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Polad members cry foul
Members of the Political Actors Dialogue (Polad) are attempting to reassert their relevance on Zimbabwe's political stage after months of being sidelined, but political observers say the platform lack...Published: 12 Jun 2025 at 18:48hrs | 133 | by Staff reporter
Geza's voice echoes across a political void
ON March 26, a friend alerted me to a Press conference held by Blessed Geza, a Zimbabwean war veteran and former Zanu-PF central committee member.I also understand he recently gained significa...Published: 31 Mar 2025 at 09:15hrs | 1149 | by Tapiwa Gomo
Constitutional coup looms in Zimbabwe
A controversial proposal to amend Zimbabwe's Constitution and extend President Emmerson Mnangagwa's term of office by up to five years beyond the 2028 constitutional limit has sparked heated debate. T...Published: 15 Jan 2025 at 12:09hrs | 2695 | by Staff reporter
'There is no friction between Zanu PF and CCC!' boasted Mnangagwa
In Zimbabwe there is no friction between Zanu PF and the opposition party!" Mnangagwa boasted at the festive party held at his Kwe kwe farm to celebrate that Zanu PF and CCC opposition MPs had agreed ...Published: 14 Jan 2025 at 22:27hrs | 307 | by Wilbert Mukori
Mnangagwa accords Nare State-assisted funeral
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has announced that a State-assisted funeral will be held for the late retired Justice Selo Masole Nare, who passed away on Saturday at the age of 81 while receiving specia...Published: 01 Oct 2024 at 09:08hrs | 380 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa mourns Justice Selo Nare
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has expressed his condolences to the Nare family following the death of retired Labour Court judge Justice Selo Nare, who passed away on Saturday.In a statement re...Published: 01 Oct 2024 at 09:02hrs | 103 | by Staff reporter
Underfunding leaves Polad on life support
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has positioned Sengezo Tshabangu, the new Secretary-General of the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC), as a prominent opposition figure amid the faltering Political Actor...Published: 02 Sep 2024 at 11:30hrs | 537 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe opposition parties must unite against Zanu-PF
Leader of the United African National Council (UANC), Reverend Dr. Gwinyai Muzorewa, has called on opposition parties to unite and confront the Zanu-PF-led government over the country's socio-economic...Published: 06 Jun 2024 at 17:30hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF not moved by Chamisa's 'sensationalist politics'
Political parties and analysts have criticized former CCC leader, Mr. Nelson Chamisa's appeals to the Southern African Development Community (Sadc) to invalidate the August 23, 2023 election results, ...Published: 28 May 2024 at 09:48hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF's fingerprints in CCC chaos
THE ruling Zanu-PF party says former Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) president Nelson Chamisa should be probed over how he handled finances during his tenure at the helm of the opposition politica...Published: 30 Jan 2024 at 09:16hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
ZAPU slams Obert Mpofu
ZAPU has slammed an opinion piece written by Zanu-PF Secretary-General, Dr Obert Moses Mpofu, in which he claimed the ruling party is the ‘only viable' political entity in Zimbabwe that has outlived...Published: 10 Jan 2024 at 07:57hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
POLAD member accused of dumping wife and child in Bulawayo
THE leader of the opposition Nationalist Alliance Party (NAP) which is a member of the Political Actors Dialogue (POLAD) Devine Muhambi Hove has been accused by Lungile Dube who claims to be his wife ...Published: 28 Nov 2023 at 13:30hrs | 5 | by Stephen Jakes
Chamisa to sideline Ncube, Biti in talks with Mnangagwa
The ruling party, Zanu-PF, has alleged that Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa is working to exclude senior opposition members Welshman Ncube and Tendai Biti from his discussion...Published: 25 Oct 2023 at 06:53hrs | 290 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa learning that politics is not child's play
POLITICS is no child's play. The opposition CCC are learning that now, the hard way, and they rightfully should. There are always consequences for every action. Miscalculations can be extremely costly...Published: 16 Oct 2023 at 08:59hrs | 3 | by Dr Obert Moses Mpofu
Charamba exposes Chamisa?
FROM as early as 2018, CCC leader Mr Nelson Chamisa sent various envoys who included journalists, businessmen and church leaders to open talks with President Mnangagwa but all his missions collapsed a...Published: 16 Oct 2023 at 06:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Flea with no legs cannot hear, is a fallacy. So too is, Chamisa did us a favour participating in 2023 elections
To claim that Nelson Chamisa and his CCC friends did the people of Zimbabwe a great favour by participating in the flawed 2023 elections is a fallacy. "If CCC had boycotted the elections, the ...Published: 07 Oct 2023 at 07:42hrs | 3 | by Wilbert Mukori
Polad noble, dialogue with Chamisa, better
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa says he is eager to revive the Political Actors Dialogue (Polad) forum, a platform he created in 2018 to coalesce the minds of all losing candidates in that year's preside...Published: 03 Oct 2023 at 06:30hrs | 2 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
'GNU is not a local herb: excluding Zanu PF would bring spectre of instability.' So hangs the sword of Damocles!
