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Independent candidates ride on Chamisa's coattails
INDEPENDENT candidates for Mount Pleasant and Harare East constituencies in the capital are rallying voters to support former Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa by voting them i...Published: 15 Apr 2024 at 06:05hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
First it was Chamisa, now it's Biti, who is next?
WHEN THE KITCHEN GETS HOT, THEY UNCEREMONIOUSLY BOLT OUT: FIRST IT WAS NELSON CHAMISA, NOW IT'S TENDAI BITI, WHO IS NEXT?The recent state of the conduct of leadership ranks in the Zimbab...Published: 10 Apr 2024 at 21:17hrs | 2 | by Prof Jonathan Moyo
ZEC ready for Harare by-elections
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) is ready to hold by-elections in Mt Pleasant and Harare East constituencies, with 106 polling stations having been identified."It is hereby notified in ...Published: 10 Apr 2024 at 06:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
CCC hara-kiri
WHEN Nelson Chamisa stepped down as Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader, the social media streets were full of comments pressuring MPs to resign as a block in solidarity with their leader....Published: 30 Mar 2024 at 13:42hrs | 2 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Zimbabweans should be wary of Trojan horse constitutional amendments!
So, the Zimbabwe government is planning more constitutional changes.This is according to Justice, Legal, and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi, in an interview with the state-cont...Published: 25 Mar 2024 at 20:12hrs | 12 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Constitutional changes on cards in Zimbabwe
Government has set in motion plans to transfer the responsibility to register voters from the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) to the Civil Registry Department in sweeping changes to the electoral ...Published: 24 Mar 2024 at 14:56hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
US spies busted, deported
FOUR United States nationals contracted by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) reportedly sneaked into the country last month without notifying the authorities as per protoc...Published: 10 Mar 2024 at 06:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
CCC pulls out of by-elections
THE Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) will not participate in the upcoming by-elections, a it is focusing its efforts on stabilising the party and the institution of key electoral reforms in the cou...Published: 09 Mar 2024 at 14:55hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa proclaims by-elections in Mt Pleasant, Harare East constituencies
President Mnangagwa has declared vacant seats for Mt Pleasant and Harare East constituencies following the resignation of Ms Fadzai Mahere and Mr Rusty Markham respectively with by-elections set for n...Published: 07 Mar 2024 at 05:07hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'CCC chaos to fuel voter apathy'
AN electoral watchdog, the Zimbabwe Election Advocacy Trust (ZEAT), has said the chaos and splits within the main opposition party, the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC), is a recipe for voter apath...Published: 19 Feb 2024 at 04:55hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mount Pleasant and Harare East constituencies declared vacabt
The Speaker of Parliament, Advocate Jacob Mudenda, announced in the National Assembly that vacancies exist in the membership of Parliament in respect of Mount Pleasant and Harare East constituencies, ...Published: 16 Feb 2024 at 15:07hrs | 1 | by Jonathan Moyo
Has Chamisa led Zimbabwe's opposition astray?
On January 25, exactly two years and three days after Zimbabwe's main opposition party the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) was launched, its leader Nelson Chamisa quit, leaving the party in turmoi...Published: 13 Feb 2024 at 16:20hrs | 13 | by Ish Mafundikwa
Tshabangu facing the axe
Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) interim secretary general Sengezo Tshabangu is now facing the axe from the same opposition party that he snatched from its former leader Nelson Chamisa for allegedl...Published: 11 Feb 2024 at 21:20hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
CCC voters feel betrayed
Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) supporters, who voted for their representative in August 2023 harmonised elections, say they feel abandoned following the abrupt resignation of their representative...Published: 07 Feb 2024 at 04:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
David Coltart reveals earning US$25 a month
Bulawayo mayor David Coltart, in charge of the country's second largest urban authority, earns a ridiculous US$25 a month, perhaps worse than a day's takings by an illegal street vendor in one of the ...Published: 06 Feb 2024 at 07:15hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Markham follows Nelson Chamisa out of CCC
Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) Harare East MP Allan Rusty Markham has resigned from parliament in solidarity with Nelson Chamisa, who quit as leader of the main opposition last month citing a rel...Published: 04 Feb 2024 at 17:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
