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Mwonzora accuses Judiciary of undermining MDC Over ED2030 opposition
Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader Douglas Mwonzora has accused the judiciary of attempting to destabilize his party following its vocal opposition to President Emmerson Mnangagwa's alleged b...Published: 30 Mar 2025 at 15:38hrs | 1448 | by Staff reporter
'Chamisa must introspect, map the way forward'
POLITICAL analysts and opinion leaders have expressed mixed views on Zimbabwe's main opposition leader Nelson Chamisa's decision to dump his two-year-old Citizens' Coalition for Change (CCC), with som...Published: 29 Jan 2024 at 06:25hrs | 27 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora moves to sell off MDC property to pay bills
THE once formidable opposition MDC's vast property empire is under threat as party leader Douglas Mwonzora bids to sell some of its prized assets to raise money to settle arrears, including util...Published: 27 Nov 2023 at 16:29hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Mudzuri declares no interest in any post at MDC-T Congress
FORMER Energy and Power Development minister, Elias Mudzuri, has confirmed he is not contesting for any position in the upcoming ‘flawed' MDC-T Congress set for this weekend.Mudzuri served as En...Published: 17 Dec 2022 at 12:16hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora seeks to keep rivals out
MDC Alliance president Douglas Mwonzora is reportedly planning to block aspiring candidates from contesting the party presidency after influencing some youths to declare him the sole presidential cand...Published: 18 May 2022 at 06:23hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora reshuffles MDC-T leadership
MDC Alliance leader, Douglas Mwonzora Tuesday reshuffled his party leadership amid reports he is consolidating power to make sure his position is not contested at the party's congress set for next mon...Published: 17 May 2022 at 19:59hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora's speech booed at May Day commemorations
THE opposition MDC-T got a rude awakening Sunday when an unapologetic crowd at this year's Workers' day celebrations in Harare forced the party's organising secretary Gift Chimanikire off the stage....Published: 03 May 2022 at 06:47hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe political parties attend Workers Day commemorations
Zimbabwean workers yesterday joined the rest of the world in commemorating Workers' Day, with the Government calling for unity while expressing its commitment to improving the welfare of workers throu...Published: 02 May 2022 at 07:53hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF, Mwonzora's plot to 'takeover' ZCTU
Zanu-PF and the MDC-T have set their sight on taking over control of the firebrand workers' group, the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) at its elective congress set for this Friday, NewZimbabw...Published: 30 Oct 2021 at 15:34hrs | 9 | 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 | 5 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's supporters disrupt Mwonzora's meeting
Nelson Chamisa's MDC-Alliance supporters allegedly disrupted the start of an executive meeting that was expected to be addressed by MDC-T leader Senator Douglas Mwonzora in Bindura. Sen Mwonzo...Published: 05 May 2021 at 07:12hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora allies in demo over voters roll
THE fight over the MDC-T party's voters roll to be used this Sunday at their extraordinary congress escalated yesterday after supporters of secretary-general Douglas Mwonzora staged a demonstration at...Published: 24 Dec 2020 at 17:05hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
MDC-T hopefuls face off in crunch meeting
MDC-T interim president Thokozani Khupe and acting secretary general faced off in a stormy meeting yesterday to resolve the dispute over the voters roll to be used at the party's extraordinary meeting...Published: 22 Dec 2020 at 06:58hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Khupe declared winner in MDC-T presidential nomination poll
The independent Election Management Body that conducted MDC-T's provincial presidential nomination election in Bulawayo last week declared interim party leader Thokozani Khupe the winner, despite repo...Published: 15 Nov 2020 at 06:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Khupe, Mwonzora, Mudzuri, Komichi fight for MDC-T Presidency
ENGINEER Elias Mudzuri says he will contest the post of president of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T) led by Thokozani Khupe, which is expected to hold an extraordinary congress i...Published: 25 Oct 2020 at 07:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Battle for control of MDC-T intensifies
Rival candidates have heightened their campaign activities ahead of MDC-T's extraordinary congress as the battle to control the party intensifies.Early this month, the Supreme Court gave MDC-T...Published: 22 Oct 2020 at 11:27hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Temba Mliswa demands diplomatic passports for MPs
