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Swapo wins special elections in the diaspora
Unofficial results of votes cast by Namibians in the diaspora on Wednesday show Swapo leading with 61% of the presidential and 61% of the parliamentary votes.The Independent Patriots for Chang...Published: 14 Nov 2024 at 18:50hrs | 1489 | by Staff reporter
Botswana vote shaken up by angry ex-president
Botswana holds a presidential election on Wednesday energised by a campaign by one previous head-of-state to unseat his handpicked successor whose first term has seen rising discontent amid a downturn...Published: 29 Oct 2024 at 09:21hrs | 3313 | by AFP
Only alliance politics can 'wrestle' power from Zanu-PF
To deal away with one party dominant system in Zimbabwe, opposition People's Unity Party (PUP) leader Herbert Chamuka sees only oppositions' coalition, cooperation and alliance politics as the most vi...Published: 05 Apr 2023 at 12:17hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Komichi says MDC-T decision to cosy-up to Zanu-PF has cost them
TROUBLED opposition MDC-T's decision to cosy up to Zanu-PF and failure to oppose some of the ruling party's ills has lost them public support, chairperson Morgen Komichi has said.Commenting on...Published: 10 Jun 2022 at 08:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
SA lacks the will to rescue Zimbabwe
IN any discussion on the political and economic crisis in Zimbabwe, the need for South Africa's mediation to find resolution is invariably raised. Calls for South African involvement are getting loude...Published: 26 Feb 2021 at 06:52hrs | 2 | by Tendai Dumbutshena
Mnangagwa using COVID-19 to fight political opponents, says Moyo
Opposition Alliance for people's Agenda (APA) party leader Nkosana Moyo has accused President Emmerson Mnangagwa of using the COViD-19 lockdown period to clamp down on his political opponents....Published: 17 Feb 2021 at 06:27hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
COVID-19 perfect cover for autocrats
ZIMBABWE has never been the same after March 30, 2020. Ever since then, the country has been in a lockdown and normal life in a constitutional democracy has been severely pared in the name of combatin...Published: 19 Dec 2020 at 05:49hrs | 2 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Ex-minister petitions UN agency over Gukurahundi genocide
THE United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) must step in to stop a culture of State-sponsored human rights violations as the "price of silence is huge", former National Healing minister Moses Mzil...Published: 02 Sep 2020 at 06:34hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
So Mnangagwa will finally Resign?
On August 16 some people of Harare high density suburbs will yet again brave the wind and toyi-toyi the streets to exert pressure on a constitutionally elected and military backed government to resign...Published: 14 Aug 2019 at 07:48hrs | | by Robert Sigauke, Political Commentator, Cape Town
Reforms must be all encompassing
THE call for electoral reforms by the independent elections watchdog, Elections Resource Centre (ERC), could not have come at a more critical time.This is in view of the economic difficulties ...Published: 13 Jul 2019 at 08:07hrs | | by Editorial - Newsday
Chamisa's nihilism, a futile role in Vision 2030
THE importance and necessity of ideology in modern politics is to enable an organised institution to speak with clarity, confidence and propose its values to the electorate in a fashion that is persua...Published: 27 Feb 2019 at 06:27hrs | 1 | by Marshall Gore
'Masvingo mayor a product of Zanu-PF,' says Chamisa
MDC Alliance Nelson Chamisa has fired another salvo at Masvingo mayor Collen Maboke, saying the beleaguered city father was a product of some Zanu-PF arrangement and not the party's choice for the cov...Published: 03 Nov 2018 at 16:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Daggers drawn against Chamisa
The MDC Alliance deputy president Morgen Komichi has said party leader Nelson Chamisa will be challenged at the party's congress slated for October next year, paving the way for a potential bruising b...Published: 28 Oct 2018 at 21:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Post-poll violence inquiry: Opposition attempting to score cheap political points
The seven-member Commission of Inquiry into the 1 August 2018 post-poll violence incident in which six people died in Harare city centre commenced its work last week with witnesses testifying on their...Published: 22 Oct 2018 at 11:35hrs | | by Nobleman Runyanga
Muchinguri taken to task over Masvingo highway
OPPOSITION Alliance MPs on Wednesday took Defence minister Oppah Muchinguri to task over delays on the Beitbridge-Chirundu dualisation project, saying government was fond of holding groundbreaking cer...Published: 12 Oct 2018 at 07:11hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa to drag police to court over anniversary ban
The Nelson Chamisa-led MDC Alliance is planning to drag the police to court over the continued ban of its 18th anniversary celebration at a time Zanu-PF is being given unbridled permission to hold its...Published: 02 Oct 2018 at 15:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa is dead! what next?
