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Zanu-PF intensifies campaign to reclaim seats
THE ruling Zanu-PF has intensified its campaign to win back Harare East and Mt Pleasant constituencies in by-elections set for April 27. Teams have been deployed to the constituencies to ...Published: 11 Apr 2024 at 08:32hrs | 2 | 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 | 3 | 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 | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mahere, netizens mock Minister Mavetera's office disorder
The Minister of Information, Communication, Technology, Postal and Courier Services; Honourable Tatenda Mavetera has received massive social media backlash from former opposition Citizens Coalition fo...Published: 12 Mar 2024 at 08:23hrs | 9 | by Gideon Madzikatidze
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
Mahere quits
Opposition CCC party Mount Pleasant MP Fadzayi Mahere has resigned from parliament. This follows her swift announcement a few days ago that out of principle and loyalty, she will leave parliament afte...Published: 29 Jan 2024 at 12:00hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mahere to quit as MP in support of Chamisa
Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) MP for Mount Pleasant Fadzayi Mahere has announced she was resigning from parliament in solidarity with Nelson Chamisa, who quit as leader of the main opposition Th...Published: 29 Jan 2024 at 06:05hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa replaces Mahere as CCC spokesperson
PROMINENT activist, Promise Mkwananzi, is the new opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) party spokesperson, replacing Fadzayi Mahere.Mkwananzi, a former leader of the Tajamuka/Sesijik...Published: 25 Aug 2023 at 20:03hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
ZANU PF MP promises sanity in Mt Pleasant
Aspiring Member of the House of Assembly for Mt Pleasant Constituency, Beadle Musatye Gwasira has promised to bring meaningful development and sanity to the area.Speaking to Bulawayo24.com ahe...Published: 01 Aug 2023 at 21:46hrs | 16 | by Simbarashe Sithole
ZANU PF MP promises sanity in Mt Pleasant
Aspiring Member of the House of Assembly for Mt Pleasant Constituency, Mr. Beadle Musatye Gwasira has promised to bring meaningful development and sanity ...Published: 01 Aug 2023 at 21:02hrs | 12 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Zanu-PF pledges to clean up opposition rot in cities
Zanu-PF will put in place measures to clean the rot in towns and cities brought about by incompetent opposition councillors who have been in charge of urban councils since 2000, Vice President Dr Cons...Published: 25 Jul 2023 at 06:40hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
CCC big guns feel the heat
OPPOSITION Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) bigwigs are in a last-minute rush to influence supporters to endorse them in the party's supporters-centred candidate selection process, where the party'...Published: 10 Apr 2023 at 07:30hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF primaries preliminary results out
RESULTS for the Zanu-PF primary elections are still trickling in, with a mixed bag of young Turks and the old guard sailing through.The results are however, still subject to confirmation by th...Published: 28 Mar 2023 at 08:02hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's friends jostle for safe seats
OPPOSITION Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) heavyweights are reportedly jockeying for "safe" seats in the cities ahead of the 2023 general elections after the Nelson Chamisa-led party scored big in...Published: 06 Apr 2022 at 06:34hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Why Fadzayi Mahere joined Chamisa bandwagon
Prominent lawyer Fadzayi Mahere saw her stock rise in the run-up to last year's harmonised elections after launching an audacious campaign as an independent candidate for Mt Pleasant constituency....Published: 23 Jun 2019 at 21:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
State closes case in MDC MP’s falsified address case
The State yesterday closed its case in the matter in which Mt Pleasant legislator Samuel Banda (MDC Alliance) is being accused of contravening a section of the Electoral Act by allegedly falsifying hi...Published: 30 Apr 2019 at 06:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa ally in soup for falsifying address
Mt Pleasant legislator Samuel Banda (MDC Alliance) yesterday appeared at the Harare Magistrates' Courts charged with contravening the Electoral Act after he allegedly falsified his home address during...Published: 13 Nov 2018 at 06:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa muddles through mayors drama
MDC president Nelson Chamisa is facing a barrage of criticism from dissenting voices within the country's biggest opposition party for meddling in recent mayoral elections in cities that it controls, ...Published: 29 Sep 2018 at 13:10hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Mudhidhi' comments haunt Chamisa
MDC Alliance leader, Mr Nelson Chamisa, has been slammed for derogatory and sexist comments he made about Olympic Gold medalist Kirsty Coventry's appointment as Youth, Sport, Arts and Recreation Minis...Published: 12 Sep 2018 at 07:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Electoral court to hear residents' challenge of ZEC's clandestine constituency shift ahead of elections
THE Electoral Court will on Tuesday 05 June 2018 preside over the hearing and determination of an application filed by some Harare residents seeking to stop their clandestine transfer from voting in M...Published: 05 Jun 2018 at 10:26hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Zimbabwe Electoral Commission sued for gerrymandering
Mount Pleasant Heights residents have dragged the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) and its chairperson, Justice Priscillah Chigumba, to the High Court, accusing the electoral body of clandestinely ...Published: 02 Jun 2018 at 07:30hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Mt Pleasant Heights transferred to Mazowe South constituency
RESIDENTS of Mt Pleasant Heights in Harare have taken the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) to court challenging the electoral management body's decision to unilaterally transfer them to Mazowe Sout...Published: 01 Jun 2018 at 09:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Is Tendai Biti HIV+?