Norton Member of Parliament Temba has rallied Members of Parliament to demand diplomatic passport from the government which is in line with their social status of being called Honourable.Mlisw...Published: 21 Dec 2018 at 11:25hrs | 2 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chamisa badly wants a deal with Mnangagwa
FROM the time Nelson Chamisa entered mainstream politics as the youth chairman for the then newly formed MDC in 1999, his ambitions were quite evident. At the time all he was armed with was political ...Published: 27 Nov 2018 at 06:19hrs | 4 | by Reason Wafawarova
Chamisa, Mwonzora trading blows in an unpredictable, bruising fight
WITH just five months to go to a crucial congress, MDC leader Nelson Chamisa and his main internal rival, secretary-general Douglas Mwonzora, are trading blows in an unpredictable, bruising fight to w...Published: 14 Sep 2018 at 16:30hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa wary of rigging plans
THE MDC Alliance has raised alarm over plans to rig elections next week as the opposition coalition's intelligence officers claim that Zanu-PF is working tooth and nail to ensure it wins at least seve...Published: 27 Jul 2018 at 15:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa sticks by Grace Mugabe
MDC-Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa's alleged dalliances with the former First Family is understood to be making partners in the coalition uneasy and there are now real fears that he is planning to dit...Published: 15 Jul 2018 at 10:12hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
MDC Alliance failed to field MP candidate in Mbare
The MDC Alliance has failed to field candidates in three National Assembly seats and has double candidates in 14 other constituencies, a list of names gazetted by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commissi...Published: 28 Jun 2018 at 07:07hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Gift Chimanikire switches to Mazowe South
Gift Chimanikire of the MDC Alliance said he has switched to Mazowe South constituency in Mashonaland Central province after he lost the bid to represent Southerton in Harare during the MDC-T primary ...Published: 14 Jun 2018 at 14:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa promises to bring World Cup to Zimbabwe
MDC Alliance leader, Mr Nelson Chamisa says Zimbabwe will host the Olympic Games and the World Cup finals if he is elected into office during next month's harmonised elections.Mr Chamisa told ...Published: 05 Jun 2018 at 13:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mudzuri's name removed from MDC-T ballot
MDC-T VP Elias Mudzuri has described primary elections in his party as "a joke". "As a vice president, I cannot be seen being challenged by junior people unless the idea is to reduce me into a...Published: 28 May 2018 at 12:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Uproar as MDC-T bigwigs lose
Several MDC-T bigwigs, among them sitting Members of Parliament and vice president Elias Mudzuri, yesterday described the ongoing primary elections as a sham amid indications that over 80 candidates h...Published: 28 May 2018 at 07:09hrs | | by Staff rpeorter
Explaining the confusion in MDC-T primaries - Part I of II
Explaining the confusion in MDC-T primaries: Mwonzora is being targeted in all this fracas. The pro-Chamisa camp is targeting the December party congress...Published: 27 May 2018 at 15:27hrs | | by Felix Mbonderi Chiroro
Why Chamisa will win 2018 elections
BILL Taylor, in his article Do you pass the leadership test, alludes to the fact that the true mark of a leader is the willingness to stick with a bold course of action - an unconventional business st...Published: 19 May 2018 at 15:04hrs | | by Edwin Ndlovu
The MDC Alliance and its anti-women DNA exposed
When the MDC Alliance was launched in Harare in August 2017, the immediate reaction of most progressive Zimbabweans was that the political grouping was conspicuous by the absence of women in its leade...Published: 18 May 2018 at 10:30hrs | 13 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Civil Aviation Amendment Bill faces rejection by MPs
LEGISLATORS have threatened to reject the Civil Aviation Amendment Bill demanding that Transport minister Joram Gumbo should first attend to the decaying infrastructure at the country's airports to gu...Published: 19 Apr 2018 at 07:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa ally challenges Mudzuri for Parly seat
AT least four long-serving MDC-T councillors in Harare have decided to climb up the political ladder and contest for parliamentary seats in this year's general elections after spending 10 years at Tow...Published: 02 Apr 2018 at 07:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Felix Mafa has the qualifications and qualities to deputise Chamisa
Dear President Chamisa ...Published: 30 Mar 2018 at 21:27hrs | 1 | by Taonashe Chinguruve
Open letter to Chamisa
Dear President Chamisa We as the youths in the generational change we congratulate you for assuming the helm of our visionary party. All work is almost done now and we are ready to work hard t...Published: 30 Mar 2018 at 14:29hrs | 2 | by Zimbabwe Northern Youths Coalition Builders
Chamisa is the illustrious founding members of MDC - Mashakada
MDC-T deputy secretary Tapiwa Mashakada has said party President Nelson Chamisa is the illustrious founding member of the party who worked hard for the party at the time when he was a student....Published: 15 Mar 2018 at 07:31hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Zimbabwe ready to rejoin Commonwealth
