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'EU turns to Zanu-PF as prospect of opposition govt fades' - we only have ourselves to blame for this
"EU turns to Zanu-PF as prospects of opposition govt fades" screamed the headlines in Bulawayo24. Of course, every thinking Zimbabwean out there must be disappointed the EU has given up the fight end ...Published: 01 Dec 2022 at 14:12hrs | 1024 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Does the Zimbabwe opposition stand any realistic chance of winning 2023 elections?
This is the million dollar question - which has been on the lips of many, and the source of much debate, in Zimbabwe. What I see, though, is that most of us are living in a delusional world - ...Published: 01 Dec 2022 at 14:08hrs | 1229 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
ZEC claims over a hundred failed attempts to hack into its voters roll server
ZIMBABWE Electoral Commission (ZEC) Chief Elections Officer Utoile Silaigwana has told parliament that there has been over a hundred failed attempts to hack into its voters roll server, a day after re...Published: 01 Dec 2022 at 05:03hrs | 422 | by Staff reporter
Ncube's 2023 budget will take 150 years to deliver upper middle income, forget Vision 2030. The maths do not lie!
The Zimbabwe economy has been in decline for the last 42 years, it shrunk staggering 50% in the period 2000 to 2008 alone fuelled by the hyperinflation, that soared to dizzying heights of 500 billion ...Published: 26 Nov 2022 at 21:28hrs | 704 | by Wilbert Mukori
Does Zimbabwe need the Commonwealth?
ZIMBABWE joined the Commonwealth in 1980 after gaining independence from Britain - in what appeared to be a major victory for the Commonwealth. Twenty-three years down the road, Zimbabwe quit the Comm...Published: 25 Nov 2022 at 05:11hrs | 284 | by Vusi Nyamazana
Mnangagwa hails 'excellent' China relations
President Emmerson Mnangagwa hailed "excellent" relations with China as he delivered for the first time a State of the Nation address at a new multimillion-dollar parliament building gifted by the Asi...Published: 24 Nov 2022 at 05:02hrs | 476 | by Staff reporter
'It's foolish participating in rigged elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy' admitted Biti in 2015 - of course, has known this al
"Look, you can't keep on participating in flawed electoral processes that serve to give big benefits to dictators such as Robert Mugabe. Mugabe has perfected the art of winning elections. So it will b...Published: 21 Nov 2022 at 09:42hrs | 486 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Chamisa's CCC raises alarm over new tough electoral law
The Nelson Chamisa-led Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) has expressed concern over amendments to the Electoral Act, which it says could be abused by Zanu-PF to disqualify its opponents from running...Published: 20 Nov 2022 at 15:39hrs | 559 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa endorsed Zim's Commonwealth readmission regardless 2023 elections are being rigged - his 'Easy Street' down payment
The important thing is Chamisa has endorsed Zimbabwe's readmission into the Commonwealth before the 2023 elections, in his usual long winded and confused way.Chamisa and his CCC team met the C...Published: 18 Nov 2022 at 12:46hrs | 1587 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Zanu PF is desperate to be readmitted into the Commonwealth before 2023 - its legitimacy depends on it
Zanu PF stall: Readmit Zimbabwe into Commonwealth before 2023 elections and lift the sanctions soon thereafter.The number one priority to Zanu PF is to retain its iron grip on political power ...Published: 17 Nov 2022 at 08:59hrs | 661 | by Nomusa Garikai
Mnangagwa frets over Chamisa's Sadc links?
