Search / Gorden moyo
The politics of Zimbabwe's land reform: winners and losers
The political debates about the rights and wrongs of Zimbabwe's land reform continue to occupy many.The tired, old obsession about how the land was taken and the associated focus on so-called ...Published: 31 Mar 2024 at 16:34hrs | 3 | by Ian Scoones
REVEALED: How Chamisa begged VP Chiwenga to talk to Mnangagwa on his behalf
The leader of the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) and presidential candidate, Nelson Chamisa, made an attempt to engage Vice President Constantino Chiwenga in a meeting with President Emmerson...Published: 16 Oct 2023 at 16:36hrs | 10 | by Nkululeko Nkomo
'Tough laws stall Zapu campaigns'
ZAPU'S Nkulumane constituency candidate Andrew Ndlovu claims his campaigns were being crippled by the country's tough laws against foreign funding of political parties.Ndlovu said the law was ...Published: 18 Aug 2023 at 06:56hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
51% voters willing to be bribed in Zimbabwe
A RECENT study by a local think-tank, Public Policy and Research Institute of Zimbabwe (PPRIZ) shows that 51% of citizens are willing to be bribed to influence who they vote for.As the country...Published: 14 Aug 2023 at 06:29hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
'Parties must adhere to Zec code of conduct'
POLITICAL leaders and civil society activists have been urged to play a leading role in fostering peace and denouncing violence ahead of next month's general elections.The call was made on Fri...Published: 25 Jul 2023 at 06:45hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Zanu-PF chefs have title deeds for grabbed farms'
FORMER Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara has sensationally claimed that all top Zanu-PF chefs have acquired title deeds to the farms they grabbed from white former farmers at the height of the la...Published: 05 Jun 2023 at 06:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Uproar over Mnangagwa's US$54m jet
ZIMBABWEANS have angrily reacted to reports that President Emmerson Mnangagwa has acquired a US$54 million presidential jet — a Dassault Falcon 7X , at a time the majority of the population is wallo...Published: 01 May 2023 at 08:11hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube 'snubs' Gukurahundi programmes
HUMAN rights activists in Bulawayo have expressed concern over the failure by Finance minister Mthuli Ncube to fund Gukurahundi national healing programmes.This is despite the launching of a G...Published: 06 Dec 2022 at 05:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Beyond Beijing's 'gift' to Zimbabwe
On November 23, 2022, the President of Zimbabwe, Emmerson Mnangagwa gave the state of the nation address at the new iconographic parliament building that was designed, funded, built and "donated" by C...Published: 04 Dec 2022 at 08:12hrs | 2 | by Gorden Moyo
UBH cancels 21 inflated tenders
THE United Bulawayo Hospitals (UBH) has cancelled 21 out of 34 tenders flighted this year to ensure that the Government is not fleeced, but gets value for money after some of the suppliers had highly ...Published: 20 Oct 2022 at 05:57hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Illegal miners threaten railway tracks
SMALL-scale chrome miners have invaded Mapanzure area in Zvishavane, Midlands Province, where they are conducting illegal mining activities along the Gweru-Zvishavane railway line, amid growing fears ...Published: 10 Aug 2022 at 06:31hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, Chamisa in secretive GNU talks
SECRETIVE coalition talks are underway between Zanu-PF leader, President Emmerson Mnangagwa, and Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) front man Nelson Chamisa with the aim of forming a seven-year gover...Published: 15 Apr 2022 at 09:05hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa govt's fake mega-deals raised false hopes
IN the run-up to the 30 July 2018 elections, President Emmerson Mnangagwa repeatedly claimed that Zimbabwe had attracted investment commitments amounting to over US$16 billion since he took over power...Published: 18 Sep 2021 at 19:38hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
'Give AG power to prosecute, enforce accountability,' says Moyo
FORMER State Enterprises and Parastatals minister Gorden Moyo has called on Zimbabwe to change its statutes and ensure that the country's Auditor-General's Office is bestowed with prosecuting powers t...Published: 27 Jul 2021 at 07:13hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Biti cries fraud over parliament recall
MDC Alliance co-vice-president Tendai Biti says his purported recall, together with several other MPs, at the behest of a "political nonentity" Benjamin Rukanda, who once belonged to his breakaway Peo...Published: 23 Mar 2021 at 08:13hrs | 8 | 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 | 12 | by Staff reporter
Stray hippo gunned down
Officials from the Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority have gunned down a stray hippo in Zvishavane rural after it claimed the life of one villager.Runde Rural District chief exec...Published: 16 Feb 2021 at 17:55hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Create independent COVID-19 fund'
