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The idea of Zimbabwe and Matabeleland question
I think the best way to understand the present day manifestations and character of Matebeleland politics is to situate them properly historically and politically within the broader terrain of the deve...Published: 29 Mar 2025 at 17:01hrs | 2187 | by Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni
Chamisa now building a popular one-man dictatorship
One of Zimbabwe's seasoned political activists Lovemore Chinoputsa has painted a gloomy picture of the state of the opposition, saying its leaders have fundamentally departed from the late Morgan Tsva...Published: 14 Feb 2024 at 20:14hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF has no two-thirds majority
Zanu-PF does not and cannot have two-thirds.Contrary to popular perceptions, the ruling Zanu-PF party does not and cannot have two-thirds majority in Parliament necessary to pass a constitutio...Published: 12 Feb 2024 at 13:54hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zesn blames recalls of opposition members for low voter turnout
THE Zimbabwe Election Support Network (Zesn) has blamed low voter turnout in the just ended by-elections on incessant recalls of opposition members.The election watchdog said the low number of...Published: 06 Feb 2024 at 04:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Nepotism dents post-election period
Zimbabwe Open University academic Didymus Dewa recently said issues of nepositism, clientalism, patronage and loyalism affected the major political parties that won the elections in the August 23 and ...Published: 12 Jan 2024 at 21:44hrs | 5 | by Stephen Jakes
Mohadi takes by-election campaign to Bulawayo
VICE President Kembo Mohadi is at Mhali Primary School in Bulawayo's New Magwegwe suburb for a rally.VP Mohadi was accompanied by Zanu-PF deputy national commissar, Webster Shamu.He is...Published: 06 Dec 2023 at 17:34hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa rolls sleeves as battle hots up
Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa will today conduct marathon campaign rallies in Bulawayo as his loyalists seek to regain their seats in weekend by-elections following controv...Published: 03 Dec 2023 at 17:43hrs | 39 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa strategising on how to stop the looming by-elections
Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader by Nelson Chamisa yesterday said his party was making fresh deliberations on how to stop the looming by-elections from being held owing to escalating politic...Published: 18 Nov 2023 at 09:35hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Tshabangu's Beitbridge West candidate chickens out
SENGEZO Tshabangu's Beitbridge West nominee for his Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) faction, Blessing Choeni, has withdrawn his candidature for the December 9 by-elections allegedly because he was...Published: 18 Nov 2023 at 09:34hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF deploys by-elections campaign teams
Zanu-PF is prepared for the nine impending by-elections set for December 9 triggered by the first round of CCC recalls, and has already deployed campaign teams to mobilise people to vote for the rulin...Published: 16 Nov 2023 at 05:04hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
An opposition within an opposition
The Zimbabwean political history has been littered with opposition malcontents within itself for a very long time which has caused the weakening and splitting of the main opposition political party in...Published: 08 Nov 2023 at 14:27hrs | 12 | by Leonard Koni
By-elections date for recalled Bulawayo councillors set
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) has said by-elections for eight recalled Bulawayo Citizen Coalition for Change councillors will be held in December while the nomination court will sit next mon...Published: 25 Oct 2023 at 06:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Massive blow to Mthuli Ncube's bid to widen political ambitions
FINANCE Minister Mthuli Ncube has abandoned his neutral technocrat tag and is now fully embedded in Zanu-PF, but his bid to grow his political clout suffered after he was defeated in the Cowdry Park c...Published: 28 Aug 2023 at 21:44hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Sweet news for CCC: Bad news for residents, Zanu-PF
There is sweet news for Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) in Masvingo after the party successfully negotiated for withdrawal of two of its members who had contested, one as independent and the other...Published: 04 Jul 2023 at 08:06hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa takes dig at Mwonzora
Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa Monday launched an indirect criticism on MDC-T leader Douglas Mwonzora for allegedly forging unholy alliances with cunning foe Zanu-PF he said...Published: 08 May 2023 at 19:10hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Popular Cleric barred from contesting in Zanu-PF primary elections
POPULAR Cleric, Bishop Kandros Mugabe, who was barred by the party from contesting for Kwekwe Central Constituency in the recently concluded primary elections, said he was not deterred by the move....Published: 20 Apr 2023 at 15:28hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
DUZ president Driven Chapman a media creation
The hype and excitement about the new kid on the block Mr Driven Chapman is just nothing but hot air and a media creation.After failing to decimate the people's movement the revolutionary part...Published: 12 Mar 2023 at 21:27hrs | 11 | by Leonard Koni
Tsvangirai remembered five years on
February 14, 2023 marked five years since late Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader Morgan Tsvangirai succumbed to colon cancer.He was 65.Tsvangirai left the main opposition MDC...Published: 19 Feb 2023 at 17:36hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF smells victory in Manicaland
THE Zanu-PF leadership in Manicaland, buoyed by a thumping victory in the recent Mutasa South national assembly polls, declared this week that it will win all 26 constituencies and wards in the forthc...Published: 17 Feb 2023 at 20:55hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
'We aim to win big!' insists Chamisa oblivious Zanu PF is rigging big, there is verified voters' roll, etc., etc.
