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Julius Malema's EFF implodes
South Africa's radical opposition party, the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), appears to be on a downward spiral after another high-profile member defected to ex-President Jacob Zuma's party.D...Published: 09 Nov 2024 at 20:43hrs | 2171 | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai's former Head of Security joins Zanu-PF
Wallace Chibikira, the former Head of Security for the late Morgan Tsvangirai and a prominent member of the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC), has officially joined ZANU-PF. Chibikira was welcomed a...Published: 10 Oct 2024 at 18:27hrs | 2497 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF, opposition and the road to 2028
Zanu-PF's internal power dynamics regarding President Emmerson Mnangagwa's tenure beyond the constitutionally mandated two terms ending in 2028 and the state of the currently fractured opposition....Published: 29 Sep 2024 at 11:32hrs | 240 | by Zimbabwe Democracy Institute
Homegrown Heroes: Why the Opposition must prioritize local talent over ZANU-PF defectors
In the tumultuous landscape of Zimbabwean politics, the recent defection of Dzikamai Mavhaire back to ZANU-PF has served as a wake-up call for the opposition. This unsettling trend highlights the stru...Published: 19 Sep 2024 at 08:32hrs | 459 | by Fanuel Chinowaita
Zanu-PF at its weakest since 2008
The Zimbabwe Democracy Institute (ZDI) reports that Zanu-PF may be at its most vulnerable point since the 2008 general elections, largely due to factional infighting and skepticism about President Emm...Published: 11 Sep 2024 at 12:02hrs | 1035 | by Staff reporter
Hwende defects to Zanu-PF
Former Citizens' Coalition for Change (CCC) Chiredzi Town Council chairman Gibson Hwende has defected to Zanu-PF, stating that opposing President Emmerson Mnangagwa is futile.Hwende announced ...Published: 05 Sep 2024 at 13:17hrs | 1293 | by Staff reporter
Ex-Victoria Falls Mayor defects to Zanu-PF
Former Victoria Falls mayor Somvelo Dlamini has defected from the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) to join Zanu-PF, citing the ruling party's achievements under the Second Republic and the support...Published: 28 Aug 2024 at 15:13hrs | 490 | by Staff reporter
ANC of Ramaphosa must brace itself for a messy implosion
For over six months, everyone argued about whether there would be consequences for former state president Jacob Zuma's action to support the Umkhonto WeSizwe Party (MKP) in the last national and provi...Published: 02 Aug 2024 at 07:00hrs | 176 | by Nkosikhulule Nyembezi
Hwende joins Zanu-PF
Former Chiredzi Town Council (CTC) Chairperson, Alderman Gibson Hwende has officially joined Zanu-PF after serving two decades as opposition's Ward 1 councilor in Chiredzi Urban.Hwende confirm...Published: 14 Jul 2024 at 10:47hrs | 1466 | by Staff reporter
Ex-CCC Council chair Gibson Hwende joins Zanu-PF
Former Chiredzi Town Council (CTC) Chairperson, Alderman Gibson Hwende has officially joined Zanu-PF after serving two decades as opposition's Ward 1 councilor in Chiredzi Urban.Hwende confirm...Published: 13 Jul 2024 at 12:22hrs | 48 | by Staff reporter
Ex-MDC MP takes a dig at 'selfish' Chamisa
Former Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) Chegutu West legislator Takalani Matibe has defected to Zimbabwe's ruling party, Zanu-PF, after completing Marxist indoctrination at the Chitepo School of I...Published: 12 Jul 2024 at 09:18hrs | 73 | by Staff reporter
US election observers urge revamp of Zimbabwe's recall process
The Carter Centre's election observers have recommended that the Government and the Parliament of Zimbabwe revisit and revise sections 129 and 278 of the constitution, regarding recall processes, to i...Published: 16 Feb 2024 at 07:47hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Opposition Politics in Zimbabwe, 1999 - 2024: An Obituary
Advocate Nelson Chamisa's capitulation last week at the behest of the fifth column led by Sengezo Tshabangu was the final nail in opposition politics in Zimbabwe. Armed with state institutions and exp...Published: 03 Feb 2024 at 09:09hrs | 5 | by Innocent Mpoki
What Of The Logo?
