Zanu-PF claims to have resolved Masvingo disputes
2013 May 19 | 373 Views
The Zanu-PF juggernaut is gathering steam ahead of this year's elections with the party on Saturday resolving disputes that had erupted in the Masvingo Province.A high level team headed by party chairman Simon Khaya Moyo emerged from a series of meetings with party cadres to declare that Lovemore Ma...by Staff Reporter
Zanu-PF team not on a witch hunt, claims Khaya Moyo
2013 May 17 | 1666 Views
The Zanu-PF team that arrives in Masvingo province today [Friday] is not a witch hunt but a mission to ensure that the party gets a resounding electoral victory in the forthcoming polls.Team leader and party national chairman Simon Khaya Moyo said the team, which also includes Zanu-PF Secretary for...by Staff Reporter
Zanu-PF's Kembo Mohadi hospitalised
2013 May 16 | 4333 Views
Home Affairs co-minister Kembo Mohadi was on Tuesday detained at a private Harare hospital with an unknown ailment. Although his wife Tambidzai, a Zanu-PF Beitbridge senator, disputed the claims yesterday, Daily News claims that St Anne's Hospital chief operations officer Sehlule Nkomo could neithe...by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF Masvingo wars intensify
2013 May 15 | 3015 Views
Zanu-PF national chairman Simon Khaya Moyo's three-member probe team is likely to face fierce resistance during its visit to the fractious Masvingo province this week amid allegations that the provincial coordinating committee (met over the weekend and resolved to resist any attempts to dissolve th...by Staff reporter
Infiltration of MDC-T by ZANU-PF is a myth
2013 May 13 | 1953 Views
The postponement of primary elections by MDC-T is a tip of the problems and challenges facing the party as we head towards the home stretch for the harmonised elections to be held this year. The list of the aspiring candidates for some constituencies was finalised some weeks ago. T...by Kennedy Mapesa Mandaza
Battle lines drawn in Zanu-PF
2013 May 07 | 3322 Views
Battle lines have been drawn in President Mugabe's Zanu-PF after the party ended months of speculation and adopted guidelines for primary elections which are likely to be the fiercest fought since independence. Young Turks, soldiers, women and an old guard expecting to be repaid for decades of loyal...by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF fails to pay workers
2013 May 06 | 3067 Views
Over 400 Zanu-PF workers countrywide have gone for 3 months without getting their salaries, as the party is facing serious financial problems. Sources who attended last week's special Politburo meeting said the issue drew the ire of President Mugabe who gave the party's secretary for administration ...by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF Politburo resolves Manicaland discord
2013 May 04 | 3852 Views
The 266th ordinary session of the Zanu PF Politburo which ended early this Saturday morning at the party headquarters in Harare has resolved the Manicaland discord following the adoption of the recommendations by the probe team tasked to find a lasting solution to the challenge.In an interview with ...by Staff Reporter
Zanu-PF central committee meets over primaries
2013 May 04 | 2236 Views
The central committee will today hold a crunch meeting for its first gathering in 2013 after its meeting slated for March was postponed amid mounting tensions triggered by factional fights raging in the provinces.Yesterday, the Zanu-PF Politburo was by last night still locked in a crunch meeting on ...by Staff reporter
President Zuma must not tolerate Zanu-PF's crazy games: Dube
2013 May 01 | 3127 Views
JOHANNESBURG - South African President Jacob Zuma must not tolerate Zanu pf's crazy games when monitor progress made in implementing the election roadmap ahead of Zimbabwe's watershed harmonised poll scheduled for later this year said Leonard Dube, Provincial chairman of Movement for Democratic Chan...by Mkhululi Chimoio
Zanu-PF Politburo to discuss elections next week
2013 April 27 | 2234 Views
Zanu-PF Politburo and Central Committee members will hold separate sessions next week to discuss party restructuring and preparations for the harmonised elections.Party national spokesperson Rugare Gumbo yesterday confirmed that the Politburo and Central Committee will hold their meetings on Thursda...by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF angers Zuma
2013 April 24 | 3935 Views
ZANU-PF is headed for a showdown with Sadc over the party's refusal to implement a Global Political Agreement (GPA) resolution to effect security sector, media and other reforms before the holding of the next election.The party has, through its senior officials, publicly declared a total shut out ...by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF's attempt to re-claim political hegemony
2013 April 23 | 2036 Views
The classic question is why do political parties and governments manipulate elections. This paper offers a more nuanced investigation of why and under what circumstances do authoritarian regimes decide to adopt and drop certain political strategies of manipulating elections. In order to answer this ...by Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition (SA Regional Office)
