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Zanu-PF grapples with survival

Zanu-PF is facing mounting pressure to maintain unity as internal divisions threaten the party's long-term survival.Analysts say factionalism and succession battles are weakening the ruling party, which has held power since independence in…

Published: 02 Sep 2025 at 06:59hrs | | by Staff reporter

Tagwirei sparks Zanu-PF factional tensions

Business mogul Kudakwashe Tagwirei's bid to join Zanu-PF's powerful Central Committee has stirred controversy within the ruling party, with senior officials declaring his recent attendance at a party meeting unconstitutional.Zanu-PF spokes…

Published: 06 Jul 2025 at 10:01hrs | 233 | by Staff reporter

Ncube warns against Zanu-PF factionalism

Midlands Provincial Affairs and Devolution Minister, Owen Ncube, has issued a stern warning to Zanu-PF members in the province, cautioning them against using the ongoing cell verification exercise to advance factional agendas ahead of prov…

Published: 27 Jun 2025 at 09:25hrs | 209 | by Staff reporter

Welshman Ncube, Timba factions clash over political parties funds

Chaos and disorder continue to plague the opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) as internal factions escalate their battle over the distribution of funds under the Political Parties (Finance) Act. The latest clash comes after Just…

Published: 11 Oct 2024 at 15:42hrs | 416 | by Staff reporter

Factionalism threatens Zanu-PF unity

ZANU-PF's ongoing cell restructuring exercise has revealed deep-rooted factionalism within the ruling party, as loyalists aligned with President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his deputy, Constantino Chiwenga, vie for control of key party structur…

Published: 30 Sep 2024 at 07:42hrs | | by Staff reporter

Chamisa's resignation created more factions in CCC

THE CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) candidate for Hunyani constituency in the August 2023 elections, Lovemore Chinoputsa has bemoaned the state of affairs in the two-year-old opposition movement, describing it as a far cry from the day…

Published: 15 Feb 2024 at 10:05hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter

CCC splits into three warring factions

THE Citizens' Coalition for Change (CCC) has disintegrated into three distinct yet fluid factions following last week's resignation of Nelson Chamisa which took some legislators and party officials by surprise.The freeing of the fiery Job …

Published: 06 Feb 2024 at 15:36hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter

Chamisa's CCC faces new headache

The Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) councilors in Masvingo are already divided on who will replace former Mayor Shantiel Chiwara who broke three records in a space of one month by becoming the youngest mayor in Zimbabwe, the first fema…

Published: 12 Nov 2023 at 16:49hrs | 23 | by Staff reporter

Zanu-PF primary polls reignite factional battles

THE recent Zanu-PF primary elections have re-ignited the battle for the control of Masvingo province between factions aligned to President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his deputy Constantino Chiwenga, with most candidate aligned to the ruling pa…

Published: 07 Apr 2023 at 20:09hrs | | by Staff reporter

Mwonzora's MDC-T burns

FACTIONALISM and blame games have hit the MDC-T ahead of the elective congress that has been kept a closely guarded secret by party leader Douglas Mwonzora and his loyalists who are now plotting the expulsion of those perceived to be pursu…

Published: 13 Jun 2022 at 17:50hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter

Electoral reforms must dominate political discourse in 2022

AS we bask on the cusp of a new year, Zimbabweans appear to have gone agog about the pending by-elections and what many deem to be the watershed plebiscite of 2023.And yet for some of us, highly expectant conversations about the pending el…

Published: 18 Jan 2022 at 05:32hrs | 8 | by Luke Tamborinyoka

Zanu-PF factional fights reach boiling point

Zanu-PF ructions in Mashonaland Central province have reached the boiling point, with two distinct camps brawling for key positions amid reports that two cabinet ministers belonging to one camp are moving around threatening party members w…

Published: 04 Sep 2021 at 19:43hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter

Zanu-PF factional wars escalate

AS the enervating Zanu-PF factional wars threaten to rip the party apart, Politburo member, Ziyambi Ziyambi this week launched a scathing attack on Mashonaland West provincial youth chairman Vengai Musengi for fanning divisions and attempt…