Opportunistic leaders not only cost lives and resources but also set back the march to freedom by decades. In Zimbabwe and across Africa, democracy has suffered a steady decline in recent years becaus...Published: 13 Sep 2018 at 19:49hrs | 4 | by Sam Wezhira
Sessel Zvidzai's garden boy now Gweru Ward 3 councillor
In a notable tale of grace to grass, former MDC-T Gweru Urban MP and senior official in the MDC Alliance, Sessel Zvidzai's gardener is now City of Gweru Ward 3 councillor.Doubt Ncube, who is 3...Published: 08 Sep 2018 at 11:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Lessons from the Natural History of Nations
There is certainly no prize for predicting the reaction of the opposition alliance to the outcome of the elections, and of course the constitutional court challenge. After all, we have been made to be...Published: 04 Sep 2018 at 12:39hrs | 1 | by Robert Sigauke
Chamisa donation campaign hits £17K
MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa GoFundMe campaign trail for donations has reportedly hit £17k following its recent launch.The campaign reportedly emanated following the ConCourt ruling tha...Published: 29 Aug 2018 at 10:51hrs | | by Sithabile Mafu
Chamisa in witch-hunt indaba
THE Nelson Chamisa-led MDC-T will today hold an explosive national council meeting amid reports that the indaba could be used as a witch-hunt against party officials accused of fanning indiscipline, d...Published: 29 Aug 2018 at 07:03hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Jockeying for Kwekwe mayoral post begins
Former Kwekwe mayor Councillor Shadreck Tobaiwa is tipped to land the mayoral post for the city for the second time amid revelations that jockeying for the position was intensifying with six councillo...Published: 20 Aug 2018 at 05:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa steals Chamisa's data?
The legal team representing the MDC Alliance is accusing President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration of breaking into their attorney's offices and stealing large amounts of data from their computer,...Published: 16 Aug 2018 at 06:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Political violence prescription for self-immolation
POLITICS is often described as "a dirty game", and the in-fighting in the MDC-Alliance after the party's losses in both the parliamentary and presidential elections would appear to validate the dirty-...Published: 11 Aug 2018 at 10:02hrs | 2 | by Stephen Mpofu
Zimbabwe is facing an uncertain future
In the July 2018 elections, opposition alliances, suffered a fatal loss, failing to get one-third of the seats for the Parliament, the country's legislative body. Since then, public opinion of Preside...Published: 07 Aug 2018 at 19:01hrs | | by Sam Wezhira
Zimbabwe election results would always have been disputed
The developments around the election in Zimbabwe have created a serious dilemma for the Southern African Development Community (SADC) resulting in the country's future hanging in the balance. ...Published: 06 Aug 2018 at 09:55hrs | 1 | by Ralph Mathekga
Political violence, deplorable and red flags ignored
Wednesday's awful shooting gave us lot to discuss as this day dawns, so let's get straight to it.. If the government and local police authorities unwilling to address violent protesters, it will fuel ...Published: 02 Aug 2018 at 13:22hrs | 3 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Zanu PF bigwigs suffer shocking defeats
Many political bigwigs in President Emmerson Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF suffered shocking defeats in the July 30 National Assembly elections even as votes were still being counted.Ministers Chris Mut...Published: 02 Aug 2018 at 08:18hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
UK express concern about Zimbabwe violence
A government crackdown in Zimbabwe after Monday's elections has prompted international calls for restraint.The UN and former colonial power the UK both expressed concern about the violence, in...Published: 02 Aug 2018 at 07:51hrs | | by BBC
Everything you need to know about Zim's election
TODAY, Zimbabweans go to the polls to elect a President, parliamentarians and local councillors.The elections are an unprecedented opportunity for Zimbabweans to choose who they believe can de...Published: 30 Jul 2018 at 07:13hrs | 1 | by Piers Pigou
Chamisa wanted to boycott the election
Few had expected Zimbabwe's main opposition group, the MDC Alliance, to pull out of Monday's general election, despite speculation to the contrary.There is so much at stake - the first opportu...Published: 25 Jul 2018 at 20:57hrs | | by BBC
Inside Chamisa's winter of discontent
On Monday we woke up to a screaming headline in an opposition-leaning newspaper that told us that the MDC-Alliance had given the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission an ultimatum of 24 hours to address...Published: 18 Jul 2018 at 06:24hrs | 1 | by Tichaona Zindoga
Mnangagwa scoffs at Chamisa's ballot paper demands
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has scoffed at opposition demands regarding the ballot paper for this month's crunch elections and insisted that his disgruntled rivals cannot stop the vote going ahead....Published: 07 Jul 2018 at 09:26hrs | 1 | by Staff rpeorter
