Columnist / Jacob mafume
Anti-Corruption Commision resignations must be explained in full
The MDC notes with suspicion the release of information pertaining to resignations at the anti-corrution commission.While we would accept that the commissioners had failed dismally to deliver ...Published: 31 Jan 2019 at 13:50hrs | | by Jacob Mafume MDC National Spokesperson
The MDC is against the second Murambatsvina
The ongoing destruction of people's businesses synonymous of operation Murambatsvina is not only sad but inconsiderate.It is an indictment on the Zanu PF government and reveals their lack of c...Published: 29 Jan 2019 at 15:20hrs | | by Jacob Mafume MDC National Spokesperson
Sober people must handle the Doctors' impasse
The ongoing strike of medical practitioners which is now on day 28 is a serious matter, it is lives of Zimbabweans at stake and it requires delicate handling.So far, madness has been displayed...Published: 28 Dec 2018 at 16:36hrs | | by Jacob Mafume - MDC National Spokesperson
Chamisa sends state into panic mode
The People's President, Advocate Nelson Chamisa today made spot visits to several places in the City of Harare speaking to citizens and assessing the plight of the Zimbabwean people.President ...Published: 24 Dec 2018 at 19:23hrs | | by Jacob Mafume ,MDC National Spokesperson
Charamba's utterances misplaced, misdirected, inciting and in breach of constitution
Our attention has been drawn to media remarks by Mnangagwa's administration through George Charamba, Deputy Chief Secretary to the President and Cabinet (Presidential Communications), who also doubles...Published: 28 Nov 2018 at 09:39hrs | | by Jacob Mafume MDC Nationa Spokesperson
Setting the record straight on VP Mudzuri - MDC
The MDC informs the media and the public that a story circulating on social media pertaining expulsion of Vice President Eng. Elias Mudzuri is false.No party Spokesperson nor any other leader ...Published: 27 Nov 2018 at 13:53hrs | | by Jacob Mafume MDC National Spokesperson
Nothing for the poor in the anti-people budget
After the events of November 2017, then Finance Minister Patrick Chinamasa announced a budget filled with sound bites in what he termed the "New Economic Order".The gullible gave him a standin...Published: 23 Nov 2018 at 12:05hrs | | by Clr Jacob Mafume National Spokesperson
Mayors selected in accordance to party procedures and processes
The MDC takes this opportunity to put on record the process which the MDC followed in electing mayors in various municipalities across the country.1. The party called for expression of interes...Published: 07 Nov 2018 at 11:18hrs | | by Clr Jacob Mafume MDC National Spokesperson
Old habits die as Zanu PF claims MDC planning insurgency
The MDC condemns in strongest terms the continued attempt by Zanu PF to close the democratic space in Zimbabwe. Through the ZBC, Zanu PF sensationally claims that the MDC is planning an insurgency, a ...Published: 07 Nov 2018 at 08:29hrs | | by Clr Jacob Mafume MDC National Spokesperson
MDC deplores heavy police deployment in cities
The MDC notes with alarm the unwarranted heavy deployment of police in the streets of Harare and other cities. The apparent "securocratisation" of the state by the illegitimate Zanu PF Government is a...Published: 11 Oct 2018 at 11:41hrs | | by Jacob Mafume MDC National Spokesperson
Shootings a manifestation of bigger problems
Yesterday's cold blood murder in broad daylight of a Harare man is a justification of the call in President Chamisa's five -point plan on the need for dialogue to attain peace in Zimbabwe.The ...Published: 11 Oct 2018 at 11:40hrs | | by Jacob Mafume MDC National Spokesperson
Monetary Policy and Fiscal measures a toxic concoction
Two grown men teamed up to accelerate and exacerbate the already unpalatable suffering of the Zimbabwean people. Zimbabweans who have lost all but hope tuned into different media platforms expecting r...Published: 02 Oct 2018 at 16:45hrs | | by Jacob Mafume MDC National Spokesperson
Bleak Workers Day Celebrations