Published: 14 Aug 2021 at 07:29hrs | 19 | by Staff reporter

Factional war erupts in MLF after leadership dissolution

A BITTER factional war has erupted in the Mthwakazi Liberation Front (MLF) secessionist party after the dissolution of the executive pending an elective congress.Last week, interim party spokesperson Ndabezinhle Fuyane announced that all M…

Published: 10 May 2021 at 05:32hrs | 25 | by Staff reporter

Zanu-PF factions hold key to ending Zimbabwe problems

FORTHRIGHT former Cabinet minister, Tshinga Dube, says the push by South Africa President Cyril Ramaphosa and his ruling African National Congress (ANC) to end Zimbabwe's decades-long political and economic crises rests on them winning sup…

Published: 20 Sep 2020 at 17:28hrs | | by Staff reporter

Zanu-PF's age-old factionalism burns hot

PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has deployed Zanu-PF bigwigs in three provinces that are being ravaged by ugly infighting ahead of the party's District Co-ordinating Committee (DCC) elections.Zanu-PF national political commissar, Victor Matem…

Published: 18 Sep 2020 at 21:09hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter

Zanu-PF factionalism rears ugly head

There was drama at Chinhoyi Stadium during the Defence Forces Day celebrations when security and protocol members were reportedly forced to remove top Zanu-PF provincial members who had invaded the high table reserved for senior government…

Published: 15 Aug 2019 at 07:31hrs | 20 | by Staff reporter

Ugly infighting rattles Zanu-PF

Rival Zanu-PF factions shall momentarily shift their focus to primary elections due to be held either in the final quarter of this year or early next year, as they battle for control of the National Assembly, the Daily News can report.The …

Published: 29 Aug 2017 at 06:56hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter

Time to rise above factional fights

When the politburo, Zanu-PF's supreme decision-making body outside congress sat on June 21, they were dealing with internal struggles, suspicions, accusations and counter accusations. Barring all other issues, the main purpose of this part…

Published: 23 Jul 2017 at 11:38hrs | 44 | by Conelia Mabasa

Zanu-PF old guard hijacks youth rally

The old guard in Zanu-PF has all but hijacked President Robert Mugabe's youth interface rally set for Masvingo tomorrow, amid indications that the event could be used as a platform to assert factional preferences.Party insiders told the Da…

Published: 29 Jun 2017 at 07:34hrs | 1159 | by Staff reporter

ZAPU is growing despite unknown factions created by elements of destruction

In an African culture we say" ungagijimisa uhlanya abantu bakubone ulugijimisa uphethe uswazi abantu basuke bacabange ukuthi lizinhlanya lonke"Literally we as ZAPU party and bona fide members we are not shaken by the unknown social media p…

Published: 13 Mar 2017 at 21:01hrs | | by Sikhumbuzo Moyo

Zanu-PF factions fight for Mugabe's mysterious prophet

The mad-scramble within President Robert Mugabe's warring Zanu-PF to control the frail and mysterious leader of a secretive religious sect, Madzibaba Wimbo, is intensifying - with the 94-year-old now living under 24-hour guard by soldiers …

Published: 23 Nov 2016 at 13:48hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter

Public utterances destroy Zanu-PF's integrity

The use and abuse of public fora such as media and rallies is working against the fabric of the revolutionary party Zanu-PF. President Mugabe has and continues to abhor the malicious, frivolous and libellous use of public rallies and the m…

Published: 09 Aug 2016 at 08:51hrs | 368 | by Cornelius Takawira

Who killed Zapu in the UK?

Zapu in the UK is dead, the final straw was the All Stakeholders meeting held in Leicester on the 10th December 2011. This is an honest analysis and diagnosis of what has transpired in the business of Zapu in the UK since its revival and i…

Published: 14 Dec 2011 at 12:51hrs | 19 | by Nqobile Sibanda

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