GOVERNMENT should create an independent COVID-19 fund to cater for the pandemic expenditures, former State Enterprises and Parastatals minister Gorden Moyo has said.Speaking during a virtual Z...Published: 05 Feb 2021 at 06:44hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
New twist to Zesa bigwigs' case
THE lawyer representing former Zesa chief executive officer Joshua Chifamba last week cornered the investigation officer Energy Mundandishe into making concessions which are likely to affect the State...Published: 18 Jun 2019 at 07:57hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Motlanthe Commission flies into Gukurahundi storm
THE Kgalema Motlanthe led Commission of Inquiry into the ill-fated August 1 post-election demonstrations is certain to fly into a Gukurahundi storm this Friday as it takes its public hearings into the...Published: 26 Oct 2018 at 12:24hrs | 1 | by NewZimbabwe.Com
'Zimbabwe should look beyond US'
FORMER State Enterprises and Parastatals Minister Dr Gorden Moyo says the Government should not read much into the sanctions imposed on it by the United States of America but seek various ways of revi...Published: 09 Sep 2018 at 08:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Saboteurs behind price increases
PRICE increases that were reported in the country last week were being fuelled by political and economic speculators who were aiming at scuttling the acceptance of President Mnangagwa's new Cabinet, a...Published: 09 Sep 2018 at 08:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mujuru's coalition maps way forward
THE People's Rainbow Coalition (PRC) is reportedly meeting to map the forward or merge into one political party following its poor showing in the July 30 harmonised elections, but indications are that...Published: 29 Aug 2018 at 06:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance performed well in the Zim Elections
A political commentator Dr Geneva Sibanda has said MDC Alliance performed very very well considering that they wer competing with a state oiled machinery using state funds and personnel to boost their...Published: 05 Aug 2018 at 09:20hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Poll surveys dubious, say Mujuru coalition
People's Rainbow Coalition (PRC) has dismissed the recent poll surveys which have literally thrown them out of the election race, in the process concluding it to be a two-horse race pitting the MDC Al...Published: 20 Jun 2018 at 15:48hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mujuru says, 'victory is certain'
PEOPLE'S Rainbow Coalition (PRC) presidential candidate, Joice Mujuru, yesterday said she was ready to break new records of becoming the country's first female president after winning next month's pre...Published: 18 Jun 2018 at 07:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mujuru launches election manifesto
The People's Rainbow Coalition (PRC) yesterday launched its 2018 election manifesto at Dotito business centre in Mashonaland Central province.All five political parties under the PRC banner na...Published: 20 May 2018 at 19:35hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Matibenga endorses Mujuru
LUCIA Matibenga, leader of the breakaway faction of the People's Democratic Party (PDP), recently opened up on how she was hounded out of the MDC-T led by the late Morgan Tsvangirai.Matibenga ...Published: 07 May 2018 at 07:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tshinga Dube, former PA square off in Makokoba
MAKOKOBA legislator Tshinga Dube (Zanu-PF) will face a stiff challenge from his former personal assistant Nothiwani Dlodlo who is contesting the primaries to gain a ticket to represent the party in th...Published: 27 Apr 2018 at 20:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mujuru rolls out umbrella campaigns
THE People's Rainbow Coalition (PRC) led by former Vice-President Joice Mujuru has launched its campaign for the 2018 elections and was working on fielding 210 candidates and 1 958 councillors....Published: 21 Apr 2018 at 11:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mujuru's PRC promises economic boom in first 100 days in power
The People's Rainbow Coalition (PRC) led by Joice Mujuru has said if elected into power, the country will experience rapid economic boom which is based on its 10 pledges.PRC secretary-general ...Published: 22 Mar 2018 at 06:02hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mujuru ready to work with Mutinhiri
FORMER President Mugabe's current political disciples Dr Joice Mujuru and Retired Brigadier-General Ambrose Mutinhiri are likely to go to bed if the latter accepts the invitation to join the People's ...Published: 11 Mar 2018 at 09:33hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Violence damages MDC-T credibility
INTRA-PARTY violence currently engulfing the MDC-T and the party's propensity for resolving leadership squabbles through brutality have disproved the mantra that the opposition formation is deeply roo...Published: 09 Mar 2018 at 12:20hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mujuru too smart for Chamisa's 'mini junta'
