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Chamisa told to dump the name MDC
Constitutional Law Expert and former Advisor to the late Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, Alex Magaisa, has advised the Nelson Chamisa-led MDC Alliance to dump the brand MDC because it was now tainte...Published: 04 Jul 2020 at 08:02hrs | 9700 | by Mandla Ndlovu
ZEC in election U-turn, covid-19 'new norm' - without reforms, why risk even one life over a farce
"The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has said it would withdraw its proposal to suspend electoral activities during the COVID-19 lockdown because the ...Published: 04 Jul 2020 at 05:25hrs | 1845 | by Nomusa Garikai
Zec makes U-turn over elections
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has said it would withdraw its proposal to suspend electoral activities during the COVID-19 lockdown because the pandemic was likely to be long-term.Zec...Published: 03 Jul 2020 at 08:05hrs | 5639 | by Staff reporter
Attempts to amend Census, Statistics Act hailed
ATTEMPTS to amend the Census and Statistics Act have been hailed by an election watchdog as necessary to prevent the manipulation of electoral boundaries ahead of the 2023 harmonised elections....Published: 03 Jul 2020 at 07:46hrs | 250 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's political climate remains tense
WITH Zimbabwe's political situation remaining tense, the government is planning to introduce a new law which criminalises the spreading of falsehoods against key State institutions such as the militar...Published: 01 Jul 2020 at 17:54hrs | 1346 | by Staff reporter
'Another coup in Africa'
Opposition parties in Zimbabwe have shared mixed feelings over the just ended Presidential elections in Malawi.On Saturday, the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) declared Dr. Lazarus Chakwera ...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 13:27hrs | 6718 | by Daniel Itai, Harare, Zimbabwe
A very good lesson from Malawi
It is possible in theory to distinguish revolutionary parties, from those parties working within the mandate of temporal popularity. But the distinction is not always easy to make, because the same pa...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 09:51hrs | 3182 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
The differences between Malawi events and Zimbabwe.
I have been closely following the events of Malawi for the recent and the people comparing the situation to Zimbabwe.In my view in this article l would beg to differ that the situation was the...Published: 29 Jun 2020 at 13:36hrs | 2878 | by Kumbirai Stein Chivhuna
'Zanu-PF not political party but army appendage'
EXILED former cabinet minister Jonathan Moyo says Zanu-PF has ceased to exist as a political party but was now an appendage of the military.He was sharing his thoughts on Twitter.Moyo,...Published: 29 Jun 2020 at 07:24hrs | 1263 | by newzimbabwe
ZCTU dares Khupe over congress invite
THE Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) has vowed it will not entertain reinstated MDC-T leader Thokozani Khupe who reportedly plans to hire the labour group to observe a party elective poll in S...Published: 29 Jun 2020 at 07:18hrs | 2966 | by newzimbabwe
'Zanu-PF is debris, embrace Nelson Chamisa' advised Moyo - two faced buzzard, celebrated MDC GNU blunders
When Mai Mujuru was booted out of Zanu-PF in 2014 within months she was criticizing Zanu-PF and her former mentor, Robert Mugabe, for mismanagement, corruption, vote rigging, murderous oppression, etc...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 20:29hrs | 4217 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Mnangagwa congratulates Malawi's President elect
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has congratulated Malawi's President Elect, Dr Lazarus Chikwera on his election as the new Malawi President.Dr Chakwera defeated incumbent Peter Mutharika with 58....Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 17:53hrs | 1245 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe opposition facing extinction?
IT WAS a journey of 40 years, one which the children of Israel endured until they reached Canaan, but unlike the Israelites, who turned a corner after four decades, the opposition in Zimbabwe has rema...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 17:48hrs | 565 | by Tendai Kamhungira
Chakwera sworn in as Malawi president after historic win
Lazarus Chakwera has been sworn in as president of Malawi after winning an election rerun.He defeated incumbent Peter Mutharika with 58.57% of the vote in Tuesday's poll, the electoral commiss...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 11:09hrs | 2668 | by BBC
Chamisa writes to Malawi poll winner
MDC Alliance president, Nelson Chamisa has praised Malawian state institutions for defending the neighbouring country's constitution through a presidential poll rerun that has seen opposition leader L...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 07:20hrs | 699 | by newzimbabwe
Chiwenga to serve Transitional Zimbabwe Presidential term
Vice President, Rtd General Constantino Chiwenga, is now reportedly being prepared to takeover the presidency from President Emmerson Mnangagwa, by the country's military on a transitional term, to fi...Published: 27 Jun 2020 at 08:42hrs | 14326 | by Itai Mushekwe
Factionalism not peculiar to Zanu-PF
FACTIONALISM is not a phenomenon peculiar to Zanu-PF. Political parties, the world over, are plagued by "parties within a party" whose members band together to achieve particular goals and advance the...Published: 26 Jun 2020 at 07:27hrs | 132 | by Lovemore Sibanda
Citizens petition Mnangagwa to fire Obadiah Moyo
TOP human rights lawyer, Beatrice Mtetwa Thursday led a team that submitted a petition signed by thousands of Zimbabweans demanding the immediate dismissal of Health and Child Care Minister, Obadiah M...Published: 26 Jun 2020 at 06:54hrs | 428 | by newzimbabwe
Factionalism in Zanu-PF: G40 vs Lacoste
Factionalism is not a phenomenon peculiar to the ZANU PF. Political parties are plagued by "parties within a party" whose members band together to achieve particular goals and advance their agenda wit...Published: 24 Jun 2020 at 20:08hrs | 4677 | by Lovemore Sibanda Ph.D.
