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Chebundo lauded for bringing opposition members to Zanu-PF
FORMER opposition legilslator Blessing Chebundo who defected to Zanu-PF about two years ago has earned the governing party's plaudits for bringing new members from the opposition.Zanu-PF polit...Published: 12 Feb 2023 at 07:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
When the West, opposition believe their own propaganda
Following the March 26, 2022, by-elections, the Western media and the opposition have been very childishly excited by the performance of the Nelson Chamisa-led CCC.In the process, the West and...Published: 12 Apr 2022 at 06:27hrs | 1 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Sink or swim for Chamisa
TO sink or swim is the question in this Saturday's by-elections as the opposition Citizens' Coalition for Change (CCC) faces a stern test of political strength where there is everything to fight for i...Published: 27 Mar 2022 at 07:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
CCC has nothing to offer, claims Chebundo
FORMER MDC legislator Blessing Chebundo has launched a scathing attack on the Citizen Coalition for Change (CCC), saying the opposition political party was a loud-sounding nothing.Having been ...Published: 20 Feb 2022 at 08:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
NPF gives up Kwekwe seat
THE opposition National Partriotic Front (NPF) which was linked to former president Robert Mugabe and his backers has all but collapsed and will not be fighting to reclaim the Kwekwe Central seat in t...Published: 19 Feb 2022 at 18:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chebundo vows to take Kwekwe seat back to Zanu-PF
FORMER MDC Kwekwe Central legislator Blessing Chebundo, who famously trounced current President Emmerson Mnangagwa during the 2000 parliamentary election, has vowed to help Zanu-PF reclaim the seat....Published: 05 Feb 2022 at 19:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Biti Parly bounce-back latest
THE High Court yesterday cancelled Monday's ruling stopping by-elections in six constituencies that allowed People's Democratic Party (PDP) members to bounce back to Parliament without being subjected...Published: 27 Jan 2022 at 04:41hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Violent ZANU PF officials disqualified ahead of by-elections
ZANU PF suspended two Kwekwe central aspiring legislator candidates for violence and vote buying on parliamentary by- elections, yesterday.Kandros Mugabe and Energy ' Dhala' Mugabe who intende...Published: 20 Jan 2022 at 15:26hrs | | by Tarisai Mudahondo/ Simbarashe Sithole in Kwekwe
Is it too late for Mnangagwa to reverse course?
All reasonable men know that the people of the Rainbird are the "wisest" among the Bantu. I was made aware, quite recently that they also have a weird sense of humour. When a bad character meets his f...Published: 16 Jan 2022 at 08:59hrs | 10 | by Kenneth Mufuka
Tension in Mnangagwa backyard
TENSION has gripped President Emmerson Mnangagwa's home province of the Midlands, with security reportedly on high alert ahead of Zanu-PF provincial elections that were moved to this weekend following...Published: 12 Jan 2022 at 23:17hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Scent of polls as new parties emerge
WITH the general elections on the horizon, Zimbabwe is once again witnessing the formation of fringe political parties attempting the plunge in the political landscape largely dominated by Zanu-PF and...Published: 28 Dec 2021 at 07:14hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
'The only way to unite ZANU PF camp is through election,' says Mugabe
Aspiring Kwekwe central member of Parliament Kandros Mugabe said he is prepared to face his rival Energy Ncube (Dhala)and win election....Published: 28 Sep 2021 at 06:46hrs | | by Tarisai Mudahondo
Nasty factional fights boil in Mnangagwa's backyard
INTENSE inter-factional fights to control President Emmerson Mnangagwa's home province Midlands, pitting two rival groups backing State Security minister Owen Mudha Ncube and the incumbent chairperson...Published: 24 Sep 2021 at 18:56hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Chaos at ZANU PF Kwekwe district
Zanu PF's factionalism in Kwekwe has turned ugly following the rivalry between District Coordinating Committee (DCC) Secretary for finance Ka...Published: 08 Sep 2021 at 19:26hrs | 8 | by Tarisai Mudahondo
Drama as Kwekwe Zanu-PF councillor in full council meeting
THERE were exhilarating dramatic scenes at Kwekwe City Council Tuesday when the only Zanu-PF Kwekwe Councillor, Maclean Nyamucherera, openly wept during a full council discussion on the allocation of ...Published: 06 Aug 2021 at 07:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chebundo slams 'immature' MDC Alliance
FORMER MDC Alliance senior politician and ex-legislator Blessing Chebundo, who recently joined Zanu-PF, has described his erstwhile colleagues as a destructive and immature lot.Addressing Zanu...Published: 31 Mar 2021 at 06:49hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's ex-councillor to represent Khupe
A FORMER councillor with Nelson Chamisa's MDC Alliance is set to contest the Kwekwe Central parliamentary by-election on an MDC-T ticket.Mbekezeli Ndlovu served as Kwekwe City Councillor for t...Published: 12 Nov 2020 at 18:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
NPF plots to retain Kwekwe Central seat
THE National Patriotic Front (NPF), a breakaway party from the ruling Zanu-PF party, has announced that it will participate in all the by-elections should their suspension over COVID-19 be lifted and ...Published: 03 Nov 2020 at 07:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF bigwigs in a state of shock
