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Mliswa attacks Zanu-PF probe
NORTON Member of Parliament (MP) Temba Mliswa has dismissed a board of inquiry report by Hurungwe District war veterans, which has accused him of dabbling in Zanu-PF politics.Mliswa is an inde...Published: 03 Dec 2021 at 18:22hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Mliswa, Mutsvangwa fight over Norton seat
Norton Independent Member of Parliament (MP) Temba Mliswa has declared war on President Emmerson Mnangagwa's advisor Christopher Mutsvangwa.The two are set to face off in a titanic contest for...Published: 06 Feb 2018 at 09:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
From Generation 40 to Bitterness 40
ZANU-PF has a life beyond any of its members, as indeed is supposed to happen with all well-established organisations — they outlive their members and they perpetuate themselves.This is what...Published: 15 Jan 2018 at 05:22hrs | 2 | by Reason Wafawarova
Chombo leads Zanu-PF elections directorate cast
President Robert Mugabe has announced members of a national elections directorate, expected to steer the party towards crucial elections next year.An official list seen by the Daily News showe...Published: 15 Sep 2017 at 15:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere says 'sorry'?
Embattled Zanu-PF National Political Commissar Saviour Kasukuwere yesterday indicated that he imposed candidates in Harare before apologising to the province.Kasukuwere is under fire for impos...Published: 24 Jul 2017 at 07:07hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Analysis: Zimbabwe's midnight moment of hope among illusions
One erudite person once said that at midnight every tomorrow becomes today. A midnight speaks of an eternally simultaneous relationship and occurrence of two distinct elements. It speaks of exit and e...Published: 13 Jul 2017 at 12:29hrs | | by Patson Dzamara
Primary elections: The genesis of electoral fraud
When Zanu-PF lost the Norton by-election to an independent candidate, Temba Mliswa, last October, the Lacoste faction put the blame on the party commissar, Saviour Kasukuwere. The faction accused him ...Published: 04 Jun 2017 at 20:32hrs | | by Tawanda Majoni
Nera confronts Mugabe demands disbandment of Zec
A GROUPING of opposition political parties fighting for electoral reforms in the country - Zimbabwe National Electoral Reform Agenda (Nera) - has demanded the disbandment of the Zimbabwe Electoral Com...Published: 27 May 2017 at 17:00hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Kasukuwere saga needs closure'
Zanu-PF organs and affiliate organisations yesterday said the case of embattled national political commissar Saviour Kasukuwere demands closure as it risks affecting preparations for next year's harmo...Published: 26 May 2017 at 06:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ghost of 2008 spooks Mugabe
President Robert Mugabe's savagely-contested succession - as well as the recent concrete moves by the country's resurgent opposition to work together ahead of the eagerly-anticipated 2018 nati...Published: 23 Apr 2017 at 14:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mashonaland provinces endorse Kasukuwere ouster
Zanu-PF Mashonaland West and Mashonaland East provinces yesterday joined the bandwagon of those endorsing the call to remove under-fire national political commissar, Saviour Kasukuwere from hi...Published: 20 Apr 2017 at 07:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Grand coalition of zeros is grand defeat for opposition
President Mugabe addresses the 105th Ordinary Session of the Zanu-PF Central Committee in Harare yesterdayWe publish here the full text of the speech made by ...Published: 08 Apr 2017 at 11:59hrs | 16 | by Comrade R.G. Mugabe
'Mugabe will go the Pasuwa way'
Angry war veterans vowed yesterday to engineer President Robert Mugabe's ouster from power "the Kalisto Pasuwa way" in next year's eagerly-anticipated elections if the nonagenarian does not pass t...Published: 24 Mar 2017 at 16:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mliswa to rejoin Zanu-PF?
