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Zanu PF attacks on MDC will galvanise and blind supporters to Wizard of Oz Scarecrow trickery
Zimbabwe is caught in a catch 22! We a stuck in a political and economic mess and those who have landed us here are the ones profiting from our suffering and misery and, worst of all, they have the po...Published: 3 hrs ago | 346 | by Nomusa Garikai
Zanu-PF official bashed, hospitalized for dumping Chamisa
Former MDC-A official Shewu Meda has been hospitalized after being brutalized by MDC-A supporters for dumping their party and joining ZANU-PF where he was rewarded with the most senior post in Chiwesh...Published: 4 hrs ago | 1423 | by Ndou Paul
Mnangagwa acquiring more public debt to fund second term bid
WINNING or losing an election is a referendum on the economy by citizens. More often than not politicians are aware of this fact and, therefore, go out of their way, sometimes, contracting huge debts ...Published: 4 hrs ago | 390 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Zanu-PF revives Chamisa's popularity?
WHAT started as a pedestrian civic engagement for Zimbabwe's main opposition MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa to interface with communities and the grassroots in Masvingo this week ahead of the 2023...Published: 14 hrs ago | 2576 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa gives Mnangagwa sleepless nights
THREE days before the 31 July 2018 general election, Harare erupted into a riot of colour as the top contenders brought their campaigns to a roaring crescendo.The capital city was hosting two ...Published: 14 hrs ago | 1096 | by Staff reporter
Panic-stricken Zanu-PF unleashes terror
POLITICAL violence that reared its ugly head again on Monday in Masvingo against main opposition MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa (pictured) and his entourage could be a precursor to what Zanu-PF is...Published: 15 hrs ago | 490 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC claims more attacks
THE MDC Alliance yesterday claimed that Zanu-PF supporters mounted a "roadblock" in Gutu, kidnapped and beat up some opposition supporters at their meeting with party leader Nelson Chamisa, who is on ...Published: 15 Oct 2021 at 06:24hrs | 2617 | by Staff reporter
Magistrate savages Biti's lawyer
HARARE magistrate Vongai Muchuchuti Wednesday blasted the lawyer representing MDC Alliance vice president Tendai Biti for trying to delay court proceedings by seeking a seventh consecutive postponemen...Published: 14 Oct 2021 at 19:00hrs | 1146 | by Staff reporter
Bullet proof car for Chamisa
MDC Alliance supporters have launched a fundraising campaign to buy a top-of-the-range bulletproof vehicle for the party leader Nelson Chamisa.The pledge follows this week's attack on Chamisa'...Published: 14 Oct 2021 at 07:55hrs | 7130 | by Staff reporter
Shops shut down ahead of Chamisa's visit
POLICE Wednesday forced all shops at Janet Shopping Centre in Ward 17 Bikita, Masvingo to shut down while villagers were forced to go home blocking them from meeting MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa...Published: 14 Oct 2021 at 07:55hrs | 6063 | by Staff reporter
Chinamasa needs to tone down rhetoric
Zanu-PF acting national political commissar Patrick Chinamasa's dramatic Press conference on Tuesday represents everything rotten about the leadership of this country.From arrogance, insatiabl...Published: 14 Oct 2021 at 06:27hrs | 2840 | by Staff reporter
Police, Zanu-PF alliance exposed
THE opposition MDC Alliance and civic society organisations (CSOs) yesterday accused the police of working with Zanu-PF to block opposition leader Nelson Chamisa from meeting villagers in Masvingo pro...Published: 14 Oct 2021 at 06:27hrs | 2035 | by Staff reporter
Biti assault case postponed to next week
THE State has challenged Tendai Biti's seventh application for postponement of trial in a case the MDC Alliance vice-president is accused of assaulting a Russian national, Tatiana Aleshina at the Hara...Published: 14 Oct 2021 at 06:27hrs | 289 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa labels attack on convoy 'primitive'
MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa on Tuesday labelled an attack on his convoy a day earlier "primitive" as Zanu-PF denied responsibility.Chamisa addressed the attack in Charumbira, Masvingo p...Published: 13 Oct 2021 at 20:38hrs | 999 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa faces Zanu-PF onslaught
MDC Alliance leader, Nelson Chamisa's ill-fated visit to Masvingo province this week has heightened fears the watershed 2023 harmonised elections could be bloody as Zanu-PF goes for the broke to maint...Published: 13 Oct 2021 at 20:37hrs | 956 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa provoked us, claims Zanu-PF
Zanu-PF has accused opposition MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa of provoking its supporters to attack him and his team by "trying to impose his views and trying to address disinterested Zanu-PF supp...Published: 13 Oct 2021 at 06:15hrs | 5963 | by Staff reporter
Ex-MDC legislator survives car crash
FORMER MDC-T organising secretary Abednico Bhebhe cheated death on Sunday evening when he was involved in a car accident that saw his vehicle fell off a cliff along the Bulawayo-Beitbridge Highway....Published: 13 Oct 2021 at 06:14hrs | 3111 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa attacks harbinger of a more violent 2023
