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Khupe demands Ministerial statement on use of US$38m sugar tax
Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) legislator Dr Thokozani Khupe has called on the Ministry of Finance to urgently deliver a ministerial statement detailing how the US$38 million raised from the suga...Published: 25 Jun 2025 at 17:17hrs | 293 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's muppets refuse to declare Bulawayo a water disaster area
The Emmerson Mnangagwa led Zanu-PF government has refused to declare Bulawayo a water disaster area, attributing the city's water crisis to mismanagement by local authorities rather than a national em...Published: 05 Sep 2024 at 15:17hrs | 854 | by Staff reporter
Nelson Chamisa: The Biblical Joshua that never was
With Zimbabwe being largely a Christian nation where religion and politics are juxtaposed, the former Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa touted himself as the Biblical Joshua sa...Published: 31 Aug 2024 at 11:17hrs | 645 | by Brighton Chiseva
Tsvangirai created the mess, says Tshabangu
Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) interim secretary general Sengezo Tshabangu says the late MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai's appointment of two vice presidents before his death is to blame for the cha...Published: 10 Dec 2023 at 18:22hrs | 34 | by Staff reporter
Thokozani Khupe announces her second cancer diagnosis
Dr. Thokozani Khupe, a proportional representation Member of Parliament representing the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) in Bulawayo and former Deputy Prime Minister of Zimbabwe, has revealed that...Published: 07 Sep 2023 at 17:02hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Strategic ambiguity rocks Chamisa's CCC
When Advocate Nelson Chamisa first declared to Blessing Mhlanga of HStv News that 'STRATEGIC AMBIGUITY' was the "biggest thing" in his and CCC's communication to "CONFUSE THE ENEMY", many thought "the...Published: 28 Jul 2023 at 21:34hrs | 30 | by Jonathan Moyo
Malinga, Nyathi, Ngwenya nominated for civic honours
FORMER Bulawayo Mayor and Special Advisor to the President on National Disability, Alderman Joshua Malinga together with renowned historian Mr Pathisa Nyathi and Mpilo Central Hospital clinical direct...Published: 09 Jul 2023 at 10:33hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
'CCC candidate absconded community service'
THE Nelson Chamisa-led Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC)'s shambolic candidate selection process could come back to haunt the party after it emerged that one of the aspiring candidates allegedly abs...Published: 02 Jul 2023 at 15:43hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Thokozani Khupe withdrawn from contesting Mthuli Ncube
In a new twist to what was promising to be a Battle Royale in the 23 August harmonised general election - between the much adored Dr Thokozani Khupe and the odds-on favourite Finance Minister Pro...Published: 06 Jun 2023 at 19:04hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa faces 'bhora musango' as losing CCC candidates launch last-ditch appeals
Some disgruntled members of the Citizen's Coalition for Change (CCC) who were not successful in their bid to represent the party in the upcoming elections are reportedly set to appeal before the final...Published: 06 Jun 2023 at 07:10hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Analysts dismiss suggestion that Thokozani Khupe withdraw candidature against Mthuli Ncube
Professor Jonathan Moyo's recommendations that Dr Thokozani Khupe withdraw from running against Finance Minister, Professor Mthuli Ncube, as the latter has a better chance of developing Cowdray Park, ...Published: 06 Jun 2023 at 07:10hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo deputy mayor fights conviction at High Court
BULAWAYO deputy mayor Mlandu Ncube and two others who were part of a group of 12 MDC-T members involved in violent skirmishes that rocked the opposition party in March 2018 have approached the High Co...Published: 02 Mar 2023 at 05:46hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF and CCC pursuing the 4th Chimurenga agenda: Is it mere coincidence?
