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Sengezo Tshabangu and his handlers have lost the plot big time
ZIMBABWE'S political history has been littered with opposition malcontents for a very long time, which has caused the weakening and splitting of the main opposition political party in the country....Published: 26 Nov 2023 at 08:31hrs | 20 | by Leonard Koni
Mnangagwa welcomes Morgan Tsvangirai's brother to Zanu-PF
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa, Saturday said Zanu-PF structures should prepare themselves for an influx of former opposition supporters after receiving hundreds in Harare.In the hundreds was fo...Published: 12 Feb 2023 at 19:14hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'MDC grossly erred on sanctions'
BLESSING Chebundo has seen more than his contemporaries in politics.After starting off as a trade unionist when Zimbabwe gained Independence, then being a founding member of the opposition Mov...Published: 13 Mar 2022 at 08:03hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa says poverty tears opposition parties
MDC Alliance president Nelson Chamisa has blamed defections from his party by MPs and councillors to poverty.Some MDC Alliance members have defected to either the MDC-T led by Douglas Mwonzora...Published: 18 Aug 2021 at 06:56hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Politics behind Mnangagwa's 'buying spree'
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is such a political fox. His charm is without comparison. Or, is that so?Well, there are different ways of looking at this "charm".If you like him so much,...Published: 08 Aug 2021 at 07:35hrs | 4 | by Tawanda Majoni
Chamisa's ex ally graduates from Zanu-PF's Herbert Chitepo School of Ideology
Lillian Timveous who recently dumped the opposition MDC -Alliance for Zanu-PF has graduated from the ruling party's Herbert Chitepo School of Ideology. In an interview in Zvishavane on the sid...Published: 17 May 2021 at 06:43hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF moves to contain its highly divisive DCCs
Zanu-PF has moved to contain its recently reinstated but highly divisive district co-ordinating committees (DCCs) by enrolling their members at its school of ideology, in a bid to foster party unity a...Published: 12 Apr 2021 at 18:36hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Zanu-PF can't wait for 2023'
With the country's main opposition MDC party at war with itself amid leadership wrangles and mass defections to Zanu-PF, the ruling party says it cannot wait for 2023 elections to finish off its rival...Published: 05 Apr 2021 at 16:59hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
'Zanu-PF commandeered touts, makorokoza to pose as MDC Alliance defectors'
MDC ALLIANCE in Midlands has accused Zanu-PF of mobilising touts and artisanal miners commonly known as makorokoza to pose as genuine opposition party members who were defecting to the governing party...Published: 05 Apr 2021 at 07:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
I didn't sell out, says Chebundo
FORMER President Emmerson Mnangagwa's political nemesis-turned-comrade, Blessing Chebundo says people must not construe his decision to ditch the main opposition as an act of betrayal.Addressi...Published: 30 Mar 2021 at 06:57hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Zanu-PF printing MDC cards, regalia'
THE MDC Alliance has sensationally accused the ruling Zanu-PF party of printing opposition party membership cards and regalia and parading defectors before "rented crowds" as part of a wider plot to a...Published: 29 Mar 2021 at 06:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa ditched by Alliance MP
MDC Alliance MP for Goromonzi South, Rueben Chikudo has jumped ship to join the main MDC party led by Douglas Mwonzora.This comes as the Nelson Chamisa-led MDC Alliance has been losing legisla...Published: 25 Mar 2021 at 16:10hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'More MDC activists flocking to Zanu-PF'
Zanu-PF acting spokesperson Patrick Chinamasa has claimed that his party is inundated with applications from MDC Alliance members seeking to join the ruling party after realising that the opposition p...Published: 24 Mar 2021 at 06:43hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa slams allies joining Zanu-PF
MDC ALLIANCE leader Nelson Chamisa says former opposition allies who have ditched the party to join the rival Zanu-PF were pursuing personal interests at the expense of the masses.The past few...Published: 20 Mar 2021 at 07:26hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF welcomes former MDC bigwigs
TOUGH-TALKING MDC Alliance vice president Tendai Biti and five other legislators have been recalled from Parliament by their People's Democratic Party (PDP).At the same time, two former senior...Published: 18 Mar 2021 at 17:34hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Biti stare threat of being recalled from Parliament
THE tendency by Zimbabwe's ever brawling opposition parties to self-destruct continues unabated, with key MDC Alliance constituent, the People's Democratic Party (PDP), at the centre of the latest suc...Published: 16 Mar 2021 at 15:45hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Loyalty or defection: The path of a female politician
