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Khupe demands transparency in Mpilo Nursing school admissions

Bulawayo proportional representation legislator Thokozani Khupe has raised alarm over what she described as a lack of transparency and fairness in the selection of students at Mpilo School of Nursing, calling for urgent government interven…

Published: 23 Jul 2025 at 09:20hrs | 824 | by Staff reporter

'Where are the cancer machines?' asks Khupe

Opposition Member of Parliament Thokozani Khupe has demanded a full disclosure from Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube on how proceeds from the sugar tax are being utilised in the fight against cancer, amid growing concerns over a lack of trans…

Published: 26 Jun 2025 at 09:02hrs | 164 | by Staff reporter

Khupe demands Ministerial statement on use of US$38m sugar tax

Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) legislator Dr Thokozani Khupe has called on the Ministry of Finance to urgently deliver a ministerial statement detailing how the US$38 million raised from the sugar tax has been used, amid growing conce…

Published: 25 Jun 2025 at 17:17hrs | 293 | by Staff reporter

Khupe engages Mthuli Ncube to boost cancer treatment in Zimbabwe

Former Deputy Prime Minister and cancer advocate, Dr. Thokozani Khupe, has revealed that she has successfully engaged the Minister of Finance and Economic Development, Professor Mthuli Ncube, on allocating funds towards improving cancer tr…

Published: 08 Oct 2024 at 18:45hrs | 333 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe sitting on 40 trillion cubic feet of gas in Lupane

Zimbabwe holds vast reserves of untapped methane gas in the Lubimbi area of Lupane, Matabeleland North province, but has struggled for years to secure an investor to begin exploiting this valuable resource. Opposition legislator Thoko…

Published: 14 Sep 2024 at 12:28hrs | 13476 | by Staff reporter

Khupe reveals new cancer fight

Former Deputy Prime Minister, Thokozani Khupe has implored parliament to exercise its influence on government to channel more resources towards cancer treatment and awareness programmes as she went deeper on Thursday to reveal her own prot…

Published: 20 Jul 2024 at 14:43hrs | 930 | by Staff reporter

Thokozani Khupe was from the wrong region

It has happened across the continent so many times, sometimes successfully, and sometimes it is thwarted.When the founding President of Kenya Jomo Kenyatta was dying, his Kikuyi clansmen mafia tried to block his Vice President, Daniel Arap…

Published: 14 Feb 2024 at 20:20hrs | 36 | by Hopewell Chin'ono

Chamisa stops Khupe, Welshman Ncube civic awards?

The decision to award civic honors to opposition party stalwarts, Professor Welshman Ncube and Dr. Thokozani Khupe, made by the previous Bulawayo councilors, has reportedly been put on hold. This action was taken after Citizens Coalition f…

Published: 01 Oct 2023 at 07:36hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

Mnangagwa directs treasury to fund Khupe cancer treatment in India

President Emmerson Mnangagwa has granted approval for the treasury to allocate funding for the cancer treatment of Thokozani Khupe, the former Deputy Prime Minister and CCC proportional representation legislator, in India.Khupe, who was in…

Published: 21 Sep 2023 at 13:11hrs | | by Staff reporter

Thokozani Khupe announces her second cancer diagnosis

Dr. Thokozani Khupe, a proportional representation Member of Parliament representing the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) in Bulawayo and former Deputy Prime Minister of Zimbabwe, has revealed that she has been diagnosed with cancer for…

Published: 07 Sep 2023 at 17:02hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter

Thokozani Khupe withdrawn from contesting Mthuli Ncube

In a new twist to what was promising to be a Battle Royale in the 23 August harmonised general election - between the much adored Dr Thokozani Khupe and the odds-on favourite Finance Minister Professor Mthuli Ncube - for the honour to repr…

Published: 06 Jun 2023 at 19:04hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter

Analysts dismiss suggestion that Thokozani Khupe withdraw candidature against Mthuli Ncube