Knives have been drawn out against deputy Finance minister Terrence Mukupe after he made remarks live on radio that exposed the stigmatisation that still runs deep in the officialdom towards people li...Published: 26 May 2018 at 18:38hrs | 20 | by Staff rpeorter
Jessie Majome: The ‘dark art' of manufactured outrage
Election season is in full swing in Zimbabwe. The country's first election without its "political godfather", former President Robert Mugabe, is due in a few months' time.What makes this elect...Published: 15 May 2018 at 07:18hrs | 1 | by Enocent Nemuramba
'Even if Grace had taken over, Zim was going to be great again' - Malema
Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), Julius Malema's party, has torched a storm by sensationally claiming that Zimbabwe would have become a great nation even if Grace Mugabe had taken over from her husban...Published: 08 Jan 2018 at 09:56hrs | | by Takudzwa Chiwara
Police urged to drop charges against Fadzayi Mahere
ZIMBABWE Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) condemns the selective application of the law and abuse of some provisions of the Public Order and Security Act (POSA), by some Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) ...Published: 31 Oct 2017 at 07:19hrs | | by Staephen Jakes
Mahere labelled as a Zanu-PF mole, refutes it
University of Zimbabwe law lecturer and Mt Pleasant constituency independent candidate, Fadzai Mahere has attracted mixed reactions since her announcement that she would stand in next year's general e...Published: 07 Aug 2017 at 10:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Social media activist to contest against Zanu-PF, MDC-T
HARARE lawyer, #ThisFlag social media activist movement and University of Zimbabwe law lecturer, Fadzai Mahere, says she will run for Parliament in next year's general elections as an independent cand...Published: 29 Jun 2017 at 18:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zec sticks to the 2008 Delimitation Commission boundaries
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has assured residents of Mt Pleasant Heights in Harare that they will remain on the Mt Pleasant constituency voters' roll, contrary to reports that their na...Published: 11 Apr 2017 at 06:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC-T's Jameson Timba loses election petition
The Electoral Court has dismissed MDC-T candidate Mr Jameson Timba's challenge of the July 31 2013 election results for the National Assembly in Mt Pleasant constituency and upheld the victory of Za...Published: 19 Aug 2014 at 07:29hrs | | by Fidelis Munyoro
Tendai Biti in bizarre testimony
MDC-T secretary-general Mr Tendai Biti yesterday claimed that youths from West Africa were flown in to vote at a polling station in Mt Pleasant constituency during last year's harmonised election...Published: 15 Feb 2014 at 13:45hrs | | by Fidelis Munyoro
ZEC opposes poll material opening
ZIMBABWE Electoral Commission chairperson Justice Rita Makarau has said MDC-T losing candidate for Mt Pleasant Mr Jameson Timba cannot be allowed to open or examine election material since doing so wo...Published: 07 Nov 2013 at 02:09hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Justice Bhunu orders opening of ballot boxes
Justice Chinembiri Bhunu, sitting as a judge of the Electoral Court, today ordered by consent the opening of all ballot boxes and election materials for the Mt Pleasant's National Assembly election h...Published: 25 Oct 2013 at 12:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC-T losing candidates files election petitions
Scores of MDC-T losing National Assembly candidates were last night involved in a last minute filing of election petitions, a development that forced the Electoral Court's registry to operate until 9...Published: 17 Aug 2013 at 08:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Electoral Court throws out MDC-T official's case
The Electoral Court has thrown out an application by MDC-T official Mr Jameson Timba in which he was seeking to compel the electoral commission to allow him to open sealed ballot boxes and to inspect ...Published: 17 Aug 2013 at 06:54hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Jameson Timba challenges election results
LOSING Mt Pleasant MDC-T candidate Jameson Timba has filed a court application seeking to have the election results for the constituency set aside.Timba lost the seat to Zanu PF's Jaison Pass...Published: 12 Aug 2013 at 08:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zim police dismiss vote rigging video claims
The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has dismissed accusations by some political parties and sections of the media that police officers were involved in busing voters to manipulate the outcome of ...Published: 08 Aug 2013 at 18:38hrs | 3 | by Staff Reporter
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