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Serious infighting erupts in CCC
SERIOUS infighting has erupted in the Sengezo Tshabangu-led Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) as some of his backers are now baying for his blood accusing him of being captured following the stateme...Published: 29 Jan 2024 at 12:17hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Botswana MPs reject Zimbabwe passports deal
Botswana parliamentarians have unequivocally expressed their opposition to the proposed removal of passports for travel between their country and Zimbabwe.Responding to a statement made in the...Published: 17 Dec 2023 at 09:45hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Government spends lavishly on Leader of Opposition in Parliament
Leader of the opposition in Parliament, Amos Chibaya is living large as he is drawing huge perks from Government. He has become the envy of all within the CCC. His conditions of service, as the leader...Published: 29 Nov 2023 at 14:59hrs | 11 | by Nkululeko Nkomo
Mnangagwa to offer Chamisa 'opposition leader' position?
Zimbabwe's president Emmerson Mnangagwa is considering a constitutional amendment that would accommodate the leader of opposition in the country, following the disputed August 23 elections.Mna...Published: 07 Sep 2023 at 17:16hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa promises Mnangagwa Leader of Opposition seat in Parliament
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa has promised President Emmerson Mnangagwa a seat in Zimbabwe's 10th Parliament as Leader of Opposition, a position the former unsuccessfully t...Published: 26 Jul 2023 at 06:45hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
The tragedy of Zimbabwe
Main opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) spokesperson Fadzayi Mahere last week spoke at the Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy - a major United Nations conference that shines a sp...Published: 26 May 2023 at 06:34hrs | 1 | by Fadzayi Mahere
Mwonzora pampered with vast farm, Mercedes-Benz
MDC-T leader Douglas Mwonzora has taken delivery of a brand new Mercedes-Benz from President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government, adding to a farm he was also given for free early this year in what is see...Published: 13 Nov 2022 at 17:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe politics remains a two-horse race
THE Mass Public Opinion Institute (MPOI) on Wednesday released the Afrobarometer round nine survey on Zimbabwe.The survey shows the incipient decline of the ruling Zanu-PF's leader, Emmerson M...Published: 17 Jun 2022 at 08:30hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa is overrated' as Tsenengamu endorses Chamisa
Former ZANU PF youth league political commissar Godfrey Tsenengamu has blasted President Emmerson Mnangagwa while endorsing Citizens Coaliation for ...Published: 20 Feb 2022 at 15:11hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole in Highfield
Mnangagwa's govt fears devolution may plug looting holes
LEADER of opposition United Movement for Devolution (UMD) party, Lovemore Moyo, says Zanu-PF is unwilling to implement devolution of power for fear it could deny its officials the opportunity to loot ...Published: 06 Sep 2021 at 20:39hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa to blame for Zimbabwe's energy crisis'
LEADER of opposition political party, New Innovative Mordernisation Front (NIMF), Peter Munyanduri has predicted shortages of electricity in the country will persist as long as the Energy Ministry is ...Published: 17 Aug 2021 at 07:24hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Of the Madhuku strategy
Zimbabwe needs politicians who think beyond receiving twin cabs in order to achieve its economic goals not of the Madhuku strategy.The international community cannot be hoodwinked by such kind...Published: 02 Aug 2021 at 21:47hrs | 1 | by Leonard Koni
Police stop MDC Alliance clean-up exercise in Bulawayo
POLICE on Sunday dispersed and threatened with arrests, dozens of MDC Alliance supporters who were conducting a clean-up exercise in the city's Magwegwe high density suburb.Party provincial sp...Published: 31 May 2021 at 18:56hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
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 | | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora takes over from Khupe as leader of opposition
MDC-T's newly elected president, Mr Douglas Mwonzora, is set to assume the role of Leader of Opposition in Parliament and is expected to make changes to the structures controlled by the opposition in ...Published: 12 Jan 2021 at 08:43hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Chin'ono questions Chamisa's appointments
Zimbabwean journalist and documentary filmmaker, Hopewell Chin'ono has questioned some of the appointments made by Nelson Chamisa, the leader of opposition MDC Alliance.Chin'ono said the appoi...Published: 27 Dec 2020 at 19:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Justice Hungwe entangled in messy Lesotho 'sham trial'
SEVERAL high-profile trials of Lesotho politicians, serving and former members of the country's security agencies are in limbo as lawyers representing murder and treason-accused former army commander ...Published: 14 Dec 2020 at 08:36hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe slowly going down under the new dispensation
