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Big Saturday read: The other side of the story
On the 27th of July 2017, the late President Morgan Tsvangirai convened an Extra-Ordinary National Council Meeting at his Highlands home.On the Agenda was the ratification of the Coalition Agr...Published: 17 Jan 2021 at 16:13hrs | 1233 | by Lloyd Damba
Dead bodies in Chamisa's hands
On the 27th of July 2017, the late President Morgan Tsvangirai convened an Extra-Ordinary National Council Meeting at his Highlands home.On the Agenda was the ratification of the Coalition Agr...Published: 17 Jan 2021 at 15:28hrs | 6503 | by Lloyd Damba
Trumpism - Why Chamisa must shape up on Covid-19 - part 3
In this coronavirus pandemic season, Nelson Chamisa is as good as the politics he plays, meaning he either shapes up or seals his own fate to political doom just like US President Donald Trump did....Published: 05 Jan 2021 at 07:54hrs | 3178 | by Grace Kwinjeh
Chamisa's MDC brands Mwonzora a Zanu-PF proxy
The MDC Alliance has accused newly-elected MDC-T leader Douglas Mwonzora of being a Zanu-PF proxy, days after he exchanged vows of "cooperation" with President Emmerson Mnangagwa.Mwonzora took...Published: 04 Jan 2021 at 19:19hrs | 1072 | by Staff reporter
Chaotic MDC-T congress spells doom for opposition
THIS week's chaotic MDC-T extraordinary congress which was controversially won by party secretary-general Douglas Mwonzora against rivals Thokozani Khupe, Elias Mudzuri and Morgan Komichi dealt the op...Published: 31 Dec 2020 at 11:06hrs | 926 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora appoints Khupe, Mudzuri as his VPs
MDC-T newly elected president, Mr Douglas Mwonzora assumed his newly found role at the helm of the opposition party today by unveiling a new executive in which he retained his fellow election rivals t...Published: 30 Dec 2020 at 16:57hrs | 3086 | by Staff reporter
'Khupe still party leader'
EMBATTLED MDC-T former interim leader Thokozani Khupe is still in charge of the opposition party and waiting for legal opinion from her lawyer, Lovemore Madhuku, her spokesperson has confirmed....Published: 30 Dec 2020 at 07:46hrs | 3678 | by Staff reporter
The Consolidation of Democracy in Zimbabwe
DEAR President Emmerson Mnangagwa,Zimbabwe celebrated National Unity Day a few days ago, commemorating the historic unification of former liberation war movements-PF Zapu and Zanu into what we...Published: 30 Dec 2020 at 07:37hrs | 142 | by Robert Sigauke
MDC-T legal battle looms
A BRUTAL legal showdown is looming between two main claimants to the MDC-T throne, Thokozani Khupe and Douglas Mwonzora - who controversially won the party's presidency at a chaotic extraordinary cong...Published: 30 Dec 2020 at 07:29hrs | 1768 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora to address a press conference at Harvest House
MDC-T President-elect Douglas Mwonzora will tomorrow at 11 AM address a press conference at Harvest House, the divided opposition MDC's Harare HQ, to address the recent chaotic, violent and messy extr...Published: 29 Dec 2020 at 20:49hrs | 4599 | by Staff reporter
Khupe fears Mwonzora gang
MDC-T 'outgoing' president Thokozani Khupe Monday was forced to cancel a scheduled press conference after word spread that youths loyal to newly elected party leader Douglas Mwonzora were planning to ...Published: 29 Dec 2020 at 06:51hrs | 1798 | by Staff reporter
'Mwonzora is the only one who can fit into Tsvangirai's shoes' - says daughter
MDC-T Congress delegate Isabel Mwonzora was unequivocal in claims her father was best suited for the MDC-T top job."Mwonzora is the only one who can fit into Morgan Tsvangirai's shoes. He has ...Published: 27 Dec 2020 at 10:46hrs | 2363 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora thanks Chamisa's followers for behaving
MDC-T congress started at Rainbow Towers, Harare this Sunday morning with wild cheering directed at presidential hopeful and current secretary general Douglas Mwonzora.Mwonzora's arrival at th...Published: 27 Dec 2020 at 10:30hrs | 5323 | by Staff reporter
2020: The year Zimbabwe opposition was decimated
The year 2020 put Zimbabwe's democracy to the test as many political activists were arrested for trying to exercise their rights to demonstrate while others were allegedly abducted.Political a...Published: 27 Dec 2020 at 08:28hrs | 479 | by Staff reporter
Mayhem rocks Khupe's camp
FIERCE fights over money and a voters' roll that was found to be in shambles scuppered the second attempt by the Thokozani Khupe-led MDC-T to hold its congress to elect a new leader, it has emerged....Published: 20 Dec 2020 at 07:36hrs | 2329 | by Staff reporter
MDC infighting timeline 2014 - 2020
AS the drama of recalls of MPs and councillors continues to unravel within the strife-torn opposition MDC, we trace the roots of the crisis back to May 2014 when the party was deeply divided before an...Published: 19 Dec 2020 at 16:40hrs | 1523 | by Staff reporter
MDC-T Congress collapses
SERIOUS fissures have emerged ahead of the MDC-T extraordinary congress set for today (Saturday) as rival factions scuttled the process leading to its abandonment.The opposition party's spokes...Published: 19 Dec 2020 at 15:28hrs | 2067 | by Staff reporter
