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Chamisa's failure to rein in his 'toxic and divisive' SG has destroyed the party
THE defection of top party executive, Lillian Timveos from the Nelson Chamisa-led MDC Alliance to the ruling Zanu-PF has opened a can of worms, with party insiders claiming the young opposition leader...Published: 5 hrs ago | 1052 | by Staff reporter
Senator Timveos speaks about MDC's politics of witchcraft & factions
I found the Twit by Charlton Hwende that my reasons for resigning from the MDC Alliance was that the First Lady promised me that my senatorial car will not be seized to be demeaning and a lie by an ev...Published: 24 Feb 2021 at 21:28hrs | 1978 | by Senator Lillian Temvoes
Coltart speaks on poor pass rate
Former Primary and Secondary Education Minister David Coltart has said sanctions were in place during his tenure but educational outcomes improved, unlike the current Minister who blamed sanctions for...Published: 24 Feb 2021 at 08:51hrs | 2499 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Magaisa advise 'MDC A strategies to win rigged election' - must stop the rigging by implementing the reforms
If there is one thing the ordinary Zimbabweans do NOT want right now is to be dragged into yet another meaningless election process whose outcome will be to confirm the corrupt, dysfunctional and tyra...Published: 22 Feb 2021 at 09:31hrs | 1678 | by Wilbert Mukori
Zimbabwe 'cartels' report con-insides with US sanctions renewal
UNITED STATES President Joe Biden's administration is most likely to renew sanctions against senior Zanu-PF and government officials as well as service chiefs after the release early this week of a da...Published: 13 Feb 2021 at 10:31hrs | 1279 | by Staff reporter
'Let's work on political reforms' - 'unprofitable servant who buried 1 talent,' verified voters' roll
"Let's work on political reforms and we go to the next election. But if you are not a political actor like a political party, we support an all-stakeholders' platform, where we can have continuous dis...Published: 13 Feb 2021 at 09:22hrs | 161 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Mandiwanzira hits out at 'staggering incompetence' over 'cartels' report
Former Cabinet Minister Supa Mandiwanzira has been left crying foul over what he called "staggering incompetence" by a South African publication, the Daily Maverick, whose exclusive report on the mass...Published: 12 Feb 2021 at 05:55hrs | 3270 | by Staff reporter
'1978 Smith-Muzorewa show has no political capital, it flopped' - 2008 GNU Tsvangirai had 73% vote capital, it flopped too
MDC A is dismissing Douglas Mwonzora's call for national political dialogue, involving MDC-T, MDC A and Zanu PF as the leading player, as a waste of time. "Well, you have no dispute with Zanu-...Published: 11 Feb 2021 at 10:14hrs | 1762 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Urgent action needed on Matabeleland schools
IT is a worrying trend that every year when Grade Seven results are released, a significant number of schools in Matabeleland record a 0% or poor pass rate.Even the Ordinary and Advanced Level...Published: 09 Feb 2021 at 06:47hrs | 495 | by Staff reporter
Opposition still alive in Zimbabwe
The man made frictions within the opposition circles are too far from killing the opposition in Zimbabwe.The ructions have been badly misinterpreted to mean demise of the opposition in the Southern Af...Published: 29 Jan 2021 at 08:38hrs | 2650 | by Kurauone Chihwayi
Mr Cross: Silence cannot be misquoted
In September 2019, Finance and Economic Development Minister, Professor Mthuli Ncube, appointed a nine-member Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) to influence the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ)'s monetary...Published: 25 Jan 2021 at 08:28hrs | 3883 | by Dr Tim Rainhard
Zanu-PF ministers' evil deeds can't be forgotten
UK-based lawyer and one of the founding opposition MDC leaders Yvonne Mahlunge-Gwashawanhu, David Coltart's deputy then, says while people should upon death mourn Zanu-PF ministers like Joel Biggie Ma...Published: 24 Jan 2021 at 16:07hrs | 2565 | by Staff reporter
No machinations can ever kill opposition politics in Zimbabwe
