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Zanu-PF, Brenthurst crew same WhatsApp group?
Some political analysts are asking why some individuals are complaining about Zanu-PF interference in regional elections but look the other way when The Brenthurst crew interferes and influences elect...Published: 4 hrs ago | 169 | by Staff reporter
Why Botswana's shift has Zimbabwe's Zanu-PF on edge
As the region and the continent at large continue to digest the outcome of the recent Botswana elections and their ramifications reverberate across borders, a bigger debate is unfolding on the changin...Published: 14 Nov 2024 at 14:39hrs | 1244 | by Ntibinyane Ntibinyane
Will Namibia be next on 27 November 2024?
THE GODS MUST BE CRAZY: what for former US President Bill Clinton was "It's the Economy, Stupid" in his 1992 election campaign for the White House; is playing out for the Brenthurst Foundation - found...Published: 02 Nov 2024 at 15:01hrs | 1283 | by Jonathan Moyo
Hichilema showing his true colours
The BBC, yesterday, reported on the recent dismissal of three Zambian judges by that country's President Hakainde Hichilema in an attempt to retain and consolidate power by instilling fear and forcing...Published: 27 Sep 2024 at 09:42hrs | 1640 | by Nkululeko Nkomo
Zambia's Hakainde Hichilema threatening to delay 2026 elections
On 13 September, Zambia's President Hakainde Hichilema addressed parliament in fulfilment of the Constitution that requires the president to address the National Assembly every year and provide a repo...Published: 26 Sep 2024 at 14:55hrs | 655 | by Sishuwa Sishuwa
EXPOSED: Plot to finish off Nelson Chamisa unmasked
There are plans to jettison Nelson Chamisa and replace him with Hopewell Chin'ono.Chamisa stands accused of cowardice, poor strategic thinking, and nepotism. Those who want him to step down in...Published: 20 Aug 2024 at 19:46hrs | 3597 | by Nkululeko Nkomo
Politics of sympathetic pregnancies
Politics of mimesis Opposition in Zimbabwe - not the Zimbabwean opposition - is in a deep mess. It is vainly looking for causes, models and examples. Our politics, it would appear, has entered a p...Published: 11 Aug 2024 at 18:27hrs | 88 | by @Jamwanda2 on Saturday
Zanu-PF blasts Malema
ZANU-PF chief whip Pupurai Togarepi has slammed the leader of South Africa's opposition Economic Freedom Fighters party, Mr Julius Malema, for attempting to incite anarchy in Zimbabwe.To...Published: 09 Aug 2024 at 07:30hrs | 273 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans don't need to be paid by the US to reject oppression, Mr. Mnangagwa!
It never ceases to amaze!Can there be anything more demeaning than an entire nation being regarded as dimwits by its own leaders?What can be more insulting than your own government acc...Published: 31 Jul 2024 at 17:17hrs | 883 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Brenthurst Foundation, USAid financing Zimbabwe protesters?
Ahead of the 44th SADC Summit of Heads of State and Government, Western-aligned organizations have allegedly been funding opposition groups in Zimbabwe to lead anti-Government demonstrations. ...Published: 31 Jul 2024 at 07:03hrs | 483 | by Staff reporter
Why Jacob Zuma is now winning court cases
On Tuesday, 9 April 2024, the electoral court set aside the IEC's decision to bar former president Jacob Zuma from running for a parliamentary seat. The IEC had disqualified Zuma due to his criminal r...Published: 10 Apr 2024 at 15:26hrs | 7 | by Siyabonga Hadebe
Zambia is on the verge of being a one-party state
Zambia's former ruling parties have typically fared poorly after losing power. The United National Independence Party (UNIP) ruled for 27 years but gradually collapsed following its defeat in 1991. Th...Published: 12 Dec 2023 at 21:11hrs | 13 | by Sishuwa Sishuwa
CCC members happy with Chamisa-Biti engagements
Most Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) members are reportedly excited by reports that their party leader, Nelson Chamisa, has pleaded with Tendai Biti and Welshman Ncube to be more active in that pa...Published: 15 Nov 2023 at 07:19hrs | 11 | by Nkululeko Nkomo
Ngidlaliswe amatope mina?