Tomorrow, the working people of Zimbabwe will again converge to celebrate workers day or rather to interrogate the plight of the working people of Zimbabwe.38 years after independence the peop...Published: 30 Apr 2018 at 23:29hrs | | by Jacob Mafume PDP Spokesperson, MDC Alliance Information Committee
Zimbabwe Airways scandal a continuation of the ZANU-PF looting machine
The unfolding theatrics involving Zimbabwe Airways, Air Zimbabwe and central government exposes the rhetoric around combating corruption being parroted by the Mnangagwa government.It confirms ...Published: 12 Apr 2018 at 14:55hrs | 1 | by Jacob Mafume - PDP Spokesperson, MDC Alliance Information Committee
PDP's statement on violence at Tsvangirai funeral
The People's Democratic Party joins the MDC-T and the MDC Alliance at large in appreciating the citizens who braved the weather to pay their last respects to our departed leader at the residence, at H...Published: 22 Feb 2018 at 13:39hrs | | by Jacob Mafume PDP Spokesperson
Basics price hikes expose the myths of Chinamasa's budget
On the 8th of December President Biti presented the MDC Alliance's alternative national agenda towards a transformative democratic developmental state. We challenged the myths around grow...Published: 18 Dec 2017 at 10:32hrs | | by Jacob Mafume PDP Spokesperson
Chinamasa should have been fired ages ago
EDITOR,The man at the centre of economic decline in the Motherland is in the United States attending meetings meant for Treasury officials, with the shock from the non-event called a reshuffle...Published: 14 Oct 2017 at 15:20hrs | | by Jacob Mafume
Resign, a reshuffle is a waste of everyone's time - PDP
Zimbabwe has for a long time been caught in a permanent fudge status quo, straddling from one crisis to another, radar-less, leaderless and clueless.Government business has come to a standstil...Published: 09 Oct 2017 at 12:04hrs | | by Jacob Mafume PDP Spokesperson
ZANU-PF must face it; the balance sheet reflects failure in absolute terms
Recent developments that have seen service stations running dry and poor Zimbabweans failing to make it to work this morning are an indictment on Mugabe's leadership, Patrick's Chinamonics and the hyp...Published: 25 Sep 2017 at 13:19hrs | | by Jacob Mafume PDP Spokesperson
Early elections will be another sham
Proclamation 6 of 2017 sets 14 September as the commencement voter registration ending on the 15th of January 2018, the PDP is of the view that the proclamation is premature.We are of the view...Published: 11 Sep 2017 at 12:56hrs | | by Jacob Mafume PDP Spokesperson
Wheels come off Chinamasa's mystic wagon, the bond note myth is exposed
The wheels have come off Chinamasa's mystic wagon, the unorthodox attempt to get around fundamental rules and principles of economics have failed, his cosmetic fiscal tactics are finally exposed as we...Published: 06 Sep 2017 at 19:31hrs | | by Jacob Mafume PDP Spokesperson
Mugabes' stinking billion dollar scam
The People's Democratic Party stated before that the First Family is bent on destroying everything in its way like a delinquent teenager. Zimbabwe the nation state needs salvation from them.Ot...Published: 11 Aug 2017 at 12:55hrs | | by Jacob Mafume PDP Spokesperson
Ghost workers and Bond Notes, ZANUPF continues to blunder
Dementia and derangement seem not to go away from the motherland; the citizen craves a policy blunder free week. The previous weeks and days have not been different, a quick reminder that policy blund...Published: 08 Aug 2017 at 12:05hrs | | by Jacob Mafume - PDP Spokesperson
Moral crisis concerns the PDP
The People's Democratic Party is concerned that moral decay is intensifying unabated; a quick read of local headlines supports this fact,newspapers in Zimbabwe now have sections resembling scand...Published: 31 Jul 2017 at 14:19hrs | | by Jacob Mafume PDP Spokesperson
Amendment number one ten steps backwards
The greatest undoing of the current government in the past four years has been the failure to align the laws to the new constitution.Funny excuses have been mentioned by the authorities as to ...Published: 25 Jul 2017 at 16:04hrs | | by Jacob Mafume PDP Spokesperson