FOREIGN Affairs minister Sibusiso Moyo told Parliament yesterday Zimbabwe was negotiating its way to rejoin the Commonwealth Club, following the country's unceremonious departure in 2003 over disputed...Published: 15 Mar 2018 at 05:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC-T bigwig's wife files for divorce
MDC-T Southerton legislator Gift Chimanikire's wife, Tsitsi (nee Chikwanda) has filed for divorce at the High Court saying their marriage of 27 years had irretrievably broken.The couple had th...Published: 13 Dec 2017 at 05:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Made managed Mugabe, Grace's farms'
NORTON MP Temba Mliswa lampooned former Agriculture minister Joseph Made saying during his tenure he spent time managing former President Robert Mugabe and his wife Grace's farms instead of inspecting...Published: 04 Dec 2017 at 06:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
It's still not clear where Mugabe and Grace are
Zimbabwe's military said on 15 November, it had seized power in a targeted assault on "criminals" around President Robert Mugabe who were causing social and economic suffering. In an extraordi...Published: 15 Nov 2017 at 09:28hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Welshman Ncube must lead the MDC Alliance'
Zimbabwe Communist Party Leader Ngqabutho Mabhena has suggested that MDC President and MDC Alliance Spokesperson Prof Welshman Ncube take over from the ailing MDC-T President Morgan Tsvangirai i...Published: 29 Oct 2017 at 08:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC official mourns late member
MDC-T deputy secretary general Tapiwa Mashakada has mourned the death of a founding member and unionist Abisha Nyanguwo who died on Wednesday."Some individuals who really make positive contrib...Published: 21 Oct 2017 at 07:31hrs | 2 | by Stephen Jakes
Mugabe should be wheeled to podiums in wheelchair - MP
SOUTHERTON MP Gift Chimanikire (MDC-T) on Tuesday said President Robert Mugabe's bodyguards must not let the veteran leader walk to podiums at international conferences, but, instead, should cart him ...Published: 12 Oct 2017 at 07:11hrs | | by Staff Reporter
MDC-T MPs jump voter registration queue, angering prospective voters
SOME MDC-T MPs Wednesday angered dozens of prospective voters queuing up to have their details captured into the Biometric Voting System when they turned up at a Harare registration centre to jump a q...Published: 22 Sep 2017 at 08:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Govt urged to consider returning SMM to Mutumwa Mawere
Government should seek investors for Shabani Mashaba Mines or return its ownership to Mr Mutumwa Mawere as part of measures to resume operations, parliamentarians in the National Assembly said...Published: 17 Apr 2017 at 10:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Political violence at Mbare Funeral
The Zimbabwe Peace Project has ondemned the politically motivated violence that occurred at Gogo Chiquita Mack’s funeral in Mbare on the 11th of March 2017.ZPP said Zanu PF youths led by the...Published: 14 Mar 2017 at 06:01hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Tsvangirai engages Guruve
MDC-T President Tsvangirai took his Mash. Central tour to Guruve, where he engaged in a frank conversation with community leaders about the crisis facing the country as well as the next ...Published: 02 Mar 2017 at 12:27hrs | 1 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
MDC-T block move to wish Mugabe happy birthday in Parliament
AN attempt by Highfield West MP, Psychology Maziwisa (Zanu-PF) to force Parliament to wish President Robert Mugabe a happy birthday, was blocked by MDC-T legislators, who said the National Assembl...Published: 22 Feb 2017 at 05:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
We must stop making noise about nothing in the house - MP
MDC-T MP Gift Chimanikire has urged the legislators to stop making noise about nothing while the country burns but focus on issues that may assist the people.He said at some point the fact tha...Published: 29 Jul 2016 at 06:42hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
We need visionary MPs - Chimanikire
MDC-T MP Gift Chimanikire has challenged the legislators to be visionary and stop being selfish in their making of the law to run the country.Speaking in Parliament Chimanikire said peop...Published: 28 Jul 2016 at 07:08hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
MDC-T MPs chucked out of parliament for draping flags
The MDC-T house of Assembly members who entered the parliament house dabbing Zimbabwean flats in a #ThisFlag style of Pastor Evan Mawarire were reportedly chucked out of the house for that....Published: 20 Jul 2016 at 17:26hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Product imports restricted, not banned, says Chinamasa
Finance and Economic Development Minister, Patrick Chinamasa said on Wednesday the government had not banned importation of any products but was restricting inflow of goods that are manufactured l...Published: 23 Jun 2016 at 16:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
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