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Panic grips Zimbabwe on third COVID-19 death
Panic has gripped Zimbabwe after the coronavirus death toll rose to three from two in less than a week amid concern over the country's preparedness to deal with the pandemic.Government late la...Published: 9 hrs ago | 924 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance: Old wine in new wineskins? Coalitions, Congresses And Constitutions
The Supreme Court ruling on the MDC leadership wrangle sparked a national debate on parties, constitutions and congresses.This post adds to that debate by answering ten (10) questions which as...Published: 9 hrs ago | 1467 | by Staff reporter
'Zanu-PF hijacks Wold Bank funds'
OPPOSITION MDC mayors have come out guns blazing accusing the ruling Zanu-PF party of working to hijack a social welfare programme funded by the World Bank running into millions of United States dolla...Published: 10 hrs ago | 507 | by Staff reporter
Welshman orders Mwonzora, Mudzuri, Komichi to resign as MDC Alliance Senators
MDC senior officials, Morgen Komichi, Elias Mudzuri and Douglas Mwonzora have been ordered to resign from their senatorial positions for openly associating themselves with a recent court order that in...Published: 10 hrs ago | 2069 | by newzimbabwe
Mwonzora, Komichi's new found status disputed
AN MDC-T member has written to his newly appointed Acting President, Thokozani Khupe advising her that Douglas Mwonzora and Morgen Komichi should stop claiming to be senior party officials.Tar...Published: 10 hrs ago | 911 | by newzimbabwe
'Know Zanu PF splashed $4 m on anti-sanction has nothing for covid-19 tests' - actually, know a hell lot more
"Did you know? Govt spent an unbudgeted $4 million on hapless anti-sanctions march but they won't spend any money on buying #Covid19 tests. They're putting lives at risk & creating a situation whe...Published: 08 Apr 2020 at 17:54hrs | 1536 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Mwonzora, Chamisa fight over MDC HQ
A BATTLE to control MDC headquarters Morgan Richard Tsvangirai House, formely Harvest House, has erupted between factions of the party headed by dethroned president Nelson Chamisa and reinstated secre...Published: 08 Apr 2020 at 14:19hrs | 3030 | by Staff reporter
109 MPs pledge loyalty to Chamisa
Almost all MDC Alliance Members of Parliament have pledged to their loyalty to the leadership of Nelson Chamisa who is engaged in a messy fight with Thokozani Khupe for the control of the party. ...Published: 08 Apr 2020 at 10:33hrs | 5552 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Welshman Ncube, Biti must shut up: Norman Mpofu
Former MDC legislator for Bulilima East Norman Mpofu has told MDC Alliance Presidents Welshman Ncube and Tendai Biti to shut up on the squabbles between their leader Nelson Chamisa and MDC-T leader Th...Published: 08 Apr 2020 at 08:25hrs | 3910 | by Stephen Jakes
Chamisa's youths threaten bloodbath over party HQ
Militant MDC Alliance youths have threatened to end the country's 21-day national lockdown by taking to the streets to resist the planned takeover of their headquarters by MDC-T secretary-general Doug...Published: 08 Apr 2020 at 08:12hrs | 2730 | by Staff reporter
MDC-T stopped 'Young Dictator' Chamisa from winning 2018 election
FORMER MDC-T Vice President Obert Gutu says his political outfit only contested the 2018 national elections to block MDC Alliance presidential candidate, Nelson Chamisa from winning the plebiscite....Published: 08 Apr 2020 at 08:07hrs | 624 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's legitimacy explained
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa had the legitimate right to contest as the MDC Alliance Presidential candidate it has emerged. Political analyst and Constitutional lawyer Shephard Dube told this rep...Published: 07 Apr 2020 at 19:55hrs | 10738 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chamisa, Khupe told to find each other