EX-CABINET minister and top Mujuru ally, Gorden Moyo has described the Nelson Chamisa led MDC Alliance as a mini-junta as he vowed never to join the rival opposition front both as an individual party ...Published: 02 Mar 2018 at 06:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Falsehoods deliberately peddled about SA meeting, says Moyo
Secretary General of the People's Democratic Party Gorden Moyo has said a lot of malicious and unfounded falsehoods have been deliberately peddled by Zanu PF leadership and elements within the MDC All...Published: 14 Feb 2018 at 06:06hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Economic revival tops Zanu-PF's to-do list, says Khaya Moyo
ZANU-PF will focus on improving the quality of people's lives this year by focusing on the economy.The party's national spokesperson Ambassador Simon Khaya Moyo said this yesterday as he comme...Published: 03 Jan 2018 at 09:54hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Opposition frets over securocrats
BULAWAYO - As the eagerly-anticipated 2018 national polls beckon, the People's Rainbow Coalition (PRC) has challenged President Emmerson Mnangagwa to introduce security sector reforms to guarantee the...Published: 29 Dec 2017 at 20:22hrs | | by Staff Reporter
2018 elections and civil military relations in Zimbabwe - Dr Gorden Moyo
PEOPLE'S RAINBOW COALITION (PRC) 2018 ELECTIONS AND CIVIL-MILITARY RELATIONS IN ZIMBABWE ...Published: 27 Dec 2017 at 14:21hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Mujuru's Rainbow Coalition on diplomatic offensive
THE Joice Mujuru-led People's Rainbow Coalition (PRC) has resolved to embark on a regional diplomatic offensive to lobby Sadc and African Union member countries to order the Zanu PF-led government to ...Published: 20 Dec 2017 at 05:20hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
PRC reaffirms Mujuru as Presidential Candidate of Choice for 2018 elections
PEOPLE'S RAINBOW COALITION (PRC) RESOLUTIONS OF THE 1st JOINT COORDINATING COMMITTEE HELD ON 15 DEC 2017.We are in it to win itThe First...Published: 18 Dec 2017 at 12:35hrs | 5 | by Dr Gorden Moyo
Site of vigorous political contestations and violence
THE year 2017 has seen the city of Bulawayo being used as a political battlefield for opposition parties and the ruling Zanu-PF with dismissals, suspensions, defections, resignations and even violence...Published: 04 Dec 2017 at 05:25hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Mugabe can now be prosecuted'
OPPOSITION parties have said it is up to Zimbabwe's ordinary citizens to initiate President Robert Mugabe's prosecution for crimes committed during his long and repressive rule.The Zanu-PF cen...Published: 21 Nov 2017 at 05:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Freedom Train rumbles into life
The much anticipated People's Rainbow Coalition comes to life this Saturday at Stanley Square with four principals of National People's Party (NPP), People's Democratic Party (PDP), Zimbabwe United fo...Published: 09 Nov 2017 at 11:33hrs | | by Jamela
Sonny Phiri appointed PDP-Biti acting deputy chairperson
BULAWAYO businessman, Sonny Phiri has been appointed acting deputy chairperson of Tendai Biti's People's Democratic Party (PDP), as the party moves in to fill posts left vacant after a fallout with se...Published: 19 Oct 2017 at 06:37hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Someone's house is burning
As each day passes, the nation is drawing closer and closer to the 2018 harmonised elections. This has seen serious political parties such as ZANU PF putting in place a number of programmes such as th...Published: 18 Oct 2017 at 16:50hrs | 3 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Moyo blasts Eddie Cross over Tsvangirai
ALLEGATIONS by MDC-T national executive member Mr Eddie Cross that the opposition coalition was being hindered by a tribal interests is not only reckless but also has a potential to cause civil unrest...Published: 13 Oct 2017 at 10:48hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Gorden Moyo apologetic statement to Shona supremacists embarrassing
Gorden Moyo grovelling at the feet of Shona supremacists is very embarrassing. Is this the same man who was once a red hot activist in Matabeleland pressure groups and political organizations like Imb...Published: 11 Oct 2017 at 11:36hrs | 2 | by Israel Dube
I'm not a tribalist, says Gorden Moyo
People's Democratic Party (PDP) secretary-general, Gorden Moyo has said he is not a tribalist and his faction, which claimed to have axed party leader, Tendai Biti, is made up of people from all the c...Published: 07 Oct 2017 at 12:57hrs | 3 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe's tribal problem
The past few days have witnessed the closest we have been to a tribal meltdown in a while, as ethnicity has been the main topic in both the opposition and the ruling party.For decades now, eth...Published: 05 Oct 2017 at 06:35hrs | | by Nqaba Matshazi
Opposition alliance: reflections on failed politics
It is indeed interesting times when calls for unity among Zimbabwe's opposition political parties turns out to be the cause of disunity and acrimony. In normal political discourse, calls for unity sho...Published: 04 Oct 2017 at 16:25hrs | | by Bevan Musoko
Load More Stories
