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Chamisa tells mourners that he is unstoppable
OPPOSITION MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday said he was unstoppable and unfazed by his political woes that saw him lose the party headquarters, Morgan Richard Tsvangirai House and the reca...Published: 09 Jul 2020 at 07:24hrs | 6572 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa says change was near and Mnangagwa's end was nigh
OPPOSITION MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday said he was unstoppable and unfazed by his political woes that saw him lose the party headquarters, Morgan Richard Tsvangirai House and the reca...Published: 09 Jul 2020 at 07:00hrs | 1251 | by Staff reporter
Toe to Toe with Zanu PF?
I am writing this article in response to Wilbert Mukori's article to Bulawayo24 entitled 'Baffling, MDC leaders endorsed ED's coup and now in bed with G40'. Yes I know that every responsible Zim...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 13:32hrs | 1867 | by Clement Moyo
Madhuku blasts government on electoral reforms
National Constitution Assembly (ANC) leader Lovemore Madhuku has challenged the government on electoral reforms and recommendations of the Commission."I will speak as a politician and NC...Published: 29 Jun 2020 at 23:06hrs | 2133 | by Tarisai Mudahondo
Khupe changes congress date
THE Thokozani Khupe-led MDC-T was yesterday forced to change its extra-ordinary congress date from September 4 to July 31 following legal advice from its lawyer Lovemore Madhuku. The faction had to re...Published: 29 Jun 2020 at 07:41hrs | 2912 | by Staff reporter
Khupe in congress U-Turn
INTERIM MDC president Thokozani Khupe has made a dramatic extra-ordinary congress U-turn after she rolled back the new dates she had set for the Indaba to the original July 31 date.This comes ...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 18:03hrs | 6821 | by Staff reporter
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 | 9250 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF schools inspector terrorising teachers
A ZAKA schools inspector, Lylletty Aleta Makomeke, who is also Zanu-PF councillor for Masvingo Rural District Council (RDC) ward 5, has been accused of terrorising teachers for the past two years....Published: 24 Jun 2020 at 07:29hrs | 2703 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa moves in to deal with his successor'
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's ZANU PF party is pushing for the amendment of the constitution to deal with the succession plan that is provided by the constitution, Constitutional law expert Professor...Published: 22 Jun 2020 at 12:16hrs | 17417 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Law changes to give Mnangagwa edge on succession
A PROPOSED new law which seeks to empower President Emmerson Mnangagwa, to handpick his deputies could see him deciding who takes over after him both as Zanu-PF's and the country's new leader....Published: 21 Jun 2020 at 17:02hrs | 2192 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa is seeking to consolidate power through amendment'
PARLIAMENT last week embarked on nation-wide public hearings into Constitution Amendment (No 2) Bill to gather views of the people on the proposal to tinker with a number of provisions in the supreme ...Published: 21 Jun 2020 at 16:59hrs | 1545 | by Staff reporter
The mystery of Zimbabwe politics currently on display
ABOUT four months ago the Supreme Court of Zimbabwe ruled in favour of Thokozani Khupe in a matter in which there was an argument relating to the legitimacy of her leadership of MDC (T) and Nelson Cha...Published: 21 Jun 2020 at 11:39hrs | 529 | by Jonathan Maphenduka
Mnangagwa told to stop it
RESIDENTS associations and civil society organisations have ganged up to stop President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government from rushing through a controversial constitutional amendment under the cover of...Published: 15 Jun 2020 at 08:00hrs | 5906 | by Staff reporter
Court reserves judgment on Harvest House fight
The High Court has reserved judgment in an urgent chamber application filed by MDC-Alliance to regain Harvest House following their recent eviction by MDC-T led by Dr Thokozani Khupe. The matter was h...Published: 13 Jun 2020 at 09:11hrs | 1974 | by Staff reporter
Khupe appeals to Supreme Court
The Thokozani Khupe-led MDC-T has appealed to the Supreme Court challenging a High Court order that barred them from replacing two MDC-Alliance legislators Lillian Timveos and Thabita Khumalo after th...Published: 10 Jun 2020 at 08:09hrs | 3654 | by Staff reporter
Khupe's MDC-T wants Supreme Court to rule on MPs
MDC-T has appealed to the Supreme Court challenging Monday's High Court decision to block it from replacing four legislators it recently recalled until their court application contesting the party's r...Published: 10 Jun 2020 at 07:44hrs | 1462 | by Staff reporter
Mashakada crushes Chamisa Parliament boycott call
The outcome of Court the SC and High Court judgements have clearly leveraged the MDC-T led by Dr Thokozani Khupe and put the MDC Alliance into an invidious position. The MDC Alliance has lost the lawf...Published: 02 Jun 2020 at 20:16hrs | 10964 | by Dr Tapiwa Mashakada: M DA Alliance Secretary for Policy & Research