The man-made frictions within the opposition circles are too far from killing the opposition in Zimbabwe. The ructions have been badly misinterpreted to mean demise of the opposition in this country....Published: 23 Jan 2021 at 22:44hrs | 228 | by Kurauone Chihwayi
'If I die in Chikurumbi, it will be for freedom' penned Sikhala - no, it's for pole position in gravy train rat race
The fight amount opposition politicians for headlines is hotting up! "MDC Alliance's outspoken Vice Chairman and MP, Job Sikhala that despite all adversities in jail and even if it means dying...Published: 23 Jan 2021 at 12:04hrs | 1190 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Sikhala, Chin'ono, Mahere being denied food
Douglas Coltart, a Zimbabwean political activist and lawyer, has revealed that the Zimbabwe Prison and Correctional Services (ZPCS) officers are denying MDC Alliance Spokesperson Fadzayi Mahere, MDC A...Published: 17 Jan 2021 at 15:44hrs | 2177 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance call for 'streetifying people's anger' - real change will come from implementing reforms
"It is Zanu-PF itself that has become a super-spreader of perfidy and unbridled falsehoods as exemplified by its statements alleging growth in the country's economy and the cheap allegation that victi...Published: 16 Jan 2021 at 15:50hrs | 1624 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
81% of Zimbabwe's primary schools do not have internet access
81% of primary schools in Zimbabwe have no access to the internet while only 19% have, a status quo that is heavily stalling e-learning programmes in primary schools. This was revealed by the Informat...Published: 13 Jan 2021 at 18:21hrs | 255 | by Staff reporter
Another MDC leader arrested as fight for 'headlines' hots up - all deserted fight for reforms
The Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) was launched by Morgan Tsvangirai and his friends in 1999 to answer the nation's cry for democratic changes as the only way to end the de facto one party, Zanu...Published: 12 Jan 2021 at 14:16hrs | 993 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Police hunting down Sikhala
Police yesterday arrested Chin'ono and were reportedly hunting down MDC Alliance national vice-chairperson Job Sikhala over their social media comments on a report claiming that a Harare police office...Published: 08 Jan 2021 at 20:39hrs | 3062 | by Staff reporter
Thousands of Zimbabweans stranded at Beitbridge Border Post
THE situation at Beitbridge Border Post is fast degenerating into a humanitarian crisis, with thousands of South Africa-bound Zimbabweans stuck in the border town since Sunday as the Pretoria governme...Published: 06 Jan 2021 at 07:11hrs | 1669 | by Staff reporter
The tale of a captured judiciary
THE year 2020 did not see any major judicial decisions, but was replete with prolonged postponement of trials.At one time, chief magistrate Munamato Mutevedzi threatened to sit on a Sunday for...Published: 31 Dec 2020 at 11:08hrs | 771 | by Miriam Mangwaya
Sikhala 'berates' Mnangagwa - 20 years of posturing, it is reforms Mnangagwa fears
"MDC Alliance vice-chairperson Job Sikhala has said President Emmerson Mnangagwa has proved to be one of the worst authoritarian leaders to ever lead Zimbabwe, an accusation that comes as the nation n...Published: 28 Dec 2020 at 00:07hrs | 1261 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
'Zanu-PF will win 2023 because opposition lacks unity' - nonsense, unity will never ever supplant competence
"Opposition politician Jacob Ngarivhume sees a bleak future for opposition politics in Zimbabwe, and has resigned to the fact that the ruling Zanu-PF will win again in the 2023 elections," reported Zi...Published: 25 Dec 2020 at 08:57hrs | 976 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
'SA can nudge Zimbabwe toward stability' - not until Zimbabweans finally deal with gadflies
"For years, South Africa trusted in behind-the-scenes contacts to alleviate Zimbabwe's political and economic problems. But those troubles have continued to mount. By stepping up pressure, and by work...Published: 18 Dec 2020 at 21:20hrs | 499 | by Nomusa Garikai
Zimbabwe opposition's squandered opportunities
