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Epworth residents acquitted after by-elections campaign arrest
HARARE Magistrate Ruth Moyo on Thursday 22 September 2022 acquitted three residents of Epworth, who had been on trial answering to public violence charges after they were arrested during the run-up to...Published: 23 Sep 2022 at 19:17hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Chamisa drops the MDC Alliance tag, red colours and open palm symbol
OPPOSITION leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday rebranded his party name from MDC Alliance to Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) .Chamisa announced the new party name, symbols and slogan in Harare...Published: 25 Jan 2022 at 05:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF's Godwin Gomwe assaults man for talking to him with cap on
Zanu-PF's Harare deputy chairperson Godwin Gomwe was once again hauled before the courts for assault after he allegedly unleashed his full wrath on a fellow party member for disrespecting him by talki...Published: 22 Nov 2021 at 05:55hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Teacher arrested for brutal student assault
A PRIVATE college teacher in Harare was yesterday arrested after a video of him brutally assaulting an 18-year-old student went viral.Police confirmed the arrest of the Harare Einstein Tuition...Published: 16 Oct 2021 at 06:29hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's new Ponzi scheme
FOLLOWING the MDC's dizzying electoral defeats at the hands of Zanu-PF in March 2013 and July 2018, the opposition outfit lost most of its traditional Western funding as donors turned off the funding ...Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:11hrs | 2 | by Nobleman Runyanga
MDC MPs monkeys, baboons says Perrence Shiri
CHAOS reigned supreme in Parliament yesterday after Agriculture, Lands and Rural Resettlement minister Perrance Shiri described MDC MPs as "baboons and monkeys" for seeking answers on the missing $3 b...Published: 01 Aug 2019 at 09:28hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
9 facts, myths about Zimbabwe mayhem
On Monday and Tuesday, the opposition in Zimbabwe staged what they called a national "shutdown" which was supposed to be a popular mass protest against the Government over the rising cost of liv...Published: 18 Jan 2019 at 11:44hrs | 2 | by Tichaona Zindoga
Chamisa sues council over assault
A HARARE man, James Chamisa, who allegedly suffered a severe battering at the hands of the municipal police during an operation to rid the city of vendors and touts, has petitioned the High Court, see...Published: 18 Dec 2018 at 06:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Armed robbers pounce on Zimbabwe-bound bus in SA
Passengers on a bus that was headed for Bulawayo from Johannesburg (South Africa) had their festive mood dampened after being robbed of their valuables by armed robbers on the N1 Musina-Johannesburg H...Published: 02 Dec 2018 at 12:43hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa accuses Mnangagwa of trying to engineer his arrest
Opposition leader Nelson Chamisa and his lieutenants are living in fear of an imminent government crackdown, after army and police chiefs suggested this week that a militant wing in the MDC was respo...Published: 14 Nov 2018 at 15:40hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa fears army backlash
Opposition leader Nelson Chamisa and his lieutenants are living in fear of an imminent government crackdown, after army and police chiefs suggested this week that a militant wing in the MDC was respon...Published: 14 Nov 2018 at 06:11hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
ZEC hires Zanu-PF activist as election presiding officer
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) hired a known Zanu-PF activist as presiding officer for a Bulawayo polling station in the just ended harmonised elections, it has emerged.This came out ...Published: 30 Aug 2018 at 12:45hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's Biti tweet raises eyebrows
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's claim that former Finance minister Tendai Biti was released on bail following his intervention undermined the public's confidence in the judicial system, legal experts h...Published: 12 Aug 2018 at 10:01hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
ZEC gets unconditional support
In spite of widespread condemnation of the uneven electoral playing field which favours the governing party, the under-fire Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has received unconditional support from ...Published: 09 Jul 2018 at 15:36hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa fingers Khupe in rigging plot
MDC Alliance presidential candidate Nelson Chamisa has sensationally claimed the existence of an axis of evil involving the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) Zanu-PF and his former colleague turned ...Published: 25 Jun 2018 at 09:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mutseyami unites Chikanga Dangamvura candidates and campaign teams
Chikanga Dangamvura Constituency MDC ALLIANCE member of parliament candidate PROSPER CHAPFIWA MUTSEYAMI held a get together party for campaign teams in Mutare at Dangamvura Beithal yesterday. ...Published: 24 Jun 2018 at 11:22hrs | | by Fanuel Chinowaita
Chamisa seeks Khupe disqualification
