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'CCC candidate absconded community service'
THE Nelson Chamisa-led Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC)'s shambolic candidate selection process could come back to haunt the party after it emerged that one of the aspiring candidates allegedly abs...Published: 02 Jul 2023 at 15:43hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: Mwonzora expels Thokozani Khupe from Parliament
MDC Alliance leader Douglas Mwonzora has recalled MDC-T leader Thokozani Khupe from parliament. This was revealed by Khupe during a press conference held on Wednesday...Published: 02 Feb 2022 at 09:41hrs | 3 | by Mandla Ndlovu
PHOTOS: Thousands throng to support Thokozani Khupe
More than a thousand MDC-T supporters thronged to McDonalds Hall in Mzilikazi on Friday to pledge their support to former Deputy Prime Minister Thokozani Khupe who was addressing a presser. ...Published: 21 Jan 2022 at 16:06hrs | 8 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Thokozani Khupe breathes fire...declares MDC-T split
Former Deputy Prime Minister Thokozani Khupe has taken over as the leader of the Movement for Democratic Change Tsvagirayi (MDC-T) after the party officially split on Friday. The s...Published: 21 Jan 2022 at 11:42hrs | 9 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Khupe faces recall from MDC-T
IN a dramatic turn of events revolving around a political merry-go-round, and after spearheading recalls of main opposition MDC Alliance legislators in a cutthroat power struggle with Nelson Chamisa, ...Published: 12 Dec 2021 at 20:17hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe-less Zanu-PF is still the party to beat in Zim elections
Zanu-PF goes into the upcoming general election in Zimbabwe as the party to beat – but a lot has happened since former president Robert Mugabe was forced to step down in a military-assisted transiti...Published: 25 Jul 2018 at 07:55hrs | 2 | by TimesLive
Biti pokes fun at Mangoma
MDC Alliance co-principal Tendai Biti has poked fun at former ally Elton Mangoma and a handful of other "non-presidential material" who have formally joined the race for state presidency in the July 3...Published: 16 Jun 2018 at 22:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa hits back at Chiwenga
At the launch of Zanu-PF's election manifesto on Friday, Vice- President Constantino Chiwenga devoted the bulk of his speech to attacking MDC Alliance presidential candidate Nelson Chamisa, describing...Published: 06 May 2018 at 10:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa to boot out Chinese
MDC-T president Nelson Chamisa yesterday said if voted into power he will expel Chinese investors and cancel deals Government signed with the world's second largest economy running into billions of do...Published: 02 May 2018 at 08:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa sets date for MDC-T primaries
OPPOSITION leader Nelson Chamisa's MDC-T will hold primary elections from Saturday this week, with the final candidates' list expected by end of next week, NewsDay reported.Party secretary-gen...Published: 02 May 2018 at 08:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa not rightful heir to MDC-T throne
THE High Court yesterday dismissed an application by the MDC-T faction led by Advocate Nelson Chamisa, which had taken its rivals to court in a fight over ownership of the party name, trademark, signs...Published: 25 Apr 2018 at 07:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC-T split must not be celebrated
An MDC-T supporter Mandla Masuku has warned that the opposition political parties must not be celebrated as it means another set back to the democratic processThokozani Khupe on Saturday was e...Published: 24 Apr 2018 at 07:29hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
MRP gives Khupe a tongue-lashing
SECESSIONIST Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) has given Thokozani Khupe's MDC-T faction a tongue-lashing after attending an extraordinary congress organised by the faction in Bulawayo on Saturday....Published: 24 Apr 2018 at 07:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC-T congress endorses Dr Khupe
THE much-talked about Dr Thokozani Khupe-led MDC-T extraordinary congress held in Bulawayo yesterday resembled a routine meeting meant to rubberstamp Dr Khupe's rise to the helm of the faction of the ...Published: 22 Apr 2018 at 10:07hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
MDC-T isn't Chamisa private property, says Bhebhe
OUSTED former MDC-T national organising secretary Abednico Bhebhe has remained defiant and refused to recognise the recent appointment of Nelson Chamisa as substantive party leader following the death...Published: 11 Apr 2018 at 07:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa, Khupe factions fight over party name
A NEW frontier in the fight for control of the MDC-T has emerged, this time over the name of the opposition party, NewZmbabwe.com reported.The MDC-T split yet again following the death of foun...Published: 28 Mar 2018 at 08:24hrs | 1 | by Staff rpeorter
'Khupe free to leave,' says Chamisa
