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Mwonzora skeletons tumble
THOKOZANI Khupe has revealed that the MDC-T received assistance from the state through judicial and parliamentary processes in their fight to destroy the Chamisa-led MDC Alliance.This would se...Published: 23 Jan 2022 at 08:06hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Truant ministers cripple Parly
CABINET ministers have continued dodging the parliamentary question time in both the National Assembly and Senate, thereby doing a heavy blow to Parliament's key oversight function.The Q and A...Published: 13 Nov 2021 at 05:53hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Whose who in Mwonzora's shadow Cabinet - Full list
Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T) leader Douglas Mwonzora Thursday announced a 26-member shadow cabinet which he said will monitor and check the performance of President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s ca...Published: 19 Aug 2021 at 17:35hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe health institutions face critical staff shortages
HEALTH institutions across the country are facing shortages of critical staff, which has severely affected effective healthcare delivery at a time when the country is still grappling with the COVID-19...Published: 01 Jun 2021 at 08:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF primes for Patriotic Bill
ZIMBABWE now stares at the draconian Patriotic Bill for which Zanu-PF simply needs a majority, not necessarily two-thirds, according to legal experts.Zanu-PF managed to push through Parliament...Published: 07 May 2021 at 06:45hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Sad milestone for Zimbabwe democracy or momentous occasion?
CONSTITUTIONAL Amendment No 2 Bill sailed through Senate yesterday with three MDC-T senators, Piniel Denga, Morgan Femai and Jane Chifamba voting in Zanu-PF's corner to help the ruling party achieve t...Published: 05 May 2021 at 07:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
11 Mwonzora senators vote with Zanu-PF
Zimbabwe's Senate approved a constitutional amendment bill on Tuesday removing a clause in the constitution on electing vice presidents, a move which the opposition says is intended by President Emmer...Published: 04 May 2021 at 21:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC died with Tsvangirai, says Gutu
FORMER MDC-T vice-president Obert Gutu, who defected to Zanu-PF last week, says he crossed the floor after realising that the main opposition party had long been buried together with its late founder ...Published: 22 Mar 2021 at 06:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Khupe says remaining MDC MPs loyal to her
NEWLY SWORN-IN MP and acting MDC-T leader Thokozani Khupe Wednesday opposition legislators remaining in parliament were loyal to her party.The politician also pledged to use her time in the ho...Published: 08 Oct 2020 at 06:41hrs | | by newzimbabwe
Minister grilled over Mnangagwa's 'use minimum force' statement
JUSTICE minister Ziyambi Ziyambi was yesterday grilled in Senate over President Emmerson Mnangagwa's recent statement urging the South African government to "use a bit of force" to curb xenophobic att...Published: 06 Sep 2019 at 07:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Health Insurance Bill now at an advanced stage'
HEALTH minister Obadiah Moyo says government is now at an advanced stage in the crafting of a National Health Insurance Bill, which will provide a national health safety net to all citizens.Mo...Published: 12 Jun 2019 at 07:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa appoints team to investigate claims he rigged polls
MDC Alliance President Nelson Chamisa has dispatched a seven member team to investigate claims that he rigged The Bulawayo provincial congress polls to ensure Ndebele candidates lost.The party...Published: 08 May 2019 at 08:52hrs | | by Methusi Ncube
Dembare is sinking and very fast
WE are sinking fast. I had always believed that the only person who could take Dynamos FC to the top is Sunday Chidzambwa and his firing in 1991 had been wrong. In my view, Sunday is the greatest coac...Published: 24 Apr 2019 at 07:01hrs | 1 | by Memory Mucherahowa
Biti is key to MDC-Alliance, and this congress must be negotiated to avert a split
What MDC Alliance forgets is that you need international recognition and legitimacy after congress. I have earlier on reiterated that Chamisa needs key people around him and he must do away with prais...Published: 02 Apr 2019 at 09:58hrs | | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
Mliswa on a bull rampage
NORTON legislator Mr Temba Mliswa, who has a long history of controversy from sport to business; politics to his love life, is back on a rampage. Whether it is mere attention seeking or a tragic chara...Published: 13 Feb 2019 at 08:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mliswa stirs fresh controversy
NORTON legislator, Mr Temba Mliswa, who has a long history of controversy from sport to business; politics to his love life, is back on a rampage. Whether it is mere attention seeking or a tragic char...Published: 12 Feb 2019 at 22:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
WhatsApp gives away Mliswa's shady deals
NORTON legislator Temba Mliswa, who is in the eye of a storm for allegedly soliciting for a bribe from a local businessman, has claimed to belong to very powerful cartels after being cornered by fello...Published: 12 Feb 2019 at 16:12hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
NAC engages parliamentarians in HIV response
The National Aids Council (NAC) held an HIV and Aids sensitisation workshop for newly-elected members of parliament and senators recently as part of its advocacy strategy. The group was specifically t...Published: 23 Dec 2018 at 09:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa muddles through mayors drama
MDC president Nelson Chamisa is facing a barrage of criticism from dissenting voices within the country's biggest opposition party for meddling in recent mayoral elections in cities that it controls, ...Published: 29 Sep 2018 at 13:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa’s dictatorial tendencies exposed
Following the confirmation of President Mnangagwa's election victory by the Constitutional Court and his subsequent inauguration last month, the nation had one eye on the unfolding mayoral elections a...Published: 12 Sep 2018 at 06:46hrs | | by Nobleman Runyanga
Is Chamisa losing grip?