Mnangagwa calls for calm as Malawi votes
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa, who is also the current chairperson of the SADC Organ of Politics, Defence and Security Co-operation, has urged stakeholders in today's Malawi presidential elections to b...Published: 23 Jun 2020 at 14:46hrs | 625 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa takes battle to structures
MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has taken the battle to control the heart and soul of the opposition to party structures, dispatching his top leadership to conduct branch meetings across the countr...Published: 23 Jun 2020 at 08:13hrs | 7624 | by Staff reporter
If Zimbabwe could speak!
I am a country like no other I am Great Zimbabwewith a heart that pumps full of love for my inhabitants endowed with an assortment of mineral resources, Gold, diamonds, platinum and al...Published: 22 Jun 2020 at 18:55hrs | 3742 | by Brilliant Pongo
Zimbabwe buffoons plotting another coup to avoid ICC justice - after 40 years ransom - enough is enough
"The country's military leaders have reportedly agreed in private, to invite former Zanu PF political commissar and ex-local government minister, Saviour Kasukuwere, to return back home from South Afr...Published: 20 Jun 2020 at 08:53hrs | 6117 | by Nomusa Garikai
Komichi spied against Chamisa
THE Thokozani Khupe-led MDC-T party chairman Morgen Komichi yesterday unwittingly exposed that he was a spy who worked to destabilise and undermine MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa.Addressin...Published: 20 Jun 2020 at 08:38hrs | 7851 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa told to fix politics to save economy
BOTH political and economic experts have implored President Emmerson Mnangagwa and Zanu-PF to move with urgency to resolve Zimbabwe's long running political crisis if the deepening local economic rot ...Published: 19 Jun 2020 at 17:19hrs | 5992 | by Staff reporter
Prices go haywire
IN A development which signals the effective and official re-dollarisation of the local economy, under-fire Finance minister Mthuli Ncube, pictured, yesterday awarded restive government workers and pe...Published: 18 Jun 2020 at 17:45hrs | 7435 | by Staff reporter
'Tsvangirai knew Khupe, Chamisa as factional leaders'
LATE opposition MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai knew if either Nelson Chamisa or Thokozani Khupe succeeded him as president, the party would split into rival factions, newly appointed MDC-T deputy chair,...Published: 18 Jun 2020 at 08:40hrs | 4435 | by newzimbabwe
Roadblocks, tollgates should have bins: EMA
GOVERNMENT environmental overseer, the Environmental Management Agency (EMA) has said all roadblocks and toll stations should have bins to dispose of used personal protective equipment in light of the...Published: 18 Jun 2020 at 08:32hrs | 587 | by Staff reporter
Accept sewage polluted Khami water, BCC pleads with residents
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) is pleading with residents to accept the recycling of Khami Dam water as it works on alternative solutions to the city's water crisis. The city is facing a serious ...Published: 18 Jun 2020 at 07:42hrs | 414 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa now keen to resolve his political differences with Mnangagwa
DESPITE the ructions tearing the MDC apart, Nelson Chamisa says he remains ready to engage with President Emmerson Mnangagwa, in a bid to try and end the country's worsening political and economic cri...Published: 17 Jun 2020 at 17:57hrs | 6479 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa now keen to talk with Mnangagwa
DESPITE the ructions tearing the MDC apart, Nelson Chamisa says he remains ready to engage with President Emmerson Mnangagwa, in a bid to try and end the country's worsening political and economic cri...Published: 17 Jun 2020 at 07:12hrs | 15652 | by Staff reporter
The need for a Social Contact
"The old is dying and the new cannot be born,in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear." The above famous quote by Antonio Gramsci best captures how a citizenry finds...Published: 16 Jun 2020 at 11:52hrs | 326 | by Evangelist Sendekai W. T
Whites trying to stop Black Lives Matter demonstrations in England
This whole idea to counter 'Black Lives Matter', demonstrations, is the UK government's thing. Those white supremacists (pro-racist) groups or to use the other appropriate word, rogues, are cl...Published: 14 Jun 2020 at 19:27hrs | 1493 | by Njabulo
For how long can Mnangagwa cling on to power?
