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Obert Mpofu's circular overrides Chinamasa's in Tagwirei saga
A senior official in Zanu-PF's secretary-general's office has clarified that internal circulars issued by the secretary-general take precedence over those from party departments, unless formally overt...Published: 13 Jul 2025 at 20:28hrs | 2823 | by Staff reporter
Siblings' inheritance dispute spills into court
A Glen View woman has successfully obtained a protection order against her brother following a violent altercation over the distribution of their late father's estate.Alice Muteve appeared bef...Published: 07 Jul 2025 at 08:51hrs | 394 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, Chiwenga fights fuel primary election rigging
Zanu-PF's deepening internal power struggles are now erupting into public view, with mounting evidence that the ruling party is manipulating its own primary elections to marginalize rivals and entrenc...Published: 12 May 2025 at 13:58hrs | 2168 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF's ruthless purge against team Chiwenga
A fierce internal power struggle is tearing through Zimbabwe's ruling party, Zanu-PF, as suspensions and purges intensify against officials perceived to be opposing the party's push to extend Presiden...Published: 08 Dec 2024 at 13:51hrs | 3899 | by Staff reporter
Mutsvangwa speaks on ZANU-PF petrol-bombs; begs food from Canada
ZANU-PF spokesperson, Christopher Mutsvangwa warns perceived criminals who are allegedly launching petrol-bombs amongst party leadership, amid succession tensions and factionalism which have threatene...Published: 21 Oct 2024 at 22:28hrs | 2402 | by Gideon Madzikatidze
Nelson Chamisa must wake up from slumber and spare us this confusion
If truth be told, the tragic events happening in the opposition can only be attributed to Nelson Chamisa himself because only him can put a stop to this nonsense. If he were to step up and sho...Published: 30 Jul 2024 at 20:39hrs | 735 | by Fanuel Chinowaita
'War vets not a tool for Zanu-PF'
OUTSPOKEN Zipra War Veterans Association spokesperson Buster Magwizi has castigated the ruling Zanu-PF party for putting the former freedom fighters under its structures.The Zimbabwe National ...Published: 04 Apr 2024 at 13:45hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF fissures widen over Mnangagwa term
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is battling to prop up waning support in his ruling Zanu-PF party and disloyal party cadres are facing the axe as power battles take centre stage while the economy i...Published: 03 Mar 2024 at 08:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa now building a popular one-man dictatorship
One of Zimbabwe's seasoned political activists Lovemore Chinoputsa has painted a gloomy picture of the state of the opposition, saying its leaders have fundamentally departed from the late Morgan Tsva...Published: 14 Feb 2024 at 20:14hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF says it is ready to run BCC
The Zanu-PF provincial leadership in Bulawayo believes the electorate in the province has given them the mandate to run the city and show voters what they are capable of doing.In an interview ...Published: 13 Feb 2024 at 04:46hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa ends weeks of speculation
ZIMBABWE'S main opposition leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday finally abandoned the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) saying the party had been hijacked by Zanu-PF. Chamisa formed the CCC in 2022 after...Published: 26 Jan 2024 at 04:45hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt says Chamisa's resignation from CCC is a non-event
AS was expected, serial political parties' hopper, Mr Nelson Chamisa, has quit the opposition CCC after he lost control to party interim secretary-general Mr Sengezo Tshabangu, triggering a rebellion ...Published: 26 Jan 2024 at 04:42hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to use Presidential Powers to take over control of CCC run Harare Council?
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's Spokesperson George Charamba has suggested that he invokes Presidential Powers and take over control of the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) run Harare City Council....Published: 18 Jan 2024 at 17:54hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Nepotism dents post-election period
Zimbabwe Open University academic Didymus Dewa recently said issues of nepositism, clientalism, patronage and loyalism affected the major political parties that won the elections in the August 23 and ...Published: 12 Jan 2024 at 21:44hrs | 5 | by Stephen Jakes
Chamisa’s party is 'on autopilot amid widening cracks
Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa has seemingly left the party on autopilot amid widening divisions with senior members.This comes as ordinary members are increasingly ...Published: 27 Dec 2023 at 09:44hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Mthuli gives in to MPs' demands
FINANCE minister, Mthuli Ncube, has been forced to increase the budget allocation for Parliament to curry favour with legislators after they threatened not to pass his 'anti-poor' budget.Membe...Published: 20 Dec 2023 at 06:13hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Welshman Ncube comes out to state the correct position on CCC turmoil
Miffed by viral attacks on his person and political standing over the goings on in the Citizens Coalition for Change party, veteran politician and top official of the party Welshman Ncube, has come ou...Published: 19 Dec 2023 at 13:25hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Welshman Ncube blasts 'charlatans who think truth does not matter'
Miffed by viral attacks on his person and political standing over the goings on in the Citizens Coalition for Change party, veteran politician and top official of the party Welshman Ncube, has come ou...Published: 17 Dec 2023 at 18:17hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai created the mess, says Tshabangu
Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) interim secretary general Sengezo Tshabangu says the late MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai's appointment of two vice presidents before his death is to blame for the cha...Published: 10 Dec 2023 at 18:22hrs | 35 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa allies hunt for Biti, Welshman Ncube?
