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Chamisa says despot Mugabe is better than Mnangagwa
Police on Friday assaulted and rounded up over 90 MDC supporters who had gathered in Harare for a peaceful march against President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government.This followed a prohibition o...Published: 18 Aug 2019 at 13:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
I'm my own man: Vincent Tsvangirai
MDC Alliance's aspiring Glen View South legislator Vincent Tsvangirai (VT) says Zimbabweans must unite to save the country from collapse. He expressed confidence that he will win the seat that was lef...Published: 12 Aug 2019 at 08:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa ally says 'Time not yet right for protests'
THE main opposition MDC went to congress two months ago and the new leadership is getting down to work. Newsday senior reporter Obey Manayiti (ND) spoke to the party spokesperson Daniel Moloke...Published: 30 Jul 2019 at 07:47hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'External MDC branches key in national politics'
MDC external branches have not been seen as key players in national politics because the diaspora vote has been shut out of local elections.However, Tawanda Dzvokora (TD), chairperson of the U...Published: 20 Jul 2019 at 14:28hrs | 1 | by Staff repirter
Why Zanu-PF youths are targeting heavy weights
Zanu-PF youths threw the cat among the pigeons recently when they released a list of alleged corrupt people that included senior ruling party officials such as Obert Mpofu and Prisca Mupfumira....Published: 30 Jun 2019 at 09:20hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Mugabe to blame for Zimbabwe crisis'
Zanu-PF's new commissar Victor Matemadanda has dismissed claims that his recent appointment was meant to address growing concerns about the re-emergence of factionalism in the party.President ...Published: 16 Jun 2019 at 09:44hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
MDC will never split again, says Hwende
NEWLY-ELECTED MDC secretary-general Charlton Hwende says the Nelson Chamisa-led party will never split again as structural issues which were causing divisions have been addressed through constitutiona...Published: 09 Jun 2019 at 09:35hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa ready to confront Mnangagwa, Zanu-PF
BOUYED by his victory at the just-ended MDC congress, the party's leader Nelson Chamisa says he is ready to confront President Emmerson Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF.The 41-year-old former student leade...Published: 02 Jun 2019 at 09:25hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chasi breathes fire over Chivayo
Energy minister Fortune Chasi has told the Zesa board to take urgent action to ensure that controversial businessman Wicknell Chivayo completes the Gwanda solar project or that he repays the $5 millio...Published: 26 May 2019 at 13:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC secretary-general hopefuls speak out
The MDC today enters into a crucial week in which it holds its elective congress. Several positions are up for grabs and many officials are jostling - fair and foul - to fill them up. One of t...Published: 19 May 2019 at 09:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Wanton price hikes signify indiscipline'
Zimbabwe celebrated its 39th independence last Thursday amid a deteriorating economic situation in the country that has seen prices of goods skyrocketing as people's disposable incomes continue to shr...Published: 22 Apr 2019 at 08:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's aide defends Gukurahundi genocide
The announcement by the government that it was rolling out a number of measures to help victims of Gukurahundi to get birth certificates and death certificates for their slain relatives has divided op...Published: 14 Apr 2019 at 10:27hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa has no challenger, says Komichi
It is increasingly becoming clear that Nelson Chamisa will face a challenge from veteran politician Douglas Mwonzora in his bid to succeed the late Morgan Tsvangirai as leader of the country's biggest...Published: 31 Mar 2019 at 13:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora takes Chamisa head-on
After MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa announced that the party will hold its congress between May 24 and 26 to choose the late Morgan Tsvangirai's successor, interest in who will be the next leader...Published: 03 Mar 2019 at 11:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa digs in on Mnangagwa talks
Pressure mounted on President Emmerson Mnangagwa and MDC Alliance Nelson Chamisa last week to engage in dialogue to solve the country's worsening economic and political crisis.Chamisa ignored ...Published: 10 Feb 2019 at 06:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Maimane, a thorn in the flesh for Mnangagwa?
