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Mahiya threatens war veterans opposing Mnangagwa's extended rule
Zanu PF Secretary for War Veterans, Douglas Mahiya, has issued stern warnings to war veterans opposing President Emmerson Mnangagwa's extended stay in office, threatening to "stop them from speaking i...Published: 12 Feb 2025 at 16:59hrs | 2381 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF urged to show loyalty to Mnangagwa
ZANU-PF Mashonaland East provincial chairman, Daniel Garwe, has urged party members to demonstrate unwavering loyalty to President Emmerson Mnangagwa, respect party leadership, and avoid actions that ...Published: 10 Dec 2024 at 06:39hrs | 154 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo councillors walk out of meeting chaired by deputy mayor
Bulawayo's Town Clerk, Mr. Christopher Dube, has issued a clarification regarding the election of a new Deputy Mayor, stating that city councillors do not have the authority to elect a new Deputy Mayo...Published: 08 Dec 2024 at 09:56hrs | 537 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF, CCC of accused of undermining electoral reforms
The Douglas Mwonzora-led MDC has accused the ruling Zanu-PF and the opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) of undoing the democratic gains achieved during the era of the late Prime Minister Mo...Published: 18 Nov 2024 at 15:07hrs | 215 | by Staff reporter
Zambia's Hakainde Hichilema threatening to delay 2026 elections
On 13 September, Zambia's President Hakainde Hichilema addressed parliament in fulfilment of the Constitution that requires the president to address the National Assembly every year and provide a repo...Published: 26 Sep 2024 at 14:55hrs | 674 | by Sishuwa Sishuwa
Hichilema gears up to change Zambia's constitution
As President Hakainde Hichilema of Zambia made his annual address to parliament on 13 September, he shocked many observers as he made a series of revealing off-the-cuff remarks on the topic of constit...Published: 26 Sep 2024 at 13:36hrs | 359 | by Sishuwa Sishuwa
Captured Electoral Court slaps MK Party members with R150,000 fines
The Electoral Court has fined the Umkhonto weSizwe (MKP) party's Visvin Reddy and Bonginkosi Khanyile R150,000 each - suspending the order for five years, for threatening anarchy, violence and riots a...Published: 07 Jul 2024 at 18:09hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Once, rather vote for monkeys just to be rid of Zanu PF; now monkeys rather than imploding CCC
"A FORMER AFRICAN LEADER URGES MNANGAGWA TO STEP DOWN" screamed the headlines by Correspondent in WINDHOEK NAMIBIA circulating in social media."Several former Heads Of States and Government wh...Published: 26 Feb 2024 at 21:49hrs | 1 | by Wilbert Mukori
'Sadc must stop flawed future Zimbabwe polls'
CIVIL society organisations (CSOs) in Zimbabwe have called on the Southern African Development Community (Sadc) to stop future elections which do not comply with its recommendations on holding credibl...Published: 12 Dec 2023 at 05:55hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Stop using Gukurahundi for political millage: Ex Zipra
Ex Zipra cadre, Max Mkandla has warned politicians especially from the opposition political parties to stop using the Gukurahundi issues in their po...Published: 29 Oct 2023 at 09:55hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Zanu-PF denies conference meant to endorse Mnangagwa 'bid' for third term
Zanu-PF has refuted allegations that its upcoming annual people's conference, scheduled for the end of the month, has the intention of endorsing President Emmerson Mnangagwa's perceived efforts to sec...Published: 11 Oct 2023 at 10:25hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa says Chamisa remained in the past
President Emmerson Mnangagwa dismissed opposition leader Nelson Chamisa's calls for a rerun of the elections, emphasizing the importance of moving forward and leaving the past behind. Mnangagwa made t...Published: 29 Sep 2023 at 06:28hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe on a knife edge
Zimbabwe is now treading on a slippery political crisis. It was never in doubt that a coup government no matter how many goals it concedes, it will never under what circumstances surrender power to th...Published: 12 Sep 2023 at 14:08hrs | 3 | by Leonard Koni
Pressure mounts on Mnangagwa as Zambia tries to topple him
President Mnangagwa's government was particularly stung by findings of the Sadc Election Observer Mission (Seom) led by former Zambian vice-president Nevers Mumba.Pressure is mounting on Presi...Published: 10 Sep 2023 at 10:50hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa inauguration a non-event, says Chamisa's CCC
THE opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) has described the swearing in of President Emmerson Mnangagwa to serve a second term yesterday as a non-event, maintaining that he was declared the w...Published: 05 Sep 2023 at 06:22hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa invites Chamisa to his inauguration
Flying in the face of expectations, government has announced that Emmerson Mnangagwa is being inaugurated on Monday.The below was the announcement by the government inviting all including oppo...Published: 03 Sep 2023 at 21:53hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
'Zanu-PF will not give away their electoral victory'
