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MDC, CCC fight over Bulawayo party office
The MDC led by Douglas Mwonzora has issued a statement claiming ownership of the opposition party offices in Bulawayo now occupied by the Citizen Coalition for Change (CCC) party, CITE revealed....Published: 31 Jan 2024 at 18:13hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
CONFESSION: How Tsvangirayi used me to label Welshman Ncube a CIO
In a startling revelation on X (formerly Twitter), opposition activist Freeman Chari opened up about his past role as a "hired gun" within the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), shedding light on h...Published: 15 Dec 2023 at 09:41hrs | 3 | by Mandla Ndlovu
In the face of denialism, candidates must accept the people's voice
In any thriving democracy, a foundational tenet remains undisputed: for the electoral process to truly reflect the will of the people, the outcome – be it victory or defeat – must be accepted with...Published: 22 Aug 2023 at 06:20hrs | 1 | by Innocent Mujeri
Unsettled Chamisa spies on all Matabeles in the CCC top leadership
Many people in Zimbabwe were shocked when news filtered that Nelson Chamisa recently acquired intelligence gathering equipment and busy spying on top CCC leaders more than his purpoted ZANUPF rivals. ...Published: 27 Feb 2023 at 14:41hrs | 2 | by Israel Dube
Moyo divides opposition parties
MDC has come out guns blazing defending Local Government minister July Moyo's directive to stop elections of new mayors and committee chairpersons.This comes after the Citizens Coalition for C...Published: 27 Apr 2022 at 14:03hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'I'm the MDC Alliance president,' Mwonzora says
Douglas Mwonzora has declared himself leader of the MDC Alliance in a letter to the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC).Mwonzora told ZEC that only he and three other officials of his MDC-T pa...Published: 12 Jan 2022 at 23:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
South Africa to deport Zimbabweans, where would stateless Ndebeles go?
On Thursday 25 November 2021, Matabeles woke up to bad news from the South African government that the Zimbabwean Exemption Permit program has been scrapped. Matabeles and Zimbabweans that are benefic...Published: 30 Nov 2021 at 07:32hrs | 10 | by Israel Dube
Mnangagwa removed Chiwenga from army to prevent another coup - Book
The book that President Emmerson Mnangagwa colourfully endorsed recently claims he removed Vice President Constantino Chiwenga from the army to avoid another military coup.'A Life of Sacrifice...Published: 31 Aug 2021 at 08:19hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Mutsvangwa savages Miles Tendi over Mnangagwa book criticism
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's former advisor Christopher Mutsvangwa has launched a scathing attack on UK-based academic and biographer Blessing Miles Tendi over his criticism of the recently publishe...Published: 08 Aug 2021 at 16:14hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa, central govt blamed for local authorities rot
MDC leader Douglas Mwonzora has blamed Nelson Chamisa's administration and interference by the central government for the rot in opposition-controlled local authorities countrywide that has led to poo...Published: 05 Apr 2021 at 16:59hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Chamisa faces mass defections'
Zanu-PF has made sensationally claims that the majority of high-ranking officials in the MDC Alliance-led by Nelson Chamisa are set to defect the biggest opposition and join the ruling party by the en...Published: 01 Mar 2021 at 05:12hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
MDC-T continues to burn, Khupe does a Donald Trump
FORMER MDC secretary-general Douglas Mwonzora is the new leader of the country's biggest opposition party after he trounced his main rival, Thokozani Khupe, in Sunday's chaotic election in Harare....Published: 30 Dec 2020 at 16:54hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora ready to work with Mnangagwa, Chamisa
INTERIM MDC secretary general Douglas Mwonzora, says he is willing to work with both President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his former ally-turned rival, Nelson Chamisa, to help end Zimbabwe's myriad and de...Published: 30 Nov 2020 at 06:22hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Khupe spokesperson steps down over rape allegations
THE spokesperson for MDC leader Thokozani Khupe, Khaliphani Phugeni has stepped down from his position following allegations of raping an unnamed woman in Bulawayo.Last week, Phugeni, 44, who ...Published: 15 Nov 2020 at 16:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa ally loses Parliament recall challenge
MDC Alliance proportional representative for Bulawayo Metropolitan Province Dorcas Sibanda has lost a bid to challenge her recall from Parliament after the High Court dismissed her application....Published: 13 Nov 2020 at 20:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Khupe in sanctions removal call
