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MDC-T Youths aim for 66% of votes in 2023
Young people will be encouraged to register to vote, the newly elected MDC-T youth chairperson, Albert Chidhakwa, told journalists on Sunday in Harare.Chidhakwa said, "For the elections i...Published: 19 Dec 2022 at 18:34hrs | 1 | by Mzingaye Nxumalo
MDC-T readies for December congress
MDC-T will hold its congress in December with its current leader Senator Douglas Mwonzora touted as the front runner.The MDC-T youth league has already nominated Senator Mwonzora as the sole p...Published: 29 Sep 2022 at 20:17hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
CCC, MDC-T and Zanu-PF youths unite for peace; condemn political violence
YOUTHS from main political parties in Zimbabwe came together in Bulawayo Saturday to condemn political violence ahead of next year presidential elections.Speaking at a peace-building meeting o...Published: 27 Sep 2022 at 06:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora supporters in failed bid to seize CCC Bulawayo office
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) security Thursday thwarted attempts by MDC-T supporters to seize their party's Bulawayo offices, NewZimbabwe.com has learnt.The incident happened when CCC â...Published: 02 Apr 2022 at 07:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Wheels come off Mwonzora train?
ROWDY MDC-T supporters yesterday violently disrupted a fellow party member who was addressing a Press conference in Harare to expose party leader Douglas Mwonzora's alleged misuse of party funds, assa...Published: 22 Oct 2021 at 06:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC's poor appreciation of economy rears its ugly head
Last week an image of a Chicken Slice outlet, which was vandalised by someone who used some spray paint to create a graffiti message appealing for the release of some MDC Alliance activists remanded i...Published: 25 Mar 2021 at 05:38hrs | 1 | by Nobleman Runyanga
MDC Youth Assembly calls for dialogue and immediate release of all political prisoners
The MDC-T Youth Assembly joins the rest of the country in commemorating National Youth Day, which is celebrated on 21 February every year. This year's commemorations are taking place against the backd...Published: 21 Feb 2021 at 09:40hrs | | by Yvonne Musarurwa
MDC-T candidates' election agents condemn 'farcical' Congress
THE six chief election agents representing losing candidates at the just ended MDC-T extraordinary congress (EOC) are supporting the decision of former acting president Thokozani Khupe to cancel the c...Published: 29 Dec 2020 at 06:49hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Khupe suspends top ally
MDC-T leader Thokozani Khupe has suspended her party's national organising secretary Abednico Bhebhe after he exposed alleged plans to manipulate the forthcoming extraordinary congress to choose a new...Published: 01 Nov 2020 at 08:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC-T youths continue besieging Chamisa's HQ
MDC-T youths who took control of Morgan Richard Tsvangirai House formerly Harvest House last week, are still on guard, sleeping inside the building.According to MDC-T 2014 national youth secre...Published: 05 Oct 2020 at 17:19hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC is imploding
Zimbabwe's main opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change Alliance (MDC-A), is imploding as the country's ruling Zanu-PF conspires with a tiny MDC splinter group, the Movement for Democrati...Published: 04 Oct 2020 at 17:21hrs | 3 | by Peter Fabricius
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
Bomb scare at Chamisa's 'HQ'
There was an attempt to bomb the MDC-T head office, Harvest House Thursday morning as the battle to take control of the building among warring factions rages on, party sources have claimed.New...Published: 02 Oct 2020 at 07:19hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa pooh-poohs MDC unity talks
THE ongoing dramatic attempts by MDC youths to end the party's wars suffered a potentially fatal blow yesterday after Nelson Chamisa pooh-poohed the need to participate in intra-party unity talks. ...Published: 01 Oct 2020 at 22:14hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
New twist to MDC saga
HE MDC-T leadership was yesterday forced to cancel a scheduled press briefing at the party headquarters after the Nelson Chamisa-led MDC Alliance challenged a court order granting interim secretary-ge...Published: 01 Oct 2020 at 07:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa, Khupe in reunification talks?
MDC-T interim leader Thokozani Khupe held a hastily arranged meeting of the party's standing committee, which officials said was meant to clear the ground for reunification talks with Nelson Chamisa. ...Published: 30 Sep 2020 at 07:49hrs | 3 | 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
WATCH: Bvondo breaks ranks with Chamisa, Hwende?