MANIC Zanu-PF youths wielding machetes recently ran amok in the Midlands - assaulting party bigwigs and police officers, while also sowing terror among supporters of the former liberation movement in ...Published: 30 Oct 2020 at 17:44hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF, MDC Alliance defy Chiwenga's election ban
THE ruling Zanu-PF and opposition MDC Alliance yesterday said they were going ahead with preparations for by-elections despite the recent poll ban imposed by Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga....Published: 20 Oct 2020 at 06:25hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa tormentor loses MDC Alliance Kwekwe Central primary elections
FORMER Kwekwe Central MDC MP Saturday lost in Kwekwe Central MDC Alliance primary elections to Judith Tobaiwa.The MDC Alliance held the internal party elections ahead of impending parliamentar...Published: 12 Oct 2020 at 19:52hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF investigates Kwekwe chaos
ZANU-PF is investigating cadres who caused chaos in the Kwekwe Central primary elections on October 3, where prospective party candidates, Kandros Mugabe was battling it out with a 26-year-old Energy ...Published: 12 Oct 2020 at 06:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance bigwigs lose primary poll
MDC alliance bigwigs yesterday fell by the wayside in party primary elections to select the Kwekwe Central parliamentary candidate to represent the main Nelson Chamisa-led formation in the coming by-e...Published: 11 Oct 2020 at 10:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
5 arrested over Kwekwe violence
Five suspected gold panners allegedly hired to disrupt Zanu-PF primary elections for Kwekwe Central over the weekend have been arrested, as investigations into the incident continue. The prima...Published: 06 Oct 2020 at 06:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Rowdy Zanu-PF supporters attack police with stones
A VIDEO of the violence that rocked the Kwekwe Central Zanu-PF primary elections went viral yesterday, with the restive activists attacking police officers deployed to calm tempers after machete-wield...Published: 06 Oct 2020 at 06:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF Mkoba primary poll results out
EDUCATIONIST William Gondo will represent Zanu-PF in the Mkoba constituency by-elections after trouncing four other candidates who were contesting in the party primary elections.Last week, Gov...Published: 05 Oct 2020 at 17:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chaos in Mnangagwa's backyard
ZANU-PF was forced to abandon primary elections in Kwekwe yesterday after violence broke out at the party district offices, leading to several arrests.Machete-wielding youths stormed polling s...Published: 05 Oct 2020 at 06:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Owen Ncube's nephew guns for Mnangagwa backyard
A NEPHEW to State Security Minister Owen Ncube has expressed interest to represent Zanu-PF in by-elections set for December this year in Kwekwe Central Constituency.The seat fell vacant follow...Published: 01 Oct 2020 at 07:45hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF's age-old factionalism burns hot
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has deployed Zanu-PF bigwigs in three provinces that are being ravaged by ugly infighting ahead of the party's District Co-ordinating Committee (DCC) elections.Zan...Published: 18 Sep 2020 at 21:09hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF focuses on 2023 polls
ZANU-PF party cadres should campaign for the party and President Mnangagwa ahead of 2023 harmonised elections and not prioritise their individual campaigns. With the delimitation programme com...Published: 15 Sep 2020 at 06:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF members urged to prioritise Presidential campaigns
ZANU-PF party cadres should campaign for the party and President Mnangagwa ahead of 2023 harmonised elections and not prioritise their individual campaigns.With the delimitation programme comi...Published: 14 Sep 2020 at 20:03hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Parly in heated debate over pregnant school girls
THE Education Amendment Bill, which is currently in its second reading stage in the National Assembly, has attracted heated debate on whether pregnant girls should be allowed to continue with class....Published: 19 Jun 2019 at 07:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Machete terror gangs spreading mayhem in Mnangagwa's home province
Murder and violence are spreading in the mineral-rich Midlands - President Emmerson Mnangagwa's home province - as armed militias reportedly sponsored by politicians wreak havoc with impunity....Published: 07 Apr 2019 at 09:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mujuru rejoining Zanu-PF - report
STATE media early Sunday, reported that former Vice President Joice Mujuru, stampeded out of the ruling Zanu-PF party ahead of the 2014 congress is returning to the ex-liberation movement.The ...Published: 07 Apr 2019 at 08:43hrs | | by newzimbabwe
Proposed govt law to bring clarity on forex repatriation fears
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's government is in the process of formulating a law that would spell out how foreign investors can repatriate their profits from Zimbabwe, a country facing foreign currenc...Published: 21 Mar 2019 at 07:31hrs | | by newzimbabwe
'Mnangagwa's govt the worst human rights abuser'
OPPOSITION MPs yesterday labelled the Zanu-PF government as the worst human rights abuser in the country.This emerged during a debate on the Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission (ZHRC) report on t...Published: 13 Mar 2019 at 12:04hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Should Zimbabwe's 'unwitty' MPs be sent back to school?
