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Magwegwe High faces water crisis
MAGWEGWE High School in Bulawayo is facing serious water problems amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Parliament was told last Thursday.The issue was revealed by the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee ...Published: 01 Mar 2021 at 05:03hrs | 403 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's failure to rein in his 'toxic and divisive' SG has destroyed the party
THE defection of top party executive, Lillian Timveos from the Nelson Chamisa-led MDC Alliance to the ruling Zanu-PF has opened a can of worms, with party insiders claiming the young opposition leader...Published: 26 Feb 2021 at 06:47hrs | 2849 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora, Khupe rift widens?
THE rift between underfire MDCT leader Douglas Mwonzora and Thokozani Khupe over the party presidency widened yesterday with the latter demanding a rerun of the internal polls.This was after M...Published: 24 Feb 2021 at 05:54hrs | 5256 | by Staff reporter
Push for talks gather momentum
THE POLITICAL Actors Dialogue (Polad) members are meeting today as the push towards inclusive national dialogue continues to gather momentum.This comes as pressure is mounting on President Emm...Published: 12 Feb 2021 at 15:37hrs | 285 | by Staff reporter
Magaisa was secretly dining with a Zanu-PF faction
Having gone through a lot of Alex Magaisa's recent articles, it is fair that a response by a Zimbabwean youth is given. After the disastrous 2013 election, the MDC-T family and its president Morgan Ts...Published: 12 Feb 2021 at 05:38hrs | 2188 | by Honourable Vincent Tsvangirai MP
MDC-T faces implosion
PLANS are afoot to challenge the constitutionality of the MDC-T extraordinary congress (EOC), its election results and the subsequent appointments made by its new leader Douglas Mwonzora after an atte...Published: 11 Feb 2021 at 06:22hrs | 4144 | by Staff reporter
$300 000 fraud ghost haunts Mwonzora
THE MDC-T has expressed concerns that its President Douglas Mwonzora's accusers on the alleged fraud involving $300 000 party funds which he allegedly siphoned to pay one of the party lawyers Sarudzay...Published: 05 Feb 2021 at 07:01hrs | 5107 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC ready to begin talks with President Mnangagwa
THE opposition MDC Alliance says it is ready to begin talks with Zanu PF to find lasting political and economic solutions for Zimbabwe but is not keen to deal with a rival faction led by its former se...Published: 01 Feb 2021 at 05:42hrs | 6040 | by Staff reporter
Opposition still alive in Zimbabwe
The man made frictions within the opposition circles are too far from killing the opposition in Zimbabwe.The ructions have been badly misinterpreted to mean demise of the opposition in the Southern Af...Published: 29 Jan 2021 at 08:38hrs | 2656 | by Kurauone Chihwayi
Zanu-PF supporters disrupt Mutare council meeting
ZANU-PF supporters reportedly disrupted a Pungwe Breweries meeting in Mutare last week in what is believed to be politically-motivated move.It is alleged that Zanu-PF activists, who included O...Published: 26 Jan 2021 at 07:12hrs | 938 | by Staff reporter
Reasons why by-elections spook Zanu-PF
ZIMBABWE is in perpetual election mode, so there is no harm yapping on this subject even as the year is just starting and we are more than two years away from the next national polls.The west ...Published: 10 Jan 2021 at 07:53hrs | 294 | by Tawanda Majoni
'Zanu-PF, police leading human rights violators'
THE ruling Zanu-PF party and the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) have been ranked top in the violation of human rights which occurred in December last year, latest findings by the Zimbabwe Peace Projec...Published: 07 Jan 2021 at 08:29hrs | 360 | by Staff reporter
Chaotic MDC-T congress spells doom for opposition
THIS week's chaotic MDC-T extraordinary congress which was controversially won by party secretary-general Douglas Mwonzora against rivals Thokozani Khupe, Elias Mudzuri and Morgan Komichi dealt the op...Published: 31 Dec 2020 at 11:06hrs | 932 | by Staff reporter
Khupe leaves MDC-T vote in a huff
CHAOTIC scenes rocked the combustible MDC-T extraordinary congress which was held at the Harare International Conference Centre yesterday, with backers of the interim party president Thokozani Khupe (...Published: 28 Dec 2020 at 07:42hrs | 4435 | by Staff reporter
Greed costing Khupe-led party
I HAVE seen Press statements from the MDC-T 2014 Matabeleland South and Harare provincial leadership teams instructing people from their respective provinces not to attend the extraordinary congress w...Published: 21 Dec 2020 at 06:38hrs | 966 | by Kennedy Kaitano
Mwonzora fires salvo at MDC-Alliance
MDC-T Secretary General Douglas Mwonzora has fired pot shots at the lawyer-studded MDC-Alliance saying they have let down their members by not educating and leading them in the legal path to avoid bei...Published: 18 Dec 2020 at 06:26hrs | 4547 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora tries to come clean over accusations
THE MDC-T owes US$100 000 to its lawyers who include constitutional expert Lovemore Madhuku, Kholwani Ngwenya, Nomatter Kadoko, and another lawyer only named as Mtungura, it has emerged.This w...Published: 15 Dec 2020 at 06:23hrs | 1097 | by Staff reporter
