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Mnangagwa makes more key govt appointments
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has appointed Virginia Mabhiza, former Secretary for Justice, Legal, and Parliamentary Affairs, to the position of Attorney-General. The announcement of this appointment w...Published: 28 Sep 2023 at 06:21hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo gives tips on voters' roll
Leading political analyst Professor Jonathan Moyo has advised the opposition to request the polling station-based voters' roll from the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) as that is the official reco...Published: 16 Aug 2023 at 21:39hrs | 20 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt rapped over failure to respect the Constitution
LEGAL experts say Zimbabwe is one of the countries with a good Constitution, but suffering from constitutional disorder because of an authoritarian leadership which has no respect for the governance c...Published: 22 May 2023 at 06:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF and MDC bigwigs unite in mourning Information boss Nick Mangwana's mother
IN true African tradition, opposition MDC president, Douglas Mwonzora joined Zanu-PF top officials in mourning the death of Information Permanent Secretary, Nick Mangwana's mother in Kwekwe Saturday....Published: 22 Aug 2022 at 07:15hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Mudenda berates Sadc public accounts committees
SPEAKER of the National Assembly Jacob Mudenda yesterday said Public Accounts Committees in the Southern Africa Development Community (Sadc) region were under-performing and failing to effectively hol...Published: 25 Mar 2022 at 06:06hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
History will absolve Mwonzora
MDC-T president Douglas Mwonzora (DM) has often been described as a sellout and likened to Rhodesia-Zimbabwe quisling Bishop Abel Muzorewa.Mwonzora, nicknamed "Mwonzorewa" by critics who are d...Published: 20 May 2021 at 22:15hrs | 24 | by Staff reporter
Malaba fallout: Ziyambi fingers EU, US
USTICE minister Ziyambi Ziyambi yesterday sensationally claimed that the European Union (EU) and the United States were pouring millions of dollars to destabilise the country by sponsoring non-governm...Published: 17 May 2021 at 06:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
We are vindicated!!! Mwonzora is indeed a Zanu puppet: MDC Veterans Activists Association (MDC VAA)
The MDC Veterans Activists Association faced a salvo of accusations and insults from the varakashi cyber bullies and The doggie sycophants for condemning the MDC-T's unholy tag team with ZANU PF...Published: 06 May 2021 at 07:11hrs | 2 | by Mandava Blessing
Constitution changes: Understanding the history and motivation
There are extensive deliberations back and forth in May, June and July 2012, resulting in Copac (Constitution Parliamentary Committee) formally adopting a draft national constitution on July 21....Published: 25 Apr 2021 at 07:56hrs | | by Arthur Mutambara
Why MDC-T supported Zanu-PF
MDC-T senators were cajoled into voting with Zanu-PF to pass controversial amendments to the constitution in the hope that the ruling party will return the favour by backing it in its battles with the...Published: 11 Apr 2021 at 07:07hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Biti bitten by that which he went hunting for
Tendai Biti was a legislator (among others) who partnered with foreign governments to collectively punish innocent Zimbabweans by inviting sanctions, in an attempt to coerce people to vote for his par...Published: 26 Mar 2021 at 05:41hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Mudzuri's appointment as MDC-T VP challenged
OPPOSITION MDC-T national standing committee and national council members have been challenged to stand up and reject their president, Douglas Mwonzora's recent appointment of Elias Mudzuri as one of ...Published: 29 Jan 2021 at 06:41hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
A genuine reform agenda could have saved Zimbabweans
Since the adoption of the new constitution in 2013, there have been expectations of constitutional reforms and realignment of the country's laws to the new supreme law.The reform agenda did no...Published: 25 Jan 2021 at 19:48hrs | 2 | by Iphithule Maphosa
Mwonzora's MDC mourns Chief Mashayamombe and Chief Marozva
On behalf of the MDC-T party and indeed on my own behalf I wish to convey our deepest condolences to the President of the Council of Chiefs, Chief Fortune Charumbira, the Mudhe family, Chiketa family,...Published: 25 Jan 2021 at 15:58hrs | 2 | by Douglas T Mwonzora
Munyaradzi Paul Mangwana is fine
Nick Mangwana, Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Information, has dismissed rumours that Munyaradzi Paul Mangwana is fighting a tough battle against COVID-19.Announced on Twitter, Mangwan...Published: 23 Jan 2021 at 16:23hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Big Saturday read: The other side of the story
On the 27th of July 2017, the late President Morgan Tsvangirai convened an Extra-Ordinary National Council Meeting at his Highlands home.On the Agenda was the ratification of the Coalition Agr...Published: 17 Jan 2021 at 16:13hrs | | by Lloyd Damba
Dead bodies in Chamisa's hands
On the 27th of July 2017, the late President Morgan Tsvangirai convened an Extra-Ordinary National Council Meeting at his Highlands home.On the Agenda was the ratification of the Coalition Agr...Published: 17 Jan 2021 at 15:28hrs | 1 | by Lloyd Damba
MDC Alliance councillors ditch Chamisa, join Khupe
GOKWE mayor Never Gwanzura, Kadoma deputy mayor Tendai Kokera and four Gokwe councillors as well as three Kwekwe councillors have officially crossed the floor from MDC Alliance led by Nelson Chamisa t...Published: 02 Dec 2020 at 06:26hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa has no right to ammend the consitution'
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government has been warned against amending the constitution through the controversial Amendment Number 2. A local pressure group Chapter 2 Movement has issued a...Published: 08 Sep 2020 at 10:02hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zanu-PF to set up social media teams
ZANU-PF is set to come up with provincial social media teams to defend the party and Government programmes on social media following campaigns by opposition elements fomenting violence while tarnishin...Published: 07 Sep 2020 at 06:30hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's attempt to mutilate the Constitution must be resisted!
