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City fathers or city dealers at council chambers?
THERE is a wide and telling difference, just like the North and South Poles, in stature and charisma, between city councillors of old and the current generation of men and women in the council chamber...Published: 4 hrs ago | 139 | by Limukani Ncube
Mnangagwa gets Sadc boost
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa's pending assumption of the chairmanship of the Sadc Organ on Politics, Defence and Security Co-operation is indicative of the region's confidence in the Government of Zimbabwe and...Published: 4 hrs ago | 208 | by Staff reporter
MDC councillors in bid to oust Bulawayo Mayor
THE MDC Alliance has resolved to investigate corruption allegations against Bulawayo Town Clerk Mr Christopher Dube while city Mayor Councillor Solomon Mguni reportedly survived an ouster bid by counc...Published: 20 Jul 2019 at 08:56hrs | 4131 | by Staff Reporter
Zanu-PF tried and tested, says Obert Mpofu
ZANU-PF secretary for administration, Obert Mpofu, has said the MDC Alliance has no capacity to rule and develop the country and the electorate should vote for a tried and tested revolutionary party w...Published: 20 Jul 2019 at 08:41hrs | 1967 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe govt works on 50:50 principle
GOVERNMENT will soon amend the Constitution to extend the provision which reserves 60 seats for women following the pending expiry of the subsistence of the 10-year legal framework in 2023, President ...Published: 20 Jul 2019 at 08:35hrs | 1289 | by Staff Reporter
Health Ministry clarifies Lupane drugs distribution
THE Ministry of Health and Child Care is mandated to deliver services to every community including medicines fairly regardless of activities taking place in those localities, a senior official said ye...Published: 19 Jul 2019 at 07:14hrs | 260 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe ouster hatched in SA hotel
The toppling of an autocrat generally makes for enthralling reading. Two Weeks in November obliges in many respects.Keeping readers on tenterhooks and delivering on its promise to reveal, in t...Published: 18 Jul 2019 at 21:36hrs | 6907 | by David Gorin
Chamisa to fire Kambarami?
THE MDC Alliance has summoned Bulawayo councillors to its headquarters in Harare where party president Mr Nelson Chamisa is expected to deal with the chaos and alleged corruption dogging the local aut...Published: 18 Jul 2019 at 07:45hrs | 2244 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance activist Japajapa jailed two years
MDC-Alliance activist Paddington Japajapa was yesterday jailed for an effective two years after he was found guilty of contravening Section 66A of the Electoral Act Chapter 2:13 (unofficial or false d...Published: 18 Jul 2019 at 07:40hrs | 547 | by Staff reporter
'Kambarami has a string of legal battles'
1893MRM lodged a case against Tinashe Kambarami following the 31 July 2018 Zimbabwe harmonized national and municipal government elections. The movement had discovered that Mr Kambarami, the councilor...Published: 17 Jul 2019 at 20:55hrs | 2501 | by 1893MRM
Chamisa summons Bulawayo 'puppet' councillors to Harare
MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has summoned Bulawayo councillors to an urgent meeting in Harare over the recent spat over the suspension of Town Clerk Christopher Dube.The councillors trav...Published: 17 Jul 2019 at 19:07hrs | 3456 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa crisis meeting with Bulawayo councilors
MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has summoned Bulawayo councillors to an urgent meeting in Harare over the recent spat over the suspension of Town Clerk Christopher Dube.The councillors trav...Published: 17 Jul 2019 at 11:11hrs | 5073 | by Staff Reporter
Sikhala arrest cost us Bikita East by-election, claims MDC
SMARTING from a defeat in the Bikita East ward 31 by-election held on Saturday, the Nelson Chamisa-led MDC party has blamed Zanu-PF and the State for intimidating voters through the arrest of party de...Published: 17 Jul 2019 at 08:04hrs | 2877 | by Stafff reporter
'Zimbabwe' will not last long - Mthwakazi Institute Of Research
Mthwakazi Institute Of Research has been putting together pieces of a question on the lips of many in the binary state of Zimbabwe and beyond borders. The question whether Zimbabwe will remain United ...Published: 16 Jul 2019 at 08:31hrs | 7454 | by 'Zimbabwe' will not last long - Mthwakazi Institute Of Research
Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) engages political parties
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) in Bulawayo has engaged political parties in its efforts to improve voter registration in the province and avoid losing some constituencies when the commission ...Published: 16 Jul 2019 at 07:27hrs | 519 | by Staff reporter
Chmaisa mustn't underestimate the electorate
Despite efforts by the opposition party, Movement for Democratic Change, to tarnish the image of Zanu-PF, the revolutionary party has remained the party of choice. The MDC has no policy and no selling...Published: 16 Jul 2019 at 07:24hrs | 624 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC has no more political depth than a finger bowl
"Yes, as in the shallow dish of lukewarm water — and, if you're ritzy, a lemon wedge — meant to clean any evidence of lavish dining off one's fingers during or after an upscale meal." That...Published: 16 Jul 2019 at 07:23hrs | 2057 | by Tichaona Zindoga
Prosecute health minister - Tsvangirai's former envoy
Former special advisor to the late MDC president Morgan Tsvangirai, Alex Magaisa, has called on the Zimbabwe Anti Corruption Commission to prosecute Health Minister Obadiah Moyo for violating the Elec...Published: 15 Jul 2019 at 19:04hrs | 3648 | by Staff Reporter
Jessie Majome: 'Salute' A Zimbabwean woman breaking the glass-ceiling!