Reading Edward GibbonWhere is God bakithi?Edward Gibbon is no writer for easy readers. Yet he is so important to Britain's governing myth. No wonder why every British-born Prime Minist...Published: 14 Oct 2023 at 07:21hrs | | by @Jamwanda2
Why SADC is happy with the Mumba Report
Franz Kafka's worldFranz Kafka's art rests and runs on the bizarre and overawing grotesquery. Yet it is that de-familiarised, out-of-size world which he so ably colours which becomes the vehic...Published: 30 Sep 2023 at 07:36hrs | | by @Jamwanda2
Zimbabwe-Zambia relations deteriorate
ZIMBABWE'S relations with Zambia have become frosty since the Sadc observer mission led by the neighbouring country's former vice-president Nevers Mumba revealed gross irregularities in the country's ...Published: 04 Sep 2023 at 21:14hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
State of the race - Two days to go
There are just two days to go before voting commences in Zimbabwe's harmonized general elections. Polls open at 07:00 on Wednesday 23 August and close at 19:00. 6.6 million Zimbabweans are expected to...Published: 21 Aug 2023 at 13:47hrs | 9 | by Dr. Tapiwa Shumba
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 | 9 | by Simukai Tinhu
'Zanu-PF won't force us to reveal candidates'
The opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) says it will not be stampeded into revealing its August 23 election candidates by its opponents before it completes the selection process.Pre...Published: 11 Jun 2023 at 21:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF's US like law gets thumbs down from foreign funded NGOs
Zanu-PF's spirited attempts to introduce a law that will impose a death penalty on 'unpatriotic' Zimbabweans is an assault on human rights to freedom of assembly, association and expression analysts s...Published: 04 Jun 2023 at 08:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
The stakes will be high in Zimbabwe's elections
After the general election in Nigeria in February, the next most significant election in Anglophone Africa will be in Zimbabwe in July or August.There is huge interest in the conduct and outco...Published: 20 May 2023 at 19:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Trouble brewing in Mnangagwa backyard
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's ruling Zanu-PF party is being ravaged by infighting, especially in his home province of Midlands following controversial primary elections that were marred by vote riggi...Published: 14 May 2023 at 11:38hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'75% of Zimbabwe's registered voters eager to vote'
AT least 75% of registered voters have affirmed their commitment to vote in this year's general elections, a survey by Brenthurst Foundation has revealed.In its latest survey of voter opinion,...Published: 19 Apr 2023 at 06:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
How Zanu-PF frustrated supporters
A NEW voting system used in the ruling Zanu-PF's recent primaries left many supporters disillusioned, the Zimbabwe Independent can reveal.Zanu-PF insiders said many supporters were turned away...Published: 14 Apr 2023 at 19:49hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Africa: Embattling a Continent
When the IMF goes to warSo the International Monetary Fund (IMF) staff has decided to grant Ukraine some whooping USD15,6 billion?Ukraine is at war with Russia.A war funded and...Published: 25 Mar 2023 at 12:59hrs | | by Jamwanda2 on Saturday
Zanu-PF 'will win a comfortable majority' claims Fitch Solutions
THE ruling party, Zanu-PF, "will win a comfortable majority" in this year's harmonised elections and "remain the dominant political party force in Zimbabwe over the coming years", according to New Yor...Published: 26 Feb 2023 at 09:09hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe military plots to position Chiwenga to replace Mnangagwa after the polls
A UNITED KINGDOM-based research firm has waded into Zimbabwe's highly volatile political arena predicting that while the ruling Zanu-PF will most likely retain power in the next general elections, the...Published: 19 Feb 2023 at 18:15hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
White skin, black masks!
Two developments caught my attention this week. One is a Brenthurst Foundation scholarship invitation to young Africans intent on pursuing postgraduate studies.Brenthurst Foundation is owned a...Published: 19 Feb 2023 at 18:08hrs | | by Jamwanda
Jonathan Moyo scoffs at survey showing voters prefer Chamisa over Mnangagwa
EXILED former cabinet minister Jonathan Moyo has dismissed the recent survey by the London based SABI Strategy Group showing opposition leader Nelson Chamisa will defeat incumbent President Emmerson M...Published: 10 Feb 2023 at 05:43hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora's political ratings take a plunge, claims Chamisa linked NGO
MDC leader Douglas Mwonzora is the most "hated" politician in the country, a new research by SABI Strategy Group has claimed.SABI is linked to Nelson Chamisa's CCC.The survey, conduct...Published: 09 Feb 2023 at 05:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Poll survey angers Zanu-PF
A survey on the impending elections conducted by Sabi Strategy Group for Brenthurst Foundation has been described as an attempt by opposition funders in the mould of a South African billionaire with a...Published: 09 Feb 2023 at 05:06hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Britain based NGO says Zimbabwe voters favour Chamisa over Mnangagwa
Results of a British organisation survey of Zimbabwean voters show that Nelson Chamisa will defeat ...Published: 08 Feb 2023 at 05:10hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Chamisa to defeat Mnangagwa with 53%' British survey group says
London-based research group SABI Strategy has under the instruction of the Brenthurst Foundation conducted a 2023 election survey whose results they say point to CCC leader nelson Chamisa winning with...Published: 07 Feb 2023 at 20:07hrs | 2 | by Nkululeko Nyathi
Chamisa's CCC to boycott 2023 elections?