MDC Alliance Deputy Organising Security Happymore 'Bvondo' Chidziva said he was supportive of the youths' initiative to reunite the party.Bvondo said he is part of the 2014 structures led by T...Published: 29 Sep 2020 at 08:29hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
'G40 sponsored takeover of MDC HQ by Chamisa's acolytes'
MDC-T acting secretary-general Douglas Mwonzora has accused the exiled former Zanu-PF elements under the moniker G40 of sponsoring the takeover of the party headquarters by Chamisa's acolytes....Published: 29 Sep 2020 at 08:01hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
MDC youths demand Chamisa, Khupe dialogue
FACTIONAL fights in the opposition MDC took another turn yesterday with youths allegedly sympathetic to feuding leaders Nelson Chamisa and Thokozani Khupe throwing out members seen as sympathetic to M...Published: 29 Sep 2020 at 07:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora fails in MDC Alliance Kwekwe office takeover
A "HIT SQUAD" allegedly belonging to MDC-T secretary-general Douglas Mwonzora on Saturday morning violently stormed the MDC Alliance Kwekwe offices intending to effect a hostile takeover.Milto...Published: 28 Sep 2020 at 07:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC councillor manhandled at funeral wake
KWEKWE's Ward 2 Councillor Future Titora was on Tuesday manhandled by rowdy youths belonging to the MDC-Alliance for allegedly dumping the party to join the Dr Thokozani Khupe led MDC-T. Clr T...Published: 11 Sep 2020 at 07:12hrs | 13 | 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
Debunking the Chamisa's political persecution claims
Following the violent and destructive protests of January 14 , which were called for by the MDC Alliance, the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) and some civil society organisations ostensibly t...Published: 04 Feb 2019 at 07:49hrs | 3 | by Nobleman Runyanga
MDC Alliance youth leader granted $100 bail
MDC-T youth leader and Highfield West MP-elect Happymore Chidziva yesterday appeared before a Gweru magistrate facing charges of inciting violence after he allegedly threatened President Emmerson Mnan...Published: 05 Sep 2018 at 07:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora must succeed Chamisa
ZANU PF has been accused of trying to fan divisions within the main opposition MDC-T camp led by Nelson Chamisa by pushing his secretary-general Douglas Mwonzora to takeover party leadership.M...Published: 23 Aug 2018 at 06:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
6 feared dead
AT least six people were feared dead last night, while several others sustained gunshot injuries after soldiers and police in Harare used brute force to suppress MDC Alliance activists protesting agai...Published: 02 Aug 2018 at 07:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chammisa violence timeline - February to present
February 20, 2018: At the burial of Tsvangirai, in Buhera, rowdy MDC-T youths harass party co-vice president Dr Thokozani Khupe and secretary general Mr Douglas Mwonzora before trying to torch the gra...Published: 02 Aug 2018 at 07:25hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
MDC pledges 5-day protests
Following allegations that Chamisa might incite violence during his declared vigils, the MDC Alliance has pledged to be peaceful when they protests against the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) whic...Published: 23 Jul 2018 at 13:26hrs | 2 | by Mafu Sithabile
Ramaphosa receives Chamisa's petition
OPPOSITION MDC Alliance presidential candidate Nelson Chamisa yesterday disclosed that their planned vigils at the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) offices countrywide would kick off next Tuesday a...Published: 19 Jul 2018 at 06:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
MDC youth disdained by ZEC arrogance
The MDC T youth Assembly chairman Happymore Chidziva has said the party youth note with utter disdain the continued arrogance by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission(ZEC) in forwarding the interests of t...Published: 13 Jul 2018 at 14:52hrs | 2 | by Stephen Jakes
The lessons of the Rwandan Genocide have not been learnt by Chamisa's MDC
In 1992, an official in Rwanda's ruling Hutu party, Leon Mugeseraa, said in front of more than 1,000 party members that the Tutsis were cockroaches and they should be disposed of.Only a few mo...Published: 11 Jul 2018 at 15:16hrs | 1 | by Jealousy Dutiro
Zanu-PF activists arrested for violence
SIX Zanu-PF supporters were arrested in Manicaland province for allegedly assaulting MDC-Alliance activists during a prayer meeting on Monday.The Zanu-PF cadres were also accused of threatenin...Published: 11 Jul 2018 at 07:11hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa's rigging machine massive'
MDC Alliance presidential candidate Nelson Chamisa said Zanu PF's rigging machine is massive to the extent of rigging the alphabet on the ballot paper.Addressing scores of people at Garwe Stad...Published: 07 Jul 2018 at 09:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa ropes in ZCTU for joint demo
Chamisa-led MDC Alliance has roped in erstwhile allies, the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions, vendors and college students for a joint massive demonstration on Wednesday to demand transparency and le...Published: 06 Jul 2018 at 07:21hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
In Attorney Jessie Majome and Hilma Shindondola-Mote, Meme Nomzamo Winnie Madikizela Mandela lives on!