OPPOSITION MDC Alliance presidential candidate Nelson Chamisa has vowed to "do everything possible" to force the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) to reverse its decision to accept his arch-nemesis ...Published: 19 Jun 2018 at 15:15hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Shona speaking in Matebeleland - Chamisa blasts Mnangagwa ‘tribal politics’
MDC Alliance presidential candidate, Nelson Chamisa has pledged to reverse successive Zanu PF governments' toxic politics centred on tribalism and "jobs for the boys" policy. Addressing a camp...Published: 18 Jun 2018 at 07:24hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa opts to Jameson Timba as his election agent
What an incongruous title to use in describing politics of the Savannah! Yet such is the beauty of communication: yoking together things that are violently dissimilar, all to drive home a key point. A...Published: 16 Jun 2018 at 21:42hrs | 2 | by Igomombe
Chamisa threatens to boycott forthcoming polls
OPPOSITION coalition MDC Alliance has threatened to boycott the July 30 general elections if its demands for electoral reforms are disregarded by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec).The sp...Published: 15 Jun 2018 at 14:11hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa wants Khupe blocked
The Nelson Chamisa-led MDC has a written a letter to the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) chairperson Priscillah Chigumba, seeking to bar the Thokozani Khupe-led camp from using the party's symbols...Published: 14 Jun 2018 at 13:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa, Khupe factions resolve name and symbol impasse
THE MDC-T faction led by Mr Nelson Chamisa will field its candidates in the forthcoming elections under the MDC Alliance name while the rival faction led by Dr Thokozani Khupe will stick with MDC-T....Published: 14 Jun 2018 at 07:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Villagers recount Grace Mugabe's terror
ONE September night last year, Derick Amos dropped off at Mazowe from a car he had hiked along the Harare-Bindura highway."It was around 8pm and I was coming from Harare Central Hospital where...Published: 12 May 2018 at 13:45hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Unpacking the coalition fallacy
On 5 August 2017, the late former MDC-T leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, launched the so called MDC Alliance amid serious conflict with his deputy, Thokozani Khupe who was fiercely opposed to the idea of jo...Published: 10 May 2018 at 09:55hrs | 1 | by Nobleman Runyanga
MDC-T slams Tsvangirai
The Breakaway MDC led by Thokozani Khupe has slammed the late Morgan Tsvangirai for the problems convulsing the opposition party saying he whimsically amended a progressive constitution to prolong his...Published: 04 May 2018 at 13:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa not rightful heir to MDC-T throne
THE High Court yesterday dismissed an application by the MDC-T faction led by Advocate Nelson Chamisa, which had taken its rivals to court in a fight over ownership of the party name, trademark, signs...Published: 25 Apr 2018 at 07:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai's face removed from MDC-T logo
MDC's incoming secretary-general Nixon Nyakadzino confirmed the congress resolved to remove Morgan Tsvangira's face from the MDC-T logo, and replaced it with a baby face."It's not the party symbol...Published: 22 Apr 2018 at 12:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC-T gets new leaders
EXPELLED MDC-T deputy president Thokozani Khupe was yesterday elected unopposed as the leader of a breakaway MDC-T formation, and the ex-deputy prime minister quickly said she did not regret cutting t...Published: 22 Apr 2018 at 10:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC-T congress endorses Dr Khupe
THE much-talked about Dr Thokozani Khupe-led MDC-T extraordinary congress held in Bulawayo yesterday resembled a routine meeting meant to rubberstamp Dr Khupe's rise to the helm of the faction of the ...Published: 22 Apr 2018 at 10:07hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
MDC-T name ownership wrangle case postponed
BULAWAYO High Court judge Justice Francis Bere yesterday postponed to April 17 the matter involving MDC-T rival camps fighting over the ownership of the party name and symbols.The bitter wrang...Published: 14 Apr 2018 at 12:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC-T name wrangle spills into court
THE bitter fight over the ownership of the MDC-T party name and symbols pitting two rival camps, one led by the party's president Advocate Nelson Chamisa and the other by the party's expelled co-deput...Published: 13 Apr 2018 at 07:24hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'MDC' prefix dropped from 'MDC Alliance'
Opposition National People's Party (NPP) leader Joice Mujuru has finally managed to push for a drop of the of the 'MDC' prefix in the 'MDC Alliance' name and the main opposition party's logo, as she m...Published: 13 Feb 2018 at 14:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mujuru pushes for new coalition
Opposition National People's Party (NPP) leader Joice Mujuru has finally managed to push for a drop of the of the 'MDC' prefix in the 'MDC Alliance' name and the main opposition party's logo, as she m...Published: 13 Feb 2018 at 06:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai succession row destabilises MDC Alliance