ZIMBABWEAN President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government is increasingly becoming worried about the growing anti-establishment wave sweeping across the region after a recent shock victory by former opposi...Published: 13 Nov 2022 at 17:46hrs | 9052 | by Staff reporter
Nigerian coup leader blames Zimbabwe for wave of coups in Africa
Former Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo has blamed Zimbabwe for allegedly setting a wrong precedent of coups in Africa after late President Robert Mugabe's November 2017 ouster was sanitised and p...Published: 11 Nov 2022 at 05:33hrs | 11229 | by Staff reporter
Mohadi tours Mash West to whip traditional leaders
Zanu-PF vice president and second secretary, Kembo Mohadi, is set on a marathon tour of Mashonaland West province where he is expected to whip traditional leaders into ensuring their subjects vote for...Published: 09 Nov 2022 at 05:18hrs | 1214 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's minister exposes vote-buying plot
LANDS and Agriculture minister Anxious Masuka has unwittingly exposed Zanu-PF's plot to use State resources to buy votes ahead of next year's polls.Addressing villagers in the Chinyamukwakwa a...Published: 08 Nov 2022 at 05:12hrs | 1266 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe opposition party ZRF threatens to boycott 2023 elections over sanctions
A new political party, Zimbabwe Republican Front (ZRF) has claimed that the economic sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe by Western countries were affecting the country's electoral processes.The par...Published: 07 Nov 2022 at 05:33hrs | 796 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's re-election campaign in full swing
Most African countries started undergoing political transitions decades ago, breaking away from colonial powers and establishing independence.This resulted in far reaching democratic gains in ...Published: 06 Nov 2022 at 11:57hrs | 962 | by Evans Mathanda
Only a revolution not the ballot can remove Mnangagwa!
As President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa consolidates his grip on power, and openly creating parallel structures intended to entrench him as Zimbabwe's FĂ...Published: 04 Nov 2022 at 18:03hrs | 3973 | by Peace Marangwanda
Copy of voters roll costs US$187,000 says Zec
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has reportedly demanded a staggering US$187 000 from a local independent election watchdog for the release of a hard copy of the voters roll.Election Re...Published: 04 Nov 2022 at 05:27hrs | 339 | by Staff reporter
Voters' roll is in a mess, admitted Zanu PF. Will SADC still stamp 2023 'Substantially Free' regardless
One thing can be said about Zimbabwe's political leaders; they are breathtakingly incompete...Published: 01 Nov 2022 at 20:11hrs | 575 | by Wilbert Mukori
Mnangagwa may call Zimbabwe snap 2023 general polls early next year
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa may call snap general elections in the first quarter of next year - in March - after securing a fresh mandate as Zanu-PF leader and its candidate in the polls, it emerged ...Published: 31 Oct 2022 at 18:52hrs | 594 | by Staff reporter
Britain says no signs Zimbabwe's elections will be free, fair
THE British Parliament has expressed concern over the lack of signs that Zimbabwe's 2023 elections would be credible, saying there was a shortage of meaningful political, economic and human rights ref...Published: 31 Oct 2022 at 05:04hrs | 1494 | by Staff reporter
Sanctions illusion as Sadc babysits Zimbabwe
Last week was full of the usual drama with several marches and gatherings condemning the West and calling for it to lift sanctions. This comes after the Southern African Development Community (Sadc) d...Published: 31 Oct 2022 at 04:54hrs | 368 | by Tapiwa Gomo
SADC's foolish tous pour un, un pour tous over sanctions must NOT spill into 2023 Zanu PF rigged elections
Zanu PF is blatantly rigging the 2023 elections and the party knows that there is real danger of SADC and AU condemning the process and deny Zanu PF legitimacy as happened after the 2008 elections. Th...Published: 27 Oct 2022 at 22:09hrs | 440 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Bulawayo residents boycott anti-sanctions campaign
THE anti-sanctions provincial campaign scheduled for Bulawayo Tuesday attracted a paltry crowd with ordinary citizens and opposition parties boycotting the event.The function, which was initia...Published: 26 Oct 2022 at 06:02hrs | 1111 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's path to power
6 November 2017 - President Robert Mugabe dismisses his deputy, Emmerson Mnangagwa, from government;8 November 2017 - Zanu-PF expels Mnangagwa from the party. Mnangagwa goes into self-imposed ...Published: 23 Oct 2022 at 17:26hrs | 392 | by Staff reporter
'Teachers for ED' project raises 2023 rigging fears
THE recent launch of the ‘Teachers for ED' project by President Emmerson Mnangagwa has raised fears of rigging of next year's general elections as the same educators who have endorsed him will be am...Published: 22 Oct 2022 at 19:34hrs | 824 | by Staff reporter
'Fellow citizens, be strong' edges Chamisa - but why forfeit free for uphill battle of violent elections
"VIOLENCE IN MATOBO, INSIZA & CHIRUMANZU ..Zpf panicking, desperate & violent because they are not supported in villages, in rural areas. Thuggery is not politics. Violence is not civilized ca...Published: 20 Oct 2022 at 17:24hrs | 355 | by Wilbert Mukori
Zanu PF is blatantly rigging 2023 and EU gearing to grant it legitimacy under guess of 'constructive dialogue'!
