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Zanu-PF bigwigs retreat to farms as Covid-19 bites
SEVERAL government and Zanu-PF bigwigs have retreated to their farms and villages as the Covid-19 pandemic bares its teeth with four Cabinet ministers having died so far and President Emmerson Mnangag...Published: 23 Jan 2021 at 22:56hrs | 3225 | by Staff reporter
SB Moyo: Epitome of Zimbabwe revolution's finest cadre
Comrade Sibusiso Moyo, the General of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces who pronounced the demise of the four decade-old Mugabe dictatorship in November is no more. Comrade SB Moyo, what a journey we have t...Published: 23 Jan 2021 at 06:21hrs | 551 | by Ambassador Christopher Mutsvangwa
WATCH: Matemadanda rubbishes rumour he has been rushed to hospital
Victor Matemadanda‚ Zanu-PF's national political commissar, has circulated a video dismissing rumours that he has been rushed to hospital because of Covid-19.Matemadanda shot the video while...Published: 22 Jan 2021 at 16:36hrs | 245 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Matemadanda rebukes being rushed to hospital after testing positive
ZANU-PF political commissar and Deputy Minister of Defence Victor Matemadanda has rebuked a rumour that he has been rushed to hospital after testing positive of Covid-19.In a video sent to Bulaway...Published: 22 Jan 2021 at 16:34hrs | 7298 | by Staff Reporter
This is best time for Mnangagwa, Mwonzora and Chamisa to sit down together
THE time is now opportune for three of the country's major political players - President Emmerson Mnangagwa, opposition leader Douglas Mwonzora and his MDC rival Nelson Chamisa - to sit down together ...Published: 18 Jan 2021 at 17:37hrs | 1133 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa has 'nowhere to take his problems to' claims Matemadanda
THE ruling Zanu-PF says Nelson Chamisa and the MDC Alliance "made their bed and must now lie in it" - after they allegedly "repeatedly spurned the hand of friendship" extended to them by President Emm...Published: 13 Jan 2021 at 15:55hrs | 1994 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Matemadanda video causes a stir
An undated video by ZANU-PF political commissar and Deputy Minister of Defence Victor Matemadanda has caused a stir on social media.Watch the video below:...Published: 12 Jan 2021 at 16:29hrs | 9615 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa made his bed, Zanu-PF says
Zanu-PF national political commissar Victor Matemadanda says Nelson Chamisa and the MDC Alliance 'made their bed and must now lie in it' after they allegedly repeatedly spurned the hand of friendship ...Published: 12 Jan 2021 at 09:21hrs | 6072 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa endorses new Masvingo DDCs
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has endorsed the new Masvingo District Coordination Committee (DCC) leadership that was elected under controversial circumstances on December 05-06, 2020.During hi...Published: 03 Jan 2021 at 18:10hrs | 1068 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF completes DCC poll reruns
Zanu-PF members Kindness Paradza, Binali Yard and Ronald Chuma won in the District Coordinating Committee (DCC) election re-runs held on Monday. The re-runs were ordered by the ruling party's ...Published: 30 Dec 2020 at 07:18hrs | 101 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa threatens Zanu-PF members
PARTY leaders who were recently elected in District Coordinating Committee (DCC) elections should follow the Zanu-PF constitution or risk expulsion if they engage in counterproductive plots, President...Published: 25 Dec 2020 at 07:12hrs | 1178 | by Staff reporter
'Chamisa's MDC controlled by G40,' says Mwonzora
MDC-T Secretary-General, Douglas Mwonzora, has alleged that the MDC Alliance is heavily influenced by elements of Zanu-PF's Generation 40 (G40) faction.G40 was said to be a group of Zanu-PF po...Published: 16 Dec 2020 at 14:51hrs | 2025 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to meet Zanu-PF security dept as he bids to fix bickering party
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is stepping in to try and end the widening fallout from Zanu-PF's chaotic district coordinating committee (DCC) elections, which have raised political temperatures higher ...Published: 14 Dec 2020 at 19:01hrs | 1421 | by Staff reporter
Matemadanda accused of being a sore loser
A war of words has erupted in Gokwe South amid reports that the winners of last week's chaotic District Coordinating Committee (DCC) elections have vowed to stop the National Commissar Victor Matemada...Published: 14 Dec 2020 at 08:24hrs | 1906 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa moves in to end DCC chaos
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is stepping in to try and end the widening fallout from Zanu-PF's chaotic district coordinating committee (DCC) elections, which have raised political temperatures higher ...Published: 14 Dec 2020 at 07:46hrs | 638 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF mum on DCC chaos
