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'Mnangagwa's term can be extended without a referendum'

As debate intensifies over how President Emmerson Mnangagwa could remain in power or politically relevant until 2030, political commentator Professor Jonathan Moyo has reignited controversy by arguing that Zanu-PF could lawfully extend the…

Published: 06 Oct 2025 at 18:44hrs | 2555 | by Staff reporter

David Coltart is profoundly wrong on referendums

The Constitution and Binding Case Law Permit Term of Office Extensions Without Referendums: A Rebuttal to David ColtartThe bald claim by David Coltart - that giving effect to Zanu-PF's October 2024 Resolution Number 1 to extend President E…

Published: 30 Sep 2025 at 22:17hrs | | by Prof Jonathan Moyo

Jonathan Moyo's Praise-Singing to Return: It's Cold Outside the ZANU PF Bubble

I strongly advise Jonathan Moyo never to make the mistake of thinking he can return to Zimbabwe. Makuruwane is still alive and kicking. Dr. Walter Mzembi's incarceration is a clear warning of what awaits Jonathan should he come back. Years…

Published: 05 Sep 2025 at 21:30hrs | 1672 | by Nomazulu Thata

Jonathan Moyo slams attacks on Mabhiza

Former Cabinet Minister Professor Jonathan Moyo has condemned what he described as "outrageous and disgraceful" online attacks against Attorney General Virginia Mabhiza following her inclusion in President Emmerson Mnangagwa's recent deleg…

Published: 04 Sep 2025 at 07:28hrs | 362 | by Staff reporter

Smear campaign against Attorney General Virginia Mabiza

The political chicanery unleashed on social media against Zimbabwe's Attorney General, Virginia Mabiza, by self-styled influencers peddling baseless innuendos and insinuations - without offering even a shred of evidence - marks a disgracef…

Published: 03 Sep 2025 at 09:48hrs | | by Prof Jonathan Moyo

Jonathan Moyo warns against use of money in Zanu-PF

Former Zanu-PF politburo member, cabinet minister, and MP Professor Jonathan Moyo has issued a cautionary statement on the limitations of wealth in politics, saying money may be influential, but it cannot purchase either love or power.Taki…

Published: 01 Jul 2025 at 15:04hrs | 4255 | by Staff reporter

10 rich countries non-committal on Zimbabwe's $2.6b bridge financing appeal

Zimbabwe is yet to secure any firm pledges of financial support from the 10 countries it appealed to in its ongoing bid to settle long-standing debt arrears.The southern African nation is burdened with a $21 billion debt, which has shut it…

Published: 02 Jun 2025 at 12:47hrs | 889 | by Staff reporter

Jonathan Moyo calls for repeal of outdated car radio licence law

Former Information Minister Professor Jonathan Moyo has called on the Zimbabwean government to scrap the car radio licence law he helped introduce in 2001, describing it as outdated in the face of rapid digital transformation.Moyo made the…

Published: 02 Jun 2025 at 11:24hrs | 1441 | by Staff reporter

Jonathan Moyo criticizes Zimbabwe's new ZBC licence fee law

Former Information Minister Jonathan Moyo, once a key architect of Zimbabwe's stringent media laws, has publicly condemned the recently enacted legislation mandating motorists to pay a Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) licence fee be…

Published: 31 May 2025 at 14:07hrs | 1892 | by Staff reporter

What triggered the call for the failed 31 March 'uprising' in Zimbabwe?

The old-age wisdom that facts are stubborn came alive last week after social media platforms and sections of the mainstream media went into a frenzy with sensational claims that the Parliament of Zimbabwe was "tactically shut down" on Tues…

Published: 15 Apr 2025 at 18:22hrs | | by Jonathan Moyo

Who runs Zimbabwean politics

In the ever-contentious debate over who truly wields power in Zimbabwe - civilian politicians or the military - former cabinet minister and Zanu PF politburo member Professor Jonathan Moyo has weighed in with a firm assertion: politics mus…

Published: 07 Apr 2025 at 20:25hrs | 2641 | by Staff reporter

Chin'ono challenges Jonathan Moyo's view

 Who holds the reins of power in Zimbabwe - civilian politicians or the military? The longstanding debate has resurfaced following a fiery analysis by award-winning investigative journalist Hopewell Chin'ono, who challenges former Inf…

Published: 07 Apr 2025 at 20:23hrs | | by Staff reporter

Jonathan Moyo distances self from viral 'Jonathan Mayo' article

Prominent Zimbabwean academic and former minister, Professor Jonathan Moyo, has dismissed any association with an article circulating on social media under the name "Prof Jonathan Mayo."Moyo expressed shock that people were linking him to …