The political opposition in Zimbabwe, particularly the MDC, is stuck in the middle: between making news headlines and making reform headways.This is not new.Being stuck between making ...Published: 13 Dec 2020 at 08:18hrs | 1758 | by Jonathan Moyo
Rats cannot think beyond peanuts
AROUND this time in 2018, witty cynics, the majority of whom have happily found a convenient playground on social media platforms, were whining and whingeing that shortages of Coca-Cola which is a gen...Published: 06 Dec 2020 at 07:47hrs | 138 | by Bishop Lazarus
'Zim prison, a crime against humanity' twittered Biti, prisoner - true all because selling out on reforms
Tendai Biti, MDC A vice President, has been arrested and will spend Friday night in a Police Prison. He is charged with assault, after calling a Russian woman an idiot.Biti has denied any wron...Published: 05 Dec 2020 at 00:04hrs | 1143 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Mthuli Ncube ordered to disclose foreign debts by High Court
THE High Court has ordered Finance minister Mthuli Ncube to publish details of all loans and guarantees incurred by government from January 2017 to December 1, 2020 with the African Export–Import Ba...Published: 03 Dec 2020 at 06:39hrs | 1325 | by Staff reporter
Lawyer up for theft of motor vehicle
A GURUVE-BASED lawyer Nancy Mabhoyi (37) of Mabhoyi and Associates has been summoned to Bindura magistrates' courts to answer a case of motor vehicle theft.Mabhoyi is set to appear in court on...Published: 03 Dec 2020 at 06:36hrs | 709 | by Staff reporter
Chin'ono seeks bail relaxation
JOURNALIST Hopewell Chin'ono, who is facing charges of defeating or obstructing the course of justice, is seeking relaxation of his bail conditions to go to South Africa to seek medical attention, a H...Published: 27 Nov 2020 at 07:22hrs | 920 | by Staff reporter
MDC welcome Thomas-Greenfield US ambassador to UN - she must read ambassador Dell's Tsvangirai report
MDC Alliance treasurer-general David Coltart has welcomed the appointment of United States human rights defender and career diplomat Linda Thomas Greenfield as US ambassador to the United Nations....Published: 26 Nov 2020 at 06:37hrs | 616 | by Nomusa Garikai
New US envoy to UN good news for HRDs, claims Coltart
OPPOSITION MDC Alliance treasurer-general David Coltart yesterday welcomed the appointment of United States human rights defender and career diplomat Linda ThomasGreenfield as US ambassador to the Uni...Published: 25 Nov 2020 at 04:43hrs | 1198 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC failure-bound foray to the countryside
MDC-Alliance's youth assembly held a national executive council meeting in Bulawayo two weeks ago where it resolved to boost the party's electoral fortunes in 2023 by moving to rural areas to recruit ...Published: 24 Nov 2020 at 04:24hrs | 1521 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Chin'ono granted bail
JOURNALIST Hopewell Chin'ono has been granted bail at the High Court after languishing at Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison for 17 days.High Court judge, Justice Tawanda Chitapi ruled that his...Published: 21 Nov 2020 at 22:35hrs | 573 | by Staff reporter
Chin'ono bail appeal ruling tomorrow
HIGH Court judge Justice Tawanda Chitapi has deferred the ruling on a bail application by incarcerated journalist Hopewell Chin'ono to tomorrow.Chin'ono is in custody at Chikurubi Maximum Secu...Published: 19 Nov 2020 at 05:29hrs | 298 | by Staff reporter
Chin'ono appeals to the High Court
DETAINED freelance journalist Hopewell Chin'ono has approached the High Court challenging Harare magistrate Marehwanazvo Gofa's decision to deny him bail.Chin'ono through his lawyers Beatrice ...Published: 18 Nov 2020 at 05:22hrs | 1008 | by Staff reporter
'MDC A #OneMillionCampaign will fight rural voter apathy' - biggest impediment to free elections, MDC sell-outs
"Mdc Alliance Namibia greatly appreciates and admires the historic innovation since the inception of the political behemoth to invade rural constituencies in preparation of the harmonised elections in...Published: 17 Nov 2020 at 08:47hrs | 1571 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
'Real issue in Zim is a crisis of (Zanu PF) leadership' said Biti - admitting half the truth, as usual