Professor Jonathan Moyo's recommendations that Dr Thokozani Khupe withdraw from running against Finance Minister, Professor Mthuli Ncube, as the latter has a better chance of developing Cowdray Park, have been ridiculed by the opposition a…

Published: 06 Jun 2023 at 07:10hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter

Chamisa's CCC dismisses true story on Khupe office donation

CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) Bulawayo province has dismissed claims that former MDC-T President Thokozani Khupe donated offices to the Nelson Chamisa-led opposition party.We reported that: "The office has since been changed from the…

Published: 01 Jun 2022 at 06:38hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

Chamisa must embrace Khupe

I AM happy that MDC-T leader Thokozani Khupe has joined the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC).Those who are opposed to her decision because they don't trust her are wrong, totally wrong.Khupe is not rejoining any party, but joining CCC, …

Published: 30 Mar 2022 at 07:23hrs | 2 | by Martin Stobart

Khupe mocked for dramatic endorsing Chamisa

MDC Alliance spokesperson Witness Dube has described MDC-T president Thokozani Khupe as an old yellow born who fell off King Lobengula's scorch cart, after her decision to throw her weight behind the Nelson Chamisa-led Citizens Coalition f…

Published: 23 Mar 2022 at 20:17hrs | | by Staff reporter

Khupe re-admission moves split Chamisa's CCC

THE Citizens for Coalition Change (CCC) could be faced with another downfall amid reports that talks on the readmission of Dr Thokozani Khupe into the party are threatening to split the opposition in Bulawayo.Sources said that interim nati…

Published: 20 Mar 2022 at 06:28hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

Thabitha Khumalo to block Khupe admission into CCC

CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) interim national chairperson Thabitha Khumalo has vowed to block the impending admission leader Nelson Chamisa's co-vice president in the MDC, Thokozani Khupe, into the new party unless she issues an unq…

Published: 08 Mar 2022 at 06:39hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

Tsvangirai's definition of the word 'change'

It was in 1999 when Morgan Tsvangirai formed the Movement for Democratic Change a political party which many thought was going to remove Robert Mugabe and Zanu PF from power and bring the real change as far Zimbabwe governance is concerned…

Published: 23 Feb 2022 at 19:34hrs | 13 | by Etiwel Mutero

Chamisa says Khupe can join CCC as an ordinary member

MDC-T and MDC Alliance leaders seeking to join the newly established opposition party, Citizens' Coalition for Change (CCC), will not automatically assume leadership positions but start as ordinary card carrying members, party president Ne…

Published: 22 Feb 2022 at 05:43hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

Khupe eyes coalition pact with Chamisa

Thokozani Khupe, the leader of a faction of the MDC-T party has set her sights on a coalition pact with the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC), her spokesman said Wednesday.Khupe, who met the CCC vice president Welshman Ncube over the wee…

Published: 17 Feb 2022 at 18:29hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter

The rise and fall of the MDC: Winners, losers and neutrals

AS Zimbabwe approaches crucial by-elections in March, which will test the strength of main contestants while determining the authentic opposition, there is no denying that the MDC, which has posed the most formidable threat to Zanu-PF for …

Published: 08 Feb 2022 at 18:21hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter

Chamisa, Mwonzora, Khupe fights are killing democracy

Just imagine that Zanu-PF had succeeded in establishing a one-party state as it had initially wanted, after drinking too much off the communist-socialist mug.Well, the scenario wouldn't be fit for those of a nervous disposition. With the w…

Published: 06 Feb 2022 at 06:56hrs | 4 | by Tawanda Majoni

Khupe pleads victimisation after Parly recall

EMBATTLED MDC-T leader Thokozani Khupe yesterday angrily reacted to her recall from Parliament, and said she had written to the United Nations protesting alleged victimisation by the Executive and Legislature.Khupe told journalists in Hara…

Published: 03 Feb 2022 at 05:44hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