Phugeni's rape case not over
THE family of a minor who was allegedly raped by suspended MDCT spokesperson Khaliphani Phugeni has announced that it will appeal his acquittal at the High Court.Phugeni yesterday celebrated h...Published: 08 Dec 2020 at 21:35hrs | 1192 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC scoffs at govt building bomb plot claims
THE MDC Alliance has dismissed State reports Tuesday linking a party official to a plot to burn government buildings.The claims carried by the Herald newspaper were based on a leaked audio lin...Published: 27 Nov 2020 at 07:01hrs | 504 | by Staff reporter
Khupe MDC-T ship in troubled waters
THE Thokozani Khupe-led MDCT has plunged further into chaos with Elias Mudzuri, one of the party presidential hopefuls, rubbishing calls by some of the party bigwigs to hold a virtual extraordinary co...Published: 24 Nov 2020 at 04:39hrs | 4084 | by Staff reporter
Khupe 'expels' Bhebhe
THE MDC-T says it has expelled its firebrand national organiser Abednico Bhebhe for grossly violating the party's constitution.The party's National Council also resolved that only acting presi...Published: 15 Nov 2020 at 06:18hrs | 2268 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa, Khupe factions must seek ZCTU mediation
SO, the constitutional and rule of law champions Morgen Komichi, Douglas Mwonzora, MDC-T leader Thokozani Khupe and Tapiwa Mashakada want the world to believe that their understanding of constitutiona...Published: 23 Oct 2020 at 08:32hrs | 3279 | by Kennedy Kaitano
Khupe party implodes
INFIGHTING and political gamesmanship have ripped apart interim MDC-T leader Thokozani Khupe's party ahead of its planned extraordinary congress to choose a substantive successor for the opposition's ...Published: 20 Oct 2020 at 06:27hrs | 12381 | by Staff reporter
WHO says COVID-19 can't stop elections
THE World Health Organisation (WHO) has poured cold water on government's recent decision to suspend byelections citing COVID-19 fears, saying elections could safely be held during pandemics as long a...Published: 16 Oct 2020 at 07:09hrs | 1450 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa turned down Mnangagwa offer?
Embattled opposition MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has sensationally claimed that after rigging the 2018 presidential poll, President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government dangled lucrative perks to hi...Published: 14 Oct 2020 at 06:43hrs | 17428 | by Staff reporter
'Sad day for democracy'
LAWYERS, political analysts and opposition party leaders yesterday described the swearing in of opposition MDC-T leader Thokozani Khupe and her 14 party nominees as replacements for the recalled MDC A...Published: 08 Oct 2020 at 06:56hrs | 3792 | by Staff reporter
Komichi, Mwonzora elbowed out of presidential race
MDC-T leader Thokozani Khupe's loyalists have claimed their leader should be allowed to continue at the helm of the party ahead of Morgen Komichi and Douglas Mwonzora, who they accuse of ditching the ...Published: 07 Oct 2020 at 07:09hrs | 9565 | by Staff reporter
'Plot' against Chamisa
MDC-T insiders claim that an elaborate plan has been set to block MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa from contesting the 2023 presidential elections, which will include stripping him of his party and ...Published: 04 Oct 2020 at 10:20hrs | 7176 | by Staff reporter
Black Friday and the new Chiwenga law
THREE very interesting but equally disturbing, sinister and disruptive developments took place last Friday.The Supreme Court granted the MDC-T party an extension to hold its long-overdue c...Published: 04 Oct 2020 at 10:04hrs | 21017 | by Tawanda Majoni
Khupe sneaks into Parly, by-elections banned
VICE-PRESIDENT Constantino Chiwenga yesterday suspended holding of by-elections to fill in seats for recalled MDC Alliance MPs and councillors, as the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) confirmed in ...Published: 03 Oct 2020 at 08:36hrs | 3473 | by Staff reporter
Gwanda mayoral polls deferred
ELECTIONS for Gwanda mayor were yesterday deferred to next week amid reports that rival groups from Zanu-PF and MDC Alliance had mutually agreed that they needed more time to campaign, Southern Eye re...Published: 02 Oct 2020 at 07:36hrs | 1077 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa threatens radical action
Opposition leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday vowed his party will not surrender the MDC Alliance name to the rival MDCT led by Thokozani Khupe, warning that they would henceforth take to a radical respo...Published: 27 Sep 2020 at 08:31hrs | 5985 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa falls in Marondera
OPPOSITION MDC Alliance candidate for Marondera mayoral elections, Bornface Tagwireyi, was yesterday defeated by MDCT candidate Simbarashe Nyahuye in a tight contest held at council chambers.N...Published: 23 Sep 2020 at 06:09hrs | 17089 | by Staff reporter
Khupe drops Chamisa party name bombshell
Former deputy prime minister Thokozani Khupe's MDC-T yesterday said it is now known as the MDC Alliance in yet another dramatic twist in the battle for the control of Zimbabwe's main opposition party....Published: 20 Sep 2020 at 07:44hrs | 6148 | by Staff reporter
