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Mnangagwa's power retention moves face tricky constitutional hurdles
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's bid to seek a third term in office, which he has set in motion, faces legal hurdles because the constitution bars incumbents from benefiting from an amendment allowing a...Published: 29 Feb 2024 at 20:32hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's lawyer resigns
Opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa's ally Advocate Thabani Mpofu has resigned as the chairperson of The Chambers - Advocates of Zimbabwe.Mpofu, known for star...Published: 20 Jan 2024 at 08:39hrs | 46 | by Staff reporter
Namibia's Swartbooi describes Mnangagwa as a 'puppet of the Zimbabwean military'
Namibian opposition leader Bernadus Swartbooi has strongly criticized President Emmerson Mnangagwa, describing him as a "puppet of the Zimbabwean military." Swartbooi launched a scathing attac...Published: 28 Sep 2023 at 06:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
SADC plans to reverse Mnangagwa poll victory?
Prominent Zimbabwean academic and SAPES Trust leader, Ibbo Mandaza, has revealed that he has knowledge of plans within the Southern African Development Community (SADC) to overturn President Emmerson ...Published: 12 Sep 2023 at 20:12hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa vows jail over planned protests
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has branded his opponents little boys and further threatened them with imprisonment if they proceed with planned protests over his controversial poll victory last month....Published: 02 Sep 2023 at 07:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's bickering Midlands allies bury the hatched
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's aide in the Midlands province Daniel Mackenzie Ncube has urged Zanu-PF members to avoid factionalism and focus on fighting the main opposition Citizens Coalition for Cha...Published: 10 Sep 2022 at 06:27hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
The day Nelson Chamisa 'won' Zambian elections
Yesterday the world woke up to the news of the confirmation of Zambia's 12, August 2021 elections results. Opposition United Party for National Development (UPND) leader, Hakainde Hichilema had beaten...Published: 17 Aug 2021 at 07:15hrs | 3 | by Nobleman Runyanga
The MDC Alliance's warped view of democracy
Over a week ago, President Mnangagwa launched his biography, "A Life of Sacrifice". As expected, his detractors like journalist Hopewell Chin'ono and self-exiled G40 kingpin, Professor Jonathan ...Published: 16 Aug 2021 at 06:40hrs | 1 | by Nobleman Runyanga
'Zimbabwe soldiers must respect human rights'
THE National Transitional Justice Working Group Zimbabwe (NTJWG) has called on government to ensure that soldiers do not perpetuate human rights violations in the country, adding that those found on t...Published: 12 Aug 2021 at 06:45hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
G40 kingpins scoff at extradition threat
SELF-EXILED Zanu-PF G40 kingpins Saviour Kasukuwere and Walter Mzembi yesterday scoffed at President Emmerson Mnangagwa's threat to have them extradited from South Africa for prosecution.They ...Published: 14 Sep 2020 at 06:40hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
'Sikhala case exposes MDC confusion' - Zanu-PF is no better; must clear deck for clean start
Dear Noble RunyangaRef: your Bulawayo 24 article "Sikhala case exposes MDC confusion, dilemma" Y...Published: 17 Jul 2019 at 21:06hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
Sikhala case exposes MDC confusion, dilemma
MDC leader, Nelson Chamisa, and his top lieutenants should be ruing the day that party's deputy chair, Job Sikhala, told party supporters at a rally in Bikita East last week that the MDC would overthr...Published: 17 Jul 2019 at 07:57hrs | 3 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Of a book on democracy and democracy hypocrites
Last week MDC Alliance leader, Nelson Chamisa was on cloud nine when he officially co-launched with former Nigerian President, Olusegun Obasanjo the book, Democracy Works – Re-wiring politics to Afr...Published: 01 Apr 2019 at 13:44hrs | 2 | by Nobleman Runyanga
US 2018 Human rights report on Zimbabwe biased
Last week the United States Department of State's Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labour released its 2018 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices. An examination of the report shows a fair vi...Published: 18 Mar 2019 at 13:12hrs | | by Nobleman Runyanga
National dialogue: Chamisa misdirecting himself
President Emmerson Mnangagwa met with the 2018 presidential election candidates at State House on 6 February to lay the ground work for national dialogue, which is aimed at forging unity in order to f...Published: 18 Feb 2019 at 10:50hrs | 2 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Command economics no longer hold sway
When President Emmerson Mnangagwa announced his Cabinet in September last year - following his hotly-disputed July 30 poll victory - there was generally wide approval from Zimbabweans.The reas...Published: 08 Jan 2019 at 21:01hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's ministers fail 2018 ratings
As Zimbabweans waved goodbye to 2018 yesterday, and awaited with much trepidation the dawn of the new year, in the light of the country's deepening economic woes, the Daily News - as per its rich annu...Published: 02 Jan 2019 at 14:20hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa desperate for talks
