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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 about who occupies State House.Nelson C…

Published: 09 Jul 2023 at 14:28hrs | 17 | 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 would adopt a political approach that d…

Published: 30 Nov 2018 at 10:40hrs | 1 | 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 threatening to boycott elections scheduled for …

Published: 27 Jul 2018 at 11:21hrs | 4 | by Simukai Tinhu

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 suggest that the vice-president was contemp…

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 president, and bring to an end the nona…

Published: 15 Jan 2016 at 05:57hrs | 9 | by Simukai Tinhu

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-general of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T…

Published: 07 Mar 2014 at 07:05hrs | 2 | 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 leadership is expected to be elected, pretenders …

Published: 07 Feb 2014 at 05:26hrs | 2 | 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 parties and governments. MDC will need t…

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 seen as having given rise to a new under…

Published: 23 Apr 2013 at 20:42hrs | | by Simukai Tinhu

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