Mwonzora must listen to Komichi about quorum
REINSTATED MDC-T 2014 deputy chairman Morgen Komichi knows very well when meetings can make binding decisions, that is, when there is a quorum.Komichi is quoted by a local weekly publication s...Published: 02 Jun 2020 at 09:28hrs | 3045 | by Kennedy Kaitano
Carnage looms in Chamisa camp, as Khupe wins right to recall MPs
MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa's bid to bar the Thokozani Khupe-led MDC-T from further recalling his legislators from Parliament hit a brickwall yesterday after High Court judge Justice Tawanda Ch...Published: 30 May 2020 at 09:48hrs | 3156 | by Staff reporter
Another Chamisa blow
MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa's bid to save the beleaguered opposition has been dealt another blow after the High Court Friday ruled a party called by that name does not exist as a legal person w...Published: 30 May 2020 at 09:44hrs | 3479 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC Alliance does not legally exist, says Court
MDC-Alliance does not legally exist as a legal person who can sue in court, and in the dispute of the MDC-T recall of legislators does not have the standing to sue, the High Court has ruled, suggestin...Published: 30 May 2020 at 09:12hrs | 1070 | by Staff reporter
Polad wants abduction report made public
Members of the Political Actors Dialogue (POLAD) have called on Government to investigate circumstances around the recent claims of abduction made by three MDC-Alliance officials and to make the findi...Published: 29 May 2020 at 07:40hrs | 186 | by Staff reporter
Polad calls for 'abduction' investigations
Members of the Political Actors Dialogue have called on Government to investigate circumstances around the recent alleged abductions of three female MDC Alliance officials and make the findings public...Published: 28 May 2020 at 17:06hrs | 720 | by Staff reporter
Polad meets Mnangagwa on alleged 'abductions'
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has met with the Political Actors Dialogue (POLAD) members this morning in the capital. Led by the POLAD Chairperson on Governance and Legislative Agenda, Professor Lovemo...Published: 28 May 2020 at 13:41hrs | 2840 | by Staff reporter
Biti freezes in court as judge tears into his arguments
THERE was drama in the High Court of Zimbabwe last night when MDC Alliance lawyer Tendai Biti froze after being shown the MDC Alliance agreement by Justice Tawanda Chitapi, moments after he had counte...Published: 21 May 2020 at 19:47hrs | 11268 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC seeks court interdict to stop more expulsions
The High Court will rule on Friday next week on preliminary issues raised by lawyers representing MDC-Alliance and MDC-T in a suit brought by MDC-A seeking a ban on the MDC-T recalling from Parliament...Published: 21 May 2020 at 07:10hrs | 2101 | by Staff reporter
Madhuku blames gorvenmental authorities for threatening human rights
Professor Lovemore Madhuku blames gorvenmental authorities for enfringing on human rights in the name of Covid19 lockdown restrictions.He questions the manner in which the governmental a...Published: 17 May 2020 at 15:26hrs | 2779 | by Tarisai Mudahondo
Supreme Court ruling means Zimbabwe's 2018 election null and void
DO the following people, Senator Douglas Mwonzora, Speaker of Parliament Jacob Mudenda, MDC-T leader Thokozani Khupe, lawyer Lovemore Madhuku, Senator Morgen Komichi, Justice minister Ziyambi Ziyambi ...Published: 09 May 2020 at 08:15hrs | 3780 | by Kennedy Kaitano
Constitutionalism not populism will take Zimbabwe forward
From the outset, let me make it abundantly clear that I am neither a member of Zanu-PF nor of any permutation of the MDC. If I say anything that you may not like, it is not because I belong to the oth...Published: 21 Apr 2020 at 07:54hrs | 424 | by Moses Chamboko
No joy for Justice Bere
The tribunal to investigate a complaint against suspended Supreme Court judge Justice Francis Bere will now sit after he lost his bid to get the High Court to hear as a matter of urgency his action st...Published: 17 Apr 2020 at 07:24hrs | 554 | by Staff reporter
Justice Bere seeks urgent hearing
The High Court will tomorrow rule whether or not the legal challenge mounted by Supreme Court judge, Justice Francis Bere, over his disciplinary tribunal should be heard as an urgent matter. P...Published: 15 Apr 2020 at 07:33hrs | 386 | by Staff reporter
Constitutionalism not populism will take Zimbabwe forward
From the outset, let me make it abundantly clear that I am neither a member of ZANU PF nor of any permutation of the MDC. If I say anything that you may n...Published: 07 Apr 2020 at 07:07hrs | 845 | by Moses Chamboko
Thokozani Khupe says 'Supreme Court ruling a victory for democracy'
On Tuesday, the Supreme Court upheld a previous High Court judgment that declared Mr Nelson Chamisa an illegitimate leader of the MDC. The court ruled that Dr Thokozani Khupe was the legitimate acting...Published: 05 Apr 2020 at 12:04hrs | 1723 | by Staff reporter
Did Welshman Ncube copy thesis from student?
