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Ncube and Chamisa are one coin with two sides: Gugugu Magorira
Please do not play with our intelligence. Welshman Ncube is the worst politician we can think of today. Ncube is part of the problem too, just like Chamisa. Professor Mandaza told Chamisa to come clea...Published: 19 Jan 2025 at 19:50hrs | 714 | by Nomazulu Thata
Helen Zille and her fellow travellers are victims of their propaganda
Helen Zille and her fellow travellers are victims of their propaganda. They undermine and underestimate the MKP at their own peril. With ANC on an irreversible decline, MKP has become a key player in ...Published: 15 Dec 2024 at 11:58hrs | 1306 | by Prof. Sipho Seepe
How Mzila's family suffered during Gukurahundi genocide
IN 1982, I was assaulted by five Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) uniformed young men donning red berets at my Luveve house number 4136 where I lived, while I taught at St Bernards High School in Pumula, ...Published: 12 Feb 2024 at 13:52hrs | 153 | by Moses Mzila Nkalange
Zanu-PF Young Turks plot surprises
DAGGERS are out in Zanu-PF as aspiring youthful candidates turn on the heat on the party's old guard ahead of the ruling party's primary elections.It appears the ruling party has opened up the...Published: 13 Mar 2023 at 22:04hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa challenged to disband terror groups in Kwekwe
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has been challenged to disband terror groups in Kwekwe, stop giving impunity to perpetrators of politically motivated violence and halt the needless bloodshed, particularl...Published: 09 Apr 2022 at 11:16hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa ally takes aim at Old Guard...…as cracks emerge in CCC
AS CCC's G40-sponsored agenda to rid the party of its old guard gathers momentum, that party's leader Nelson Chamisa has reportedly unleashed his free range allies led by Human Rights Lawyer Pedzisayi...Published: 29 Mar 2022 at 14:41hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Khupe, Chamisa rekindle political romance
Seemingly forgetting her near-death experience at the hands of Nelson Chamisa's violent supporters at the funeral of Morgan Tsvangirai in February 2018, Thokozani Khupe has endorsed the Citizen's Coal...Published: 22 Mar 2022 at 05:43hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Matutu promises to tear CCC in Masvingo
Former Masvingo urban Member of Parliament Tongai Matutu who defected to Zanu-PF after a fall out with then MDC Alliance party after he was disqualified from contesting the provincial chairmanship pos...Published: 15 Mar 2022 at 17:03hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
It's Chamisa time!
The long awaited by-elections which were recently proclaimed by President Emmerson Mnangagwa are going to put to test Zimbabwe's main opposition parties, with the Nelson Chamisa led MDC Alliance havin...Published: 08 Jan 2022 at 06:11hrs | 10 | by Brighton Chiseva
Mwonzora afraid of election
The centre is no longer holding anymore. The cow no longer produces creamy milk as it used to do.Douglas Mwonzora is suffering from leadership kwashiokor and it is now crystal clear that he is...Published: 11 Oct 2021 at 07:03hrs | 2 | by Leonard Koni
'Chamisa not a 'spent force', claims his spokes
MDC Alliance presidential spokesperson Nkululeko Sibanda has defended the political standing of his boss, Nelson Chamisa arguing he was not a "spent force" but instead, the opposition leader remained ...Published: 03 Jul 2021 at 10:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa has changed face of Zimbabwean politics'
Former MDC Kwekwe legislator Mr Blessing Chebundo (BC) is among many opposition members who have jumped ship to join the ruling party this year. Below he shares his experiences with our Political Edit...Published: 08 Jun 2021 at 06:33hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chebundo in the eye of a storm as Corruption and Abuse of power exposed
The 2023 campaign begins for Blessing Chebundo with his campaign manager Trythings Mutyandasvika who is a manager at Rainbow Towers. Using his influence at work Trythings Mutyandasvika who bribe...Published: 02 May 2021 at 15:18hrs | 2 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
'More MDC activists flocking to Zanu-PF'
Zanu-PF acting spokesperson Patrick Chinamasa has claimed that his party is inundated with applications from MDC Alliance members seeking to join the ruling party after realising that the opposition p...Published: 24 Mar 2021 at 06:43hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Fred Shava's criminal past clouds future
NEWLY-appointed Zimbabwean Foreign Affairs and International Trade minister Frederick Shava, who has an unsavoury dark and criminal past, has his work cut out for him.Shava replaced retired Lieute...Published: 13 Feb 2021 at 14:53hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Job Sikhala must stop behaving like a teaser bull
MDC-Alliance deputy national chairperson Job Sikhala, who has been arraigned before the courts on allegations of subverting a constitutionally-elected Government, is indeed, not new to controversy. It...Published: 12 Jul 2019 at 07:28hrs | 2 | by Isdore Guvamombe
Energy Mutodi blasts Warriors
Deputy Minister of Information Publicity and Broadcasting Services Energy Mutodi is an angry man after the national soccer team was walloped in Egypt yesternight. &n...Published: 01 Jul 2019 at 13:17hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
'Tuku was a clever politician'
At the peak of Zimbabwe's liberation struggle (1975 to 1979) a group of brave local musicians rose to offer morale to the fighters and the supporting masses.Oliver Mtukudzi, together with Thom...Published: 28 Jan 2019 at 15:38hrs | 4 | by Maxwell Sibanda
Bev, Harpers rekindle 'romance'
RAUNCHY dancer-cum-singer Beverly "Bev" Sibanda and his manager of nine years, Hapaguti "Harpers" Mapimhidze, have mended their relations and are now working together again.The two were report...Published: 02 Oct 2018 at 09:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's Cabinet must help 'restore legacy'
Former president Robert Mugabe was notorious for stuffing his Cabinet with poor performers.The ultimate for him was to reward his cronies for their loyalty and ensuring fair representation acr...Published: 30 Aug 2018 at 07:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
How heroes became victims of politicians
LAST week, Comrade Agrippah Gava (born 1956) whose Chimurenga name was Conary Mabuto narrated how the Rhodesian forces massacred over 100 refugees at Chikumbi Camp in Zambia and how one could be ZIPRA...Published: 12 Aug 2018 at 09:49hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Another GNU in the making?
