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School readmits pupils after mass expulsions
Mother Patrick Convent Primary School in Mainway Meadows, Harare, has started the process of re-enrolling students it previously expelled for allegedly disrupting lessons. The decision comes after wid...Published: 08 Dec 2024 at 09:59hrs | 287 | by Staff reporter
School threatens to expel 500 learners
The future of at least 500 learners at Mother Patrick Convent Primary School in Harare hangs in the balance after the school expelled 40 students for allegedly disrupting lessons. The expulsion letter...Published: 05 Dec 2024 at 06:52hrs | 561 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga faction attacks Mnangagwa allies?
Tensions within Zimbabwe’s ruling Zanu PF party are reaching a boiling point as Vice President Constantino Chiwenga's military-backed faction takes a hard stance against President Emmerson Mnangagwa...Published: 16 Nov 2024 at 15:02hrs | 4843 | by Staff reporter
Zambia's Hakainde Hichilema threatening to delay 2026 elections
On 13 September, Zambia's President Hakainde Hichilema addressed parliament in fulfilment of the Constitution that requires the president to address the National Assembly every year and provide a repo...Published: 26 Sep 2024 at 14:55hrs | 657 | by Sishuwa Sishuwa
Hichilema gears up to change Zambia's constitution
As President Hakainde Hichilema of Zambia made his annual address to parliament on 13 September, he shocked many observers as he made a series of revealing off-the-cuff remarks on the topic of constit...Published: 26 Sep 2024 at 13:36hrs | 357 | by Sishuwa Sishuwa
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
Chamisa stamps his authority, expels Harare Mayor Mafume
The President of the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC), Nelson Chamisa, has expelled Harare Mayor Jacob Mafume and six other councillors for aligning themselves with self-proclaimed party Secretary ...Published: 17 Jan 2024 at 05:01hrs | 16 | 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 | 14 | by Sishuwa Sishuwa
Chamisa's CCC vows to challenge 'judicial coup' that promises Zanu-PF a supermajority
Zimbabwe opposition on Sunday said it would challenge the results of "sham" weekend by-elections, which could give the ruling party enough of a majority to change the constitution.The south Af...Published: 11 Dec 2023 at 19:19hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa sets February 3 as date for second round of by-elections
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has set February 3, 2024 as the date the country shall hold by-elections to replace another batch of Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) legislators ousted recently on the...Published: 02 Dec 2023 at 17:56hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Tshabangu makes more recalls
Opposition CCC's interim Secretary General Sengezo Shabangu has issued a recall for Kwekwe Mayor Henry Madzorera, Deputy Mayor Melody Chingarande, and another councilor, Simon Machisvo.This mo...Published: 17 Nov 2023 at 05:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tshabangu strikes again
Just as the ink on his last recall letter on Harare mayor and eight other city councillors was still to dry, trigger-happy CCC politician Sengezo Tshabangu has ordered further recalls on former inform...Published: 10 Nov 2023 at 22:46hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Tshabangu strikes again
elf-imposed Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) secretary general Sengezo Tshabangu has ordered further recalls on Harare mayor Ian Makone, his deputy Kudzai Kadzombe and seven other city councillors ...Published: 09 Nov 2023 at 21:15hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Tshabangu's lawyer mocks recalled CCC MPs' legal team for 'fatal' errors
According to Sengezo Tshabangu's attorney, the lawyers representing the recalled CCC MPs have committed serious legal errors in their challenge. They initially erred by naming the Speaker and Senate p...Published: 03 Nov 2023 at 07:26hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
CCC crisis deepens
Sengezo Tshabangu, the 'interim secretary general' of the CCC, has declared his intention to initiate more recalls of opposition legislators who follow the party's directive to abstain from parliament...Published: 13 Oct 2023 at 07:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's main opposition implodes, handing Zanu-PF full control
Just over a month after disputed general elections in Zimbabwe, the main opposition party, Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC), appears to be imploding as a renegade outfit starts recalling parliament...Published: 10 Oct 2023 at 18:30hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
MDC: End of an era
SEPTEMBER remains significant in the MDC as the party was conceived in this ninth month of the year before making an instant impact on the Zimbabwean political landscape.Then led by firebrand ...Published: 09 Sep 2023 at 07:51hrs | | by Harriet Chikandiwa
Chamisa badly missed veterans
