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Chamisa says he is still in charge
OPPOSITION MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has assured his followers that he is still in charge of the main opposition political party in Zimbabwe, and dismissed what MDC-T leaders Thokozani Khupe,...Published: 21 hrs ago | 4077 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa threatens to block 2023 elections
Nelson Chamisa, the MDC Alliance president, has promised to block the 2023 national elections if necessary political and electoral reforms are not implemented.He was speaking during an e-rally...Published: 05 Jul 2020 at 20:47hrs | 6406 | by Staff reporter
Jostling for posts divides Khupe's party
INFIGHTING has erupted in the MDC-T led by Thokozani Khupe a few months after the faction found new life following a Supreme Court ruling that reinstated the former deputy prime minister as leader of ...Published: 05 Jul 2020 at 11:10hrs | 5771 | by Staff reporter
Khupe's MDC-T to take over Bulawayo offices
MDC-T led by acting president Dr Thokozani Khupe is expected to take over the Bulawayo offices that were now being used by the MDC-Alliance this week.The move comes after the party also succes...Published: 05 Jul 2020 at 11:08hrs | 1705 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo sits on perennial river
IN a case depicting poverty amid plenty, part of the Bulawayo Central Business District (CBD) was built on top of an underground perennial river, despite the city experiencing a crippling water shorta...Published: 05 Jul 2020 at 11:06hrs | 1633 | by Staff reporter
Khupe, Chamisa rift widens
MDC-T leader interim leader Thokozani Khupe and embattled MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa have increasingly demonstrated their lack of capacity to heal their warring party's rifts, and to give dire...Published: 04 Jul 2020 at 17:26hrs | 6709 | by Staff reporter
Khupe, Chamisa lock horns over chief whips
MDC-T leader Thokozani Khupe and his MDC Alliance rival Nelson Chamisa have opened a new battlefront in their war for the control of the opposition party following their appointment of different set o...Published: 03 Jul 2020 at 18:17hrs | 5208 | by Staff reporter
Khupe expels ex-Lover from Senate?
MDC-T interim president Thokozani Khupe has been accused of using her new position to hound an ex-lover, Gideon Shoko through recalling him from the Senate, New Zimbabwe reported.Shoko is a Bu...Published: 03 Jul 2020 at 08:12hrs | 11720 | by Staff reporter
Zec makes U-turn over elections
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has said it would withdraw its proposal to suspend electoral activities during the COVID-19 lockdown because the pandemic was likely to be long-term.Zec...Published: 03 Jul 2020 at 08:05hrs | 5672 | by Staff reporter
MDC fights shift to Zec
NELSON Chamisa's MDC Alliance has vowed to block Thokozani Khupe and her party from replacing proportional representation (PR) legislators and senators recalled by the MDC-T from Parliament over the p...Published: 03 Jul 2020 at 08:03hrs | 1991 | by Staff reporter
Caribbean countries get access to Africa Medical Supplies Platform for procurement of COVID-19 supplies
Member States of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) have been given access to the Africa Medical Supplies Platform (AMSP), a procurement system for supplies and equipment in the fight against COVID-19....Published: 03 Jul 2020 at 07:25hrs | 100 | by Agencies
Mugabe's ex-ministers seek Zanu-PF return
Two former ministers are seeking readmission into Zanu-PF, nearly three years after they were expelled following the resignation of former President Robert Mugabe.The late Mugabe resigned 21 N...Published: 02 Jul 2020 at 22:27hrs | 5467 | by Staff reporter
SA deports 273 more Zimbabweans
South Africa will, between today and tomorrow, deport a total of 273 Zimbabweans who have been arrested for breaking its immigration laws.The move is part of the neighbouring country's efforts...Published: 02 Jul 2020 at 20:54hrs | 2941 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's 5 MPs challenge Parly expulsion
FIVE MDC Alliance MPs who were recalled from Parliament by MDC-T leader Thokozani Khupe last week, have approached the High Court challenging their expulsion.The affected MPs are; Basilia Maja...Published: 02 Jul 2020 at 18:36hrs | 5169 | by newzimbabwe
AIPPA scrapped
The new Freedom of Information Bill became law yesterday after being gazetted following the approval of the final amended version from Parliament by President Mnangagwa. The new Act, a giant s...Published: 02 Jul 2020 at 18:34hrs | 804 | by Staff reporter
Khupe's faction wreaks carnage
