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Zimbabwe needs a new leadership culture
Almost four months have passed since President Emmerson Mnangagwa announced his intention to respect the constitutional two-term limit, refusing a third term, despite ZANU-PF passing a resolution to e...Published: 08 Nov 2024 at 15:00hrs | 907 | by Engineer Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi
Mzembi says 'Zimbabweans are alone to remove Zanu-PF'
An exiled former Cabinet minister has issued a caution to Zimbabweans, urging them to take personal responsibility for voting out President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government rather than relying on forei...Published: 03 Nov 2024 at 10:26hrs | 1842 | by Staff reporter
Sadc Election Observer Mission gives thumps up to Mozambique plebiscite
The Southern African Development Community (SADC) Election Observer Mission (SEOM) has given Mozambique's 2024 presidential and legislative elections a clean bill of health, describing the process as ...Published: 12 Oct 2024 at 16:25hrs | 623 | by Staff reporter
Hichilema alarmed by prospects of defeat and prosecution for corruption
When Zambia experienced democratic backsliding between 2011 and 2021, the deliberate use of legal mechanisms to weaken opposition parties played a central role. Lawfare has been a constant theme of Za...Published: 07 Oct 2024 at 17:08hrs | 2657 | by Sishuwa Sishuwa
Calls grow louder for Mnangagwa to extend incumbency beyond 2028
Zanu-PF's Mashonaland West province has added momentum to the push for President Emmerson Mnangagwa to extend his presidency beyond 2028. This call aligns with Mnangagwa's Vision 2030, which aims to t...Published: 05 Aug 2024 at 07:27hrs | 539 | by Staff reporter
Zanufication of the ANC on
AS South African general elections approach, the country's governing ANC is increasingly undergoing a further Zanufication process as it openly accepts offers of help from Zimbabwe's ruling Zanu-PF wh...Published: 19 May 2024 at 11:52hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa re-engagement plan in danger
This week, political analysts and prominent economists cautioned that President Emmerson Mnangagwa's efforts to re-engage with the international community could be jeopardized by several unfavorable r...Published: 30 Sep 2023 at 18:35hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mzembi mocks Zanu-PF's 'military assisted' electoral win
Former Cabinet Minister Walter Mzembi, who has been in exile in South Africa since the 2017 coup in Zimbabwe, has criticized Zanu-PF's electoral performance and President Emmerson Mnangagwa's appointm...Published: 21 Sep 2023 at 06:19hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa treading on explosive political minefield
President Emmerson Mnangagwa is currently facing a mounting political challenge as evidence surfaces indicating that soldiers voted against him in various barracks and through postal ballots to a grea...Published: 17 Sep 2023 at 22:13hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa no saint, but Chamisa sleeping on duty'
WITH three weeks before Zimbabwe holds general elections on August 23, there is already a sense of déjà vu among those following the run up to the polls.This week, leading analysts said they...Published: 05 Aug 2023 at 21:41hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Reading the writing on the wall; 2023 elections
Notwithstanding the insinuated competitive advantage and ascendancy that Zanu PF purports to hold as the ruling party, its ride on the gravy train communicates a totally different narrative. The socio...Published: 25 Jul 2023 at 09:44hrs | 5 | by Matthew Dube Esquire
Numbers don't lie, facts are stubborn mules
THINK of a bowl of soup; you don't have to take it all to feel the taste but just a spoonful, such is the case with opinion polls that have concluded that if elections are held today, President Mnanga...Published: 13 Jul 2023 at 06:59hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Zanu-PF abusing State resources'
CIVIL Society Organisations (CSOs) and opposition political parties have accused the ruling Zanu-PF party of abusing State resources by transporting its supporters to rallies across the country using ...Published: 10 Jul 2023 at 07:16hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Electoral uncertainty is a form of rigging
FOR any election to be adjudged as free, fair and credible, it has to have a certain level of certainty in how it's called, conducted and results announced. However, in Zimbabwe's case nothing is cert...Published: 23 Jun 2023 at 06:32hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
The day Zanu-PF stole the election
WITH less than four days to go before the nomination court sits, the opposition is in disarray and still trying to find its way out of the political dust raised by Zanu-PF this week.The ruling...Published: 17 Jun 2023 at 08:11hrs | 1 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Chamisa's bubble bursts at wrong moment
The peak of the newly formed Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) wasn't the seats it won in the 2022 by-elections.By the time the seats were won it was obvious they would be won.The ac...Published: 13 Jun 2023 at 09:25hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's 5 election hurdles
AFTER days of political drama, anxiety and bated breath, President Emmerson Mnangagwa proclaimed the election date, setting the stage for a season of intrigue, joy and heartaches. Zimbabwe decides on ...Published: 05 Jun 2023 at 19:06hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to secure another 5-year term, says US's Fitch Ratings
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa will likely secure another five-year term in elections expected in August, Fitch Solutions, a global advisory, predicted in a new report, but warned of a chaotic aftermath...Published: 26 May 2023 at 16:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF abusing the courts, Mnangagwa challenger
Zanu-PF former youth member Sybeth Musengezi yesterday accused the ruling party of abusing court processes to solve internal party issues.Musengezi said this through his lawyer Nqobani Sithole...Published: 19 May 2023 at 20:43hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
CIO takes over running of Zimbabwe elections from the military
ZIMBABWE'S Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) has secretly taken over the running of national elections — designed to manipulate the process in favour of the incumbent President Emmerson Mnanga...Published: 08 May 2023 at 19:10hrs | 52 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa allies' defeat inconsequential'
THE recent humiliating defeats suffered by President Emmerson Mnangagwa's allies in Zanu-PF primary elections would not have a bearing on his re-election bid, analysts have noted.A number of M...Published: 19 Apr 2023 at 06:48hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Game over for Temba Mliswa the chameleon?