WITH the national election done and dusted, it has become apparent that there are several Members of the National Assembly from the ninth parliament that will not be joining the new faces at the new p...Published: 03 Sep 2023 at 07:55hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa did not rape me, says ex-Zanu-PF minister
FORMER Environment and Tourism deputy minister Annastancia Ndlovu, who is now a full-time employee at Zanu-PF headquarters in the party's directorate, has strongly denied reports that she was se...Published: 30 Jul 2022 at 19:15hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Thokozani Khupe tasting her own medicine
The MDC-T outfit is just a reconfiguration and transformation of fatigued, greedy visionless politicians, retired by democratic process.The likes of Douglas Mwonzora, Morgan Komichi, Tho...Published: 17 Dec 2021 at 17:23hrs | 6 | by Leonard Koni
Khupe takes Mwonzora, MDC-T to court
MDC-T vice-president Thokozani Khupe has dragged party leader Douglas Mwonzora to court seeking an interdict aimed at stopping her recall from Parliament.In a joint urgent application filed at...Published: 14 Dec 2021 at 05:57hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora, Khupe rift explodes
MDC-T vice-president Thokozani Khupe has dragged party leader Douglas Mwonzora to court in a bid to stop him from recalling from parliament.Khupe jointly filed the application at the Bulawayo ...Published: 14 Dec 2021 at 05:41hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
ZEC ready for elections under Covid-19
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has come up with a policy that will ensure the country resumes electoral processes even under the shadow of the Covid-19 pandemic, which previously affected the...Published: 24 Nov 2021 at 08:51hrs | 7 | by Staff Reporter
26% drop out before O-Level completion
AT LEAST 26 percent of pupils dropped out of school before completing their Ordinary level last year and most of them were boys.The Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education 2020 Statistical...Published: 30 Sep 2021 at 07:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora faces Khupe rebellion
The National Assembly passed the controversial Constitutional Amendment Bill No. 2 on Tuesday, giving President Emmerson Mnangagwa new sweeping powers to appoint judges without public scrutiny and ext...Published: 21 Apr 2021 at 07:29hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Biti says recalls meant to stymie his probe into 'Sakunda corruption'
The People's Democratic Party (PDP) asked Speaker of Parliament Jacob Mudenda Wednesday to expel MDC Alliance vice president Tendai Biti and five other legislators who are former members of the opposi...Published: 19 Mar 2021 at 18:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Biti must not be expelled from Parliament'
Zanu-PF is determined to establish a one-party state similar to the Chinese model, former People's Democratic Party (PDP) secretary-general Gorden Moyo said on Thursday.Moyo spoke a day after ...Published: 19 Mar 2021 at 09:31hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Supreme Court decision leaves MDC-T in disarray
THE MDC held a bruising conference to choose a new leader in December and it has resulted in a legal battle. The MDC's Thokozani Khupe ran to be the party's leader against Douglas Mwonzora. She lost t...Published: 31 Dec 2020 at 10:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Air Zimbabwe administrator under fire accused of 'gross incompetence'
AIR Zimbabwe administrator Reggie Saruchera has come under pressure to relinquish his role due to "gross maladministration, incompetence, mismanagement and wrongful and illegal deprivation" of salarie...Published: 27 Dec 2020 at 08:16hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Khupe fires 60 Chamisa's loyalists
THE MDC-T party has fired more than 60 party members in Mashonaland East province accusing them of being loyal to MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa.The expulsions saw top and fierce oppositio...Published: 15 Dec 2020 at 06:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora expels a councillor by mistake
Controversial MDC-T secretary-general Douglas Mwonzora has said that MDC Alliance Masvingo Urban Ward 3 councillor Tarusenga Vhembo was expelled from the party by mistake.Vhembo is among three...Published: 10 Dec 2020 at 17:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Abednico Bhebhe in soup over MDC court case
FISSURES continue to widen in the Thokozani Khupeled MDC as the party bigwigs want to haul organising secretary Abednico Bhebhe before a disciplinary hearing.This comes after Bhebhe claimed in...Published: 21 Oct 2020 at 22:16hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
16 MDC councillors contest recalls
SIXTEEN MDC Alliance councillors who were recalled last month at the behest of the Thokozani Khupe-led MDC have approached the High Court challenging the decision.Among the councillors from Harare...Published: 09 Oct 2020 at 10:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora says expelled MPs, councillors deserved it
MDC-T secretary general Douglas Mwonzora has defended ongoing recalls on MDC-T legislators and councillors he says deserved their expulsions.He was speaking to journalists Wednesday soon after...Published: 08 Oct 2020 at 06:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Khupe parliament return a fraud, cries Mahere