Khupe, Chamisa scuffle cripples local authorities
THE turf war between MDC-T leader Thokozani Khupe and her MDC Alliance rival Nelson Chamisa has left operations in the country's major cities and towns paralysed after she recalled a record 84 council...Published: 16 Sep 2020 at 06:28hrs | 1191 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa says 'use courts not ZBC to prosecute #MDCTrio'
MDC Alliance President Nelson Chamisa has raised grave concern over how the state was handling the alleged abduction of three female activists from his party.The activists now stand accused of...Published: 12 Sep 2020 at 07:47hrs | 1667 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo poke holes into ZBC 'fake abduction' video
MDC Alliance and several political commentators have roundly dismissed as cheap propaganda, a ZBC documentary flighted this week, purportedly exposing as fake, the abduction of Harare West MP Johanne ...Published: 11 Sep 2020 at 07:02hrs | 2180 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa regains Gwanda
MDC Alliance has regained control of Gwanda Town Council after four councillors out of the six who attended a meeting organised by the Thokozani Khupe's MDCT faction have pledged loyalty to their part...Published: 07 Sep 2020 at 06:36hrs | 6845 | by Staff reporter
+30,000 voters reject Khupe MPs
OVER 30 000 voters have responded to the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec)'s call to send in objections to MDCT leader Thokozani Khupe's intention to replace MPs she recalled with nominees of her ch...Published: 06 Sep 2020 at 20:11hrs | 8018 | by Staff reporter
Khupe, Mwonzora face legal, political minefield
MDC-T leader Thokozani Khupe and her ally Douglas Mwonzora face a legal and political minefield following the crackdown against MDC Alliance legislators and councillors as part of their turf war again...Published: 30 Aug 2020 at 11:05hrs | 6466 | by Staff reporter
Zec urged to stop filling MDC Alliance seats
A foreign-funded electoral watchdog has urged the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) to stop filling the vacant parliamentary seats but await the outcome of Supreme Court appeals filed by recalled MD...Published: 19 Aug 2020 at 07:17hrs | 3633 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance says it will reclaim 'stolen' seats
THE opposition MDC Alliance has vowed to fight what it terms "the subversion of the people's will" by taking back the parliamentary seats which the Thokozani Khupe-led MDC-T grabbed through parliament...Published: 17 Aug 2020 at 21:37hrs | 1942 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe authorities must respect human rights
The International Coalition Against the Coronavirus (ICAC) Africa, South African chapter leader Chanda Chose has said there is a need for Zimbabwean autho...Published: 17 Aug 2020 at 07:05hrs | 261 | by Stephen Jakes
Chamisa, Khupe leadership fight spills to Supreme Court
THE messy tug-of-war between MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa and his MDCT nemesis Thokozani Khupe has taken a new twist after it emerged the two will once again square off in the Supreme Court over...Published: 14 Aug 2020 at 10:05hrs | 6532 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa, Khupe square off again
EMBATTLED opposition MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has rekindled his fight against rival MDC-T leader Thokozani Khupe saying she no longer had legal grounds to claim leadership of the main opposi...Published: 03 Aug 2020 at 08:05hrs | 11657 | by Staff reporter
Shutdown continues amid tension
Security forces for the third day running yesterday blocked people from entering business districts in major cities as authorities feared an uprising over corruption and misgovernance.Tensions...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 09:42hrs | 7083 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora's fight with Chamisa not personal
MDC-T secretary-general Douglas Mwonzora says his fight with MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa is not personal, but is fuelled by his desire to instil constitutionalism in the opposition.Mwon...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 09:33hrs | 3337 | by Staff reporter
Mahere and other political activists granted bail
ELEVEN political activists, including MDC-Alliance spokesperson Fadzai Mahere, filmmaker and novelist Tsitsi Dangarembga and others from different pressure groups, yesterday appeared in court facing a...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 09:08hrs | 314 | by Staff reporter
Khupe targets MDC Alliance name
ACTING MDC-T president Thokozani Khupe wants to claim ownership of the MDC Alliance name from the Nelson Chamisa-led party, an official confirmed yesterday.Khupe's faction, which seized contro...Published: 29 Jul 2020 at 09:21hrs | 3917 | by Staff reporter
Khupe, top party executives 'exposed' to COVID-19
MDC-T acting leader Thokozani Khupe and several party leaders including acting secretary-general Douglas Mwonzora and acting national chairperson Morgen Komichi had physical contact with reportedly a ...Published: 24 Jul 2020 at 08:13hrs | 2922 | by Staff reporter
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