The 2018 elections in Zimbabwe bear strong similarities to those of 1980: the promise of a new beginning after almost two decades of political strife, economic crisis and social decay; the numerical d...Published: 27 Jul 2018 at 15:26hrs | 1 | by Ibbo Mandaza
Mugabe/Chamisa alliance, rehabilitative & desperation politics
Simmering information that the Mugabe-backed National Patriotic Front opposition party was in negotiations with the Nelson Chamisa led MDC-Alliance were all but confirmed by the Zimbabwe Independent n...Published: 29 Jun 2018 at 11:59hrs | 4 | by Bevan Musoko
MDC-T demo an admission of imminent poll defeat
On April 23, 2018 MDC Alliance presidential candidate and MDC-T leader, Nelson Chamisa, claimed his party had unearthed Zanu-PF's alleged election rigging machinery and was now confident of an outrigh...Published: 05 Jun 2018 at 07:10hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance demonstration an admission of imminent electoral defeat
On 23 April 2018 MDC Alliance presidential candidate and MDC-T leader, Nelson Chamisa, claimed that his party had unearthed Zanu PF's alleged election rigging machinery and was now confident of an out...Published: 04 Jun 2018 at 08:47hrs | 1 | by Nicole Hondo
Macheso's album finally OUT
"I COULD be well moved if I were as you…But I am as constant as the northern star," those were Julius Caesar's words.The very same is coming out of sungura doyen Alick Macheso's mouth as he ...Published: 03 Jun 2018 at 15:04hrs | 2 | by Staff rpeorter
Mujuru faces grim poll prospects
As Zimbabwe hurtles towards the crunch July/August harmonised elections, former vice president Joice Mujuru, who now leads the National People Party (NPP), finds herself in no woman's land, with her p...Published: 14 May 2018 at 14:23hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Unpacking the coalition fallacy
On 5 August 2017, the late former MDC-T leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, launched the so called MDC Alliance amid serious conflict with his deputy, Thokozani Khupe who was fiercely opposed to the idea of jo...Published: 10 May 2018 at 09:55hrs | 1 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Chiwenga fails to issue termination letters to nurses
The Health Services Board (HSB), which is the appointing authority of practitioners in the public health system, has so far failed to issue termination letters to thousands of nurses relieved of their...Published: 20 Apr 2018 at 14:33hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa has the numbers: Moyo has sound social and economic policies = a landslide winning equation in 2018 elections!