MDC-T president Advocate Nelson Chamisa yesterday said his estranged deputy, Dr Thokozani Khupe, who on Sunday announced her split from the opposition party, is free to leave.Dr Khupe leads a ...Published: 20 Mar 2018 at 06:19hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa, Khupe split was inevitable
THE opposition Movement for Democratic Change party has officially split after deputy president Dr Thokozani Khupe announced at the weekend that her group was joining the People's Rainbow Coalition le...Published: 20 Mar 2018 at 05:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC-T split looms
MDC-T Vice President, Dr Thokozani Khupe says she is the legitimate party leader and will not lose sleep over threats by the Acting President Nelson Chamisa.Addressing thousands of supporters ...Published: 18 Mar 2018 at 18:29hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
MDC-T: A tradition of political violence
As the pre-election season rolls on, the MDC-T leader, Nelson Chamisa continues to address people as both that party's leader and the MDC Alliance presidential elections candidate. He has so far held ...Published: 15 Mar 2018 at 16:20hrs | 2 | by Nobleman Runyanga
MDC-T should be guided by their constitutions to avoid factionalism
THE succession fights, if left unresolved may drive the MDC-T to a possible split, to the detriment of the strongest and long standing opposition political party in Zimbabwe.It was without dou...Published: 01 Mar 2018 at 07:20hrs | | by Lloyd Phiri
MDC-T splits as Obert Gutu quits MDC-Chamisa
MDC-T national spokesperson Obert Gutu has condemned the violence that took place at the burial of MDC-T founding leader Morgan Tsvangirai in Buhera on Tuesday. MDC-T vice-president Thokozani Khupe, s...Published: 21 Feb 2018 at 12:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe: The shifting sands of MDC Politics
The Movement for Democratic change Tsvangirayi (MDC-T) as we know it is in murky waters. The political movement that gave Robert Mugabe a run for his money over the last twenty years is now a former s...Published: 09 Feb 2018 at 06:20hrs | | by Lloyd Msipa
Youth assembly fears MDC-T split
Daily News senior reporter Mugove Tafirenyika speaks to MDC national youth assembly secretary-general Lovemore Chinoputsa about the intense jostling for the president's position in the MDC to replace ...Published: 15 Jan 2018 at 16:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Election 2018: The prospects
Zimbabwe is once again heading into another election, as has become the norm, every five years since 1980.We are one of the few countries that did not start off as a one party state after we a...Published: 09 Oct 2017 at 16:00hrs | | by Reason Wafawarova
Biti vows to back Tsvangirai 'come rain come thunder'
Former Finance minister Tendai Biti is one of the heavyweights that have thrown their weight behind the MDC Alliance, an opposition coalition that is rallying behind ex-prime minister Morgan Tsvangira...Published: 10 Sep 2017 at 09:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Another MDC-T split imminent
THE appointment of Nelson Chamisa and Elias Mudzuri as vice presidents of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T) has opened a Pandora's Box in the fragile opposition party, amid fears of yet anoth...Published: 21 Jul 2016 at 10:14hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai moves to avert MDC-T split
MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai has reportedly embarked on a whirlwind tour of the party's district and provincial structures to avert a looming split triggered by violent factional fights and repo...Published: 27 Oct 2015 at 06:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Springtime: Rhodesians called it the suicide season
The Rhodesians called it the suicide season. Zimbabwe's springtime. Particularly the month of October when temperatures soar exponentially, and then peak. Even trees are drowsy and resigned; they wilt...Published: 29 Aug 2015 at 09:56hrs | 5 | by Nathaniel Manheru
Tsvangirai was misled to think he is face of Zimbabwe - Analysts
Social commentators have said MDC-T leader was misled into believing that he is the only face of Zimbabwe who can liberate the country from Zanu PF's misrule hence he detects what ever the opposit...Published: 27 Apr 2015 at 06:02hrs | 6 | by Stephen Jakes
'MDC-T decision makes sense only to a group of drunkards'
The MDC-T's recent attempts to recall 21 MDC Renewal MPs from Parliament is one of those incomprehensible decisions which can make sense only to a group of drunkards, given that the both MDC-T an...Published: 17 Mar 2015 at 11:10hrs | | by Sibongile Mgijima, MDC Deputy National Spokesperson
Tsvangirai, donors fall out
The Morgan Tsvangirai-led MDC has broken the umbilical cord tying it to most Western donors after its decision to recall more than 20 legislators who are part of what is now referred to as the MDC-ren...Published: 12 Mar 2015 at 11:58hrs | | by Senior Reporter
Tsvangirai weakened considerably by the 2014 split - report
Notwithstanding the emergence of splinter outfits and their competing leaders, MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai remains the most popular opposition leader in the country by far, a recent survey undertaken...Published: 11 Feb 2015 at 16:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
'MDC-T support plummets' - study
