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Angry supporters slam Chamisa?
Angry Members of the Citizens' Coalition for Change (CCC) expressed their dissatisfaction with Mr. Nelson Chamisa, the leader of the opposition party, during his recent visit to Bulawayo. They accused...Published: 11 Oct 2023 at 06:19hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's Bulawayo aspiring MP says he was acquitted
ASPIRING Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) Nketa MP, Obert Manduna, says there is a spirited campaign to discredit his candidature by claiming that he has pending criminal cases in court.Man...Published: 29 Jun 2023 at 21:01hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's CCC bars former Bosso chairman
THE Nelson Chamisa-led Citizens Coalition for Change preferred candidates for the Bulawayo mayoral and deputy mayoral positions, former Education Minister David Coltart and Dumisani Nkomo suffered los...Published: 11 Jun 2023 at 21:29hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
CCC candidates selection divides Bulawayo
THE Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC)'s candidates selection process has left its Bulawayo province divided amid reports that there is a plot to rig the exercise.Sources said there was...Published: 09 Jun 2023 at 06:51hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa pushes out CCC bigwigs in Bulawayo
A NUMBER of Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) bigwigs aspiring to represent the party in the August 23 polls fell by the wayside after being disqualified during the verification process which starte...Published: 06 Jun 2023 at 06:53hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Reflections on the life of Dr Dumiso Dabengwa: highs and lows
Chief spies are not famous for mingling easily with the public: they tend to be aloof; secretive and in glamorised Western films have notoriety for keeping everyone guessing about everything in the wo...Published: 09 Jun 2019 at 09:36hrs | 4 | by Dr Mandla Nyathi
'Ndebele Nationalits Leaders a disgrace'
Mthwakazi Republic Party President Mqondisi Moyo has said the so called Ndebele nationalists have disgraced to their fellow Ndebeles as some of them have connived with the outsiders to trample on thei...Published: 25 Feb 2018 at 08:46hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Tsvangirai, Khupe relations strained
MDC-T leader Mr Morgan Tsvangirai has reportedly snubbed his deputy Ms Thokozani Khupe amid indications that he has appointed national executive member Mr Gideon Shoko to the Senate to replace the...Published: 31 Mar 2017 at 06:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai in deep trouble
MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai is in deep trouble over former Bulawayo deputy mayor Gift Banda who has reportedly been added to the list of contenders to replace the late MDC-T senator Victor Map...Published: 23 Mar 2017 at 03:37hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
MDC-T members clash over senators
THERE were ugly scenes on Friday at the MDC-T Bulawayo provincial office as youths started singing protest songs targeting some party officials as divisions within the fractured party once again c...Published: 12 Mar 2017 at 09:18hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai to handpick his Bulawayo Senator
MDC president Morgan Tsvangirai, poised to pick a new Senator for Bulawayo Metropolitan province, has been in talks with key officials in the second city and promised to unveil his nominee soon, w...Published: 05 Mar 2017 at 12:54hrs | | by staff reporter
Gift Banda tipped for Senatorial seat
Senior MDC-T Bulawayo provincial officials have hit top gear in jostling to land the vacant senatorial and MDC-T national executive seat.Officials are keen to replace the late Victor Mapungwan...Published: 28 Feb 2017 at 12:37hrs | | by Alice Dube
The rise and fall of Thokozani Khupe
ONE of MDC-T's three vice presidents, Ms Thokozani Khupe, at the weekend led a handful of women on the streets of Bulawayo beating pots in a self-serving campaign that served nothing but to mark her p...Published: 19 Jul 2016 at 06:26hrs | | by Nduduzo Tshuma
Cracks worsen in MDC-T
FISSURES in the MDC-T worsened this week as the party withdrew the secretary for local government position from Matson Hlalo, whom it plans to expel from the party and withdraw from Parliament....Published: 20 Jan 2015 at 06:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Move to oust Gorden Moyo from MDC-T
As infighting rages on in the MDC-T, a perceived Morgan Tsvangirai faithful, Gift Banda, is being positioned to take over the Bulawayo provincial chairperson's position, elbowing out the city's Makok...Published: 24 Mar 2014 at 14:49hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Plot to oust Bulawayo mayor exposed
BULAWAYO city councillors are allegedly plotting to oust mayor Martin Moyo and his deputy Gift Banda through a vote of no confidence accusing the two of incompetence.The opposition MDC-T made ...Published: 05 Feb 2014 at 06:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bribery not a new phenomenon at MDC-T says Sipepa Nkomo
BRIBERY is rampant within the rank and file of the opposition MDC-T party and in the run-up to the party's congress in Bulawayo in 2011, party officials openly splashed money to secure positions, a se...Published: 22 Sep 2013 at 04:21hrs | 4 | by Staff Reporter
Tsvangirai outwitted again!