THE ruling Zanu-PF party has remained tight-lipped on the chaos that gripped the district co-ordinating committee (DCC) elections which are yet to be finalised despite voting having ended over a week ...Published: 14 Dec 2020 at 07:29hrs | 338 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF infighting exposed
THE chaos that characterised Zanu-PF polls has revealed that the ruling party is still struggling for cohesion three years after its long-time ruler Robert Mugabe was toppled in a coup, analysts have ...Published: 13 Dec 2020 at 08:19hrs | 2069 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa battles G40, Gamatox remnants
ZANU-PF's vanquished Generation 40 (G40) and Gamatox factions have joined forces in a bid to destabilise President Emmerson Mnangagwa and the party ahead of the 2023 polls, a senior official of the fo...Published: 11 Dec 2020 at 19:10hrs | 1460 | by Staff reporter
'G40, Gamatox teaming up against Mnangagwa'
ZANU-PF's vanquished Generation 40 (G40) and Gamatox factions have joined forces in a bid to destabilise President Emmerson Mnangagwa and the party ahead of the 2023 polls, a senior official of the fo...Published: 11 Dec 2020 at 06:45hrs | 7059 | by Staff reporter
DCCs chaos still mauling Zanu-PF
The chaos that marred Zanu-PF's keenly contested district co-ordinating committee elections last weekend continues to haunt the ruling party, with the former liberation movement failing to announce th...Published: 10 Dec 2020 at 06:55hrs | 679 | by Staff reporter
The factions exposed during DCCs must be dealt with now
There are two primary causes for voter apathy: alienation and voter fatigue. Alienation is defined as,the sense that voters feel like the political system does not work for them and any attempt to inf...Published: 09 Dec 2020 at 15:24hrs | 694 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Chaos at Zanu-PF's DCC polls
ZANU-PF District Coordinating Committee (DCC) elections got off to a slow start yesterday due to logistical challenges and heavy rains.The revolutionary party is holding DCC elections in all t...Published: 06 Dec 2020 at 07:41hrs | 134 | by Staff reporter
All set for divisive Zanu-PF DCC polls tomorrow
ALL is set for the Zanu-PF District Coordinating Committee (DCC) elections scheduled this weekend, with the ruling party acting spokesperson Patrick Chinamasa saying supervisory teams have already bee...Published: 04 Dec 2020 at 06:26hrs | 85 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF DCC election dates announced
Zanu-PF secretary for administration, Obert Mpofu announced that district coordinating committee (DCC) elections will be held on December 5 and 6. He also said the party's voters roll would be...Published: 30 Nov 2020 at 06:19hrs | 826 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF safeguards DCC polls
ZANU-PF has come up with a raft of measures to ensure that this coming weekend's district co-ordinating committee (DCC) polls will not descend into chaos.Speaking in Harare on Friday, at a par...Published: 29 Nov 2020 at 16:00hrs | 518 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, Chiwenga camps clash over G40
Outbursts by a top ally of President Emmerson Mnangagwa declaring that G40 elements remain firmly within Zanu-PF's top levels have heightened fears in the party that the president's loyalists are targ...Published: 29 Nov 2020 at 07:15hrs | 7430 | by Staff reporter
War vets snub Matemadanda
Defence and War Veterans deputy minister Victor Matemedanda was yesterday forced to cancel a scheduled address at a meeting of former liberation war fighters in Marondera after a rival group organised...Published: 29 Nov 2020 at 07:12hrs | 5331 | by Staff reporter
Only few heads have to roll in Midlands for sanity to prevail
In the 2018 elections ZANU PF lost in Kwekwe to a G40 kingpin the late Blackman Matambanadzo. It was not the campaign of Matambanadzo or the idiocy of Chebundo which lost the plot for ZANU PF. It was ...Published: 28 Nov 2020 at 23:46hrs | 1054 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Zanu PF attends to demolition of houses
ZANU PF national Political Commissar Victor Matemadanda yesterday continued with interactive meetings with Harare South residents where he received concerns regarding the regularisation of their stand...Published: 25 Nov 2020 at 04:41hrs | 834 | by Staff reporter
They want me dead, says Matemadanda
ZANU-PF national commissar Victor Matemadanda, who was allegedly poisoned during a party meeting a fortnight ago, yesterday claimed that there were people in the ruling Zanu-PF party that wanted him d...Published: 24 Nov 2020 at 04:41hrs | 6852 | by Staff reporter
Of Zanu-PF and poisoning
0N August 11, 2017, at a rally in Gwanda, the then Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa fell ill, allegedly after eating ice cream which had been poisoned and spent over a week in South Africa under trea...Published: 24 Nov 2020 at 04:33hrs | 779 | by Staff reporter
Matemadanda back at work
Deputy Minister for Defence and War Veterans Affairs Victor Matemadanda is out of danger after a health scare.Matemadanda who was at some point last week hospitalised following a sudden illnes...Published: 23 Nov 2020 at 17:32hrs | 955 | by Staff reporter
'Poisoned' Matemadanda on the mend?