THE revolt by councillors against MDC Alliance leader, Mr Nelson Chamisa, over his alleged attempts to impose candidates in the coalition-controlled councils is significant in showing his loose grip o...Published: 06 Sep 2018 at 06:37hrs | | by Nduduzo Tshuma
Chamisa, Chitungwiza councillors clash over mayor
MDC-Alliance leader Mr Nelson Chamisa was yesterday in the eye of a storm after being accused of imposing a mayoral candidate on Chitungwiza, precipitating a stand-off that almost scuttled the swearin...Published: 05 Sep 2018 at 06:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's choice of successor secures senatorial seat
Among some top political leaders who have kept their political careers alive through entry into the senate are Masvingo provincial affairs minister Josiah Hungwe while ex-president Mugabe's choice of ...Published: 04 Aug 2018 at 12:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Senators, women's quota, provincial council members
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) has named the senators elected in some of the country's provinces and members of the National Assembly elected under the women's quota system.These are:...Published: 02 Aug 2018 at 19:48hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Chamisa vs Mudzuri: MDC-T factionalism rears its ugly face at Alliance rally as Chamisa orders around senior citizens
Hell broke loose today at an MDC Alliance rally at Huruyadzo in Chitungwiza as MDC-T deputy president, Eng E Mudzuri refused to speak at the rally.This was the first of such a public stand off...Published: 05 Feb 2018 at 07:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa, Mudzuri engaging in a public spat at an MDC-Alliance rally
CRACKS continue to widen in the MDC-T, with deputy presidents, Nelson Chamisa and Elias Mudzuri engaging in a public spat at an MDC-Alliance rally at Huruyadzo shopping centre in Chitungwiza yesterday...Published: 05 Feb 2018 at 04:35hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Honourables must behave honourably
The conduct exhibited by the MDC-T members of parliament during the delivery of the State of the Nation Address (SONA) by President Robert Mugabe to a joint sitting of the National Assembly and Senate...Published: 02 Sep 2015 at 10:39hrs | | by Tafara Shumba
Chamisa, Sikhala bounces back into MDC-T national executive
The MDC-T national council met in Harare to discuss all outstanding business of the party's 4th Congress held in Harare from the 29th October to November 1, 2014. The council, sitting as Congress in l...Published: 13 Dec 2014 at 15:10hrs | | by Morgan Richard Tsvangirai
Boost for Tsvangirai as ZCTU, residents threaten to join protests
MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai's planned anti-government mass protests received a major boost yesterday when his key allies – labour and residents' associations - pledged to back him.The de...Published: 22 Sep 2014 at 08:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Crucial backing for Tsvangirai
MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai is reportedly set to railroad his MDC-T faction into endorsing constitutional changes that insiders say would turn the party into "a fiefdom" for the ex-trade union fron...Published: 25 Aug 2014 at 08:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai's MDC-T faces fresh turbulence
Fresh cracks are set to rock the MDC-T after party vice-president Thokozani Khupe teamed up with senior officials to thwart leader Morgan Tsvangirai's bid to centralise power.Party officia...Published: 22 Aug 2014 at 17:44hrs | | by Wongai Zhangazha
Tsvangirai not ready for leadership renewal, says Mashakada
MDC-T acting secretary-general Tapuwa Mashakada yesterday told party supporters in Harare that party leader Morgan Tsvangirai's presidency will not be contested when they go to congress in October....Published: 19 May 2014 at 08:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai summons Biti to explain 'coup attempt'
The Morgan Tsvangirai-led MDC on Sunday showed off its numerical edge over rivals by pulling a crowd of more than a thousand supporters who voluntarily thronged Harvest House, the party's headquar...Published: 28 Apr 2014 at 09:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC-T house on fire
THE recent MDC-T boardroom fights that led to the suspension of deputy treasurer-general Elton Mangoma last Friday could split the faction-riddled opposition party after three provincial leaders were ...Published: 11 Mar 2014 at 07:55hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Intra-party violence rocks Tsvangirai led party, members speak
Intra-party violence is embedded in MDC-T and another serious implosion is imminent if the vice is not nipped in the bud, senior party officials said yesterday. The state media reports t...Published: 18 Feb 2014 at 04:27hrs | | by Tendai Mugabe and Lloyd Gumbo
