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'Zanu PF will never win free elections!' said CCC. True. So, why is CCC one insisting on elections with NO reforms?
When it comes to elections, Zimbabwe is caught in a catch 22 situation. After 42 years of corrupt and tyrannical Zanu PF rule that has left the country in economic ruins, a pariah state and forced mil...Published: 12 Oct 2022 at 13:51hrs | 2 | by Nomusa Garikai
Election watchdog endorses Mberengwa, Nyanga votes as free and fair but CCC cries foul
INDEPENDENT election watchdog, Zimbabwe Election Support Network (ZESN), has endorsed the recently held by-elections in Mberengwa and Nyanga as credible.The verdict flies in the face of main o...Published: 11 Oct 2022 at 06:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
CCC seeks SADC, AU help to restore poll reforms in Zimbabwe
Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) is hopeful SADC and AU will finally exercise their influence on Zimbabwe to bring about much-needed electoral reforms that would usher in credible elections in its ...Published: 06 Aug 2022 at 17:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa: When the snake bites the charmer
Staring the abyssVery slowly but definitely quite surely, the world is drifting towards a scary nuclear abyss. The conflict in Eastern Europe now has all the makings of a major superpo...Published: 30 Apr 2022 at 16:10hrs | 1 | by jamwanda
Anyone can rule Zimbabwe
I HAVE participated in the Zimbabwean elections as a voter from the year 2000. I was not eligible to vote earlier because of my age, but I witnessed elections in the 1990s as a student. Voter apathy w...Published: 29 Mar 2022 at 11:49hrs | | by Margaret Chinowaita
Chamisa's CCC cries foul
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) has let the country's citizens down by failing to run Saturday's by-elections smoothly and fairly, Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) national spokesperson Fad...Published: 27 Mar 2022 at 07:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Leaders must avoid hate speech at rallies
LATE in October last year when Zanu-PF was burning from strife generated by the power struggles fomented by its internal vote, we warned that political violence was taking root in the country and coul...Published: 09 Mar 2022 at 07:06hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's finest hour
THE 1990s were an interesting period in world politics. This was the period when the United States got its youngest President William Clinton at 43 and the United Kingdom (UK) also elected Tony Blair ...Published: 19 Feb 2022 at 18:35hrs | | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
By-elections dry run for 2023, says Chigumba
The parliamentary and local authority by-elections scheduled for March 26 will prepare the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) for the 2023 harmonised elections, chairperson Justice Priscilla Chigumba...Published: 28 Jan 2022 at 05:57hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa Chete Chete clears outstanding issues with ZEC
THE Nelson Chamisa-led Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) party last night said it had cleared all "outstanding issues" with the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) amid fears there was a sinister pl...Published: 26 Jan 2022 at 04:49hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
March by-elections inconsequential
IMMEDIATELY after President Emmerson Mnangagwa proclaimed the March 2022 by-elections, he started the week by firing his State Security minister Owen Ncube in dramatic fashion. The decision stole the ...Published: 15 Jan 2022 at 00:15hrs | 2 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Zanu-PF says by-elections a dry run for 2023 race
Zanu-PF secretary for external affairs Simbarashe Mumbengegwi has said that the ruling party will use the upcoming by-elections as a benchmark to gauge its strength in urban areas, which are seen as o...Published: 11 Jan 2022 at 18:38hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
By-elections spook opposition
PROSPECTS of by-elections in the first quarter of next year have spooked the broke and divided MDC-Alliance led by Mr Nelson Chamisa, which is now threatening to boycott the polls for alleged absence ...Published: 17 Nov 2021 at 05:12hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter
Transporters must adopt required pre-clearance processes at border
It's just over a week since the new Beitbridge Border Post freight terminal has been opened to the public and the results of improved border management systems are slowly beginning to show.Lik...Published: 22 Oct 2021 at 06:28hrs | 1 | by Nick Mangwana
Pre-training on new border traffic flow gathers momentum
The training of border agencies at Beitbridge Border Post has gathered moment as the Government prepares to open the newly built commercial freight terminal at Sadc's busiest inland port of entry....Published: 26 Sep 2021 at 10:12hrs | 93 | by Staff Reporter
Beitbridge-Bulawayo road rehabilitation on the cards
GOVERNMENT has said feasibility studies are underway to pave way for the rehabilitation of the Beitbridge-Bulawayo highway. Secretary for Transport and Infrastructural Development, Engineer Th...Published: 21 Sep 2021 at 06:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
New Beitbridge trucks route opened
ZIMBORDERS on Friday opened the newly-built commercial trucks route at Beitbridge Border Post, signalling the completion of the first phase of the US$300 million border upgrade.The South Afric...Published: 20 Sep 2021 at 07:15hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Beitbridge Border Post upgrade excites truck drivers
COMMERCIAL truck drivers from across the Sadc region have expressed excitement over the ongoing upgrade at the Beitbridge Border Post, which is currently being modernized by the Government in partners...Published: 19 Sep 2021 at 18:33hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Primary elections expose Zanu PF rot'
THE chaotic scenes witnessed during the ruling Zanu PF party primary elections yesterday which included late delivery of ballot papers, shambolic voters' rolls and postponement of the elections in oth...Published: 30 Apr 2018 at 06:57hrs | | by Staff Reporter
2018 polls: It's game on