REINSTATED MDC organising secretary Abednico Bhebhe, pictured, has called on rival claimants to the opposition party's presidency, Nelson Chamisa and Thokozani Khupe, to find each other and strive to ...Published: 07 Apr 2020 at 18:40hrs | 2762 | by Staff reporter
MDC MPs facing a tough choice
SITTING MDC legislators and councillors are facing a tough choice after the party group which has embraced the recent Supreme Court ruling that dethroned Nelson Chamisa from power warned yesterday tha...Published: 07 Apr 2020 at 18:39hrs | 4819 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa faction claims control of MDC HQ
Leader of the disputed MDC Alliance Youth Assembly National, Tererai Obey Sithole on Tuesday was seen opening the doors of the Morgan Richard Tsvangirai House.The Supreme-Court abolished party...Published: 07 Apr 2020 at 18:08hrs | 1614 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa & Chamisa unite for Boris Johnson
President Emmerson Mnangagwa and MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa have wished British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who tested positive for coronavirus, a speedy recovery after he was sent to the In...Published: 07 Apr 2020 at 09:03hrs | 1816 | by Moyo Roy
Ex-Tsvangirai aide attacks MDC officials for resisting Supreme Court ruling
MAXWELL Shumba, a former chief strategist to the now late MDC founding president, Morgan Tsvangirai, has labelled senior MDC Alliance officials and their supporters a disappointment for dismissing a r...Published: 07 Apr 2020 at 08:09hrs | 1499 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora, Komichi terms of office expired in November 2019, claims Welshman Ncube
DOUGLAS Mwonzora and Morgen Komichi cannot claim to be the leaders of the MDC-T as their terms of office expired in November 2019, MDC Alliance vice president Welshman Ncube has claimed.Senior...Published: 07 Apr 2020 at 08:09hrs | 958 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF grabs subsidised mealie-meal
Zanu-PF Chiredzi West legislator Farai Musikavanhu (Zanu-PF) allegedly grabbed 13,4 tonnes of the subsidised roller meal from OK Triangle, while his Makoni Central counterpart David Tekeshe (MDC Allia...Published: 07 Apr 2020 at 08:04hrs | 119 | by Staff reporter
Latest on Mwonzora clossing down Harvest House
MDC Alliance Secretary General Charlton Hwende has refuted reports that Douglas Mwonzora has put the MDC Head Office, Morgan Richard Tsvangirai House, under lock and key. The state owned Heral...Published: 07 Apr 2020 at 08:00hrs | 614 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chamisa's MDC urges Mnangagwa's govt to increase social safety nets
The Nelson Chamisa-led MDC Alliance has called on government to increase its social safety nets to vulnerable people during the current 21-day lockdown.Last week, Finance minister Mthuli Ncube...Published: 07 Apr 2020 at 08:00hrs | 115 | by Staff reporter
Accept Khupe or risk recall, Gutu warns MDC Alliance MPs
FORMER MDC-T spokesperson, Obert Gutu, has advised MDC Alliance MPs to accept Thokozani Khupe as their new leader or risk being recalled from parliament.Last week, the Supreme Court ruled that...Published: 07 Apr 2020 at 07:38hrs | 735 | by Staff reporter
Mutumwa Mawere speaks on the MDC Supreme Court judgment
South Africa based business tycoon Mutumwa Mawere has given his indepth analysis on the Supreme Court judgment relating to the leadership wrangle in the MDC family.In a leaked whatsapp convers...Published: 06 Apr 2020 at 15:34hrs | 4725 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'We stopped Chamisa from going to state house' says Obert Gutu
Former MDC-T Spokesperson Obert Gutu says his party stopped MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa from entering state house in the watershed 2018 elections because he is a dictator. Speaking duri...Published: 06 Apr 2020 at 15:06hrs | 5739 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe Power Crisis Solely a Result of Poor Planning by the Illegitimate Regime
Zimbabwe power short ages will not be resolved - as long as the ED led illegitimate regime continues to sleep at wheelAs the Zimbabwean citizenry and economy is ravaged by incessant powe...Published: 06 Apr 2020 at 11:22hrs | 559 | by Jasmine Toffa
