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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
Zimbabwean politics in generational transition
It seems there is a growth in the number of younger candidates being nominated to represent the parties in the upcoming polls.ONE of the most stubborn facts is that the old die, and the new are bo...Published: 07 May 2023 at 19:24hrs | 2 | by Ntando Dumani
'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
MDC fissures started under Tsvangirai
ON September 1999, a new political party, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) was launched at a mass rally in Harare, the first time in years that the then President Robert Mugabe's Zanu-PF's dom...Published: 21 Feb 2022 at 05:34hrs | 2 | 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
Chamisa Chete Chete: New party with very old habits
It's only a new name! The rest is not so different from the disbanded Movement for Democratic Change - Alliance (MDC -A) from dictatorship, imposition of candidates, fielding double candidates to shov...Published: 29 Jan 2022 at 14:45hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
MDC fractures into oblivion
LAST week the opposition was thrown into further but usual turmoil when MDC-T vice-president Dr Thokozani Khupe told journalists in Bulawayo that the party had split into two formations, one led by he...Published: 25 Jan 2022 at 05:42hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa MDC infighting explained
FRESH Storm is brewing in the MDC Alliance after senior leaders are reported to have recommended the expulsion of Gift Ostallos Siziba, the Secretary-General of the MDC Youth Assembly.One Twit...Published: 22 Aug 2021 at 14:19hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
MDC infighting timeline 2014 - 2020
AS the drama of recalls of MPs and councillors continues to unravel within the strife-torn opposition MDC, we trace the roots of the crisis back to May 2014 when the party was deeply divided before an...Published: 19 Dec 2020 at 16:40hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
When Excellencies grace Chitungwiza shebeen
What a couple of weeks of diplomatic intrigue.Epoch-making, maybe.Hallelujah! Praise be to the living God!We had desperately reckless American diplomats abandoning their airy a...Published: 25 Aug 2019 at 08:37hrs | 1 | by Bishop Lazi
BCC evicts Tshinga Dube
ZANU-PF Politburo member and former Zanu-PF Makokoba legislator Retired Colonel Tshinga Dube faces eviction from his council leased parliamentary offices situated in Nguboyenja high density surburbs. ...Published: 10 Jul 2019 at 08:33hrs | | 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
Stop meddling in ZEC affairs!
Mr Speaker, Sir As the election date beckons the MDC Alliance is becoming hysterical in accusing ZEC of plotting to rig the elections in favour of Zanu-PF. The Alliance, which to all i...Published: 05 Jul 2018 at 06:49hrs | 1 | by Farirai Machivenyika
'Tshinga Dube - a generous, supportive legislator'
THE constituency consists of some of the oldest suburbs in Bulawayo such as Makokoba, Thorngrove, Westgate, Steelgate, Westondale, Barbourfields, Mzilikazi, Nguboyenja and Burombo. Most property owner...Published: 18 Jun 2018 at 07:18hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
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
Matibenga endorses Mujuru
LUCIA Matibenga, leader of the breakaway faction of the People's Democratic Party (PDP), recently opened up on how she was hounded out of the MDC-T led by the late Morgan Tsvangirai.Matibenga ...Published: 07 May 2018 at 07:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Linda Masarira is a dangerous political fraud!