CCC MPs frustrated by Chamisa's decision to quit
CCC Members of Parliament have expressed frustration over Nelson Chamisa's decision to quit the party without informing them about his plans.On Thursday, Chamisa abruptly resigned from CCC, ca...Published: 29 Jan 2024 at 11:49hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
'We are behind Chamisa'
Several Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) on Friday pledged their allegiance to Nelson Chamisa, a day after the politician ditched the party arguing that it had been hijacked the ruling Zanu-PF....Published: 29 Jan 2024 at 07:04hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
CCC MPs left in limbo after Chamisa bombshell
OPPOSITION leader Nelson Chamisa's shocking decision to quit the CCC caught the party's parliamentarians, councillors and mayors flat-footed while causing widespread confusion and panic within the ran...Published: 29 Jan 2024 at 06:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Minister loses money to fraudsters
CCC MP calls out delays in RBZ's currency auctionAn opposition legislator has raised concern over delays in the disbursement of foreign currency from the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ)'s auction s...Published: 30 Nov 2023 at 06:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Faz spearheads Zanu-PF by-elections campaign
FOREVER Associates Zimbabwe (Faz), a shadowy organisation linked to the country's spy agency, has retraced its footsteps back into the political arena, this time campaigning for ruling party candidate...Published: 28 Nov 2023 at 14:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ziyambi quizzed over abductions
OPPOSITION Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) parliamentarians have taken government to task over police's seemingly lackadaisical approach towards investigating politically-motivated abductions, enf...Published: 17 Nov 2023 at 05:06hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
CCC MP demands tabling of SADC Report on Zimbabwe's Election in Parliament
A Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) legislator has demanded that the Southern Africa Development Committee (SADC) Election Observation Mission (SEOM) report on Zimbabwe's recent elections be tabled ...Published: 11 Nov 2023 at 15:53hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Strategic Ambiguity, so near but so far
Addressing thousands of change champions on his last political rally at the Freedom Square, Chamisa highlighted to the CCC supporters that it was impossible for President Mnangagwa to rig the August 2...Published: 29 Sep 2023 at 11:55hrs | | by Knowledge Hakata
8 MPs miss swearing-in ceremony
Eight Members of Parliament who were not sworn in yesterday in Harare have accused the Clerk of Parliament of sending out short notices.The newly-elected MPs were sworn in at the new parliamen...Published: 08 Sep 2023 at 19:55hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
LEAKED: CCC 'legal case' for foreign run fresh election
NB: Finally, the cat is out of the bag. Below is the CCC 'legal case' against Zimbabwe's sovereignty, which calls for foreigners to organise and conduct fresh elections in Zimbabwe.The entire ...Published: 05 Sep 2023 at 23:01hrs | | by Jonathan Moyo
'Chamisa partly to blame for 'weak' Zimbabwe opposition'
Journalist Hopewell Chin'ono has criticised CCC leader Nelson Chamisa saying his decision to “get rid” of senior opposition figures such as Tendai Biti and Welshman Ncube has weakened the oppositi...Published: 11 Jul 2023 at 23:51hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Mahere confirms receipt of Zimbabwe electronic voters' roll
OPPOSITION Citizens Coalition for Change has finally been availed with an electronic copy of the voters' roll by Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC), with a month remaining until the August general el...Published: 11 Jul 2023 at 07:42hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's CCC gets electronic voters roll from ZEC
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission has finally handed over a copy of the electronic voters roll to the Citizens Coalition for Change just over a month before general elections on August 23.ZEC ...Published: 10 Jul 2023 at 20:17hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Faz manipulates voters' roll, claims CCC
THE opposition CCC fears the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) is manipulating the voters' roll in favour of Zanu-PF, hence the commission's failure to avail the electronic copy to candidates, a sen...Published: 09 Jul 2023 at 14:25hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF wants Chamisa's candidates disqualified
THE ruling Zanu-PF wants the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) to disqualify 15 parliamentary candidates of the main opposition Citizens' Coalition for Change (CCC) in Bulawayo, saying they fi...Published: 03 Jul 2023 at 16:03hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Faz destabilises Chamisa's CCC
SHADOWY Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO)-linked Zanu-PF group Forever Associates of Zimbabwe (Faz), which took over the running of elections from the military in order to boost the prospects of...Published: 26 Jun 2023 at 19:47hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Biti, Chamisa fall out over US dollars?