Former Zanu-PF chair for Mashonaland West Temba Mliswa has made a u-turn on earlier vows he will never go back to Zanu-PF, telling journalists in Bulawayo weekend he will consider rejoining a part...Published: 21 Mar 2017 at 13:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mliswa clashes with MDC-T MPs, ejected from Parliament
Norton MP, Temba Mliswa (independent), was yesterday ejected from the National Assembly after he clashed with MDC-T legislators after he accused them of being "lazy" and "unelectable".The form...Published: 23 Feb 2017 at 07:38hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Another bhora musango looms in 2018 poll'
President Robert Mugabe's deeply divided Zanu-PF is likely to face another debilitating crisis, a second "Bhora Musango" in 2018 general elections, analysts have said.Mugabe's Zanu-PF is b...Published: 30 Jan 2017 at 16:29hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
My problem with the analysis of Bikita poll outcome
Bikita West by-election has come and gone and in its wake left a trail of analysts exposed over their confusing and overzealous interpretation of the results. It's quite disheartening that polit...Published: 25 Jan 2017 at 11:51hrs | | by Muzvondiwa Mago
Mujuru rules out polls boycott
ZIMBABWE People First (ZimPF) leader, Joice Mujuru, yesterday waved a defiant fist, declaring she was now geared to contest next year's presidential race against President Robert Mugabe, with or w...Published: 25 Jan 2017 at 07:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bikita West by-election exposed Mujuru
THE emphatic victory by Zanu-PF in the Bikita West by-election at the weekend is significant in many ways in serving as an indicator of the outcome of the 2018 harmonised elections.Particu...Published: 24 Jan 2017 at 05:38hrs | | by Staff writer
My DNA is Zanu-PF, says Mliswa
After winning the Norton by-election as an independent candidate in October last year, Temba Mliswa has become something of an enigma through his verbal attacks on opposition parties and apparent ...Published: 23 Jan 2017 at 06:56hrs | | by Kuda Bwititi
Rude awakening for Mujuru, ZimPF party
ZANU-PF yesterday gave Dr Joice Mujuru's ZimPF party a baptism of fire in Bikita West after its candidate, Beauty Chabaya, romped to victory garnering 13 156 votes to her nearest rival Mr Kudakwas...Published: 23 Jan 2017 at 06:12hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa is my cousin,' claims Mliswa
Norton MP Temba Mliswa has dismissed claims that he belongs to Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa's faction, saying the embattled Midlands godfather is his cousin.Speaking at a press confer...Published: 19 Jan 2017 at 12:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai snubs Mujuru's Bikita rally
MDC-T leader Mr Morgan Tsvangirai has snubbed an invitation by Zimbabwe People First's Dr Joice Mujuru for a joint rally at Nyika Growth Point tomorrow in preparation for the Bikita West by-election s...Published: 19 Jan 2017 at 06:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai, Mujuru honeymoon is over
IN what could signal the clearest hint that the much-vaunted plan to forge an opposition coalition ahead of the 2018 general elections could fail, the Morgan Tsvangirai-led MDC-T has reportedly tu...Published: 13 Jan 2017 at 06:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF risks Bikita West protest election
Zanu-PF faces a protest vote in the Bikita West by-election to be held on January 21, after accusations that the party had imposed Beauty Chabaya as its candidate, leaving many disgruntled support...Published: 13 Jan 2017 at 05:48hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF chairs disown 'Kasukuwere communiqué'
MOST Zanu-PF provincial chairpersons yesterday disowned all but one of the resolutions that came out of their Wednesday meeting with national political commissar Saviour Kasukuwere which they clai...Published: 13 Jan 2017 at 05:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe under massive attack
As the eagerly-anticipated 2018 national elections get closer, life is getting harder for President Robert Mugabe and his warring Zanu-PF, as angry war veterans and the country's re-energised oppo...Published: 10 Jan 2017 at 12:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mliswa heaps praise on Mugabe
Controversial Norton independent MP, Temba Mliswa, has said he likes President Robert Mugabe so much that he wants to offer the nonagenarian advice on how he can protect his legacy, when they meet....Published: 10 Jan 2017 at 06:22hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mujuru banks on Tsvangirai help
Faced with a tough by-election in Bikita West in two weeks' time, former Vice President Joice Mujuru's Zimbabwe People First (ZPF) is banking on the heavyweight support of opposition leader Morgan...Published: 09 Jan 2017 at 07:32hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Divisions rock MDC-T ahead of by-election
Divisions have once again emerged in the MDC-T over whether party leader, Mr Morgan Tsvangirai should address a joint rally with Zimbabwe People First leader Dr Joice Mujuru in Bikita to garner su...Published: 09 Jan 2017 at 06:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mujuru Bikita West rally divides MDC-T
Divisions have once again emerged in the MDC-T over whether party leader, Mr Morgan Tsvangirai should address a joint rally with Zimbabwe People First leader Dr Joice Mujuru in Bikita to garner su...Published: 09 Jan 2017 at 06:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's drama kings and queens of 2016
AN anonymous thinker once said: "Drama doesn't just walk into your life. You either create it, invite it or you associate with people who love to bring it into your life."As the curtain co...Published: 15 Dec 2016 at 05:36hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