Five months ago, I wrote an article criticizing the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) for using ...Published: 25 Jan 2024 at 19:29hrs | 1 | by Kumbirai Thierry Nhamo
Zanu-PF confident of winning Gift Siziva's Pelandaba-Tshabalala seat
The ruling Zanu-PF party is confident of winning the Pelandaba-Tshabalala constituency in the by-election slated for February 3 as it has proved to be gaining popularity in urban areas in previous pol...Published: 22 Jan 2024 at 04:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
'By-election to put the final nail in Ostallos Siziba political coffin'
CCC Spokesperson Gift Ostallos Siziba finds himself at the crossroads of political uncertainty as his fortunes take a nosedive following his recall by CCC Interim Secretary General Sengezo Tshaban...Published: 18 Dec 2023 at 10:18hrs | 11 | by Nkululeko Nkomo
Zambia is on the verge of being a one-party state
Zambia's former ruling parties have typically fared poorly after losing power. The United National Independence Party (UNIP) ruled for 27 years but gradually collapsed following its defeat in 1991. Th...Published: 12 Dec 2023 at 21:11hrs | 12 | by Sishuwa Sishuwa
Thabani Mpofu tackles Tshabangu
THE crucial Supreme Court appeal by 14 main opposition CCC legislators against their arbitrary recalls by an opposition activist upheld by the High Court will be heard this week after their lawyer Adv...Published: 29 Nov 2023 at 15:13hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Thabani Mpofu tears Tshabangu recalls apart
Advocate Thabani Mpofu, one of Zimbabwe's most prominent lawyers, has ruthlessly torn asunder opposition political activist Sengezo Tshabangu's case of recalling main opposition CCC MPs, senators and ...Published: 24 Nov 2023 at 17:48hrs | 29 | by Staff reporter
CCC candidate dumps Chamisa for Mnangagwa
FORMER Citizen Coalition for Change candidate for Hunyani constituency Terrence Kumbula has dumped the opposition outfit to re-join the ruling Zanu-PF party citing inconsistency within its rank and fi...Published: 07 Oct 2023 at 19:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
2 Mutsvangwas, 6 women and 3 Mnangagwas
With former television personality Tatenda Mavetera thrown into the mix, one needs very little imagination to describe Zimbabwe's Cabinet that was sworn into office early this week following a sham el...Published: 15 Sep 2023 at 22:09hrs | 4 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
Mwonzora's MDC-T to contest just 24 seats
The Electoral Court has rubberstamped a Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) ban on 87 MDC-T parliamentary candidates whose nomination papers were rejected by the poll management authority June this ye...Published: 02 Aug 2023 at 08:12hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Witness Dube slams 'opposition demigods'
Politician Witness Dube, the former national information and publicity secretary of the MDC led by Mr Douglas Mwonzora, has delivered a scathing critique of opposition parties in Zimbabwe. He ...Published: 24 Jul 2023 at 06:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ex-MDC bigwig says Mnangagwa really building Zimbabwe brick by brick
MDC Spokesperson Witness Dube, who recently dumped Douglas Mwonzora led MDC for Zanu-PF, has defended his move by arguing President Emmerson Mnangagwa is really building the country brick by brick as ...Published: 24 Jul 2023 at 06:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Is Kasukuwere out just to spoil the broth?
THE sound of the gauntlet that presidential hopeful, former cabinet minister Saviour Kasukuwere threw only last month has refused to die down.After his shock announcement that he would be cont...Published: 08 Jul 2023 at 10:01hrs | 8 | by Kudakwashe Gwabanayi
'Expect more defections to Zanu-PF'
After being ‘rigged' in the recently held murky CCC candidate selection process, outspoken activist Mr Paddington Japajapa (PJ) decided to pack his bags and rejoin Zanu-PF. Below are excerpts of his...Published: 29 Jun 2023 at 06:28hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa hints on lack of trust for some party aides
Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa has hinted on his lack of trust for some of his comrades, telling the media Thursday he will keep party election strategies under wraps for fe...Published: 09 Mar 2023 at 19:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai remembered five years on
February 14, 2023 marked five years since late Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader Morgan Tsvangirai succumbed to colon cancer.He was 65.Tsvangirai left the main opposition MDC...Published: 19 Feb 2023 at 17:36hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
'Chamisa's CCC a sinking ship,' says former ZINASU leader after shock move to Zanu-PF
FORMER Zimbabwe National Students Union (ZINASU) spokesperson, Tatenda ‘Zuj' Mandondo who dumped Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) activism for Zanu-PF has described the Nelson Chamisa led party a...Published: 14 Feb 2023 at 05:27hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa welcomes Morgan Tsvangirai's brother to Zanu-PF
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa, Saturday said Zanu-PF structures should prepare themselves for an influx of former opposition supporters after receiving hundreds in Harare.In the hundreds was fo...Published: 12 Feb 2023 at 19:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Donors snub Nelson Chamisa's CCC'
Former MDC Masvingo urban lawmaker and member of Returness4ED Tongai Matutu has sensationally claimed that the opposition CCC led by Nelson Chamisa has suffer a major blow after losing all its major d...Published: 06 Feb 2023 at 17:14hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
An acid test for Zimbabwe's opposition parties
EVERY institution is bound by a code of conduct which helps an organisation to run professionally and within the parameters of operations.There are several kinds of codes of conduct which the ...Published: 05 Dec 2022 at 05:10hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
A clinical test for the opposition
Every institution is bound with the code of conduct which helps an organisation to run professionally and within the parameters of operations....Published: 02 Dec 2022 at 09:11hrs | | by Leonard Koni
Is Zimbabwe's opposition ready for 2023 elections?