FORMER Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's preferred mayoral candidates for the country's major cities fell by the wayside yesterday as the MDC-T appeared to succumb to government threats to block non...Published: 17 Sep 2013 at 05:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai's bid to impose mayors flops
The swearing in of councillors who won in the July 31 harmonised elections in all the 92 local authorities across the country saw the election of mayors for various towns around the country, a develop...Published: 16 Sep 2013 at 19:12hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo swears in councillors - Photos
Bulawayo City Legal Director Sikhangezile Zhou Prepare a Ballot Box for Deputy Mayoral Electi...Published: 16 Sep 2013 at 12:02hrs | | by Mafu Sithabile
MDC-T remains defiant on councillors
The Morgan Tsvangirai led MDC yesterday remained defiant that it will field unelected councillors for the positions of mayors despite a directive by Local Government, Public Works and National Housing...Published: 16 Sep 2013 at 03:58hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Mayors, council chairpersons to be elected into office today
MAYORS and chairpersons for Zimbabwe's 92 local authorities will be elected into office today as Government moves to foster good governance in local authorities.Initial resistance by MDC-T - w...Published: 16 Sep 2013 at 03:52hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Internal war erupts over MDC-T Bulawayo mayor
AN internal war is brewing within MDC-T over mayoral candidates after the province yesterday said it would not recognise results of an election conducted by the party's secretary for Local Governmen...Published: 12 Sep 2013 at 12:44hrs | | by Mafu Sithabile
MDC-T mayoral case dismissed with costs
The High Court in Harare yesterday dismissed, with costs, an urgent chamber application in which MDC-T was seeking an order compelling Government to accept the appointment of non-councillors as mayor...Published: 12 Sep 2013 at 04:15hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
MDC-T revives its battle, approaches the High Court
MDC-T yesterday revived its battle to compel Government to accept the appointment of non-councillors as mayors in various cities and towns in the country after it filed a fresh application at the High...Published: 07 Sep 2013 at 06:10hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
MDC-T councillors celebrate govt's decision on mayors
MDC-T councillors' elects yesterday celebrated Government instruction that mayors should be chosen from elected councillors amid renewed jostling by councillors for the post.Four re-elected co...Published: 06 Sep 2013 at 15:12hrs | 2 | by Mafu Sithabile
Electoral Court to hear MDC-T's mayoral election case
The Electoral Court will today hear an urgent chamber application by MDC-T in which the party is challenging the Government's position that mayors should only be selected from elected councillors....Published: 05 Sep 2013 at 04:37hrs | | by Court Reporter
Chombo, MDC-T battle spills to courts
The MDC-T yesterday filed an urgent application with the Electoral Court seeking an interdict to block outgoing Local Government minister Ignatius Chombo from interfering in the election of mayors. ...Published: 04 Sep 2013 at 05:32hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Government clarifies position on mayors
Government has instructed provincial and district administrators to ensure that those elected as mayors and chairpersons of councils come from elected councillors when they preside over the inaugu...Published: 04 Sep 2013 at 00:35hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Madhuku shocked by MDC-T's ignorance of the Constitution
THE new Constitution dictates that a mayor must be selected from elected councillors and the MDC-T's reading of the Supreme Law is wrong, Professor Lovemore Madhuku has said. In an interview ...Published: 02 Sep 2013 at 16:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC-T mayors face mammoth task
Tough tests await the new mayors and the MDC-T dominated councils, with analysts warning that the Zanu-PF government will not give them an easy ride. The MDC-T has appointed a number of offici...Published: 02 Sep 2013 at 05:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai rules out party revolt over Bulawayo mayor
MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai will not reverse the party's decision to recommend academic Mandla Nyathi as Bulawayo's new mayor despite reports some newly-elected councillors intend to ignore the di...Published: 02 Sep 2013 at 06:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dr Tsvangirai, Dr Nkomo clash