State capture must be fought by all patriotic citizens - PDP
Command agriculture a project fronted by Lacoste cartel frontman Mnangagwa is the latest version of state capture in Zimbabwe.Zimbabweans have collectively allowed the mafia to capture the sta...Published: 05 Jul 2017 at 16:05hrs | | by Jacob Mafume - PDP Spokesperson
Government intention to print more bond notes insane
The ZANUPF governmentâs intention to extent what they call the a bond facility is not only worrying but a sign of failure to deal with the cash crisis.We stated before that the bond note was...Published: 03 Jul 2017 at 11:03hrs | | by Jacob Mafume - PDP Spokesperson
ZANU-PF roadblocks lie raises questions
On the 19th of June 2017, the Minister of Home Affairs Ignatious Chombo together with his Deputy Obedingwa Mguni told parliament that they were going to reduce ordinary roadblocks to just four per pro...Published: 29 Jun 2017 at 11:39hrs | | by Jacob Mafume - PDP Spokesperson
NIKUV leaks vindicates the PDP
On the 6th of June 2017, the People's Democratic Party expressed its concern on the way ZEC was handling the procurement of the BVR equipment. We highlighted that the public outcry over t...Published: 22 Jun 2017 at 12:56hrs | | by Jacob Mafume - PDP Spokesperson
Command Dog's Breakfast manifesting at GMB Deports
The chaos brewing outside Grain Market Board depots is a reflection of the concerns the PDP have always shared about the incompetence of this government, its lack of vision and the inability to plan a...Published: 21 Jun 2017 at 10:38hrs | | by Jacob Mafume - PDP Spokesperson
Companies closure a concern - PDP
The People's Democratic Party recently released a statement outlining concern over Deputy President Mnangagwa's demonstration of ignorance of the real Zimbabwe we are living in.Mnangagwa's dis...Published: 19 Jun 2017 at 07:00hrs | | by Jacob Mafume - PDP Spokesperson
Failed Mugabe cannot lecture us on coalition - PDP
President Mugabe is a little big man who cannot lecture us on any subject let alone give advice on how the democratic contingent must remove him from power.The fact of the matter is that Mugab...Published: 17 Jun 2017 at 10:14hrs | | by Jacob Mafume - PDP Spokesperson
Despots an insult to the Day of the African Child
Today the African Continent commemorates the heroic acts of the Soweto Uprising in 1976.Young people took it upon themselves to confront the evil apartheid regime in an endeavour to free the black peo...Published: 16 Jun 2017 at 09:55hrs | | by Jacob Mafume - PDP Spokesperson
The beauty of democracy displayed in the United Kingdom
Elections in United Kingdom signify the beauty of Democracy, Political Parties and the People of that country must be commended for once again showing tolerance and respect for divergent views....Published: 09 Jun 2017 at 16:01hrs | | by Jacob Mafume - PDP Spokesperson
Increasing budget deficit a sign of Zanu-PF madness
The hallmark of running a successful economy is the ability to balance the books, a functional government must be able to live within its means and ensure micro economic stability.ZANUPF lives...Published: 08 Jun 2017 at 13:39hrs | | by Jacob Mafume - PDP Spokesperson
Ramifications of the worsening liquidity crisis worrying - PDP
The People's Democratic Party is disturbed by the developments in the Zimbabwean economy; the reports in the main newspapers this week demonstrate part of our concern.The Financial Gazette car...Published: 12 May 2017 at 11:58hrs | | by Jacob Mafume PDP Spokesperson
Mugabe is also a crisis
The claims by Mugabe at the World Economic Forum that there is no crisis in Zimbabwe, is clear a sign that he lives in a reality distorted field. As a foreign based President who once in a while visit...Published: 05 May 2017 at 10:48hrs | | by Jacob Mafume PDP Spokesperson
The poison of Dokora's goats and Chinamasa's recipe
The People's Democratic Party has always argued that ZANUPF can steal all the elections but will not manage to rig the economy; science has proven that the rules and principles of economics cannot be ...Published: 21 Apr 2017 at 06:22hrs | | by Jacob Mafume PDP Spokesperson
