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Chamisa disobeyed Tsvangirai, says Eddie Cross
MDC Alliance presidential candidate Mr Nelson Chamisa fairly lost the just ended elections because he disregarded the election road map that was agreed upon by the party and endorsed by the late leade...Published: 5 hrs ago | 3398 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa hung out to dry as Presidential aspirants decline to support his challenge
MDC Alliance leader Mr Nelson Chamisa has been left to fight a lone battle after a majority of presidential candidates that contested in this year's elections declined to file papers at the Constituti...Published: 6 hrs ago | 745 | by Staff reporter
GNU is not good for both Zanu-PF and MDC-Alliance
Chamisa has shown that he is a bad loser and so how can this bad loser become a useful partner? Albert Einstein would say: "Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with i...Published: 6 hrs ago | 190 | by Bishop
Lovemore Moyo says not losing sleep over July 30 polls
United Movement for Devolution (UMD) leader and former Speaker of Parliament Lovemore Moyo has said he was not losing sleep over his party's poor showing in the July 30 elections, but would seek to co...Published: 18 Aug 2018 at 08:09hrs | 749 | by Staff reporter
Lessons from Kenya (Part 2)
WE carry on looking at the similarities between Kenyan and Zimbabwean electoral politics. As noted, there are striking similarities in the politics and election systems between the two countries....Published: 18 Aug 2018 at 08:07hrs | 220 | by Miriam Majome
Chamisa ups the pressure
MDC Alliance presidential candidate Nelson Chamisa yesterday dispatched a three-member team to lobby Sadc leaders at the ongoing regional summit in Namibia as Zimbabwe's political situation remains in...Published: 18 Aug 2018 at 08:05hrs | 1003 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's poll agent arrested
MDC Alliance leader, Nelson Chamisa's co-chief election agent, Morgen Komichi, has been arrested on charges of violating the country's electoral laws after he allegedly interrupted the 2018 harmonised...Published: 18 Aug 2018 at 08:03hrs | 748 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa in dilemma
Embattled MDC-Alliance leader Mr Nelson Chamisa is desperate to find a political home after it emerged that the agreement binding the fringe coalition allows parties to retain their individual identit...Published: 18 Aug 2018 at 07:54hrs | 2954 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa is not a factor in parliament, which is good
Since there are so many impious hands on Zimbabwe's internal affairs, so many hands challenging its sovereignty, I thought my opening paragraphs should address those meddlesome, self-righteous foreign...Published: 18 Aug 2018 at 07:53hrs | 306 | by Igomombe
Khupe's brother laid to rest
MDC-T breakaway leader Thokozani Khupe's brother Christopher was buried in Bulawayo yesterday following his death early this week.MDC-T Vice president Obert Gutu said on Thursday, August...Published: 17 Aug 2018 at 10:31hrs | 7938 | by Stephen Jakes
Chamisa tables congress motion
MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa reportedly gathered the MDC-T national executive after the general elections and tabled a motion for a congress set for next year.Chamisa is challenging the ...Published: 17 Aug 2018 at 06:23hrs | 4687 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC Alliance want court live broadcast
THE MDC Alliance wants its presidential election challenge to be broadcast live on national television when the case is heard before the Constitutional Court on Wednesday next week.MDC Allianc...Published: 17 Aug 2018 at 06:18hrs | 1527 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa should stop holding nation to ransom
Local and foreign journalists were treated to a sumptuous feast of political hallucinations by Advocate Nelson Chamisa when he addressed a Press conference in Harare after Mnangagwa had been declared ...Published: 17 Aug 2018 at 06:17hrs | 749 | by Cuthbert Mavheko
Chamisa's petition weak on law, heavy on politics
THE MDC-Alliance presidential candidate Nelson Chamisa on Friday August 10, 2018 filed Constitutional Challenge Case No CCZ 42/ 2018, disputing the presidential election results announced by the Zimba...Published: 17 Aug 2018 at 06:12hrs | 1202 | by Dr Itayi Garande
'MDC frothing over rigged elections,' says Newsday - theatrical farce, Biti et al are gloriously happy!