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa and Zanu-PF will not give away their unassailable electoral victory in the just ended harmonised elections as Zimbabwe's Constitution does not provide for a re-run of elections at ...Published: 31 Aug 2023 at 06:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
The illusion of smooth elections
THE cornerstone of democratic governance, elections, often conjure images of civic participation and the people's voice resonating through the ballot box. Yet, reality paints a more complex picture as...Published: 24 Aug 2023 at 06:40hrs | 15 | by Stanford Chiwanga
Uneven playing field taints poll
EVEN before a single ballot is cast, Zimbabwe's 23 August general elections are now increasingly viewed as deeply flawed, and have already significantly lost credibility.Central to the worseni...Published: 01 Aug 2023 at 21:16hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa has nullified polls,' says Chamisa
OPPOSITION Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday accused President Emmerson Mnangagwa of effectively nullifying the August 23 elections by ordering courts to disqualify 1...Published: 31 Jul 2023 at 07:01hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF handed Bulawayo parliamentary seats
Zanu-PF is poised to win Bulawayo parliamentary seats for the first time in 23 years after 12 Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) candidates were barred from contesting.A High Court ruling on ...Published: 27 Jul 2023 at 21:07hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter
The evolution of Zimbabwe's voters' roll
A SHORT HISTORY ON THE EVOLUTION OF ZIMBABWE'S VOTERS ROLL AND WHY SECTION 23(3) OF THE ELECTORAL ACT IS OUTDATED, PURPOSELESS, UNREASONABLE AND UNCONTITUTIONAL.IT WOULD BE INSTRUCTIVE and use...Published: 24 Jul 2023 at 11:57hrs | 1 | by Jonathan Moyo
ZEC ahead of schedule, designs ballots
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) is this month primarily focusing on the designing of ballots, procurement of materials, the training of electoral officers and the setting up of command centres...Published: 17 Jul 2023 at 06:52hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
It's time for a new Zimbabwe currency
ZIMBABWE'S official month-on-month inflation figure for May was reported at 75,4% (CPI), by the Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (ZimStats).The annual inflationary pressures for...Published: 08 Jul 2023 at 09:57hrs | 12 | by Kevin Tutani
'Biti must remain MP, it's in national interest' argue Zamchiya. Surely, not just to 'legitimise sham elections!'
The worst thing that has happened in Zimbabwe since MDC leaders sold out of implementing democratic reforms was for the nation to abandon the fight to implement the democratic reforms as the only sure...Published: 17 Jun 2023 at 07:17hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
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 refutes secret talks rumour
Opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa has dismissed speculation that there could be secret behind-doors discussions between him and President Emmerson Mnangagwa....Published: 28 May 2023 at 08:10hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF releases primary election candidates list
Zanu-PF Bulawayo province has released a full set of candidates set to battle for the House of Assemble and local authority tickets to in the harmonised elections.The primaries are set for Sat...Published: 23 Mar 2023 at 19:45hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Job Sikhala's case is exposing the opposition
In three months' time, Job Sikhala would have clocked a full year in jail for allegedly inciting public violence and attempting to defeat the course of justice.They say, among other things, he...Published: 05 Mar 2023 at 06:25hrs | 1 | by Tawanda Majoni
70% registered to vote, claims ZEC
More than 70 percent of Zimbabweans eligible to vote have registered and are already on the voters roll, the chief elections officer of the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission, Mr Utoile Silaigwana, has tol...Published: 05 Dec 2022 at 05:06hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'It's foolish participating in rigged elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy' admitted Biti in 2015 - of course, has known this al
"Look, you can't keep on participating in flawed electoral processes that serve to give big benefits to dictators such as Robert Mugabe. Mugabe has perfected the art of winning elections. So it will b...Published: 21 Nov 2022 at 09:42hrs | 2 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Paul Kagame: Cruel Betrayal of Matebeleland
In the first week of September 2022, Emmerson Munangagwa visited the Rwanda Genocide Memorial while he was attending a continental African Green Revolution Forum Conference in that country. Many peopl...Published: 30 Oct 2022 at 08:56hrs | | by Moses Mzila Ndlovu
Maguwu raises Zimbabwe civil war fears
HUMAN rights activist Farai Maguwu says Zimbabwe is on the cusp of a civil war if the current wave of political violence is not contained.This comes after the ruling Zanu-PF party supporters h...Published: 05 Sep 2022 at 06:43hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Inside three swing provinces that will decide entry to State House in 2023 polls
The 2023 general election may see the highest turnout in decades, though it comes at the same time as vast uncertainty about the independent auditability of the voters roll and electoral systems, ball...Published: 05 Aug 2022 at 09:29hrs | 3 | by Farai Chirimumimba
Zimbabwe trade unions at each other's throat
