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'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 | 5 | by Staff reporter
CCC calls for Sikhala's release as he marks one year in prison
Zengeza West legislator, Job Sikhala, has completed a full year in remand prison with members of the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) demanding his release.Sikhala was arrested on June 14 l...Published: 14 Jun 2023 at 18:59hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Job Sikhala clocks 365 days under pre-trial detention
Tormented legislator Job Sikhala clocks one full year under pre-trial detention this Wednesday, becoming the second sitting opposition legislator to endure lengthy imprisonment since 2000.Comm...Published: 14 Jun 2023 at 06:49hrs | 2 | 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
Go well my friend, Cde SK
COMRADE Simon Khaya Moyo is no more. He has joined the pantheon of Zimbabwe's finest patriots throughout the ages. Of recent note are fellow heroines and heroes of Chimurenga II who sacrificed to bury...Published: 21 Nov 2021 at 09:12hrs | 32 | by Amb Chris Mutsvangwa
Parly not pressing case against Mliswa, Mbondiah
Parliament will not take action against legislators Ms Memory Mbondiah of the MDC-T and Mr Temba Mliswa, an independent, whose row forced the Public Accounts Committee to adjourn its meeting early on ...Published: 13 May 2021 at 06:45hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
MDC legislator slaps Mliswa in Parly
There was drama in Parliament yesterday after MDC-T legislator, Ms Memory Mbondiya slapped outspoken Norton legislator, Mr Temba Mliswa forcing the Public Accounts Committee meeting to disband. ...Published: 11 May 2021 at 06:32hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Were MDC human rights violated in 2008?
MDC was created by the CFU (Commercial Farmers Union), capitalists and the west, so that they take power from Zanu-PF, reverse land reform and indigenization; pull the Zimbabwe National Army out of Co...Published: 05 Apr 2021 at 18:23hrs | 2 | by Rutendo Bereza Matinyarare
Ndiweni is an MDC-affiliated Chief and so can do no wrong
The discussion around the Chief Ndiweni case is so disappointing I am going to start my own here. In fact, I am slowly coming to the conclusion that I probably should start writing public think pieces...Published: 17 Aug 2019 at 18:01hrs | 1 | by Petina Gappa
Chamisa disbanded MDC militia?
Nelson Chamisa's MDC yesterday claimed it has disbanded a youth-led outfit called The Order of the Vanguard (Vanguard).Describing it as "an otherwise peaceful and disciplined team of MDC youth...Published: 14 Nov 2018 at 14:17hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: MDC Chamisa youths had a pistol and killed 2 people
EX-MDC MP Gabriel Chaibva returned Tuesday to haunt his erstwhile colleagues through sensational claims they armed some party youths to kill two people during the August 1 post-electoral violence....Published: 14 Nov 2018 at 07:38hrs | 3 | by newzimbabwe
Top lawyer gets $13,5000 for wrongful arrest, detention
THE Zimbabwe Republic Police has accepted liability over the unlawful arrest and detention of senior Harare lawyer, Mordecai Mahlangu, who was a key witness in the trial of the late former MDC treasur...Published: 06 Nov 2018 at 05:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Police apologise to top lawyer for wrongful arrest
The police have apologised to seasoned lawyer Mordecai Mahlangu, after conceding to wrongfully arresting and detaining him on charges of trying to obstruct the course of justice.He was arreste...Published: 04 Nov 2018 at 12:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dowa, Chihuri and Tomana on trial over harassment of Mahlangu
HIGH Court Judge Justice Philda Muzofa today presided over the trial of some Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) officers, who are being sued by human rights lawyer Mordecai Mahlangu for the harassment he ...Published: 31 Oct 2018 at 19:44hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Chamisa calls Mudzuri to order
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa called his deputy Elias Mudzuri to order during the party's national standing committee meeting held at the party headquarters in Harare recently for engaging in perceived ac...Published: 12 Oct 2018 at 18:27hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
How Mugabe's ZANU-PF and Chihuri's police created the MDC-T Vanguard
In December 2010, Augustine Mahute (26), an MDC-T activist from Matapi Flats in Mbare, was brutally attacked by ZANU-PF youths before they handed him to Matapi Police station.Mahute subseq...Published: 30 May 2018 at 06:35hrs | 2 | by Felix Mbonderi Chiroro
Roy Bennet pilot had substance in blood
A helicopter pilot had a low concentration of fentanyl in his blood during a crash in New Mexico that killed him and four other people including Zimbabwean opposition leader Roy Bennett, according to ...Published: 14 May 2018 at 07:53hrs | 2 | by AP