I have read some good article and some bad articles, this is one of the best I have read in many moons!"The MDC Alliance has been frothing at the mouth before, during and after the polls, stating ...Published: 16 Aug 2018 at 13:27hrs | 4224 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Chamisa's Alliance was strategic but poorly designed'
After successive defeats at the hands of the ruling Zanu-PF party, the MDC as the biggest opposition party in the country was urged to form a grand coalition that would fight from one corner.T...Published: 16 Aug 2018 at 06:35hrs | 1431 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa dares Chamisa
PRESIDENT-ELECT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday dared his opposition MDC Alliance counterpart Nelson Chamisa to prove the vote-rigging claims at the Constitutional Court (ConCourt), setting the stage for...Published: 16 Aug 2018 at 06:27hrs | 4538 | by Staff reporter
Battle for mayoral post splits MDC Alliance
Jostling for the Marondera mayoral post has intensified amid reports that MDC Alliance councillors are divided on who to appoint to lead council business.MDC Alliance took control of the once ...Published: 16 Aug 2018 at 06:25hrs | 987 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa: A soldier simply fading away
There is nothing peculiar in challenging an election result in a court of law as that has been the tradition in many countries. Just a few instances suffice as examples. In the 2000 United Sta...Published: 16 Aug 2018 at 06:11hrs | 985 | by Gibson Nyikadzino
Eddie Cross quits MDC-Alliance
Outgoing MDC-T Bulawayo South National Assembly member Mr Eddie Cross has resigned from the opposition party and quit politics. He said his resignation had nothing to do with the ongoing political sit...Published: 16 Aug 2018 at 06:09hrs | 1882 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC-Alliance on the brink of an imminent split
MDC-Alliance - led by Mr Nelson Chamisa - is on the brink of an imminent split fronted by one of its co-principals Mr Tendai Biti, who has the backing of several Western capitals, principally Washingt...Published: 16 Aug 2018 at 06:08hrs | 2160 | by Tendai Mugabe
Chamisa missed Heroes 'mourning stolen election' - we mourn curse of 'indecisive' Chamisa and missed reforms
It was USA Ambassador to Zimbabwe, Chris Dell, who said, back in 2004, the late MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai "was a flawed and indecisive character". Events have proven that the Ambassador was right a...Published: 15 Aug 2018 at 16:43hrs | 2911 | by Nomusa Garikai
Khupe, Bhebhe differ on poll rigging claims
MDC-T national chair Abednico Bhebhe Tuesday emerged to contradict party president Thokozani Khupe who recently gave the just ended harmonised elections a clean bill of health.In an interview ...Published: 15 Aug 2018 at 07:31hrs | 3792 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe military takes over policing at the Beitbridge Border post
The Government has deployed soldiers to Beitbridge Border Post to help eradicate criminal activities. Some commentators say that MDC Alliance's threats of unspecified action to make the country ungove...Published: 14 Aug 2018 at 15:08hrs | 10249 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's lawyers in panic mode?
MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa's lead lawyer Thabani Mpofu claims the evidence they submitted to the Constitutional Court (ConCourt) was indisputable and would likely embarrass both the Zimbabwe E...Published: 14 Aug 2018 at 06:47hrs | 11095 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance polling agent's hut torched
SUSPECTED Zanu-PF activists reportedly torched an MDC Alliance supporter's hut in Hotsprings, Chimanimani West constituency on Sunday, as cases of politically-motivated violence continue to rise in Ma...Published: 14 Aug 2018 at 06:41hrs | 524 | by Staff reporter
MDC-T Mayor who refused posh car and opted for bicycle ousted
FORMER Kwekwe mayor Shadreck Tobaiwa who bounced back into council after the July 30 elections has been tipped to reclaim the city's top job.He would replace mayor Matenda Madzoke who lost cou...Published: 13 Aug 2018 at 07:39hrs | 8505 | by Staff reporter
Opposition commemorating its own heroes
THE MDC Alliance yesterday said as they commemorate Heroes' Day today they will also consider their own fallen heroes like the late former Prime Minister and MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai, who was no...Published: 13 Aug 2018 at 06:53hrs | 595 | by Staff reporter
Plot to topple Chamisa in MDC-T
VULTURES in the MDC-T led by Nelson Chamisa have reportedly started plotting to topple him ahead of the opposition party's elective congress next year.Highly-placed sources said there was a gr...Published: 13 Aug 2018 at 06:51hrs | 1853 | by Staff reporter
'Chamisa election petition was late'
The MDC Alliance missed the deadline to serve its poll petition on President-elect Emmerson Mnangagwa and the Constitutional Court should thus dismiss it, Zanu-PF's lawyers have said.The rulin...Published: 12 Aug 2018 at 09:57hrs | 1042 | by Staff reporter
Biti relates epic capture by 'balaclava and gun-wielding soldiers' - who mourns povo, victims of his greed
Tendai Biti was hurried and haunted out of Zimbabwe and he almost escaped to Zambia only to be nabbed at the last minute and brought back to Zimbabwe. He has been telling us his adventure and we will,...Published: 11 Aug 2018 at 20:21hrs | 4048 | by Wilbert Mukori
Zanu PF cries foul over Zidera
ZANU PF yesterday cried foul over the signing of the Zimbabwe Democracy and Economic Recovery (Zidera) Amendment Act of 2018 (S 2779) by United States President Donald Trump, with party secretary for ...Published: 11 Aug 2018 at 10:19hrs | 2959 | by Staff reporter
