Columnist / Simukai tinhu
Chamisa's battle to topple Mnangagwa
ON 23 August 2023, Zimbabweans return to the polls to elect members of local councils, the national assembly, and a president. As a country with a hyper-presidentialist system, voting will largely be ...Published: 09 Jul 2023 at 14:28hrs | 8 | by Simukai Tinhu
Mnangagwa considered illegitimate by The West
WHEN Emmerson Mnangagwa took over the presidency following the November 2017 coup that toppled Zimbabwe's long-time ruler Robert Mugabe, he did not waste time in telling the world that his government ...Published: 30 Nov 2018 at 10:40hrs | | by Simukai Tinhu
Boycott presidential poll, Chamisa!
Recently, the main opposition MDC Alliance leader's 40-year-old presidential candidate, Nelson Chamisa, who is challenging the ruling Zanu-PF's Emmerson Mnangagwa for the presidency, has been threaten...Published: 27 Jul 2018 at 11:21hrs | | by Simukai Tinhu
Chamisa: Zimbabwe's rising young hope
As the day ended on February 18, MDC-T acting president Nelson Chamisa, who had arrived from the late Morgan Tsvangirai's home, jumped out of his car. He was eased, by a group of youths, through a sea...Published: 09 Mar 2018 at 12:19hrs | | by Simukai Tinhu
Why opposition needs the former fighters, Mnangagwa
Last week, the leader of the smaller Movement for Democratic Change, Professor Welshman Ncube penned, for the United Kingdom-based website, an interesting piece titled Arbeit Macht Freit - Work se...Published: 18 Aug 2016 at 11:48hrs | | by Simukai Tinhu, Political analyst
Is this the end of Mnangagwa?
In the capital, Harare, there are clamorous whispers of an impending demise of Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa. Indeed, this week, a local daily in one of its headlines even had the audacity to sugg...Published: 26 Feb 2016 at 12:20hrs | | by Simukai Tinhu
Understanding Mugabe and Mnangagwa's relationship
With unrelenting infighting in Zanu-PF, and lately, the deepening economic crisis, many thought that Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa would make good of his newly acquired strategic position as vice ...Published: 15 Jan 2016 at 05:57hrs | | by Simukai Tinhu
The Mugabes and Power in Zimbabwe play
First Lady Grace Mugabe's manoeuvres since last year's grand entry onto the nation's political stage seem to resemble a play from New York's Broadway theatre.Scripted and directed by her husba...Published: 02 Jan 2016 at 15:58hrs | | by Simukai Tinhu Political analyst
Can Mujuru cause an upset in Zimbabwe politics?
IN the harmonised 2008 general elections, a powerful faction within President Robert Mugabe's party urged Zanu-PF supporters to vote for the party's candidates in parliamentary elections and the oppos...Published: 19 Sep 2015 at 13:03hrs | | by Simukai Tinhu Political Analyst
Is Tsvangirai going to be deposed?
MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai's star has faded considerably since the height of his popularity in 2008/09.Following defeat in the July 2013 general elections, Roy Bennett, the treasurer-gener...Published: 07 Mar 2014 at 07:05hrs | | by Simukai Tinhu
Mnangagwa down but not yet out
IN Zimbabwe, the end of President Robert Mugabe's leadership of both his political party and the country is fast approaching.Ahead of the party's congress in December this year, where a new l...Published: 07 Feb 2014 at 05:26hrs | | by Simukai Tinhu
What is the way forward for Tsvangirai?
Unless Morgan Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change adopts a nationalistic and pan-Africanist outlook, it will struggle to gain the sympathy and support of key regional players among political ...Published: 19 Aug 2013 at 14:27hrs | | by Simukai Tinhu
Why has support for the MDC plummeted so much?
Fourteen years ago, Zimbabwe's main opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) launched itself onto Zimbabwe's political scene with great local and international fanfare. The MDC was s...Published: 23 Apr 2013 at 20:42hrs | | by Simukai Tinhu
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