Thokozani Khupe mandaciously defended the unconstitutional imposition of non-party member, Linda Masarira, to the position of spokesperson for her cabal, saying that the latter was an active member of...Published: 26 Apr 2018 at 14:48hrs | | by Fanuel Chinowaita
Tshabangu explains MDC splits
SINCE its formation in 1999 the MDC has split a number of times, that is in 2005 when then secretary general Welshman Ncube and others formed another MDC, as they differed with leader, Morgan Tsvangir...Published: 03 Apr 2018 at 12:52hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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
Of MDC-T crisis and the man Strive Masiwa
It is very unfortunate that Dr Morgan Tsvangirai is not feeling well and his condition has affected opposition politics in Zimbabwe .With the courage that Tsvangirai has bestowed in fighting an ...Published: 29 Jan 2018 at 14:09hrs | 3 | by Knowledge Hakata
Opposition alliance: reflections on failed politics
It is indeed interesting times when calls for unity among Zimbabwe's opposition political parties turns out to be the cause of disunity and acrimony. In normal political discourse, calls for unity sho...Published: 04 Oct 2017 at 16:25hrs | | by Bevan Musoko
Biti allays PDP split claim
People's Democratic Party (PDP) leader Tendai Biti has allayed claims that his party has split adding that he is leaving the door open for the party's secretary-general Gorden Moyo and his colleagues ...Published: 30 Sep 2017 at 13:37hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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
Khupe, allies plot Tsvangirai snub
MDC-T vice-president, Thokozani Khupe and her allies, chairman, Lovemore Moyo and organising secretary, Abednico Bhebhe, are reportedly plotting to boycott party leader, Morgan Tsvangirai's planned MD...Published: 31 Aug 2017 at 07:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance unpacked
MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai last week formed an alliance with six other smaller political parties. The coalition will operate under the banner of MDC Alliance, with Tsvangirai as its leader. Presid...Published: 12 Aug 2017 at 11:00hrs | 1 | 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
MDC-T suspends Kwekwe councillors
THE MDC-T has suspended its six Kwekwe councillors from all party activities as the opposition party opened a witch-hunt into elections of a new deputy mayor for the city which was won by Zanu-PF....Published: 28 Jun 2017 at 06:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe the ultimate 'prophet'
While the majority of Zimbabweans believe in prophecy in the Christian sense, there is one "prophet" they must surely consider following religiously and heeding his words when he says something politi...Published: 07 May 2017 at 13:03hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Dzamara 'disappointed at small crowd at NERA Rally' - it was wisest povo move ever!
Patson Dzamara could not hide his disappointed at the small crowd that bothered to attend the "Feedback Rally" called by NERA group on 5 April 2017. "I am appalled by what I am seeing. I for o...Published: 06 Apr 2017 at 07:31hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
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
The year opposition politics sunk into oblivion
From the preponderance of splits to the injudicious decision to boycott by-elections, 2015 was the year in which the opposition formations were vanquished, leaving Zanu-PF to dominate the political sc...Published: 03 Jan 2016 at 10:00hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai wants Biti back or is this to panic Mujuru just as he used Locadia to panic Elizabeth into marriage!
Speaking in an interview with the Daily News last week, the former prime minister in the government of national unity said his fallout with Biti and Mangoma was "based more on personal differences as ...Published: 31 Dec 2015 at 08:08hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Nkulumane by election exposes the folly of hoping for free and fair elections with no GPA reforms
"We failed to secure critical reforms before participating in the elections. The whole world advised us not to get into the elections without reforms, and so in everything that we have been saying we ...Published: 30 Dec 2015 at 16:41hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
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
Mangoma, ex-bodyguard in war of words
Ex-Energy minister Elton Mangoma's former body guard has sensationally claimed that the Renewal Democrats Zimbabwe (RDZ) president is a thief and a womaniser, allegations that the politician has refut...Published: 13 Dec 2015 at 09:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai, Biti attacked
RENEWAL Democrats of Zimbabwe (RDZ) has denounced MDC-T leader, Morgan Tsvangirai's alleged clinging to power for the past 16 years in clear contravention of his party's Constitution, which allows for...Published: 23 Nov 2015 at 05:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Welshman Ncube embarks on second presidential bid
Former cabinet minister and leader of MDC Welshman Ncube has kick started his second push for Zimbabwe's presidency.Ncube was a distant third in 2013 election polls which devolution of power w...Published: 18 Oct 2015 at 17:35hrs | | by Thobekile Zhou
Poor turn-out for Mangoma rally
Political parties are focusing on issues that make international news instead of addressing the issues of concern to grassroots members, says Elton Mangoma, leader of the Renewal Democrats of Zimbabwe...Published: 17 Oct 2015 at 11:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Electoral law reforms before parliament MDC demanded are 'inadequate and incomplete' says Varitas
For the record there some of us who passionately argued that Zimbabwe's 2013 new constitution was weak and feeble; it would never deliver free, fair and credible elections. Tsvangirai, Biti, Ncube, Co...Published: 13 Oct 2015 at 06:34hrs | | by Wilbert mukori
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