Zanu PF rigged these elections and 'MDC are celebrating election victory!' - that says it all
Guess who is celebrating election victory? MDC Alliance; Welshman Ncube and Tendai Biti and their respective MDC and PDP followers have good reason to be celebrating, the Alliance saved them from sink...Published: 10 Aug 2018 at 15:53hrs | 4440 | by Nomusa Garikai
MDC-Alliance protests unjustifiable
The move that was taken by the MDC-Alliance supporters, early this month to demonstrate against the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission, (ZEC), criticising it, of failing to announce the Presidential electi...Published: 10 Aug 2018 at 15:50hrs | 1090 | by Peacemaker Zano
MDC-Alliance protests unjustifiable
The move that was taken by the MDC-Alliance supporters, early this month to demonstrate against the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission, (ZEC), criticising it, of failing to announce the Presidential electi...Published: 10 Aug 2018 at 12:24hrs | 1961 | by Peacemaker Zano
Time for Zimbabwe to move on
THE 2018 harmonised elections have come, but not exactly gone because the main opposition MDC Alliance has signalled its intention to approach the Constitutional Court to challenge the results, which ...Published: 10 Aug 2018 at 07:57hrs | 522 | by Conway Tutani
Misihairabwi blasts media for fueling patriarchy
MDC-T Matabeleland South Proportional Representation-designate legislator, Priscilla Misihairabwi -Mushonga, has lambasted local media for what she termed thriving on patriarchy.She said there...Published: 10 Aug 2018 at 07:54hrs | 774 | by Staff reporter
3 MDC Alliance councillors eye Harare mayor's post
THE newly-elected MDC Alliance councillors in Harare have reportedly started jostling for key positions, with former chief adviser to the late MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai, Ian Makone, being tipped ...Published: 10 Aug 2018 at 07:48hrs | 641 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC Alliance to challenge 21 seats
THE opposition MDC Alliance has announced plans to challenge results in 21 constituencies, where it claims there was massive rigging, as it seeks to overturn Zanu-PF's two-thirds parliamentary majorit...Published: 10 Aug 2018 at 07:43hrs | 2046 | by Staff reporter
Tendai Biti must face the music
Zambia deported MDC Alliance co-principal, Tendai Biti, back home early yesterday morning after his bid to secure asylum in the neighbouring country failed on Wednesday.Many were shocked to le...Published: 10 Aug 2018 at 07:39hrs | 310 | by Editorial - Chronicle
Khupe being used by Zanu PF, says Jonathan Moyo
Former Zanu PF politburo member Jonathan Moyo has said break away MDC-T leader Thokozani Khupe is being used by Zanu PF after she endorsed what he termed a sham election being disputed by MDC Alliance...Published: 09 Aug 2018 at 09:07hrs | 7786 | by Stephen Jakes
Chamisa guns for Mwonzora's head
THE MDC-T faction led by Mr Nelson Chamisa is gunning for its secretary-general Mr Douglas Mwonzora's head, and yesterday initiated disciplinary proceedings against him for blaming the opposition's lo...Published: 09 Aug 2018 at 07:59hrs | 6535 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora exposed over Mugabe overtures
Secretary general for the MDC-T Nelson Chamisa led faction, Mr Douglas Mwonzora, flew to Kenya this year to meet G40 cabalists for assistance to secure a meeting with former president, Mr Robert Mugab...Published: 09 Aug 2018 at 07:58hrs | 2518 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance losing candidate sues Zec
MDC-T Manicaland provincial chairperson, David Chimhini, who lost to Zanu-PF's Chido Madiwa in Mutasa North constituency, yesterday filed an urgent chamber application at the Masvingo High Court, seek...Published: 09 Aug 2018 at 07:50hrs | 1069 | by Staff reporter
'Social media abuse rife in just-ended election'
CiviL society groups have expressed concern over the negative use of social media during the just-ended general elections, saying there WAS need to engage citizens on the implications of misuse of the...Published: 09 Aug 2018 at 07:47hrs | 246 | by Staff reporter
Tendai Biti pledges sanctions on Zimbabwe
MDC-Alliance principal, who is also leader of the Peoples' Democratic Party, Tendai Biti, has once again pledged that Zimbabwe should be subjected to sanctions following ZANU-PF's victory in the just-...Published: 09 Aug 2018 at 07:32hrs | 932 | by Staff reporter
Ishmael Kumire died at the MDC-Alliance violent demonstration: No single alliance official attended the funeral
He was buried in Chinamhora, writes German Journalist Christian Selz and there was not even one MDC-Alliance at his funeral. Ishmael was a street vendor eking out a living for his family when he was c...Published: 08 Aug 2018 at 08:00hrs | 6052 | by Nomazulu Thata
Zimbabwe 2018 elections marginalised women
The recent general elections in Zimbabwe provide a classic case study for marginalisation of women in key political process in any given country. The elections, in which women were largely condemned t...Published: 08 Aug 2018 at 07:57hrs | 589 | by Makho-Precious Moyo
Former Kwekwe mayor eyes return
FORMER Kwekwe mayor Shadreck Tobaiwa is eyeing a return to the helm of the local authority following his election as a councillor on July 30 on an MDC Alliance ticket.Tobaiwa, who was ceremoni...Published: 08 Aug 2018 at 06:42hrs | 1355 | by Staff reporter
Khupe accuses Chamisa of engaging in brinkmanship politics
THE Thokozani Khupe-led MDC-T has joined hands with Zanu-PF to castigate MDC Alliance leader, Nelson Chamisa for rejecting the presidential results, accusing him of being selfish, violent and backward...Published: 08 Aug 2018 at 06:40hrs | 2857 | by Staff reporter
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