"EU abandons confrontation with Zimbabwe!" screamed The Herald headline! "CHARMED by President Mnangagwa's open door policy and far-reaching economic reforms, more investors will be coming fro...Published: 13 Oct 2022 at 23:13hrs | 699 | by Wilbert Mukori
Zimbabwe opposition must fight for electoral reforms
ELECTIONS are just a few months away and the public is joining in the fray.It is clear that Zanu-PF is not prepared to have reforms and will not bow down to the opposition's demands.Th...Published: 13 Oct 2022 at 06:01hrs | 680 | by Leonard Koni
'Zanu PF will never win free elections!' said CCC. True. So, why is CCC one insisting on elections with NO reforms?
When it comes to elections, Zimbabwe is caught in a catch 22 situation. After 42 years of corrupt and tyrannical Zanu PF rule that has left the country in economic ruins, a pariah state and forced mil...Published: 12 Oct 2022 at 13:51hrs | 379 | by Nomusa Garikai
Zanu-PF stalwarts and ex-ministers troop back
Zanu-PF stalwarts and ex-ministers in the current administration and late former President Robert Mugabe's government are plotting a political comeback after they were cleared by the politburo to cont...Published: 08 Oct 2022 at 21:06hrs | 2342 | by Staff reporter
'I taught at Eton College!' said Mliswa - pity exposure failed take ape-mentality out of you
Many people have listened to an audio posted on Zimeye in which the Right Honourable Themba Mliswa, Independent MP for Norton, was ranting and raving calling me "a political novice". What was all that...Published: 08 Oct 2022 at 17:42hrs | 1366 | by Wilbert Mukori
Fraud-accused socialite cleared to contest Zanu-PF elections
Zanu-PF has given the nod to socialite Mike Chimombe's candidature to stand in the weekend elections for the ruling party's Central Committee (CC).The polls are being fiercely contested amid a...Published: 06 Oct 2022 at 06:08hrs | 2246 | by Staff reporter
Nelson Chamisa is just not serious
Slightly into the second week of last month, CCC's Nelson Chamisa said something that, by the end of the same month, he was already contradicting, practically.In the first instance, he was in ...Published: 03 Oct 2022 at 19:56hrs | 3895 | by Tawanda Majoni
'Chamisa learnt nothing from lying about Trump in 2018,' says Jonathan Moyo
Exiled Zimbabwean cabinet Minister Jonathan Moyo has called out Citizens Coalition for Change leader, Nelson Chamisa over his recent remarks which advocated for the United Nations supervised 2023 elec...Published: 27 Sep 2022 at 08:11hrs | 3011 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt shuts door on foreign lawyers
GOVERNMENT has shut the door on foreign lawyers taking part in future election litigation.Zimbabwe expects to hold general elections next year."We have seen the development of electora...Published: 22 Sep 2022 at 06:04hrs | 878 | by Staff reporter
Zanu PF rigged 2018 and, with no reforms, is likewise rigging 2023 - holy grail is to deny it legitimacy
There are three questions anyone serious about getting Zimbabwe out of this economic and political mess must asked oneself, a CCC supporter and, most important of all, any CCC leaders including Nelson...Published: 20 Sep 2022 at 09:14hrs | 933 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Chamisa political playbook worked elsewhere, can he win in Zimbabwe?