South Africa's main opposition party, the Democratic Alliance (DA), has emerged as a thorn in the flesh for President Emmerson Mnangagwa in the wake of a vicious military clampdown against opposition ...Published: 03 Feb 2019 at 12:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Looting protests: Vendors feel the heat
THE ongoing crackdown against perceived opposition activists following recent riots in Harare and other parts of the country has left vendors vulnerable. Most of them lost their wares, while trading i...Published: 28 Jan 2019 at 11:02hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa has failed'
LOSING presidential candidate and Alliance for the People's Agenda (APA) leader Nkosana Moyo (NM) says President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his Cabinet have shown that they have no idea how to run the cou...Published: 27 Jan 2019 at 19:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Why Mthuli Ncube was at Zanu PF conference
Pictures of Finance minister Mthuli Ncube at the just-ended Zanu PF conference held in Esigodini in Matabeleland South got Zimbabweans talking on social media. It was the first time the Cambridge Univ...Published: 16 Dec 2018 at 10:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Gukurahundi haunting chiefs'
Chiefs last week resolved to set up a mechanism to resolve the long-standing grievances by people in Matabeleland and the Midlands provinces emanating from the atrocities blamed on the North Korean-tr...Published: 09 Dec 2018 at 07:20hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa puts Mutsvangwa to the sword
Deputy Chief Secretary to the President and Cabinet responsible for presidential communications George Charamba (GC) says President Emmerson Mnangagwa's former special advisor, Chris Mutsvangwa, shoul...Published: 06 Nov 2018 at 18:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa to be installed as 'People's President' and unveil his alternative cabinet
OPPOSITION MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa says he would soon use the occasion of the party's upcoming 19th anniversary celebrations to be installed as 'People's President' and unveil his alternati...Published: 10 Sep 2018 at 07:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
WATCH: MDC Alliance cannot hold Zimbabwe at ransom, says Mangwana
With many mushrooming political parties in this election, an MDC Alliance election boycott might prove futile. Obey Manayiti at the weekend had a chat with Zanu-PF secretary for legal affairs Munyarad...Published: 23 Jul 2018 at 13:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe bigger than Chamisa'
ZIMBABWE is heading for elections next Monday and opposition political parties are piling pressure on the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) to reform the electoral roadmap ahead of polling day. ...Published: 23 Jul 2018 at 06:58hrs | 1 | by Staff rpeorter
Mujuru to win the Zimbabwe presidential election on July 30
THREE years after she was unceremoniously fired from Zanu-PF and government, former vice-president Joice Mujuru will on July 30 contest her first election as an opposition candidate and she believes v...Published: 22 Jul 2018 at 10:36hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Khupe's MDC-T rebuffs Chamisa
The MDC-T led by Thokozani Khupe is forging ahead with its preparations for the forthcoming elections, extinguishing any chances of reconciliation with the mainstream party led by Nelson Chamisa....Published: 20 May 2018 at 08:15hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Chamisa hits back at Chiwenga
At the launch of Zanu-PF's election manifesto on Friday, Vice- President Constantino Chiwenga devoted the bulk of his speech to attacking MDC Alliance presidential candidate Nelson Chamisa, describing...Published: 06 May 2018 at 10:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF doesn't need soldiers to win polls, says Rugeje
Zanu-PF is preparing for its first elections without former president Robert Mugabe as its torch-bearer after the veteran ruler was toppled in a military coup in November last year.The man cha...Published: 15 Apr 2018 at 11:23hrs | | by staff reporter
Inside Mnangagwa's China sojourn
President Emmerson Mnangagwa arrived back home from a five-day state visit to China yesterday amid optimism that his campaign to woo investors is paying off.Mnangagwa met Chinese president Xi ...Published: 10 Apr 2018 at 15:11hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF will not be kind to Mugabe
A video of Zanu-PF youths chanting the "down with Mugabe slogan" during a meeting addressed by President Emmerson Mngangagwa went viral last week as it dawned on Zimbabweans that relations between the...Published: 11 Mar 2018 at 09:31hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mudzuri, Chamisa speak on battle for MDC-T top post
MDC-T has had arguably more than its fair share of internal squabbling in recent days as a result of the prolonged absence of its founding leader, Morgan Tsvangirai. The post of acting-president has c...Published: 11 Feb 2018 at 07:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
'No jostling for Tsvangirai post in MDC-T'
ACTING MDC-T president, engineer Elias Mudzuri (EM) says reports that there is serious power struggle between him and his two fellow deputies in the party, Nelson Chamisa and Thokozani Khupe, are a fi...Published: 14 Jan 2018 at 09:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa wanted Tsvangirai's ministers, says Mutsvangwa