Quote: Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will, "She doesn't have what it takes."...Published: 15 Jul 2019 at 16:37hrs | 4660 | by Nomazulu Thata
Chamisa threatens
MDC Alliance president Mr Nelson Chamisa has threatened yet again to unleash protests saying he will only accept a new political arrangement that he leads.Addressing his supporters at a rally ...Published: 15 Jul 2019 at 08:54hrs | 5503 | by Staff reporter
500 Zanu-PF supporters fight eviction
THERE was pandemonium at Lot H, Whiteside Farm in Bromley on Friday after 500 illegal settlers attacked the High Court Sheriff who was evicting them to pave way for a new owner.The settlers, m...Published: 15 Jul 2019 at 07:58hrs | 1008 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa govt threatens MDC Alliance leadership
Government has warned the MDC leadership against making inflammatory threats of violence against Government, as the law will descend on them. The call comes after MDC said they are rallying su...Published: 15 Jul 2019 at 07:46hrs | 1036 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF trounces MDC Alliance in by-elections
Zanu-PF snatched a ward from the MDC-Alliance in Nyanga and retained another in Bikita by considerable margins in by-elections held over the weekend, underlying the ruling party's dominance in local p...Published: 15 Jul 2019 at 07:38hrs | 503 | by Staff reporter
Poll reforms complete by mid-2020, says Mugabe coup announcer
Government will amend the Electoral Act by mid next year in line with recommendations made by observer missions during last year's harmonised elections, Foreign Affairs and International Trade Ministe...Published: 15 Jul 2019 at 07:37hrs | 3088 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance declare war on Mthwakazi
There are licked audios and messages from the MDC Bulawayo group which are in bad taste. In one of the audios, a woman is heard calling upon all MDC members to meet at Bulawayo high court tomorrow at ...Published: 14 Jul 2019 at 22:45hrs | 5612 | by Mbonisi Solomon Gumbo
Chamisa imposed Shona councillors causing tribal may ham in Bulawayo
On 15 September 2018, when more than 12 Shona councillors took office in the City of Bulawayo on the ticket of MDC Alliance MLO released a statement that partly read as follows: "hoi! to the people of...Published: 14 Jul 2019 at 22:41hrs | 3813 | by Israel Dube
Zanu-PF in Lupane East vote buying storm
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF party has been sucked into a vote buying storm, after a letter in which Health Minister Obadiah Moyo agreed to restock clinics in Lupane East constituency ahead ...Published: 14 Jul 2019 at 12:42hrs | 772 | by newzimbabwe
Zanu-PF wins Nyanga and Bikita by-elections
THE ruling Zanu-PF has wrestled the Nyanga South ward 26 seat from the MDC Alliance in a by-election which was held Saturday and retained Bikita Rural District Council ward 31 on the same day....Published: 14 Jul 2019 at 12:38hrs | 890 | by newzimbabwe
Thuggery in Bulawayo council chambers must stop
THE story in Bulawayo in recent weeks has been the unending water shedding, as council works on its water infrastructure, but that story, which touches on people's lives and the socio-economic fabric ...Published: 14 Jul 2019 at 12:34hrs | 466 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo advises Chamisa's MDC
Professor Jonathan Moyo has advised MDC leadership to be with the people if they want to win elections. Moyo was responding to Twitter comments after the MDC lost the Bikita by-election with a...Published: 14 Jul 2019 at 12:32hrs | 8004 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Violence never an option
Zimbabweans are generally renowned as hospitable and peace loving people but the tendency to cause violence that seems to rear its ugly head, particularly by the MDC Alliance and its handlers is a ser...Published: 14 Jul 2019 at 12:22hrs | 153 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo Town Clerk not off the hook yet
It is now clear that tribal battles at Bulawayo now over shadows service delivery.The city is facing serious water shortages,have poor roads, busting of sewer pipes posing a health hazard especially i...Published: 13 Jul 2019 at 17:43hrs | 2747 | by Etiwel Mutero
Chamisa’s tribalistic MDC speaks on Bulawayo Town Clerk fiasco
MDC Alliance has directed that Bulawayo Town Clerk Christopher Dube be investigated over allegations of abuse of office and corruption. This follows attempts by Bulawayo deputy Mayor to Tinas...Published: 14 Jul 2019 at 00:03hrs | 8253 | by Staff Reporter
WATCH: Bulawayo youths block Kambarami's Council meeting
Bulawayo youths today successfully blocked a rogue meeting that was convened by a sectarian section of the Bulawayo City Councillors to oust the Town Clerk and also pass a vote of no confidence on May...Published: 13 Jul 2019 at 08:23hrs | 2326 | by Staff reporter
Reforms must be all encompassing
