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Mafume survives a vote of no-confidence as Harare mayor
An attempt to remove Harare mayor Jacob Mafume failed today as councilors defied Chamisa and voted against vote of no confidence motion.As Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) factionalism expl...Published: 12 Jan 2024 at 18:22hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Biti faction takes over Harare mayorship
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) councillor Jacob Mafume has been re-elected to the position of Harare mayor following a vote in a special session.The mayor's position fell vacant following...Published: 21 Dec 2023 at 23:45hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
'Mwonzora's MDC is too broke to hold an elective congress'
MDC Alliance leader Douglas Mwonzora stands accused of delaying the party's elective congress. NewsDay (ND) chief reporter Taurai Mangudhla interviewed MDC Alliance presidential spokesperson Lloyd Dam...Published: 14 Nov 2022 at 05:16hrs | 19 | by Staff reporter
End of the road for Tsvangirai's MDC
D-DAY has arrived for the MDC brand, with the electorate expected to decide its fate, as analysts say the iconic party associated with the firebrand Morgan Tsvangirai may disappear into oblivion if it...Published: 27 Mar 2022 at 07:38hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
The rise and fall of the MDC: Winners, losers and neutrals
AS Zimbabwe approaches crucial by-elections in March, which will test the strength of main contestants while determining the authentic opposition, there is no denying that the MDC, which has posed the...Published: 08 Feb 2022 at 18:21hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
How 'baby-dumping' Joice Mujuru played out
The first quarter of 2014 revealed that the main opposition party, the MDC-T, was in a similar state of disarray.It first came to the surface when MDC-T deputy treasurer and former cabinet min...Published: 10 Mar 2019 at 09:10hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mangoma quits active politics
OPPOSITION Renewal Democrats of Zimbabwe (PDZ) leader Elton Mangoma is retiring from active politics saying he has done his part after three decades."I have now quit active politics and am now...Published: 08 Oct 2018 at 07:04hrs | 2 | by newzimbabwe
Sipepa Nkomo regrets dumping Tsvangirai for Biti
Former Water minister Samuel Sipepa Nkomo, who recently resigned from politics, has revealed how he painfully regrets dumping the MDC then led by the late Morgan Tsvangirai for a splinter party led by...Published: 14 Sep 2018 at 16:09hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Khupe tormentors sentenced to 12-months jail
TWO Bulawayo-based MDC Alliance aspiring councillors and their accomplice were yesterday sentenced to a 12-month jail term each for assaulting breakaway MDC-T faction leader, Thokozani Khupe and her s...Published: 28 Jul 2018 at 09:39hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
PRC plots takeover of Bulawayo city
People's Rainbow Coalition (PRC) candidates have expressed confidence of turning Bulawayo into their stronghold, taking over from the MDC-T that has been in control of the city since 2000.Bula...Published: 06 Jul 2018 at 07:25hrs | 1 | by Staff rpeorter
Explaining the confusion in MDC-T primaries - Part I of II
Explaining the confusion in MDC-T primaries: Mwonzora is being targeted in all this fracas. The pro-Chamisa camp is targeting the December party congress...Published: 27 May 2018 at 15:27hrs | | by Felix Mbonderi Chiroro
Bhasikiti in wrong basket again
As the old saying goes; "Show me your friends and I will tell you who you are." The same is true when it comes to politics. Those you associate yourself with reflect generally the kind of person you a...Published: 19 Mar 2018 at 14:28hrs | 3 | by Charles Motsi
Tsvangirai's lover claims to be HIV+?
