying imposition o...Published: 25 May 2019 at 15:33hrs | 1699 | by Staff reporter
MDC Chamisa holds Nyanga by-election primaries
THE MDC Alliance party will hold its primary vote tomorrow to select a candidate who will represent the party in the Nyanga Rural District Council ward 26 by-election.This comes after the Zimb...Published: 21 May 2019 at 07:27hrs | 2068 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora humiliates Chamisa?
MDC Alliance secretary general Mr Douglas Mwonzora left his leader Mr Nelson Chamisa holding his head in shame when he exposed the party's flawed process in the holding of internal polls that led to t...Published: 18 May 2019 at 08:04hrs | 3042 | by Staff reporter
Fake projects scandal: MP Musikavanhu plots to steal CDF
Chiredzi West Member of Parliament (MP) Farai Musikavanhu is having a hard time explaining why he mentioned projects that have already been done in his application for the Constituency Development Fun...Published: 19 Apr 2019 at 07:12hrs | 457 | by Staff reporter
'The independent mind of an American son'
I have often heard people saying Devine Mafa is doing his father a lot of injustice by criticizing Chamisa. Listening to his father's unfettered support of Chamisa I took it upon myself to find out if...Published: 03 Apr 2019 at 15:08hrs | 261 | by Simangalizwe Khumalo
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