AS THE MDC's mindless wars worsen, interim party leader Thokozani Khupe threw the kitchen sink at her rival Nelson Chamisa yesterday - recalling nine senators from Parliament and barring more than 1 0...Published: 02 Jul 2020 at 18:33hrs | 5275 | by Staff reporter
Govt yet to decide on school calendar
THE government is yet to decide on the school calendar despite that primary and secondary schools are reopening this month.This comes as schools were forced to close early in March as the gove...Published: 02 Jul 2020 at 18:30hrs | 997 | by Staff reporter
When the clueless and corrupt pray
A FEW days back President Emmerson Mnangagwa called for a day of prayer and repentance. The objective was to pray for the intervention of the Almighty in the global pandemic, the COVID-19. Mnangagwa h...Published: 02 Jul 2020 at 18:25hrs | 258 | by Shepherd Mpofu
Zimbabwean embassies in dire straits
ZIMBABWEAN embassies are in dire straits with diplomats not being paid for several months, while living in squalid conditions as the government owes close to US$30 million for services rendered and re...Published: 02 Jul 2020 at 18:23hrs | 723 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean white man raises US$100 000 for Bulawayo and Harare pensioners
Hotelier, farmer, writer, adoptive father of three, and amateur cyclist Eric de Jong is a man with stories to tell. And don't be fooled by his self-deprecation – he might not be a youth but is certa...Published: 01 Jul 2020 at 13:51hrs | 6029 | by Dutch Embassy
Mnangagwa's superstitious regime unmasked
Behavioural economists and psychologists tell us that we have inherent biases that influence our actions. These experts tell us that we humans have some default behaviours as a result of our lived or ...Published: 01 Jul 2020 at 12:21hrs | 15181 | by Edzai Zvobwo
Residents sue BCC over typhoid, Harare laboratory roped in
BULAWAYO residents have approached the High Court seeking an order directing council to release the laboratory samples of tap water and other vital information relating to the diarrhoea outbreak in Lu...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 07:56hrs | 281 | by Staff reporter
Introduction - Reform Agenda Part 1 of 3
1. What is the Reform Agenda?The Reform Agenda is a politically conscious organisation that seeks to inform and influence political and civic outcom...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 07:24hrs | 376 | by Robert Sigauke
Cain Mathema summoned over schools reopening
PARLIAMENT has summoned the minister of Primary and Secondary Education, Cain Mathema, junior MPs and the deaf community to share their views on the reopening of schools amid the coronavirus (Covid-19...Published: 29 Jun 2020 at 18:48hrs | 2432 | by Staff reporter
Chihuri says Mnangagwa targeting him over a woman
Former Zimbabwe Republic Police Commissioner Augustine Chihuri has claimed that President Mnangagwa is persecuting him over a war time clash over a woman, in a case where he is challenging the validit...Published: 29 Jun 2020 at 08:03hrs | 5105 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa forcing us to dialogue, says Chamisa
OPPOSITION MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday accused President Emmerson Mnangagwa of abusing State institutions to push his party into dialogue, pleading with Sadc and the international com...Published: 29 Jun 2020 at 07:51hrs | 12767 | by Staff reporter
Is Khupe an MDC or Zanu-PF creation?
Zimbabwe is at crossroads, the economy is in decline, deprivation continues, with ordinary citizens yearning for reprieve from the challenges to do with daily survival.Grace KwinjeThis is ...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 20:06hrs | 3034 | by Grace Kwinjeh
Zimbabwe opposition facing extinction?
IT WAS a journey of 40 years, one which the children of Israel endured until they reached Canaan, but unlike the Israelites, who turned a corner after four decades, the opposition in Zimbabwe has rema...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 17:48hrs | 565 | by Tendai Kamhungira
Chamisa has been hijacked, says Mashakada
Founding MDC member and Economic Planning former minister Tapiwa Mashakada recently left the MDC-Alliance led by Nelson Chamisa claiming the party had stopped being a workers' movement and that it had...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 17:44hrs | 8923 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe constitution amendment (bill no. 2) - 2019
Written submission in accordance with section 328 amendment of constitution ZAPU notes with grave concern about the implications of the proposed r...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 10:47hrs | 878 | by Sakhile Sibanda
Chamisa moves to new offices?