THE Zimbabwe Diamond and Allied Minerals Workers Union (Zdamwu) has filed an urgent chamber application at the High Court challenging the Zimbabwe Federation of Trade Union (ZFTU)'s planned May 1 conf...Published: 02 May 2022 at 08:04hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Nhlanhla Lux exposed - The disturbing picture behind the masks of the man heading Operation Dudula
Nhlanhla "Lux" Mohlauhi (also Dlamini) has been churning up anti-foreigner sentiment and bursting into people's homes like a vigilante, instilling fear and panic in refugee and immigrant communities....Published: 17 Apr 2022 at 10:41hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Of Chamisa's rally utterances, lack of substance
Following the formation of the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) on January 24, 2022 after being forced by MDC-T leader, Douglas Mwonzora to adopt a new party name, the interim leader, Nelson Chamis...Published: 18 Mar 2022 at 05:28hrs | 14 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Change your name!: Zanu-PF's new trump card against Chamisa
IN a surprise move, President Emmerson Mnangagwa proclaimed 26 March 2022 as the date for long overdue by-elections. This should fill in vacancies created through the controversial recalls of elected ...Published: 16 Jan 2022 at 18:12hrs | 2 | by Reginald Murendo
Mnangagwa's trap for Chamisa
In a surprise move, President Emmerson Mnangagwa proclaimed March 26, 2022, as the date for long overdue by-elections. This is to fill vacancies created through the controversial recalls of elected of...Published: 15 Jan 2022 at 00:25hrs | 8 | by Reginald Murendo
Low voter registration signals distrust in electoral system and lack of faith in main political parties
As the year 2023 beckons - with an anticipation of fierce and potentially bruising electoral contestation between Zimbabwe's two main political rivals, ZANU PF and MDC Alliance - one would have though...Published: 30 Dec 2021 at 11:22hrs | 10 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Kasukuwere says Obert Mpofu, Masimirembwa are stupid, shameless characters
FORMER Zanu-PF national political commissar Saviour Kasukuwere says the High Court affidavits filed by the senior party officials dismissing an application over the legality of Emmerson Mnangagwa as p...Published: 09 Nov 2021 at 17:19hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF youth challenging Mnangagwa's Presidency was 'planted' by Kasukuwere
Zanu-PF has disowned Sybeth Musengezi who has approached the High Court seeking the nullification of Emmerson Mnangagwa as the party's president.The party says Musengezi was "illegally planted...Published: 07 Nov 2021 at 18:17hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF rubbishes Mnangagwa legitimacy court challenge
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa is not liable to civil or criminal proceedings while he is still in office and the court challenge seeking to annul his ascendency to Zanu- PF's top post in November 2017 is flawed...Published: 07 Nov 2021 at 07:13hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
What China's overseas coal exit could mean for Zimbabwe
IN response to What China's overseas coal exit plans could mean for Zimbabwe' XYZ says: Is being fair to acknowledge that the environmental accusations made towards China are somehow unfair.As...Published: 11 Oct 2021 at 06:02hrs | 12 | by MDC-T president Douglas Mwonzora
'We want reforms and then elections' demanded Mwonzora - this was no epiphany; why now
"We want reforms and then elections. Unlike our colleagues in the opposition who are calling for an election whether or not there are reforms," said Douglas Mwonzora, leader of MDC - T."That g...Published: 10 Oct 2021 at 17:21hrs | 2 | by Nomusa Garikai
Is Zanu-PF ready for elections or its just a masquerade?
MASQUERADES perform very important political and electoral roles in outmanoeuvring political opponents.In a more complex and fluid political scenario such as ours, masquerades are common....Published: 26 Sep 2021 at 19:49hrs | 1 | by Charles Mutasa
Elections without reforms is repeating mistakes but expecting different results
IT pleasing to see that the media, mainly independent media, have begun to remind opposition parties and civil society organisations in the country that preparations for 2023 election need to start no...Published: 06 Sep 2021 at 05:24hrs | | by Tapiwa Gomo
Polad divided over election postponement
THE Political Actors Dialogue (Polad) platform set up by President Emmerson Mnangagwa in 2018 yesterday exposed a serious rift in the group over whether the country should postpone the 2023 elections....Published: 09 Aug 2021 at 07:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
So, we have abandoned 'One man, one vote!' for 'SOLID PLANS' to win rigged elections - how nauseating
The right to free, fair and credible elections, the right to a meaningful say in the governance of one's country is the mother of all rights because it is the guarantor of good governance and of all t...Published: 06 Aug 2021 at 10:03hrs | 1 | by Wilbert Mukori
Mwonzora's councillors vow to contest Kwekwe Deputy mayor elections
COUNCILLORS belonging to the Douglas Mwonzora-led MDC-T are going hammer and tongs against their MDC Alliance rivals following the election of Kwekwe ward 5 Councillor Melody Chingarande as deputy May...Published: 05 Aug 2021 at 07:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
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