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'Botswana is a signal,' says Chamisa
Former Citizens' Coalition for Change (CCC) president Nelson Chamisa has praised the democratic transition in Botswana, describing it as a "signal" that change is sweeping through Southern Africa. Cha...Published: 08 Nov 2024 at 19:58hrs | 1776 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa is in Botswana, attending the inauguration
Zimbabwe's former opposition leader Nelson Chamisa is in Botswana, attending the inauguration of the country's new president, Duma Boko, who recently won the elections. Chamisa is seen in a ph...Published: 08 Nov 2024 at 09:37hrs | 3202 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF rubbishes Mmusi Maimane's claim
Zimbabwe's ruling party, ZANU-PF, has dismissed predictions from South African opposition MP Mmusi Maimane that it could follow the path of Botswana's ruling Botswana Democratic Party (BDP), which was...Published: 06 Nov 2024 at 16:39hrs | 2010 | by Staff reporter
'Zanu-PF is next,' says Oppenheimer bankrolled Maimane
South African opposition leader Mmusi Maimane who receive millions from the Oppenheimers has issued a stark warning to Zimbabwe's ruling party, Zanu-PF, suggesting that it may soon face a similar fate...Published: 04 Nov 2024 at 06:56hrs | 2738 | by Staff reporter
South Africa will not isolate Zimbabwe despite DA and Maimane's call
Pressure is mounting on President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government over accusations of human rights abuses and suppression of dissent, with South African opposition groups calling for the severance of ...Published: 05 Aug 2024 at 07:22hrs | 673 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa's ANC has not learnt from history
In 2018, ANC chose Cyril Ramaphosa as President because they believed that white capital liked him and thus he would attract western investment into the country. However, things did not quite go accor...Published: 14 Jun 2024 at 13:23hrs | 24 | by Staff reporter
SA parties alarmed as ANC enlists Zanu-PF help for election campaign
ZIMBABWEAN state media on Tuesday broke the news that the country's ruling party, Zanu-PF, had been called on by the ANC to assist with its final stretch of campaigning ahead of South Africa's general...Published: 19 May 2024 at 11:43hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
South Africa fails to hold Pravin Gordhan to account as he will retire after elections
South Africa's Minister of Public Enterprises, Pravin Gordhan, will retire after this year's general elections on May 29, he told Reuters on Friday.Gordhan oversaw state entities including str...Published: 08 Mar 2024 at 18:24hrs | 2 | by Sytaff reporter
Mmusi Maimane against lifting of Zimbabwe sanctions
South Africa is experiencing the negative consequences of the leadership failures within Zimbabwe's ruling party, Zanu-PF, which have resulted in migration chaos and an increased burden on the country...Published: 22 Sep 2023 at 06:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mmusi Maimane warns of Zimbabweans mass exodus 'mfecane 2'
South African opposition Build One South Africa (BOSA) leader Mmusi Maimane has warned of a mass impending exodus from Zimbabwe if the SADC observer mission election findings are not upheld.Ma...Published: 06 Sep 2023 at 06:26hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa to attend Mnangagwa’s inauguration
President Cyril Ramaphosa is set to attend the inauguration and swearing-in ceremony of Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Monday, September 4.The Presidential Inauguration Ceremony wi...Published: 03 Sep 2023 at 20:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa warned not to undermine SADC ahead of Mnangagwa's inauguration
BUILD One South Africa movement (Bosa) leader Mmusi Maimane has urged President Cyril Ramaphosa not to attend the inauguration and swearing-in ceremony of Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa....Published: 03 Sep 2023 at 07:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Maimane's party wants South Africa to expel the Zimbabwean ambassador
Mmusi Maimane's Build One South Africa party has urged the South African government to cease diplomatic engagement with the government of Zimbabwe and expel the Zimbabwean ambassador.Maimane's...Published: 29 Aug 2023 at 13:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Sadc urged to trash Mumba's biased report
ZIMBABWE is consolidating a national response to the Preliminary Report of the SADC Elections Observer Mission (SEOM) which is fraught with irregularities, hearsay and pure hyperbolic nonsense imputed...Published: 29 Aug 2023 at 07:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Nevers Mumba has embarrassed SADC
Having gotten wind that Zanu-PF and President Mnangagwa were romping to victory through tallies from polling stations and the confirmation through the party's Treasurer Patrick Chinamasa's press confe...Published: 28 Aug 2023 at 06:48hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Maimane blames Zimbabwe Exemption Permit debacle on ANC and Zanu-PF relationship
"The courts have no choice but to uphold refugee laws and the constitution. If we want to solve the immigration crisis we have to go directly to the root of the problem, namely the dictatorship in Zim...Published: 02 Jul 2023 at 07:43hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
ANC to blame for immigration crisis, says Maimane
