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Mafume survives a vote of no-confidence as Harare mayor
An attempt to remove Harare mayor Jacob Mafume failed today as councilors defied Chamisa and voted against vote of no confidence motion.As Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) factionalism expl...Published: 12 Jan 2024 at 18:22hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Biti faction takes over Harare mayorship
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) councillor Jacob Mafume has been re-elected to the position of Harare mayor following a vote in a special session.The mayor's position fell vacant following...Published: 21 Dec 2023 at 23:45hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
'Mwonzora's MDC is too broke to hold an elective congress'
MDC Alliance leader Douglas Mwonzora stands accused of delaying the party's elective congress. NewsDay (ND) chief reporter Taurai Mangudhla interviewed MDC Alliance presidential spokesperson Lloyd Dam...Published: 14 Nov 2022 at 05:16hrs | 19 | by Staff reporter
End of the road for Tsvangirai's MDC
D-DAY has arrived for the MDC brand, with the electorate expected to decide its fate, as analysts say the iconic party associated with the firebrand Morgan Tsvangirai may disappear into oblivion if it...Published: 27 Mar 2022 at 07:38hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
The rise and fall of the MDC: Winners, losers and neutrals
AS Zimbabwe approaches crucial by-elections in March, which will test the strength of main contestants while determining the authentic opposition, there is no denying that the MDC, which has posed the...Published: 08 Feb 2022 at 18:21hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
A political accident waiting to happen
Communities are glued and bound together by more than blood.They share a common past, history, heritage, values, norms and aspirations.The commonality bred by sharing similar languages...Published: 23 Jan 2022 at 07:58hrs | 11 | by Bishop Laz
Khupe is dancing Nobert Kunonga music
Not so long ago the Anglican Church in Zimbabwe had tasted abhorrent deep factional fights pitted embattled cleric Bishop Nobert Kunonga and the then incumbent Chad Gandiya cabal. Kunonga, a stan Muga...Published: 18 May 2019 at 08:44hrs | 1 | by Benny Gudo
How 'baby-dumping' Joice Mujuru played out
The first quarter of 2014 revealed that the main opposition party, the MDC-T, was in a similar state of disarray.It first came to the surface when MDC-T deputy treasurer and former cabinet min...Published: 10 Mar 2019 at 09:10hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Throwback Monday:- The rise and fall and rise of Tendai 'Wananchi' Biti
THE political circus unravelling in the country's opposition politics needs no introduction. The tag of war between the Morgan Tsvangirai and Tendai Biti camps over control of the opposition MDCT has ...Published: 04 Mar 2019 at 12:43hrs | 1 | by Wezhira Marihwepi
Mangoma quits active politics
OPPOSITION Renewal Democrats of Zimbabwe (PDZ) leader Elton Mangoma is retiring from active politics saying he has done his part after three decades."I have now quit active politics and am now...Published: 08 Oct 2018 at 07:04hrs | 2 | by newzimbabwe
Sipepa Nkomo regrets dumping Tsvangirai for Biti
Former Water minister Samuel Sipepa Nkomo, who recently resigned from politics, has revealed how he painfully regrets dumping the MDC then led by the late Morgan Tsvangirai for a splinter party led by...Published: 14 Sep 2018 at 16:09hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Khupe tormentors sentenced to 12-months jail
TWO Bulawayo-based MDC Alliance aspiring councillors and their accomplice were yesterday sentenced to a 12-month jail term each for assaulting breakaway MDC-T faction leader, Thokozani Khupe and her s...Published: 28 Jul 2018 at 09:39hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Warrant of arrest for MDC Alliance candidate
MDC Alliance aspiring legislator for Bulawayo South, Kunashe Muchemwa, has been issued with a warrant of arrest after failing to turn up in court for sentencing following his conviction over public vi...Published: 20 Jul 2018 at 08:04hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa-led MDC-T to lose property worth $665 000?
THE Nelson Chamisa-led MDC-T could lose property worth over $665 000 after the Labour Court ruled that it unfairly dismissed 17 employees and must pay damages. Labour Court judge Justice Betty...Published: 13 Jul 2018 at 07:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
PRC plots takeover of Bulawayo city
People's Rainbow Coalition (PRC) candidates have expressed confidence of turning Bulawayo into their stronghold, taking over from the MDC-T that has been in control of the city since 2000.Bula...Published: 06 Jul 2018 at 07:25hrs | 1 | by Staff rpeorter
'Big Man' politics is what has got us to where we are, says Mangoma
Coalition of Democrats (Code) leader and presidential candidate in the July 30 harmonised elections, Mr Elton Mangoma, says Zimbabwe does not need politics of personalities, but requires leaders who a...Published: 21 Jun 2018 at 06:48hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Explaining the confusion in MDC-T primaries - Part I of II
Explaining the confusion in MDC-T primaries: Mwonzora is being targeted in all this fracas. The pro-Chamisa camp is targeting the December party congress...Published: 27 May 2018 at 15:27hrs | | by Felix Mbonderi Chiroro
Bhasikiti in wrong basket again
As the old saying goes; "Show me your friends and I will tell you who you are." The same is true when it comes to politics. Those you associate yourself with reflect generally the kind of person you a...Published: 19 Mar 2018 at 14:28hrs | 3 | by Charles Motsi
Tsvangirai's lover claims to be HIV+?
