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Why unity is unachievable for Chamisa's MDC
Leading to election 2018, we saw the formation of what is now called the MDC - Alliance on the backdrop of massive campaigning for a united front against Zanu-PF, not around a common cause or unity of...Published: 13 May 2019 at 08:47hrs | 4 | by Reason Wafawarova
Zimbabwe opposition and lost opportunities
Election 2018 was largely considered a landmark event for the different meanings and opportunities that were attached to it, particularly for the new faces in the presidential race, Emmerson Mnangagwa...Published: 29 Apr 2019 at 06:48hrs | 1 | by Reason Wafawarova
The stupidity of the Majority - Zimbabwe Post Election 2018
Zimbabwe is fast becoming a nation of idiots who consistently vote for a party that has tormented them throughout the years since independence in 1980. There are various groups of these shallow-minded...Published: 29 Sep 2018 at 15:42hrs | 1 | by Sibusisiwe Tshuma
Election 2018 the aftermath and opportunities to embrace
Politics is not entertainment neither is it Christian evangelical crusades. Politicians need to be serious and not take the electorate for granted as there are not there to entertain or preach. Grante...Published: 10 Sep 2018 at 07:19hrs | 1 | by Zimbabwe Solidarity Campaign
Full Ruling: Constitutional Court verdict on Nelson Chamisa's presidential petition
This is a unanimous judgement of the court. It must be noted however that it does not at the moment contain the full reasons thereof. These will be issued in due course when a fully-dressed judgement,...Published: 27 Aug 2018 at 10:20hrs | 3 | by Sithabile Mafu
Democracy, elections bad for collective cause
SOMETHING is going wrong with democracy. Something has gone wrong with democracy. It was the most successful political idea of the 21st century, but increasingly democracy is running into trouble, not...Published: 20 Aug 2018 at 05:53hrs | 1 | by Reason Wafawarova
Why elections are bad for democracy
Brexit was a turning point in the history of Western democracy in general, and that of Britain in particular. A drastic decision was taken through a one round referendum based on a simple majority, an...Published: 13 Aug 2018 at 06:42hrs | 2 | by Reason Wafawarova
Election 2018: 'Fake' prophets blasted
PROPHETS have been blasted for giving false prophecies on the Zimbabwean political situation relating to the just ended harmonised elections.A number of them came out giving prophecies saying ...Published: 06 Aug 2018 at 15:44hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
New dispensation and the rotten apple theory
Election 2018 is over, and it ended with telling lessons for the two main parties in the race. Zanu-PF nearly paid the ultimate price for years of infighting; something that clearly affected the outco...Published: 06 Aug 2018 at 07:14hrs | 1 | by Reason Wafawarova
Ballot Paper Sample: Presidential Election 2018
Specimen ...Published: 27 Jul 2018 at 06:58hrs | 1 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Zimbabwe Election 2018 Predictive Model-It's not even close!
In less than a week Zimbabweans vote in a watershed election. Not surprisingly the impending elections evoke a myriad of emotions for different reasons. Some are hyper-ventilating; some are quacking i...Published: 25 Jul 2018 at 13:58hrs | 1 | by George Chingarande
Chamisa rejects Zec's conditions for talks
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has been accused of attempting to manipulate a forum of presidential candidates that meets weekly to dismiss Nelson Chamisa's demands for administrative elector...Published: 18 Jul 2018 at 15:08hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Biti anoints himselves custodian of all Ndebele memory
It has become common practice that political foes often depart from the conventional meaning of common vocabulary with astonishing flaccidity, that one would think they take the world to be populated ...Published: 16 Jul 2018 at 06:52hrs | 1 | by Reason Wafawarova
It is time we had leaders who listen
For all his shortcomings, real or imagined, Morgan Tsvangirai had two great strengths – humility and the ability to listen. My first direct interaction with him was in 1999 in Gaborone, Botswana, wh...Published: 17 Jun 2018 at 11:33hrs | | by Moses Chamboko
Election 2018, the propaganda model
French author Jean-Marie Domenach defines propaganda as "an attempt to influence the opinion and the conduct of a society in such a way that the people adopt a predetermined opinion and conduct." John...Published: 21 May 2018 at 07:22hrs | | by Reason Wafawarova
Chamisa denies bussing people to rallies
The Nelson Chamisa-led MDC has dismissed claims that it is bussing people to attend its jam-packed rallies.Chamisa, who is riding on a wave of the so-called #Generational Consensus, has been p...Published: 13 Apr 2018 at 07:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF election manifesto ready
ZANU-PF's manifesto for Election 2018 is set to be launched at the party headquarters. This came out at the just ended 308th ordinary session of the Politburo today.Addressing the media, the p...Published: 11 Apr 2018 at 18:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's bused crowd divides opinion
MDC president Nelson Chamisa's massively attended Bulawayo rally has divided opinion, with some saying the crowds were bussed.Last Saturday, Chamisa invaded his rival Thokozani Khupe's homegro...Published: 09 Apr 2018 at 15:31hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
The West suspicious of Mnangagwa
In recent years, President Emmerson Mnangagwa seem to have discovered that Britain and the West are good.For example, when newly-appointed as vice-president in 2013, Mnangagwa was not ashamed ...Published: 06 Apr 2018 at 08:02hrs | | by Tinhu
2018: Why do we prefer bad leaders?