OUTSPOKEN South African opposition leader, Mmusi Maimane, says the ruling African National Congress (ANC) is to blame for the immigration crisis in that country by condoning Zanu-PF's bad govern...Published: 30 Jun 2023 at 14:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa smells victory
OPPOSITION Citizens Coalition for Change leader Nelson Chamisa has expressed optimism that the opposition will win next year's elections given "a wave" of opposition triumphs in the Southern African D...Published: 14 Oct 2022 at 05:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Malawi did it, Zambia did it, Lesotho has done it. We are next,' says Chamisa
OPPOSITION Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader, Nelson Chamisa commended the upset election victory in Lesotho by a newly formed opposition party and vowed that Zimbabwe would be next.L...Published: 11 Oct 2022 at 19:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Two-faced Mnangagwa honours Rwanda genocide victims
President Emmerson Mnangagwa Wednesday toured the Kigali Memorial to pay tribute to over 600 000 victims of the 1994 Rwandan genocide in a sharp contrast to his continued crackdown on Gukurahundi memo...Published: 08 Sep 2022 at 17:31hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe won't fall prey to Western fables, fabrications
DRUMS are beating, so high to a deafening crescendo as Zimbabwe hurtles towards the 2023 elections. Of course, the ground is already uneven because President Mnangagwa has been implementing pro-people...Published: 25 May 2022 at 06:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
International funders behind eSwatini 'winter revolution'
There are claims that at the centre of the pro-democracy movement riots in eSwatini is a sponsored move for a power grab of resources funded by prominent international organisations with vested intere...Published: 23 May 2022 at 06:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
A fool and his money are soon parted!
The cash taps have well and truly been turned on.It seems hardworking Zimbabweans in faraway lands have been doing their bit to support family and friends back home, including bankrolling pote...Published: 15 May 2022 at 06:10hrs | | by Bishop
Mmusi Maimane vows to go and campaign for change in Harare
ONE South Africa Movement leader Mmusi Maimane says he will go to Zimbabwe to support democratic movements that are opposed to the current regime.Maimane has received criticism on social media...Published: 11 May 2022 at 19:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe faces implosion
ZIMBABWE is facing an implosion due to myriad challenges and senators have warned that protests may be the order of the day going forward as long as there is no solution to the economic crisis prevail...Published: 10 May 2022 at 17:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Stayaway that never was exposes Western puppets
TODAY, Pachedu, a shadowy troll on Twitter, manned by some faceless characters, stands starkly naked, exposed as a Trojan horse of Western nations that have an incurable colonial hangover.In t...Published: 10 May 2022 at 07:39hrs | | by Fungi Kwaramba
Zimbabwe security forces placed on high alert over planned protests
ZIMBABWE's service chiefs have placed a well-oiled state machinery on high alert, ready to viciously thwart any protests following indications of an impending uprising.Multiple official and se...Published: 07 May 2022 at 06:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe shutdown protest call gains momentum
Internet activists joined by students and trade unions have called for a stay-at-home protest on May 9 over Zimbabwe's deepening economic crisis.Mobilising under the hashtag #ShutDownZimbabwe,...Published: 05 May 2022 at 20:59hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Parties condemn Afrophobic attacks in SA
POLITICAL parties in southern Africa yesterday roundly condemned the brutal murder of Zimbabwean national Elvis Nyathi in South Africa, with opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelso...Published: 09 Apr 2022 at 08:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Maimane predicts that Zanu-PF won't win 2023 polls
SOUTH African opposition leader Mmusi Maimane has predicted that the ruling Zanu-PF party will lose the 2023 elections, saying "the time for corrupt regimes is over".Maimane, who now leads One...Published: 08 Mar 2022 at 05:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Maimane tells big brother SA to be tough on Zimbabwe
SOUTH Africa should team up with regional groupings including Sadc to ensure Zimbabwe's 2023 general elections are not rigged and the observers do not endorse a flawed process as happened in the past,...Published: 04 Mar 2022 at 06:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa scared stiff of Chamisa, Hichilema relationship
IN the aftermath of the rise of Zimbabwe's main opposition leader Nelson Chamisa's Citizens' Coalition for Change (CCC) and its "yellow wave" from the ashes of the now defunct MDC-Alliance and Zambian...Published: 13 Feb 2022 at 20:47hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Maimane slams Zanu-PF
One SA movement leader Mmusi Maimane has weighed in on the challenges of immigration in SA‚ laying the blame at the government's feet and slamming the Zimbabwean ruling party.Immigration con...Published: 26 Jan 2022 at 06:07hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Mutsvangwa scoffs at 'house nigger' Maimane
Zanu-PF has described South African opposition figure, Mmusi Maimane, as a "house nigger" who is fanning xenophobic flames, but will not win in his quest to divide Zimbabwe and South Africa.Th...Published: 21 Jan 2022 at 05:33hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