THE Thokozani Khupe-led opposition MDC has called for the unconditional removal of economic sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe by the United States of America and its Western allies saying they were hurtin...Published: 26 Oct 2020 at 18:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Remove clause on recalling of MPs'
NATIONAL Constitutional Assembly (NCA) president Lovemore Madhuku has challenged political parties and ordinary citizens to call for the removal of a clause in the Constitution providing for the recal...Published: 11 Oct 2020 at 17:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa instructs his supporters to prepare for MDC congress
A FRESH battle is looming in the fractured MDC over delegates to the party's extra-ordinary congress in December with supporters of Nelson Chamisa barred from attending and now threatening to seek leg...Published: 09 Oct 2020 at 21:32hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
16 MDC councillors contest recalls
SIXTEEN MDC Alliance councillors who were recalled last month at the behest of the Thokozani Khupe-led MDC have approached the High Court challenging the decision.Among the councillors from Harare...Published: 09 Oct 2020 at 10:24hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Fresh battle looms in MDC
A fresh battle is looming in MDC over delegates to the party's extra-ordinary congress in December with supporters of Nelson Chamisa barred from attending. The supporters are now threatening t...Published: 09 Oct 2020 at 10:24hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Khupe takes aim at 80 more councillors
The axe is hovering over the heads of close to 80 more MDC councillors countrywide after the party's national standing committee resolved to recall them last week, saying they no longer represent the ...Published: 06 Oct 2020 at 07:26hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Gloves off again in brawling MDC's scorched earth fight
ANY lingering hopes that warring MDC factions would soon come to their senses were quashed yesterday, after the main opposition's interim leadership led by Thokozani Khupe, pictured, recalled a furthe...Published: 02 Oct 2020 at 08:00hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC in kidnapping storm
SUISPECTED MDC-Assembly hooligans, who illegally stormed into the troubled opposition party Morgan Tsvangirai headquarters on Sunday, yesterday allegedly kidnapped 12 of their rivals as the internecin...Published: 29 Sep 2020 at 18:28hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's youths holding 12 people hostage at MDC HQ?
MDC Secretary General Douglas Mwonzora says the group of youths occupying Harvest House is being funded by MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa and the former ZANU PG grouping G40 to take over the party...Published: 28 Sep 2020 at 17:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Mwonzora speaks on Harvest House takeover by MDC Youths
MDC Secretary General Douglas Mwonzora says the group of youths occupying Harvest House is being funded by MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa and the former ZANU PG grouping G40 to take over the party...Published: 28 Sep 2020 at 14:14hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chamisa ex-MPs lose diplomatic passports
THE government has withdrawn diplomatic passports issued to 21 MDC MPs recalled from Parliament as acting leader Thokozani Khupe continues to score victory after victory against Nelson Chamisa in the ...Published: 01 Sep 2020 at 15:36hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
ZimPF demands $1m from MDC-T $7,5m Parly grant
THE Zimbabwe People First (ZimPF) is demanding a share of $7, 5 million allocated to the MDC-T recently by the Justice Ministry under the Political Parties Finance Act.In a letter of demand da...Published: 26 Aug 2020 at 07:12hrs | | by newzimbabwe
Zec doesn't tamper with voters' roll
THE ZIMBABWE Electoral Commission (Zec) has dismissed allegations and concerns raised by the opposition MDC of alleged tinkering of the voters' roll through de-registration and moving voters from one ...Published: 06 Sep 2019 at 07:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC appalled by the arrest of Chitungwiza Mayor and Councillor
The MDC is appalled and disgusted by the baseless arrest of Chitungwiza Mayor Lovemore Maiko and Councillor Kudakwashe John on frivolous allegations that they burned a ZBC truck in 2016.This i...Published: 05 Sep 2019 at 18:27hrs | | by Innocent Gonese (MP)
Chamisa's MDC confronts Zec over voters' roll
THE opposition MDC has accused the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) of tinkering with the voters' roll during by-elections, leading to many voters being disenfranchised.In a letter of compl...Published: 05 Sep 2019 at 08:15hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa changes his game-plan
The MDC led by Nelson Chamisa has resolved to maintain pressure on President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government by mobilising its structures through regular rallies after the government blocked its plann...Published: 01 Sep 2019 at 15:05hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Brutalised MDC official a 'prostitute'?
