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Mwonzora to recall Khupe from Parliament
THE leadership wrangle between MDC-T leader Douglas Mwonzora and his deputy Thokozani Khupe has escalated amid plans to recall her from Parliament after she declared an official split last week....Published: 15 hrs ago | 4243 | by Staff reporter
MDC fractures into oblivion
LAST week the opposition was thrown into further but usual turmoil when MDC-T vice-president Dr Thokozani Khupe told journalists in Bulawayo that the party had split into two formations, one led by he...Published: 15 hrs ago | 825 | by Staff reporter
Tough questions for Mnangagwa, Chamisa ahead of 2023 polls
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's desperate quest to stop Nelson Chamisa from contesting elections under the MDC-Alliance banner betrays the Zanu-PF strongman's lack of confidence in his ability to win a...Published: 23 Jan 2022 at 20:41hrs | 3026 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora skeletons tumble
THOKOZANI Khupe has revealed that the MDC-T received assistance from the state through judicial and parliamentary processes in their fight to destroy the Chamisa-led MDC Alliance.This would se...Published: 23 Jan 2022 at 08:06hrs | 6664 | by Staff reporter
MDC provinces endorse Khupe suspension
SUSPENDED MDC-T Vice President, Thokozani Khupe's troubles continue to mount after eight MDC-T political provinces endorsed her suspension.The eight provinces are: Bulawayo, Harare, Matebelela...Published: 23 Jan 2022 at 08:03hrs | 2372 | by Staff reporter
A political accident waiting to happen
Communities are glued and bound together by more than blood.They share a common past, history, heritage, values, norms and aspirations.The commonality bred by sharing similar languages...Published: 23 Jan 2022 at 07:58hrs | 285 | by Bishop Laz
MDC circus continues
THE political circus in the MDC continues with the party's vice president Dr Thokozani Khupe announcing yesterday that she had broken ranks with former president Mr Douglas Mwonzora to form a splinter...Published: 22 Jan 2022 at 05:22hrs | 619 | by Staff reporter
Khupe forms new MDC faction
MDC-T Vice President Thokozani Khupe Friday announced she was breaking away from the opposition party and forming a splinter group.Khupe confirmed the development at a press conference in Bula...Published: 21 Jan 2022 at 18:38hrs | 2369 | by Staff reporter
PHOTOS: Thousands throng to support Thokozani Khupe
More than a thousand MDC-T supporters thronged to McDonalds Hall in Mzilikazi on Friday to pledge their support to former Deputy Prime Minister Thokozani Khupe who was addressing a presser. ...Published: 21 Jan 2022 at 16:06hrs | 6353 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Thokozani Khupe breathes fire...declares MDC-T split
Former Deputy Prime Minister Thokozani Khupe has taken over as the leader of the Movement for Democratic Change Tsvagirayi (MDC-T) after the party officially split on Friday. The s...Published: 21 Jan 2022 at 11:42hrs | 4017 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Khupe defiant, says Mwonzora expelled from MDC-T
MDC-T leader Douglas Mwonzora has suspended his deputy Thokozani Khupe with immediate effect pending investigations into various allegations levelled against her.The opposition party's informa...Published: 21 Jan 2022 at 05:41hrs | 4203 | by Staff reporter
Khupe, Mwonzora at each other's throats
THE MDC-T plunged into a new crisis yesterday following the suspension of its vice president Dr Thokozani Khupe who also announced that party leader Mr Douglas Mwonzora had fired himself from the oppo...Published: 21 Jan 2022 at 05:35hrs | 649 | by Staff reporter
MDC aversion to democracy - its death knell
A simple definition of democracy is a system of governance in which people choose their leaders by voting for them.That very definition, in its simplicity, was recently on display in the gover...Published: 21 Jan 2022 at 05:31hrs | 136 | by Fungi Kwaramba
Factional battles split MDC again
FACTIONAL fights in the troubled MDC peaked yesterday with the suspension of Dr Thokozani Khupe from a faction led by Mr Douglas Mwonzora over allegations of working with Mr Nelson Chamisa, resulting ...Published: 21 Jan 2022 at 05:30hrs | 377 | by Staff reporter
New twist to MDC-T saga as Mwonzora is expelled from the party
Former Deputy Prime Minister and MDC-T Vice President Thokozani Khupe's lawyer Nqobani Sithole has told the media that the suspension of Khupe from the party is null and void because its purported lea...Published: 20 Jan 2022 at 17:22hrs | 6543 | by Mandla Ndlovu
BREAKING: Thokozani Khupe suspended
The Douglas Mwonzora led MDC-T has suspended former Deputy Prime Minister Thokozani Khupe for various allegations that have been levelled against her. In a statement issued on Thursday, Party ...Published: 20 Jan 2022 at 14:07hrs | 4835 | by Mandla Ndlovu
MDC factionalism worsens ahead of March elections
SOME members of the opposition MDC-T led by Douglas Mwonzora say factionalism is worsening in the party ahead of the forthcoming council and parliamentary by-elections following claims of widespread r...Published: 18 Jan 2022 at 05:32hrs | 842 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa a cunning megalomaniac
THERE is a problem that the Zimbabwean electorate is not seeing in the opposition politics of our country.The situation cannot even be explained using the words disaster and catastrophe. Many ...Published: 17 Jan 2022 at 06:34hrs | 1118 | by Gibson Nyikadzino
Chamisa's difficult political calculus
ZIMBABWE'S main opposition MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa — who is hugely popular and got over two million votes in the 2018 presidential election — is caught between a rock and a hard place a...Published: 16 Jan 2022 at 18:14hrs | 1164 | by Dumisani Muleya
Change your name!: Zanu-PF's new trump card against Chamisa
IN a surprise move, President Emmerson Mnangagwa proclaimed 26 March 2022 as the date for long overdue by-elections. This should fill in vacancies created through the controversial recalls of elected ...Published: 16 Jan 2022 at 18:12hrs | 1060 | by Reginald Murendo
Mwonzora's MDC faces implosion?