The Nelson Chamisa led MDC faction, which receiving another morale-sapping blow after it lost the battle for the warring party's hugely symbolic national headquarters in Harare, is reported to have mo...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 09:43hrs | 11719 | by Staff reporter
We are loyal to Chamisa, says Chibaya
MDC Alliance organising secretary Amos Chibaya says all party MPs recently recalled by the Thokozani Khupe-led MDC-T remain resolute and unshaken by the purges.Speaking to The Standard yesterd...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 08:20hrs | 1263 | by Staff reporter
Amending constitution unfair, undemocratic
To be frank, the late former president Robert Mugabe made so many errors of commission and omission during his 37-year rule.However, in my singular opinion he also omitted to groom a successor...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 08:09hrs | 253 | by Martin Stobart
Chamisa's faction receives another morale-sapping blow
IT DOES not rain but pours for Nelson Chamisa's MDC faction, with the beset group receiving another morale-sapping blow yesterday after it lost the battle for the warring party's hugely symbolic natio...Published: 27 Jun 2020 at 17:02hrs | 9235 | by Staff reporter
Zim Government under spotlight over property rights: Paul Westwood saga
During the 2017 episode, one of the key fundamentals which the military reiterated during the seizure of power, was the restoration of legacy, getting rid of the purported criminals around Robert Muga...Published: 27 Jun 2020 at 09:54hrs | 1066 | by Charles Murindo
Technical glitch adds to Bulawayo water woes
BULAWAYO City Council has shut down water pumps supplying water from Ncema Dam to the Tuli Reservoir due to a technical fault, forcing prolonged water supply interruption in the city. The problem come...Published: 27 Jun 2020 at 08:37hrs | 292 | by Staff reporter
Of ugly vultures and bad wolves in good sheep's clothing
I shall begin with our own fathers and ancestors, it is both just and proper that they should have the honor of mention, for handing free to us this country, augmented by valiant valor, their blood an...Published: 27 Jun 2020 at 00:25hrs | 1541 | by Evangelist Sendekai W.T
'Now is the time to liberate ourselves' - Why long wait? New Dotito puppy tale of the unexpected
Zimbabwe's corrupt and incompetent politicians, right across the political divide, take the Zimbabwean electorate for fools! It was only after Joice Mujuru was booted out; "baby dumped", as Gr...Published: 26 Jun 2020 at 20:08hrs | 1973 | by Nomusa Garikai
Government threatens shops over bond notes
THE government has threatened to withdraw licences of shops rejecting $1 and $2 coins as well as $2 and $5 bond notes.Businesses started rejecting the lower denominations as soon as the Reserv...Published: 26 Jun 2020 at 18:13hrs | 819 | by Staff reporter
My parliament is in Mkoba: MDC Alliance MP Chibaya
MDC Alliance legislator for Mkoba Amos Chibaya has said his alleged recall from parliament does not change his responsibility to serve the people in his constituency indicating that his parliament is ...Published: 26 Jun 2020 at 07:58hrs | 4045 | by Stephen Jakes
Khupe, Mwonzora aides clash
POWER struggles have ripped the MDC-T faction apart ahead of its extraordinary congress slated for September, with interim leader Thokozani Khupe's aides allegedly assaulted by party secretarygeneral ...Published: 26 Jun 2020 at 07:58hrs | 8542 | by Staff reporter
Mounting challenges for Chamisa
THE MDC-Alliance, and the entire legacy of the opposition movement, faces the gravest political challenges it has had to confront since its formation in 1999.This is the result of a combinatio...Published: 26 Jun 2020 at 07:56hrs | 9950 | by Brian Raftopoulos
MDC, politics of denial psychology and psychological deflection II
THE Supreme Court judgment set off a series of gaffes by the MDC-Alliance, starting with their denial of the validity, enforceability and effectiveness of the judgment on the MDC-Alliance. The MDC-All...Published: 26 Jun 2020 at 07:45hrs | 1294 | by Jonathan Chando
Zimbabwe quarantine centres new COVID-19 hotspots
I AM in quarantine and it's a mess." Many Zimbabweans woke up to this distressful text from humanitarian worker Munyaradzi Madziwa who had been quarantined at Mosi Oa Tunya Secondary School in Victori...Published: 26 Jun 2020 at 07:31hrs | 818 | by Staff reporter
Biti and Job Sikhala to be struck off the roll?
Zimbabwean politics has always been full of mystery. Politicians are normally identified by their getting into public office. There are a lot of politicians fine politicians who had never ran for an o...Published: 25 Jun 2020 at 23:05hrs | 15510 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Chamisa vows to fight back
MDC-Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has vowed to fight against the recall of his legislators from Parliament by the rival Thokozani Khupe-led MDC-T.Khupe recalled a total of 13 MDC-Alliance leg...Published: 25 Jun 2020 at 16:21hrs | 5977 | by Staff reporter
No one can stop us - MDC Alliance Assembly
The MDC Alliance Assembly of Women spokesperson Barbra Tanyanyiwa has said that no one will stop them from condemning the failed government of Zanu PF and fighting for the people's freedom as long as ...Published: 25 Jun 2020 at 13:58hrs | 2729 | by Stephen Jakes
MDC bulls have locked horns, they will fight to death - no glory for either much less for nation, 'Shaisano!'
Now that the MDC bulls have locked horns, there is no stopping the fight! There is death for both bulls, no glory! "Shaisano!" as one would say in Shona. Ever since the Supreme Court jud...Published: 25 Jun 2020 at 13:10hrs | 2078 | by Wilbert Mukori
Mliswa slams 'bunch of empty head' MPs
CONTROVERSIAL Norton MP, Temba Mliswa was Wednesday suspended for a continuous six house sittings by Speaker Jacob Mudenda over rowdy behaviour.But an angry Mliswa, reacting to the move, accus...Published: 25 Jun 2020 at 07:11hrs | 2933 | by newzimbabwe
Chamisa MPs snub Khupe
MDC Alliance legislators yesterday snubbed a meeting called by MDC-T leader Thokozani Khupe, with less than 20 turning up at the Harvest House.After recalling 13 MPs, Khupe is trying to impose...Published: 25 Jun 2020 at 07:10hrs | 8567 | by Staff reporter
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