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Welshman Ncube's CCC backtracks on September congress

The Welshman Ncube-led Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) has shelved plans to hold its elective congress in September, despite earlier resolutions by its leadership to convene the indaba this year.In May, party spokesperson Willias Madzi…

Published: 22 Aug 2025 at 13:16hrs | 413 | by Staff reporter

It's now clear that ED had no intentions of stepping down!

It took only ten days! Only ten days for President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa to break the pledge he made in front of the whole nation.On 4th July 2024, whilst addressing a gathering in Mutare, Mnangagwa assured everyone that he respected…

Published: 15 Jul 2024 at 08:11hrs | 558 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana

Zanu-PF Congress endorses Mnangagwa

ZANU-PF's ongoing elective congress has unanimously endorsed President Emmerson Mnangagwa as the sole party candidate in next year's presidential elections, giving him a fresh mandate to lead the party.The elective congress, expected to ho…

Published: 30 Oct 2022 at 07:01hrs | 1 | by Staff rporter

Mudenda to retain Central Committee post?

Speaker of Parliament Jacob Mudenda's political career faces a tough litmus test as he seeks to retain his ZANU PF Central Committee spot after facing strong challenges from seasoned party cadres and war veterans.Mudenda is facing a challe…

Published: 27 Sep 2022 at 17:01hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu

Court bid launched to block Zanu-PF congress

IN a fresh audacious bid to tackle President Emmerson Mnangagwa's controversial rise to power through a 2017 coup, Zanu-PF card-carrying member Sybeth Musengezi, also a local businessman, has filed an urgent High Court application seeking …

Published: 27 Aug 2022 at 20:50hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

Zanu-PF factions sharpen knives as December congress beckons

ALTHOUGH President Emmerson Mnangagwa seems to have contained his ambitious deputy Constantino Chiwenga, there is growing concern in Zanu-PF that the former military general may challenge for the party leadership at a congress scheduled fo…

Published: 19 Feb 2022 at 18:36hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

Zanu-PF factions sharpen knives as December congress beckons

ALTHOUGH President Emmerson Mnangagwa seems to have contained his ambitious deputy Constantino Chiwenga, there is growing concern in Zanu-PF that the former military general may challenge for the party leadership at a congress scheduled fo…

Published: 13 Feb 2022 at 20:47hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter

Zapu explodes ahead of congress

ZAPU secretary-general Strike Mnkandla is battling attempts to oust him from the post by the party's northern province as infighting dogs the opposition party ahead of its elective congress.Zapu's congress initially scheduled for the end o…

Published: 18 Apr 2021 at 09:08hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter

Khupe leaves MDC-T vote in a huff

CHAOTIC scenes rocked the combustible MDC-T extraordinary congress which was held at the Harare International Conference Centre yesterday, with backers of the interim party president Thokozani Khupe (pictured) and those of the secretary-ge…

Published: 28 Dec 2020 at 07:42hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter

LIVE: MDC-T Congress begins

MDC-T congress started at Rainbow Towers, Harare this Sunday morning with wild cheering directed at presidential hopeful and current secretary-general Douglas Mwonzora.Mwonzora's arrival at the venue was greeted by excited cheering by supp…

Published: 27 Dec 2020 at 10:36hrs | 37 | by Staff reporter

Resolutions of the MDC 5th National Congress

Resolutions of the MDC 5th National Congress held at Ascot Stadium, Midlands, Zimbabwe 2019-2024The Movement for Democratic Change convened a successful and historic Congress from the 24th to the 26th of May 2019 at Ascot Stadium in Gweru,…

Published: 28 May 2019 at 17:13hrs | 2 | by MDC

'Hello Congress delegates! May I deeply kiss your conscience?'