Published: 02 Apr 2025 at 11:00hrs | 2049 | by Staff reporter

Prof. Moyo's Political Career in Limbo

Discarded knowledgeable academic Professor Jonathan Moyo, who is currently eking out a life somewhere in East Africa's dungeons, has confessed that factional fights in his previous party exist and is asking the warring groups to unite and …

Published: 07 Feb 2025 at 20:22hrs | 2435 | by Leonard Koni

Politics 101

The thing about politics is that while its study is scientific - which explains why political science is the original science found in such early iconic sources as Plato's Dialogues - its practice is not and cannot be scientific not least …

Published: 16 Dec 2024 at 11:02hrs | 425 | by Prof Jonathan Moyo

Indiginisation by Spazafication for black South Africans

The African National Congress' secretary general says the 'largest' and 'most sophisticated' economy in Africa is learning from around the continent purportedly in countries like Ghana and Zimbabwe to indigenise and preserve local business…

Published: 08 Dec 2024 at 13:29hrs | 493 | by Jonathan Moyo

After all, there's no common wealth in the Commonwealth

When it comes to Zimbabwe, UK's Labour does not work. It was Labour led by Harold Wilson, which duplicitously aided and abetted the Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI) by Ian Smith's Rhodesia Front in 1965. And it was the same Lab…

Published: 05 Dec 2024 at 16:28hrs | | by Jonathan Moyo

Biden exposes politicisation of the US judiciary

OUTGOING US PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN EXPOSES POLITICISATION OF THE US JUDICIARY AS HE PARDONS HIS CONVICTED SON HUNTER BIDEN WHOM HE CLAIMS WAS "SELECTIVELY AND UNFAIRLY PROSECUTED"Things are falling apart for the US. The international noise th…

Published: 02 Dec 2024 at 08:27hrs | 494 | by Jonathan Moyo

Will Namibia be next on 27 November 2024?

THE GODS MUST BE CRAZY: what for former US President Bill Clinton was "It's the Economy, Stupid" in his 1992 election campaign for the White House; is playing out for the Brenthurst Foundation - founded and funded by the Oppenheimers to ch…

Published: 02 Nov 2024 at 15:01hrs | 1286 | by Jonathan Moyo

The US does not cease to amaze

In a terrible case of the pot calling the kettle black, the US government is shamelessly CRIMINALISING a Russian media house RT for allegedly attempting to influence the 2024 US presidential election in favour of Donald Trump by allegedly …

Published: 05 Sep 2024 at 09:47hrs | 591 | by Jonathan Moyo

Data from Freeman Chari is neither surprising nor new

ALTHOUGH INEXPLICABLY COMING OUT INCOMPLETE AND TOO LATE, data from Freeman Chari is neither surprising nor new. Tellingly, it vindicates ZEC and explains why:1.  Nelson Chamisa did not make public the V11s he claimed he had which all…

Published: 24 Aug 2024 at 15:11hrs | 638 | by Prof Jonathan Moyo

'Don't kill Chris Hani, again'

There's some ray of hope from Gauteng Premier Cde Panyaza Lesufi's cryptic message: "Don't kill Chris Hani Again." The White Monopoly Capital behind the Codesa negotiations to 'end apartheid' in South Africa 'killed Chris Hani' in 1993; to…

Published: 04 Jul 2024 at 13:04hrs | 15 | by Prof Jonathan Moyo

Joe Biden at 81 versus Robert Mugabe at 81: No match

AS HAS BECOME ITS ENTRENCHED TENDENCY, a characteristically thoughtless and delinquent segment of the political opposition in Zimbabwe has been busy using old-age to make asinine comparisons between the public engagement of the late Presid…

Published: 02 Jul 2024 at 09:17hrs | 51 | by Jonathan Moyo

ANC becomes first liberation movement to hand power back to white minority

On the eve of Cyril Ramaphosa's inauguration as South Africa's president for an uncertain second term he's unlikely to complete; a term certain to be remembered as the lowest moment for the ANC since 1994; the white-led opposition DA is po…

Published: 19 Jun 2024 at 08:27hrs | 9 | by Jonathan Moyo

Transcript of 'Russia-Zimbabwe talks' between Putin and Mnangagwa

The penchant for frivolous bluster in Zimbabwe's public discourse has once again reared its ugly trappings after the widespread circulation on social media platforms of a 2.42-minutes video clip posted on an obscure if not dubious YouTube …

Published: 10 Jun 2024 at 08:37hrs | 34 | by Jonathan Moyo

South Africa has a Zuma problem

Here's a copy of the intellectually embarrassing judgment handed down today by the Constitutional Court of South Africa, politically disqualifying former President Jacob Zuma from standing for election to the National Assembly in South Afr…

Published: 27 May 2024 at 15:59hrs | | by Jonathan Moyo

Rival CCC candidates nominated to face a Zanu-PF candidate

The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission has published an Election Notice with the names of local authority candidates nominated in some 28 wards for the 3 February 2024 by-elections.Some highlights:It's notable that rival - not double but rival …

Published: 28 Dec 2023 at 18:12hrs | 12 | by Prof Jonathan Moyo

CCC banked on ZRP blocking the Chitungwiza rally?