Chamisa reaction to High Court ruling treading on contemptuous ground
In an interesting press statement issued this past week, Advocate Chamisa's spokesperson and MDC director of communications, Luke Tambarinyoka had this to say of the recent High Court judgment about t...Published: 03 May 2018 at 07:07hrs | | by Paul Kaseke
Voice of the real liberation war hero
Whenever he see me, he want to get into a political debate. People who see us together get shocked and wonder what exactly are we talking about. They know me as a hard core MDC Member, to the extent t...Published: 13 Apr 2018 at 14:24hrs | | by Fanuel Chinowaita
Chamisa's likely deputies from Matebeleland
MDC-T leader Nelson Chamisa is set to make key appointments of two deputy presidents, national chairperson, organising secretary and party spokesperson in an effort to stabilise and prepare the main o...Published: 27 Mar 2018 at 16:41hrs | 1 | by Ndou Paul
Tomana, Chihuri civil trial back in court
The Supreme Court has referred back to trial the case in which former Prosecutor-General Johannes Tomana and former Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) Commissioner-General Augustine Chihuri are facing a $...Published: 16 Mar 2018 at 06:24hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
How Solomon Mujuru scuppered the Tsholotsho Declaration masterplan
For all the apparent unity demonstrated by Zanu-PF when Bennett was sent to prison, in fact deep divisions within it were soon to emerge.The death of Vice-President Simon Muzenda in September ...Published: 26 Feb 2018 at 06:16hrs | | by David Coltart
Obert Mpofu stirs hornet's nest
Lawyers and pro-democracy groups yesterday called on President Emmerson Mnangagwa to fire his Home Affairs minister - Obert Mpofu for his unprecedented attack on Parliament - which they said was despi...Published: 25 Feb 2018 at 10:47hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Bennett will be remembered for looting diamonds'
A critique Tinotenda Musodza has said the MDC top official Roy Bennett who died in a helicopter crash in the United states will be remembered for looting diamonds in Zimbabwe.Be...Published: 22 Jan 2018 at 07:03hrs | 43 | by Stephen Jakes
Vigil mourns Roy Bennett 'Pachedu'
The Vigil was in mourning for Roy Bennett who encouraged us to mount our public protest outside the Zimbabwe Embassy in London in 2002 and who remained a constant support in the many years since then....Published: 21 Jan 2018 at 16:54hrs | 16 | by Zim Vigil
Tsvangirai mourns Roy Bennett
MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai yesterday expressed shock and grief over the death of Roy Bennett, the opposition party's former treasurer-general, and his wife Heather in a helicopter crash in the Uni...Published: 20 Jan 2018 at 15:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai shocked by Roy and Heather Bennett's death
MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai has expressed shock over the death of Roy Bennett and his wife Heather from a helicopter crash. "It was with shock that I learnt of the death of the heroes of ou...Published: 19 Jan 2018 at 14:43hrs | 19 | by Stephen Jakes
Champions at home and abroad gone too soon
When Roy Bennett was named the Deputy Minister of Agriculture, the general folk in Manicaland cried foul saying the centre had stolen from the periphery, they wanted him appointed the Governor of Mani...Published: 19 Jan 2018 at 11:17hrs | 2 | by Jacob Mafume
Roy Bennett 'suffered a lot in his attempt to build a new Zimbabwe'
Zimbabwe's main opposition, the Movement for Democratic Change party's deputy president Nelson Chamisa has described Roy Bennett’s unexpected death in a helicopter crash in the US as "a big loss to ...Published: 19 Jan 2018 at 10:33hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
MDC mourns the passing of the struggle veteran Roy Bennett
The MDC is greatly saddened by the untimely passing of democratic struggle veteran Roy Bennet and his wife Heather in a tragic helicopter crash in North America today.MDC National Spokesperson...Published: 19 Jan 2018 at 07:00hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Roy Bennett dies -UPDATED
FORMER MDC-T treasurer-general Roy Bennett and his wife Heather died together with three others in a helicopter crash in New Mexico, US yesterday.MDC-T vice-president Mr Nelson Chamisa yesterd...Published: 19 Jan 2018 at 06:00hrs | | by Staffr eporter
Roy Bennett dies
There are reports that former MDC-T Treasurer General Roy Bennett and his wife Heather were killed in a chopper accident in Canada.According to Senator David Coltart, Bennett died in a helicop...Published: 18 Jan 2018 at 18:37hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Soldiers abuse worker at farm formerly owned by Roy Bennet
Some members of the Zimbabwe National Army reportedly abused a worker at a farm, which was formerly owned by former MDC legislator for Chimanimani Roy Bennet.Zimbabwe Peace Project in its late...Published: 15 Jan 2018 at 07:18hrs | | by Staff Reporter
The Zimbabwean church and our wicked ways - Magaya