ZANU-PF national political commissar Victor Matemadanda is recovering at home after being attended to by doctors following his sudden illness a fortnight ago. Matemadanda, who is also the Depu...Published: 23 Nov 2020 at 04:55hrs | 1027 | by Staff reporter
Matemadanda 'poisoned' as Zanu-PF infighting escalates
TENSIONS are high in Zanu-PF following the alleged poisoning of national commissar and Defence and War Veterans deputy minister Victor Matemadanda by rivals unhappy with the party's restructuring exer...Published: 23 Nov 2020 at 04:52hrs | 1864 | by Staff reporter
Matemadanda hospitalised
ZANU-PF National Political Commissar Victor Matemadanda is recovering at home after falling ill last week..The party's Acting Secretary for Information and Publicity, Patrick Chinamasa, in a s...Published: 22 Nov 2020 at 19:01hrs | 3569 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF bigwig in poisoning scare
Zanu-PF commissar Victor Matemadanda is recuperating after he fell seriously ill amid suspicious that he was poisoned at a ruling party event a week ago.Matemadanda was taken ill after attendi...Published: 22 Nov 2020 at 05:03hrs | 6275 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga affirms Mnangagwa as 2023 nears
Vice President Constantino Chiwenga appears to have put to rest, once and for all, claims that he is jostling for power with President Emmerson Mnangagwa after he recently publicly endorsed his boss a...Published: 20 Nov 2020 at 06:45hrs | 3548 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa goes down as Mnangagwa rises high
After 37 years in power, President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe resigned via in November 2017. His successor and former vice president, Emmerson Mnangagwa, promised a break from Mugabe's authoritarian ru...Published: 19 Nov 2020 at 08:33hrs | 9580 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
De-campaigning Zimbabwe through falsehoods
With special thanks to cde Bwoni. For the past twenty years Zimbabwe has been groaning under great satanic sanctions which have destroyed our livelihood. To ma'ke it worse the opposition...Published: 17 Nov 2020 at 12:11hrs | 1201 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Zanu-PF DCC polls widen fissures in party
FISSURES within Zanu-PF continue to widen as power struggles intensify ahead of the reintroduced district co-ordinating committees (DCCs) elections, with some provincial members seething with anger af...Published: 13 Nov 2020 at 07:42hrs | 1011 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF centralises printing of ballot papers
ZANU-PF has centralised the printing of ballot papers for its forthcoming district co-ordinating committee (DCC) elections, to avert cases of fraud and rigging which have previously blighted its inter...Published: 12 Nov 2020 at 18:34hrs | 409 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF jumps to insure DCC polls
Zanu-PF has centralised the printing of ballot papers for its forthcoming district co-ordinating committee elections to avert cases of fraud and rigging. Zanu-PF national political commissar V...Published: 12 Nov 2020 at 07:10hrs | 1870 | by Staff reporter
Trump called Chamisa for advice
The American elections have shown us a number of interesting things and indeed it has given us shocking similarities between Trump and Nelson Chamisa. There is a striking similar behaviour between the...Published: 09 Nov 2020 at 22:47hrs | 7584 | by Dr Masimba Mavza
Zanu-PF MPs using Govt fuel on girlfriends, says Matemadanda
Zanu-PF national political commissar Victor Matemadanda has attacked Members of Parliament (MPs) from his own party for lacking seriousness with parliamentary business, saying many pieces of legislati...Published: 07 Nov 2020 at 06:10hrs | 5612 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to complete 2 terms in office
THE ruling Zanu-PF has reiterated that President Emmerson Mnangagwa will complete two terms in office - further bolting the door against ambitious party bigwigs said to be interested in his job....Published: 06 Nov 2020 at 19:11hrs | 2849 | by Staff reporter
War vets challenge Chamisa
War veterans have challenged the leader of the opposition MDC Alliance Nelson Chamisa to dialogue with President Emmerson Mnangagwa and other political players to gain acceptance from the former liber...Published: 05 Nov 2020 at 21:34hrs | 6591 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF DCCs process soiled by factionalism, name-dropping and tribalism
SEVERAL Zanu-PF bigwigs, including Cabinet ministers, survived a nerve-racking and tension-filled process at the weekend as the ruling party chose candidates for its divisive district co-ordinating co...Published: 03 Nov 2020 at 19:52hrs | 414 | by Staff reporter
Bigwigs survive Zanu-PF vetting
Several Zanu-PF bigwigs including Cabinet ministers survived a tension-filled vetting process at the weekend as the ruling party chose candidates for its district coordinating committees. Chegutu ...Published: 03 Nov 2020 at 08:36hrs | 1675 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa frets over graft links
GOVERNMENT yesterday claimed that reports linking President Emmerson Mnangagwa's family to corrupt deals were designed to cause public disaffection and lead to a rebellion.Information minister...Published: 03 Nov 2020 at 06:32hrs | 2498 | by Staff writer
Criminals soiling Mnangagwa's clean record, says Matemadanda
ZANU-PF national political commissar, Victor Matemadanda has sprung to the defence of the President Emmerson Mnangagwa and the First Family describing Zimbabwe's leader as a reformist, who ushered in ...Published: 03 Nov 2020 at 06:27hrs | 432 | by Staff writer
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