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Mbire MP Honors Girl Child Day
Mbire legislator David Butau (ZANU PF), commemorated the International Day of the Girl Child in Mbire District Mashonaland Central, highlighting the unique challenges girls face and their tremendous p...Published: 31 Oct 2024 at 21:15hrs | 202 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Apostolic sect embraces AIDS commemorations
Mashonaland Central provincial chairperson for Apostolic church (Vapositori for ED) Biggie Musanzika (Madzibaba Jonah ) led his congregants to the belated World AIDS commemorations in Muzarabani on Th...Published: 04 Jul 2024 at 19:58hrs | 15 | by Simbarashe Sithole in Muzarabani
ZANU-PF elbows Ex-Minister again
ZANU PF has blocked disgraced former deputy Agriculture Minister and Mbire legislator Douglas Karoro from submitting his nomination papers at the Bindura ...Published: 22 Jun 2023 at 14:28hrs | 1 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Drama, heartbreak at Nomination Court
ACROSS the country's 10 provinces, aspiring legislators and councillors filed their nomination papers before the closing of the Nomination Courts at 4pm yesterday with drama and heartbreak in some are...Published: 22 Jun 2023 at 06:35hrs | 31 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF primaries 'spell chaos'
A RUSHED ruling Zanu-PF party internal poll set for tomorrow could trigger waves of discontentment in the former liberation movement, insiders warned this week.They said the short notice to ho...Published: 17 Mar 2023 at 18:16hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF seeks readmission of ousted Mujuru ally
Zanu-PF Mahuwe district branch has recommended the readmission of former Mbire legislator David Butau into the party.Butau was expelled from the ruling party in 2015 after he was linked to the...Published: 24 May 2022 at 07:27hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Ex-Zanu-PF MP in court over $9 000 debt
Former Zanu PF Mbire legislator, David Butau and his now-defunct Dande Capital Holdings, have been taken to the High Court by a Harare man, Euvencio Musundire, who is seeking an order to compel the ex...Published: 23 Feb 2019 at 06:25hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Jubilation over Zanu-PF's clean sweep in Mashonaland Central
THERE was jubilation in Mbire district, Mashonaland Central, after the ruling Zanu-PF party won all the 18 contested seats in the province in the just-ended elections.Zanu-PF legislator Dougla...Published: 09 Aug 2018 at 07:54hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Mass defections rock Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF
President Emmerson Mnangagwa-led Zanu-PF suffered a mass defection of members in Mashonaland Central province. More than 800 Zanu-PF members from Musana, Masembura, Shamva and Mt Darwin have d...Published: 11 Dec 2017 at 15:59hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
It is dog-eat-dog in Mujuru's party
It is dog-eat-dog in Joice Mujuru's newly-formed National People's Party (NPP) as officials jostle for positions ahead of an elective convention next month.Mujuru - NPP's interim leader - ...Published: 21 Mar 2017 at 13:10hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mujuru unopposed
National People's Party (NPP) interim leader Joice Mujuru will go to the party's inaugural convention slated for early next month unchallenged, while six candidates will battle for the two slots r...Published: 20 Mar 2017 at 05:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Will Mujuru survive?
ON March 1 2016 hundreds of people thronged a five-star hotel in Harare to meet former vice-president Joice Mujuru as she announced the launch of the Zimbabwe People First (ZimPF) party at a press...Published: 24 Feb 2017 at 06:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Parly sues former MPs
AT least 19 former legislators who were expelled from Parliament two years ago have been dragged to court over failure to repay vehicle loans totalling $364 000.The loans were extended to all ...Published: 18 Feb 2017 at 08:59hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Bhasikiti raps Mujuru
EXPELLED Zimbabwe People First secretary for elections, Mr Kudakwashe Bhasikiti, has rapped interim party leader Dr Joice Mujuru, accusing her of exhibiting dictatorial tendencies and ineptitude t...Published: 11 Feb 2017 at 09:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Mujuru is only fit for housework'
ZIMBABWE People First imploded this week with Dr Joice Mujuru expelling seven senior members of the party on Wednesday, followed by those seven, including Rugare Gumbo and Didymus Mutasa, expelling he...Published: 11 Feb 2017 at 09:17hrs | | by Senzo Mpofu
ZimPF congress in September
OPPOSITION Zimbabwe People First (ZPF) led by former vice president, Joice Mujuru, will hold its inaugural elective convention in September, setting the stage for a bruising battle for senior posi...Published: 02 Feb 2017 at 06:23hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mujuru, Dongo to go toe-to-toe
Former Vice President Joice Mujuru's bid to lead the Zimbabwe People First (ZPF) as it challenges President Robert Mugabe's ruling Zanu PF in the keenly-anticipated 2018 national elections could hit t...Published: 01 Nov 2016 at 07:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mujuru, Biti union suffers stillbirth