'MDC-T tampers with voters' roll,' claims Zanu-PF
2013 April 22 | 1601 Views
THE Mashonaland East Zanu-PF leadership say they have unearthed massive irregularities in the voters' roll where suspected MDC-T officials registered their supporters using other people's addresses and unoccupied, condemned hostels.The revelations emerged at the party's provincial coordinating commi...by Staff reporter
Khaya-Moyo Zanu-PF urges supporters to brace for the forthcoming elections
2013 April 21 | 2381 Views
The Zanu-PF National Chairman, Simon Khaya-Moyo has called on party supporters to brace for the forthcoming elections, saying the polls are certainly on course. He said this in the Mafuta farming community, in Rafingora Zvimba north, while addressing party supporters on the occasion of a donation of...by Staff Reporter
Zanu-PF targets San leaders
2013 April 16 | 2615 Views
ZANU-PF has been accused of intimidating members of the San community in Tsholotsho after they complained about marginalisation to National Healing, Reconciliation and Integration co-minister Moses Mzila Ndlovu last year.The Joint Monitoring and Implementation Committee (Jomic) in Matabeleland North...by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF offers soldiers land for their votes
2013 April 14 | 2925 Views
HUNDREDS of soldiers, police officers and other security agents are set to get residential stands ahead of elections in a move being viewed as an attempt by Zanu-PF to buy votes, it has emerged.Officials in the Ministry of Local Government Rural and Urban Development said they had been instruc...by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF stops UN election assessment team
2013 April 14 | 2376 Views
President Robert Mugabe's Zanu-PF has stopped a UN assessment team from entering the country to investigate funding the crucial presidential and parliamentary elections to be held soon.The team, put together by the UN Development Programme, cooled its heels in South Africa this week, unable to get c...by Reuters
Infighting erupts in Mugabe's Zanu-PF
2013 April 11 | 5070 Views
WHILE President Robert Mugabe is standing on solid ground after eliminating internal challenges from within Zanu-PF, infighting among various party camps is threatening to scupper the political entity's bid to reclaim its parliamentary majority.For long, Zanu-PF has expended most of its energies tow...by Staff reporter
MDC-T accuses Zanu-PF of rigging
2013 April 11 | 1992 Views
The Morgan Tsvangirai led MDC has accused Zanu-PF of - rigging - forcing hapless citizens to provide personal information to manipulate of the voter's roll.MDC-T claims that the Mugabe led party is currently involved in an odd exercise of illegally loading voters from the Zanu PF's so-called ...by Ndou Paul
The death of Thatcher exposes ZANU-PF hypocrisy
2013 April 10 | 3395 Views
This week, the world was awakened by the sad news of the death of Baroness Margaret Thatcher, a lady who became probably the first politically recognisable woman leader in the world.In a society where men are supposed to be the dominant figures of politics, the UK Conservative party took the lead in...by Mathula Lusinga
Things Zanu-PF need not do to win resoundingly
2013 April 09 | 2404 Views
Zanu-PF as a revolutionary people's party has done everything right to win the harmonised elections likely to take place this year. Over the years, the party has been consistent on its policies to empower the indigenous Zimbabweans. The successes of the land reform and economic empowerment programme...by Kennedy Mapesa Mandaza
Zanu-PF describe Baroness Margaret Thatcher as mature leader
2013 April 09 | 1488 Views
FORMER British Prime Minister Baroness Margaret Thatcher has died.She was 87Baroness Thatcher, who was Britain's first female premier and the first such in the western hemisphere, succumbed to stroke-related complications. She was the Conservative prime minister from 1979 to 1990 and it was under h...by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF to elect new Vice President
2013 April 07 | 4501 Views
Zanu-PF is set to hold a special congress to elect a new Vice President to fill the void left following the death of John Nkomo early this year.Zanu-PF spokesperson, Rugare Gumbo last week said Zanu-PF was waiting for President Robert Mugabe to indicate when and how the late Nkomo will be replaced."...by Nqobani Ndlovu
Zanu-PF embarks on a sophisticated and multi-pronged elections approach
2013 April 07 | 2644 Views
ZANU-PF is not going to use overt violence at the next election but will embark on a sophisticated and multi-pronged approach to cloak its terror tactics, a report by Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition says.Desperate to win the endorsement of Sadc and the African Union (AU), the report says Zimbabwe wil...by Nqaba Matshazi
In or out of power, Zanu-PF cannot be wished away
2013 April 07 | 2657 Views