CCC'S MIDNIGHT POSTPONEMENT OF NELSON CHAMISA'S RALLY DUBBED, "PATHWAY TO LEGITIMACY", which had been slated for today in Chitungwiza has raised eyebrows and set tongues wagging in and outside the two-warring CCC parties, following Chamisa…

Published: 17 Dec 2023 at 20:53hrs | | by Jonathan Moyo

Members of MDC Alliance standing committee launched CCC

JOB SIKHALA, AS VICE NATIONAL CHAIRMAN OF THE MDC-ALLIANCE, chaired the National Council meeting of the MDC-ALLIANCE, which on 22 January 2022 formed and founded CCC.About that day and that meeting, Prof Welshman Ncube authoritatively conf…

Published: 15 Dec 2023 at 09:27hrs | 2 | by Jonathan Moyo

Jonathan Moyo tears into David Coltart

The Mayor of Bulawayo and prominent member of the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC), David Coltart, found himself at the center of a political storm after urging voters to support ZAPU candidates in the upcoming by-elections. The move dr…

Published: 09 Dec 2023 at 14:06hrs | 18 | by Nkululeko Nkomo

Chamisa's CCC borrows poor language from Nerves Mumba

IN A WHAT COMES ACROSS AS A POOR CASE OF BORROWING poor language from Nerves Mumba's controversial Sadc Electoral Observation Mission on Zimbabwe's 2023 harmonised general election, Nelson Chamisa's CCC party has issued a shocking and emba…

Published: 03 Dec 2023 at 18:23hrs | | by Jonathan Moyo

Jonathan Moyo exposes Mahere's 'big fat lie'

EXPLAINER: Fingerprints of the MDC in the "Edited" CCC Constitution filed by Tshabangu in Chamisa's Interdict Court Case to halt Further Recalls not Fraud but Proof of MDC Paternity of Lawful CCCFOLLOWING THE HEARING of the urgent court ap…

Published: 25 Nov 2023 at 18:06hrs | | by Jonathan Moyo

Constitution of Chamisa's CCC - Wapusa Wapusa finally unveiled

AT LONG LAST, herewith below is a link to the 2023 CONSTITUTION of CCC - Wapusa Wapusa, the new party led by Nelson Chamisa, which he first announced on 23 September 2023 at a public meeting in Chinhoyi â€“ some of whose key organs [like B…

Published: 20 Nov 2023 at 21:55hrs | 10 | by Jonathan Moyo

Recalled CCC MPs served their court application on Tshabangu at the CCC offices

Recalled CCC CHAMISA MPs Served their Court Papers on Tshabangu at CCC's Administrative Office in Bulawayo, Yet they Deny Knowing Him They say Sengezo Tshabangu is an "imposter", a "tortoise on a lamppost " and that they don't know him bla…

Published: 02 Nov 2023 at 20:30hrs | 11 | by Jonathan Moyo

Embattled Nelson Chamisa sneaks into South Africa

Nelson Chamisa has today quietly sneaked into South Africa to meet with and seek urgent diplomatic, financial and logistic support from EU ambassadors accredited to that country to help him stem the swelling tide of discontent in his polit…

Published: 01 Nov 2023 at 13:42hrs | 15 | by Jonathan Moyo

SADC Electoral Observation Mission [SEOM] on Zimbabwe final report out

The final report of SADC Electoral Observation Mission [SEOM] on Zimbabwe's 2023 harmonised general election has been released. The final conclusion of the report will undoubtedly disappoint those who have been falsifying its conclusion an…

Published: 12 Oct 2023 at 20:44hrs | 3 | by Jonathan Moyo

Chamisa's kneejerk publicity-stunt after horses have bolted

FIRST: it is a kneejerk publicity-stunt which is neither strategic nor a strategy to disengage when the horses have bolted less than 24 hours after the recall of some of your MPs and the banning from Parliament of the rest of your MPs for …

Published: 11 Oct 2023 at 19:45hrs | 4 | by Jonathan Moyo

Chamisa's letter to Parliament was sent after Tshabangu's letter

FOR THE RECORD: It turns out that while the attached letter sent to Parliament by Nelson Chamisa is dated 11 September 2023, it was actually sent to and received in Parliament on 5 October 2023. The letter by CCC's 'Interim SG' recalling s…