The envisaged coalition between Zimbabwe People First led by former Vice President Joice Mujuru and People's Democratic Party fronted by Mr Tendai Biti has suffered a stillbirth with senior offici...Published: 17 Oct 2016 at 07:01hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Why Mujuru, Biti are drifting apart
JOSTLING for positions and political gamesmanship ahead of former vice-president Joice Mujuru's Zimbabwe People First (ZimPF) elective congress has ruined chances of a coalition with the People's ...Published: 16 Oct 2016 at 08:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Serious jostling for top posts in Mujuru's ZimPF
Serious jockeying for top party positions has reached fever pitch in former Vice President Joice Mujuru's new kid on the political block, the Zimbabwe People First (ZPF), as it prepares to elect a...Published: 22 Sep 2016 at 19:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zesa sues parastatals, councils over $1bn debt
The Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company, which is battling to recover over $1 billion in unpaid power bills, has approached the High Court suing at least 200 local authorities, ...Published: 12 Sep 2016 at 11:19hrs | 1 | by Daniel Nemukuyu
Tsvangirai, Mujuru don't want a soft landing for Mugabe
THE opposition MDC-T led by Morgan Tsvangirai and Joice Mujuru's ZimPF have said the proposed National Transitional Authority (NTA) meant to prepare a soft landing for President Robert Mugabe was ...Published: 24 Aug 2016 at 07:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mujuru tell allies to make up their minds
FORMER vice president, Joice Mujuru, has called on her former Zanu-PF allies who wish to join her party, the Zimbabwe People First (ZPF), to quickly make up their minds or risk being left by the waysi...Published: 14 Jul 2016 at 10:23hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'People First is doomed'
Firebrand political activist Jim Kunaka (JK), formerly youth leader of the ruling zanu-pf party in Harare Province, is back in the fold after having joined the fledgling Zimbabwe People First grou...Published: 02 Jul 2016 at 12:00hrs | 4 | by Tichaona Zindoga
Mujuru moves to kick out Mugabe
OPPOSITION Zimbabwe People First (ZimPF) leader and former vice-president, Joice Mujuru has set the campaign ball rolling as she braces for a bruising electoral fight against her ex-mentor President R...Published: 05 Jun 2016 at 11:39hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Gono stole my $100 000, he is a thief,' says Kereke
Bikita West legislator Munyaradzi Kereke (zanu-pf) yesterday said he never stole a cent from the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe and challenged anyone who lost even a goat to come forward. During cross-exami...Published: 29 Apr 2016 at 07:33hrs | | by Fungai Lupande
Webster Shamu demanded bribe, says Kereke
Zanu-PF Bikita West legislator Munyaradzi Kereke yesterday accused former Minister of Media, Information and Publicity Webster Shamu of demanding $2 000 to reveal who framed his rape case and the mini...Published: 06 Apr 2016 at 06:31hrs | | by Fungai Lupande
Zanu-PF scoffs at Mujuru, Tsvangirai coalition talk
Zanu-PF is unmoved by reports that Zimbabwe People First leader Dr Joice Mujuru was mulling a coalition with MDC-T leader Mr Morgan Tsvangirai for the 2018 harmonised elections.In an interview...Published: 24 Mar 2016 at 05:35hrs | 1 | by Zvamaida Murwira
Mujuru, Tsvangirai in 2018 ploy to topple Mugabe
Revelations that Zimbabwe People First's leader Dr Joice Mujuru will seek a coalition with MDC-T leader Mr Morgan Tsvangirai for the upcoming 2018 elections confirm how she has been working against Pr...Published: 23 Mar 2016 at 05:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mujuru party founders sidelined
Zimbabwe People First is already divided, with younger party officials working to block those aged 70 years old and above from holding office.Dr Joice Mujuru, expelled from Zanu-PF and Governm...Published: 06 Mar 2016 at 06:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mujuru's youths to block those aged +70 years from holding office
Zimbabwe People First is already divided, with younger party officials working to block those aged 70-years-old and above from holding office.Dr Joice Mujuru, expelled from Zanu-PF and Governm...Published: 05 Mar 2016 at 23:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
First impressions of Mujuru's People First
Former Vice President Joice Mujuru has finally come out of the cocoon and she addressed her maiden Press conference as the leader of an outfit called Zimbabwe People First, or simply, People First, on...Published: 04 Mar 2016 at 06:25hrs | | by Tichaona Zindoga
Mujuru comes out of shell, to relook at land policy
FORMER Vice President Dr Joice Mujuru launched her political outfit - Zimbabwe People First - in Harare yesterday and pledged to return Zimbabwe to the Commonwealth and to reverse the indigenisation p...Published: 02 Mar 2016 at 07:53hrs | | by Takunda Maodza
Joice Mujuru press conference - live updates with Videos