Khupe, Mwonzora in dogfight over money

THE fight to access $149 million from the government between MDC-T leaders Thokozani Khupe and Douglas Mwonzora has spilled into the courts with the former Deputy Prime Minister insisting that she was the rightful recipient of the money un…

Published: 31 Jan 2022 at 05:47hrs | | by Staff reporter

Mwonzora, Khupe fight over US$1,3m windfall

FRESH fissures have rocked the opposition MDC-T camp over management of a whopping $150 million (about US$1,3 million at the official exchange rate) released yesterday by Treasury under the Political Parties (Finance) Act, with Douglas Mwo…

Published: 28 Jan 2022 at 06:16hrs | | by Staff reporter

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.Khupe was suspended by Mwonzora last Thursday…

Published: 25 Jan 2022 at 05:48hrs | | 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 governing party Zanu-PF when thousands of eligible m…

Published: 21 Jan 2022 at 05:31hrs | 1 | 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 in yet another split in the troubled op…

Published: 21 Jan 2022 at 05:30hrs | 11 | 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 the Bulawayo High Court yesterday, Khupe, Gwer…

Published: 14 Dec 2021 at 05:57hrs | 8 | 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 High Court with Gweru mayor Josiah Makombe and …

Published: 14 Dec 2021 at 05:41hrs | 9 | 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 eventual ouster from the fractured opposi…

Published: 12 Dec 2021 at 20:14hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter

Mwonzora, Khupe bury hatchet

MDC leader Douglas Mwonzora and his deputy Thokozani Khupe have buried the hatchet and agreed to work together again following months of acrimony triggered by last December's disputed extraordinary congress.Since the congress to choose the…

Published: 30 Apr 2021 at 07:26hrs | | by Staff reporter

Khupe lobbies for cushion fund for teenage mothers

MDC-T legislator Dr Thokozani Khuphe has lobbied the government to assist young girls who fell pregnant during the course of the Covid-19 induced national lockdown period in order to enable them to sustain themselves. Speaking in Parliamen…

Published: 27 Mar 2021 at 18:53hrs | | by Staff reporter

Women politicians discriminating against each other

BEHIND every successful man is a woman, is a tired clichÃ© in reference to the fact that a man's achievements are made possible by the support and work of their wife or female partner.In one of the Shona dialects and loosely translated int…

Published: 23 Jan 2021 at 22:43hrs | 1 | by Musa Makina

Khupe attack slammed by Gender Commission

THE Zimbabwe Gender Commission (ZGC) has lambasted the recent attack on ousted MDC interim president Thokozani Khupe during an emotive extraordinary congress.Khupe was allegedly beaten and had insults hurled against her at the party's elec…

Published: 04 Jan 2021 at 19:17hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter

Thokozani Khupe was, will never win leadership of MDC-T

The recently concluded chaotic extraordinary congress of MDC-T, shows that the ambitious and former deputy prime minister of Zimbabwe was never going to win the election regardless of the support she was and continue to receive from Zanu-P…

Published: 01 Jan 2021 at 17:46hrs | 3 | by Ncube Posiwe

Khupe leaves MDC-T vote in a huff

CHAOTIC scenes rocked the combustible MDC-T extraordinary congress which was held at the Harare International Conference Centre yesterday, with backers of the interim party president Thokozani Khupe (pictured) and those of the secretary-ge…

Published: 28 Dec 2020 at 07:42hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter

Heavy shellacking awaits Zimbabwe's brawling opposition

Transform Zimbabwe leader Jacob Ngarivhume has warned squabbling colleagues in the opposition that they risk receiving a heavy drubbing by Zanu PF in 2023 unless they heal their rifts. Ngarivhume said the futile infighting and disarray tha…

Published: 28 Dec 2020 at 07:40hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

