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Would Mnangagwa have entertained calls for him to step down?
The Zimbabwe government never ceases to amaze. In a press statement yesterday, Presidential Spokesperson George Charamba once again attempted to create the impression that President Emmerson M...Published: 23 Jan 2025 at 11:03hrs | 844 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Recalled CCC MP reinstated after successful court challenge
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) has reinstated the opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) Member of Parliament Constance Chihota (CCC) following a High Court order.The legislat...Published: 05 Aug 2024 at 16:53hrs | 2558 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's 'MPs' invade rural Chikomba
Scores of parliamentary candidates from the Nelson Chamisa-led Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) visited rural Chikomba on Sunday, engaging in various activities, including donating goods to a local...Published: 25 Jun 2024 at 10:45hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Woman sells house, refuses to vacate
A woman from Harare's Kuwadzana high-density suburb has been sentenced to six months in jail for contempt of court after she refused to vacate a house she sold.Judith Musamadiya sold her house...Published: 12 Jun 2024 at 06:48hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's dictatorial leadership style spotlighted
ANALYSTS have expressed misgivings about former Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa's leadership style as his former allies open up accusing him of dictatorial tendencies, refusi...Published: 16 Feb 2024 at 05:01hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa employing machiavellian politics to gauge his support
DAGGERS are out for former Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa's trusted envoys, Gift Siziba and Amos Chibaya, who have emerged as the face of his yet to be launched party....Published: 14 Feb 2024 at 04:42hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa allies stole funds for elections, claims Hwende
SENIOR opposition CCC official and legislator Mr Charlton Hwende, who is aligned to a faction controlling the party, yesterday accused leaders of another faction aligned to ex-leader Mr Nelson Chamisa...Published: 13 Feb 2024 at 04:49hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans vote for personalities
ZIMBABWEANS do not cast votes along political party lines nor do their preferred candidates mirror their aspirations, a report by Zimbabwe Election Support Network (Zesn) has said.This comes a...Published: 12 Feb 2024 at 09:30hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa gets two-thirds majority
The ruling Zanu-PF party won all the six seats in by-elections held on Saturday last week as it attained a two-thirds majority amid fears there will be rounds of constitutional amendments.Zanu...Published: 06 Feb 2024 at 04:37hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's resigned MPs can contest again not as CCC members
CITIZENS' Coalition for Change (CCC) members of Parliament who resign in solidarity with former leader Nelson Chamisa who quit the party last week are free to contest again in by-elections called to f...Published: 05 Feb 2024 at 18:33hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF wins all seats in Mash East
The ruling party, Zanu-PF, has once again proved to be the people's party after winning all the contested seats in Mashonaland East province during this Saturday's by-elections.The revolutiona...Published: 04 Feb 2024 at 17:57hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF 2 seats away from two-thirds majority agenda
Zanu-PF is two seats away from securing a much-desired two-thirds majority in Parliament ahead of the 3 February by-elections — the second since the 23 August 2023 general elections controversially ...Published: 29 Jan 2024 at 06:25hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Tshabangu to reform CCC until structures are in place
Sengezo Tshabangu, the self-proclaimed interim Secretary General of the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC), has begun campaigning for his parliamentary candidates ahead of next month's by-election, p...Published: 10 Jan 2024 at 07:58hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
US$6m budget for February by-elections
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) has set aside about US$6 million, or the equivalent in the local currency, for the February 3 by-elections to fill vacancies of six National Assembly seats and ...Published: 07 Jan 2024 at 17:34hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
CCC fields double candidates for February 3 by-election
The Opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) is poised to field dual candidates in the upcoming by-elections, as the Zimbabwe Election Commission (ZEC) has accepted nomination papers from both t...Published: 18 Dec 2023 at 20:05hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Mnangangwa orders new elections in 6 constituencies
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has mandated new elections in response to the recent recall of six members of the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) national assembly by the "party secretary general," S...Published: 03 Dec 2023 at 21:06hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa rolls sleeves as battle hots up
Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa will today conduct marathon campaign rallies in Bulawayo as his loyalists seek to regain their seats in weekend by-elections following controv...Published: 03 Dec 2023 at 17:43hrs | 39 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa proclaims by-elections date
President Mnangagwa yesterday fixed February 3, 2024 as the date for by-elections for the six vacancies created in the National Assembly following the recall of 18 CCC legislators last month.T...Published: 02 Dec 2023 at 05:40hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
CCC accuses Jacob Mudenda of doing Zanu-PF bidding
ZIMBABWE'S main opposition Citizens' Coalition for Change (CCC) has accused the Speaker of the National Assembly Jacob Mudenda and the President of the Senate Mabel Chinomona of acting in contempt of ...Published: 28 Nov 2023 at 14:30hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
MPs blast Zacc for low convictions
CITIZENS' Coalition for Change (CCC) parliamentarians have condemned the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) over the low number of convictions referred to the police despite the rampant illici...Published: 15 Nov 2023 at 18:43hrs | 28 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's 18 MPs bite the dust
National Assembly speaker Jacob Mudenda has upheld his controversial expulsion of 18 CCC legislators who were Tuesday permanently ejected from the legislative house moments after court halted further ...Published: 15 Nov 2023 at 18:22hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
CCC blood-letting continues
THE CCC yesterday recalled another 13 National Assembly members and five more Senators as the blood-letting continues unabated in the opposition party, taking the total recalled legislators and counci...Published: 15 Nov 2023 at 05:09hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Tshabangu recalls 18 more CCC MPs
Sengezo Tshabangu has ordered further recalls on CCC organising secretary Amos Chibaya and 17 other party legislators among them five senators as he continues cleansing the main opposition of elective...Published: 14 Nov 2023 at 20:14hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF losing candidates file election petitions
Two unsuccessful Zanu-PF parliamentary candidates have taken their grievances to the Electoral Court, seeking to challenge the victory of their opponents in the recent polls.The ruling party s...Published: 19 Sep 2023 at 06:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF seeks to reverse CCC poll wins
Zanu-PF losing candidates for Zvimba East and Seke constituencies have approached the courts to challenge the final results issued by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) which declared them losers...Published: 18 Sep 2023 at 07:01hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Harare deputy mayor assaults a Zanu-PF supporter, arrested
Kudzai Kadzombe, who was recently elected as the deputy mayor of Harare, has been arrested less than a week after taking office. She is facing charges of assaulting a member of Zanu-PF on election day...Published: 15 Sep 2023 at 06:24hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's CCC aware of Zanu-PF's shenanigans to gain two-thirds in Parliament
The Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) has accused the ruling Zanu-PF party of covertly working to secure a two-thirds majority in Parliament by instigating the arrest of opposition legislators, pote...Published: 14 Sep 2023 at 06:40hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Nyamuzihwa Mucheche declared a national hero
PROMINENT businessman Ben Mucheche has been declared a national hero in honour of his contribution to the country before and after independence.Mucheche succumbed to heart failure at his farm ...Published: 19 Jun 2023 at 06:41hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Police trying to cover up Mamombe, Chimbiri abduction'
POLICE have been accused of trying to cover up the abduction of Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) activists Joanah Mamombe and Cecilia Chimbiri who were found dumped in Muchapondwa village in Bindur...Published: 17 Aug 2022 at 06:39hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa says 'Never challenge, breach or compromise Unity Accord'
THE 1987 Unity Accord is a key pillar of national peace and stability, and should never be challenged, breached or compromised, President Mnangagwa has said.Writing in his weekly column, publi...Published: 07 Aug 2022 at 08:26hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Renaming roads fails to convince Zimbabweans
A BID to rename major roads in the country after President Emmerson Mnangagwa and some fallen heroes seems to have failed to resonate with Zimbabweans as they are still using old names, while in some ...Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:21hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
BCC writes to Mnangagwa's govt over street name changes
THE Bulawayo City Council is waiting for Government approval on their own individual street name changes after the High Court ruled that they cannot adhere to the names that were effected through a St...Published: 30 May 2021 at 08:39hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
No constitutional crisis, Samkange
PARLIAMENTARY Legal Committee (PLC) chairperson Mr Jonathan Samkange says there is no constitutional crisis in the country and recent developments reflect the proper functioning of the judiciary....Published: 26 May 2021 at 18:26hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Court shoots down Mnangagwa road renaming