Dabengwa regrets collapse of coalition talks
ZAPU leader Dumiso Dabengwa has said he regrets the failure by opposition to form a grand coalition to block what he fears will herald political militarisation should the ruling Zanu-PF win the July 3...Published: 05 Jul 2018 at 07:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Squabbling may weaken MDC election bid
Bickering within Zimbabwe's opposition alliance is weakening its chances of ousting the ruling party in this month's elections, the southern African nation's first since Robert Mugabe ended his 37-yea...Published: 02 Jul 2018 at 16:10hrs | | by Bloomberg
Nkosana Moyo's ministers to apply for posts
OPPOSITION Alliance for People's Agenda (APA) presidential candidate Nkosana Moyo has pledged a governance paradigm shift, where prospective Cabinet ministers would have to apply and be considered on ...Published: 22 Jun 2018 at 07:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, Chamisa fret over 'rebels'
THE unprecedented huge number of independent candidates emerging from both the ruling Zanu-PF and the opposition MDC Alliance has reportedly unsettled President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his MDC Alliance...Published: 21 Jun 2018 at 07:07hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe wants to be Chamisa's deputy
A faction of an opposition party in Zimbabwe has claimed that former first lady Grace Mugabe wants to be vice president of the Movement for Democratic Change Alliance, reports say.The sensatio...Published: 09 Jun 2018 at 16:42hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: Chamisa fingered in Mugabe's NPF split
National Patriotic Front has split after former Bulawayo provincial affairs Minister Eunice Sandi Moyo fired retired Brigadier General Ambrose Mutinhiri.The MDC Alliance led by main opposition...Published: 08 Jun 2018 at 13:40hrs | 25 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa, Mugabe in GNU negotiations
THE MDC Alliance led by main opposition presidential candidate Nelson Chamisa is involved in critical negotiations with the National Patriotic Front (NPF) headed by Ambrose Mutinhiri - who has fo...Published: 08 Jun 2018 at 09:59hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa taking 'silly season' literally
Nelson Chamisa, the MDC Alliance presidential candidate, is a man of many hats. He is a pastor, a lawyer and a presidential aspirant. People who wear many hats usually use them to their advant...Published: 08 Jun 2018 at 07:14hrs | | by Lovemore Chikova
#ShutDownHarare, shutting the mind
Yesterday, the MDC Alliance took to the streets in an attempt to "shut down" the capital city, Harare, unless their demands for the implementation of so-called electoral reforms before the watershed h...Published: 06 Jun 2018 at 06:58hrs | 1 | by Elliot Ziwira
Opposition parties are a circus with clowns in leadership
At times it does not need a rocket scientist to see why Zanu pf remains confident of winning despite their ruinous policies.A look at the opposition in Zimbabwe says a lot,it is all about power ....Published: 04 Jun 2018 at 16:41hrs | 1 | by AT Kadada
Chamisa would lose the 2018 election
The declaration of 30 July 2018 as the election date sends a clear message that the election season is coming to its natural conclusion. But as the end of the season beckons, it is apparently clear th...Published: 01 Jun 2018 at 16:19hrs | | by Charity Maodza
Opposition must close ranks for Zimbabwe's sake
Zimbabwe is currently on the verge of possibility and there are high indications that President Emmerson Mnangagwa and Zanu-PF's hegemony on power could be broken if the opposition parties play their ...Published: 28 May 2018 at 07:16hrs | 2 | by Staff rpeorter
'Chamisa doesn't want elections'
CHANGE swept Zimbabwe on the evening of November 14 2017 and like a ferocious but silent storm, its effects have reshaped Zimbabwe's political scene. The resignation of former President Robert...Published: 22 May 2018 at 12:23hrs | 2 | by Tafadzwa Masango
Khupe commence multiplicity of actions to dethrone Chamisa
Expelled MDC deputy president Thokozani Khupe has commenced a multiplicity of actions in the High Court and Constitutional Court (Con-Court) in her desperate bid to dethrone Nelson Chamisa whose entry...Published: 21 Apr 2018 at 12:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Biti sees potential $100 billion economy
Zimbabwe's opposition could expand the size of the economy more than fivefold to $100 billion within eight years if it wins this year's elections, a former finance minister said.The first elec...Published: 20 Apr 2018 at 14:18hrs | 4 | by Bloomberg
Elections critical for Zimbabwe economic growth, says Biti
Zimbabwe's elections scheduled to take place this year will be the most important in a generation and critical to restoring democracy and economic growth in the southern African nation that has been d...Published: 19 Apr 2018 at 11:30hrs | | by Bloomberg
'Army to rescue Mnangagwa'
ZANU-PF leader President Emmerson Mnangagwa is slowly girding himself for his first election, but his opponents claim his apparent confidence could be a sign he has something sinister up his sleeve....Published: 17 Apr 2018 at 07:33hrs | | by Staff rpeorter
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