Behold the Ides of March are come and gone with little event and no fanfare, save for some bitter blue roof rantings of an aged, vanquished, fangless rattlesnake.The dim headlamp of Election 2...Published: 18 Mar 2018 at 09:05hrs | 1 | by Zifiso Masiye
'Tsvangirai's health, an issue for all'
MDC president Morgan Tsvangirai's health status should not be shrouded in secrecy nor should it be a private matter for his family as he is a national figure with millions of people looking up to him,...Published: 11 Feb 2018 at 14:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Vendors venture into selling T-shirts written Election 2018
Vendors along Nelson Mandela Street and surrounding areas in Harare have been organising themselves into buying and printing t-shirts written - 2018 Elections.Vendors from the MDC Alliance, af...Published: 04 Jan 2018 at 07:35hrs | 2 | by Stephen Jakes
Makarau's resignation opens a can of worms
The shock resignation by Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) chairperson Rita Makarau - a mere eight months before the country holds its make-or-break national elections next year - has cast a huge sh...Published: 10 Dec 2017 at 14:42hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Makarau's resignation opens a can of worms'
The resignation of Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) chairperson, Rita Makarau, a few months before the harmonised elections raise many questions, says a MDC top official.Makarau is said to ...Published: 08 Dec 2017 at 12:02hrs | | by Takudzwa Chiwara
A do or die election 2018
Zimbabwe is on the knife edge and on the brink of collapse as the economy bites the ordinary people in the streets. If there is no prompt action taken and if the elections are not going to be free and...Published: 18 Oct 2017 at 09:30hrs | | by Leonard Koni
All eligible Zimbabweans must be able to register to vote
The democratic notion of one person one vote was one of the key pillars and rallying points of the armed liberation struggle against racist colonial exploitation and subjugation.As a social de...Published: 09 Oct 2017 at 16:12hrs | | by Obert Chaurura Gutu
Zimbabwe Election 2018: The prospects
Zimbabwe is once again heading into another election, as has become the norm, every five years since 1980.We are one of the few countries that did not start off as a one party state after we a...Published: 09 Oct 2017 at 16:00hrs | | by Reason Wafawarova
Zimbabwe needs to be fixed - MDC-T
MDC-T spokesperson Obert Gutu has said Zimbabwe needs to be fixed considering the fact that 90% of the population survives on a dollar per day."With an ailing national economy where more...Published: 09 Oct 2017 at 07:10hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Biometric Voter Registration is the real game in the country now - MDC-T
MDC-T spokesperson Obert Gutu has said the real game that the country has now is the biometric voter registration and challenged the people not to lose focus but encourage each other to register....Published: 08 Oct 2017 at 09:17hrs | | by Stephan Jakes
Mugabe's Politburo meeting on today
The Zanu-pf Politburo is meeting today at the revolutionary party's national headquarters, with various issues up for discussion as the ruling party continues its preparations for 2018 harmonised elec...Published: 06 Sep 2017 at 06:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe to address Politburo, central committee meetings
President Mugabe this week addresses two crucial Zanu-PF meetings as the ruling party steps up preparations for the 2018 harmonised elections.In an interview yesterday, Zanu-PF national secret...Published: 04 Sep 2017 at 06:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Election 2018: Is it a foregone conclusion?
Zimbabwe goes for elections every five years and before each election we are always inundated with all sorts of predictions, be it wishful thinking, propaganda blitzes, scientific polling, prophecy, s...Published: 17 Jul 2017 at 06:45hrs | | by Reason Wafawarowa
Electoral reforms are very important ahead of 2018 elections
MDC-T spokesperson Obert Gutu has emphasised on the importance of the electoral reforms ahead of the 2018 elections indicating that they are as important as the coalitions being mapped by the oppositi...Published: 31 May 2017 at 16:31hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Electoral reforms should be bedrock of election 2018
A free and fair election is a plebiscite that produces a result that is acceptable to both the victor and the defeated; a result that is legitimate and beyond contestation. Since the year 2000, Zimbab...Published: 13 Apr 2017 at 11:47hrs | | by Obert Gutu
Rural constituencies will determine who wins Election 2018- Gutu
MDC-T spokesperson Obert Gutu has warned the rural votes will determine who will be the winner of the 2018 elections."The rural constituencies will determine who wins Election 2018.There is a ...Published: 10 Apr 2017 at 07:25hrs | 2 | by Stephen Jakes
Tsvangirai is the anointed demigod of opposition politics
A political analyst Rejoice Ngwenya has said MDc-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai seem to be an anointed demigod of the opposition in which any one who attacks him would have touched a wrong baton.H...Published: 20 Mar 2017 at 05:52hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Surest way to stop Zanu PF rigging 2018 elections is to force MDC to honour "No reform, no election!"