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's bid to re¬name Bulawayo city roads in his name has hit a snag after a High Court judge blocked the move.Last year, Local Government minister July Moyo ordered t...Published: 17 Apr 2021 at 12:28hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Covid-19 grips six High Court judges
THE High Court in Harare has been thrown into turmoil after six judges and several officials were placed on quarantine after contracting Covid-19 or coming into contact with infected persons, it has e...Published: 06 Feb 2021 at 16:23hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Dabengwa Foundation seeks hero status for Lesabe, Moyo
THE Dumiso Dabengwa Foundation, an organisation founded in honour of the late national hero and former Zipra intelligence supremo, has started making consultations with various stakeholders to lobby g...Published: 23 Aug 2019 at 07:40hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Lest we forget: Women of the struggle
Tomorrow, Zimbabwe celebrates National Heroes Day, an important day on the national calendar to honour the gallant sons and daughters of the soil who made extraordinary sacrifices to liberate the coun...Published: 11 Aug 2019 at 07:26hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
'Freedom that never was'
We continue chronicling the political life of Agrippa Samuriwo. The former Whawha detainee who tells our Deputy News Editor Levi Mukarati – from his farm in Chitomborwizi, Mashonaland West Province ...Published: 10 Mar 2019 at 08:48hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
$36 000 damages for crash victim
A Harare woman who suffered life-changing injuries in a kombi crash has reason to smile after the High Court awarded her more than $36 000 in damages, five years after the horrific accident that kille...Published: 03 Dec 2018 at 06:49hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's fate lies with 9 judges
ZIMBABWE'S estimated 14 million citizens are today holding their collective breaths as the Constitutional Court bench made up of nine men and women sit to make a determination in one of the greatest p...Published: 22 Aug 2018 at 06:24hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe judges, generals and post-coup dynamics
Soon after the toppling of former president Robert Mugabe in November last year in a coup and the ascendancy of President Emmerson Mnangagwa, High Court judge Charles Hungwe immediately ruled that the...Published: 20 Jul 2018 at 14:50hrs | | by Andrew Kunambura
Mugabe breathes fire in court
FORMER President Robert Mugabe last week blew into the roof during inspection-in-loco at his former residence Zimbabwe House, protesting against suggestions that he donated some of his computers to hi...Published: 12 Jul 2018 at 08:59hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
How Rhodesian forces burnt three comrades
COMRADE Noel Museredza whose Chimurenga name was Ignatius Dzvotsvotsvo joined the liberation struggle in 1972 and went for military training at Mgagao camp. Later he became an instructor at Mgagao and...Published: 14 Jan 2018 at 08:18hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
'We will sweep away MDC-T in 2018'
THE following is a transcript of President Mugabe's address at the Sixth Presidential Youth Interface in Gwanda yesterday.***Nhasi Mai havapo.Pavakatsikwa nemota, chironda chavo ha...Published: 13 Aug 2017 at 13:11hrs | 2 | by Robert Mugabe
'Joshua Nkomo mentored Mugabe'
OPPOSITION Zapu leader Dumiso Dabengwa has claimed that President Robert Mugabe would have remained an ordinary teacher and political nonentity had he not been recruited and catapulted into the limeli...Published: 19 Jun 2017 at 07:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
How two-month baby fought colonialism
On April 18, Zimbabwe celebrates 37 years of independence. As part of honouring the heroes who fought for Zimbabwe's liberation struggle, The Sunday Mail will focus on the roles and experiences of...Published: 19 Mar 2017 at 07:37hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe and his son-in-law: a case of selective succession
In a normal environment, promotion of a young, visionary, professional and energetic young person to high office is commendable. We celebrate the prosperity of the young generation, including our ...Published: 11 Oct 2016 at 06:17hrs | 1 | by Moses Chamboko
Zimbabwean women sold into prostitution
Seven people believed to be part of a well organised human trafficking syndicate that is luring female job seekers to Kuwait, appeared in court yesterday. They allegedly enticed the women on t...Published: 12 Mar 2016 at 15:37hrs | 8 | by Tendai Rupapa
Zimbabwean karatekas win six gold medals in SA
A team of Zimbabwean karatekas won six gold medals at the annual and 5th Matlosana Club Shinkyokushin karate tournament in Kerksdorp South Africa on Saturday.The Zimbabwe full contact karate t...Published: 07 Mar 2016 at 16:34hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Mugabe's hollow State of the Nation Address
Even as he was dying, Dr. Hastings Kamuzu Banda, one of Africa's worst dictators, affectionately known as the Ngwazi mostly by those who benefitted from his decades of political madness, believed he w...Published: 27 Aug 2015 at 11:23hrs | 1 | by Moses Chamboko
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