We have come to the end of our updates as the press conference has ended.1109: "I don't believe in talking about other people's characters I am not God. Yes, President Mugabe has been my boss ...Published: 01 Mar 2016 at 11:18hrs | | by Felex Share and Costa Mano
Mliswa eyes Zanu-PF return - report
Former Hurungwe West legislator Temba Mliswa has made a passionate plea to Zanu-PF to accept him back following his ouster last year after being linked to a cabal that sought to unconstitutionally uns...Published: 07 Nov 2015 at 06:57hrs | | by Tichaona Zindoga
By-elections in progress
Voting is currently underway in Marondera Central, Mbire and Epworth by-elections with no long queues at most polling centres.Polling stations opened at 7.am and election observers from ZESN, ...Published: 19 Sep 2015 at 14:17hrs | | by Staff Reporter
'Mujuru met US diplomats to plot against Mugabe'
Zanu-PF national commissar Saviour Kasukuwere told party supporters that ousted Vice-President Joice Mujuru's waterloo was holding unsanctioned meetings with United States diplomats at her private res...Published: 19 Sep 2015 at 10:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Mugabe is President for life'
Zanu-PF national commissar Saviour Kasukuwere has declared that it is taboo for any official in the ruling party to dream of taking over power from President Robert Mugabe, as long as he is alive....Published: 19 Sep 2015 at 10:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Gamatox' accused sues The Herald, Sunday Mail
Former Zanu-PF legislator Mr David Butau has filed a $300 000 lawsuit against The Herald and The Sunday Mail over articles published last year and this year linking him with the plot to oust President...Published: 18 Sep 2015 at 06:13hrs | | by Fidelis Munyoro
Opposition boycotts Mwenezi East seat, Zanu-PF grabs it
Zanu-PF has retained the Mwenezi East parliamentary seat after its candidate Joshua Moyo was nominated unopposed at the Nomination Court sitting at the Masvingo Magistrates' Court yesterday. ...Published: 21 Jul 2015 at 07:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
David Butau fights Zanu-PF expulsion
Expelled Mbire legislator David Butau has approached the Constitutional Court seeking to reclaim his National Assembly position. Butau also seeks to bar any by-election in Mbire. He also a...Published: 13 Jul 2015 at 07:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZEC begins voter registration, inspection for by-elections
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission has started registering voters ahead of three by-elections for Marondera Central, Mbire and Mwenezi East parliamentary constituencies.President Mugabe has...Published: 08 Jul 2015 at 07:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mujuru ally court ruling favours Mugabe
President Mugabe is still required by law to proclaim dates for a by-election in Mwenezi East within 14 days of the notification by Parliament, despite the latest Constitutional Court (ConCourt) rulin...Published: 28 Jun 2015 at 10:16hrs | | by Kuda Bwititi
Butau's Parly expulsion challenge thrown out
A bid by expelled Mbire legislator Mr David Butau to protect his National Assembly seat has hit a brick wall after the High Court last Friday threw out his urgent chamber application.Justice D...Published: 16 Jun 2015 at 08:08hrs | | by Daniel Nemukuyu
Bhasikiti: Never rains, but pours
A BID by former Mwenezi East National Assembly member, Kudakwashe Bhasikiti to bar Parliament from declaring his seat vacant flopped yesterday after the High Court established that the matter had bee...Published: 13 Jun 2015 at 13:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kaukonde, Bhasikiti and Butau fired from Parliament
Parliament today expelled three legislators from the House of Assembly after Zanu-PF notified the Speaker that the party had recalled Ray Kaukonde, Kudakwashe Bhasikiti and David Butau.Acting ...Published: 11 Jun 2015 at 20:21hrs | | by Zvamaida Murwira
11 vie for Mashonaland East constituency
At least 11 candidates have declared their interest to represent Zanu-PF in Marondera Central constituency after they submitted their curriculum vitae to contest the seat left vacant following the rec...Published: 09 Jun 2015 at 07:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
List of 89 suspended Zanu-PF officials
ZANU-PF has suspended 87 members from holding any leadership positions within the party for two years, while two others were handed three-year suspensions after the Politburo upheld the recommendation...Published: 29 May 2015 at 06:57hrs | 1 | by Farirai Machivenyika and Nyemudzai Kakore
Battle for Kaukonde seat looms
Jostling for the Marondera Central Constituency held by former Zanu-PF Mashonaland East chairman Ray Kaukonde has already begun with several ruling party bigwigs reportedly already canvassing for ...Published: 27 May 2015 at 07:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
3 more by- elections looms
Three more by-elections for National Assembly seats loom following the expulsion of seven Zanu-PF officials by the party's Politburo last week.The sacked officials were part of the Dr Joice Mu...Published: 27 May 2015 at 07:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
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