Biti, Mangoma fear for their lives, snub Tsvangirai
MDC-T bigwigs, among them secretary-general Tendai Biti, deputy treasurer-general Elton Mangoma, youth assembly chairperson Solomon Madzore, youth secretary-general Promise Mkwananzi, Elias Mudzuri an...Published: 17 Feb 2014 at 05:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Time for Tsvangirai to go is now
The article by one Makusha Mugabe, a purported response to the MDC-T president Morgan Tsvangirai, by the MDC-T deputy treasurer Elton Mangoma can be lauded for being the first to take the ...Published: 10 Feb 2014 at 10:42hrs | | by Tinashe Chimombe
Mangoma's sorry tale
The MDC in general and the 'T' faction in particular, is an association whose DNA is heavily steeped in violence. It was borne out of violence and currently faces grim prospects of a self-inflicted vi...Published: 04 Feb 2014 at 07:04hrs | | by Sambulo Vuma
'Tsvangirai comes face-to-face with Mangoma, threatens split'
Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai's 15-year-old political project, the MDC-T, is on the verge of another potentially devastating split after a tempestuous national executive council meeti...Published: 01 Feb 2014 at 02:37hrs | | by Richard Chidza
MDC-T wants its party supporters to benefit from land reform
A senior MDC-T official wants his party's supporters to benefit from the land reform programme saying they now realise its irreversibility.Sen Femai complained to Lands, Land Reform and Resett...Published: 14 May 2013 at 02:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Thirty three years on and still B*llsh*t Politics prevails in Zimbabwe!
Zimbabwe has turned 33 and today we have nothing to show for those three decades. This line sounds self-defeating to many but truth be told, our country is embroiled in confusion. The fact is only a ...Published: 19 Apr 2013 at 01:58hrs | | by Mathula Lusinga
The fight to join the gravy train begins
The debate about the calibre of people to represent us in the next parliament has ensued as talk of elections in Zimbabwe gathers momentum on a daily basis. Although personally, I doubt if elections w...Published: 25 Jan 2013 at 08:08hrs | | by Mathula Lusinga
MDC-T accused of 'parachuting' diaspora parly candidates
A WAR is brewing in MDC-T with local parliamentary and council aspirants accusing the party leadership of neglecting them preferring foreign-based activists for the next harmonised elections....Published: 17 Jan 2013 at 07:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC-T to discipline more members
MDC-T is set to escalate its purge on errant party members this week after Bulawayo East legislator Tabitha Khumalo was last week fired as deputy spokesperson.Several senior party offi...Published: 16 Jul 2012 at 15:01hrs | | by Alois Sibanda
MDC-T senator calls for punishment of prison molesters
Controversial MDC-T senator Morgan Femai has called on government to punish prisoners who sodomise other inmates in the country's prisons.Contributing to a debate on the state of prisons at Pa...Published: 14 Jun 2012 at 13:28hrs | | by Ndou Paul
MDC-T distances itself from Femai's 'shun bathing and dress shabbily' HIV cure
The Movement for Democratic Change led by MorganTsvangirai has distanced itself from utterances made by its Senator for Chikomo Morgan Femai that women should always have bald heads, shun bathing and...Published: 21 May 2012 at 16:25hrs | | by Nare Msupatsila
MDC-T lawmaker defends Senator Femai's utterances on how to curb HIV and Aids
Thabitha Khumalo, the MDC-T deputy spokesperson who is pushing for the decriminalization of the prostitution had defended utterances made by MDC-T Senator Morgan Femai at a recent HIV and AIDS worksh...Published: 20 May 2012 at 08:16hrs | | by Nare Msupatsila
MDC senator suggests making women ugly to reduce HIV
Senator Morgan Femai of Movement for Democratic Change representing Chikomo has come up with some controversial suggestions on how to reduce HIV. He suggested that women should be made less at...Published: 19 May 2012 at 08:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Secrets of a dying old man, moral and political bankruptcy and choices we have for Zimbabwe
Some Zimbabwean politicians will never stop taking Zimbabweans for a ride. They publicly declare their allegiance to secrecy, corruption, lies and political bankruptcy. For example, there are too many...Published: 15 May 2012 at 05:37hrs | | by Mathula Lusinga
Women must shave hair, dress shabbily to reduce HIV - MDC-T Senator
WOMEN should always have bald heads, lose weight and dress shabbily to reduce their attractiveness as part of measures to curb the spread of HIV, MDC-T Senator for Chikomo, Morgan Femai said yesterday...Published: 12 May 2012 at 08:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
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