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Sibangilizwe Nkomo still in the race
SIBANGILIZWE Nkomo, the son of the late Zapu founding leader Joshua Nkomo, yesterday dismissed attempts by some party members to sideline him from the opposition party's presidential race.Nkom...Published: 24 Sep 2021 at 09:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zapu plots to sideline Nkomo's son
THE opposition Zapu has reaffirmed a contentious resolution barring presidential aspirants who have not been card-carrying members of the party for the past five years from contesting the presidency a...Published: 21 Sep 2021 at 21:35hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo hauled Mnangagwa over the coals
New details of last week's explosive Zanu-PF politburo meeting - where a titanic battle between higher education minister Jonathan Moyo and Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa erupted, and is set to spi...Published: 28 Jul 2017 at 13:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mujuru wonders why she is a matter of Mugabe's fantasy
DEPOSED former Vice-President Joice Mujuru has responded to President Robert Mugabe's claims that she had hired Nigerian ritualists to bewitch him, First Lady Grace and some top officials in a bid to...Published: 03 Mar 2015 at 06:26hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa and Chinamasa misleading Mugabe'
Former Zanu-PF spokesman Rugare Gumbo, who was expelled from the ruling party last year, has charged that Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa and Finance Minister Patrick Chinamasa, both lawyers, are mi...Published: 14 Feb 2015 at 18:21hrs | | by Blessing Zulu
Mujuru remains a wandering ghost hovering above the whole initiative
I AM so happy we are, as a people, now able to construct meaning outside Western hegemony. It takes a lot to be able to do that, certainly much more than intellect. The recent developments in France w...Published: 17 Jan 2015 at 12:16hrs | | by Nathanie Manheru
Analysts dismiss Zanu-PF split notion
POLITICAL analysts have cautiously dismissed the notion of an imminent split within Zanu-PF likely to be spearheaded by former secretary for administration, Didymus Mutasa, saying President Robert...Published: 16 Jan 2015 at 08:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Mugabe has destroyed his legacy,' says Rugare Gumbo
Former Zanu-PF spokesman Rugare Gumbo, who was expelled from the ruling party last year, has rallied behind former secretary for administration Didymus Mutasa who this week released a statement attack...Published: 15 Jan 2015 at 08:53hrs | 5 | by Blessing Zulu
Mujuru faction ups the ante
THE war of words in Zanu-PF following last month's congress just went a notch higher, with deposed secretary for administration Didymus Mutasa yesterday saying he was not cowed by secretary for the c...Published: 15 Jan 2015 at 06:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF shots back at Didymus Mutasa
ZANU-PF yesterday dismissed the former secretary for administration Didymus Mutasa, saying he was not serious about politics, after he issued a statement questioning the party's December congress....Published: 14 Jan 2015 at 06:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mujuru allies fire an attack at Robert Mugabe
AXED Vice-President Joice Mujuru and her Zanu-PF allies have fired an attack at President Robert Mugabe and declared the December congress a nullity for being held outside the dictates of the party's ...Published: 13 Jan 2015 at 06:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe war veterans split on VP
BULAWAYO war veterans' chairperson Japhet Phuthi is under fire over his utterances on the vacant vice presidency post, with war collaborators saying he lied that they were backing Zanu-PF national cha...Published: 14 Aug 2014 at 06:35hrs | | by Sifundiso Ndlovu
Omafikizolo blamed for MDC-T problems
SOME founding members of the MDC yesterday blamed the elevation into strategic positions people they described as omafikizolo (Johnny-come-lately) for the problems bedevilling the opposition party....Published: 01 Aug 2014 at 08:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Does Mugabe speak Ndebele or not?
If there is anyone out there who knows for real and without any equivocation whether or not president Robert Mugabe speaks Ndebele, can that person kindly confirm this fact during Mugabe's lifetime s...Published: 04 Nov 2013 at 10:10hrs | 3 | by Colls Ndlovu
MDC-T officials in near blows as meeting degenerates into chaos
PUMULA MP Albert Mhlanga and former Bulawayo deputy mayor Amen Mpofu almost came to blows over the alleged imposition of businessman Gift Banda as the city's new deputy mayor after an MDC-T provincial...Published: 10 Oct 2013 at 04:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Rebels accuse Khuphe, Moyo of trying to destroy MDC-T
MDC-T deputy president Ms Thokozani Khupe has been accused of being on a mission to destroy the party through replacing founding members with her friends, allegedly in a bid to build an "empire" to su...Published: 06 Jul 2013 at 05:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC defectors' victory triggers headaches in MDC-T
MDC-T structures in Matabeleland North Province are fuming as defectors from the Professor Welshman Ncube-led formation won in the party’s primaries held on Tuesday.The part...Published: 30 May 2013 at 05:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Divisions rock MDC: Old Guard Vs Omafikizolo
FACTIONALISM has reared its ugly head within the Movement for Democratic Change formation led by Professor Welshman Ncube amid reports that the party has been divided into two camps, party insiders h...Published: 21 Oct 2011 at 08:14hrs | | by Bekithemba Nhlanhla Ncube
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