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Mwonzora, Khupe rift widens?
THE rift between underfire MDCT leader Douglas Mwonzora and Thokozani Khupe over the party presidency widened yesterday with the latter demanding a rerun of the internal polls.This was after M...Published: 24 hrs ago | 4463 | by Staff reporter
Khupe dismisses Mwonzora claims she has accepted VP post
FORMER MDC-T interim president Thokozani Khupe has dismissed Douglas Mwonzora's claims she has finally accepted the outcome of the tempestuous December 27, 2020 party extraordinary congress in which s...Published: 23 Feb 2021 at 20:24hrs | 2959 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora, Khupe reconcile
MDC-T leader Douglas Mwonzora says he has reconciled with his rival Thokozani Khupe. "We have resolved her issues," Mwonzora tells a press conference. Khupe, according to Mwonzora, has...Published: 23 Feb 2021 at 11:53hrs | 6954 | by Staff reporter
Should Zimbabweans give Mwonzora a chance?
After graduating with a Degree in Politics and Public Administration in (2016), I still find myself within the circles of thousands of unemployed graduates in our country. It's now five years while I ...Published: 19 Feb 2021 at 16:52hrs | 1583 | by Knowledge Hakata
Ex-MDC-T workers demand US$150 000
FORMER MDC-T employees have approached the High Court seeking a garnishee order against the party's accounts so that they can recover over US$150 000 owed to them. The workers won a High Court...Published: 19 Feb 2021 at 07:27hrs | 1710 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora dares party 'extremists'
THE MDC-T said its leader Douglas Mwonzora was not fretting over threats to take him and the party to court by individuals challenging the December extraordinary congress (EOC) and the appointment of ...Published: 18 Feb 2021 at 05:54hrs | 3550 | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai book to be launched after lockdown
LATE founding MDC leader, Morgan Tsvangirai's second book 'Service and Sacrifice' is now set for launch end of the national lockdown period, former spokesperson, Luke Tamborinyoka has revealed....Published: 17 Feb 2021 at 06:25hrs | 676 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF's push for Chamisa to join Polad a nullity
YOUR Excellency, President ED Mnangagwa.In my self-opinionated response to a recent media report where Zanu-PF secretary for administration Obert Mpofu said MDC Alliance president Nelson Chami...Published: 17 Feb 2021 at 06:19hrs | 1484 | by Paddington Japajapa
Chamisa to be barred from using MDC Alliance name?
MDC says it has started a process to stop the Nelson Chamisa-led camp from using the MDC Alliance name.This comes amid serious divisions in the MDC emanating from the nasty battle to succeed t...Published: 16 Feb 2021 at 17:58hrs | 7203 | by Staff reporter
'Chamisa's MDC affected by greed, selfishness'
MDC Alliance secretary for rural strategies Happymore Chidziva yesterday said the opposition camp was severely affected by greediness, selfish and egos of some of its top leaders, hence the sharp divi...Published: 16 Feb 2021 at 07:32hrs | 2687 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora lashes toxic politics
OPPOSITION leader Douglas Mwonzora yesterday urged the country's political leaders to work in the interest of all Zimbabweans and emulate the spirit of magnanimity that was a hallmark of the late foun...Published: 15 Feb 2021 at 18:19hrs | 1890 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa must not create his own opposition
This epitome of throwing the baby out with the bath water should not be tolerated.Where on earth have you heard of a President saying that, "this is the official opposition party" referring to...Published: 15 Feb 2021 at 08:23hrs | 2550 | by Leonard Koni
Not yet ready for democracy
THE road to democracy is not easy for countries that have emerged from decades of colonial systems and replaced by autocratic ones which derive their power from military as well as tribal politics....Published: 15 Feb 2021 at 07:59hrs | 209 | by Tapiwa Gomo
Mwonzora foe readies for battle
MDC-T leader Douglas Mwonzora's challenger Abednego Bhebhe says he is not giving up the fight to overturn the outcome of the opposition party's extraordinary congress after he rejected manoeuvres to b...Published: 14 Feb 2021 at 12:37hrs | 3984 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa outfit suffers major blow
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's controversial platform for opposition parties is at risk of becoming irrelevant due to MDC-T's reluctance to endorse it following the elevation of Douglas Mwonzora....Published: 14 Feb 2021 at 12:36hrs | 8949 | by Staff reporter
Bhebhe slaps Mwonzora in the face
Former MDC-T organising secretary Abednego Bhebhe has slapped MDC-T president Douglas Mwonzora in the face after he said he did not recognise his leadership and the party had no legal standing to read...Published: 12 Feb 2021 at 15:55hrs | 3493 | by Staff reporter
Magaisa was secretly dining with a Zanu-PF faction
Having gone through a lot of Alex Magaisa's recent articles, it is fair that a response by a Zimbabwean youth is given. After the disastrous 2013 election, the MDC-T family and its president Morgan Ts...Published: 12 Feb 2021 at 05:38hrs | 2185 | by Honourable Vincent Tsvangirai MP