"GNU is not a local herb!" wrote Jamanda2 in Bulawayo24. "The West also made sure there was no third party or parties with which to enter into a governing alliance that would exclude Zanu-PF f...Published: 02 Oct 2023 at 07:52hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
'We (povo) lacked strategic thinking for electoral victory.' Quick burning grass fire passion will never bring change.
The Zimbabwe electorate’s political activism is like a grass fire, it will flares up but very quickly die down because there was not much to burn. Similarly there is not much in-depth knowledge of a...Published: 27 Sep 2023 at 20:04hrs | 1 | by Wilbert Mukori
Chamisa's CCC trashes Father Mukonori 'biased' dialogue
The Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) from the opposition has expressed the need for a dialogue in Zimbabwe, facilitated by the Southern African Development Community (SADC), to address the ongoing ...Published: 27 Sep 2023 at 06:23hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa told to concede defeat, seek dialogue
The Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Mr Nelson Chamisa has been implored to concede defeat to President Mnangagwa following last month's harmonised elections and not seek to cause anarchy an...Published: 26 Sep 2023 at 06:15hrs | 359 | by Staff reporter
'Unity can save Zimbabwe'
ZIMBABWE'S economic and political challenges will continue to haunt the nation as there is no unity among the citizens, losing presidential candidate Trust Chikohora has said.Chikohora partici...Published: 29 Aug 2023 at 07:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Polad to stay in place
THE Political Actors Dialogue (POLAD), a grouping of all presidential candidates who participated in the 2023 elections is set to return, President Mnangagwa has said.POLAD was first establish...Published: 28 Aug 2023 at 06:49hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
'Diaspora must return and vote for change' Blame CCC for dragging us into flawed elections out of greed, not diaspora
"I get annoyed sometimes when l discovered that a person who is in Diaspora is supporting Zanu PF and they have got an offices in other countries. We must defeat Zanu PF politically like HH did in Zam...Published: 16 Aug 2023 at 14:25hrs | 15 | by Wilbert Mukori
POLAD members back Mnangagwa in upcoming election
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has received the backing of four 'opposition' parties in his Political Actors Dialogue (POLAD) platform.POLAD Chairperson Francis Danha who led the 1980 Freedom Mo...Published: 15 Aug 2023 at 06:32hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
'Vote Mnangagwa Out,' Madhuku
GOROMONZI - National Constitutional Assembly (NCA) president, Lovemore Madhuku told his supporters to vote out Zanu PF and it's leader President Emmerson ...Published: 04 Aug 2023 at 06:11hrs | 10 | by Ndou Paul
4 unknown political parties back Zanu-PF
Four political parties which participated in the Political Actors Dialogue (POLAD) established by the Second Republic in 2018, have thrown their weight behind President Mnangagwa and Zanu-PF ahead of ...Published: 28 Jul 2023 at 06:43hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Why ridicule Witness Dube when you welcomed Thokozani Khuphe?
While people and political parties are indeed entitled to their views, it's stinking hypocritical to always point fingers at what you say is the hypocrisy of everyone and anyone who disagrees with or ...Published: 23 Jul 2023 at 16:12hrs | 2 | by Jonathan Moyo
'Can't continue to subject povo to sham elections to have their hopes crushed' argued Biti. He's doing exactly that, yet again
Zimbabwe's 2008 elections were a watershed in that Zanu PF was forced to show the world the sicken depths of depravity the regime would go to hang on to power. Before the 2008 elections, Zanu ...Published: 23 Jul 2023 at 08:58hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Chamisa's broke candidates send out begging bowl
A number of aspiring Members of Parliament under the cash-strapped Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) have sent out a begging bowl to its supporters to raise money to fund their campaigns after being...Published: 22 Jul 2023 at 14:10hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Crowds scrambling for freebies at Zanu-PF rallies
NATIONAL Constitutional Assembly (NCA) president, Lovemore Madhuku says chaotic scenes of commandeered crowds scrambling for free groceries at the ruling party, Zanu-PF, rallies are a sign of the gove...Published: 17 Jul 2023 at 08:22hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Give you vote to those who deserve it' argue ZCBC. Can't give what was never ever yours!
There were times when the church, especially the Catholic Church, used to be the voice of the oppressed and downtrodden and spoke the truth to power. Alas, those days are long gone and the nations is ...Published: 10 Jul 2023 at 09:03hrs | 13 | by Wilbert Mukori
Egypt Dzinemunhenzva not contesting this time around
Remember Egypt, not the country whose history is documented in the Bible, and made immortal by the story of the Israelites fleeing slavery to the promised land of milk and honey.We are talking...Published: 08 Jul 2023 at 08:27hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere: Popular delusions or realpolitik?