Deputy Information Minister Energy Mutodi caused outrage on Tuesday after labelling an MDC official allegedly attacked by Zanu PF youths in Kwekwe a "prostitute".The MDC said its Midlands Yout...Published: 28 Aug 2019 at 12:37hrs | | by zimlive
Glen View new battlefield for Chamisa, Mnangagwa
THE two main political parties, Zanu-PF and the MDC, have turned their rivalry to the Glen View South constituency by-election amid allegations of vote-buying, intimidation and financial warfare....Published: 26 Aug 2019 at 07:07hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Teachers arrested for 'pay-day protest' charged with public nuisance
POLICE on Friday brutally crushed a wild-cat protest by the Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (ARTUZ) members who wanted to picket at the Ministry of Finance in protest over the poor salari...Published: 24 Aug 2019 at 09:06hrs | 5 | by newzimbabwe
MDC secretary to spend weekend in remand prison
MDC organising secretary Amos Chibaya, who was arrested on Thursday for failing to call off the opposition party's demonstration in Harare last week, will spend the weekend in remand prison after magi...Published: 24 Aug 2019 at 08:05hrs | | by Staff Reporter
PHOTOS: Guns fired at MDC MP's house
The MDC Secretary General Charlton Hwende has alleged that some unknown person fired guns at the house of MDC MP Catson Matewu on Wednesday night. Said Hwende, "Bullets were fired at the House...Published: 22 Aug 2019 at 06:57hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
IMF says Zimbabwe must not increase civil servants salaries
MDC Secretary-General Charlton Hwende has urged the Minister of Finance Mthuli Ncube to increase the civil salaries to match the ever-increasing price of commodities in the country. Hwende...Published: 21 Aug 2019 at 07:17hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Court remands MDC Secretary General to October
Harare Magistrates Court has remanded MDC Secretary General, Chalton Hwende to 16 October.Hwende appeared at the courts on Monday for a routine remand. Hwende is facing charges of plot...Published: 19 Aug 2019 at 12:01hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa fears Sudan-style protests will rock Zimbabwe
GOVERNMENT'S deep-seated fears of massive Sundanese-style protests over the deteriorating political and economic emergency have been exposed after it moved yesterday to block mass demonstrations calle...Published: 19 Aug 2019 at 11:58hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC to appeal against demo ban
The Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) is set to launch an appeal against a prohibition order issued by police in Bulawayo barring the opposition party from staging a demonstration in the city on Mo...Published: 18 Aug 2019 at 19:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Of enemies of democracy and lovers of money
Today, the Nelson Chamisa-led is set to stage a protest in Harare over almost everything that the opposition party's members could think of. Some of its members such as secretary for public se...Published: 15 Aug 2019 at 23:59hrs | | by Nobleman Runyanga
MDC repeats calls for State of Emergency
The opposition MDC has reiterated its call for a state of emergency on the energy crisis affecting the country. In a statement issued by the MDC Secretary for Energy and Power Development Jasm...Published: 15 Aug 2019 at 12:48hrs | 2 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Kidnappings raise tension in Zimbabwe
Suspected security agents abducted and tortured an MDC youth leader and a pre-democracy activist in pre-dawn raids yesterday- further raising tensions ahead of tomorrow's mass protests against Preside...Published: 15 Aug 2019 at 07:49hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa given go ahead to deploy army against protestors
The House of Senate has given green light to the Maintenance of Peace and Order Bill that empowers President Emmerson Mnangagwa to deploy details of the army in the event of a violent protest breaking...Published: 14 Aug 2019 at 16:01hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Of enemies of democracy and lovers of money
This Friday the Nelson Chamisa-led is set to stage a protest in Harare over almost everything that the opposition party's members could think of. Some of its members such as secretary for publ...Published: 14 Aug 2019 at 14:28hrs | 16 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Tendai Biti already owns 'Mnangagwa' diplomatic passport
ZANU-PF legislator Kindness Paradza (Makonde) has accused his MDC counterparts' snub of diplomatic passports offered by President Emmerson Mnangagwa government as a cheap publicity stunt as some of th...Published: 14 Aug 2019 at 07:52hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'MDC MPs' passports snub a publicity stunt'
ZANU-PF legislator Kindness Paradza (Makonde) has accused his MDC counterparts' snub of diplomatic passports offered by President Emmerson Mnangagwa government as a cheap publicity stunt as some of th...Published: 14 Aug 2019 at 07:47hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
MDC leaders to address the nation on Wednesday
MDC Secretary-General Charlton Hwende says the opposition party is going to address the nation on Wednesday to give more clarity about the impending mass protest that has been called for the 16th of A...Published: 12 Aug 2019 at 17:47hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zacc boss faces integrity test
NEW Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) chair Justice Loice Matanda-Moyo faces her first big test over allegations of wrongdoing involving her husband, Foreign Affairs minister Sibusiso Moyo....Published: 12 Aug 2019 at 08:08hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe opposition must revisit campaign strategies'
POLITICAL think-tank, Local Solutions Council (LSC), has urged the opposition to re-look its electioneering strategies in rural areas to avoid continuous thumping by the ruling Zanu-PF party.L...Published: 12 Aug 2019 at 08:04hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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