'Thabani Mpofu now runs MDC from his law firm,' claims Komichi
MDC-T national chairperson Morgen Komichi said he advised MDC alliance leader Nelson Chamisa against appealing the High court judgment that nullified his ascendancy within the party leadership after M...Published: 06 Apr 2020 at 09:39hrs | 5422 | by Staff reporter
'Mwonzora and Komichi to be expelled form MDC' Welshman Ncube reveals
MDC former Secretary General Douglas Mwonzora and his ally Morgen Komichi will soon be expelled from the MDC, Professor Welshman Ncube has revealed. In a meeting with the MDC North America Pro...Published: 06 Apr 2020 at 09:23hrs | 3084 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Hwende dismisses Khupe's claims
MDC Alliance secretary-general Chalton Hwende has dismissed MDC-T acting president Thokozani Khupe's claims that she is part of the Alliance.Hwende asserted that Khupe refused to meet the then...Published: 06 Apr 2020 at 09:13hrs | 2527 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa was warned against appealing High Court judgment
MDC-T national chairperson Morgen Komichi said he advised MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa against appealing the High court judgment that nullified his ascendancy within the party leadership after M...Published: 06 Apr 2020 at 09:09hrs | 1903 | by Staff reporter
Assassination attempt on Mwonzora?
Reinstated Secretary-General of the opposition Movement for Democratic (MDC) party, Senator Douglas Mwonzora has reportedly been involved in a minor road accident along Lomagundi road.Reports ...Published: 06 Apr 2020 at 08:47hrs | 5319 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's youths threaten protests after lockdown
Militant MDC youths have threatened rolling protests soon after the 21-day national lockdown to force President Emmerson Mnangagwa to step down and allow the formation of the National Transitional Aut...Published: 06 Apr 2020 at 08:18hrs | 2435 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora denies Prime Minister ambitions
MDC top politician Douglas Mwonzora has dismissed as malicious, social media claims he was keen on dragging MDC into a government of national unity with the Zanu-PF led administration in an arrangemen...Published: 06 Apr 2020 at 08:00hrs | 1107 | by newzimbabwe
Supreme Court decision on Chamisa a great blow to MDC Alliance
THE recent Supreme Court decision upholding Dr Thokozani Khupe as legal successor to the late co-founder of the Movement for Democratic Change (Tsvangirai) is a serious blow to Nelson Chamisa's appoin...Published: 06 Apr 2020 at 07:56hrs | 2380 | by Jonathan Maphenduka
Obert Gutu threatens to expel MDC MPs
Former MDC-T Vice President Obert Gutu has threatened to invoke Section 129 of the Zimbabwe Constitution to recall all members of parliament who will refuse to follow the dictates of the leadership of...Published: 06 Apr 2020 at 07:40hrs | 2469 | by Mandla Ndlovu
What does the supreme court ruling against MDC tell us
The opposition MDC with all its divisions and branches has been put on the limelight again. The task before the MDC is a very easy one. It is for the MDC to show that they are capable and able to prac...Published: 05 Apr 2020 at 20:13hrs | 3683 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
'MDC does not own Harvest House' Welshman Ncube says
MDC Vice President Professor Welshman Ncube has revealed that the Morgan Richard Tsvangirai house formerly known as Harvest House is not owned by the MDC. In a wide-ranging interview with jour...Published: 05 Apr 2020 at 15:58hrs | 6312 | by Mandla Ndlovu
MDCT and MDC Alliance are two distinct parties - Mashakada
MDC Alliance top official and economist Tapiwa Mashakada has said the MDC-T and MDC-Alliance are two distinct parties that are registered with ZEC and they contested the 2018 General and Presidential ...Published: 05 Apr 2020 at 13:11hrs | 3765 | by Stephen Jakes
Jonathan Moyo doesn't need Nelson Chamisa