At the eleventh hour before the 2018 general elections we need to think practically and regroup ever to win the coming elections. Something bigger and greater than thunder must happen with expediency ...Published: 30 Mar 2018 at 20:00hrs | 1 | by Nomazulu Thata
Dear Mr Mugabe
I hope I find you well dear Former President of our Republic of Zimbabwe. I would like to make it glass clear dear Former President that you are misreading the moods of the people in Zimbabwe. I read ...Published: 27 Mar 2018 at 20:56hrs | 1 | by Nomazulu Thata
Time to end Zanu-PF election rigging, Cdes
MY Comrades, I am pleased to finally announce to you that something is happening on the ground. As you are now all aware, a lot of work is underway to ensure that the New Patriotic Front (NPF), a gran...Published: 12 Feb 2018 at 10:55hrs | 1 | by CZ
'Mudzingwa, Munawa not spent forces'
THE jettisoning of former Highlanders captain and loyal son Erick Mudzingwa as well as Simon Munawa have sparked an outrage from Bosso fans who feel the team cannot just rely on youngsters still wet b...Published: 21 Jan 2018 at 11:14hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Who departs if the 'Chosen One' returns at Bosso
MADINDA is back at Highlanders! One could wake up to this headline any one of these days.Oh what a beautiful feeling for any and all that like to enjoy watching their favourite football team c...Published: 17 Dec 2017 at 07:19hrs | 6 | by Allan Foti
Bosso massacred in Harare
Caps United 3-1 HighlandersDOMINIC Chungwa put his nose ahead in the race for the Golden Boot when he struck a brace in Caps United's thumping win over Highlanders at the National Sports Stadium l...Published: 27 Oct 2017 at 06:44hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Biti's wife and kids can't trust him'
TENDAI BITI is a spent force who cannot even be trusted by his own wife or children to lead a serious political party, National People's Party (NPP) leader Joice Mujuru has said in a vicious attack on...Published: 02 Oct 2017 at 10:54hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
A weekend digest of Zimbabwean Politics - 'Just call it an erection and it will pass'
Don't be fooled – Even Political Junkies and spent forces can erect an Alliance – So just call it an erection and it will pass. (A weekend digest of Zimbabwean Pol...Published: 27 Aug 2017 at 06:18hrs | 3 | by Mathula Lusinga
Another people's storm is coming
What has been unfolding in opposition circles over the past few days reflects the fact that the opposition lacks relevance in fulfilling its backers' desired goal.As President Mugabe was discu...Published: 13 Aug 2017 at 13:03hrs | 1 | by Teddie Bepete
Tsvangirai to continue engaging Mujuru
MDC-T has said coalition talks with National People's Party (NPP) leader, Joice Mujuru are still on despite recent developments, where the former Vice-President is seeking other partners such as Tenda...Published: 15 Jul 2017 at 11:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Open Letter to the President of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe
The Editor, I demand an honest answer from Mr. Mugabe. I want to know how he sit on the kitchen table with Bona and tell her that he is charting the way forward for Zimbabwe with someone who h...Published: 27 Jun 2017 at 06:55hrs | 1 | by Sam Wezhira
Priscilla Misihairabwi-Mushonga: her dirty-women-pants! Some street language we cannot take!
It is outrageous, horrendous to hear a whole parliamentarian speaking vomit language in the presence of girl-children and young women in Bulawayo rally. Where she is supposed to show respect as an sit...Published: 09 Jun 2017 at 19:45hrs | 2 | by Nomazulu Thata
Why Tsvangirai should go it alone in 2018
Opposition parties in Zimbabwe have, for the past few months, been hyping a grand coalition that is envisaged to hand Zanu-PF a resounding defeat in 2018. While the idea of one "great" united oppositi...Published: 07 Jun 2017 at 06:35hrs | | by Tinotenda Mutasa
Mugabe's nepotism stinks to high heaven
The stampede by ministers last week to give President Robert Mugabe's daughter, Bona Chikore, positions at boards of state institutions removed any doubt that the 93 year-old is behind the nepotism an...Published: 28 May 2017 at 09:36hrs | | by The Standard Editor
Anti-Mugabe coalition hits troubled waters
The Dr Joice Mujuru led National People's Party (NPP) is negotiating a Memorandum of Understanding with the People's Democratic Party (PDP) as cracks widen between the former vice president and MDC-T ...Published: 16 May 2017 at 06:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai, Mujuru anti-Mugabe pact is in jeopardy
The tussle for the control of the yet-to-be-formed coalition of opposition parties pitting former vice-president Joice Mujuru and MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai could torpedo efforts to put together a...Published: 14 May 2017 at 15:59hrs | 5 | by Everson Mushava & Obey Munyati
'Chamisa, Khupe rejects Mujuru'
The fractured MDC-T has been plunged into fresh turmoil with deputy presidents Mr Nelson Chamisa and Ms Thokozani Khupe said to be strongly opposed to having floundering National People's Party leader...Published: 14 May 2017 at 15:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai cannot lead coalition, says Mujuru allies
The National People's Party (NPP) led by Dr Joice Mujuru yesterday threw spanners into the envisaged coalition of opposition parties ahead of the harmonised elections next year by declaring its either...Published: 12 May 2017 at 06:03hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mujuru's allay brands Tsvangirai a spent-force
The Joice Mujuru-led National People's Party (NPP) yesterday threw spanners into the envisaged coalition of opposition parties ahead of next year's harmonised elections, declaring that either she lead...Published: 12 May 2017 at 05:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mujuru, no shame in quitting politics
The decision by embattled National People's Party (NPP) leader, Joice Mujuru to endorse Morgan Tsvangirai, the leader of Movement for Democratic Party (MDC-T) as the presidential candidate representin...Published: 10 Apr 2017 at 07:52hrs | | by Peacemaker Zano
Current Zimbabwean Women-Politicians seriously compromised: Dear Zebb Chakawa
I will never belittle the contributions some of our women have done in Zimbabwean politics: be it before independence and after independence. Women sacrificed everything: they were the abused niche du...Published: 23 Mar 2017 at 12:53hrs | 1 | by Nomazulu Thata
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