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Ndiweni slams 2022 census outcome
FORMER Ntabazinduna chief Nhlanhlayamangwe Ndiweni says the exclusion of the Zimbabwe Diaspora community in the 2022 census is akin to the disenfranchisement of people under the colonial Ian Smith reg...Published: 07 Aug 2022 at 08:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu PF knives out for Mudenda
SPEAKER of the National Assembly Jacob Mudenda has attracted brickbats from colleagues in the ruling Zanu PF party after he called for the amendment of the Constitution to allow Zimbabweans in the dia...Published: 02 Jun 2022 at 06:53hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Diaspora vote remains a pipe dream ahead of 2023 polls
While citizens of some Southern African countries such as South Africa, Mozambique and Malawi enjoy the right to vote in national elections while domiciled in other countries, for millions of Zimbabwe...Published: 16 Jul 2021 at 13:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
MOPA Bill outlaws protests
In light of the recent ban of the #FreeZimbabweMarch which was supposed to take place in Harare last Friday the 16th and today's protest ban in Bulawayo, the Local Solutions Council would like to warn...Published: 19 Aug 2019 at 14:04hrs | 1 | by Darlington Nyambiya
'Zimbabwe opposition must revisit campaign strategies'
POLITICAL think-tank, Local Solutions Council (LSC), has urged the opposition to re-look its electioneering strategies in rural areas to avoid continuous thumping by the ruling Zanu-PF party.L...Published: 12 Aug 2019 at 08:04hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa in panic mode as MDC protest looms
The Local Solutions Council deduced that President Mnangagwa evidently panicked last night due to the impending MDC Protest when he impulsively arranged an incoherent televised State of the Nation Add...Published: 10 Aug 2019 at 17:27hrs | 3 | by Darlington Nyambiya
Political Reforms can UNITE Zimbabwe
President Mnangagwa and Zanu-PF always complain that the main opposition leader Nelson Chamisa and MDC Alliance are cry-babies who never accept electoral defeat and hence they are holding the country ...Published: 24 May 2019 at 08:03hrs | 2 | by Darlington Nyambiya And Farai Maguwu
Profiles of Zimbabwe's Constitutional Court judges
Nine Constitutional Court (ConCourt) judges will today preside over a matter which will decide on who will lead Zimbabwe for the next five years. Chief Justice Luke Malaba will lead a cast of eight ju...Published: 22 Aug 2018 at 06:26hrs | 28 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's fate lies with 9 judges
ZIMBABWE'S estimated 14 million citizens are today holding their collective breaths as the Constitutional Court bench made up of nine men and women sit to make a determination in one of the greatest p...Published: 22 Aug 2018 at 06:24hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Madhuku says Diaspora vote ban 'spot on'
Legal experts have expressed mixed reactions over the Constitutional Court (Con-Court)'s ruling in which it threw out an application filed by those in the Diaspora who had sought to exercise their rig...Published: 02 Jun 2018 at 16:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
ConCourt bars millions of Zimbabweans from voting
THE Constitutional Court (ConCourt) yesterday effectively barred millions of Zimbabweans based in the diaspora from voting in this year's polls after it dismissed an application for amendment of provi...Published: 31 May 2018 at 07:20hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: Zimbabweans in diaspora cannot vote from abroad
The Constitutional Court (ConCourt) today ruled that the Zimbabwean diaspora cannot vote from abroad.The Court had reserved judgment in a matter in which three Zimbabweans living in the Diaspo...Published: 30 May 2018 at 10:17hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans returning home in droves?