Temba Mliswa's greatest achievement has been to be all things to all people. However, his latest outbursts about internal processes in ZANU PF, a party that he is not a member of, suggest that his day...Published: 31 Mar 2023 at 11:33hrs | 4 | by Nicholas Ncube
Malema holds 'the most successful shutdown ever in the history of struggle in SA'
EFF leader Julius Malema has claimed success in his party's bid to shutdown the country to protest against President Cyril Ramaphosa's incumbency and the energy crises in the country.Speaking ...Published: 20 Mar 2023 at 13:52hrs | 38 | by Staff reporter
Dog eat dog in Zanu-PF primaries
It will be a dog eat dog scenario in Zanu-PF primary elections initially set for Saturday (March 18) but have been postponed to a later date, with big wigs and some completely new faces set to clash i...Published: 18 Mar 2023 at 08:32hrs | 23 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF abusing power of incumbency
THE election season has officially begun. President Emmerson Mnangagwa has in the week deliberately given his party, Zanu-PF, inside information on the August elections instead of gazetting such infor...Published: 11 Mar 2023 at 06:37hrs | | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Mnangagwa's govt accused of shutting civic space ahead of 2023 elections
POLICE are reportedly banning feedback meetings of Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) Members of Parliament (MPs), which has unnerved the opposition as the country inches closer to the 2023 general e...Published: 06 Mar 2023 at 15:13hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police ban on meetings rattles Chamisa's CCC
POLICE are reportedly banning feedback meetings of Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) Members of Parliament (MPs), which has unnerved the opposition as the country inches closer to the 2023 general e...Published: 06 Mar 2023 at 05:18hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe must realise its position in global geopolitics
ON Wednesday United States envoy Robert Scott jetted into the country. He did not hide his mission. "I am here to engage in a series of meetings with government, civil society and other a...Published: 04 Mar 2023 at 08:07hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF 'will win a comfortable majority' claims Fitch Solutions
THE ruling party, Zanu-PF, "will win a comfortable majority" in this year's harmonised elections and "remain the dominant political party force in Zimbabwe over the coming years", according to New Yor...Published: 26 Feb 2023 at 09:09hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Political violence casts spotlight on free, fair polls
WITH political violence escalating in Zimbabwe, national elections slated for later this year face questions about whether the polls will meet free and fair international benchmarks.Zimbabwe's...Published: 20 Feb 2023 at 05:33hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe security forces stifling dissent'
THE ruling Zanu-PF party is expected to win the forthcoming general elections while the opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) will reject the results setting Zimbabwe on another disputed poll...Published: 12 Feb 2023 at 07:24hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Zanu-PF preparing for early polls'
THE Zanu-PF-led government is reportedly busy tying up all loose ends, including fast-tracking passage of the delimitation report, election-related legislation in Parliament and bussing its members to...Published: 04 Feb 2023 at 06:17hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe desperately needs leadership renewal
GOOD day President Emmerson Mnangagwa,Your Excellency, as you are quite aware, the National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) symbolises the antiquity of State-owned public institutions. It is ground...Published: 01 Feb 2023 at 07:43hrs | 15 | by Cyprian Ndawana
Chamisa's CCC grabs land worth US$5m
LAND worth millions of United States dollars was parcelled among Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) councillors and management at the Harare City Council with the corruption also sucking in legislato...Published: 27 Dec 2022 at 06:38hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Will 11 SADC leaders ask Rwanda CHOGM 2022 to follow them and lower election standard to readmit Zimbabwe
Rwanda is hosting the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) 2022 next week, 20 to 25 June 2022. President Mnangagwa has, no doubt, been lobbying hard for Zimbabwe to be re-admitted to the C...Published: 19 Jun 2022 at 21:16hrs | 14 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Zimbabwe's Commonwealth re-admission at crossroads
A REPORT produced by the Commonwealth after observing Zimbabwe's 2018 elections will potentially scupper the country's desperate bid to rejoin the group, four years after President Emmerson Mnangagwa'...Published: 17 Jun 2022 at 08:58hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Pomona Project: All thunder, lightning flashes, no strike!
