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Mutsvangwa's factional tendencies exposed
Zanu-PF spokesperson Christopher Mutsvangwa has distanced the ruling party from claims made by its legal affairs secretary Patrick Chinamasa that businessman Kudakwashe Tagwirei and others have been c...Published: 10 Aug 2025 at 10:57hrs | 1385 | by Staff reporter
Chinamasa faces backlash over Tagwirei tweet?
Zanu-PF Legal Affairs Secretary Patrick Chinamasa is embroiled in a heated internal dispute following his controversial tweet asserting that businessman Kudakwashe Tagwirei has been co-opted into the ...Published: 05 Aug 2025 at 12:36hrs | 1097 | by Staff reporter
Chinamasa reposts deleted Tagwirei appointment tweet
ZANU PF Legal Affairs Secretary Patrick Chinamasa has reignited political debate after reposting a once-deleted tweet declaring businessman Kudakwashe Tagwirei's controversial appointment to the party...Published: 05 Aug 2025 at 09:49hrs | 650 | by Staff reporter
Chinamasa deletes tweet confirming Tagwirei's appointment
ZANU PF Legal Secretary Patrick Chinamasa has deleted a tweet in which he had declared controversial businessman Kudakwashe Tagwirei's appointment to the party's Central Committee as "over and irrever...Published: 04 Aug 2025 at 19:30hrs | 1816 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF battlelines drawn over Tagwirei
Zanu-PF's simmering succession battle has erupted into open confrontation, with the party's legal affairs secretary Patrick Chinamasa clashing head-on with secretary-general Obert Mpofu and spokesman ...Published: 04 Aug 2025 at 10:00hrs | 881 | by Staff reporter
Chinamasa takes on Mutsvangwa, Obert Mpofu
The escalating political battle within Zanu-PF over the controversial co-option of businessman Kudakwashe Tagwirei into the ruling party's Central Committee has intensified, with legal affairs secreta...Published: 04 Aug 2025 at 09:59hrs | 1493 | by Staff reporter
Tagwirei's co-option into Central Committee 'irreversibly settled'
Zanu-PF Secretary for Legal Affairs Patrick Chinamasa has declared the controversy surrounding the co-option of businessman Kudakwashe Tagwirei into the ruling party's Central Committee as "irreversib...Published: 03 Aug 2025 at 19:12hrs | 1742 | by Staff reporter
Obert Mpofu's circular overrides Chinamasa's in Tagwirei saga
A senior official in Zanu-PF's secretary-general's office has clarified that internal circulars issued by the secretary-general take precedence over those from party departments, unless formally overt...Published: 13 Jul 2025 at 20:28hrs | 2821 | by Staff reporter
Knives out in Mnangagwa succession dog fight
The race to succeed President Emmerson Mnangagwa has escalated into a fierce and increasingly public struggle among Zanu-PF's top players, marked by legal wrangling, political scheming, and efforts to...Published: 13 Jul 2025 at 11:30hrs | 511 | by Staff reporter
Blow for Mutsvagwa as Mabika wins in factionally tense polls
Manicaland - Women's Affairs minister Monica Mutsvangwa and her husband, Christopher Mutsvangwa, who dealt a deadly blow at the weekend after Dorothy Mabika, who was allegedly backed by Kudakwashe Tag...Published: 01 Jul 2025 at 10:56hrs | 594 | by Simbarashe Sithole In Mutare
Tagwirei, the military and power politics in Zimbabwe!