The MDC Alliance is fretting over the uncertainty surrounding Morgan Tsvangirai after he indicated that he was mulling stepping down.Tsvangirai was selected to be the presidential candidate fo...Published: 14 Jan 2018 at 11:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
The fake Zanu pf Manifesto
Like lightning its veto stroke everyone who had been compelled to gather and chant the "not holding water" slogan. Their fists hoisted above their heads while tightly held so that no one could see tha...Published: 15 Oct 2017 at 20:39hrs | 2 | by Craig
Jah Prayzah: Master of political intrigue
Towering music star Jah Prayzah has joined the list of artistes whose music has been dragged into politics by Zimbabweans yearning for a new leader to take over from President Robert Mugabe who has be...Published: 10 Sep 2017 at 15:48hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance: Tsvangirai's health under the spotlight
HARARE - A document signed by the MDC and some fringe opposition parties forming an alliance has unwittingly exposed deep-seated concerns within the country's biggest opposition party that its leader ...Published: 26 Aug 2017 at 12:27hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Skhobokhobo preaches political tolerance
Man of the moment Madlela Skhobokhobo says music is apolitical and is meant to entertain people and nothing else.This comes after Madlela Skhobokhobo, real name Bashimane Mothusi Ndlovu, of th...Published: 24 Jul 2017 at 07:11hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Abduction, disappearance and torture of UZ student abominable
ZIMBABWE Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) strongly condemns the abominable treatment of Fanuel Kaseke, a student activist who was abducted and disappeared by some unidentified people on Thursday 29 Jun...Published: 10 Jul 2017 at 09:58hrs | 1 | by ZLHR
Tsvangirai clothed in borrowed robes and forgot to think beyond slogans
IT'S been many seasons ever since this column was launched, more accurately ever since I adopted it from its "tired" founder, Professor Jonathan Moyo. While I know Nathaniel to be his middle name, I w...Published: 24 Jun 2017 at 13:29hrs | 52 | by Nathaniel Manheru
'Killer' granny acquitted
HIGH Court judge Justice Clement Phiri this week set free a 78-year-old-PFungwe granny, who stood accused of killing her lover after a bush sex romp.Meddas Hamadziripi had been accused of ...Published: 31 Mar 2017 at 06:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
My job is to uphold the Constitution, Cdes
Dear Cabinet and Politburo membersCOMRADES, I have to frankly tell you that I am very disappointed in some of you for doing some criminal activities not just behind my back, but also doing t...Published: 30 Mar 2017 at 06:35hrs | 1 | by CZ
Granny (78) kills lover by pulling his privates
A 78-year-old-PFungwe granny allegedly killed her 65-year-old married boyfriend by pulling his private parts following an altercation over money to buy soap after a sexual orgy along the banks of ...Published: 29 Mar 2017 at 06:52hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
The struggle is greater than Tsvangirai and Biti
The recent public spat between Morgan Tsvangirai and Tendai Biti cannot be allowed to pass without reproof. Not only was it unfortunate but it was totally unnecessary - as unnecessary as buying a ring...Published: 10 Dec 2016 at 05:20hrs | | by Moses Chamboko
Beware the ghost of Benghazi
YOUTH is a period of impetuosity and adventure. It is a time to test and experiment. It is a period of physical and mental growth.Youth is a time of discovery and for self-definition. It is a ...Published: 26 Aug 2016 at 06:48hrs | | by Joram Nyathi
Mujuru, Tsvangirai - more than a meeting of birds of a feather
YESTERDAY, we carried a story on the weekend's public display of unity between opposition MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai and former Vice President Joice Mujuru at a rally in Gweru.In parti...Published: 16 Aug 2016 at 06:45hrs | | by Staff writer
Women demonstrate against Mugabe by beating pots
Hundreds of women in Zimbabwe on Saturday demonstrated against President Robert Mugabe's government by beating pots, symbolising a nation facing starvation and economic hardships.The march...Published: 16 Jul 2016 at 22:14hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Hubby clobbers wife over muti
A 32-YEAR-OLD man has been jailed for 10 years for severely beating up his 38-year-old wife after he found her in possession of traditional medicine which he suspected she wanted to use on him....Published: 02 Jun 2016 at 06:33hrs | 2 | by Sukulwenkosi Dube
Married man finds lover in rival's arms, jailed for assault
A married 33-year-old Dangamvura man has been jailed for 40 days after assaulting his extra-marital lover using a satellite dish holder after catching her pants down with a new lover. Masimba ...Published: 06 Nov 2015 at 06:24hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Grace Mugabe's Rushinga rally - Live updates
14:08 Grace Mugabe has finished her address.14:05 Dr Mugabe says she brought tractors, 20 000 litres of cooking oil, 531 school satchels, 150 tonnes of ammonium nitrate fertiliser , 50 t...Published: 14 Oct 2015 at 13:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
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