THE crisis in the opposition CCC is deepening and broadening, with senior members and advisors to CCC leader Mr Nelson Chamisa publicly firing political salvos and diatribes interpretively directed to...Published: 27 Nov 2023 at 07:43hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
The Godfather experiment, politics of attrition in Zimbabwe
GODFATHER experiments are made in instances of confrontation and attrition, mostly, if not always. Godfathers consider themselves to be powerful figures who wield significant influence, especially und...Published: 25 Nov 2023 at 07:47hrs | 19 | by Sharon Hofisi
Strategic ambiguity costly to Zimbabwe
CCC's lack of a party constitution and established structures under the guise of "strategic ambiguity" is costing Zimbabweans US$5,3 million from the fiscus to run the December 9 by-elections, which w...Published: 13 Nov 2023 at 05:46hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa, Biti fallout downplayed
OPPOSITION Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) has watered down rumours of fissures in the party following the recalls of Members of Parliament and councillors.Tshabangu, the party's self-appo...Published: 10 Nov 2023 at 06:47hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter
CCC crisis deepens
THE crisis in the opposition CCC is deepening and broadening, with senior members and advisors to CCC leader Mr Nelson Chamisa publicly firing political salvos and diatribes interpretively directed to...Published: 10 Nov 2023 at 06:40hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
CCC splits, Double candidates fielded for by-elections
THE Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) party could be headed for a split judging by the continued confusion and leadership crisis that saw the party fielding double candidates at yesterday's Nominati...Published: 09 Nov 2023 at 05:55hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa party splits
CCC could be headed for a split judging by the continued confusion and leadership crises that saw the party fielding double candidates at yesterday's Nomination Court where rival factions tussled for ...Published: 09 Nov 2023 at 05:54hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
CCC cadres not happy with Chamisa's leadership
WHEN Sengezo Tshabangu, a Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) activist claiming to be its interim secretary-general, made the shock move to recall 15 of the party's legislators this week, it created a...Published: 13 Oct 2023 at 21:14hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Chamisa's withdrawal from Parly an empty thunder'
CCC's threat to withdraw its members from Parliament and councillors from local authorities across the country is empty thunder that will not have any effect on Government business even if it is imple...Published: 12 Oct 2023 at 06:31hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa annihilates G40 camp
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa this week consolidated his plan to obliterate the G40 faction in Zanu-PF that once fought fierce battles to block his ascendency to power when he invited its ringleaders t...Published: 08 Sep 2023 at 17:45hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
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 | 16 | by Staff reporter
The odds were stacked against Chamisa on August 23
Zimbabwe went to the polls last week, weighed down by a cost-of-living crisis and rural food shortages, but the ruling party's 40-year grip on the electoral process suggested it was unlikely to lose p...Published: 27 Aug 2023 at 12:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Change is inevitable. Is Africa ready?
CHANGE is one of the few constant factors in our lives, perhaps since the beginning of time. Unless driven by the people, the fear of change is another constant. This is because humans, by nature, are...Published: 14 Aug 2023 at 06:29hrs | 11 | by Tapiwa Gomo
Landlord vs lodger: The battle continues
"LANDLORD fatally stabbed by lodger over rent!" screamed a newspaper headline.In 2021, Prayer Banda (22) of Mbizo 18 in Kwekwe, was fatally stabbed by his lodger Victor Moyo (24), following a ...Published: 06 Aug 2023 at 08:19hrs | 22 | by Staff reporter
Biti, Ncube snub Chamisa?