In our series of letters from African writers, Zimbabwean journalist-turned-barrister Brian Hungwe looks at whether politicians need better qualifications.Zimbabwe has one of the highest liter...Published: 08 Mar 2019 at 16:19hrs | | by Brian Hungwe
Of mute MPs and their mute brigade
Parliament offers its members many platforms to speak on diverse issues.A member can rise on the floor to table a petition, a private members' Bill, raise a matter of national importance, ask ...Published: 06 Jan 2019 at 17:55hrs | | by Blessings Mashaya
'Compensate war collaborators'
DEFENCE and War Veterans deputy minister Victor Matematanda was yesterday grilled in Parliament over government's failure to vet war collaborators 38 years after the liberation war.The issue w...Published: 24 Nov 2018 at 08:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Disciplinary action against the MDC Alliance MPs
FELLOW parliamentarians yesterday condemned the rowdy behaviour and disrespect to President Mnangagwa exhibited by their MDC Alliance counterparts just before the presentation of the 2019 budget by Fi...Published: 23 Nov 2018 at 05:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Let's not indulge obstructionists
The more I see some categories of people who are stridently and rabidly opposing Finance minister Mthuli Ncube's economic stabilisation programme - as opposed to those offering measured and constructi...Published: 26 Oct 2018 at 07:10hrs | | by Conway Tutani
MP seeks police assistance in machete attack cases
National Patriotic Front's sole legislator, Masango Matambanadzo, who represents Kwekwe Central in the National Assembly, has called on Home Affairs minister Cain Mathema to address the issue of mache...Published: 10 Oct 2018 at 06:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa demands Mnangagwa to reverse the appointment of Owen Ncube
The absence of an Act of Parliament regulating the operational use of intelligence services in Zimbabwe is a concern for the MDC.The Army is regulated through the Defence Act, the Zimbabwe Rep...Published: 27 Sep 2018 at 17:37hrs | | by MDC Communications
Chebundo vs Matambanadzo court appeal set for Tuesday
THE poll challenge filed by losing MDC Alliance candidate for Kwekwe Central Blessing Chebundo against National Patriotic Front (NPF) Masango Matambanadzo's narrow victory in the July 30 parliamentary...Published: 24 Sep 2018 at 11:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MPs heckle shaken Malaba, Chigumba
THERE was drama in the National Assembly yesterday as opposition MDC Alliance legislators heckled and booed Chief Justice Luke Malaba, calling him a "thief" after he entered the House to swear in retu...Published: 12 Sep 2018 at 07:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Massive drop in poll petitions
The number of challenges against National Assembly and local authority poll outcomes brought to Electoral Courts fell significantly this year as compared to 2013.In all, 28 petitions were file...Published: 02 Sep 2018 at 08:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's Alliance challenges Matambanadzo's Kwekwe victory
MDC-Alliance'S losing candidate for Kwekwe Central National Assembly seat, Mr Blessing Chebundo, has approached the Electoral Court challenging MP-elect Mr Masango Matambanadzo's victory. He is accusi...Published: 31 Aug 2018 at 06:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Chamisa's ally a bitter soul'
KWEKWE Central MP elect Masango Matambanadzo (National Patriotic Front) has dismissed MDC Alliance losing candidate Blessing Chebundo as a bitter soul that cannot stomach electoral defeat, and was now...Published: 29 Aug 2018 at 12:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
33 Electoral Court cases filed
THE Electoral Court has heard 33 cases filed by parliamentary and local authority candidates who lost in the just-ended harmonised elections.A list of these cases compiled by legal think-tank ...Published: 25 Aug 2018 at 08:53hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Zanu-PF's bid to amend Constitution faces hurdles
ZANU-PF's bid to amend the Constitution is likely to face hurdles because it does not have a two thirds majority in the Senate, which would have allowed the party to ride roughshod over the opposition...Published: 23 Aug 2018 at 13:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
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