PRECIOUS Dinha elbows her way into a packed soccer stadium. Despite thunder clouds looming above, thousands of yellow-clad Zimbabweans are singing, dancing and thrusting their index fingers skyward....Published: 20 Sep 2022 at 06:07hrs | 714 | by Evidence Chenjerai
Zimbabwe's many challenges and problems are microcosm of our failure to reason
Man is a creature of reason; all humans are born with inert potential to think and reason.Some people have lost the ability to reason out of drunken stupor, laziness or some such reas...Published: 19 Sep 2022 at 18:47hrs | 141 | by Wilbert Mukori
African opposition leaders should learn to lose with grace
Elections for either presidential or parliamentary positions will birth two people – a loser and winner, so it is important that political parties and their leaders always bear this in mind the mome...Published: 15 Sep 2022 at 05:50hrs | 236 | by Mukachana Hanyani
Should Africa mourn Elizabeth II? Of course, we must not allow ranting of tyrants define who we are!
The death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II has triggered an outpouring of public sympathy from all corners of the world. The public sympathy from Africa has not gone down well with some people....Published: 10 Sep 2022 at 11:04hrs | 1479 | by Wilbert Mukori
UK has new PM, 8th since 1980, Truss too will be booted out if she fail - Zim on 2nd, both way, way past 'use-by date'
The British people have a new Prime Minister, the 8th one since 1980! Liz Truss 2022 - present ...Published: 07 Sep 2022 at 10:11hrs | 2306 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Vote overwhelmingly to counter rigging
The story of election rigging has become a topical issue of the day in Zimbabwe as political parties prepare for the most fundamental elections to elect representatives of their constituencies and the...Published: 06 Sep 2022 at 14:16hrs | 575 | by Leonard Koni
We've to battle without reforms! Said Ncube - because wouldn't 'implement reforms like a man!'
"We've to battle without reforms!" screamed the Daily News headline with a picture of Professor Welshman Ncube. "We have to be ready, prepared to win elections under the most adverse of conditions...Published: 05 Sep 2022 at 17:31hrs | 2991 | by Wilbert Mukori
Chamisa calls for UN-supervised polls in ZImbabwe
OPPOSITION Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa has called for United Nations-supervised elections in 2023 to avoid the possibility of a contested outcome.Zimbabwe has a h...Published: 29 Aug 2022 at 06:36hrs | 3835 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF wins Gokwe Kabuyuni by-election
THE ruling Zanu-PF party has retained the Gokwe Kabuyuni constituency seat after its candidate Spencer Tshuma polled 10 727 votes against Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) Costin Muguti, who garnere...Published: 28 Aug 2022 at 12:29hrs | 1877 | by Staff reporter
The Rising Cost of Democracy in Zimbabwe
The recent surge in the cost to contest in elections and to view voters’ roll in Zimbabwe raises eyebrows. It was recently gazetted that the cost for co...Published: 23 Aug 2022 at 07:41hrs | 1014 | by Zakhele Maphosa
'I am sending you to Pharaoh!' twittered Chamisa - being conned to believe the upstart is Moses!
Referring to the biblical situation, CCC leader President Nelson Chamisa assured the nation of the anticipated freedom from Zanu PF repression."THE CRIES HAVE BEEN HEARD…And now the cry ...Published: 22 Aug 2022 at 11:11hrs | 1148 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
ZimRights national director says Zimbabwe heading towards bloodbath
ZIMBABWE is faced with a multifaceted economic, political and social crisis. Observers say the challenges bedevilling the country will likely get worse ahead of the 2023 general elections as rival pol...Published: 20 Aug 2022 at 17:03hrs | 436 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's CCC in polling station mapping exercise
THE opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) says it will not be caught napping as the country heads for the 2023 polls.And to ring-fence against possible rigging, the party is conductin...Published: 17 Aug 2022 at 06:42hrs | 1143 | by Staff reporter
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