Barbara Tanyanyiwa, a woman representative at CCC was on 19th January 2022 interviewed by Studio 7 on the arrests of 25 CCC members in Budiriro in Harare. In her 2 minutes, 15 seconds inte...Published: 22 Jan 2023 at 17:55hrs | 3 | by Mqondisi Moyo
Khupe attends Chamisa meeting
FORMER MDC-T deputy president Thokozani Khupe yesterday effectively joined the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) after she attended a meeting addressed by Nelson Chamisa in Bulawayo.Khupe wa...Published: 10 Apr 2022 at 08:18hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo councillor fumes over Mwonzora links
A BULAWAYO councillor, who two weeks ago attended a caucus meeting of Citizens' Coalition for Change despite her being a member of the Douglas Mwonzora-led MDC-T has taken a swipe at her colleagues ac...Published: 10 Apr 2022 at 08:09hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Holding free elections is an event; in Zimbabwe it's a 42-year process still with no end date
The number one reason Zimbabwe is in this economic and political mess is the country's failure to hold free, fair and credible elections. The country started on the wrong foot by failing to ensure the...Published: 29 Mar 2022 at 11:38hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Khupe re-admission moves split Chamisa's CCC
THE Citizens for Coalition Change (CCC) could be faced with another downfall amid reports that talks on the readmission of Dr Thokozani Khupe into the party are threatening to split the opposition in ...Published: 20 Mar 2022 at 06:28hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'We're losing ground in Matebeleland,' claims CCC
A few weeks before the holding of by-elections on 26 March, the country's opposition has acknowledged that the ruling Zanu-PF party was maintaining a tight grip in the Matabeleland region, an area the...Published: 06 Mar 2022 at 08:25hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Khupe goes to court over MDC-T funds
EXPELLED Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T) deputy president Dr Thokozani Khupe has approached the High Court seeking an order barring Government from disbursing funds to her rival Mr Douglas Mwon...Published: 26 Feb 2022 at 18:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa promises to unleash?
Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday vowed to unleash violence if he lost next year's presidential race to President Mnangagwa, amid divisions in the opposition outfit....Published: 21 Feb 2022 at 05:27hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
CCC: Old wine in old wineskins
On 24 January, former MDC Alliance faction leader, Nelson Chamisa announced the formation of a new opposition political party, the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC). During the announcement,...Published: 16 Feb 2022 at 05:29hrs | 1 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Khupe fights back after recall by Mwonzora
MDC-T president Mr Douglas Mwonzora has recalled his estranged former deputy Dr Thokozani Khupe from Parliament and described her as having "anger management issues."But Dr Khupe immediately s...Published: 03 Feb 2022 at 05:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
CCC project exposes Chamisa's poor political pedigree
For the past week the adherence of the MDC faction led by Nelson Chamisa, some interested distant watchers and anti-Government elements have been head over heels in excitement.This follows Cha...Published: 03 Feb 2022 at 05:35hrs | 3 | by Nobleman Runyanga
BREAKING: Mwonzora expels Thokozani Khupe from Parliament
MDC Alliance leader Douglas Mwonzora has recalled MDC-T leader Thokozani Khupe from parliament. This was revealed by Khupe during a press conference held on Wednesday...Published: 02 Feb 2022 at 09:41hrs | 3 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mwonzora wants dialogue to start
MDC-T leader Mr Douglas Mwonzora has asked President Mnangagwa to announce when the national political parties' dialogue process will commence.He endorsed the process after a meeting with the ...Published: 31 Jan 2022 at 05:43hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora, Mnangagwa share $500 million
Zanu-PF is set to receive $350 million, while the MDC-T led by Mr Douglas Mwonzora will get $149 million of the $500 million allocated in this year's annual national Budget under the Political Parties...Published: 28 Jan 2022 at 05:58hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) - Nothing new to behold
ON Monday, Mr Nelson Chamisa, the former MDC-Alliance leader formed a "new" party the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) after throwing in the towel in the battle for the control of the MDC-T party, ...Published: 27 Jan 2022 at 04:38hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
MDC fractures into oblivion
LAST week the opposition was thrown into further but usual turmoil when MDC-T vice-president Dr Thokozani Khupe told journalists in Bulawayo that the party had split into two formations, one led by he...Published: 25 Jan 2022 at 05:42hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
MDC provinces endorse Khupe suspension
SUSPENDED MDC-T Vice President, Thokozani Khupe's troubles continue to mount after eight MDC-T political provinces endorsed her suspension.The eight provinces are: Bulawayo, Harare, Matebelela...Published: 23 Jan 2022 at 08:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC circus continues
THE political circus in the MDC continues with the party's vice president Dr Thokozani Khupe announcing yesterday that she had broken ranks with former president Mr Douglas Mwonzora to form a splinter...Published: 22 Jan 2022 at 05:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Khupe, Mwonzora at each other's throats
THE MDC-T plunged into a new crisis yesterday following the suspension of its vice president Dr Thokozani Khupe who also announced that party leader Mr Douglas Mwonzora had fired himself from the oppo...Published: 21 Jan 2022 at 05:35hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Factional battles split MDC again