It is barely three months when we celebrated the life of of our heroine Ma Winnie Mandela in style: we never cried our eyes out mourning Winnie Mandela; instead, we had the opportunity to reflect on h...Published: 05 Jul 2018 at 13:53hrs | 1 | by Nomazulu Thata
Is Chamisa's rhetoric fanning the flames of violence?
There is no suggestion that anyone in the MDC was behind the attack on President Mnangagwa, members of his government and supporters on Saturday in Bulawayo. That much is clear. Yet nonetheless, some ...Published: 24 Jun 2018 at 10:56hrs | 2 | by Jealousy Dutiro
MDC Alliance is on the presidency and not other seats
THE Nelson Chamisa-led MDC-T yesterday ruled out further negotiations with its MDC Alliance partners crying foul over grabbed Local Government and parliamentary seats.MDC-T chairperson Morgen ...Published: 20 Jun 2018 at 13:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa must avoid the Rehoboamian syndrome
THE personal conduct, including manner of speech, wisdom and intellectual capacity, as well as leadership style of political leaders, in particular public figures, are always subject to scrutiny....Published: 15 Jun 2018 at 15:05hrs | 4 | by Willard Chinhara
Campaign trail turns bloody
THE July 30 election campaign trail has claimed the life of a two-year-old who was reportedly abducted and brutally killed by suspected Zanu-PF activists at the weekend after his father Rambai Lumbe d...Published: 12 Jun 2018 at 06:56hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mliswa slams Chamisa over violence
Norton legislator Mr Temba Mliswa has condemned MDC Alliance president Mr Nelson Chamisa over failure to at least publicly denounce violence in his party. Violence rocked the MDC-T during and after it...Published: 12 Jun 2018 at 06:55hrs | | by Staff rpeorter
Chamisa playing games with smaller parties
The house which the late MDC-T leader, Morgan Tsvangirai built in 2017 with the co-operation of six other opposition parties is falling apart.Its centre is failing to hold any longer and the p...Published: 07 Jun 2018 at 07:06hrs | 2 | by Nobleman Runyanga
A time for calm heads
Anyone with even the most basic understanding of Zimbabwean history will have been nervous last week to hear the chilling words of MDC-T youth chairperson, Happymore Chidziva, that "we will make the c...Published: 04 Jun 2018 at 09:41hrs | | by Mike, Harare
Chamisa, Mnangagwa supporters head for showdown
VIOLENT clashes are likely to break out in Harare tomorrow after Zanu-PF youth threatened to take to the streets on the same day to counter an MDC Alliance planned demonstration to demand electoral re...Published: 04 Jun 2018 at 07:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC-T youths accuse bigwigs of 'commercialising democracy'
MDC-T Bulawayo Youth Assembly yesterday accused senior party leaders of "commercialising democracy" and slammed the party's national elections committee for running a shambolic primary in a local cons...Published: 01 Jun 2018 at 09:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
How Mugabe's ZANU-PF and Chihuri's police created the MDC-T Vanguard
In December 2010, Augustine Mahute (26), an MDC-T activist from Matapi Flats in Mbare, was brutally attacked by ZANU-PF youths before they handed him to Matapi Police station.Mahute subseq...Published: 30 May 2018 at 06:35hrs | 2 | by Felix Mbonderi Chiroro
MDC-T youth leader Dube wins Gweru Urban ticket
MDC-T youth leader and top lawyer, Brian Dube won in the primary elections held over the weekend to represent the party in Gweru Urban parliamentary seat after beating incumbent, Sesel Zvidzai....Published: 28 May 2018 at 07:18hrs | | by Staff rpeorter
Chamisa allows criminals and ex-convicts to contest its primaries
LIKE its Zanu PF rivals, the opposition MDC-T party led by Advocate Nelson Chamisa is allegedly allowing criminals and ex-convicts to contest party primaries to choose candidates for general elections...Published: 19 May 2018 at 15:35hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
The MDC Alliance and its anti-women DNA exposed
When the MDC Alliance was launched in Harare in August 2017, the immediate reaction of most progressive Zimbabweans was that the political grouping was conspicuous by the absence of women in its leade...Published: 18 May 2018 at 10:30hrs | 13 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Mutodi to square up with Chamisa aide
An epic battle for the Goromonzi West parliamentary seat is looming between President Emmerson Mnangagwa's self-proclaimed apologist Energy Mutodi and MDC-T presidential spokesperson Luke Tamborinyoka...Published: 17 May 2018 at 07:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
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