THE controversy surrounding the choice of Bulawayo Mayor turned nasty on Thursday when MDC-T president Mr Morgan Tsvangirai dressed down Dr Samuel Sipepa Nkomo for questioning his choice for the city'...Published: 30 Aug 2013 at 23:11hrs | 5 | by Staff Reporter
Tsvangirai is a dictator too, so it seems
While there is a wide assumption that the 31 July elections were massively and tactfully rigged in favour of Zanu-PF, however the process has exposed that even the MDC-T leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, i...Published: 30 Aug 2013 at 06:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC-T annoints NUST lecturer as Bulawayo Mayor
The MDC-T on Thursday elected National University of Science and Technology (NUST) lecturer Dr Mandla Nyathi as the new Mayor of Bulawayo, under the supervision of party president Morgan Tsvangirai ...Published: 29 Aug 2013 at 21:20hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
MDC-T councillors openly defy Thokozani Khupe's directive
BULAWAYO councillors on Tuesday openly defied the party's provincial executive on its choice for the city's deputy mayor, setting the stage for an explosive meeting scheduled for today where party le...Published: 29 Aug 2013 at 05:02hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai will be in Bulawayo on Thursday to impose mayor
MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai will be in Bulawayo on Thursday to 'help' his party select the city's next mayor amid indications that National University of Science and Technology lecturer Mandla Nyat...Published: 27 Aug 2013 at 08:47hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
MDC-T picks Bulawayo mayor
PRIME Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's MDC-T, which swept all council wards in Bulawayo, yesterday finally broke their silent over the appointment of a new mayor for the city, saying it will name its choi...Published: 19 Aug 2013 at 10:29hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Elected councillors will elect Mayors
Councillors from Zimbabwe's 92 local authorities will choose mayors and chairpersons from among their elected colleagues, a senior Government official has disclosed.The move would do away with the 200...Published: 15 Aug 2013 at 07:37hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Tsvangirai, Biti in Bulawayo to attend to mounting complaints
MDC-T president Morgan Tsvangirai and party secretary-general Tendai Biti are expected in Bulawayo today to attend to mounting complaints that the party has bungled its candidate selection procedures...Published: 24 Apr 2013 at 07:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC-T rejects 'chairperson's' candidature
The Bulawayo provincial executive on Friday rejected the candidature of their chairperson Mr Gorden Moyo who had been lined up to replace Deputy Prime Minister Thokozani Khupe as the Member of the Hou...Published: 07 Apr 2013 at 05:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mayor falls out of favour with MDC-T
THE MDC-T Bulawayo provincial leadership led by chairperson Mr Gorden Moyo is reportedly on a mission to remove Bulawayo Mayor, Councillor Thaba Moyo and replace him with city lawyer, Mr Kucaca Phul...Published: 06 Apr 2013 at 07:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Matobo traditional healer says he can cure HIV/AIDS
Tens of people have set camps at a homestead in Silozwi Village in Matobo District, Matabeleland South, after rumours filtered through that a youthful traditional healer had 'cured' three bed-ridden p...Published: 31 Mar 2013 at 08:34hrs | 4 | by Staff Reporter
Jostling for Zimbabwe parliament sets intensifies
JOSTLING for parliamentary seats for the next elections is intensifying throughout the provinces amid revelations that some MDC-T bigwigs are likely to lose to relatively newcomers.Although t...Published: 03 Mar 2013 at 18:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
'MDC-T Matabeleland rifts are minor issues,' says Chamisa
MDC-T national organising secretary Nelson Chamisa has downplayed the reported squabbles that rocked the party's Matabeleland structures over the past few months, describing the fissures as "minor"....Published: 04 Feb 2013 at 06:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC-T MPs exchange blows
MDC-T secretary general Tendai Biti fiercely clashed with party organising secretary Nelson Chamisa at a standing committee meeting over primary election application forms while MPs Tabitha Khumalo an...Published: 25 Jan 2013 at 05:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
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