The health status of Zimbabwe's opposition Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai has come under scrutiny after his lover, who is living with AIDS in the United Kingdom, revealed that...Published: 22 Sep 2017 at 08:20hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Muchauraya re-joins Tsvangirai
Renewal Democrats of Zimbabwe (RDZ) spokesperson Pishayai Muchauraya dumped the Elton Mangoma-led party to rejoin the MDC led by Morgan Tsvangirai. Muchauraya - who left MDC in 2014 - was offi...Published: 24 Jul 2017 at 13:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Khupe rise up, be counted
I see now why Sekesai Holland left the MDC-T, it failed to live up to its billing of being a democratic party. It let her down as a loyal member and as a woman, until frustration galvanised her to lea...Published: 19 Jul 2016 at 15:03hrs | 1 | by Prosperity Mzila
Parliament to sue expelled MPs over vehicles
PARLIAMENT plans to take legal action against 35 MPs expelled by both Zanu-PF and MDC-T after they failed to pay for vehicles procured for them through a parliamentary loan scheme when they were still...Published: 30 May 2016 at 06:39hrs | | by Zvamaida Murwira
Opposition on course to unite _ PDP
On 26 April 2014 the MDC Renewal Team, now People's Democratic Party (PDP), at Mendel Training Centre in Harare resolved that as one of the cornerstones of taking Zimbabwe forward, the party must reco...Published: 20 Apr 2016 at 15:46hrs | | by Jacob Mafume - PDP National Spokesperson
Tendai Biti lose 200 supported to Tsvangirai
NEARLY 200 MDC-T supporters in Cowdray Park and Luveve suburbs who defected to Tendai Biti's MDC Renewal party before deciding to re-join the main opposition party are finding it difficult to be accom...Published: 08 Feb 2016 at 05:46hrs | | by Thandeka Moyo
Chamisa stop being a hypocrite
The recent claim by MDC-T Kuwadzana East MP, Nelson Chamisa that funds meant for by-elections should be channeled towards paying civil servants' bonuses should not be tolerated but dismissed with due ...Published: 05 Feb 2016 at 08:13hrs | | by Sibusiso Ndlamini
Tsvangirai begs Biti
MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai has sent emissaries to People Democratic Party (PDP) president Tendai Biti to initiate talks that could lead to the formation of a coalition of opposition parties ahead ...Published: 05 Feb 2016 at 07:19hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Biti, Ncube resume merger talks
LEADERS of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) and the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) met in Harare last week for consultations aimed at reviving efforts to merge the two parties.The M...Published: 17 Dec 2015 at 13:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Biti stole PDP name'
HARDLY a week after the congress that ushered in a new political party led by Tendai Biti under the name People's Democratic Party, an obscure outfit has emerged claiming the name, setting the stage f...Published: 17 Sep 2015 at 07:01hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe bars Zambian opposition leader
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe's government has reportedly blocked Zambian opposition leader Hakainde Hichilemba from coming into the country and address the local opposition MDC Renewal Team party's ina...Published: 10 Sep 2015 at 06:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
New Zimbabwe political party slams 'selfish' opposition leaders
THE country's opposition parties lack vision, officials of a new political outfit Zimbabwe First Party (ZimFirst) have said.ZimFirst, which is led by former MDC-T USA branch chairman Maxwell Z...Published: 04 Sep 2015 at 06:47hrs | | by Nqobile Tshili
Mangoma's case takes new twist
The alleged sex scandal in which Renewal Democrats of Zimbabwe leader (RDZ) Elton Mangoma was accused of having a sexual affair with a married woman took a new twist yesterday after three of Mango...Published: 29 Aug 2015 at 10:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Shattered opposition lets Bob jive as Zim dives
Back in the 1990s, the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) was a fierce opponent of President Robert Mugabe. It drove the rise of resistance politics and gave birth to the Movement for Democratic...Published: 28 Aug 2015 at 08:54hrs | | by Ray Ndlovu
Tendai Biti's party drops MDC acronym
THE MDC Renewal Team is set for a major identify shift at its inaugural congress set for next month, which will see the party changing its name and other distinct features.This paper has it on...Published: 27 Aug 2015 at 10:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC Renewal was not using City Sports Centre for free - Mafume
The MDC Renewal Team spokesperson Jacob Mafume has said when his party booked the City Sports Centre for the Congress which was slated for August 21 and 22 it had paid to the Harare City Council despi...Published: 24 Aug 2015 at 15:47hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Renewal Team reschedules congress
The opposition MDC Renewal Team has rescheduled its inaugural congress to early next month following its last-minute cancellation by police in Harare on Thursday. Police claimed the party'...Published: 24 Aug 2015 at 07:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
PDP raps Zanu-PF for acting contrary to its ZimAsset promises
The People's Democratic Party (PDP) Youth assembly official Tatenda Chigwada has blasted the ruling Zanu-PF for acting contrary to its 2013 election promises where it said it would create 2,2 million...Published: 23 Aug 2015 at 10:31hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Mangoma's party holds youth congress
Elton Mangoma's newly-formed opposition party, Renewal Democrats of Zimbabwe (RDZ), held its first youth congress on Saturday with the women's assembly scheduled to hold its own indaba later this ...Published: 18 Aug 2015 at 09:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC Renewal team gears for inaugural congress