"The world is flat or round not because you or me say it is flat/round. It is round because the mountain of supporting evidence say it is round," my Secondary School teacher used to say. Zimba...Published: 24 Jan 2023 at 17:04hrs | 1 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Chamisa confident of 2023 win
ZIMBABWE's main opposition party led by Nelson Chamisa, Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) marked its first anniversary Tuesday.The party was formed on 24 January 2022 after a prolonged ...Published: 24 Jan 2023 at 16:34hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa should make a clarion call for peace
THE savage beating of elderly people in Murehwa last weekend for political reasons has once again raised concern over the spectre of violence in the country ahead of the harmonised elections to be hel...Published: 14 Jan 2023 at 16:27hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's CCC made loud splash in 2022
THE dawn of 2022, January 24 to be precise, marked the birth of a new political party, the Citizens' Coalition for Change, which has outdone itself in terms of branding and publicity in just one year....Published: 27 Dec 2022 at 06:50hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Forthcoming Zimbabwean elections not a Chamisa alone spectacle
Opposition leader Nelson Chamisa cannot wrestle power from Zanu PF single -handedly without all progressive Zimbabweans putting hands on deck....Published: 16 Dec 2022 at 16:03hrs | | by Josiah Mucharowana in Pretoria
Chamisa issues 2023 poll warning
Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa has hinted that his party will consider boycotting the 2023 elections if its concerns over the voters' roll are not addressed.The Zimb...Published: 20 Nov 2022 at 15:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC-T throws Komichi under the bus
THE MDC-T has dismissed a weekend statement by its national chairperson, Morgen Komichi, saying the opposition party had already fielded candidates to contest forthcoming by-elections after boycotting...Published: 01 Nov 2022 at 05:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC-T reverses decision to boycott by-elections
THE MDC-T has made a somersault on its earlier decision to boycott by-elections, which arose mostly as a result of recalls of incumbent councillors and Members of Parliament (MPs) by the opposition pa...Published: 31 Oct 2022 at 05:05hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF condemns Matobo by-election violence
THE ruling party's Zanu-PF youth league wing has condemned the violence that erupted at Ward 2 in Matobo on Sunday, where a by-election will be held on Saturday.Zanu-PF youths at a ball tourna...Published: 19 Oct 2022 at 20:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF official arrested
ZANU-PF District Coordinating Committee (DCC) chairperson for Matobo in Matabeleland South, Mfakazi Maphosa has been arrested for allegedly blowing US$1 600 belonging to the ruling party, which was me...Published: 19 Oct 2022 at 05:58hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Election watchdog endorses Mberengwa, Nyanga votes as free and fair but CCC cries foul
INDEPENDENT election watchdog, Zimbabwe Election Support Network (ZESN), has endorsed the recently held by-elections in Mberengwa and Nyanga as credible.The verdict flies in the face of main o...Published: 11 Oct 2022 at 06:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Joseph Busha attacks Mnangagwa, Chamisa
Opposition FreeZim Congress leader and business tycoon, Joseph Busha has fired shots at President Emmerson Mnangagwa and CCC leader Nelson Chamisa for perceived lack of legitimacy as he announced his ...Published: 12 Sep 2022 at 19:08hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa declares that he will win Zimbabwe's 2023 elections even without electoral reforms
CITIZENS' Coalition for Change (CCC) leader, Nelson Chamisa, has expressed confidence in winning the 2023 presidential elections, in which he would defeat incumbent President Emmerson Mnangagwa, even ...Published: 11 Sep 2022 at 18:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC-T bigwigs troubled as party congress is delayed
OPPOSITION MDC-T national chairperson Morgan Komichi says delays by the party's president Douglas Mwonzora in proclaiming dates for the party's elective congress has caused anxiety in the party....Published: 11 Sep 2022 at 18:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Petrol bomb’ explodes at Chamisa's rally?