OPPOSITION MDC leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday appealed for dialogue with President Emmerson Mnangagwa to stabilise the faltering economy, but the Zanu-PF leader ruled out such a possibility, saying h...Published: 13 Dec 2018 at 10:06hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
The ED administration has made significant strides
Last week the opposition and other anti-Government detractors were excited by the United States Deputy Assistant Secretary of States for Africa, Matthew Harrington's submission on Zimbabwe to the US S...Published: 10 Dec 2018 at 10:46hrs | 1 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Mnangagwa at Mugabe's doorstep
ZANU PF is pulling out all stops for President Emmerson Mnangagwa's first rally since the disputed July 30 elections which will be held in former President Robert Mugabe's home area, three days after ...Published: 21 Nov 2018 at 05:41hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangaga ready to deal with Chamisa and his followers
Government has drawn a line in the sand following threats by the main MDC party to roll out a series of protests in order to get President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration to end a full-blown econo...Published: 10 Nov 2018 at 16:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC plans to embarrass Mnangagwa today
Opposition legislators are planning to humiliate President Emmerson Mnangagwa when he presents SONA in Parliament today, as the Nelson Chamisa led MDC Alliance continues to refuse to accept his July 3...Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 07:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa has changed Zanu-PF into a fresh new-look organisation
Political analysts say President Emmerson Mnangagwa's new Cabinet - in which he dumped both friends and foes alike on Friday last week - demonstrates that he is determined to reset the government's co...Published: 12 Sep 2018 at 20:01hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Biti cries political persecution
Former Finance minister Tendai Biti has said the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) is being used by President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government to politically persecute him.Biti said th...Published: 08 Sep 2018 at 18:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, Chiwenga 'rift' may paralyse govt
UNDERLYING tensions between President Emmerson Mnangagwa and one of his deputies, retired General Constantino Chiwenga, over power struggles, risks distracting the new administration from tackling a p...Published: 07 Sep 2018 at 07:37hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa to be offered government perks
A top government official has revealed President Emmerson Mnangagwa had, up his sleeve, a pending constitutional amendment that could see opposition leader Nelson Chamisa offered government perks as l...Published: 03 Sep 2018 at 12:59hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF goes after Mugabe's farms
Former president Robert Mugabe risks losing most of his farms and mining claims as his erstwhile colleagues in the ruling Zanu-PF hit back at the 94-year-old teetotaller for supporting MDC Alliance le...Published: 31 Aug 2018 at 16:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa blasts 'charlatan' war vets'
THE MDC-T led by Nelson Chamisa has hit back at war veterans secretary general Victor Matemadanda who said Tuesday they were ready to take up arms to defend President Emmerson Mnangagwa's rule....Published: 22 Aug 2018 at 06:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe on knife edge
TENSIONS are high in Zimbabwe as the country's political protagonists Emmerson Mnangagwa and Nelson Chamisa switch turf from the spiteful political arena to the Constitutional Court which sits this We...Published: 22 Aug 2018 at 06:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa issues out a warning, 'it's me, myself and I only'
Opposition leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday warned that if he fails to win his case against President Emmerson Mnangagwa at the Constitutional Court (Con-Court) this week, he will turn to the people to...Published: 21 Aug 2018 at 12:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa anxious
Opposition leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday warned that if he fails to win his case against President Emmerson Mnangagwa at the Constitutional Court (Con-Court) this week, he will turn to the people to...Published: 21 Aug 2018 at 07:10hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zec gaffe draws brickbats
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) came under heavy fire yesterday after it admitted to errors in its calculation of the presidential poll result, won by President-elect Emmerson Mnangagwa....Published: 19 Aug 2018 at 15:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa declares himself commander-in-chief of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces
Opposition MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has taken his battle with President Emmerson Mnangagwa for the country's leadership a notch higher by referring to himself as the commander-in-chief of th...Published: 16 Aug 2018 at 07:03hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa says the military has done well, same army killed 6
MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa Tuesday sang praises for the country armed forces but rebuked his Zanu-PF opponents for allegedly ordering recent army killings on defenceless civilians in Harare's ...Published: 15 Aug 2018 at 07:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa hunts Zanu-PF rebels
An angry President Emmerson Mnangagwa has joined war veterans in accusing some senior Zanu-PF officials of trying to engineer his downfall during the July 30 polls by encouraging party followers to vo...Published: 12 Aug 2018 at 15:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Small parties roped in to legitimise Zanu-PF 'win'
Zanu has gone into an overdrive to legitimise its contested poll victory by roping in fringe opposition parties to endorse the outcome of the just-ended elections.President-elect Emmerson Mnan...Published: 11 Aug 2018 at 19:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa poll results anger war vets
In a fresh sign that all is still not well within Zanu-PF, war veterans are seething with anger over the "small margin" by which President Emmerson Mnangagwa defeated opposition leader Nelson Chamisa ...Published: 07 Aug 2018 at 07:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's world falls apart
Senior MDC-Alliance members could dump Mr Nelson Chamisa over his confrontational post-election strategies, and seriously doubt the opposition party has a legal leg to stand on in attempts to have the...Published: 05 Aug 2018 at 09:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa claims poll victory
THE Nelson Chamisa-led MDC Alliance yesterday claimed to have won Monday's presidential race and accused the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) of plotting to rig the polls by taking long to official...Published: 01 Aug 2018 at 07:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance will lose polls, says Moyo
FORMER MDC-T chairperson, Lovemore Moyo has warned that the MDC Alliance's chances of grabbing a poll victory against Zanu PF in the upcoming elections were slim citing discord in the rank and file of...Published: 24 Mar 2018 at 09:27hrs | | by Staff Reporter
EXCLUSIVE: Mugabe ceded power to Mnangagwa in 2008, but reneged on deal in 2013
COLOGNE– President Emmerson Mnangagwa could have been sworn into office, as early as December 2014, after former leader, Robert Mugabe, had reportedly struck an informal gentlemen’s agreement to h...Published: 09 Mar 2018 at 07:32hrs | 1 | by Itai Mushekwe
Students' union assures Zanu-PF of poll victory
THE Zimbabwe Congress of Students' Union (Zicosu) has assured Zanu-PF of a clean sweep in the 2018 elections after the union's candidates took control of Student Representative Councils at a number of...Published: 28 Oct 2017 at 07:39hrs | | by Sytaff reporter
Mugabe deploys massive election campaign machinery
A HIGH level Zanu-PF Elections Directorate, composed of senior Politburo members, is seized with the party's 2018 election roadmap which is targeting a robust winning strategy that encompasses voter r...Published: 17 Sep 2017 at 08:42hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Million Man March to silence critics
THE One Million Man March being held in solidarity with President Robert Mugabe in Harare tomorrow will silence the country's detractors engaged in a number of campaigns in a bid to demonise the rulin...Published: 24 May 2016 at 06:48hrs | 1 | by Nduduzo Tshuma
'Mugabe does not care about war vets'
Firebrand former war veterans' leader Jabulani Sibanda has lashed President Robert Mugabe and his ruling Zanu-PF party for allegedly failing to look after the welfare of former liberation war fighters...Published: 28 Jun 2015 at 13:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Afrobarometer survey a wake-up call for MDC-T
THE latest Afrobarometer survey findings that President Mugabe's support is surging at a time trust for the blundering opposition is plummeting is consistent with the outcome of the 2013 harmonised el...Published: 08 May 2015 at 06:53hrs | | by Farirai Machivenyika
Mugabe's promise to purge corrupt Ministers welcome!
President Robert Gabriel Mugabe's unwavering pledge to purge corrupt ministers is welcome. This is the most prudent measure that would rescue Zimbabwe from further collapse caused by internal eco...Published: 05 Dec 2014 at 07:33hrs | 1 | by Suitable Kajau
Help Zimbabwe or expect more refugees, Chinamasa tells SA
FINANCE Minister Patrick Chinamasa chose to be blunt Friday as he appealed for investment in South Africa, telling Pretoria it had to help its stricken northern neighbour or expect a new flood of econ...Published: 22 Nov 2014 at 14:23hrs | | by Staff Reporter I Agencies
War vets warn Zanu-PF
WAR veterans yesterday issued a strong rebuke against Zanu-PF, warning the party to desist from drawing the former fighters into its factional wars.The Zimbabwe National Liberation War Vetera...Published: 07 Nov 2014 at 19:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF pestering MDC-T for economic advise, claims Chamisa
Nelson Chamisa, the MDC organising secretary, has said Zanu-PF officials were pestering opposition officials in the corridors of Parliament, seeking advice on how to revive Zimbabwe's collapsing ...Published: 16 Sep 2014 at 15:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
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