The Zimbabwean Church and Our Wicked Ways: A confession on 31 October 2017 We, the church of Zimbabwe, recognise that the throne of God is founded on "r...Published: 31 Oct 2017 at 07:54hrs | | by Bishop Ancelimo Magaya
Sikhala relates on oppression of whites by Zim government
MDC-T senior official Job Wiwa Sikhala has related on how the Zimbabwean government resorted to harassing and oppression white Zimbabweans leading most of them to leave the country resulting to the ec...Published: 07 Jan 2017 at 07:55hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
The struggle is greater than Tsvangirai and Biti
The recent public spat between Morgan Tsvangirai and Tendai Biti cannot be allowed to pass without reproof. Not only was it unfortunate but it was totally unnecessary - as unnecessary as buying a ring...Published: 10 Dec 2016 at 05:20hrs | | by Moses Chamboko
Economic crisis bolsters Morgan Tsvangirai
AT the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T)'s 17th anniversary celebrations last week in Bulawayo, party leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, was in high spirits.He exuded a spring to his step whi...Published: 06 Oct 2016 at 07:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
FLASHBACK: Tsvangirai to continue as MDC-T president until 2028 - report
Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai is to continue ruling his MDC-T party all the way until the year 2028 or even to 2033, it as emerged."President Tsvangirai will rema...Published: 03 Sep 2016 at 19:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Legacy is about ideas, not power
Our political culture in Africa can be dangerous for democracy in its Aristotelian sense. We somehow believe politics to be an art based on the invincibility of political leaders, and this expectation...Published: 22 Aug 2016 at 06:20hrs | 1 | by Reason Wafawarova
Tsvangirai turning away from MDC-T founding ideals
The situation that of late characterises what used to be a vibrant workers' party, an MDC where constructive criticism and progressive discourse was nurtured rather than suppressed, where decision...Published: 12 Aug 2016 at 19:34hrs | | by Disgruntled MDC-T official
REWIND: 'Tribalism caused MDC split'
THE 2005 split of Zimbabwe's main opposition Movement for Democratic (MDC) party was likely fuelled by strains caused by Morgan Tsvangirai's treason trial and TRIBALISM, an unpublished report compiled...Published: 26 Jul 2016 at 13:28hrs | 9 | by online
Tsvangirai's weakness revealed
MDC-T leader has been noted with a trivial weakness which is disrupting his candidature for the country's presidency with a recent shocker last week when he announced that his party would participate ...Published: 11 May 2016 at 07:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
High Court presides over lawyer's law suit against police
HIGH Court Judge Justice Happias Zhou is today presiding over the pre-trial-conference in a case in which human rights lawyer Kennedy Masiye is suing Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) officers and Police...Published: 06 Apr 2016 at 06:27hrs | 7 | by Stephen Jakes
Mutezo chased away at Mphoko tour
BARELY a month after he was assaulted during Independence Day celebrations in Nyanyadzi, former Energy deputy minister Munacho Mutezo was last Friday chased away from Vice-President Phelekezela Mphoko...Published: 31 May 2015 at 09:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zim government blasted for criminalising whites in its democracy
Zimbabwean government has been accused of closing the democratic space by allegedly disallowing the white race from consisting any election while in Britain even African Nationals who have stayed ...Published: 11 May 2015 at 12:37hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
The mischief has started again, Cdes
CABINET FILES AND CZ's NOTEBOOKDear Cabinet andPolitburo membersCOMRADES, as you are all aware, I have been out of the country since last week as I had to attend this important Uni...Published: 20 Mar 2015 at 09:17hrs | 2 | by CZ
Robert Mugabe's imaginary assassins
President Robert Mugabe clearly suffers from advanced paranoia. Over the years, he has accused a whole battalion of people of trying to assassinate him. Nothing has stuck on any of those accusations....Published: 04 Mar 2015 at 12:11hrs | | by Tawanda Majoni
'MDC-T support plummets' - study
The MDC-T's power and influence on the country's political landscape has weakened by 66% after last year's split, the second inside a decade, under the stewardship of founding leader, Morgan Tsvangi...Published: 11 Feb 2015 at 18:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Biti, Mangoma tussle for presidency
The Renewal team is expected to go for its inaugural elective congress in April, and party insiders have said that relations between Mangoma and Biti had become frosty, amid allegations of smear c...Published: 21 Jan 2015 at 07:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
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