The Constitution of the Republic of Zimbabwe cost millions of USD dollars and time under the COPAC banner. The Constitution was put to a referendum and Zimbabweans across the political divided voted f...Published: 01 Sep 2020 at 19:50hrs | 3 | by Alex Muzuva
Zanu-PF seeks to amend constitution
Zanu-PF is going to amend its constitution to ensure that it speaks to the vision of its First Secretary and President Mnangagwa of transforming the country into an upper middle income economy by 2030...Published: 29 Jul 2019 at 07:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa is not God, says Chamisa
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's hopes of destabilising the opposition through underhand dealings and his hopes of turning around the worsening economy alone will fail because he is not God, MDC leader ...Published: 13 May 2019 at 16:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangangwa to scrap running mate clause?
GOVERNMENT is considering amending the Constitution to remove a clause, which is set to come into effect in the next harmonised elections in 2023, that makes the post of Vice-President(s) elective....Published: 30 Mar 2019 at 22:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora should be appointed Supreme Court Judge, He cannot be a President
Douglas Mwonzora is an advocate who studied at Goromonzi High and later went to the University of Zimbabwe were he studied law. At the University Mwonzora studied constitunal law and was instrumental ...Published: 08 Mar 2019 at 18:45hrs | | by MTT (MDC Truth Trumpeter)
Who then is Felix Magalela Mafa Sibanda?
After reading the letter from Felix Mafa to all MDC Provinces I became interested in unraveling this humble man. He is the only one in MDC so far who has positively engaged the Electoral college of MD...Published: 07 Mar 2019 at 13:19hrs | 7 | by Henry Madiro
MDC Alliance planned to win 2018 with 4.5m votes - failed, plan lacked even common sense
MDC Alliance leaders want to cast themselves as democrats who have embraced the democratic ethos of open and meaningful debate and democratic competition. They are not democrats and there is nothing l...Published: 05 Mar 2019 at 23:05hrs | 1 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
'Chamisa failed to meet MDC target,' says Mwonzora
Tension continues to rise in the MDC ahead of its elective congress with secretary general Douglas Mwonzora saying the party president Nelson Chamisa failed to meet a target of attracting 4.5 million ...Published: 05 Mar 2019 at 07:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
'I can get more votes than Chamisa in 2023' says Mwonzora
MDC Secretary General Douglas Mwonzora says he is a capable leader who is able to garner more votes that what MDC President Nelson Chamisa got in the last election if he was to be elected as Party Pre...Published: 04 Mar 2019 at 18:53hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zanu-PF distances self from MDC infighting
THE ruling Zanu-PF party has no hand in the internal fights within the opposition MDC Alliance and suggestions that the revolutionary party is involved in the latter's factional bickering is not only ...Published: 04 Mar 2019 at 07:10hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora takes Chamisa head-on
After MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa announced that the party will hold its congress between May 24 and 26 to choose the late Morgan Tsvangirai's successor, interest in who will be the next leader...Published: 03 Mar 2019 at 11:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
GNU with Tsvangirai talk is Chamisa's imagination, says Zanu-PF
ZANU-PF yesterday said claims by the MDC-Alliance's Nelson Chamisa that MDC-T late leader Mr Morgan Tsvangirai died a bitter man after the ruling party reneged on a deal to co-opt him into President M...Published: 16 Feb 2019 at 19:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Stay away and Looting in Zimbabwe: A narrative created to push for a national dialogue
Zimbabwe does not get tired to engage into processes that will help the corrupt and governance failures survive another day. As I write this article I have no doubt in my mind that what is happening n...Published: 08 Feb 2019 at 20:10hrs | 4 | by Dumisani Mpofu
Parliament has final say on death penalty
Justice minister Ziyambi Ziyambi has said it is up to Parliament to scrap the death penalty altogether from the country's statutes by amending the 2013 Constitution.Ziyambi said this while app...Published: 19 Dec 2018 at 06:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Which devolution Mthuli Ncube?