God is ZANU-PF
The other week I had attempted a very angry piece on the state of thought in our beloved Zimbabwe. I shouted; I railed. After a while I reflected, and then recalled a proverb used by Amilcar Cabral in...Published: 10 Dec 2016 at 17:01hrs | 1 | by Nathaniel Manheru
Tsvangirai hits out at 'traitors'
Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai appeared to slam the door shut yesterday on the prospects of him working with his former comrades who deserted him and the MDC over the years, saying he did not...Published: 02 Dec 2016 at 14:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF bigwigs join Bikita West campaign trail
THE Zanu-PF leadership in Masvingo Province has roped in Politburo members as campaigning for the Bikita West by-election slated for January 21, 2017 gathers momentum.The seat fell vacant ...Published: 01 Dec 2016 at 04:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe smells defeat
President Robert Mugabe and his ever fighting Zanu-PF party are in panic mode as they fear losing the 2018 elections, with the rotting economy only worsening their fright, analysts and opposition part...Published: 28 Nov 2016 at 06:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai's 'shutdown' rally
UNDER-PRESSURE MDC-T leader, Morgan Tsvangirai is today expected to address thousands of his party supporters at the Zimbabwe Grounds in Highfield, Harare, at a rally dubbed the Shutdown.T...Published: 26 Nov 2016 at 16:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZPP celebrate 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence
Sixteen Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence marks a time when Zimbabwe Peace Project (ZPP) joins the rest of the world and collaborates with community members and its stakeholders in highli...Published: 25 Nov 2016 at 13:41hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
ZPP celebrate 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence
Sixteen Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence marks a time when Zimbabwe Peace Project (ZPP) joins the rest of the world and collaborates with community members and its stakeholders in highli...Published: 25 Nov 2016 at 13:38hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Mugabe terror hits by-election
A panicking Zanu-PF, fearing a repeat of its recent mauling in the Norton by-election, is going for broke in Chimanimani West, amid allegations that President Robert Mugabe's warring ruling party ...Published: 25 Nov 2016 at 12:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mliswa must stop what he is smoking
Newly-elected scallywag National Assembly member for Norton, Temba Mliswa, will never cease to amaze those with time to listen to him. There is a contemporary song that counsels against a young man gr...Published: 25 Nov 2016 at 05:25hrs | | by Johanes Chinotimba
Clientelism, political intimidation and vote buying become a structural phenomenon
The Zimbabwe Peace Projected has claimed that clientelism, political intimidation and vote buying in Zimbabwe have become a structuralphenomenon, part of the local political culture as demonstrate...Published: 23 Nov 2016 at 08:53hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Naive docile - Morgan Tsvangirai should resign
It's sad that I have come to this conclusion. It was in 1999 when the MDC party was formed, Zimbabwe a country we all love had suddenly derailed and was heading towards nowhere, I was young then a...Published: 23 Nov 2016 at 08:39hrs | | by Umzukulu Ka Sitsha
Mliswa dreams of winning 2018 presidential race
After his bruising attack on Movement for Democratic Change leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, Norton constituency legislator Temba Mliswa has declared himself ready to take on political parties in the 2018 P...Published: 21 Nov 2016 at 19:06hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Naïve and docile - Morgan Tsvangirai should resign
It's sad that I have come to this conclusion. It was in 1999 when the MDC party was formed, Zimbabwe a country we all love had suddenly derailed and was heading towards nowhere, I was young then a...Published: 21 Nov 2016 at 10:04hrs | 2 | by Umzukulu Ka Sitsha
Mliswa can meet Kasukuwere but who will stop him becoming the next Mugabe
In a wide raging interview with Zimeye, Temba Mliswa told Tsvangirai to "go to hell"! The sprite arose after the MDC-T VP, Nelson Chamisa, told Mliswa his boss was unhappy that Mliswa met Zanu PF Mini...Published: 20 Nov 2016 at 19:54hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Mliswa vows never to re-join Zanu-PF again
Independent Norton legislator Temba Mliswa, who was pictured in the company of Zanu-PF political commissar Saviour Kasukuwere raising speculation that he was about to rejoin his erstwhile comrades...Published: 18 Nov 2016 at 20:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
War veterans dare Zanu-PF
THE Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association (ZNLWVA) is co-ordinating the preparation of a document highlighting people's grievances while seeking consensus around a candidate they s...Published: 17 Nov 2016 at 07:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
War veterans gun for Grace Mugabe
War veterans, who gathered in Chinhoyi recently took a dig at First Lady Grace Mugabe and Vice-President Phekezela Mphoko, saying they did not deserve their top positions in Zanu-PF, as their lead...Published: 17 Nov 2016 at 05:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mliswa, Kasukuwere 'wedding' pics cause uproar, revelation
Harare - A pair of pictures depicting 'sworn' rivals Minister Saviour Kasukuwere and Norton MP Temba Mliswa have caused up an uproar on social media, amid analysis that the images are a revelation....Published: 16 Nov 2016 at 14:36hrs | | by Maynard Manyowa
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