Sources within the Nelson Chamisa-led CCC have revealed that a fierce debate on whether or not to participate in next year's elections is raging. According to the sources, the debate has...Published: 30 Nov 2022 at 10:37hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa frets over Chamisa's Sadc links?
ZIMBABWEAN President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government is increasingly becoming worried about the growing anti-establishment wave sweeping across the region after a recent shock victory by former opposi...Published: 13 Nov 2022 at 17:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Malawi did it, Zambia did it, Lesotho has done it. We are next,' says Chamisa
OPPOSITION Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader, Nelson Chamisa commended the upset election victory in Lesotho by a newly formed opposition party and vowed that Zimbabwe would be next.L...Published: 11 Oct 2022 at 19:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zambia acting as a strategic hub for US military operation in the region
Investigations have revealed how President Hakainde Hichilema was forced to agree to set up the controversial AFRICOM office in Lusaka by the Brenthurst Foundation.Highly placed diplomatic sou...Published: 10 May 2022 at 08:45hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa scared stiff of Chamisa, Hichilema relationship
IN the aftermath of the rise of Zimbabwe's main opposition leader Nelson Chamisa's Citizens' Coalition for Change (CCC) and its "yellow wave" from the ashes of the now defunct MDC-Alliance and Zambian...Published: 13 Feb 2022 at 20:47hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Who owns South Africa?
FORMER South African President Jacob Zuma did not bring the Guptas to South Africa. His folly was allowing the Guptas to be bigger than the Oppenheimers.Atul settled in Johannesburg and sold s...Published: 16 Jul 2021 at 09:12hrs | | by New York Times
How South Africa can nudge Zimbabwe toward stability
What's new? As Zimbabwe's political and economic crises worsen, South Africa is moving beyond its policy of "quiet diplomacy" with its northern neighbour and applying more pressure on Harare to open...Published: 18 Dec 2020 at 06:42hrs | | by crisisgroup
ANC piles pressure on Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF
SOUTH Africa's ruling party, the African National Congress (ANC), is reportedly mobilising liberation movements in the Sadc region to pile pressure on Zanu-PF over rampant state-sponsored human rights...Published: 28 Aug 2020 at 07:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF opens fire on Mugabe's 'stupid and idiotic street girl'
ZANU-PF yesterday came out guns blazing, blasting South Africa's ruling African National Congress (ANC) chairperson of the sub-committee on international relations Lindiwe Zulu for insisting that ther...Published: 25 Aug 2020 at 18:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Biti warns Mnangagwa
MDC vice-president Tendai Biti has warned that President Emmerson Mnangagwa will eventually face street protests if he does not initiate dialogue with the opposition party.Biti told MDC suppor...Published: 09 Jun 2019 at 09:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Biti says, 'Mthuli is a loud mouth that doesn't have a connection with its brain'
Wednesday 5 June 2019 saw Honourable Tendai Biti, Zimbabwe's former and without doubt most successful Finance Minister this Century, visit Chatham House in Westminster, London.Honourable Tenda...Published: 07 Jun 2019 at 08:46hrs | | by Thabo Makuyana
Of a book on democracy and democracy hypocrites
Last week MDC Alliance leader, Nelson Chamisa was on cloud nine when he officially co-launched with former Nigerian President, Olusegun Obasanjo the book, Democracy Works – Re-wiring politics to Afr...Published: 01 Apr 2019 at 13:44hrs | | by Nobleman Runyanga
Mnangagwa denies ignoring Nigerian military ruler
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration had professed ignorance of the presence of former Nigerian leader Olusegun Obasanjo, leaving opposition MDC national vice chairman Tendai Biti besides him...Published: 30 Mar 2019 at 17:38hrs | | by newzimbabwe
Nigerian military ruler says it was a military coup in Zimbabwe
FORMER Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo, who served as a millitary leader between 1976 and 1979, says Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa seized power through a millitary coup that toppled his...Published: 29 Mar 2019 at 12:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
It was a military coup, says Obasanjo
Former Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo says Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa seized power through a military coup that toppled his predecessor Robert Mugabe in 2017. This came yest...Published: 29 Mar 2019 at 06:25hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zimra foils Biti's bid to smuggle books
THE Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) yesterday foiled an attempt by MDC-Alliance deputy chairman Mr Tendai Biti to smuggle copies of his book, Democracy Works, without paying import duties. ...Published: 28 Mar 2019 at 23:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Seizure of Biti book consignment 'gives Zimbabwe bad name', claims Chamisa
The seizure of copies of a new book by Zimbabwean authorities "gives our country a negative image", Movement for Democratic Change leader Nelson Chamisa said on Thursday.‘Democracy Works' wa...Published: 28 Mar 2019 at 20:02hrs | | by ZimLive
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