South Africa's political experiment slams Chamisa 'attack'
LEADER of One South Africa Movement, Mmusi Maimane, who was described by former DA party leader Tony Leon as "an experiment gone wrong" for the party, has called on Sadc to intervene in Zimbabwe's pol...Published: 22 Oct 2021 at 06:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mdc-Alliance and United Party for National Development cooperating against the Zimbabwean government
The MDC-Alliance has proclaimed that its relations with the United Parties for National Development (UPND) have scaled new heights following the latter's win in Zambia's 12th of August 2021 elections....Published: 01 Sep 2021 at 16:34hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Hichilema invites regional opposition leaders to inauguration
Zambia's incoming president Hakainde Hichilema sent dozens of invitations to foreign leaders for his inauguration on Tuesday, but breaking with tradition, he is also inviting opposition leaders from Z...Published: 23 Aug 2021 at 17:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa gets Hichilema invite
MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has been invited to attend new Zambian leader Hakainde Hichilema's inauguration on Tuesday.Hichilema's United Party for National Development (UPND) has close...Published: 22 Aug 2021 at 08:16hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, Ramaphosa discuss Hichilema's shock election victory
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa and his South African counterpart Cyril Ramaphosa on Tuesday held a private meeting in which the election of Zambia's opposition leader Hakainde Hichilema as the country's...Published: 21 Aug 2021 at 13:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa thanks Mnangagwa
OPPOSITION MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa says his arch-rival, President Emmerson Mnangagwa, has done a perfect hatchet job by removing "bad apples" in the opposition party.The outspoken p...Published: 18 Aug 2021 at 06:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, Chamisa in Hichilema showdown
THE victory by Zambian opposition leader Hakainde Hichilema of the United Party for National Development (UPND) has rekindled tension between President Emmerson Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF and the Nelson Cham...Published: 18 Aug 2021 at 06:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa says poverty tears opposition parties
MDC Alliance president Nelson Chamisa has blamed defections from his party by MPs and councillors to poverty.Some MDC Alliance members have defected to either the MDC-T led by Douglas Mwonzora...Published: 18 Aug 2021 at 06:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean heroes died for nothing, says SA white party experiment
SOUTH African opposition politician Mmusi Maimane yesterday said Zimbabwean heroes who sacrificed their lives during and after the liberation struggle, should be turning in their graves over the way t...Published: 11 Aug 2021 at 06:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe 'cartels' report con-insides with US sanctions renewal
UNITED STATES President Joe Biden's administration is most likely to renew sanctions against senior Zanu-PF and government officials as well as service chiefs after the release early this week of a da...Published: 13 Feb 2021 at 10:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mandiwanzira hits out at 'staggering incompetence' over 'cartels' report
Former Cabinet Minister Supa Mandiwanzira has been left crying foul over what he called "staggering incompetence" by a South African publication, the Daily Maverick, whose exclusive report on the mass...Published: 12 Feb 2021 at 05:55hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa wants action against 'dictators'
MDC Alliance president Nelson Chamisa says institutions such as the African Union (AU) must take a tough stance against leaders on the continent that abuse human rights, including killing peaceful pro...Published: 22 Nov 2020 at 05:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC-A divisions have crippled its diplomatic offensive against Zanu-PF
Divisions on how to handle perceived deficiencies of democracy in the SADC region have crippled the MDC-Alliance's diplomatic charm offensive. For example, opposition parties in Tanzania had expected ...Published: 05 Nov 2020 at 15:55hrs | | by Rungano Dzikira
Uneducated white man named Democratic Alliance leader
Democratic Alliance (DA), South Africa's largest opposition party, has elected John Steenhuisen as its new leader.The 44-year-old, who has acted as interim party leader since its first Black l...Published: 01 Nov 2020 at 18:19hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Crisis' in Zimbabwe: A neighbour's perspective
From as far back as May, several individuals and organisations from Zimbabwe, the region and beyond have been pushing the baseless and politically-mischievous narrative that Zimbabwe is mired in a cri...Published: 28 Sep 2020 at 06:46hrs | | by Pardon Muzavazi
Pressure mounts on Nelson Chamisa
A SECTION of the Mr Nelson Chamisa-led MDC-Alliance had urged the party to abandon its contested name as an identity crisis rocks the opposition movement. The Mr Chamisa-led group continues to...Published: 23 Sep 2020 at 06:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
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