The need for Zimbabwe to hold free, fair and credible elections next year is now the single most important issue on the nation's agenda because it is the pre-requisite to economic recovery. Zimbabwe's...Published: 20 Feb 2017 at 16:33hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
ZEC should independently acquire biometric voter registration kits
Recent reports to the effect that the bankrupt and faction - infested Zanu PF regime has, all of a sudden, managed to raise the more than US$17 million that is needed to acquire biometric voter regist...Published: 17 Feb 2017 at 12:58hrs | | by Obert Gutu, MDC-T National Spokesperson
Zanu-PF should not use State resources to fund party projects
Over the years, the Zanu-PF regime has always illegally and unconstitutionally conflated the relationship between Zanu-PF as a political party and the State or government. Because Zanu-PF is basic...Published: 20 Oct 2016 at 09:26hrs | | by Obert Gutu
ZEC should be honest and candid - MDC-T
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) has got the very important and demanding constitutional mandate to run elections that are free,fair and credible.The MDC-T, together with several other oppositi...Published: 16 Oct 2016 at 10:11hrs | | by Obert C. Gutu
Rural vote critical for opposition to dislodge Zanu PF
MDC-T spokesperson Obert Gutu has said the rural votes are very important for the opposition political parties to be able to dislodge President Robert Mugabe and his Zanu PF in the coming 2018 electio...Published: 30 Sep 2016 at 06:27hrs | | by Stephena Jakes
MDC-T to work with all democratic opposition parties
Since its formation in September 1999,the MDC has benchmarked its ideological inclination on social democracy.The MDC is a political party that firmly and fervently believes in peacefully and demo...Published: 05 Sep 2016 at 07:16hrs | | by Obert Gutu
MDC-T admits 2018 will not be free and flip-flops to boycott - always take part in the end
The stage is set for yet another MDC-T election boycott flip-flop. Since Mugabe blatantly rigged the July 2013 elections all the country's main opposition parties including Tsvangirai's MDC-T, PDP and...Published: 23 Aug 2016 at 20:10hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Electoral reforms are a key component of free and fair elections
The MDC would like to express its deep satisfaction with the progress that eighteen (18) political parties under the national electoral reform agenda (NERA), have so far made in jointly pushing for th...Published: 23 Aug 2016 at 09:57hrs | | by Obert Chaurura Gutu
Gutu accepts 2018 elections will NOT be free and call for coalition - how will that stop vote rigging
Politics is like marriage, it is not to be entered into lightly because once the vote has been, like the tying the marriage knot, it will take years to withdraw the vote/ to divorce. The consequences ...Published: 22 Aug 2016 at 16:25hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
A strong coalition will send Zanu PF packing in election 2018
Politics is a game of numbers. As such, small, weak and poorly-funded political parties will almost invariably find it an impossible feat to win an election; even if such an election is free and f...Published: 22 Aug 2016 at 08:22hrs | | by Obert Gutu
Without electoral reforms, 2018 elections will be a farce
At the very centre of Zimbabwe's political challenges over the past few decades has been the failure by the country to hold free, fair and credible elections that can successfully pass the test of leg...Published: 15 Aug 2016 at 11:42hrs | | by Obert Gutu
MDC-T plans 'Mother of all Demonstrations'
OPPOSITION MDC-T is planning what is called Mother of all Demonstrations in Zimbabwe.It has set April 14 for demonstrations countrywide against the deteriorating economic situation, its nation...Published: 03 Apr 2016 at 09:44hrs | | by Thobekile Zhou
MDC-T will rule when two Sundays meet
Recent claims by former ZANU-PF Hurungwe West legislature Temba Mliswa that MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai will win the 2018 harmonized elections depicts how foolish and myopic this man is.Aft...Published: 18 Mar 2016 at 10:57hrs | 2 | by Chido Chikuni
Grand coalitions no silver bullet for electoral victory over Zanu-PF
IN January 1980, as the Patriotic Front forces returned to Zimbabwe, after years in exile engaging in a bitter struggle against the Rhodesian military, then Prime Minister Abel Muzorewa and his United...Published: 17 Mar 2016 at 07:34hrs | | by Geoffrey Nyarota
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