Formerly exiled Zimbabweans have been returning home in droves since the ousting of former president Robert Mugabe.Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government is also considering ways...Published: 02 May 2018 at 11:28hrs | 1 | by ANA
Khupe looks beyond the Horizon
AS the mainstream MDC T parties ways with Dr Thokozani Khupe, many, including the party's friends and foes, have wondered why she has chosen this path. In Zimbabwe political circles, pund...Published: 31 Mar 2018 at 20:46hrs | | by Darlington Nyambiya
Chamisa can be Zimbabwe's Obama
AS Zimbabwe goes into the next elections in July/August this year, the nation awaits with bated teeth as it ponders on which leader it will elect to be the country's leader for the next five years....Published: 27 Mar 2018 at 22:55hrs | 3 | by Darlington Nyambiya
No reprieve for Diasporan voters
The Constitutional Court has reserved judgment on whether or not Zimbabweans living in the Diaspora should be allowed to vote in this year's harmonised elections.Mr Gabriel Shumba (a Zimbabwea...Published: 16 Mar 2018 at 06:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Diaspora vote challenge judgment reserved
The Constitutional Court (ConCourt) yesterday reserved judgment in a matter in which three Zimbabweans living in the Diaspora are seeking the amendment of restrictive provisions of the Electoral Act, ...Published: 15 Mar 2018 at 06:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Diaspora vote challenge postponed
ZIMBABWEANS living in the Diaspora, who are keen to participate in this year's electoral process, will have to wait a little longer to hear their fate after the Constitutional Court (ConCourt) yesterd...Published: 15 Feb 2018 at 06:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zim diasporans win direct access to Concourt on vote challenge
CHIEF Justice Luke Malaba yesterday ruled in favour of Zimbabweans living in the Diaspora who are challenging provisions of the Electoral Act, which prevent them from participating in the country's el...Published: 19 Jan 2018 at 05:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's False Dawn
After 37 years of Mugabe's rule, Zimbabwe finally had a forced transition through a mixture of people power, political pressure and military intervention. The forced transition gave birth to the...Published: 27 Dec 2017 at 23:45hrs | 2 | by Darlington Nyambiya.
GNU2: A Betrayal to Zimbabwe's Democracy
A second Government of National Unity would a betrayal to democracy in Zimbabwe. The main mandate of the Opposition is to provide checks and balances to the ruling party. And more importantly offer al...Published: 01 Dec 2017 at 06:36hrs | 3 | by Darlington Nyambiya
Opposition can repeat 'Ghana's surprise victory,- argue Think Tank President - all nonsense
There is no doubt that Zimbabwe had the potential to be a free, just and prosperous nation when the country attained her independence in 1980. We have some of the best land and weather to grow all the...Published: 17 Aug 2017 at 19:43hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
Tsvangirai 'credited' saving Zim from fate of war-torn Somalia - wishful thinking when we are still falling
If you expect people to believe what you say then you must respect historic facts and not insult the readers with lies. "Morgan Tsvangirai is one of Africa's leading democracy struggle icons w...Published: 05 Apr 2017 at 17:29hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
The Paradox of a President Grace Mugabe
As Zimbabwe's Opposition continues to be in disarray and President Mugabe is gradually forced out of power by old age, it looks more likely that Mugabe's successor will emerge from the Zanu PF success...Published: 25 Mar 2017 at 09:21hrs | 2 | by Darlington Nyambiya
Guerrilla election strategy for Zimbabwe's opposition
Since Zimbabwe attained independence in 1980, the country's opposition has largely been outclassed and beaten by Zanu PF's confrontational tactics. The only time the opposition made inroads was in Mar...Published: 10 Mar 2017 at 07:49hrs | | by Darlington Nyambiya
Gimmicks of a Zimbabwe Political Alliance
Zimbabwe is currently going through an Economic, Social and Political Crisis which has mainly been caused by weak state institutions and lack of leadership renewal since independence in 1980. Presiden...Published: 28 Feb 2017 at 21:19hrs | | by Darlington Nyambiya
The Dilemma Of A Mnangagwa Presidency
As Zimbabwe's Opposition remains in disarray and continues to struggle to form a Grand Coalition to challenge Zanu PF's dominance in the 2018 General Elections. And despite President Mugabe's refusal ...Published: 28 Feb 2017 at 07:20hrs | | by Darlington Nyambiya
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