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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
'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
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
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 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
Chamisa's 11 councillors defect to Mwonzora's MDC-T
AT least 11 Gweru Urban and four Vungu Rural District MDC Alliance councillors have defected to the MDC-T party led by Douglas Mwonzora, Southern Eye reported.The councillors who left the Nels...Published: 04 Sep 2021 at 19:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa says poverty tears opposition parties
MDC Alliance president Nelson Chamisa has blamed defections from his party by MPs and councillors to poverty.Some MDC Alliance members have defected to either the MDC-T led by Douglas Mwonzora...Published: 18 Aug 2021 at 06:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Politics behind Mnangagwa's 'buying spree'
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is such a political fox. His charm is without comparison. Or, is that so?Well, there are different ways of looking at this "charm".If you like him so much,...Published: 08 Aug 2021 at 07:35hrs | 2 | by Tawanda Majoni
MDC Alliance Bulawayo in fresh turmoil
THE MDC Alliance (MDC-A) has deployed an investigating committee to probe the party's Bulawayo provincial chairperson James Sithole, following a vote of noconfidence passed by the provincial youth ass...Published: 25 Jun 2021 at 07:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC says Bulawayo defections a hoax
THE opposition MDC Alliance's Bulawayo province has dismissed claims that its members had defected en masse to Zanu-PF, accusing President Emmerson Mnangagwa's party of concocting statistics as part o...Published: 21 May 2021 at 06:13hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Zanu-PF seeks to reclaim all MDC Alliance seats'
Zanu-PF is planning to make inroads and reclaim all parliamentary and local council seats in the MDC Alliance-dominated Hwange district.For years, Hwange and Binga districts in Matabeleland No...Published: 10 May 2021 at 08:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora staying in Polad
MDC-T leader Douglas Mwonzora, who leads a smaller faction of the opposition MDCs, yesterday said he planned to keep working with President Emmerson Mnangagwa under his Political Actors Dialogue (Pola...Published: 01 May 2021 at 08:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Vote overwhelmingly to counter rigging
The 2023 election is going to be the most interesting do or die battle for both the main two political rival parties Zanu PF and MDC-Alliance who are playing their cards right on their chests....Published: 28 Apr 2021 at 15:34hrs | 8 | by Leonard Koni
MDC-T supporters dump Mwonzora
THE Nelson Chamisa-led MDC Alliance claims that over 200 opposition activists in Bulawayo who had defected to Douglas Mwonzora's MDC-T had rescinded their decision.This was revealed by MDC All...Published: 28 Apr 2021 at 06:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
No free ride for MDC defectors, says Zanu-PF
OPPOSITION members who defect to Zanu-PF will have to undergo re-orientation training at Zanu-PF's Chitepo School of Ideology for them to toe the party line. This was disclosed yesterday by Zanu-PF se...Published: 28 Apr 2021 at 06:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa says they've changed tact
Nelson Chamisa the opposition MDC Alliance leader says his party has tightened the criteria used to select parliamentary and local authority candidates to avoid infiltration by "fortune seekers" who d...Published: 27 Apr 2021 at 08:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chaos reigns supreme within MDC-Alliance
The MDC Alliance members who attended the MDC-T Extra Ordinary Congress last year are under fire as pro-Chamisa members continue to call for their expulsion.The issue has been raised at almost...Published: 21 Apr 2021 at 14:33hrs | 2 | by Political Reporter
Mnangagwa confident of 2023 victory
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa is confident of a Zanu-PF landslide victory in the 2023 harmonised elections on account of Government's success in stabilising and growing the economy.In an interview ahead...Published: 18 Apr 2021 at 08:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Amend recall legislation, say lawyers
LEGAL experts have called for the amendment of section 129(1) (k) of the Constitution, saying recalls of legislators and councillors were an anathema to democracy.Under the section, legislator...Published: 15 Apr 2021 at 07:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance wounds self-inflicted, says analysts
LIKE a deck of jacks, the MDC-Alliance is crumbling, triggering a mass exodus of distressed and disillusioned former officials who are joining Zanu-PF in droves. At the centre of the collapse ...Published: 14 Apr 2021 at 06:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Recalls a result of serious factional fights in MDC'
FORMER top MDC-T official, now staunch Zanu-PF supporter, Obert Gutu says the opposition MDC remains in denial that the party is structured along deep-seated factional lines, and that arrangement is l...Published: 13 Apr 2021 at 06:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Recall of MPs is Mugabe's baby,' says Madhuku
THE provision of recalling legislators from Parliament, which has been widely used in recent months to decimate the opposition MDC Alliance should never have found its way in the 2013 Constitution, Lo...Published: 09 Apr 2021 at 07:13hrs | | by Staff repporter
'Zanu-PF won't concede electoral defeat'
Zanu-PF will not concede to any electoral defeat as it fears being held to account for widespread human rights violations it is accused of committing over the past four decades.The claim was m...Published: 08 Apr 2021 at 08:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa, MDC Alliance's 'defining moment'
WITH pressure mounting on its leaders all round, insiders say the MDC Alliance has reached a critical point where tough decisions now have to be made about its future.This comes as both Zanu-P...Published: 05 Apr 2021 at 17:01hrs | 6 | by Anesu Mirisawu
'Zanu-PF can't wait for 2023'
With the country's main opposition MDC party at war with itself amid leadership wrangles and mass defections to Zanu-PF, the ruling party says it cannot wait for 2023 elections to finish off its rival...Published: 05 Apr 2021 at 16:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
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