Time for a rebirth of Zimbabwean politics
The current crisis arresting the country revolves around the leadership question especially the failure to respond to problems including those of the state's making, it is a clear sign of the broken p...Published: 07 Apr 2017 at 16:44hrs | | by Jacob Mafume PDP Spokesperson
Economies cannot be run on punitive taxes
The decision by government to announce a suspension of withholding tax on farmers is not enough; our party is of the view that government must implement a holistic tax reform strategy.It is no...Published: 06 Apr 2017 at 14:10hrs | | by Jacob Mafume PDP Spokesperson
First family corruption disgusting - PDP
The revelation made in parliament that Sakunda is getting a duty exemption on US$500 million worth of fuel is a disgrace, it is proof of a shameless unrepentant regime determined to continue milking t...Published: 05 Apr 2017 at 10:56hrs | | by Jacob Mafume PDP Spokesperson
Civil servants strikes are legitimate
Doctors under the banner of Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors Association (ZHDA) will embark on strike from 15 February 2017 while teachers organized under Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (ARTUZ)...Published: 14 Feb 2017 at 21:35hrs | | by Jacob Mafume PDP Spokesperson
Kasukuwere admitting to Zanu-PF messy not good enough - PDP
The recent statement made before parliament by Saviour Kasukuwere in which he confessed that ZANUPF is involved in illegal land deals is an indictment on his part and that of ZANUPF at large including...Published: 10 Feb 2017 at 13:41hrs | | by Jacob Mafume PDP Spokesperson
Zanu-PF cars fight an insult to the suffering masses
The current selfish fight in ZANU-PF over the allocation of party vehicles further vindicates our call to unite and liquidate the ZANU-PF dictatorship; it is a party which only focuses on self aggrand...Published: 09 Feb 2017 at 12:41hrs | | by Jacob Mafume PDP Spokesperson
Zanu-PF persecution of Pastors Mawarire and Mugadza illegal - PDP
The PDP condemns the continued incarceration of Pastors Mugadza and Evan Mawarire; we view their arrests as acts of persecution.Pastor Mugadza has been languishing in prison for a while for me...Published: 07 Feb 2017 at 13:14hrs | | by Jacob Mafume PDP Spokesperson
Dokora must resign for creating confusion
The PDP is concerned with the confusion that is still rocking schools since the premature introduction of the new curriculum by Douglas Dokora.We note with concern that more than a month has e...Published: 07 Feb 2017 at 12:20hrs | | by Jacob Mafume PDP Spokesperson
AfDB should not bail out corrupt Zanu PF regime - PDP
As reported in The Zimbabwe Independent of November 11 2016, the Board of the African Development Bank (AfDB) will meet on December 7 to consider the rollover of Zimbabwe's debt from Pilar 11 funds....Published: 15 Nov 2016 at 17:25hrs | | by Jacob Mafume - PDP National Spokesperson
PDP policy brief - What will be the key functions of the NTA?
Last week, we shared with citizens the origins of the NTA idea which is within PDP's Agenda for the Restoration and Rehabilitation of Electoral Sustainability (ARREST). The PDP's ARREST, seeks...Published: 03 Oct 2016 at 08:57hrs | | by Jacob Mafume - National Spokesperson
PDP Policy Brief - Background to the NTA idea
Issue date 29 September 2016In 2015 the PDP crafted two documents these being, the Holistic Program for Economic Transformation (HOPE) and the Agenda for the Restoration and Rehabilitation of ...Published: 29 Sep 2016 at 06:48hrs | | by Jacob Mafume PDP Spokesperson
Zimbabwe now a patronage state
Zanu PF has turned the country into a patronage state following revelations of how Saviour Kasukuwere, the Local Government minister has illegally parceled out state land to senior Zanu PF officials....Published: 23 Sep 2016 at 14:17hrs | | by Jacob Mafume - PDP National Spokesperson
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