2020: A year of political drama
IN a few weeks' time, we will all be saying good bye to the year 2020, a year that was pregnant with lots of political drama that left citizens in awe.It is the year that the over confident Ne...Published: 13 Dec 2020 at 14:16hrs | 676 | by Khumbulani Vodloza
Attempted rape at MDC HQ
AN MDC youth official, Tendai Muchekahanzu, yesterday appeared in court accused of trying to rape a party employee at the Morgan Richard Tsvangirai (MRT) House headquarters, popularly known as Harvest...Published: 19 Nov 2020 at 06:47hrs | 4575 | by Staff reporter
MDC leadership keen to hold talks with Mnangagwa
THE interim MDC leadership is keen to hold talks with President Emmerson Mnangagwa and Zanu-PF, with a view to forming a new government of national unity (GNU).Speaking separately to the Daily...Published: 04 Nov 2020 at 18:22hrs | 2037 | by Staff reporter
13 MDC Allaince supporters in court
THIRTEEN suspected MDC-Alliance activists, who allegedly ran amok, destroying windows and cutting padlocks with bolt cutters at Harvest House last week appeared in court yesterday charged with public ...Published: 04 Nov 2020 at 18:20hrs | 570 | by Staff reporter
Violence rocks Harvest House again
VIOLENCE has once again rocked the MDC after youths aligned to the Nelson Chamisa camp allegedly broke into the party's Morgan Richard Tsvangirai (MRT) House headquarters on Sunday night in an unsucce...Published: 03 Nov 2020 at 08:37hrs | 3524 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's youths break into Khupe's regalia shop
YOUTHS aligned to MDC-Alliance leader Mr Nelson Chamisa on Sunday night broke into a regalia shop run by the MDC-T led by Dr Thokozani Khupe in an attempt to regain access into the party headquarters....Published: 03 Nov 2020 at 06:25hrs | 937 | by Staff writer
Khupe suspends top ally
MDC-T leader Thokozani Khupe has suspended her party's national organising secretary Abednico Bhebhe after he exposed alleged plans to manipulate the forthcoming extraordinary congress to choose a new...Published: 01 Nov 2020 at 08:37hrs | 14386 | by Staff reporter
Khupe regains Harvest House control
MDC youths aligned to secretary general Douglas Mwonzora yesterday kicked out their colleagues led by Harare province chairperson Paul Gorekore from Harvest House. Gorekore took over control o...Published: 28 Oct 2020 at 06:40hrs | 5872 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa imposes allies in Kuwadzana primary elections?
MDC-Alliance leader, Mr Nelson Chamisa, has yet again elbowed his partners in the troubled political outfit by imposing his allies in the party's primary elections in Kuwadzana. Chamisa's dict...Published: 13 Oct 2020 at 06:45hrs | 1480 | by Staff reporter
'Remove clause on recalling of MPs'
NATIONAL Constitutional Assembly (NCA) president Lovemore Madhuku has challenged political parties and ordinary citizens to call for the removal of a clause in the Constitution providing for the recal...Published: 11 Oct 2020 at 17:02hrs | 5146 | by Staff reporter
Khupe moves to repossess Harvest House
OPPOSITION MDC-T leader Thokozani Khupe who for weeks has been locked out of party headquarters, Harvest House, which also known as Morgan Richard Tsvangirai House, has suspended party Harare provinci...Published: 11 Oct 2020 at 11:17hrs | 4169 | by Staff reporter
Khupe tightens Chamisa screws
THOKOZANI Khupe and her MDC-T have escalated their siege on Nelson Chamisa's MDC Alliance with an ultimatum for the rival party to vacate the MDC Bulawayo offices before Monday.The MDC-T holds...Published: 10 Oct 2020 at 07:30hrs | 5790 | by Staff reporter
Khupe's MDC-T sets tough terms for Chamisa talks
MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has to recognise the Supreme Court ruling which installed Thokozani Khupe as acting MDC-T president for talks between the two factions of Zimbabwe's biggest oppositi...Published: 08 Oct 2020 at 19:25hrs | 15025 | by Staff reporter
Komichi, Mwonzora elbowed out of presidential race
MDC-T leader Thokozani Khupe's loyalists have claimed their leader should be allowed to continue at the helm of the party ahead of Morgen Komichi and Douglas Mwonzora, who they accuse of ditching the ...Published: 07 Oct 2020 at 07:09hrs | 9528 | by Staff reporter
MDC-T youths continue besieging Chamisa's HQ
MDC-T youths who took control of Morgan Richard Tsvangirai House formerly Harvest House last week, are still on guard, sleeping inside the building.According to MDC-T 2014 national youth secre...Published: 05 Oct 2020 at 17:19hrs | 4411 | by Staff reporter
Bid to take over Khupe's offices foiled
A BID to take over Mashonaland East provincial MDC-T offices in Marondera on Friday night hit a brickwall after 10 MDC Alliance youths were arrested by the police and charged with public violence....Published: 05 Oct 2020 at 06:51hrs | 2468 | by Staff reporter
MDC circus continues as 2023 beckons
