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Mnangagwa frets over Chamisa's Sadc links?
ZIMBABWEAN President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government is increasingly becoming worried about the growing anti-establishment wave sweeping across the region after a recent shock victory by former opposi...Published: 13 Nov 2022 at 17:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa congratulates Williams Ruto on winning the Kenyan election
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa has congratulated Kenya's President elect Williams Ruto despite publicly endorsing his rival Raila Odinga.Ruto garnered 50.5% of the v...Published: 06 Sep 2022 at 19:11hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Kenyan elections: A lesson to Zimbabwe opposition parties
On August 9, Kenyans came out in their numbers to elect a man who will lead their country for the next five years.Dr William Ruto was on August 15 declared as the President-elect by the countr...Published: 23 Aug 2022 at 06:25hrs | 1 | by Mukachana Hanyani
Chamisa says Zimbabweans must copy Kenya on diaspora vote
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa has applauded Kenya for allowing the diaspora vote and said Zimbabweans living outside the country should be allowed to vote in the 2023 polls...Published: 11 Aug 2022 at 06:45hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa scared stiff of Chamisa, Hichilema relationship
IN the aftermath of the rise of Zimbabwe's main opposition leader Nelson Chamisa's Citizens' Coalition for Change (CCC) and its "yellow wave" from the ashes of the now defunct MDC-Alliance and Zambian...Published: 13 Feb 2022 at 20:47hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa is a different person, he has learned
IN his well-cut suit, with outstretched hand and beaming smile, Sibusiso Moyo is the very picture of a modern politician.He speaks softly, smoothly and pauses to listen as if he had spent year...Published: 23 Jun 2018 at 15:14hrs | | by BBC
Mugabe can't be both player and referee
YESTERDAY, we carried a report in which Zanu PF leader President Robert Mugabe declared that non-State actors funded by the West were not welcome to observe the 2018 harmonised elections.We ha...Published: 31 Oct 2017 at 07:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Lessons learnt from the Kenyan electoral experience of 2017 visa vee Zimbabwe, Africa and the world
My son, do not forget my teaching, but keep my commands in your heart (Proverbs 3:1 NIV) Robert Gabriel Mugabe has no lesson he can pass, either to his generation or that below him, when he fi...Published: 20 Sep 2017 at 20:07hrs | 1 | by Andrew M Manyevere
'Africans must cancel elections'
ACADEMIC, author and publisher, Ibbo Mandaza has said Africans have to find other modes of choosing leaders and cancel elections, arguing that polls have proved not to work.Speaking at a Media...Published: 07 Sep 2017 at 06:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zim opposition parties must learn from Kenya elections
The MDC-T deputy Secretary General Tapiwa Mashakada has urged the Zimbabwean opposition parties to learn from the Kenyan elections which have been nullified by the Supreme court after Uhuru Kenyatta w...Published: 04 Sep 2017 at 08:17hrs | 9 | by Stephen Jakes
'Biometric voting no silver bullet'
The Biometric Voter Registration system was used in the 2013 Kenyan elections where Uhuru Kenyatta became president. Ambassador Simbi Mubako headed a joint election observer mission of Comesa, EAC and...Published: 19 Mar 2017 at 07:24hrs | 1 | by Christopher Farai Charamba
Victoria Chitepo found dead
President Mugabe has mourned Zanu-PF Central Committee member Victoria Fikile Chitepo (88) who was found dead in Harare yesterday morning. She was the widow of national hero and former Zanu-PF chairma...Published: 09 Apr 2016 at 08:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
The Congress that produced a despot
The MDC faction led by Mr Morgan Tsvangirai held its elective congress this weekend. Considering that, violence is in its DNA, the party should be highly praised for holding an incident free congress...Published: 07 Nov 2014 at 19:48hrs | | by Tafara Shumba
Power hunger too strong for SADC quotas to work
The South African weekly newspaper, the Mail & Guardian, published an extraordinary story in its issue of March 15-21, 2013.Headed "Red carpet for dead Malawi President" it described in sh...Published: 10 Jun 2013 at 21:32hrs | | by Nancy Forokah
The 'President said' syndrome
Take the case of Mary Wambui and Othaya. Of course you cannot take both, for both are found in Kenya, that great East African country which has just gone through a rigorous election that so beautifull...Published: 13 Apr 2013 at 09:10hrs | 2 | by Nathaniel Manheru
Lessons from Kenya for Zimbabweans
There is a general consensus among the people I spoke to regarding the Kenyan elections that polls there hinged on tribal rivalry driven from the fact that the leading candidates, Uhuru Kenyatta and R...Published: 12 Mar 2013 at 06:29hrs | | by Mathula Lusinga
What Kenya's opposition parties defeat might mean to Zimbabweans
An election in Kenya - thousands of miles away - would ordinarily not concern Zimbabweans. But in March 2013, our blogger finds just the opposite to be true.As I pen this piece, Kenya's elect...Published: 10 Mar 2013 at 10:09hrs | | by Nkosana Dlamini, Harare,
Mugabe to win again!
Now that the constitution making process is coming to an end, Zimbabweans across the globe are looking foward to the general elections scheduled for the aftermath of June.Analyst are already cracking...Published: 09 Mar 2013 at 12:06hrs | | by Conilious Toga
Zanu-PF's rejection of security sector reforms is the reason we have violence
One of the most worrying disturbances that are engulfing the Kenyan elections taking place this week is the inability of the state to protect its citizens as they cast their constitutionally protected...Published: 05 Mar 2013 at 06:20hrs | | by Mathula Lusinga
Kenyan election: Uhuru Kenyatta takes early lead as results begin to come in
Uhuru Kenyatta had an early edge as Kenya continued the count on Tuesday in a presidential election that brought out millions of voters despite pockets of violence that killed at least 15 people....Published: 04 Mar 2013 at 22:16hrs | | by Staff Reporter
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