THE 2008 run-off elections pitting former President Robert Mugabe and MDC founder Morgan Tsvangirai (now both late) witnessed violence on an unprecedented scale.Mugabe had been outpolled by hi...Published: 13 Oct 2021 at 06:14hrs | 1612 | by Staff reporter
Opposition must remove fear in rural voters
THE 2023 polls, which both Zanu-PF and MDC Alliance desperately need to win, will be determined by the rural vote.With the majority of people generally resident in rural areas, Zanu-PF has dev...Published: 13 Oct 2021 at 06:13hrs | 1401 | by Taneta Fambai
'Use by-elections as 2023 test run'
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has been urged to hold by-elections so that there can be a test run for the 2023 general elections which are likely to be conducted under COVID-19 restrictions....Published: 13 Oct 2021 at 06:10hrs | 416 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa encircled by hooligans
The MDC Alliance says its president, Nelson Chamisa, "has been encircled by hooligans at a place he's temporarily taken refuge" in Masvingo province. The party adds: "The provincial leadership...Published: 12 Oct 2021 at 21:26hrs | 3307 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa 'teargassed'
RIOT police yesterday teargassed MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa at a private residence in Masvingo while suspected Zanu-PF youths attacked his convoy three times and injured several aides and his ...Published: 12 Oct 2021 at 06:02hrs | 8552 | by Staff reporter
Ngarivhume further remand
A HARARE magistrate yesterday dismissed Transform Zimbabwe leader Jacob Ngarivhume's application for removal from remand in a case where he is accused of public incitement to violence.Last wee...Published: 12 Oct 2021 at 06:01hrs | 1450 | by Staff reporter
10 Zapu provinces endorse Nkomo presidency
OPPOSITION Zapu's 10 provinces have nominated the late party founder and Vice-President Joshua Mqabuko's son, Sibangilizwe for the party presidency.The nominations began a fortnight ago and Nk...Published: 12 Oct 2021 at 06:01hrs | 1590 | by Staff reporter
5 injured after Zanu-PF mob attacks Chamisa vehicle
At least five MDC Alliance officials were treated for injuries on Monday after party leader Nelson Chamisa's convoy was attacked in Charumbira in Masvingo province, the party said.MDC Alliance...Published: 12 Oct 2021 at 05:58hrs | 705 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance bid to stop Parly probe fails
THE High Court has ruled that it cannot interfere with internal processes of Parliament dealing with alleged acts of misconduct by Members of Parliament and so cannot consider an application by 18 MDC...Published: 12 Oct 2021 at 05:56hrs | 359 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: ZANU PF youths violently attack Chamisa
The opposition MDC has alleged that Nelson Chamisa's convoy has been attacked by ZANU PF Youths on his way to Masvingo. Posting through their Twitter account, MDC said, "Over 200 youths mobili...Published: 11 Oct 2021 at 11:33hrs | 9339 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Elections will cut Mwonzora to size
THE centre is no longer holding anymore. The cow no longer produces milk as it used to do.MDC-T leader Douglas Mwonzora is suffering from leadership kwashiorkor and it is clear that he is a Za...Published: 11 Oct 2021 at 06:01hrs | 2276 | by Leonard Koni
Democracy is not about generational entitlement
Following the United Parties for National Development's (UNPD) win in Zambia's August 12, 2021, general elections, the MDC Alliance faction leader Nelson Chamisa became unnecessarily excited.T...Published: 11 Oct 2021 at 05:52hrs | 125 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Biti asks court to order his reinstatement in parliament
Harare East MP and MDC Alliance vice president Tendai Biti and five other lawmakers who were recalled from parliament have petitioned the High Court to enforce its judgement nullifying their expulsion...Published: 10 Oct 2021 at 20:32hrs | 1168 | by Staff reporter
'We want reforms and then elections' demanded Mwonzora - this was no epiphany; why now
"We want reforms and then elections. Unlike our colleagues in the opposition who are calling for an election whether or not there are reforms," said Douglas Mwonzora, leader of MDC - T."That g...Published: 10 Oct 2021 at 17:21hrs | 787 | by Nomusa Garikai
Zimbabwe slips into election mode
Zimbabwe is in perpetual election mode because of disputed poll outcomes, analysts have said, as political parties start to run visible campaigns ahead of the 2023 contest.Both the ruling Zanu...Published: 10 Oct 2021 at 06:57hrs | 1038 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's WhatsApp status lands police officer in trouble
A police officer stationed at Mount Darwin police station Constable Spenser Chiteera is allegedly facing a disciplinary action after he posted oppos...Published: 09 Oct 2021 at 20:32hrs | 4503 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Youth vote crucial to MDC Alliance but certainly can't be taken for granted
THE opposition MDC Alliance's ambitious plan to capture the hearts of six million voters ahead of 2023 will only be successful if the party focuses on the youth vote while consolidating its city suppo...Published: 09 Oct 2021 at 07:35hrs | 945 | by Staff reporter