DEAR READER, it was on the 13th of May 2018 that Phineas Tagwirei, "father" to Kudakwashe Tagwirei a Zimbabwean tycoon with an avalanche of ''business'' interests quietly breathed his last at the trau...Published: 18 Jun 2025 at 07:41hrs | 1986 | by Dr P. Zamchiya
ZANU-PF heavyweights clash over women's league control
Deepening factional rifts have erupted within ZANU-PF's top leadership as senior party figures Patrick Chinamasa and Mabel Chinomona trade accusations over the control of the women's league in Manical...Published: 13 Jun 2025 at 06:20hrs | 381 | by Staff reporter
Geza dismisses expulsion from ruling party
Outspoken war veteran Blessed Geza has dismissed his expulsion from the ruling ZANU-PF party, asserting that President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his allies should be the ones to leave instead.Gez...Published: 20 Mar 2025 at 09:24hrs | 573 | by Staff reporter
Chinamasa confident Zanu-PF can convince Mnangagwa to stay beyond 2028
Just over a month after President Emmerson Mnangagwa stated that he would "tell the convincers not to convince him" regarding a proposed extension of his second term, Zanu-PF Secretary for Legal Affai...Published: 18 Mar 2025 at 08:40hrs | 378 | by Staff reporter
G40 haunts Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF
Zanu-PF is mulling a policy on social media to curb the influence of its exiled members in the looming battle over President Emmerson Mnangagwa's succession, it has emerged.The plan was disclo...Published: 20 Jan 2025 at 10:29hrs | 1789 | by Staff reporter
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
Botswana polls: Lessons for Zimbabwe
DUMA Boko began his reign as Botswana's sixth President on Friday, ending the 58-year reign of the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP).Boko's Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC) swept to power wi...Published: 04 Nov 2024 at 06:48hrs | 502 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF wants to rename Zimbabwe's provinces
The ruling Zanu-PF party has called for the renaming of Zimbabwe's provinces, aiming to eliminate colonial-era names that have historically fueled division among the population. This resolution emerge...Published: 30 Oct 2024 at 08:01hrs | 4833 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, Chiwenga battle lines drawn
The recently concluded ZANU-PF conference has unveiled deepening rifts within the ruling party, with factions positioning themselves for the succession battle of President Emmerson Mnangagwa. Tensions...Published: 27 Oct 2024 at 12:29hrs | 5502 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF wreaks havoc in Sadc
The ruling Zanu-PF party has come under fire for allegedly attempting to manipulate election outcomes across the Southern African region, with accusations of interference surfacing in Botswana, Namibi...Published: 26 Oct 2024 at 12:45hrs | 292 | by Staff reporter
ED2030 slogan tears Zanu-PF structures
The push within Zanu-PF to extend President Emmerson Mnangagwa's tenure beyond the constitutionally-mandated two terms has left the party's provincial chairpersons in a difficult position, uncertain a...Published: 26 Aug 2024 at 08:12hrs | 2388 | by Staff reporter
Kazukuwere says Mnangagwa's push to hang on to power would be resisted
Exiled former Zanu-PF commissar Savior Kasukuwere yesterday vowed that President Emmerson Mnangagwa's push to hang on to power would be resisted."This attempt to hijack more years and leadersh...Published: 12 Jun 2024 at 07:56hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, Chinamasa crosswords
Reports suggest that former Cabinet minister and Zanu-PF politburo member Patrick Chinamasa has allegedly been removed from his influential post as treasury general after conflicting with Preside...Published: 03 Jun 2024 at 08:32hrs | 36 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe constitutional changes loom
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has made surprise changes in the Zanu-PF politburo - the party's supreme decision-making body - amid reports that he wants to move to amend the constitution to facilitate ...Published: 21 May 2024 at 17:01hrs | 37 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa demotes Bimha
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has made a surprising reshuffle within the Zanu-PF party's Politburo, a move seen as addressing the contentious succession issue that could challenge the party ahead of th...Published: 21 May 2024 at 08:30hrs | 712 | by Staff reporter
United States sanctions on Zimbabwe: who is off the list, who is on?
The United States on Monday sanctioned Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa, first lady Auxillia Mnangagwa and other government officials for their alleged involvement in corruption and human...Published: 05 Mar 2024 at 19:39hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF draws line in the sand
Zanu-PF has demanded that all illegal land occupations, sale or parcelling out of land and stands, as well as illegal developments, stop forthwith, as the ruling party only supports planned settlement...Published: 31 Dec 2023 at 08:51hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Chinamasa urges voters to take advantage of CCC crisis
Zanu-PF Treasurer Patrick Chinamasa has urged residents of Mabvuku-Tafara constituency to take advantage of an ongoing crisis within the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) to vote party candidate Ped...Published: 08 Dec 2023 at 05:42hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Sakupwanya buys votes with bag of maize meal, flour and loaf of bread
Supporters of Zanu-PF who attended a rally for party candidate Pedzai Sakupwanya in the Mabvuku-Tafara constituency received a 10kg bag of maize meal, a 2kg packet of flour, and a loaf of bread, two d...Published: 08 Dec 2023 at 05:40hrs | 18 | by Staff reporter
'Tshabangu has b*lls'
Zanu-PF Treasurer General Patrick Chinamasa has said late President Robert Mugabe would have been impressed by the shadowy Sengezo Tshabangu who recalled over 30 Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) pu...Published: 31 Oct 2023 at 05:56hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
SADC convenes extraordinary summit on Zimbabwe over elections