Its midday, and Lillian Timveous, a former Midlands senator, arranges her pot plants placed on a table next to her home entrance in Zvishavane. She sells them for a dollar each. There's constr...Published: 06 Mar 2021 at 06:13hrs | 7 | by Nyaradzo Ruwisi
Mnangagwa issues bleak warning to MDC
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday told the Zanu-PF politburo to expect more big shot defections from the opposition, in an ominous warning that could spell even more pain for the brawling MDC....Published: 05 Mar 2021 at 17:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC-A imploding
The occurrences within the MDC-A have left people wondering if Nelson Chamisa has finally met up with Karma and is being beaten up with what he dug up. In Shona we have a proverb that says "akarumwa n...Published: 05 Mar 2021 at 08:21hrs | 1 | by Prosperity Mzila
Chamisa's MDC enjoys pressing self-destruct button
Last week, the social media was abuzz with the news of the defection of two senior MDC Alliance members, Blessing Chebundo and Lillian Timveous, to Zanu-PF. In response to the development, the...Published: 04 Mar 2021 at 06:19hrs | 3 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Mohadi resignation accepted, says Mnangagwa
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday paid tribute to former Vice President Kembo Mohadi, who resigned from Government but remains Vice President of the revolutionary party Zanu-PF, saying the resignation was...Published: 04 Mar 2021 at 06:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Why I dumbed Chamisa
LAST week, two senior MDC officials, former Midlands senator Lillian Timveous and former Kwekwe Central MP Blessing Chebundo, jumped ship and joined President Emmerson Mnangagwa's ruling Zanu-PF party...Published: 03 Mar 2021 at 07:07hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
We need a New Thinking Approach as a nation
Few days ago, the Former MDC Alliance Senator, Lillian Timveous, and Blessing Chebundo, were being paraded at State House, and when I saw images circulating on internet, I said to myself, what value d...Published: 02 Mar 2021 at 14:11hrs | | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
Chamisa's MDC is doomed, says Chebundo
ONE OF the prominent founding members of the MDC and former legislator, Blessing Chebundo, says the country's opposition is going downhill due to tribalism, senseless infighting and a hatred for new i...Published: 28 Feb 2021 at 16:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Chamisa's MDC now a Twitter party'
THE infighting and strategic missteps wracking the MDC Alliance are once again coming to a head, with a worried insider telling the Daily News yesterday that the coalition was becoming "a Twitter part...Published: 27 Feb 2021 at 19:07hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's ally under fire
MDC Alliance secretary-general, Chalton Hwende, pictured, who has been accused of bullying and at the centre of the ructions bedevilling the Nelson Chamisa-led formation, has offered to go before the ...Published: 27 Feb 2021 at 19:00hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Welshman Ncube not quitting MDC-A
MDC Alliance Vice President Welshman Ncube has dismissed social media claims that he was leaving the party to take up some international job.Ncube said someone, somewhere is waging psychologic...Published: 25 Feb 2021 at 13:08hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
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 | 1 | by Musa Makina
Chamisa's recalled MPs relish over Khupe's political woes
FORMER MDC Alliance female MPs who were recalled from Parliament by embattled ex-MDC-T interim president, Thokozani Khupe are celebrating over the former deputy prime minister's current political woes...Published: 30 Dec 2020 at 07:48hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Minister grilled over Mnangagwa's 'use minimum force' statement
JUSTICE minister Ziyambi Ziyambi was yesterday grilled in Senate over President Emmerson Mnangagwa's recent statement urging the South African government to "use a bit of force" to curb xenophobic att...Published: 06 Sep 2019 at 07:19hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Parliament okays contentious MOPA Bill
THE Maintenance of Peace and Order Bill (Mopa), which attracted heated debate in Parliament in the past weeks, was passed on Thursday in the National Assembly with only one amendment from the Senate....Published: 31 Aug 2019 at 18:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Sanctions frustrating Mnangagwa's plans to upgrade riot gear'
JUSTICE minister Ziyambi Ziyambi last week told the Senate that there was need to upgrade anti-riot gear in the country during debate in Parliament on the Maintenance of Peace and Order Bill (Mopa), w...Published: 23 Aug 2019 at 07:45hrs | 1 | by Sytaff reporter
Mopa faces ConCourt challenge
OPPOSITION MDC Alliance legislators have threatened to launch a Constitutional Court (ConCourt) challenge against provisions in the Maintenance of Peace and Order Bill (Mopa) which the party and other...Published: 22 Aug 2019 at 07:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Compensate pensioners, policy holders: Senate