THE call for electoral reforms by the independent elections watchdog, Elections Resource Centre (ERC), could not have come at a more critical time.This is in view of the economic difficulties ...Published: 13 Jul 2019 at 08:07hrs | 85 | by Editorial - Newsday
Minister July Moyo wades into Bulawayo Town Clerk issue
Addressing a Press conference at the Mhlahlandlela Government Complex yesterday, the Minister of Local Government, Public Works and National Housing July Moyo, flanked by Bulawayo provincial affairs M...Published: 13 Jul 2019 at 08:02hrs | 993 | by Staff reporter
Ousted Bulawayo Town Clerk back in office
BULAWAYO Mayor Solomon Mguni yesterday lifted the suspension of Town Clerk, Mr Christopher Dube, as the Government condemned the violent manner in which he was ejected from his office. Council...Published: 13 Jul 2019 at 08:01hrs | 270 | by Staff reporter
Order must be restored at Bulawayo City Hall
Bulawayo City Council has dominated the headlines for all the wrong reasons over the past fortnight. They have grossly mishandled the ongoing rehabilitation of the city's water wor...Published: 13 Jul 2019 at 07:59hrs | 239 | by Editorial comment
Mangwe, Glen View South by-elections date set
President Mnangagwa has set September 7 as the day for National Assembly by-elections in Mangwe, Matabeleland South and Glen View South in Harare that fell vacant following the deaths of Obedingwa Mgu...Published: 13 Jul 2019 at 07:58hrs | 153 | by Staff reporter
Hwende to have his day in court
Harare magistrate Mrs Barbra Mateko yesterday dismissed an application for refusal of further remand by MDC-Alliance legislator for Kuwadzana East Chalton Hwende. Hwende is charged with subverting a c...Published: 13 Jul 2019 at 07:57hrs | 87 | by Staff reporter
Jobless and witless Sikhala
Well, when I see jobless and witless Sikhala what comes to mind are Tom and Jerry gimmicks! The MDC-Alliance might have tried hard to openly disown him on his utterances, but we are not fooled...Published: 13 Jul 2019 at 07:55hrs | 1094 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt condemns UK hooligans
Government has slammed an attack by opposition protesters directed at a Zimbabwean delegation in London led by Foreign Affairs and International Trade Minister Dr Sibusiso Moyo who are on a four day r...Published: 12 Jul 2019 at 18:47hrs | 1975 | by Staff reporter
ZANU PF factions revealed
The Zimbabwe African Nationalists Union (Patriotic Front) ZANU PF is an interesting political and liberation movement which is currently the reigning and undisputed champion of Zimbabwean politics...Published: 12 Jul 2019 at 10:10hrs | 16806 | by Nicholas Ncube
MDC's RELOAD road-map is the road to nowhere - as long as Zanu-PF remains in power Zimbabwe is going nowhere
MDC is a party of corrupt and incompetent individuals; I did not expect the party's promised road-map plan, Road to Economic Recovery, Legitimacy, Openness And Democracy (RELOAD), to be worth much. I ...Published: 12 Jul 2019 at 10:07hrs | 658 | by Nomusa Garikai
Suspended Bulawayo Town Clerk opens a case of assault
'SUSPENDED' Bulawayo City Council Town Clerk, Mr Christopher Dube has opened a case of assault against Bulawayo's Acting Mayor.Bulawayo's acting Mayor, Tinashe Kambarami, and Ward 4 councillor...Published: 12 Jul 2019 at 09:32hrs | 4358 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo Mayor dismisses convict Kambarami's actions as a non-event
BULAWAYO deputy Mayor, Tinashe Kambarami, and Ward 4 councillor Silas Chigora yesterday violently ejected Bulawayo City Council Town Clerk, Mr Christopher Dube, from his office after he refused to tak...Published: 12 Jul 2019 at 08:21hrs | 2970 | by Staff reporter
Barbarians at Bulawayo council gate, Bulawayo Town Clerk ejected from office
BULAWAYO deputy Mayor, Tinashe Kambarami, and Ward 4 councillor Silas Chigora yesterday violently ejected Bulawayo City Council Town Clerk, Mr Christopher Dube, from his office after he refused to tak...Published: 12 Jul 2019 at 07:33hrs | 1154 | by Staff reporter
Job Sikhala must stop behaving like a teaser bull
MDC-Alliance deputy national chairperson Job Sikhala, who has been arraigned before the courts on allegations of subverting a constitutionally-elected Government, is indeed, not new to controversy. It...Published: 12 Jul 2019 at 07:28hrs | 931 | by Isdore Guvamombe
Chamisa's councillors plot against Bulawayo Town Clerk
MDC Alliance councillors have called for a special council meeting tomorrow as part of their plot to suspend Bulawayo Town Clerk Christopher Dube who has resisted their meddlesome conduct and overstep...Published: 11 Jul 2019 at 17:23hrs | 1777 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala to spend 2 weeks in jail
MDC Alliance vice chairman Job Sikhala has appeared before a Bikita Magistrates Court facing subversion charges after he allegedly said his party was going to overthrow the Government before 2023....Published: 11 Jul 2019 at 17:10hrs | 2644 | by Staff reporter
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