The livelihoods of the people of Zimbabwe had been brought back and down to the levels of 1953.For the last fourty years ZANU PF government has lept from one corruption scandal to the other. I...Published: 17 Nov 2020 at 08:52hrs | 4 | by Leonard Koni
Khupe dismisses selling out claims, pledges Mnangagwa dialogue
MDC-T interim president Thokozani Khupe has issued a bold dismissal of claims she sold out to President Emmerson Mnangagwa, telling her rivals she was prepared for dialogue with the country's number o...Published: 28 Oct 2020 at 06:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Democracy under siege in Zimbabwe
MDC Alliance deputy spokesperson Felix Magalela Mafa Sibanda has said democracy has been put under threat after MDC-T leader Thokozani Khupe was sworn in in Parliament as a leader of opposition despit...Published: 09 Oct 2020 at 14:04hrs | 4 | by Stephen Jakes
PHOTO: Khupe sworn in...takes over as leader of MDC in parliament
MDC T acting leader Thokozani Khupe was sworn in on Wednesday as a Member of Parliament and assumed the title Leader of opposition since she is the senior opposition member in parliament. She ...Published: 07 Oct 2020 at 17:11hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chamisa says 'it's a fraud'
OPPOSITION MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has said the suspension of by-elections and subsequent return of MDC-T leader Thokozani Khupe to Parliament was a fraud and should not be tolerated. ...Published: 05 Oct 2020 at 06:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe National Dialogue happening in the coming week
On 24 April at Harvest House press conference Nelson Chamisa responding to State of The Nation (online) reporter Tafadzwa Nyikadzino on him seeming to be a choir master singing all of Zimbabwe's probl...Published: 27 Apr 2019 at 15:02hrs | | by Terence Simbi
'No top positions for Zanu-PF returnees'
Expelled Zanu-PF members who are rejoining the revolutionary party are not going to be given positions, President Mnangagwa has said. Several Zanu-PF members, who were expelled for various rea...Published: 18 Apr 2019 at 07:02hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Outcry on Maridadi's appointment: Much ado about nothing
The appointment of former MDC legislator for Mabvuku-Tafara, James Maridadi as one of the 15 ambassadors- designate, has torched a storm which, nonetheless, is much ado about nothing.Section 1...Published: 08 Apr 2019 at 20:06hrs | 3 | by Tafara Shumba
Chamisa's strategy is reaping diminishing returns
MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa is reported to have said that he will "doorstep" South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa when the latter comes to Zimbabwe in a fortnight.To doorstep someon...Published: 07 Mar 2019 at 07:40hrs | | by Tichaona Zindoga
Mutodi lashed over Mugabe comments
Outspoken Information deputy minister Energy Mutodi has courted public anger over his attacks on former president Robert Mugabe who last week railed against a recent government crackdown against prote...Published: 26 Feb 2019 at 13:22hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa is weaker than he wants the world to believe
MDC-Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa is reported to have said that he will "doorstep" South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa when the latter comes to Zimbabwe in a fortnight. To doorstep someone is to...Published: 26 Feb 2019 at 06:43hrs | | by Tichaona Zindoga
Zimbabwe not yet ready for national dialogue
This Tuesday I wrote an analytic piece on how our main political leaders Pres Chamisa and Pres Mnangagwa have all used their political posturing skills at the expense of the nation's economic, politic...Published: 15 Feb 2019 at 11:53hrs | 1 | by Terence Simbi
National Dialogue in Zimbabwe
The third window for national dialogue in Zimbabwe has opened as expressed by the President's recent tweet following his return from state visits to four Eurasian countries in mid January this year. T...Published: 06 Feb 2019 at 11:40hrs | 1 | by Terence Simbi
Winky D barred from Tuku funeral
State security yesterday blocked MDC leader Nelson Chamisa from entering the National Sports Stadium where he intended to attend Oliver Mtukudzi's funeral.Dancehall artiste Winky D, who has be...Published: 27 Jan 2019 at 19:14hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's tactics questioned
MDC president Nelson Chamisa has intensified his calls for "urgent dialogue" with President Emmerson Mnangagwa on "the worsening situation and unbearable suffering" Zimbabweans are enduring, but his t...Published: 13 Jan 2019 at 08:01hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa will eventually accept position
Political bickering over the setting up of an Office of the Opposition leader in Parliament will come to an end as MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa will accept the gesture from President Mnangagwa a...Published: 14 Dec 2018 at 12:58hrs | 2 | by Simba Rushwaya
Chamisa guns for Mudzuri
MDC-Alliance faces a potential split, with party leader Mr Nelson Chamisa set to preside over two high-level meetings today in a drive to have his deputy, Mr Elias Mudzuri, expelled. At least 220 part...Published: 14 Dec 2018 at 05:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