Pomona stink in newsroomsIlliterate newspapers are being pummelled back and forth by buffeted Mafume and his clueless Triple C councillors. It is all thunder, blinding flashes but no strike. A...Published: 04 Jun 2022 at 19:52hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe ignores colonials masters' poll recommendations
ZIMBABWE has failed to effect critical recommendations of the European Union (EU) Election Observer Mission (EOM) that observed the 2018 harmonised elections with the grouping warning of a potentially...Published: 21 May 2022 at 18:29hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Reports of Zanu-PF defeat in 2023 polls are tad premature
SEVERAL Zimbabwe commentators have interpreted recent by-elections as raising the possibility that Zanu-PF's 42-year-long grip on power is loosening and, come the 2023 general elections, opposition le...Published: 16 Apr 2022 at 08:34hrs | 12 | by Derek Matyszak
ZANU PF fully aware if they lose power even once, will be reduced to same level as Mwonzora's MDC!
I remember some years back attentively listening to a lecture presented by the sage Dalai Lama - the supreme head of Tibetan Buddhism, and spiritual leader of the Tibetan people - as he shared his pro...Published: 31 Mar 2022 at 09:12hrs | 11 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Chamisa accused of trolling Mnangagwa to cause violence
Zanu-PF turned the heat on Citizens for Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa and accused him of trolling President Emmerson Mnangagwa's rallies to stoke political violence.Addressi...Published: 04 Mar 2022 at 05:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Credible reforms are the only way forward
THE political and economic reform agenda has dominated Zimbabwe's political discourse for over two decades, but consensus remains distant because the ruling Zanu-PF party has rebuffed attempts at ever...Published: 02 Mar 2022 at 05:40hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
ZEC speaks on by-elections
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission has opened up over long standing allegations that it is hiding behind the State of Disaster Act to renege from implementing by-elections in a number of constituencies...Published: 08 Nov 2021 at 13:14hrs | 9 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa subtly launches 2023 election campaign
POLITICAL leaders gain power to retain it. The power of incumbency is fully exploited to make sure they succeed themselves. They will use subtle means, including dishing out State resources to the peo...Published: 09 Oct 2021 at 07:32hrs | 12 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Govt curtails internet freedom
THE Zimbabwean government has maintained a tight grip on internet control, curtailing the basic rights to freedom of expression and information, a report has revealed.According to the Freedom ...Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:20hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
2023 polls a race between two horses
THE 2023 harmonised elections outcome will confirm what we already know. All the other presidential candidates will, as in 2018, make up numbers except for Nelson Chamisa and his MDC Alliance party an...Published: 09 Jun 2021 at 07:15hrs | 12 | by Pardon Maguta
Chamisa's' MDC implodes, Thanks to Zanu-PF
WHAT is in a name? The rumbling dispute over the proprietary rights to the name - Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) - looks set to blow Zimbabwe's opposition out of the political water.Acti...Published: 25 Mar 2021 at 16:18hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Chilonga evictions: State capture at play
You would have hoped that the post-Mugabe establishment could - at least - get one or two things right. But, ouch, this so-called "new dispensation" is as crude, primitive and self-serving as such reg...Published: 07 Mar 2021 at 08:16hrs | | by Tawanda Majoni
Soul Jah Love debacle exposes rot
A popular dancehall artiste, Soul Musaka, known to many as Soul Jah Love, passed on just under two weeks ago.What happened subsequently sparked the now fickle and feeble debate on the conferme...Published: 28 Feb 2021 at 08:57hrs | 4 | by Tawanda Majoni
Mugabe's business empire, The death of a dynasty
BARELY five years after the demise of Zimbabwe's former ruler Robert Mugabe, the vast wealth he owned and accumulated throughout the 37 years of his reign is disappearing.A great dynasty appea...Published: 14 Feb 2021 at 09:39hrs | 12 | by Africa Report
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