DOUGLAS Mwonzora's MDC T party faces implosion as it emerges that the upcoming March by-elections have further widened divisions in his party, with some members openly defying him and taking sid...Published: 16 Jan 2022 at 09:05hrs | 2919 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa caught in between a rock and a hard place
ZIMBABWE'S main opposition MDC-Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa is caught between a rock and a hard place ahead of crucial by-elections on 26 March.Nomination is on 26 January.Chamisa fa...Published: 15 Jan 2022 at 15:04hrs | 4338 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's trap for Chamisa
In a surprise move, President Emmerson Mnangagwa proclaimed March 26, 2022, as the date for long overdue by-elections. This is to fill vacancies created through the controversial recalls of elected of...Published: 15 Jan 2022 at 00:25hrs | 9545 | by Reginald Murendo
Chamisa breaks his silence
OPPOSITION MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday broke his silence on the raging debate regarding contestations over the party name, and told his supporters that he was unfazed by Zanu-PF and M...Published: 15 Jan 2022 at 00:21hrs | 6401 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora suffers by-elections blow
MDC-T leader Douglas Mwonzora has suffered a blow in Bulawayo after four members chosen as party candidates for the March 26 by-elections declined the offer and pledged their allegiance to a faction l...Published: 14 Jan 2022 at 05:23hrs | 5269 | by Staff reporter
Knives out for Khupe
BATTLE lines have been drawn within the MDC-T ahead of the party's congress, set for March 5, amid indications that party leader Douglas Mwonzora's supporters are angling to dump his deputy, Thokozani...Published: 12 Jan 2022 at 23:16hrs | 5149 | by Staff reporter
'I'm the MDC Alliance president,' Mwonzora says
Douglas Mwonzora has declared himself leader of the MDC Alliance in a letter to the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC).Mwonzora told ZEC that only he and three other officials of his MDC-T pa...Published: 12 Jan 2022 at 23:12hrs | 924 | by Staff reporter
Khupe allies ditch by-elections
Two MDC-T aspiring councillors linked to party deputy president Thokozani Khupe have withdrawn their candidature for Bulawayo council by-elections slated for March 26 this year.The pair, Sibus...Published: 12 Jan 2022 at 23:11hrs | 1044 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora throws knockout punch
OPPOSITION MDC-T leader Douglas Mwonzora has written to the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) seeking to bar his rival and leader of the MDC Alliance, Nelson Chamisa, from using the acronym MDC....Published: 12 Jan 2022 at 04:35hrs | 5776 | by Staff reporter
What is Mwonzora up to?
It has been clear for a while now that opposition MDC-T leader Douglas Mwonzora is an opportunistic power-hungry politician, more concerned with his place at the top table to the exclusion of everythi...Published: 12 Jan 2022 at 04:32hrs | 2082 | by Staff reporter
MDC-T plot to replace Gweru mayor flops?