President Emmerson Mnangagwa picked War Veterans leader Christopher Mutsvangwa as Information minister before hastily dropping his name after realising that the law only allowed him to appoint five no...Published: 03 Dec 2017 at 08:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF bigwigs open up
DURING the inauguration of President Emmerson Mnangagwa at the National Sports Stadium, our reporter Obey Manayiti (ND) spoke to four top Zanu-PF officials who served as Cabinet ministers in former Pr...Published: 27 Nov 2017 at 06:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Biti vows to back Tsvangirai 'come rain come thunder'
Former Finance minister Tendai Biti is one of the heavyweights that have thrown their weight behind the MDC Alliance, an opposition coalition that is rallying behind ex-prime minister Morgan Tsvangira...Published: 10 Sep 2017 at 09:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere, Mukupe tiff explained
ZANU-PF Harare East legislator Terrence Mukupe (TM) has stirred controversy in the ruling party since he came into the political limelight in 2015 after winning the parliamentary seat in a hotly-conte...Published: 29 Aug 2017 at 09:57hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai is like Mugabe trying to reform himself
RENEWAL Democrats of Zimbabwe leader, Elton Mangoma, is one of the few former MDC-T officials, who has refused to build bridges with MDC-T leader, Morgan Tsvangirai under the banner of MDC Alliance....Published: 14 Aug 2017 at 07:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Biti shares stage with ex-boss Tsvangirai
Former MDC-T secretary-general Tendai Biti yesterday, for the first time in almost five years, shared the stage with his ex-boss Morgan Tsvangirai to address a political gathering at Harare's Zimbabwe...Published: 06 Aug 2017 at 13:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC condemns attack on journalists by police
The MDC led by Welshman Ncube has noted with great concern the upsurge in the cases of harassment of journalists by the police.Party spokesperson Kurauone Chihwayi said the recent assault of N...Published: 02 Aug 2017 at 15:52hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
ZUJ condemns attack on journalists
The Zimbabwe Union of Journalists( ZUJ) has strongly condemned the brutal attack, arrest and detention of Alpha Media Holdings (AMH) journalists Obey Manayiti, Abigail Matsikidze, Shepherd Tozvireva a...Published: 02 Aug 2017 at 07:47hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Zimbabwe journalists protest against police brutality on reporters
Journalists in Harare Zimbabwe have taken to the streets at the capital protesting against the police brutality on journalists following the assault and arrest of NewsDay journalist Obey Manayiti on T...Published: 28 Jul 2017 at 13:06hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
NewsDay journalists arrested, assaulted by police
Police in Harare are reported to have arrested NewsDay journalists Obey Manayiti, Shepherd Tozvireva, Abigail Matsikidze and their driver Raphael Phiri for yet to be known charges.Zimbabwe Law...Published: 27 Jul 2017 at 12:57hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Mugabe's govt, police, drivers liable for the horror accidents
A fortnight ago, Zimbabweans woke up to the tragic news that 43 people had perished and 23 others seriously injured when a Zambia-bound King Lion bus veered off the road and hit a tree along the Harar...Published: 18 Jun 2017 at 10:13hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Bona critics can go to hell,' says Zhuwao
Home Affairs minister Ignatius Chombo and his Youth, Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment counterpart Patrick Zhuwao last week took turns to hand President Robert Mugabe's daughter Bona (pictured b...Published: 28 May 2017 at 09:33hrs | | by Obey Munyati
'Why I dumped Mugabe'
John Mvundura was in President Robert Mugabe's inner circle since the time of the liberation war serving as the Zanu-PF's leader's first chief of protocol.He was also posted to countri...Published: 16 Apr 2017 at 17:18hrs | 1 | by Obey Munyati
Mwonzora calls for 'disbanding' ZEC and not just BVR kit - penny, no ha'penny, has finally dropped.
When you listen to people like Douglas Mwonzora, it is easy to see why Zimbabwe is in up to her eyes in this political mess and, which is worse, is thrashing around like a drowning chicken, totally in...Published: 10 Apr 2017 at 07:54hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Mugabe wheelchair jokes anger minister
A ZBC report that was quickly pulled off air last week stating that President Robert Mugabe had been handed a "mobile chair" as one of his birthday presents caused a frenzy on social media....Published: 09 Apr 2017 at 08:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Tendai Biti is welcome back,' says MDC-T
A picture of MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai and former Finance minister Tendai Biti marching together in Harare during a National Electoral Reform Agenda (Nera) demonstration against the Zimbabwe ...Published: 03 Apr 2017 at 07:27hrs | | by Obey Munyati
Mutsvangwa denies coalition links
IT is almost a year since the relationship between President Robert Mugabe and war veterans took a turn for the worse when riot police teargassed former freedom fighters that tried to stage a demo...Published: 12 Mar 2017 at 16:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Mugabe is super human'
Zanu-PF secretary for youth affairs Kudzai Chipanga courted controversy when he claimed President Robert Mugabe had stopped the rains so his birthday celebrations in Matobo could go on undisturbed...Published: 05 Mar 2017 at 09:04hrs | 1 | by Obey Manayiti
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