Two days after former President Robert Mugabe fired Professor Jonathan Moyo, I received a meeting request from the former information and publicity minister. It was a crazy, unpredictable time....Published: 05 Apr 2020 at 11:49hrs | 6462 | by Tafi Mhaka
Mwonzora, Komichi keeping their cards close to their chests
Douglas Mwonzora and Morgan Komichi are keeping their cards close to their chests as fresh battles erupt for control of the mainstream MDC after the Supreme Court ruled that Thokozani Khupe is the leg...Published: 05 Apr 2020 at 08:57hrs | 4119 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's organising secretary taunts 'sell-out' Komichi, Mwonzora
MDC top politicians Morgen Komichi and Douglas Mwonzora face the unenviable task of redeeming themselves within the main opposition with party national organising secretary Amos Chibaya describing the...Published: 05 Apr 2020 at 08:29hrs | 1777 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Mwonzora, Komichi expelled from MDC
MDC Alliance Deputy Secretary-General Jameson Timba says Mwonzora and Komichi have been automatically expelled from the party.Mwonzora and Komichi have come under fire for saying Chamisa should ha...Published: 04 Apr 2020 at 17:33hrs | 7061 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa ignores Supreme Court ruling
OPPOSITION MDC leader Nelson Chamisa has ignored the Supreme Court ruling and will remain focused on fighting the spread of COVID-19 instead of dealing with people in "political grief" after losing at...Published: 04 Apr 2020 at 14:31hrs | 6658 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's police lock down Chamisa's HQ
POLICE yesterday besieged the opposition MDC headquarters in Harare, the Morgan Tsvangirai House, and blocked officials from both the Thokozani Khupe-led MDC and those from the Nelson Chamisa-led part...Published: 04 Apr 2020 at 14:30hrs | 4481 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF councillor in soup over alliance with opposition
ZANU-PF leadership in Chikomba District wants council chairman Isarel Dhikinya stripped of his post for working closely with MDC Alliance councillors, which the leadership says was not in line with pa...Published: 04 Apr 2020 at 14:29hrs | 1832 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe police officers risk spreading COVID-19'
POLICE have been accused of aiding the spread of the deadly COVID-19 by patrolling streets without protective clothing and bundling those defaulting on the 21-day lockdown in crammed trucks where soci...Published: 04 Apr 2020 at 14:28hrs | 1074 | by Staff reporter
Judge's vehicle attacked
Justice Garainesu Mawadze, the Resident Judge at the High Court in Masvingo had a windscreen to his official Discovery 4 smashed with an unknown object as he travelled with his sister from his farm in...Published: 04 Apr 2020 at 08:46hrs | 1310 | by Staff reporter
'Mwonzora, Komichi expelled from MDC-T'
I Elias Mashavire the principal actor in the matter on which the Supreme Court sat on 31 March 2020 do hereby make the following issues known to the public: 1) I am happy that the matt...Published: 04 Apr 2020 at 08:24hrs | 9806 | by Elias Mashavire
Dr Khuphe versus Advocate Chamisa case, a close analysis
Although Dr Khuphe won the above case, it is somewhat not a sweet victory by any measure. Thus because in its ruling, the court instructed MDC T to hold an extra-ordinary Congress to vote for a ...Published: 03 Apr 2020 at 23:01hrs | 3972 | by Njabulo
Chamisa registers National Democratic Movement party - Fake news
There is a letter circulating on social media purporting that the embattled MDC Alliance leader, Nelson Chamisa, has written to the Zimbabwe Elections Commission notifying them that he has registered ...Published: 03 Apr 2020 at 19:25hrs | 5780 | by Ndou Paul
Process vs populism: Unpacking the Supreme Court ruling against Chamisa
Populism without process has turned out to be wholly inadequate for the party of excellence.The judgement is germane to the MDC. MDC-T was a moniker developed to distinguish the Tsvangirai faction...Published: 03 Apr 2020 at 15:22hrs | 2051 | by David Hofisi
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