THE nomination court has sat and registered aspiring candidates for the upcoming polls. The process was marred with drama generally, but it was the presumptive presidential candidates that provided th...Published: 04 Jul 2023 at 19:43hrs | 4 | by Ntando Dumani
'EU welcomes invitation to observe 2023 election.' Yeah, for purposes of yet another academic report
"The EU warmly welcomes the invitation from the Government of Zimbabwe to observe the harmonised elections of 2023 in Zimbabwe."This invitation clearly demonstrates the trust, cooperation, and...Published: 29 Jun 2023 at 12:42hrs | 13 | by Wilbert Mukori
Chamisa launches disdainful dismissal of Kasukuwere
Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) President Nelson Chamisa has dismissed new opponent Saviour Kasukuwere's challenge and further labelled the ex-cabinet minister a Zanu-PF faction leader.Kas...Published: 21 Jun 2023 at 18:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere running against time to shake off 'violent' tag
WHEN former Cabinet minister Savior Kasukuwere announced that he would be standing in the upcoming presidential elections on August 23, many people were left trying to figure out his motivation and po...Published: 17 Jun 2023 at 08:08hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa sets tone for peaceful polls, claims Church
THIS year's harmonised elections will be held in a free, fair, credible and peaceful manner, a delegation of bishops from the All-Africa Conference of Churches (AACC) who interacted with President Mna...Published: 09 Jun 2023 at 06:34hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa knows where to find me, says Mnangagwa
OPPOSITION political party leaders should feel free to approach the Head of State for dialogue directly as opposed to using proxies, the media and third parties, President Mnangagwa has said.P...Published: 02 Jun 2023 at 06:51hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'It's dumb for CCC to boycott elections with Mwonzora lurking!' He's bait, participate and VHUMBU! Pwete-e-e!
"It is stupid to think Zanu PF will reform itself out of power. It is also dumb stupid to suggest boycotting of elections when Mwonzora is lurking in the shadows to fill that void," shot Osama23. Shoo...Published: 26 Apr 2023 at 10:41hrs | 4 | by Wilbert Mukori
Polad member challenges 2023 poll fees
A MEMBER of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's controversial Political Actors Dialogue (Polad) platform has approached the courts challenging the steep nomination fees set by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commis...Published: 24 Apr 2023 at 07:53hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa should thank us, says Polad
PRINCIPALS under the Political Actors Dialogue (Polad) have claimed that they rescued the country from total economic collapse after President Emmerson Mnangagwa, after the finance ministry and the Re...Published: 17 Apr 2023 at 06:20hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa spells out election roadmap
HARMONISED elections are set to be held between July 26 and August 26 this year, with preparatory work now at an advanced stage, President Mnangagwa has said.As the country draws closer to the...Published: 14 Apr 2023 at 07:31hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe elections will be held between July 26 and August 26
This year's harmonised elections will be held between July 26 and August 26, Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi has revealed.President Mnangagwa is expected to p...Published: 02 Apr 2023 at 13:23hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Polad a tool to sanitise Mnangagwa legitimacy
FORMATION of the Political Actors Dialogue (Polad) in 2019 was primarily meant to give President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration a veneer of legitimacy after narrowly winning the disputed 2018 gen...Published: 12 Feb 2023 at 07:27hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe crying out for political remaking
GOOD day President Emmerson Mnangagwa,Your Excellency, the refrain of the song Remake the World by Jimmy Cliff aptly portrays the magnitude of destitution that is prevalent among citizenry....Published: 08 Feb 2023 at 05:06hrs | 1 | by Cyprian M Ndawana
CCC duplicity, hell bent on participating in 2023 with not cat in hell chance on winning, has exposed SADC duplicity
Yes, Zimbabwe is heading for yet another rigged elections. Zanu PF has learned the lessons from the past and by putting these into practice, the party is hoping to get political legitimacy from SADC a...Published: 07 Feb 2023 at 09:52hrs | 3 | by Nomusa Garikai
Polad gobbles millions in taxpayers' money
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's creation, the Political Actors Dialogue (Polad), hangs in the balance after gobbling millions of dollars in taxpayers' money as Zimbabwe hurtles towards make-or-break ge...Published: 03 Feb 2023 at 19:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa allies turn heat
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's allies that are members of a platform ostensibly set up to improve the country's electoral environment after the disputed 2018 polls have turned their swords on the Zimb...Published: 30 Jan 2023 at 07:17hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chigumba guns for 'rogue' Zec commissioners
SEVEN Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) commissioners, who reportedly refused to append their signatures to the electoral body's preliminary delimitation report presented to President Emmerson Mnang...Published: 30 Jan 2023 at 07:13hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
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