CCC deputy presidents Mr Tendai Biti and Professor Welshman Ncube snubbed the party's election campaign launch amid reports that the party could be headed for yet another split.This comes as C...Published: 19 Jul 2023 at 06:32hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Disgruntled CCC candidates go rogue
THE opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC)'s house is on fire in Manicaland as aspiring candidates who were unfairly disqualified during the candidates' selection process are up in arms with t...Published: 06 Jul 2023 at 17:18hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF to capitalise on CCC multiple candidates?
Zanu-PF is expected to win in perceived opposition strongholds and consolidate its dominance after the CCC fielded two or three candidates in constituencies and wards in areas where it has traditional...Published: 03 Jul 2023 at 07:04hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Why Kasukuwere is giving Mnangagwa a torrid time
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is panicking over the presidential candidature of former Zanu-PF political commissar Saviour Kasukuwere at a time his administration is battling a floundering economy ahea...Published: 02 Jul 2023 at 17:28hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF's crisis meeting betrays vote uncertainty
Zanu-PF held a stormy crisis meeting at the party's headquarters in Harare on Tuesday this week, the day before the nomination court sat, to plead with disgruntled members who lost in the primary elec...Published: 25 Jun 2023 at 18:24hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
CCC candidates selection latest
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa is reportedly fighting to contain the fallout in his party after some party leaders, including his deputy Tendai Biti reportedly lost in the c...Published: 19 Jun 2023 at 06:48hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa was desperate to see the back of Tendai Biti?
THE beleaguered CCC party is teetering on the brink of another split just a few hours before the Nomination Court sits ahead of the 23 August harmonised elections.Fissures, for long papered by...Published: 19 Jun 2023 at 06:42hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
FC Platinum camp cracks!
TECHNICAL team fissures are reported to have been punctuating the FC Platinum camp amid revelations that the club's goalkeepers coach Tembo Chuma abandoned his duties two weeks ago owing to a serious ...Published: 09 Jun 2023 at 06:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere to split the votes
The Zimbabwean harmonised elections are around the corner. The date to hold the election has been announced and every serious political party is now gearing for this do or die election where a battle ...Published: 06 Jun 2023 at 21:34hrs | 13 | by Leonard Koni
Kasukuwere to divide the Zanu-PF vote?
SELF-EXILED former Zanu-PF political commissar and Cabinet minister, Saviour Kasukuwere has joined the presidential race ahead of this year's harmonised elections set for August 23.Last week, ...Published: 06 Jun 2023 at 06:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
WhatsApp gag order divides Zanu-PF
RULING Zanu-PF's security chief, Lovemore Matuke this week rebuffed reports that he has directed party organs to disband WhatsApp groups, which officials have claimed were dividing the party, but prov...Published: 26 May 2023 at 06:42hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Do not give the devil a foothold
It is a known phenomenon that cracks and fissures in relations and interactions allow negative energies to disrupt positivity and well-being of those around us. Absence of amicability in all w...Published: 15 May 2023 at 15:21hrs | 1 | by TT Murisa. Chinehasha
Trouble brewing in Mnangagwa backyard
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's ruling Zanu-PF party is being ravaged by infighting, especially in his home province of Midlands following controversial primary elections that were marred by vote riggi...Published: 14 May 2023 at 11:38hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF Young Turks plot surprises
DAGGERS are out in Zanu-PF as aspiring youthful candidates turn on the heat on the party's old guard ahead of the ruling party's primary elections.It appears the ruling party has opened up the...Published: 13 Mar 2023 at 22:04hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF tightens grip on rural strongholds
The study also revealed rural impregnability was increased by fissures within Zanu-PF structures and a general economic meltdown.Zanu-PF has reportedly tightened its grip on its rural strongho...Published: 13 Mar 2023 at 07:17hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
2 people destroyed the party that was left by Tsvangirai, says Obama of Zimbabwean politics
ROBERT Chapman, who declared his presidential aspirations for the forthcoming general elections, says power struggles and quarrels have obliterated the capacity of the opposition to dislodge Zimbabwe'...Published: 28 Feb 2023 at 08:07hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean MPs raise new demands
LESS than two months after being pampered with US$40 000 housing loans that divided public opinion countrywide, legislators are now mourning over not being paid sitting allowances for nearly five mont...Published: 12 Feb 2023 at 07:22hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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