Published: 11 Oct 2023 at 19:36hrs | 1 | by Jonathan Moyo

FULL TEXT: Jonathan Moyo speaks on Chamisa's 11 September letter

A lot, in fact far too much of a lot, is being said and made about and expected from an unprecedented and manifestly improper and out of order letter that Nelson Chamisa sent on 11 September 2023 to the Speaker of the Parliament of Zimbabw…

Published: 11 Oct 2023 at 07:53hrs | | by Jonathan Moyo

Dear SADC - CCC now invents false excerpts from the Mumba SADC Preliminary report

Dear SADC,DESPERATE CCC NOW INVENTS FALSE 'EXCERPTS' FROM THE MUMBA SADC PRELIMINARY REPORTThis reply to the above post by the CCC official spokesperson, Promise Mkwananzi, is addressed to you SADC to bring to your attention a matter of gr…

Published: 03 Oct 2023 at 18:58hrs | 20 | by Jonathan Moyo

SADC Troika fails to produce Summit minutes as is per the usual norm?

Following the Southern African Development Community's (Sadc) Extraordinary Organ Troika Summit's ministerial meeting, chaired by Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema online no minutes of the scaled-down Summit have been released to the pu…

Published: 02 Oct 2023 at 21:48hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter

Chamisa says CCC is 'Wapusa Wapusa'

NELSON CHAMISA SAYS CCC IS A 'WAPUSA WAPUSA CITIZENS MOVEMENT' WITH NO POSITIONS, NO STRUCTURES [HENCE NO CONSTITUTION] AND NO CONGRESSChamisa says CCC is 'Wapusa Wapusa' pic.twitter.com/KQBDsyADHVâ€” Bulawayo24 News (@Bulawayo24News) Sept…

Published: 24 Sep 2023 at 15:54hrs | 3 | by Jonathan Moyo

End of the road, the curtain has fallen as elected CCC councilors take their oath of office

THE CURTAIN HAS FALLEN, as elected CCC councilors took their oath of office, with elected CCC MPs set to take theirs tomorrow, on the back of the presidential oath of office taken by Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa on Monday.It's game over.No …

Published: 06 Sep 2023 at 19:00hrs | 2 | by Jonathan Moyo

Chamisa deploys Jameson Timba and Gladys Hlatshwayo to SADC countries

Nelson Chamisa has deployed Jameson Timba and Gladys Hlatshwayo to selected Sadc countries, starting with South Africa, with a Hail Mary assignment to convince key leaders in the region that he won last week's presidential election, even t…

Published: 02 Sep 2023 at 19:37hrs | | by Jonathan Moyo

Chamisa stopped the Polling Station Point Person initiative, fearing that Biti would use it to topple him

Those in the know within CCC ranks are aware that the plan was to have what in CCC lingo was called "PSPP" [Polling Station Point Person].This would have ensured that every polling station has polling agents to ensure the collection of V11…

Published: 29 Aug 2023 at 08:18hrs | 3 | by Jonathan Moyo

CCC bigwig exposes party claims on V11s

A senior CCC leader in a WhatsApp group today posted the attached message, also reproduced below for ease of reading:"There were no V11s and no V23s in 2018 because we didn't have polling agents in many many polling stations. We recognised…

Published: 28 Aug 2023 at 21:17hrs | | by Jonathan Moyo

Jonathan Moyo gives tips on voters' roll

Leading political analyst Professor Jonathan Moyo has advised the opposition to request the polling station-based voters' roll from the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) as that is the official record used by the commission to conduct an…

Published: 16 Aug 2023 at 21:39hrs | 22 | by Staff reporter

David Coltart apologises to Jonathan Moyo

Senator David Coltart of the Citizens Coalition for Change has apologised to exiled Zimbabwe Cabinet minister Jonathan Moyo for invoking Moyo's father in a political debate.Moyo announced Coltart's apology on his Twitter account.Said Moyo,…

Published: 01 Aug 2023 at 08:26hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter

Chamisa's land ruse fools no one

Apropos Advocate Nelson Chamisa's land remarks at CCC's campaign-launch rally at Mkoba Stadium in Gweru yesterday.The issue is not about how it is being framed either by Advocate Chamisa's detractors or by his supporters; rather the issue …

Published: 17 Jul 2023 at 21:56hrs | 14 | by Jonathan Moyo

President Mnangagwa's ZANU PF neutralizes Chamisa's CCC

The opposition movement in Zimbabwe needs to be reformed. The leadership of all political opposition in Zimbabwe, whether it be MDC, CCC, ZIP, etc. is wooden, sclerotic, senile, and out of touch with domestic realities.Some have changed co…

Published: 26 Jun 2023 at 22:55hrs | 3 | by Sam Wezhira

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