The main opposition will enter next year's election with a new name, Citizens Coalitions for Change (CCC). Hidden in the acronym perhaps not deftly is the personalistic nature of opposition politics i...Published: 09 Nov 2022 at 05:16hrs | | by Innocent Mpoki
'War collaborators vital arm of Zanu-PF'
War collaborators are a key constituency of the ruling Zanu-PF and must not be sidelined from contesting for positions in the party structure.This was said by the ruling party's Secretary for ...Published: 31 Jul 2022 at 08:11hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
MDC T members dump Mwonzora; defect to Chamisa's CCC
EMBATTLED Douglas Mwonzora has lost 35 members of his MDC T formation in Kadoma after they crossed the floor to join Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC).Among those who defected is Tafadzwa Ch...Published: 25 Jul 2022 at 15:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe politics remains a two-horse race
THE Mass Public Opinion Institute (MPOI) on Wednesday released the Afrobarometer round nine survey on Zimbabwe.The survey shows the incipient decline of the ruling Zanu-PF's leader, Emmerson M...Published: 17 Jun 2022 at 08:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC-T Harare chair dumps party, joins Chamisa's CCC
MDC-T Harare provincial chairman Zivai Mhetu has ditched the Douglas Mwonzora led opposition party which he described as a ‘dead donkey', to join Nelson Chamisa's Citizens Coalition for Change....Published: 14 Jun 2022 at 06:45hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's members jostle for Gweru Urban seat
CITIZENS' Coalition for Change (CCC) senior party members in the Midlands capital have begun campaigning, albeit underground, for the Gweru Urban parliamentary seat ahead of the watershed 2023 g...Published: 27 Apr 2022 at 13:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa goes after 'sell-out' councillors
MDC ALLIANCE councillors from across Mashonaland West province have undergone a ritualistic pledge of undying allegiance to the party's leader Nelson Chamisa, in what is being seen as a move aimed at ...Published: 13 Dec 2021 at 07:12hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF war vets 'defect' to Zapu
Zanu-PF-linked war veterans in Matabeleland South province have reportedly defected to the opposition Zapu party in protest over measly stipends they get from government despite the sacrifices they ma...Published: 12 Dec 2021 at 19:37hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF monitoring Chamisa's movements
Zanu-PF acting national political commissar Patrick Chinamasa has said the ruling party was monitoring all movements made by Nelson Chamisa's MDC Alliance to make sure it does not receive foreign fund...Published: 30 Nov 2021 at 05:44hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Tribalism cripples MDC rural penetration strategy
Sources within the MDC Alliance national and provincial structures have declared that the party's rural penetration strategy is facing serious challenges as a result of tribalism and the perceived mar...Published: 08 Oct 2021 at 10:34hrs | 7 | by Mandla Ndlovu
NPF member defects to Zanu-PF
National Patriotic Front (NPF) parliamentary candidate for Mhangura constituency in the 2018 elections, Mr Peter Kadambe has defected to the ruling Zanu-PF party, becoming the latest of many people to...Published: 27 Sep 2021 at 06:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
US tells Mnangagwa to hold by-elections
THE United States of (US) embassy in Harare yesterday criticised President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government over continued suspension of by-elections, arguing that elections could be held safely despit...Published: 24 Sep 2021 at 09:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's youths join Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF?
TWO weeks after two former MDC Alliance stalwarts, former Marondera Mayor Farayi Nyandoro and former councillor Carlos Mudzongo joined Zanu-PF, 100 youths from the opposition camp have followed suit, ...Published: 13 Sep 2021 at 20:50hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa says his party has been infiltrated
THE MDC Alliance says the party has been penetrated by infiltrators who are spying on it and selling its secrets to government and Zanu-PF.Speaking during the party's 22rd anniversary commemor...Published: 13 Sep 2021 at 19:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC probes mass defections
THE MDC Alliance says it is investigating the defection of 11 of its Gweru councillors to the rival MDC-T last week.Media reports indicated that at least 11 Gweru Urban and four Vungu Rural Di...Published: 07 Sep 2021 at 18:28hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa says only God can rule forever
MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has rubbished President Emmerson Mnangagwa's claims that the ruling Zanu-PF party would remain in power forever, stating that the electorate had the mandate to choos...Published: 06 Sep 2021 at 20:42hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF will rule forever, claims Mnangagwa
President Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday ordered the ruling party to immediately start campaigning for the crunch 2023 elections and declared that Zanu-PF will never be removed from power.Mnanga...Published: 05 Sep 2021 at 07:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
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