The day MDC legislators were paid in own coin
Since the beginning of the ninth Parliament of Zimbabwe, MDC legislators have displayed a sickeningly childish behaviour which is unbecoming of an opposition partyanywhere. The lawmakers have sought t...Published: 13 Dec 2018 at 13:48hrs | 1 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Opposition legislators should complement Govt programmes
The Parliament of Zimbabwe consists of two chambers thus, the upper chamber which is the Senate and the House of Assembly which is the lower chamber. Parliaments are usually defined as having two main...Published: 06 Dec 2018 at 13:11hrs | 3 | by Peacemaker Zano
Chamisa should accept defeat
The proclamation by MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa that he won the 30 July Presidential elections is senseless and should not be taken seriously, but dismissed with due contempt. While pre...Published: 28 Nov 2018 at 07:06hrs | 1 | by Peacemaker Zano
Chamisa allies gun for Mudzuri
DIVISIONS rocking the MDC Alliance played out in the open yesterday when allies of party leader Mr Nelson Chamisa confronted vice president Engineer Elias Mudzuri, scolding him in public for having at...Published: 27 Nov 2018 at 05:51hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Police Commissioner General Godwin Matanga demoted?
"Commissioner General of Police Godwin Matanga, has been sent on leave pending redeployment as an ambassador,"exiled former G40 Kingpin Prof. Jonathan Moyo has revealed."This paves the way for...Published: 23 Nov 2018 at 08:36hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chamisa's politicking without season dangerous
MDC-Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa is fast consolidating his position as a political Pinocchio. At the weekend, he was involved in what appeared to be an incident of road rage, which led to a scuffle....Published: 13 Nov 2018 at 05:44hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
MDC at 19: A trail of destruction and failure
Naturally in life when a person turns 19 he or she is considered an adult as he or she can exercise their right to vote, marry and be employed without violating any laws such as child labour. This is ...Published: 30 Oct 2018 at 15:39hrs | 1 | by Elijah Chihota
Mnangagwa, Chamisa talks latest
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa and opposition MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa have taken hardline stances to political engagement, which has stalled progress towards interparty dialogue seen as criti...Published: 16 Oct 2018 at 06:35hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa will not be tricked into a GNU with Mnangagwa
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa says he will not be "tricked" into a government of national unity (GNU) like what happened with the party's founding president, Morgan Tsvangirai, in 2008.Chamisa pou...Published: 10 Oct 2018 at 15:57hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Churches push for Mnangagwa, Chamisa talks
CHURCHES under the banner of the Zimbabwe Council of Churches are leading efforts to bring President Emmerson Mnangagwa and opposition MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa to the negotiating table to br...Published: 05 Oct 2018 at 06:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Stop trivializing the leader of opposition post"
There has been so much noise about the so called offer of a position to Chamisa by Mnangagwa. The noise is obviously coming from the uninformed among us and those who can't interpret the Constitution....Published: 28 Sep 2018 at 10:26hrs | 1 | by Ackim Gasela Mhlanga
Chamisa should be wary of Mnangagwa offer
MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa should consider President Emmerson Mnangagwa's offer to make him official leader of the opposition with caution as he risks sinking into political oblivion, analysts...Published: 28 Sep 2018 at 07:12hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa setting up Chamisa office framework
Government is in the process of setting up legal frameworks that allow for the accommodation of the "Office of the Leader of the Opposition", as part of building institutions of governance in the Seco...Published: 28 Sep 2018 at 06:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa confused about the role of the leader of the opposition in parliament
The president of Zimbabwe indicated that he is minded to create a formal position of a leader of the opposition in parliament in accordance with the British and commonwealth system. This raised a grea...Published: 27 Sep 2018 at 07:02hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
'Mnangagwa crafting laws to accommodate 'homeboy' Chamisa'
THE Government is in the process of setting up legal frameworks that allow for the accommodation of the "Office of the leader of the Opposition" as part of building institutions of governance in the S...Published: 27 Sep 2018 at 06:54hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Unpacking idea of 'losing' Chamisa in Parliament
The President of Zimbabwe indicated that he is minded to create a formal position of a leader of the opposition in Parliament in line with the British and Commonwealth systems. This raised great excit...Published: 27 Sep 2018 at 06:44hrs | | by Masimba Mavaza
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