So sad to note that the President of the world's superpower is down with coronavirus after having tested positive last week. There is something intrinsic about Africans. We are generally a kin...Published: 05 Oct 2020 at 06:40hrs | 360 | by Staff reporter
'We moved in to end Khupe, Chamisa fights'
IN A dramatic turn of events, frustrated youths from the country's biggest opposition party, the MDC, last week seized the iconic national headquarters, the Morgan Richard Tsvangirai (MRT)...Published: 04 Oct 2020 at 17:12hrs | 3182 | by Staff reporter
Black Friday and the new Chiwenga law
THREE very interesting but equally disturbing, sinister and disruptive developments took place last Friday.The Supreme Court granted the MDC-T party an extension to hold its long-overdue c...Published: 04 Oct 2020 at 10:04hrs | 21010 | by Tawanda Majoni
Zanu-PF targets 65 percent vote
ZANU-PF is confident of garnering at least 65 percent of the vote and securing a landslide victory in the 2023 harmonised elections, a senior party official has said.During the 2018 general el...Published: 04 Oct 2020 at 09:56hrs | 142 | by Staff reporter
Morgan Komichi, the Simon Khaya Moyo of MDC
"It had become evident that his conduct in the discharge of his duties had become inconsistent with his official responsibilities. The Vice President has consistently and persistently demonstrated tra...Published: 03 Oct 2020 at 09:40hrs | 4734 | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
MDC-T raps G40 elements
The MDC-T says it will soon repossess the party's Morgan Tsvangirai headquarters, which they allege was seized by the rival faction led by Mr Nelson Chamisa with assistance from criminal G40 elements....Published: 03 Oct 2020 at 08:21hrs | 432 | by Staff reporter
Gloves off again in brawling MDC's scorched earth fight
ANY lingering hopes that warring MDC factions would soon come to their senses were quashed yesterday, after the main opposition's interim leadership led by Thokozani Khupe, pictured, recalled a furthe...Published: 02 Oct 2020 at 08:00hrs | 6590 | by Staff reporter
Bomb scare at Chamisa's 'HQ'
There was an attempt to bomb the MDC-T head office, Harvest House Thursday morning as the battle to take control of the building among warring factions rages on, party sources have claimed.New...Published: 02 Oct 2020 at 07:19hrs | 1692 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa pooh-poohs MDC unity talks
THE ongoing dramatic attempts by MDC youths to end the party's wars suffered a potentially fatal blow yesterday after Nelson Chamisa pooh-poohed the need to participate in intra-party unity talks. ...Published: 01 Oct 2020 at 22:14hrs | 5600 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa distances self from MDC circus
MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa says he had nothing to do with this week's seizure of the party's headquarters even though the NewsDay report says his party challenged a spoliation order. H...Published: 01 Oct 2020 at 07:42hrs | 9001 | by Staff reporter
New twist to MDC saga
HE MDC-T leadership was yesterday forced to cancel a scheduled press briefing at the party headquarters after the Nelson Chamisa-led MDC Alliance challenged a court order granting interim secretary-ge...Published: 01 Oct 2020 at 07:34hrs | 8941 | by Staff reporter
Khupe aide in Harvest House doorstep retreat, feared abduction
THERE was drama in front of the MDC's Harvest House headquarters Wednesday when MDC-T acting national spokesperson Khaliphani Phugeni refused to enter the building to address journalists for his sched...Published: 01 Oct 2020 at 07:11hrs | 1595 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: Chamisa faction ordered off Harvest House by Court
The Harare Magistrate Court has ordered the MDC Alliance to vacate Morgan Richard Tsvangirai House, which was taken over by youths belonging to the Nelson Chamisa led party.In an application f...Published: 30 Sep 2020 at 10:39hrs | 11339 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa, Khupe in reunification talks?
MDC-T interim leader Thokozani Khupe held a hastily arranged meeting of the party's standing committee, which officials said was meant to clear the ground for reunification talks with Nelson Chamisa. ...Published: 30 Sep 2020 at 07:49hrs | 10056 | by Staff reporter
'MDC factions not fit to govern'?
WARRING MDC factions should not be near the levers of power as they are disposed to turn the peaceful political landscape into a war zone, a former opposition top official and insider has said. ...Published: 30 Sep 2020 at 07:17hrs | 493 | by Staff reporter
Cracks appear in MDC-T leadership
Cracks started appearing in the Thokozani Khupe-led MDC-T on Monday after police ended their siege, at least temporarily, on the opposition party's disputed headquarters in Harare.MDC-T organi...Published: 29 Sep 2020 at 18:31hrs | 3959 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC in kidnapping storm
SUISPECTED MDC-Assembly hooligans, who illegally stormed into the troubled opposition party Morgan Tsvangirai headquarters on Sunday, yesterday allegedly kidnapped 12 of their rivals as the internecin...Published: 29 Sep 2020 at 18:28hrs | 3607 | by Staff reporter
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