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Steenhuisen mobilising 'apartheid' parties to defeat ANC
As the debate over coalition formation heats up, the National Chairperson of the African National Congress (ANC) Gwede Mantashe has launched a scathing attack on Democratic Alliance (DA) leader John S...Published: 26 Apr 2023 at 07:24hrs | 632 | by Staff reporter
Race for Prosecutor General heats up...as new dark horse emerges
The promotion of Nelson Mutsonziwa to serve as acting Prosecutor General came as a timely move as the appointing authority goes through a list of potential candidates to fill up the post which was lef...Published: 29 Mar 2022 at 13:53hrs | 3307 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'Mnangagwa must speak out against violence'
POLITICAL commentators yesterday urged President Emmerson Mnangagwa to speak up and act following a resurgence of political violence that claimed the life of an opposition supporter in Kwekwe last wee...Published: 05 Mar 2022 at 08:23hrs | 310 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF youths beat CCC driver
Zanu-PF youths savagely assaulted Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) Kwekwe by-election candidate Judith Tobaiwa's driver as the political temperature heats up ahead of the March 26 by-elections....Published: 05 Feb 2022 at 19:44hrs | 995 | by Staff reporter
Mudha Ncube chickens out of Zanu-PF Midlands race
STATE security minister Owen Mudha Ncube has dropped out of the race for the Zanu-PF Midlands provincial chairmanship as the deadly internecine fights for control of the party heats up following the i...Published: 22 Oct 2021 at 06:30hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's new tool against dissent
THE incarceration at Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison and delayed acquittal of two opposition activists by the Supreme Court last week is symptomatic of Zanu-PF's desperate attempt to weaponise the l...Published: 11 Jun 2021 at 07:18hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF bigwigs resists female VP push
Zanu-PF is resisting calls to amend its constitution to re-introduce a woman as one of the party's vice presidents - as the race to replace former State vice president Kembo Mohadi heats up.Th...Published: 06 Apr 2021 at 15:43hrs | 25 | by Staff reporter
COVID-19 vaccines face political haggling in Zimbabwe
A staunch supporter of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change Alliance in Zimbabwe, 29-year-old Mateline Chiwandamira, is waiting for a signal from the party president, Nelson Chamisa, whether ...Published: 04 Apr 2021 at 22:32hrs | 19 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Battle over ZANU PF Mash Central heats up
The battle for the soul of ZANU PF Mazowe DCC chairmanship has kicked off with John Mudzonga launching his campaign without clearance from the office of the National Political Commissar. In a ...Published: 18 Sep 2020 at 10:45hrs | 9 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Khupe is dancing Nobert Kunonga music
Not so long ago the Anglican Church in Zimbabwe had tasted abhorrent deep factional fights pitted embattled cleric Bishop Nobert Kunonga and the then incumbent Chad Gandiya cabal. Kunonga, a stan Muga...Published: 18 May 2019 at 08:44hrs | | by Benny Gudo
Knives out for Biti, Ncube
MDC vice president Elias Mudzuri says party structures should reject both Tendai Biti and Welshman Ncube as they once left the party to form their own political parties, as the fighting for the three ...Published: 07 May 2019 at 08:18hrs | 6864 | by Staff reporter
MDC national elective Congress 2019: Biti-Ncube rebirth or death
Less than a month to the MDC crunch congress slated for Gweru, a lot is happening within the mainstream opposition outfit as the jostle for positions heats up. Interim party President Advocate & p...Published: 24 Apr 2019 at 08:19hrs | 2146 | by Benny Gudo
Anti-sanctions crusade heats up
The push for the United States government and the European Union (EU) bloc to remove the two-decade-old sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe is beginning to snowball with international organisations adding a...Published: 21 Apr 2019 at 08:10hrs | 350 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora, Mudzuri gang up against Chamisa?
As the MDC-Alliance heats up for electoral congress, party vice president Elias Mudzuri and Secretary General Douglas Mwonzora are allegedly secretly working with the party leadership in Masvingo to r...Published: 05 Apr 2019 at 07:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF campaign mood heats up
Enter Tafadzwa Musarara as the campaign mood heats up.Enter Tafadzwa Musarara as the campaign mood heats up ...Published: 24 Apr 2018 at 13:24hrs | 5495 | by Staff reporter
MDC-T decides on candidates
The MDC-T national elections directorate met yesterday to deliberate on the selection of party candidates in preparation for this year's elections.The meeting came as senior party officials ar...Published: 04 Apr 2018 at 11:02hrs | 1426 | by Staff reporter
The NPF-Mugabe factor in 2018 polls
The emergence of the National Patriotic Front (NPF) led by the former minister of state for Mashonaland East provincial affairs, Retired Brigadier-General Ambrose Mutinhiri, has created possibilities ...Published: 29 Mar 2018 at 14:00hrs | 1490 | by ZDI RESEARCH INSTITUTE
Zanu PF fight for Chiredzi West constituency heats up
CHIREDZI - Zanu PF fights for what can be described as the hottest seat in the country's south eastern sugar farming town of Chiredzi, has reached high levels, with accusations and counter accus...Published: 15 May 2017 at 09:54hrs | 1214 | by Garikai Mafirakureva
Zuma stuns Zweli Mkhize at ANC rally
President Jacob Zuma stunned ANC deputy president hopeful Zweli Mkhize when he made a surprise arrival at the event where Mkhize would have looked to launch himself in the run-up to this year's el...Published: 16 Jan 2017 at 08:06hrs | | by City Press
Tsvangirai's appointment of Vice Presidents a clear succession matrix
A business executive and political commentator Simba Mhuriro has said the appointment of additionally two Vice Presidents in the MDC-T by Morgan Tsvangirai was a clear succession matrix than anything ...Published: 17 Jul 2016 at 04:49hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Zanu-PF fails to finalise on suspensions
Yesterday's Zanu-PF politburo meeting failed to finalise on pending disciplinary cases of its members across the country as had been expected, with the party's decision-making body tasking national po...Published: 07 Apr 2016 at 10:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Way into disgruntled Zanu PF member's head is through his stomach - Mugabe knows that too well!