A suspected bomb has just exploded at the venue where Nelson Chamisa led Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) is having its rally.The explosion occurred as Chamisa's motorcade was about to ente...Published: 11 Sep 2022 at 15:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
CCC 'thank you' rally in Chinhoyi given green light
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) has secured police clearance for a rally scheduled for Chinhoyi this Sunday to celebrate the party's emphatic victories in recent by elections, where the party won ...Published: 09 Sep 2022 at 06:08hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's CCC snatches 2 out of 3 seats from Zanu-PF
THE opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) has won two out of the three wards in Saturday by-elections held in Bulilima.Bulilima Rural District Council Wards 1, 14 and 16 fell vacant f...Published: 04 Sep 2022 at 15:18hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Khupe never arrested - say police; CCC campaign vehicle impounded
FORMER MDC -T president Thokozani Khupe, who was allegedly arrested Monday in Plumtree, was reportedly released without charge, the opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) has maintained....Published: 30 Aug 2022 at 19:03hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa wants to beat Mnangagwa hands down
CITIZENS' Coalition for Change (CCC) leader, Nelson Chamisa has warned his charges against engaging in corruption, saying the vice was synonymous with "Zanu-PF councillors and legislators plagued by t...Published: 29 Aug 2022 at 20:59hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF speaks on links to King Mzilikazi commemorations
Zanu-PF has denied reports linking the ruling party to Mzilikazi commemorations slated for early September saying this was an attempt to divert its supporters from the upcoming by-elections in Bulilim...Published: 28 Aug 2022 at 08:18hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora vows that he is forming the next Zimbabwe govt
MDC-T leader Douglas Mwonzora has insisted that his party - currently undergoing a restructuring exercise and set to spend at least $100 million towards the 2023 elections - will form the country's ne...Published: 25 Aug 2022 at 06:43hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF, CCC lock horns in Bulilima
FIVE political parties are contesting in the Bulilima district by-elections for three vacant local government seats as they seek to test their popularity in Matabeleland South ahead of the 2023 electi...Published: 14 Aug 2022 at 07:27hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Armed anti-riot police officers bar CCC - residents engagement
ARMED anti-riot police officers Saturday shutdown a Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) residents engagement in Kuwadzana where party secretary general Charlton Hwende had sought to also celebrate his...Published: 06 Aug 2022 at 17:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Police caution politicians over hate speech ahead of 2023 polls
The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has cautioned politicians against using inflammatory language or hate speech that incite violence and polarize the country ahead of the 2023 elections, The Standard ...Published: 03 Jul 2022 at 09:29hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Voter apathy is Zimbabwe's elephant in the room ahead of 2023 polls
Bongani Ndlovu, a Zanu-PF councillor in Matabeleland North's Bubi district holds the unenviable record of registering the least number of voters in the March 26 parliamentary and local government elec...Published: 05 Jun 2022 at 09:15hrs | 4 | by Nokuthaba Dlamini
Fight rocks Zanu-PF Youth League
A camp opposed to Zanu-PF Mashonaland West Youth League chairman, Tapiwa Masenda, is circulating a vote of no confidence petition to have him removed from the influential post.As factionalism ...Published: 11 May 2022 at 09:17hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Lessons from March by-elections
WITH the support from Diakonia, the Women's Academy for Leadership and Political Excellence (Walpe) from April 08 and 12 2022 conducted capacity-building training in transformative feminist leadership...Published: 27 Apr 2022 at 12:54hrs | 4 | by Walpe
Zimbabwe women still marginalised in leadership 42 years after independence
Civic Society Organisations have lamented that 42 years after independence, women are still marginalised in positions of leadership.Wom...Published: 24 Apr 2022 at 11:23hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
July Moyo cracks whip on Mayors; Councilors
Minister of Local Government July Moyo has written to the Mayors and Councilors advising them that they do not have power to reconstitute the leadership of any Municipality and Chairpersons of Committ...Published: 21 Apr 2022 at 19:10hrs | 4 | by Mandla Ndlovu
The departure of Stan Chartered: A case of Economic commitment
Few days ago, the Standard Chartered bank closed all it's branches in Zimbabwe, except a few remaining as they wind up their 120 year journey in the southern African nation. This came as a surprise, a...Published: 16 Apr 2022 at 19:56hrs | | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
Mnangagwa, Chamisa in secretive GNU talks
SECRETIVE coalition talks are underway between Zanu-PF leader, President Emmerson Mnangagwa, and Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) front man Nelson Chamisa with the aim of forming a seven-year gover...Published: 15 Apr 2022 at 09:05hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
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