Zanu-PF will hold primary elections next Sunday with the ruling party employing a new strategy that will see candidates holding joint campaign rallies.More than 1 302 candidates are set to bat...Published: 22 Apr 2018 at 09:51hrs | | by Staff rpeorter
Zanu-PF to use voters' roll in dry run
ZANU-PF - which has embarked on a grassroots-based voter mobilisation strategy - is planning to use the provisional voters roll compiled by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) in its primary polls...Published: 13 Apr 2018 at 12:53hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'How G40's power-grab plan collapsed'
ZANU-PF'S deposed generation 40 (G40) faction was "within touching distance" of snatching the party's presidency amid revelations that its vile plan included the capture of several strategic instituti...Published: 23 Feb 2018 at 10:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Nando's bounces back from building collapse
BULAWAYO fast food outlet, Nando's, which abruptly closed shop in February this year after its veranda roof collapsed on customers and passersby – killing one – re-opened yesterday.Before ...Published: 20 Sep 2017 at 06:42hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Coalition leadership against Mugabe, not about popularity only
As Zimbabwe slowly but surely inches towards the 2018 national elections, an all-too-familiar picture is emerging: it's President Robert Mugabe versus Morgan Tsvangirai again.This has been the...Published: 08 Jul 2017 at 15:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Elections are a numbers game, not about coalitions
With presumably a year and a few months away from the next general election in Zimbabwe, a harmonised election for both the Executive and Parliament, the campaign season has undoubtedly begun....Published: 08 Jun 2017 at 06:48hrs | 1 | by Christopher Farai Charamba
Fifa disown Rushwaya
WORLD football governing body Fifa says it never contracted chief trans-Limpopo match-fixing accused Henrietta Rushwaya to penetrate the betting underworld.Rushwaya had claimed that her involv...Published: 17 Mar 2016 at 05:56hrs | | by Sikhumbuzo Moyo
Govt, CSOs launch a 'Take a Child to work' campaign
Zimbabwean government in collaboration with the Civil society orgabnisations, Plan and Cradles of Influence Leadership Institute has launched a campaign called 'Take a child to work' aimed making chil...Published: 07 Dec 2015 at 05:42hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Staff exodus hits Air Zimbabwe
NATIONAL airline, Air Zimbabwe (AirZim), has been hit by a staff exodus after regional carrier, fastjet Zimbabwe, which only got a licence last week, lured most of its pilots.In the past few y...Published: 16 Oct 2015 at 07:19hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mujuru won't sleep alone
I LIKE what is happening in Europe, namely the trekking to its shores of thousands and thousands of refugees from North Africa and Middle East, foremost refugees from war-torn Syria. It's a pity Ameri...Published: 12 Sep 2015 at 09:09hrs | 3 | by Nathaniel Manheru
Namibians to vote electronically, first for Africa
In a first for Africa, Namibians will cast their ballots electronically in this month's presidential and legislative polls, the election commission said Friday.Over 1 million voters, or just a...Published: 16 Nov 2014 at 22:12hrs | | by Sapa
Time for a new MDC-T leader
Just over a month ago a great wave of optimism was building and sweeping across Zimbabwe. People were furtively - then later even openly - daring to hope that they would ride in on the great wave that...Published: 27 Sep 2013 at 18:03hrs | | by Ben Freeth
Big guns for DStv's SuperSport Confed Cup screening
An illustrious panel of football experts has been assembled by SuperSport to provide unprecedented coverage of the Confederations Cup, that recently started in Brazil.They include Sunday ...Published: 19 Jun 2013 at 12:42hrs | 1 | by Moyo Roy
Thank God the charade is now coming to an end
Thank God the charade is now coming to an end. Hallelujah! Two days ago the Lower House of our Parliament passed Amendment 20 bringing us a stage closer the operationalisation of the new Const...Published: 11 May 2013 at 05:03hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
When we can't trust ourselves after Mugabe
"One of the commonest manifestations of underdevelopment is a tendency among the ruling elite to live in a world of make-believe and unrealistic expectations. This is the cargo cult mentality that ant...Published: 23 Mar 2013 at 17:08hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
Preparing for a Certification Exam
Merry Christmas to you and yours, I got this this morning via email and though it might help someone out there, it was originally written by ...Published: 24 Dec 2012 at 05:51hrs | | by Luis Carselle, Moyo Roy
SADC Univisa introduction underway - Mzembi
Zimbabwe's Tourism and Hospitality Industry minister Walter Mzembi says Southern Africa is working on the introduction of a univisa, which will provide greater access to its source markets.Add...Published: 18 Apr 2012 at 10:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
How was Gaddafi going to retreat
behind the deep, yawning sea, above which hovered ferocious NATO air power?As I write this piece, Gaddafi has been executed by the so-called revolution...Published: 24 Oct 2011 at 06:34hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
Diaspora vote only answer to Zimbabwe crisis
After the disruption of public hearings of the human rights commission and business in Parliament last week by Zanu-PF activists, it is now clear that the only answer to the Zimbabwe crisis is the ...Published: 31 Jul 2011 at 15:51hrs | 1 | by Clifford Chitupa Mashiri
Sanctions: Political gain, civilian pain
This week, I take an unusual line from what my readers are used to. Foremost, I pilfer the title of the installment from some scholar who has devoted his energies to the study of the subject of sancti...Published: 11 Jun 2011 at 18:27hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
Zifa to sell Warriors' Puma replicas
ZIFA will sell new Warriors' replica jerseys as part of an ambitious drive to secure a massive sponsorship deal from international kit manufacturer Puma.After finally managing to end their us...Published: 04 Jun 2011 at 17:02hrs | | by Moyo Roy
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