Lucia Matibenga blocks Biti's Parly return
THE leader of the People's Democratic Party (PDP) breakaway faction, Lucia Matibenga, has filed an appeal at the Supreme Court challenging the return of MDC Alliance Vice President Tendai Biti and his...Published: 09 Oct 2021 at 07:35hrs | 3095 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora threatens 2023 poll boycott
MDC-T leader Douglas Mwonzora has threatened to boycott the 2023 election unless President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government implements electoral reforms.Addressing a Press conference in Harare ...Published: 09 Oct 2021 at 07:33hrs | 2316 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's leadership deficiency exposed by Zanu-PF's vicious factional fights
GROWING infighting in Zanu-PF, especially among President Emmerson Mnangagwa's allies in his political citadel, the Midlands, is testimony to weak leadership which has failed to stem the internal stri...Published: 09 Oct 2021 at 07:24hrs | 143 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans abusing social media to bolster fake abuses
When many protests go unnoticed, creating drama can seem like a good strategy to draw attention. But if they become self-harming and harming others the public opinion can turn against the protestors....Published: 08 Oct 2021 at 18:57hrs | 69 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Tribalism cripples MDC rural penetration strategy
Sources within the MDC Alliance national and provincial structures have declared that the party's rural penetration strategy is facing serious challenges as a result of tribalism and the perceived mar...Published: 08 Oct 2021 at 10:34hrs | 2181 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chamisa 'compensates' Last Maengahama with National Executive post
MDC Alliance President Nelson Chamisa has appointed Last Maengahama, who spent 10 years in prison, only to be proven innocent this year, as the opposition party's secretary for policy and research....Published: 08 Oct 2021 at 06:33hrs | 2951 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa speech hot air'
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday said that the country's economy was on rebound, with this year's projections indicating over 7,8% economic growth, but opposition MPs rubbished his claims, accus...Published: 08 Oct 2021 at 06:33hrs | 3464 | by Staff reporter
Biti to face the music
A HARARE magistrate yesterday dismissed an application for exception filed by MDC Alliance vice-president Tendai Biti who is accused of assaulting a Russian woman in November last year outside the Har...Published: 08 Oct 2021 at 06:32hrs | 2235 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance trio acquitted
THREE MDC Alliance activists, who were arrested and arraigned before the courts for criminal nuisance, were yesterday acquitted by Harare magistrate Barbara Mateko.Kudakwashe Butau, Ngonidzash...Published: 08 Oct 2021 at 06:31hrs | 878 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's handful MPs boycott Mnangagwa's SONA
THE few remaining opposition MDC Alliance MPs Thursday boycotted President Emmerson Mnangagwa's State of the Nation Address (SONA) at the Parliament Building in central Harare.MDC Alliance MPs...Published: 07 Oct 2021 at 18:25hrs | 2038 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa linked NGO says Mwonzora a threat to democracy
An election watchdog that is linked to Advocate Nelson Chamisa and always accused of the regime change, the Election Resource Centre (ERC) has described Douglas Mwonzora's MDC-T as a dangerous politic...Published: 07 Oct 2021 at 07:07hrs | 2803 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa told to deal with your corrupt top aides
Civic society yesterday implored President Emmerson Mnangagwa to deal with rising corruption among his top aides in government in his State of the Nation Address (Sona) in Parliament today.The...Published: 07 Oct 2021 at 07:05hrs | 3173 | by Staff reporter
EU demands Zimbabwe reforms
THE European Union (EU) has maintained a tough stance on Zimbabwe saying that the southern African country must fully implement the 2018 election observer mission recommendations (EOM) before the 2023...Published: 06 Oct 2021 at 05:50hrs | 1755 | by Staff reporter
Ex-Bulawayo deputy mayor laid to rest
FORMER Bulawayo deputy mayor Alderman Amen Mpofu, who succumbed to a kidney ailment on Friday, was laid to rest at the Lady Stanley Cemetery in the city yesterday.Mpofu died at Mpilo Central H...Published: 06 Oct 2021 at 05:49hrs | 414 | by Staff reporter
Dexter Nduna survives Parly ouster bid
OPPOSITION MDC Alliance member Gift Konjana yesterday again lost his bid to reclaim the Chegutu West parliamentary seat after the Constitutional Court (ConCourt) dismissed his appeal challenging the l...Published: 06 Oct 2021 at 05:49hrs | 495 | by Staff reporter
Violence: Zanu-PF in pole position
THE ruling Zanu-PF party has emerged as the leading perpetrator of human rights violations following intra-party violence during its internal elections that left some of its members hospitalised, a la...Published: 06 Oct 2021 at 05:48hrs | 271 | by Staff reporter
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