The health status of Zimbabwe's opposition Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai has come under scrutiny after his lover, who is living with AIDS in the United Kingdom, revealed that...Published: 22 Sep 2017 at 08:20hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Mthwakazi President in door to door program
Mthwakazi Republic Party has claimed to be continuing to touch the lives of the people of Mthwakazi as the party President met the old lobengula residents today through their invitation to hear more a...Published: 28 Aug 2017 at 18:52hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Muchauraya re-joins Tsvangirai
Renewal Democrats of Zimbabwe (RDZ) spokesperson Pishayai Muchauraya dumped the Elton Mangoma-led party to rejoin the MDC led by Morgan Tsvangirai. Muchauraya - who left MDC in 2014 - was offi...Published: 24 Jul 2017 at 13:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
PDP mourns the death of Organising Head
The People's Democratic Party mourns the sad, untimely death of Memory Sithole the Technical Head of the party's organising department. Sithole died on Sunday morning at Chitungwiza hospital following...Published: 02 May 2017 at 10:15hrs | | by PDP
Khupe rise up, be counted
I see now why Sekesai Holland left the MDC-T, it failed to live up to its billing of being a democratic party. It let her down as a loyal member and as a woman, until frustration galvanised her to lea...Published: 19 Jul 2016 at 15:03hrs | 1 | by Prosperity Mzila
Parliament to sue expelled MPs over vehicles
PARLIAMENT plans to take legal action against 35 MPs expelled by both Zanu-PF and MDC-T after they failed to pay for vehicles procured for them through a parliamentary loan scheme when they were still...Published: 30 May 2016 at 06:39hrs | | by Zvamaida Murwira
Opposition on course to unite _ PDP
On 26 April 2014 the MDC Renewal Team, now People's Democratic Party (PDP), at Mendel Training Centre in Harare resolved that as one of the cornerstones of taking Zimbabwe forward, the party must reco...Published: 20 Apr 2016 at 15:46hrs | | by Jacob Mafume - PDP National Spokesperson
No joy for fired MPs
Parliament is demanding up to $54 000 from about 30 MPs, who were fired by both the MDC-T and Zanu-PF, as the House seeks to recover the over $800 000 advanced to them under the vehicle loan schem...Published: 24 Mar 2016 at 07:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tendai Biti lose 200 supported to Tsvangirai
NEARLY 200 MDC-T supporters in Cowdray Park and Luveve suburbs who defected to Tendai Biti's MDC Renewal party before deciding to re-join the main opposition party are finding it difficult to be accom...Published: 08 Feb 2016 at 05:46hrs | | by Thandeka Moyo
Chamisa stop being a hypocrite
The recent claim by MDC-T Kuwadzana East MP, Nelson Chamisa that funds meant for by-elections should be channeled towards paying civil servants' bonuses should not be tolerated but dismissed with due ...Published: 05 Feb 2016 at 08:13hrs | | by Sibusiso Ndlamini
Tsvangirai begs Biti
MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai has sent emissaries to People Democratic Party (PDP) president Tendai Biti to initiate talks that could lead to the formation of a coalition of opposition parties ahead ...Published: 05 Feb 2016 at 07:19hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Biti, Ncube resume merger talks
LEADERS of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) and the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) met in Harare last week for consultations aimed at reviving efforts to merge the two parties.The M...Published: 17 Dec 2015 at 13:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bodyguard dumps Mangoma
Renewal Democrats of Zimbabwe president, Mr Elton Steers Mangoma's bodyguard, has reportedly dumped the former Energy and Power Development Minister for failing to pay him $400 monthly salary for the ...Published: 17 Dec 2015 at 05:39hrs | 3 | by Crime Reporter
Comrade Morgan Mugabe?