"At the end of the day the real issue in Zim is a crisis of governance and leadership. "The nation carries the burden of illegitimacy, of corrupt incompetent clueless and incompetent leadershi...Published: 13 Nov 2020 at 15:41hrs | 1293 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Hopewell Chin'ono denied bail
TORMENTED freelance journalist Hopewell Chin'ono has been denied bail by Harare magistrate Marehwanazvo Gofa who concurred with prosecutors the scribe had "propensity" to continue committing the same ...Published: 12 Nov 2020 at 18:40hrs | 587 | by Staff reporter
Khupe in sanctions removal call
THE Thokozani Khupe-led opposition MDC has called for the unconditional removal of economic sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe by the United States of America and its Western allies saying they were hurtin...Published: 26 Oct 2020 at 18:56hrs | 1153 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF showers Khupe with praises
ZANU-PF has showered praises on opposition MDC-T leader Thokozani Khupe after she last week called for the lifting of sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe by the West and the US.Khupe, according to Z...Published: 25 Oct 2020 at 07:34hrs | 4532 | by Staff reportetr
Chin'ono seeks magistrate's recusal
JOURNALIST Hopewell Chin'ono, who is accused of inciting the public to commit public violence, has filed an application for the recusal of the presiding magistrate Nyasha Nduna.Chin'ono, who w...Published: 21 Oct 2020 at 21:55hrs | 1309 | by Staff reporter
Chin'ono wants passport back
Political activist, Hopewell Chin'ono's lawyers yesterday apologised to Harare regional magistrate, Mr Ngoni Nduna, for their conduct, which the court felt undermined his integrity.This came a...Published: 19 Oct 2020 at 23:42hrs | 702 | by Staff reporter
Kangaroo courts for a gangster regime - Zimbabwe Vigil Diary
Zanu PF has never quite got the hang of the rule of law. It believes the law is what the party says it is: after all, the party is the ruler. This is not surprising. It is a widely-held view in many c...Published: 19 Oct 2020 at 08:15hrs | 3304 | by Zimbabwe Vigil Diary
'Zanu PF has mastered art of rigging can't be removed with ballot' - rubbish, above all else, they are mortals
Albert Einstein defined insanity as "doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result." He was right! What he should have said too, is how easy it is to fall into this tra...Published: 19 Oct 2020 at 08:10hrs | 1779 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
'Audit' clears Chamisa's MDC of financial impropriety
AN audit report by Auditax International has revealed no money was abused by MDC Alliance from the period of the opposition's Gweru Congress last year up until December last year.Presenting a ...Published: 14 Oct 2020 at 06:33hrs | 1402 | by Staff reporter
'Missing $2 million not missing from MDC Alliance accounts'
The MDC Alliance publicly released results of an independent audit of the party's accounts on Tuesday, hoping to dispel claims of funds misuse. Allegations of misuse of funds were made by the ...Published: 13 Oct 2020 at 18:53hrs | 2154 | by Staff reporter
'Rogue Khupe is adding no value to our politics' - and corrupt Chamisa is? Incurable insanity
Most of us have heard of the great Physicist Albert Einstein's famous line: "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." And, here is the nub of it, all of u...Published: 09 Oct 2020 at 17:29hrs | 3069 | by Nomusa Garikai
Chiwenga sends Chamisa packing
Tongues are being rolled overtime as Zimbabweans are being fed propaganda over the suspension of by elections on December. The Vice President Dr comrade Constantino Gueveya Chiwenga, who is also...Published: 06 Oct 2020 at 10:50hrs | 24992 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
'Zanu PF creating fake MDC to win 2023' - why bother, won 2018 with genuine MDC
Dear Knowledge Hakata, "As a political student this is my prediction of what is happening and what is going to happen in Zimbabwe. Zanu PF knows that they won't stand a chance in 2023 presiden...Published: 06 Oct 2020 at 08:31hrs | 1970 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
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