The opposition MDC Renewal Team says preparations for its inaugural congress in Harare this weekend are at an advanced stage, with more than 7 000 delegates already accredited. The congres...Published: 18 Aug 2015 at 09:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF Labour Bill 'more cruel'
The Labour Amendment Bill, viewed as the solution to the massive job losses that followed a recent landmark Supreme Court ruling, is worse than the existing labour laws, an opposition party warned...Published: 18 Aug 2015 at 09:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Police summon MDC-T Renewal Team official
Police in Harare have reportedly summoned senior MDC Renewal Team official, Last Maengahama, to report at Harare Central Police Station today in connection with wind-up shortwave radio sets confis...Published: 17 Aug 2015 at 08:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tendai Biti predicts a coup in Zimbabwe
Tendai Biti, the former Finance Minister in the Zimbabwe government of national unity, on Thursday predicted that the current economic turmoil will topple President Robert Mugabe's regime by 2016...Published: 15 Aug 2015 at 20:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC officials snub Tsvangirai
MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai's overtures urging those who had left his party and crossed floors to a rival MDC outfit led by Tendai Biti to return to the opposition party have been snubbed.Fol...Published: 06 Aug 2015 at 14:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tendai Biti gets his way
Tendai Biti former Finance minister as expected, emerged as the sole candidate for the MDC Renewal Team presidency ahead of the party's inaugural congress set for August 21-23. However a...Published: 06 Aug 2015 at 10:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC Renewal Team to change name to People's Democratic Party
The MDC Renewal is set to change its name to become the People's Democratic Party if the party's national convention would approve it by the end of August, it has emerged.A member of...Published: 05 Aug 2015 at 07:53hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Zanu-PF warns of civil unrest
Newly-elected Mpopoma-Pelandaba MP Joseph Tshuma (Zanu-PF) has pleaded with government to swiftly act on the decaying economy and arrest the unabated company closures especially in Bulawayo. ...Published: 29 Jul 2015 at 07:33hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Biti tipped for MDC Renewal presidency
MDC Renewal Team secretary-general Tendai Biti is tipped to take over the party reins at its inaugural congress tentatively slated for August 21-24. The venue for the congress is yet to be...Published: 28 Jul 2015 at 07:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC, MDC Renewal Team re-unification doomed
The two gluttonous MDC fragments, Welshman Ncube-led MDC and the Tendai Biti-fronted MDC Renewal Team failed to strike a unification deal owing to irreparable differences over how to allocate powe...Published: 24 Jul 2015 at 11:45hrs | | by Suitable Kajau
Zanu-PF to blame for vendors plight, says Biti
Tendai Biti MDC Renewal Team Secretary-General yesterday said the plight of vendors lie in changing the government as Zanu-PF has failed to revive the economy.Biti said vendors must be all...Published: 23 Jul 2015 at 09:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC-T top brass' nasty cyber fights leaked to the media
Infighting has exploded in the Morgan Tsvangirai-led MDC-T, sucking in Vice President Thokozani Khupe, Secretary-General Douglas Mwonzora, Sessil Zvidzai and deputy treasurer Chalton Hwende.F...Published: 22 Jul 2015 at 10:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC Renewal Team in constitutional fix
The MDC Renewal Team yesterday found itself in a constitutional pickle after it emerged that its South African branch could not appoint a representative to sit in the party's national advisory com...Published: 21 Jul 2015 at 07:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC Renewal step up congress preparations
MDC Renewal has upped its preparations for its congress in August to elect substantive leadership, decide on Party Symbol, constitution, economic Blueprint, party Ideology and roadmap to 2018....Published: 20 Jul 2015 at 16:05hrs | 1 | by Thobekile Zhou
Tendai Biti dressed down at Supreme Court
FORMER MDC-T secretary-general and MDC Renewal team leader Mr Tendai Biti, who is also a prominent lawyer, yesterday walked out of the Supreme Court with his tail between his legs after being censured...Published: 18 Jul 2015 at 13:12hrs | | by Daniel Nemukuyu
MDC Renewal rebrands to People's Democratic Party
MDC Renewal Team say they are set to adopt a new name (People's Democratic Party) with a view to giving the electorate "confidence" ahead of the 2018 national election.Spokesperson Jacob ...Published: 17 Jul 2015 at 19:43hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
MDC Renewal in liquidity crunch
THE MDC Renewal Team, has come face to face with the liquidity crunch blighting the national economy in its bid to launch itself into the country's highly competitive political arena.As it pre...Published: 16 Jul 2015 at 17:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Anger against Mugabe grows
Abducted journalist-turned-human rights activist Itai Dzamara's continued disappearance is acting as a catalyst for unity among President Robert Mugabe's political opponents, as they say his governmen...Published: 14 Jul 2015 at 16:15hrs | | by Gift Phiri
Tendai Biti to be Renewal Team's first president
Former MDC-T secretary general Tendai Biti is set to be the MDC Renewal Team's first president following his nomination for the post in the ongoing provincial conventions to select provincial and nati...Published: 10 Jul 2015 at 07:22hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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