MDC-T faces implosion
PLANS are afoot to challenge the constitutionality of the MDC-T extraordinary congress (EOC), its election results and the subsequent appointments made by its new leader Douglas Mwonzora after an atte...Published: 11 Feb 2021 at 06:22hrs | 4113 | by Staff reporter
Bhebhe dismisses claims of rejoining Mwonzora's MDC
EXPELLED MDC-T national organising secretary Abednico Bhebhe has rebuffed to claims by the opposition party's that he had been reinstated into the structures after begging for readmission.MDC-...Published: 11 Feb 2021 at 06:14hrs | 1107 | by Staff reporter
Chammisa's MDC taunts 'Zanu-PF puppet' Mwonzora over national dialogue calls
Calls by MDC-T leader Douglas Mwonzora for an inclusive national dialogue to untangle Zimbabwe's deepening political and economic crisis have been met with derision by his rivals in the main oppositio...Published: 10 Feb 2021 at 18:45hrs | 3943 | by Staff reporter
MDC veterans reject Mwonzora
THE MDC Veteran Activists Association (VAA) yesterday pledged its allegiance to MDC Alliance leader, Nelson Chamisa.This was announced by the VAA leader Felix Magalela Sibanda in a statement a...Published: 10 Feb 2021 at 05:48hrs | 2139 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora sweats over 'Zanu-PF links'
OPPOSITION MDC leader Douglas Mwonzora and his party are struggling to shake off the Zanu-PF tag that is stalking them since the ouster of Nelson Chamisa as the party's president.Since the Sup...Published: 09 Feb 2021 at 14:54hrs | 4830 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa loses more senior members?
MDC-Alliance continues to count costs after it lost more senior party officials to the MDC-T led by Mr Douglas Mwonzora, who now leads the biggest opposition party in terms of representation in Parlia...Published: 08 Feb 2021 at 05:45hrs | 8398 | by Staff reporter
Chaos rocks Mwonzora's MDC-T?
CHAOS rocked the MDC-T national executive and national council meetings on Saturday with calls for the nullification of the party's December 2020 extraordinary congress presidential election results, ...Published: 07 Feb 2021 at 19:56hrs | 4102 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora battling various plots to topple him
MDC-T leader Douglas Mwonzora is battling various plots to topple him, barely two months after he was elected to the helm of the party.Mwonzora beat then interim MDC-T leader Thokozani Khupe i...Published: 07 Feb 2021 at 08:09hrs | 4371 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe needs a new crop of politicians, not these MDC - Zanu-PF criminals
As a nation, we can only blame ourselves for allowing these two criminals to capture the way we think as if our success as a nation is entirely dependent of these criminals. Both these two parties are...Published: 06 Feb 2021 at 19:02hrs | 921 | by Knowledge Hakata
Mwonzora's MDC amends constitution, readmits Abednego Bhebhe and Dorcas Sibanda
The National Executive and National Council today met, as an extension of the Extra Ordinary Congress, to consider and resolve on a number of internally and externally focused issues. Key on t...Published: 06 Feb 2021 at 17:21hrs | 1991 | by itness Dube
Mwonzora appoints team to work on national dialogue strategy
OPPOSITION leader Douglas Mwonzora has now appointed a formal MDC committee to work on a strategy to engage the ruling Zanu-PF and other key stakeholders in the country, as his push for all-inclusive ...Published: 06 Feb 2021 at 16:19hrs | 532 | by Staff reporter
When the opposition runs rings around the opposition
Events in the opposition camp over the past few weeks have been amusing and amazing. Fierce contestation in the MDC followed the late Morgan Tsvangirai's unilateral and undemocratic declaration that t...Published: 06 Feb 2021 at 07:00hrs | 232 | by Nobleman Runyanga
$300 000 fraud ghost haunts Mwonzora
THE MDC-T has expressed concerns that its President Douglas Mwonzora's accusers on the alleged fraud involving $300 000 party funds which he allegedly siphoned to pay one of the party lawyers Sarudzay...Published: 05 Feb 2021 at 07:01hrs | 5104 | by Staff reporter
Push for Mwonzora arrest
WAR is brewing in the MDC-T camp amid allegations that members of the party aligned to vice-president Thokozani Khupe are pushing to have party leader Douglas Mwonzora and his allies arrested for alle...Published: 05 Feb 2021 at 06:48hrs | 3251 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora's MDC replaces Innocent Gonese
The new MDC-T leader Senator Douglas Mwonzora has assumed the opposition leader's seat on Parliament's top Committee on Standing Rules and Orders, replacing long serving member and Mutare Central legi...Published: 04 Feb 2021 at 05:53hrs | 3248 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora consolidates power
NEWLY-elected MDC president Douglas Mwonzora was yesterday accepted into the Parliament's Standing Rules and Orders Committee (SROC) to replace Innocent Gonese - an ally of his erstwhile colleague, Ne...Published: 03 Feb 2021 at 18:58hrs | 3469 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF's oppressive politics has cowed the populace