Naturally, pangs of conscience should mercilessly prick and pound every normal MDC 5th Congress delegate who is likely to misguidedly cast any stray vote in shameless defiance of the party founding principles. The Congress vote has a decis…

Published: 24 May 2019 at 08:02hrs | 5 | by Nhlanhla Moses

MDC congress: Redefining the people's agenda

This weekend the MDC will hold its elective congress in Gweru, Midlands province, under the theme Defining a new course for Zimbabwe. This is the 5th congress we are holding since February 1999, when we gathered at the Women's Bureau in Ha…

Published: 24 May 2019 at 07:39hrs | | by Tendai Biti

Complications of the congress season

WELCOME to the MDC Congress season. The circus has just dropped right down at Harvest House. All the actors have already donned their stage costumes, save for Vimbai Tsvangirai-Java, whose congress appears to have been confined to her hosp…

Published: 18 May 2019 at 10:37hrs | 2 | by Chenai Mutasa

MDC congress: Does real democracy exist?

ALL through history, the word democracy has been immortalised and evidently viewed as the greatest desire of the political world. Democracy is worshiped and viewed as sacred and sacrosanct. Virtually, 90% (this could be an understatement) …

Published: 23 Apr 2019 at 07:12hrs | | by Learnmore Zuze

Credible team and sound advice ahead of Elective Congress

Those who have been consistent from 1999, are likely to be beneficiaries of this congress, and secondly off course the Chamisa factor. The Chamisa factor plays a pivotal role on the basis of selection. My problem is bootlickers and opportu…

Published: 20 Apr 2019 at 08:12hrs | 1 | by A big Easter by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo

Who should lead the MDC after Congress? A View from the grassroots voter

Although the MDC has been a beacon of hope for most Zimbabweans  since its inception in 1999, the same cannot be confidently asserted this time around. Successive splits that have been rocking the party for years have left it bruised,…

Published: 14 Apr 2019 at 19:25hrs | 1 | by Nhlanhla Moses

MDC Congress processes in strict constitutional compliance says Chibaya

The Organising department runs the Congress in strict compliance to the MDC constitution and the template adopted by the party.Once a province meets the quorum, the Congress must and will continue until it is finished. To date, the Organis…

Published: 14 Apr 2019 at 19:22hrs | | by Amos Chibaya

Congress will weaken MDC

THE MDC congress scheduled for next month will deliver a weaker party without strength in diversity.There is a significant number of articles expressing opinion that the subtle fights for positions within the MDC are acts of self-destructi…

Published: 11 Apr 2019 at 07:19hrs | | by Brian Sedze

MDC Congress: The struggle for supremacy

As the MDC heads for its inaugural post-Morgan Tsvangirai congress slated for 24 to 26 May 2019, sharp divisions have started to rock the party as members are split on who to choose for various positions. Since the formation of the party i…

Published: 10 Apr 2019 at 16:00hrs | 2 | by Elijah Chihota

'MDC after congress is gonna be a Rollercoaster and Unstoppable'

The most important thing in the MDC calendar is the 24 May congress. It is this that may decide the fate of the party and country.According to an audio doing the rounds on social media by Tendai Biti, MDC has to revert to the pioneers of t…

Published: 03 Apr 2019 at 15:05hrs | 2 | by Henry Madiro

Kasukuwere proposes special congress

ZANU-PF national political commissar Saviour Kasukuwere, believed to be a G40 kingpin, proposed this week at the party's politburo meeting that an extraordinary congress be held in December, two years before it is due in 2019.Politburo sou…

Published: 13 Oct 2017 at 18:05hrs | | by Staff reporter

War veterans elect new executive

The Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association (ZNLWVA) has elected a new national executive committee that will lead the organisation to elections in December.The change of guard was announced at a Press conference in Harare ye…

Published: 21 Sep 2017 at 06:14hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

The resurgence of the democratic movement in Zimbabwe

It might have taken long in coming but the past few months have seen the much-awaited resurgence of the democratic movement in Zimbabwe.For a long time, this is what the people of Zimbabwe have been clamouring for; in the hope that such a …

Published: 29 May 2017 at 12:55hrs | | by Morgan Richard Tsvangirai

War vets congress set for weekend

The war veterans' congress to elect a new National Executive Committee has been set for the 15th and the 16th of this month in Masvingo.Elders of the War Veterans Committee Chairperson, Patrick Nyaruwata made the announcement while briefin…

Published: 11 Nov 2014 at 18:48hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter

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