MDC Alliance spokesperson, Fadzayi Mahere has maintained the controversial return of acting MDC-T leader Thokozani Khupe to parliament was a fraud.Khupe bounced back to parliament on the back ...Published: 07 Oct 2020 at 06:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Openness crucial for Zanu-PF bigwigs
IT APPEARS Zanu-PF officials have moved back into their default mode - burning the midnight oil, plotting and scheming on how to unseat the party's current leadership in a replay of the costly faction...Published: 21 Sep 2020 at 19:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Khupe, Chamisa feud escalates
THE senseless blood-letting in the MDC continues with interim president Thokozani Khupe wielding the axe on 11 more councillors in Harare, including deputy mayor Enock Mupamawonde. This c...Published: 15 Sep 2020 at 17:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: Thokozani Khupe fires 11 MDC Alliance Councillors
MDC-T Acting President Thokozani Khupe has expelled 11 city councillors in Harare. A letter from the Local Government minister July Moyo has instructed the town clerk to inform the Zimbabwe Electoral ...Published: 14 Sep 2020 at 12:18hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zanu PF youth faces expulsions for court action against party
Zanu-PF Bulawayo Provincial youth league aspiring chairperson Mthunzi Mabhena faces censure after taking the party to court.Mabhena took the party to court after losing in the elections for yo...Published: 05 Jun 2019 at 07:20hrs | 2 | by Gibdon Nyathi
The High Court judgment on MDC: Just loud thunder
This is an opinion clarifying the court order in the High Court Judgment on Advocate Nelson Chamisa's Presidency.Nowhere in the judgment is there a ...Published: 15 May 2019 at 08:22hrs | 6 | by Tapiwa Shumba
Mnangagwa hints conspiracy to unseat him
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has warned Zanu-PF youths to be wary of an internal Zanu-PF mafia group, which he said had embarked on a plot to hijack and destabilise party programmes in order to discre...Published: 14 Apr 2019 at 10:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa says, 'mafia plotting Zanu-PF capture'
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has warned Zanu PF youths to be wary of an internal Zanu PF mafia group, which he said had embarked on a plot to hijack and destabilise party programmes in order to discre...Published: 13 Apr 2019 at 13:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa slams Bulawayo MDC bigwigs over Cowdray Park loss
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa on Monday reportedly slammed the Bulawayo provincial leadership for the party's poor showing in a recent council by-election won by Zanu-PF.Zanu-PF's Kidwell Mujuru w...Published: 10 Apr 2019 at 06:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC-Alliance congress exposes log in party's eye
Time has an uncanny habit of exposing hypocrisy, and often times, vindicating formally perceived villains. It is a double-edged sword. In Zimbabwe, time has helped us unravel the duplicitous behaviour...Published: 02 Apr 2019 at 07:59hrs | | by Philemon Mutedzi
'Tsvangirai turning in his grave'
RESPECTED MDC secretary-general Douglas Mwonzora says the main opposition party's revered late founding leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, is probably turning in his grave because of the toxic politics obtain...Published: 31 Mar 2019 at 16:09hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora checkmates Chamisa
MDC secretary-general Douglas Mwonzora has declared null and void any suspensions and expulsions made ahead of the party's May elective congress.This means the structures put in place at the 2...Published: 23 Mar 2019 at 21:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
How 'baby-dumping' Joice Mujuru played out
The first quarter of 2014 revealed that the main opposition party, the MDC-T, was in a similar state of disarray.It first came to the surface when MDC-T deputy treasurer and former cabinet min...Published: 10 Mar 2019 at 09:10hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu Pf divisions have contributed immensely to the collapse of our economy
Zanu-PF will never accept blame, this is one area they have mastered.It will always be the sanctions are hurting the economy , the truth being said those sanctions are targeted sanctions on Zanu-PF in...Published: 21 Feb 2019 at 21:11hrs | | by AT Kadada
'Expelled' FOG members take founder to court
THE founding leader of the Family of God Church (FOG) Apostle Andrew Wutawunashe has been taken to court by five disgruntled members challenging his decision to expel them for allegedly aligning thems...Published: 16 Feb 2019 at 20:07hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa wary of simmering Zanu-PF divisions
Zanu PF has warned its members to stop the ongoing arbitrary expulsions, suspensions and vote-of-no confidence targeting top officials, saying such acts could trigger disunity in the party.In ...Published: 14 Feb 2019 at 07:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
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