IT is time to put in place a new and different way of doing politics in Zimbabwe because Zanu-PF has failed and brought us to the brink of ruin. Zanu PE's oppressive, exploitative and manipula...Published: 03 Feb 2021 at 06:23hrs | 374 | by Tapson Muchena
MDCs face Zanu-PF defeat, says Komichi
MDC-T national chairperson Morgen Komichi yesterday warned that Zanu-PF would cruise to victory during the 2023 harmonised elections if the country's opposition parties remained divided.Komich...Published: 02 Feb 2021 at 06:44hrs | 7039 | by Mutiusinazita
Motherhood used as political weapon against women in politics
TABITHA Khumalo's political journey is a perfect example of the trials and tribulations of women in politics.Khumalo, an MDC founding member and former legislator for Bulawayo east, confesses ...Published: 31 Jan 2021 at 09:53hrs | 410 | by Staff reporter
Mudzuri's appointment as MDC-T VP challenged
OPPOSITION MDC-T national standing committee and national council members have been challenged to stand up and reject their president, Douglas Mwonzora's recent appointment of Elias Mudzuri as one of ...Published: 29 Jan 2021 at 06:41hrs | 2423 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora to recall MPs loyal to Khupe
MDC-T president Douglas Mwonzora is planning to recall more legislators from Parliament as well as councillors who continue to defy him and remain loyal to Thokozani Khupe as he moves to consolidate p...Published: 28 Jan 2021 at 06:48hrs | 6786 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora calls for 'dialogue fo build synergies' - had cure since 2008, reforms, lacked competent leader to implement
When some people have nothing better to say, the repeat themselves. Mwonzora is back at calling for national dialogue as the solution to Zimbabwe's economic meltdown and political paralysis."H...Published: 24 Jan 2021 at 08:21hrs | 872 | by Nomusa Garikai
Khupe refused to vacate Parly top post?
Leader of Opposition in Parliament Thokozani Khupe has refused to vacate the position to pave way for MDC-T's newly elected president Douglas Mwonzora ,triggering a fresh row in Zimbabwe's secon...Published: 24 Jan 2021 at 07:35hrs | 6182 | by Staff reporter
Women politicians discriminating against each other
BEHIND every successful man is a woman, is a tired cliché 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 o...Published: 23 Jan 2021 at 22:43hrs | 210 | by Musa Makina
Mwonzora calls for national dialogue
NEWLY-ELECTED MDC-T president Douglas Mwonzora is eager to engage other political parties and civic organisations in a dialogue process he and his party hope could help rebuild the battered country....Published: 23 Jan 2021 at 06:23hrs | 2334 | by Staff reporter
This is best time for Mnangagwa, Mwonzora and Chamisa to sit down together
THE time is now opportune for three of the country's major political players - President Emmerson Mnangagwa, opposition leader Douglas Mwonzora and his MDC rival Nelson Chamisa - to sit down together ...Published: 18 Jan 2021 at 17:37hrs | 1156 | by Staff reporter
Big Saturday read: The other side of the story
On the 27th of July 2017, the late President Morgan Tsvangirai convened an Extra-Ordinary National Council Meeting at his Highlands home.On the Agenda was the ratification of the Coalition Agr...Published: 17 Jan 2021 at 16:13hrs | 1250 | by Lloyd Damba
Dead bodies in Chamisa's hands
On the 27th of July 2017, the late President Morgan Tsvangirai convened an Extra-Ordinary National Council Meeting at his Highlands home.On the Agenda was the ratification of the Coalition Agr...Published: 17 Jan 2021 at 15:28hrs | 6554 | by Lloyd Damba
MDC implosion sets back the struggle for change
Zimbabwe is stuck in mud. People of my generation were in their late 20s or early 30s when Zimbabwe attained independence in 1980. Those fortunate to be still alive are now elderly and on the cusp to ...Published: 15 Jan 2021 at 08:00hrs | 1283 | by Tendai Dumbutshena
Why Zimbabwe needs judiciary reforms to be open for business
THE Zimbabwean Constitution enshrines the principle of separation of powers among three distinct arms of government, which are the executive, consisting of the President and Cabinet, the legislature, ...Published: 14 Jan 2021 at 11:52hrs | 637 | by Mirian Mangwaya
Chamisa has 'nowhere to take his problems to' claims Matemadanda
THE ruling Zanu-PF says Nelson Chamisa and the MDC Alliance "made their bed and must now lie in it" - after they allegedly "repeatedly spurned the hand of friendship" extended to them by President Emm...Published: 13 Jan 2021 at 15:55hrs | 2008 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora, Chamisa scuffle (is there a Zanu-PF hand)
There have been many accusations and counter-accusations going on since the ruling that installed Khupe as MDC T leader and which resulted in much turmoil in the opposition camp. While much or less ma...Published: 12 Jan 2021 at 21:23hrs | 2369 | by Kumbirai Stein Chivhuna
Chamisa made his bed, Zanu-PF says
Zanu-PF national political commissar Victor Matemadanda says Nelson Chamisa and the MDC Alliance 'made their bed and must now lie in it' after they allegedly repeatedly spurned the hand of friendship ...Published: 12 Jan 2021 at 09:21hrs | 6087 | by Staff reporter
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