'I regret working with Mwonzora,' says Khupe

FORMER MDC-T interim leader Thokozani Khupe says she regretted joining forces with newly elected party leader Douglas Mwonzora whom she accused of vote fraud.The two, together with many top party politicians, broke ranks with the Nelson Ch…

Published: 28 Dec 2020 at 07:39hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter

Khupe tightens grip on Marondera council

THE Thokozani Khupe-led MDC-T plans to tighten its grip at Marondera Town Council by electing Dominic Matangira the deputy mayor of the farming town.Matangira, who recently attained Alderman status after serving the local authority several…

Published: 23 Dec 2020 at 07:18hrs | | by Staff reporter

Greed costing Khupe-led party

I HAVE seen Press statements from the MDC-T 2014 Matabeleland South and Harare provincial leadership teams instructing people from their respective provinces not to attend the extraordinary congress which was scheduled for Saturday because…

Published: 21 Dec 2020 at 06:38hrs | 1 | by Kennedy Kaitano

Khupe fires 60 Chamisa's loyalists

THE MDC-T party has fired more than 60 party members in Mashonaland East province accusing them of being loyal to MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa.The expulsions saw top and fierce opposition party members in all the nine districts of th…

Published: 15 Dec 2020 at 06:24hrs | | by Staff reporter

Squabbles keep Zimbabwe opposition busy

THE desperate state of affairs within the countryâ€™s unravelling opposition has once again been thrust into the spotlight after the MDC Alliance ordered its feuding officials this week to stop discussing party issues on WhatsApp and other…

Published: 09 Dec 2020 at 06:21hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

Khupe spokesperson steps down over rape allegations

THE spokesperson for MDC leader Thokozani Khupe, Khaliphani Phugeni has stepped down from his position following allegations of raping an unnamed woman in Bulawayo.Last week, Phugeni, 44, who is also the MDC national spokesperson appeared …

Published: 15 Nov 2020 at 16:17hrs | | by Staff reporter

Khupe 'expels' Bhebhe

THE MDC-T says it has expelled its firebrand national organiser Abednico Bhebhe for grossly violating the party's constitution.The party's National Council also resolved that only acting president Thokozani Khupe, Douglas Mwonzora (secreta…

Published: 15 Nov 2020 at 06:18hrs | | by Staff reporter

Khupe shifts goalposts ahead of congress

THE Thokozani Khupe-led MDC-T is heading for an implosion after its national standing committee (NSC) resolved to suspend provincial nominations for presidential candidates, and "railroaded" the national council (NC) to choose only two can…

Published: 13 Nov 2020 at 07:45hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

Khupe MDC-T spokesperson up for rape

THE Thokozani Khupe-led MDC-T national spokesperson Khaliphani Phugeni has appeared in court facing a rape charge.Phugeni (44) denied the charge of contravening section 65 of the Criminal Law, Codification and Reform) Act (Chapter 9:23) wh…

Published: 11 Nov 2020 at 13:56hrs | | by Staff reporter

Chamisa, Khupe and Mnangagwa must leave politics; the people shall govern

Failed politicians must pack and go! What a breath of fresh air to read your todays article "No single or individual group can stage a revolution on its own".An Alliance of Democratic Forces is long overdue. I doubt if I could have been sa…

Published: 10 Nov 2020 at 05:56hrs | 2 | by Nomazulu Thata

Bhebhe trounces Khupe, Mwonzora

MDC-T organising secretary Abednico Bhebhe has reportedly secured Bulawayo nomination for the party presidency after trouncing four other candidates, among them acting president Thokozani Khupe and interim secretary-general Douglas Mwonzor…

Published: 10 Nov 2020 at 05:53hrs | | by Staff reporter

Chamisa should stop destroying our party

As an MDC-A supporter, I want to appeal to Chamisa to stop destroying our party by side-lining party veterans and stalwarts. Nero has taken it upon himself to favour women who he is close to and side-lining veterans and people who are the …

Published: 03 Nov 2020 at 13:25hrs | | by Daphine Zulu

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