OPPOSITION CCC leader Mr Nelson Chamisa threw his former vice president and ally Mr Tendai Biti under the proverbial bus and rigged the Harare East candidate selection process against him because he b...Published: 23 Jun 2023 at 06:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa blames forgeries in CCC double candidate controversy
The Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) maintains it did not field double candidates at the nomination court on Wednesday ahead of August 23's elections, instead the party says over a dozen National A...Published: 22 Jun 2023 at 18:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Nomination fees challenge not urgent, says Court
HIGH Court judge Justice Munamato Mutevedzi has ruled as not urgent an application filed by two opposition candidates seeking a downward review of the nomination fees for candidates seeking to contest...Published: 21 Jun 2023 at 06:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Biti was rigged to make way for Chamisa sympathiser'
FORMER Cabinet Minister Jonathan Moyo has claimed Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) legislator Tendai Biti's recent loss to fellow Member of Parliament (MP) Allan ‘Rusty' Markham was rigged....Published: 19 Jun 2023 at 18:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Analysis: Tendai Biti is down - but not necessarily out
Some might think Tendai Biti is ending his parliamentary career much as he started it 23 years ago - by causing a ruckus in parliament with his lively debate that fundamentally changed how Zanu PF vie...Published: 19 Jun 2023 at 14:29hrs | 6 | by Farai Chirimumimba
CCC's candidate selection in Harare East rigged in advance
I have noted your insult @DavidColtart. This - Jonathan - is pathetic and beneath you. Why are you so brazenly racist? ...Published: 19 Jun 2023 at 12:48hrs | 1 | by Jonathan Moyo
CCC candidates selection latest
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa is reportedly fighting to contain the fallout in his party after some party leaders, including his deputy Tendai Biti reportedly lost in the c...Published: 19 Jun 2023 at 06:48hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa was desperate to see the back of Tendai Biti?
THE beleaguered CCC party is teetering on the brink of another split just a few hours before the Nomination Court sits ahead of the 23 August harmonised elections.Fissures, for long papered by...Published: 19 Jun 2023 at 06:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa'S CCC selection process has been tricky and could cause turbulence
Zimbabwe's main opposition CCC leader Nelson Chamisa says people should patiently wait for nomination court day, 21 June, to know the party’s final election candidates. ...Published: 18 Jun 2023 at 15:18hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
CCC finalises candidates selection
THE Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) yesterday held its last candidates' selection process in Harare amid reports of violence and chaos in some suburbs.The CCC did not hold any primary elec...Published: 18 Jun 2023 at 08:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: Biti ousted from Harare East seat?
There have been conflicting reports from various media houses about the outcome of the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) internal election process to select its parliamentary candidate in Hara...Published: 17 Jun 2023 at 19:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Rusty Markham says he is 'sick and tired' of racism from CCC and Zanu-PF
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) MP for Harare North Allan 'Rusty' Markham stormed out of the national assembly after Zanu-PF legislator, Joseph Chinotimba, hurled racial slurs him.This is ...Published: 15 Jun 2023 at 06:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Enraged Biti calls CCC colleague 'a snake whose head must be crushed' - just another Zanu PF thug 'vafanana'
In his book David Coltart acknowledged the sheer of participating in flawed elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy. He explained that it was greed that forced him and his follow MDC friends to participa...Published: 14 Jun 2023 at 12:14hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Chamisa's bubble bursts at wrong moment
The peak of the newly formed Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) wasn't the seats it won in the 2022 by-elections.By the time the seats were won it was obvious they would be won.The ac...Published: 13 Jun 2023 at 09:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tendai Biti goes after white competitor Rusty Markham
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) legislator Tendai Biti has described those in support of his competitor Rusty Markham as snakes for daring to side with ‘vasina mabvi', a slighting term for white...Published: 13 Jun 2023 at 06:46hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Tendai Biti calls Markham a snake?
Tendai Biti has rebuffed efforts by the Citizens Coalition For Change leader Nelson Chamisa to dilute his influence by pushing him to contest for a Senatorial seat instead of a House of Assembly seat ...Published: 12 Jun 2023 at 18:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tendai Biti might fall by the wayside as CCC to finalise candidate selection process
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) Members of Parliament (MP) Tendai Biti and Rusty Markham are among those who might fall by the wayside as their party concludes its candidate selection process this...Published: 10 Jun 2023 at 17:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Supreme Court dismisses Markham's bid to access electronic voters roll
The Supreme Court has dismissed an appeal lodged through the apex court by Harare North lawmaker, Allan Markham who was seeking to overturn a High Court ruling denying him access to the electronic vot...Published: 09 Jun 2023 at 08:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
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