THE Southern African Development (Sadc) will hold an extraordinary summit of heads of state and government on Zimbabwe on Wednesday under the auspices of its current chairperson, Angolan President JoĆ...Published: 23 Oct 2023 at 10:53hrs | 31 | by Staff reporter
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
Zimbabwe will cause political instability in Southern Africa
Without modicum of doubt, failure to run the economy and political affairs of the Zimbabwe government due to over four decades of unfettered large scale looting, corruption, economic mismanagement, Ma...Published: 11 Oct 2023 at 22:12hrs | 3 | by Israel Dube
Zanu-PF dispels any hope for Transitional government
Zanu-PF Treasurer General Patrick Chinamasa has rejected the possibility of a transitional government or a rerun of Zimbabwe's heavily criticized August elections, which had been proposed by regional ...Published: 03 Oct 2023 at 15:24hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Politics of ethnicity: Jumping from the pan into the fire
BELOW is a book excerpt from In Search of the Elusive Zimbabwean Dream, Volume III (Ideas and Solutions) by Professor Arthur Mutambara.President Emmerson Mnangagwa's new Cabinet shocked many b...Published: 29 Sep 2023 at 08:31hrs | 22 | by Arthur Mutambara
SA-based Zimbabweans rope in Malema in poll protest
A group of disgruntled Zimbabweans living in South Africa has reached out to the opposition party Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) and its leader Julius Malema, seeking support for protests scheduled f...Published: 21 Sep 2023 at 06:15hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zambian Minister goes after Chinamasa and Matinyarare
The Zambian Provincial Minister for Copperbelt, Elisha Matamba, has pledged to inform the Southern African Development Community (SADC), the African Union (AU), and the United Nations (UN) about alleg...Published: 14 Sep 2023 at 06:28hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Why parallel vote tabulation becomes a problem
IT is not surprising but indeed disheartening that independent observers were arrested under charges that the police said would be revealed in court.When it served the interests of Zanu-PF, th...Published: 29 Aug 2023 at 07:05hrs | 2 | by Rekai Rusinga
Zanu-PF's vote lead grows
Partial results from Zimbabwe's parliamentary election suggested the ruling party's lead was growing on Friday, but election observers said the vote did not meet international standards and was conduc...Published: 26 Aug 2023 at 16:39hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Police under spotlight over Zanu-PF breach of electoral law
POLICE are under the spotlight after Zanu-PF announced unofficial results claiming election victory when the law enforcement agency had warned that this is illegal.The announcement by Zanu-PF ...Published: 26 Aug 2023 at 08:57hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Chinamasa must be arrested
Election Resource Centre (ERC) and Zimbabwe Election Support Network (ZESN) staff members and volunteers arrested on allegations of attempting to post the general election results have been free...Published: 26 Aug 2023 at 08:54hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF, CCC trade victory claims as Zimbabweans wait for final results
Zanu-PF and the Citizens Coalition for Change on Thursday traded claims that they were on course for victory following Wednesday's general elections.The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission had only ...Published: 25 Aug 2023 at 20:01hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe braces for close election as early parliamentary results come in
Early parliamentary results in Zimbabwe showed the ruling party and the main opposition neck and neck on Friday, after an election in which President Emmerson Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF party was widely expe...Published: 25 Aug 2023 at 20:00hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF projects outright victory
The ruling Zanu-PF says it projects that its presidential election candidate, President Mnangagwa, will win comfortably by between 60 percent and 65 percent, while in the National Assembly race, the p...Published: 25 Aug 2023 at 06:27hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF on target to win election, says Chinamasa
Former Minister of Finance Patrick Chinamasa yesterday said ZANU-PF was on target to win the election.Chinamasa said Zanu-PF is se...Published: 25 Aug 2023 at 06:11hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Ndiweni says time had come for Zimbabweans to decide the country's future
DETHRONED Ntabazinduna traditional leader Nhlanhlayamangwe Ndiweni has challenged voters, particularly those who support opposition parties, to vote, guard and protect their votes at polling stations ...Published: 23 Aug 2023 at 06:35hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
'Sikhala's arrest was politically motivated'
Kucaca Phulu, a constitutional lawyer, has said that Job Sikhala's arrest was politically motivated and could have been finalised sooner.Sikhala has been in remand prison for over a year after...Published: 17 Aug 2023 at 22:25hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF benefactor donates fuel to party candidates
A Zanu-PF benefactor has donated fuel to all the party's twenty-six aspiring parliamentary candidates in Manicaland.NewsDay is in possession of a letter written by Zanu-PF Manicaland chairpers...Published: 29 Jul 2023 at 07:25hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Of Zimbabwe's embarrassing leadership record
ZIMBABWE has not had many presidents since attaining independence from Britain in 1980, having known only three.The first, Canaan Sodindo Banana, was merely ceremonial.The other two - ...Published: 24 Jul 2023 at 06:49hrs | 2 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Is Mnangagwa the most unpopular Zimbabwe leader since independence?
Not that Zimbabwe has had many presidents since attaining her independence from Britain in 1980, having known only three.The first, Canaan Sodindo Banana, was merely a ceremonial one. ...Published: 22 Jul 2023 at 13:39hrs | 17 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
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