FACTIONAL fights in the troubled MDC peaked yesterday with the suspension of Dr Thokozani Khupe from a faction led by Mr Douglas Mwonzora over allegations of working with Mr Nelson Chamisa, resulting ...Published: 21 Jan 2022 at 05:30hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: Thokozani Khupe suspended
The Douglas Mwonzora led MDC-T has suspended former Deputy Prime Minister Thokozani Khupe for various allegations that have been levelled against her. In a statement issued on Thursday, Party ...Published: 20 Jan 2022 at 14:07hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chamisa a cunning megalomaniac
THERE is a problem that the Zimbabwean electorate is not seeing in the opposition politics of our country.The situation cannot even be explained using the words disaster and catastrophe. Many ...Published: 17 Jan 2022 at 06:34hrs | 1 | by Gibson Nyikadzino
Mwonzora at it again
MDC-T President Douglas Mwonzora is under fire following a criminal case of perjury being opened against him by Gweru mayor Josiah Makombe who, together with former party president Dr Thokozani Khupe ...Published: 08 Jan 2022 at 06:10hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF, Mwonzora to share $500m
Zanu-PF and MDC-T will next year share the $500 million Treasury allocated under the Political Parties Finance Act with the split based on the number of constituency seats in the National Assembly....Published: 13 Dec 2021 at 06:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Khupe faces recall from MDC-T
IN a dramatic turn of events revolving around a political merry-go-round, and after spearheading recalls of main opposition MDC Alliance legislators in a cutthroat power struggle with Nelson Chamisa, ...Published: 12 Dec 2021 at 20:17hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Gomba, six councillors lose recall challenge
Former Harare Mayor Herbert Gomba and six other councillors have lost their bid for reinstatement to the city council after the High Court threw out their petition to invalidate their recall by the MD...Published: 04 Nov 2021 at 06:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora distances self from Khupe aide violence incident
MDC-T party leader Douglas Mwonzora has distanced himself and his party from former Thokozani Khupe aide Kudzanai Mashumba violence incident in which the latter attempted to hold a press conference pu...Published: 23 Oct 2021 at 06:43hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Legislators give SONA thumbs up
Parliamentarians from across the political divide yesterday commended President Mnangagwa for addressing issues affecting the country when he presented the State of the Nation Address and opened the F...Published: 08 Oct 2021 at 06:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZEC spot on in excluding MDC Alliance
Recently Zimbabweans woke up to a NewsDay story entitled "ZEC bias exposed." The article informed that the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) had not invited the Nelson Chamisa-led MDC Alliance (MDC-...Published: 04 Oct 2021 at 05:50hrs | 1 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Chamisa MDC's fresh sanctions call flops
THE MDC-Alliance unsuccessfully tried to lobby the European Union (EU) to impose fresh sanctions on Zimbabwe after its parliamentarians had been recalled from Parliament following a Supreme Court ruli...Published: 28 Jul 2021 at 07:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Government is in the process of taking over all council health facilities
Government is in the process of taking over all health facilities owned by local authorities as part of a grand plan to ensure standardised service delivery as envisaged by the National Development St...Published: 01 Jul 2021 at 19:16hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Haruzivishe represents everything wrong about opposition politics
A young member of the MDC formation led by Nelson Chamisa, Makomborero Haruzivishe, was sentenced to 14 months in prison by the Harare Magistrates Court this week for inciting public violence. ...Published: 09 Apr 2021 at 07:16hrs | 2 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Chamisa's MDC criticises Mudenda 'bias' in Parliament
MDC Alliance has criticised the alleged bias of the Speaker of Parliament, Jacob Mudenda, by allowing the expulsion of its legislators from parliament before ascertaining the motive and legality of re...Published: 25 Mar 2021 at 17:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
How to wreck a political party
One of the issues that MDC Alliance leader, Nelson Chamisa raised during his Agenda 2021 address last week were claims that Government was gunning for a one party State in Zimbabwe using some oppositi...Published: 22 Mar 2021 at 06:05hrs | 3 | by Nobleman Runyanga
14 months water in Bulawayo dams
BULAWAYO supply dams have water that can last the city for up to 14 months without council implementing any shedding programme. Since 2019, Bulawayo has been under a tight water shedding sched...Published: 05 Mar 2021 at 06:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Khupe dismisses Mwonzora claims she has accepted VP post
FORMER MDC-T interim president Thokozani Khupe has dismissed Douglas Mwonzora's claims she has finally accepted the outcome of the tempestuous December 27, 2020 party extraordinary congress in which s...Published: 23 Feb 2021 at 20:24hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
MDC-T faces implosion
PLANS are afoot to challenge the constitutionality of the MDC-T extraordinary congress (EOC), its election results and the subsequent appointments made by its new leader Douglas Mwonzora after an atte...Published: 11 Feb 2021 at 06:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa loses more senior members?
MDC-Alliance continues to count costs after it lost more senior party officials to the MDC-T led by Mr Douglas Mwonzora, who now leads the biggest opposition party in terms of representation in Parlia...Published: 08 Feb 2021 at 05:45hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
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