A simple google search leads to a Nehanda Radio article of November 14, 2011 which claims that almost 9 weeks after attacking Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai as an "uneducated person who has no capac...Published: 05 Apr 2020 at 10:57hrs | 4374 | by Staff reporter
MDC judgment sets tongues waging
Zimbabweans woke up from their coronavirus slumber to read an ambiguous judgment designed to discredit Nelson Chamisa's MDC-A presidency. The judgment, which was passed a few hours before April Fool's...Published: 03 Apr 2020 at 14:28hrs | 1159 | by Sibanengi Dube
Challenging the attempt to remove Nelson Chamisa as MDC president in Zimbabwe
On 30 March, Zimbabwe's Supreme Court has issued a judgement that would effectively remove Nelson Chamisa as the leader of the MDC-A. Although the name of the party is not essential as a new moniker c...Published: 01 Apr 2020 at 14:20hrs | 4174 | by David Coltart
FULL TEXT: David Coltart speak on Khupe - Chamisa judgment
The Mnangagwa regime is deeply concerned about the threat that Nelson Chamisa's MDC A Party poses to its hegemony and yesterday went to extraordinary lengths to try to neutralise that threat. On the f...Published: 01 Apr 2020 at 12:21hrs | 4962 | by David Coltart
Khupe vs Chamisa judgment to handed down today
MDC-T Acting President Thokozani Khupe has announced that the Supreme Court will, on Tuesday, hand down a judgement that clarify who is the real leader of the opposition party between Khupe and ...Published: 31 Mar 2020 at 12:23hrs | 3527 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chombo documents went missing during the November 2017 military coup
The case of former Local Government minister Ignatius Chombo has collapsed after the State indicated that the critical policy document that forms the basis of his criminal abuse of office charge went ...Published: 18 Mar 2020 at 07:10hrs | 2150 | by Staff reporter
Chombo freed on one count
Former Cabinet Minister Ignatius Chombo, accused of facilitating the sale of a Government house in Mutare without following due process, was yesterday removed from remand after the State failed to pro...Published: 18 Mar 2020 at 06:31hrs | 284 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa, Madhuku gang up against Mnangagwa
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's allies in the Political Actors Dialogue (Polad) are seeking to block him from amending the Constitution at a time the Nelson Chamisa-led MDC and other civic organisation...Published: 17 Mar 2020 at 06:45hrs | 10371 | by Staff reporter
'Zanu-PF MPs to vote against Constitutional Amendment Bill No. 2'
OPPOSITION National Constitutional Assembly (NCA) leader Lovemore Madhuku has predicted that the Constitutional Amendment Bill No. 2 will not sail through Parliament as some Zanu-PF MPs were unhappy w...Published: 16 Mar 2020 at 17:48hrs | 3108 | by Staff reporter
'POLAD is doing sterling work' Mnangagwa insists - as insist too on hamstrung MPs
The Political Actors Dialogue (POLAD), composed of most of the 23 party leaders who contested the July 2018 presidential elections expect Nelson Chamisa and a few others, committees presented their re...Published: 15 Mar 2020 at 08:58hrs | 348 | by Nomusa Garikai
No Chamisa, no deal, US tells Mnangagwa
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's re-engagement efforts with the United States and European countries has hit a brickwall with the diplomats engaged by his emissaries in the Political Actors' Dialogue (P...Published: 15 Mar 2020 at 00:01hrs | 7963 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa happy with Polad work
President Mnangagwa is happy with the work that the Political Actors Dialogue is doing to bring solutions to some of the challenges facing the country.This came out of a meeting of thematic co...Published: 13 Mar 2020 at 15:49hrs | 881 | by Staff reporter
A long wait to freedom
The road to political , economic and democratic space in Zimbabwe has never been so easy and rosy.When the opposition labour party MDC was formed in 1999 following a spate of poor economic per...Published: 05 Mar 2020 at 08:55hrs | 558 | by Leonard Koni
Big wigs in court
Several top government officials yesterday appeared in court on routine remand as their trials have not yet began.First to appear before Harare regional magistrate Hosea Mujaya was former Home...Published: 04 Mar 2020 at 09:27hrs | 2901 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF pushes ahead with public hearings to amend constitution
Public hearings into 27 constitutional amendments proposed by Zanu-PF to give more power to Zimbabwe's executive will go ahead this month- despite a spirited campaign against it by civil society, the ...Published: 03 Mar 2020 at 05:44hrs | 185 | by Staff reporter
Madhuku's Constitutional changes views shot down
There is no going back on the constitutional amendment process and any organisation with a view on how to improve the supreme law should do so within the context of ongoing consultative processes, a C...Published: 02 Mar 2020 at 09:01hrs | 262 | by Staff reporter
Open letter to Dr Thokozani Khupe
Dear Dr KhupeGreetings and complements of the new year, hoping that all is well with you.I'm a concerned Christian and founding ordinary member of the Movement for Democratic Change, a...Published: 24 Feb 2020 at 06:16hrs | 463 | by Allan Wenyika
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