Dei kuri kwedu, taidei totoimba manhanga kutapira! Roughly translated, this Shona statement says: "If it was home, we all would have already sung praises to sweet pumpkins." Of course those who hail from a different speech community and culture, might fail to grasp the import of this statement. Yet ...by Nathaniel Manheru
Zanu-PF reads riot act to chairpersons
2013 April 05 | 2653 Views
Zanu-PF chairpersons have been ordered to vigorously rehabilitate shambolic party structures and mobilise support ahead of make or break elections later this year if the party is to emerge victorious. The 10 provincial chairpersons last week met Zanu-PF national chairperson Simon Khaya Moyo, secret...by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF's bid for early elections flops
2013 April 05 | 2556 Views
FOR the past four years Zanu-PF has unsuccessfully tried to railroad Zimbabwe into early elections to end the life of the unity government without implementation of critical reforms as stipulated in the Global Political Agreement (GPA).President Robert Mugabe, increasingly battling advanced age and ...by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai blasts indigenisation, slams Zanu-PF greed
2013 April 05 | 2343 Views
Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai says Zanu-PF's greed will drag Zimbabwe back into the economic doldrums."The risk is that unbridled greed will lead not only to economic stagnation but will also fuel asset-stripping as those in favourable positions pursue a ‘crash and burn' mentality," he said.He...by Staff reporter
Mugabe 'is a very strong and committed Pan Africanist' Khaya-Moyo tells the west
2013 April 04 | 2283 Views
ZANU-PF national chairman Simon Khaya Moyo says the West should back off as African countries have a right to self-determination.Khaya Moyo said this to the ambassador of the Republic of Sudan Mr Elslddleg Abdulaziz Abdalla when he paid a courtesy call on him at the Zanu-PF headquarters in Harare ye...by Staff Reporter
Zanu-PF official fakes daughter's death to get $3,000 from bank
2013 April 03 | 3593 Views
An elderly man who is reportedly a Senior Zanu-PF official in Mhondoro narrowly escaped jail after he faked his daughter's death and claimed US$3,000 from ZB Funeral Assurance.Sekuru Aggrey Chiweshe (63), was convicted of fraud after he misrepresented that his daughter (name withheld for she is a mi...by Staff reporter
Did Zanu-PF shoot itself in the foot in London?
2013 April 03 | 2355 Views
It is now very clear that things did not go as expected by Zanu-PF at the re-engagement talks held last week here in London.First, hopes about the possible lifting of a travel ban and assets free on the Head of State and Commander in Chief, his spouse and a few close associates ahead of...by Clifford Chitupa Mashiri, 2nd April 2013.
Infighting could cost Zanu-PF
2013 April 01 | 2454 Views
Faction-riddled Zanu PF, whose confidence has been boosted by recent poll surveys that showed it was ahead of its rivals, could suffer heavily from the in-fighting that has split it into two camps just three months before the plebiscite, analysts have warned.Elections are set for June or July this ...by Staff Reporter
Human Rights Lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa refuses to be intimidated by ZANU-PF
2013 March 31 | 2493 Views
For more than 20 years, Beatrice Mtetwa has fought for freedom in Zimbabwe.It's a battle that has pitched the human rights lawyer against the aging leader and his state-wide apparatus of terror and intimidation.Like the politicians, journalists and activists she often defends, Ms. Mtetwa has been t...by Staff Reporter
Daggers drawn against Harare High Court Judge
2013 March 28 | 2959 Views
DAGGERS have been drawn out against Harare High Court Judge, Justice Charles Hungwe, days after he ordered searches at the offices of three ZANU-PF ministers as well as issuing a verdict ordering the release of celebrated human rights lawyer, Beatrice Mtetwa. The State media, said to be acting on th...by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's security sector does not need reforms - Zanu-PF
2013 March 28 | 2754 Views
The west's calls for security sector reforms in Zimbabwe have been described as well orchestrated plots to weaken the country for recolonisation, the state media Zbc reported.The issue of security sector reforms in Zimbabwe once again came under the spot light this week in Britain during the re-enga...by Staff Reporter
Britain must stop housing, funding pirate radio stations says Zanu-PF
2013 March 28 | 2811 Views
Zanu-PF says it welcomes the re-engagement efforts by Britain following the icy relations between Zimbabwe and its former coloniser.In a statement, the party's Secretary for Information and Publicity, Rugare Gumo, said they welcome the re-engagement efforts currently underway and "consider them to b...by Staff Reporter
'An assault on Mugabe is an assault on the entirety of Zimbabwe' says Zanu-PF
2013 March 26 | 3218 Views