MIDLANDS Senator Lillian Timveous has introduced a motion in Senate which calls for government to craft a regulatory framework that will deal with compensation of pensioners and policyholders whenever...Published: 01 Aug 2019 at 21:55hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Karenyi-Kore vows to unite MDC women
Newly-elected MDC vice-president Lynette Karenyi-Kore has vowed to unite women in the party ahead of her planned outreach into the rural areas. Karenyi-Kore secured the post after a tightly-co...Published: 04 Jun 2019 at 07:36hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mutsvangwa's son in illegal forex deals storm
THE case of Information minister Monica Mutsvangwa and former adviser to the President, Christopher Mutsvangwa's son, Neville, who is allegedly running an illegal foreign currency trading business, ha...Published: 01 Jun 2019 at 07:55hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
MDC rebels rewarded as loyalists booted out of power
The opposition MDC Alliance party saw former rebels being rewarded by getting elected into top positions, while loyalists were booted out, when the opposition movement elected new leadership over the ...Published: 29 May 2019 at 08:30hrs | 1 | by African News Agency
Mnangagwa's govt sabotaged Chamisa's congress
THOUSANDS of MDC supporters slept in the open for the entire duration of their party congress in Gweru at the weekend due to lack of financial resources, amid allegations that the Zanu-PF government h...Published: 27 May 2019 at 12:19hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa gets hostile reception in Bulawayo
DISGRUNTLED MDC Alliance officials in Bulawayo yesterday gave their leader Mr Nelson Chamisa a hostile reception to the city by painting graffiti at the party's provincial offices denigrating him for ...Published: 14 May 2019 at 07:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa taken to task for rigging
LOSING MDC Alliance Bulawayo provincial executive aspirants have taken the party's president Mr Nelson Chamisa head-on accusing him of manipulating processes at the provincial congress to achieve his ...Published: 30 Apr 2019 at 06:35hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
No Ndebele VP for Chamisa
MATEBELELAND could lose out of one of the MDC's vice president slot as one of MDC leader Nelson Chamisa's three deputies will be a woman after the party resolved to set aside the position for female c...Published: 29 Apr 2019 at 07:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance splits over female VP
The MDC-Alliance national executive was last night left divided over the inclusion of a woman vice president as bickering continues to rock the opposition party ahead of its congress next month. ...Published: 27 Apr 2019 at 07:41hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC in tribal storm
MDC Alliance president Mr Nelson Chamisa has been sucked into a tribal storm at the party's Bulawayo structures who accuse the opposition leader of presiding over a provincial congress marred with irr...Published: 25 Apr 2019 at 07:36hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
MDC national elective Congress 2019: Biti-Ncube rebirth or death
Less than a month to the MDC crunch congress slated for Gweru, a lot is happening within the mainstream opposition outfit as the jostle for positions heats up. Interim party President Advocate & p...Published: 24 Apr 2019 at 08:19hrs | 2 | by Benny Gudo
PHOTOS: MDC holds business dinner
The Opposition Movement for Democratic Change held a Business Dinner over the weekend in Coventry, United Kingdom. The Dinner ...Published: 19 Mar 2019 at 10:57hrs | 7 | by Mandla Ndlovu
MDC leadership battles escalate
INTENSE jostling for senior positions, plotting and horse-trading have intensified in the MDC-Alliance following the announcement of dates for the opposition party's elective congress where a showdown...Published: 01 Mar 2019 at 18:41hrs | 1 | by Staff reporyter
Madiro rubbishes $15 billion diamond saga
HOME Affairs deputy minister Mike Madiro on Thursday described the $15 billion diamond issue as frivolous after MDC Alliance senators grilled him in Parliament over whether there had been any arrests ...Published: 15 Oct 2018 at 06:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mudenda retains Speaker of Parliament post
Zanu-PF Politburo member Advocate Jacob Mudenda was yesterday voted as the Speaker of the National Assembly to retain the post he held in the previous Parliament, after beating MDC Alliance's Ms Pauri...Published: 12 Sep 2018 at 06:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe diamonds audit stalls
Government audit into the disappearance of diamonds worth billions of dollars in Marange has been stalled by court challenges and inaccessibility to relevant information from firms that used to extrac...Published: 02 Oct 2017 at 07:13hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Allow Mugabe to rule until he dies'
Zanu-PF Manicaland senator Judith Mawire has proposed that President Robert Mugabe must be allowed to rule for life in recognition of his role in the liberation of Zimbabwe.Mawire was cont...Published: 12 Mar 2017 at 09:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
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