THE MDC-T-led Gweru City Council was last Friday forced to abort a meeting to elect a new mayor to replace recalled Josiah Makombe after the former mayor filed an urgent application at the Bulawayo Hi...Published: 11 Jan 2022 at 18:39hrs | 1038 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora at it again
MDC-T President Douglas Mwonzora is under fire following a criminal case of perjury being opened against him by Gweru mayor Josiah Makombe who, together with former party president Dr Thokozani Khupe ...Published: 08 Jan 2022 at 06:10hrs | 5372 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora's MDC-T rushes Chamisa into rebranding
The MDC-T party led by Douglas Mwonzora on Thursday declared that it would contest the March by-elections as the MDC Alliance - a sure move to rush MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa into a major rebr...Published: 07 Jan 2022 at 19:42hrs | 4183 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora meets Mnangagwa
OPPOSITION MDC-T leader Douglas Mwonzora held a "secret meeting" with President Emmerson Mnangagwa at State House in Harare today.Mwonzora confirmed meeting Mnangagwa.He told NewsDay t...Published: 06 Jan 2022 at 19:11hrs | 2888 | by Staff reporter
'Mwonzora lied under oath'
Gweru mayor Josiah Makombe (MDC-T) yesterday reported his party leader Douglas Mwonzora and secretary-general Paurina Mpariwa to the police for lying under oath.Makombe, through his lawyer Nqo...Published: 05 Jan 2022 at 06:01hrs | 4691 | by Staff reporter
Thokozani Khupe tasting her own medicine
The MDC-T outfit is just a reconfiguration and transformation of fatigued, greedy visionless politicians, retired by democratic process.The likes of Douglas Mwonzora, Morgan Komichi, Tho...Published: 17 Dec 2021 at 17:23hrs | 4129 | by Leonard Koni
MDC-T prepares for congress next year
THE MDC-T led by Douglas Mwonzora will early next year hold its elective congress amid fissures between the president and his deputy, Thokozani Khupe.Khupe feels that the party was now being r...Published: 16 Dec 2021 at 23:26hrs | 326 | by Staff reporter
Khupe takes Mwonzora, MDC-T to court
MDC-T vice-president Thokozani Khupe has dragged party leader Douglas Mwonzora to court seeking an interdict aimed at stopping her recall from Parliament.In a joint urgent application filed at...Published: 14 Dec 2021 at 05:57hrs | 3555 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora, Khupe rift explodes
MDC-T vice-president Thokozani Khupe has dragged party leader Douglas Mwonzora to court in a bid to stop him from recalling from parliament.Khupe jointly filed the application at the Bulawayo ...Published: 14 Dec 2021 at 05:41hrs | 295 | by Staff reporter
Khupe begs to rejoin Chamisa?
MDC-T deputy leader Thokozani Khupe has discussed rejoining the MDC Alliance, ZimLive reported.Talks between Khupe and MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa have caused ructions in the MDC-T whic...Published: 13 Dec 2021 at 20:56hrs | 5152 | by Staff reporter
Momberume has disappeared, says lawyer
THE Johanne Masowe apostolic sect member, Hatirarame Momberume, who was dragged before the courts to face murder and rape charges after he married a minor, Anna Machaya who died while giving birth, ha...Published: 13 Dec 2021 at 07:05hrs | 491 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF, Mwonzora to share $500m
Zanu-PF and MDC-T will next year share the $500 million Treasury allocated under the Political Parties Finance Act with the split based on the number of constituency seats in the National Assembly....Published: 13 Dec 2021 at 06:59hrs | 251 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora Plots To Fire Khupe From MDC-T
THE MDC-T Vice President Thokozani Khupe has through her lawyers demanded minutes of a recent national council meeting as she suspects the opposition party deliberated on recalling her from Parliament...Published: 12 Dec 2021 at 20:21hrs | 1419 | by Staff reporter
Khupe faces recall from MDC-T
IN a dramatic turn of events revolving around a political merry-go-round, and after spearheading recalls of main opposition MDC Alliance legislators in a cutthroat power struggle with Nelson Chamisa, ...Published: 12 Dec 2021 at 20:17hrs | 166 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora, Khupe in messy fallout
DAGGERS have been drawn in the battle for power in the Douglas Mwonzora led MDC-T outfit, amid revelations that its deputy president Thokozani Khupe is being targeted for recall from Parliament and ev...Published: 12 Dec 2021 at 20:14hrs | 172 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa alleges assassination attempts by Zanu-PF
ZIMBABWE'S opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change Alliance, believes that the country's ruling Zanu-PF has decided to assassinate MDC-A leader Nelson Chamisa because all its other effort...Published: 01 Dec 2021 at 10:04hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
South Africa to deport Zimbabweans, where would stateless Ndebeles go?
On Thursday 25 November 2021, Matabeles woke up to bad news from the South African government that the Zimbabwean Exemption Permit program has been scrapped. Matabeles and Zimbabweans that are benefic...Published: 30 Nov 2021 at 07:32hrs | 33 | by Israel Dube
MDC-T MP arrested for assault
MDC-T proportional representation MP, Yvonne Musarurwa was arrested yesterday for allegedly assaulting party vice-president Thokozani Khupe's aide Kudzanai Mashumba at a Press conference last month....Published: 26 Nov 2021 at 08:13hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
'Mnangagwa is world's best spy operative,' claims Mutsvangwa
Zanu-PF politburo member, Christopher Mutsvangwa says President Emmerson Mnangagwa is arguably one of the best intelligence officers ever to come out of Zimbabwe, while the country's spy agency servic...Published: 14 Nov 2021 at 05:40hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Truant ministers cripple Parly
CABINET ministers have continued dodging the parliamentary question time in both the National Assembly and Senate, thereby doing a heavy blow to Parliament's key oversight function.The Q and A...Published: 13 Nov 2021 at 05:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
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