The way to a man's heart is through his stomach! Many people would agree. The way into a disgruntled Zanu PF member's head is through his/her stomach! Anyone remotely familiar with Zimba...Published: 10 Dec 2015 at 19:44hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Grace tell Mphoko she is Shoko (monkey) clan - the devourers of 'mazhanje nemambishi'!
Zimbabwe's politics is getting really complex and demanding; who would have guessed that a VP is now expected to know everything about the First Lady including her family tree and totem!"You (...Published: 22 Nov 2015 at 08:37hrs | 4587 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Mugabe blast 'undisciplined and rogue' Zanu-PF youths
President Robert yesterday blasted some "undisciplined and rogue" party youths, whom he accused of stoking divisions in the party by attacking their leaders, warning them that their days were numbered...Published: 17 Oct 2015 at 10:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
7 models booted out of Miss Zimbabwe boot camp
SEVEN more models have been booted out of the Miss World Zimbabwe boot camp this week bringing the number of evictees to 11 as the race for the crowning of the country's queen heats up.There a...Published: 06 Apr 2015 at 22:11hrs | | by Bongani Ndlovu
'MDC Renewal MPs tried to ride on Tsvangirai's popularity'
MDC-T BULAWAYO executive has accused the MDC-Renewal team for hypocrisy in what it said they tried to ride on party's President Morgan Tsvangiorai's popularity after the splinter group accus...Published: 06 Apr 2015 at 07:19hrs | 5499 | by Stephen Jakes
MDC-Renewal members can contest by-elections as independents
MDC-Renewal will not bar any of its members keen on contesting the forthcoming June by-elections as independents, but the party will not assist them in campaigning.The opposition party sai...Published: 31 Mar 2015 at 07:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Analysis of Bona's visit to Japan; farfetched
Political analysis in Zimbabwe has entered a new dispensation of desperation marked by fixation on irrelevant matters owing to reading too much into nothing. Policy reviews and political forecast,...Published: 18 Mar 2015 at 12:25hrs | 3366 | by Caitlin Kamba
'Something strange in Zanu-PF,' says Rugare Gumbo
Vice president has been ousted from the ruling party's leadership after a sustained campaign led by Robert Mugabe's wife Grace, as the battle to succeed the long-serving president heats up....Published: 26 Nov 2014 at 19:15hrs | | by AFP
Mugabe succession heats up Zimbabwe summer
Summer has arrived in Zimbabwe with sweltering heat leaving us casting our gaze upwards each day, searching eagerly for clouds that may bring rain, writes ...Published: 08 Oct 2014 at 19:35hrs | 1856 | by Cathy Buckle
Radio licence race heats up
....as Byo community rallies behind Amakhosi's Skyz Metro FM HUNDREDS of people from Bulawayo thronged Rainbow Hotel in the morning today to suppor...Published: 02 Sep 2014 at 12:07hrs | | by Hangoyapalala waTjibundule
Where Does Matebeleland Stand in the Succession Race?
Looking at events in Zimbabwe and what the near future likely holds for this country, one is forced to begin asking themselves some serious questions concerning our future and destiny as a people...Published: 07 May 2014 at 18:45hrs | 4838 | by Dombolakona-Tjing'wango Dlembewu Moyo
Bulawayo name change debate heats up
The decision by the government to change English names of Bulawayo's roads and buildings should be unanimously endorsed by all stakeholders before it is implemented. This is according to Lobengula Sa...Published: 17 Jan 2014 at 10:06hrs | 4221 | by Staff reporter
Renegade ZANU must rejoin ZAPU, not the other way round
Recent seductive moves by ZANU PF to ZAPU and its leadership to rejoin ZANU PF is as dramatic as it is pregnant with political nectar which those of us with a healthy appetite for such will suck d...Published: 11 Jan 2014 at 11:52hrs | 2907 | by Mso Ndlovu
MDC-T campaign heats up in Mat South - Photos
The Vice-President of the Movement for Democratic Change led by Morgan Tsvangirai, Thokozani Khuphe, today said the MDC-T campaign is heating up in Matabeleland South.Khuphe said today [Thurs...Published: 11 Jul 2013 at 15:02hrs | | by Moyo Roy
Big Brother Africa: Three new faces join the Chase!
The Chase is on and as the show heats up, three new faces have joined the latest season of Big Brother Africa, which is headline sponsored by Airtel. The trio will help keep DStv viewers up to date w...Published: 20 Jun 2013 at 09:38hrs | 4601 | by Moyo Roy
Zanu-PF cancels Politburo meeting
President Robert Mugabe's Zanu-PF yesterday cancelled a highly anticipated politburo meeting expected to set rules for primary elections which have sharply divided his party.Zanu-PF secretary...Published: 04 Apr 2013 at 09:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
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