On the back of another, rather surprising, albeit welcome political somersault that has seen President Emmerson Mnangagwa embrace devolution, a hitherto Zanu-PF taboo, Finance minister Mthuli Ncube an...Published: 09 Dec 2018 at 07:09hrs | 1 | by Zifiso Masiye
Gukurahundi commission accused of shutting out victims
THE Gukuruahundi massacres yesterday dominated deliberations at the National Transitional Justice Working Group (NTJWG) symposium currently taking place in Bulawayo, with participants accusing the Nat...Published: 22 Nov 2018 at 06:13hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
$17m debt chokes Justice ministry
JUSTICE secretary Virginia Mabiza last week told Parliament that her ministry was saddled with debts of over $17 million, some of which dated back to the drafting and adoption of the country's Constit...Published: 29 Oct 2018 at 05:49hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
How Mugabe's ZANU-PF and Chihuri's police created the MDC-T Vanguard
In December 2010, Augustine Mahute (26), an MDC-T activist from Matapi Flats in Mbare, was brutally attacked by ZANU-PF youths before they handed him to Matapi Police station.Mahute subseq...Published: 30 May 2018 at 06:35hrs | 2 | by Felix Mbonderi Chiroro
Explaining the confusion in MDC-T primaries - Part II of II
This article was originally published by ZOOMZimbabwe.com While the grassroots are eyeing the July elections, the top officials are eyeing the December...Published: 27 May 2018 at 15:29hrs | 1 | by Felix Mbonderi Chiroro
'Zanu-PF to hand over power if defeated'
Vice President Kembo Mohadi says Zanu-PF is ready to hand over power to the opposition if the ruling party loses the coming elections as the will of the people of Zimbabwe should always prevail. ...Published: 22 May 2018 at 06:47hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
MDC alliance will get its untainted mandate to rule Zimbabwe from the people in 2018
It is not abnormal for someone to quickly shift blame even before he or she has finally failed to deliver. At times it will be proper to simply request for assistance in a more formal and honest way i...Published: 06 Dec 2017 at 13:33hrs | 2 | by Tinashe Gumbo (University of KwaZulu Natal)
War vets court Tsvangirai, Western govts to end Mugabe rule
Veterans of the country's liberation struggle have invited MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai and western governments to assist in the fight to end President Robert Mugabe's 37-year rule.Amid concer...Published: 30 Oct 2017 at 12:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Our hope is on Mnangagwa
I remember it was in 2013 in Bulawayo in Cowdray Part Surbub at Mukitika Primary School on a Sunday. The COPAC had announced that they will hold a public hearing on the proposed Zimbabwe Constitution....Published: 29 Jul 2017 at 12:40hrs | 2 | by Etiwel Mutero
Zec dares MDC-T on demos
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has said there is no going back on the distribution of voter registration centres, despite claims by opposition parties that the electoral management board had ...Published: 11 Jul 2017 at 07:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans rush to withdraw money from banks
Panicky depositors rushed to withdraw their money yesterday after government's promulgation of Statutory Instrument (SI) 133 of 2016 to legalise the introduction of bond notes, with legal experts ...Published: 02 Nov 2016 at 09:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere must uphold constitutionalism
Kasukuwere must uphold constitutionalism The new Constitution was adopted by a massive majority of the people of Zimbabwe and signed into law in March 2013. Three years on it would be reasonab...Published: 03 May 2016 at 18:19hrs | | by E G Cross - Shadow Minister of Local Government
Zimbabwe life presidency in offing, as constitutional changes loom
THE country is hurtling towards establishing a life presidency amid plans by Zanu-PF to amend its constitution as a precursor to the amendment of the national charter so that it conforms to the party'...Published: 24 Mar 2016 at 07:32hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Ibhetshu Likazulu position on the national peace and reconciliation commission bill
Ibhetshu LikaZulu notes that the government has appointed commissioners of the Peace and Reconciliation Commission and to operationalize the commission, it seeks to enact the Peace and Reconciliat...Published: 21 Feb 2016 at 16:05hrs | 1 | by Mbuso Fuzwayo
Court humiliates ZUJ
THE Zimbabwe Union of Journalists was last Friday humiliated when its application to be considered for special voting was dismissed by the Constitutional Court for lack of merit.In a brief com...Published: 10 Feb 2016 at 06:39hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Welshman Ncube on Friday - 2008 ZANU PF's legacy of economic and political violence lingers on
One of the most distinct features that differentiates MDC from all other political parties in Zimbabwe - save for one or two - is our refusal to use violence as a means of achieving political objectiv...Published: 20 Nov 2015 at 11:32hrs | 2 | by Welshman Ncube
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