It honestly did not have to come to this. Having suffered under Robert Mugabe's cruel pharaonic rule for the biblical 40 years, Zimbabweans desperately deserved a rescue. This explained their euphoria...Published: 14 Jun 2020 at 10:09hrs | 1182 | by Siphosami Malunga
Zec urged to find ways to conduct polls during COVID-19
LOCAL election watchdogs have called on the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) to pilot innovative ways of running elections during COVID-19 pandemic saying an indefinite suspension of polls was a vi...Published: 13 Jun 2020 at 09:35hrs | 279 | by Staff reporter
'Khami Dam sewage water unfit for Bulawayo consumption'
DESCENDANT of the Ndebele monarch, King Lobengula, Prince Peter Zwide Khumalo yesterday slammed plans by Bulawayo City Council (BCC) to pump the heavily-polluted Khami Dam water into households to all...Published: 12 Jun 2020 at 07:54hrs | 365 | by Staff reporter
Covid-19 lockdown delays Dabengwa replacement
CURRENT uncertainties regarding the country's lockdown period have forced Zapu to postpone its August congress, in what would have seen the opposition party replace its late leader Dumiso Dabengwa....Published: 11 Jun 2020 at 07:34hrs | 190 | by newzimbabwe
Mnangagwa faces a people-powered change
Emmerson Mnangagwa told us the voice of the people is the voice of God. He didn't listen to either. Now he faces a people's power movement.This article was first published by ...Published: 10 Jun 2020 at 22:50hrs | 11187 | by Siphosami Malunga
High Court dismisses Victoria Falls councillor's bid to nullify poll
THE High Court has dismissed Victoria Falls councillor Richard Mguni's bid to stop the nullification of his election as mayor by fellow MDC-Alliance councillors after Government reinstated Clr Somvelo...Published: 10 Jun 2020 at 07:43hrs | 712 | by Staff reporter
Protect the environment and prevent pandemics: ZLHR
THE ZIMBABWE Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) has joined the world in commemorating World Environment Day amid calls for authorities to protect the environment and prevent pandemics.Commemorate...Published: 09 Jun 2020 at 11:16hrs | 396 | by Stephen Jakes
A monumentally fatal proposal for Bulawayo: Khami Dam water for drinking?
The Bulawayo community read with a shock in The Chronicle about the City's proposal to use decommissioned Khami Dam water to supplement the City's potable water supply. The City of Harare's current wa...Published: 09 Jun 2020 at 10:10hrs | 6358 | by Prince Zwide Khumalo
Any 'policy reform hallucinations' hapless Zimbabweans experience in daily fuel queues?
THERE is no such thing as "queuing" in animal kingdoms. Feeding troughs, grazing pastures and drinking places are bastions of hierarchical chaos. Survival of the fittest, the fastest and the biggest. ...Published: 09 Jun 2020 at 07:56hrs | 216 | by Rejoice Ngwenya
Illegal panners 'destroy' Boterekwa Road
A SECTION of the famous Boterekwa Road in Shurugwi caved in on Friday after illegal gold panners allegedly dug a series of tunnels under it over the years. The damage threatens motorists trave...Published: 09 Jun 2020 at 07:53hrs | 483 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala to lead rolling mass demonstrations against Mnangagwa
AS POLITICAL tensions in the country continue to escalate, combative MDC Alliance deputy chairperson Job "Wiwa" Sikhala has renewed his threat to lead rolling mass demonstrations against President Emm...Published: 08 Jun 2020 at 16:45hrs | 5327 | by Staff reporter
The dangers of face masks
The Zimbabwean government and indeed many governments have made it mandatory to wear a face mask in public as a health intervention to control the spread of coronavirus. It has not been explained full...Published: 07 Jun 2020 at 06:05hrs | 4017 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Drax scam: New indictment on Mnangagwa's regime
THE controversy surrounding the recent awarding of a US$1 million procurement contract without going to tender to Drax International, whose beneficial owner has close ties with President Emmerson Mnan...Published: 05 Jun 2020 at 09:18hrs | 1736 | by Staff reporter
Heavily polluted Khami sewage water coming soon to a tap near you
Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has approved a plan that will result in the city drawing water from Khami Dam by December saying the water will be safe for drinking once purified. Water from the d...Published: 05 Jun 2020 at 08:27hrs | 460 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa chocking justice system, says Biti
MDC Alliance deputy president Tendai Biti has accused President Emmerson Mnangagwa of using the justice system to harass and intimidate political opponents while turning a blind eye on high level corr...Published: 05 Jun 2020 at 08:26hrs | 1153 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa worse than Mugabe, says Chamisa
OPPOSITION leader Nelson Chamisa says President Emmerson Mnangagwa's style of leadership is worse than that of the late former president Robert Mugabe, adding his time is up.Speaking at the Ha...Published: 04 Jun 2020 at 17:55hrs | 977 | by Staff reporter
Opposition forces in Africa lacks strategic intelligence to wrestle power from the incumbents. Case study - Zimbabwe and Zambia
Getting into State House is not about numbers of figures, but it is about strategic intelligence. Winning elections is another factor and going to State House is another issue. If you see ruling Gover...Published: 02 Jun 2020 at 19:21hrs | 1223 | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo PhD
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