The MDC-T's power and influence on the country's political landscape has weakened by 66% after last year's split, the second inside a decade, under the stewardship of founding leader, Morgan Tsvangi...Published: 11 Feb 2015 at 18:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Broke MDC-T sends begging bowl
THE MDC-T has once again sent around the begging bowl, clearest indication that the party is broke and is reaching out to its members to bankroll it.In an advertisement, the party is asking me...Published: 05 Jan 2015 at 04:21hrs | | by Staff Reporter
MDC-T senator defects to Renewal Team
The Morgan Tsvangirai-led MDC-T party has suffered another knock in Manicaland province after one of its key members and Senator Patrick Chitaka crossed the floor to join the Renewal Team on Wedne...Published: 19 Dec 2014 at 08:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
2014 in Zimbabwe politics
WHAT a year in politics 2014 has been! Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T) leader, Morgan Tsvangirai and his party set the ball in motion for the high octane drama that left Zimbabweans spellbound ...Published: 18 Dec 2014 at 09:18hrs | | by Andrew Kunambura and Ray Ndlovu
Tsvangirai takes begging bowl to Europe
MDC-T leader Mr Morgan Tsvangirai has dispatched newly-elected party secretary-general Mr Douglas Mwonzora to Europe to source funds as he battles to reinvigorate the opposition outfit.The pa...Published: 13 Nov 2014 at 06:24hrs | | by Zvamaida Murwira
'Tsvangirai just another Idi Amin,' says rivals
The MDC renewal team has described MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai like "just another Idi Amin", intolerant to challenge, personalising a movement and a hypocrite who preaches what he does not practic...Published: 10 Nov 2014 at 08:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC-T split, just a rumour
The former MDC-T Matebeleland North provincial chairperson, Sengezo Tshabangu's driver, yesterday professed ignorance over the split within the party, saying he had no knowledge of the Tendai Biti...Published: 15 Oct 2014 at 07:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Moyo says goodbye to MDC-T
MAKOKOBA legislator Gorden Moyo will officially cross the floor from the main opposition MDC-T to the renewal team when he is unveiled at the breakaway faction launch of its philosophy and agenda at t...Published: 18 Sep 2014 at 13:36hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
MDC-T 15th Anniversary celebrations on Sunday
The Morgan Tsvangirai led MDC-T is set to celebrate its 15th Anniversary at Mucheke Stadium in Masvingo on Sunday.The celebrations to be conducted under the theme 'Towards National Convergence...Published: 12 Sep 2014 at 10:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai's MDC-T in danger of oblivion
Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition chairman Dewa Mavhinga has said the MDC-T has been diminished by petty personality and ego clashes.Speaking to SW Radio Africa's Cutting Edge programme Mavhinga sa...Published: 30 Jul 2014 at 21:37hrs | 1 | by Mthulisi Mathuthu
Suspected MDC-T thugs burn down MDC-Renewal official's home
The home of a district official in the MDC-Team Renewal party is reported to have been completely destroyed in a fiery blaze on Sunday, as the breakaway political group held a leadership meeting in Mu...Published: 29 Jul 2014 at 21:30hrs | | by Tererai Karimakwenda
Cyber-war targets Gorden Moyo
AN anonymous person has unleashed a cyber-war on former MDC-T Bulawayo provincial chairperson Gorden Moyo by distributing information alleging he is behind chaos at a residents association.T...Published: 27 Jun 2014 at 07:31hrs | | by Staff Repoprter
Mujuru or Mnangagwa - take your pick
I have found it most intriguing and entertaining that almost every political development in Zimbabwe must for some reason emanate from either the Mujuru camp's machinations to ascend to the throne or...Published: 22 May 2014 at 19:08hrs | | by Vince Musewe
$20 million added to MDC-T leadership row?
As the recent split in the MDC-T turns into a battle for control of parliamentary representation and party assets, both the Tsvangirai and the Biti factions have accused each other of abusing party fu...Published: 09 May 2014 at 21:15hrs | 1 | by Tererai Karimakwenda
'MDC-T split pre-planned,' says Moyo
AS the drama of acrimonious suspensions, expulsions, counter-suspensions and counter-expulsions continues to unravel within the strife-torn opposition MDC-T which appears headed for yet another split ...Published: 09 May 2014 at 08:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Lessons from the failures of the Patriotic Fund
In political struggles, it is common for those that aspire to lead to prostitute principles with selfish ambition.I like historical facts, because they stand up straight in front of you, l...Published: 08 May 2014 at 12:33hrs | | by Vince Musewe
MDC-T split a boon for Mthwakazi
Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) says the ongoing dispute in the MDC led by Morgan Tsvangirai is a blessing to their existence and cause.Mqondisi Moyo, president of the Bulawayo-based secessi...Published: 08 May 2014 at 12:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
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