The Zanu PF Secretary for Information and Publicity, Rugare Gumbo, says the suspension of sanctions by the European Union in respect of 81 Zimbabweans is a non-event, but a desperate attempt aimed at dividing the Zanu-PF and to cause confusion among its officials.Gumbo told the state media that the ...by Staff Reporter
U.S. Party blasts MDC-T and promises to assist Zanu-PF in mobilising the people
2013 March 26 | 3998 Views
In a desperate bid to win the forthcoming presidential elections, Zanu-PF has welcomed members of the New Black Panther Party (NBPP), an American political organization visiting the country. NBPP has promised to assist Zanu-PF in mobilising the people.NBPP was founded in Dallas, Texas in 1989. The ...by Moyo Roy
Zanu-PF sticks to polls by June 29
2013 March 26 | 2474 Views
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe intends to announce new election dates after May 8 as he forges ahead with plans to hold the polls by June 29, it was revealed yesterday.Mugabe made the indication in an urgent chamber application filed at the High Court last Friday seeking an order to be excused from complyi...by Staff Reporter
Behaviour of Zanu-PF, ZRP exceedingly worrying says Ncube
2013 March 24 | 5847 Views
Professor Welshman Ncube the leader of the smaller MDC faction said Zanu-PF and the country's police [ZRP] have moved into a phase which is exceedingly worrying.Ncube said: "the behaviour of the police is certainly worrying, the behaviour of Zanu-PF in the last few weeks is exceedingly worrying." P...by Moyo Roy
'Mugabe, Zanu-PF regroups under GNU'
2013 March 23 | 2701 Views
FAR from genuinely committing to reforms to usher in a democratic dispensation in Zimbabwe, Zanu-PF has been using the Global Political Agreement (GPA) to regroup and recover from an all-time low culminating in President Robert Mugabe's March 2008 first round electoral defeat by the MDC-T leader, Pr...by Herbert Moyo - Elias Mambo
Zanu-PF youths accuse ANC of selling out
2013 March 22 | 3442 Views
Johannesburg-based Zanu-PF youth have accused the ANC of being sell-outs and of complicity in the murder of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, The Star reported on Friday.Chairperson Gift Mtete attacked the ANC while addressing Pan Africanist Congress of Azania supporters at a Human Rights Day ev...by Sapa
Zanu-PF, Sadc on warpath
2013 March 22 | 2462 Views
Zanu-PF has practically declared war on Sadc by refusing to allow SA President Jacob Zuma's facilitation team and the bloc's troika representatives to work with the Global Political Agreement parties through the Joint Monitoring and Implementation Committee. Informed sources say this happened after ...by Staff reporter
ZANU-PF strategists want to go for the kill on MDC factions
2013 March 22 | 2329 Views
ZANU-PF has been buoyed by opinion polls that have placed its leader ahead of PM Tsvangirai, his main rival.As a result, there are some in ZANU-PF who want President Mugabe to dissolve Parliament this month, exactly five years after the March 29, 2008 general elections were held, so that the nation ...by Staff Reporter
Petrol-bombed Zanu-PF official discharged from hospital
2013 March 22 | 1936 Views
ZANU-PF leader for ward 21 in Headlands William Chapepa who was allegedly petrol-bombed and injured by an MDC-T official was yesterday discharged from Rusape General Hospital where he had been admitted for the past two weeks.Chapepa sustained burns on his legs after he was allegedly petrol-bombed by...by Staff Reporter
'I fear for my life' says petrol-bombed Zanu-PF official
2013 March 21 | 2945 Views
ZANU-PF leader for ward 21 in Headlands William Chapepa whose house was allegedly petrol-bombed by an MDC-T official is still admitted to Rusape General Hospital where he is in a stable condition.Chapepa said in an interview with the state media that he was still in pain and has difficulties in walk...by Staff Reporter
When even 'victors' can't celebrate a political fraud!
2013 March 20 | 3346 Views
Where are the celebratory honks and blurting vuvuzelas of Zanu-PF and MDC 'victors'?Where are the hordes of Zimbabwean and Mthwakazians 'bidding' farewell to xenophobic South Africa and heading 'home'? Where are the queues at Beitbridge Border Post?And where are Zimbabweans and Mthwakazians in far l...by Martin Mlevu
'No political will from Mugabe's Zanu-PF'
2013 March 17 | 2825 Views
Dr Morgan Tsvangirai on Saturday called for an urgent summit of southern African leaders to ensure upcoming elections are free and fair.In a statement issued as Zimbabweans voted on a new constitution, Tsvangirai voiced his concern about alleged violence and intimidation by security forces.Many Zimb...by AFP
'Zanu-PF, MDCs are taking Zimbabweans for a ride'
2013 March 15 | 2898 Views
MAVAMBO/KUSILE/DAWN (MKD) leader Simba Makoni yesterday said Zanu-PF and the MDCs were taking Zimbabweans for a ride by pretending that the national crisis the country has faced prompted need for a new constitution.He said the MKD party was encouraging Zimbabweans to vote NO for the draft tomorrow, ...by Staff reporter
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