Some fellow countrymen would probably forget events of history, but some of us would never forget whatever we have committed to memory. They say, "the axe forget, BUT the tree will never forget the cu...Published: 19 Nov 2015 at 16:55hrs | 2 | by Godwin Tshetu Mupakairi
'Biti stole PDP name'
HARDLY a week after the congress that ushered in a new political party led by Tendai Biti under the name People's Democratic Party, an obscure outfit has emerged claiming the name, setting the stage f...Published: 17 Sep 2015 at 07:01hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai, Mujuru in talks
The Daily News today revealed that opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai and former Vice President Joice Mujuru have been talking through emissaries over the past few months to explore how they can work...Published: 11 Sep 2015 at 15:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Tsvangirai is a thief' claims Biti
Tendai Biti has laid into his former boss, MDC president Morgan Tsvangirai, describing him as a thief who should be ashamed of demanding terminal perks from the Zanu-PF government.The Renewal ...Published: 11 Sep 2015 at 14:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe bars Zambian opposition leader
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe's government has reportedly blocked Zambian opposition leader Hakainde Hichilemba from coming into the country and address the local opposition MDC Renewal Team party's ina...Published: 10 Sep 2015 at 06:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Targeting Mugabe wrong,' says Madhuku
Removing President Mugabe from office cannot be an economic policy issue around which political parties can form a coalition, Professor Lovemore Madhuku has said. In an interview last week, Pr...Published: 07 Sep 2015 at 06:28hrs | | by Takunda Maodza
Mugabe faces growing impeachment threat
Pressure to impeach President Robert Mugabe over his "appalling handling" of the national economy is growing and risks throwing the country into fresh political crisis.Zimbabwe's vocal opposit...Published: 05 Sep 2015 at 13:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
New Zimbabwe political party slams 'selfish' opposition leaders
THE country's opposition parties lack vision, officials of a new political outfit Zimbabwe First Party (ZimFirst) have said.ZimFirst, which is led by former MDC-T USA branch chairman Maxwell Z...Published: 04 Sep 2015 at 06:47hrs | | by Nqobile Tshili
Tsvangirai 'misinforms' civil servants
MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai is alleged to be moving around the country telling civil servants and parastatal heads that 150,000 government workers will soon be retrenched, as he tries to cause alar...Published: 02 Sep 2015 at 06:04hrs | | by Takunda Maodza
Mangoma's case takes new twist
The alleged sex scandal in which Renewal Democrats of Zimbabwe leader (RDZ) Elton Mangoma was accused of having a sexual affair with a married woman took a new twist yesterday after three of Mango...Published: 29 Aug 2015 at 10:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Shattered opposition lets Bob jive as Zim dives
Back in the 1990s, the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) was a fierce opponent of President Robert Mugabe. It drove the rise of resistance politics and gave birth to the Movement for Democratic...Published: 28 Aug 2015 at 08:54hrs | | by Ray Ndlovu
Mangoma's bodyguard in the dock
Renewal Democrats of Zimbabwe president, Elton Mangoma's three bodyguards appeared in court yesterday for allegedly assaulting an MDC-Renewal Team activist who accused their leader of snatching hi...Published: 28 Aug 2015 at 07:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tendai Biti's party drops MDC acronym
THE MDC Renewal Team is set for a major identify shift at its inaugural congress set for next month, which will see the party changing its name and other distinct features.This paper has it on...Published: 27 Aug 2015 at 10:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC Renewal was not using City Sports Centre for free - Mafume
The MDC Renewal Team spokesperson Jacob Mafume has said when his party booked the City Sports Centre for the Congress which was slated for August 21 and 22 it had paid to the Harare City Council despi...Published: 24 Aug 2015 at 15:47hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Renewal Team reschedules congress
The opposition MDC Renewal Team has rescheduled its inaugural congress to early next month following its last-minute cancellation by police in Harare on Thursday. Police claimed the party'...Published: 24 Aug 2015 at 07:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
PDP raps Zanu-PF for acting contrary to its ZimAsset promises
The People's Democratic Party (PDP) Youth assembly official Tatenda Chigwada has blasted the ruling Zanu-PF for acting contrary to its 2013 election promises where it said it would create 2,2 million...Published: 23 Aug 2015 at 10:31hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Mangoma's party holds youth congress
Elton Mangoma's newly-formed opposition party, Renewal Democrats of Zimbabwe (RDZ), held its first youth congress on Saturday with the women's assembly scheduled to hold its own indaba later this ...Published: 18 Aug 2015 at 09:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC Renewal team gears for inaugural congress
The opposition MDC Renewal Team says preparations for its inaugural congress in Harare this weekend are at an advanced stage, with more than 7 000 delegates already accredited. The congres...Published: 18 Aug 2015 at 09:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF Labour Bill 'more cruel'
The Labour Amendment Bill, viewed as the solution to the massive job losses that followed a recent landmark Supreme Court ruling, is worse than the existing labour laws, an opposition party warned...Published: 18 Aug 2015 at 09:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
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