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Biti's new political outfit: Another desperate stunt from a failed politician

Tendai Biti is back again, but instead of bringing something new or worthwhile to Zimbabwe's political landscape, he returns with yet another recycled and empty formation, now parading the once-insignificant pressure group Forum for Consti…

Published: 11 Jul 2025 at 15:29hrs | | by Staff reporter

Team Pachedu belated V11 data does not 'vindicate' ZEC, it confirms the folly of CCC participating in flawed elections

Nelson Chamisa and company were hell-bent on participating in the flawed and illegal elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy for the sake of a few gravy train seats reward. The folly of participating in flawed elections to give Zanu PF legiti…

Published: 27 Aug 2024 at 13:21hrs | 1 | by Wilbert Mukori

'Tendai Biti should take a break from politics'

Renowned journalist and government critic, Hopewell Chinâ€™ono, has suggested that Tendai Biti take a hiatus from active political involvement and redirect his focus towards his roles as a lawyer, author, and international public speaker.B…

Published: 29 Feb 2024 at 07:03hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe at a crossroads: a statement by Tendai Biti

Former finance minister and Harare East MP Tendai Biti has issued the following statement responding to claims that he is colluding with self-styled CCC interim secretary general Sengezo Tshabangu to recall elected CCC councillors, MPs and…

Published: 11 Nov 2023 at 15:56hrs | 18 | by Tendai Biti

Analysis: Tendai Biti is down - but not necessarily out

Some might think Tendai Biti is ending his parliamentary career much as he started it 23 years ago - by causing a ruckus in parliament with his lively debate that fundamentally changed how Zanu PF viewed the opposition. Mr. Biti, a Harare …

Published: 19 Jun 2023 at 14:29hrs | 9 | by Farai Chirimumimba

Biti accuses businesswoman of forging Harare Airport Road documents

Former Finance minister Tendai Biti has accused a controversial Harare businesswoman of forging documents that saw the construction of the incomplete Harare Airport Road being granted national project status.Biti made the claim during his …

Published: 20 Dec 2022 at 17:24hrs | 4 | by Simbarashe Sithole

'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 be very foolish for the opposition to co…

Published: 21 Nov 2022 at 09:42hrs | 2 | by Patrick Guramatunhu

Chamisa, Biti lock horns

Battle lines have been drawn between MDC-Alliance president Nelson Chamisa and one of his deputies, Tendai Biti over the recent decision by the former to forego primary elections and let communities choose their parliamentary candidates fo…

Published: 12 Aug 2021 at 06:57hrs | 14 | by Political Reporter

Tendai Biti insults Chipinge people calls them witches

The tweet by honourable Tendai Biti of the MDC A to Professor Madhuku has shown that Tendai Biti is a tribalist who cannot be called a nationalist.  Tendai Biti has exhibited his intoxication with toxic tribalism. This has shown that …

Published: 09 Mar 2021 at 17:04hrs | 14 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza

When opposing becomes nonsense

The times we live in have been blessed with a tremendous tool called social media; it is one marvel that if used properly can bring about remarkable social, economic and political positive change. Unfortunately the likes of Jonathan Moyo, …

Published: 18 Feb 2021 at 11:39hrs | 1 | by Charles Motsi

Exposing government links with mysterious FSG company

It seems Parliament has a knack for asking all the right questions when it comes to Fertiliser, Seed Grain (FSG) private limited. Investigations have revealed that the company is located at number 75a Kew Drive has an unexplained military …

Published: 26 Aug 2019 at 20:36hrs | 325 | by Nicholas Ncube

Biti thrown into ZACC's jaws â€¦as Chamisa unleashes Varakashi on him

The bickering within the MDC Alliance presidium continues to crescendo with that party's leader, Nelson Chamisa hurling every weapon he bumps into, to his fiercest rival, Tendai Biti.The Harare Post had it on good authority that Chamisa is…

Published: 30 Jul 2019 at 16:04hrs | | by John Sigauke

MDC RELOAD: Old wine in new skins

The MDC prides itself as a party of reformists and the keepers of this country's economic keys. Members of the party fantasise and hoodwink the world that without them nothing meaningful will take place in Zimbabwe. The party wants to be s…

Published: 24 Jul 2019 at 15:56hrs | | by Elijah Chihota

Mnangagwa cannot fix Zimbabwe's crisis. He needs Chamisa WRITES Tendai Biti

Zimbabwe is in crisis. But to expect the ruling ZANU-PF government to resolve this is improbable at best. It is, more likely, impossible.Today nearly four out of every five Zimbabweans just about survives in absolute poverty. On average, Z…

Published: 19 Jun 2019 at 17:15hrs | 1 | by Tendai Biti

MDC congress: Redefining the people's agenda

This weekend the MDC will hold its elective congress in Gweru, Midlands province, under the theme Defining a new course for Zimbabwe. This is the 5th congress we are holding since February 1999, when we gathered at the Women's Bureau in Ha…

Published: 24 May 2019 at 07:39hrs | | by Tendai Biti

Chamisa, an illegitimate opposition leader

In politics, legitimacy is the right and acceptance of an authority, usually by a governing law or a regime and it requires one to be certified in accordance with accepted standards of that political environment.Following the death of MDC …

Published: 09 May 2019 at 15:23hrs | 1 | by Peacemaker Zano

Minister Fortune Chasi dehumanizing women on camera

There is a video trading online showing Minister Fortune Chasi posing for a photo with young women and girls holding sanitary wear/pads. I agree that it is good for Minister Chasi and others to donate sanitary wear/pads to young girls and …

Published: 06 Mar 2019 at 09:01hrs | 2 | by Don Chigumba

Rituals and spiritualism, the curse of the MDC

In everyday life when the going gets tough or unbearable and when everything seems to have ground to a halt, people tend to turn to social scientists in the form of witchdoctors, spirit mediums, prophets and fetish prophets for solutions a…

Published: 06 Mar 2019 at 09:00hrs | 5 | by Elijah Chihota

Zim Judiciary and the 'Rule of law' Doctrine

The trial of Honourable Tendai Biti started on a rather premature and dramatic note at Rotten Row Magistrates Court in Harare.In my view, it gave some of us an opportunity to observe, reflect and comment on the practical application of the…

Published: 13 Dec 2018 at 15:20hrs | 1 | by Walter Nyabadza

MDC's full statement on August 1 killings and the economy

1) Introduction The Movement for Democratic Change has been following political and economic events in the country. Among other ills, we note with concern the unpalatable suffering of the masses, price hikes and currency shortages. Drugs a…

Published: 15 Nov 2018 at 12:52hrs | 1 | by MDC

Chamisa fuelling strife

The night is always darkest before dawn.  The people of Zimbabwe should bear with the Government, that while it is trying to resuscitate the economy that has been battered for 20years fuelled by misrule and misplaced priorities, some …

Published: 08 Oct 2018 at 09:02hrs | 2 | by Prosperity Mzila

Biti lying about GNU economic fortunes

For some time now there is a narrative that the economic fortunes scored during the tenure of the Inclusive Government was a result of of the "brilliance" or "prudence" of the then Finance Minister Tendai Biti.Biti himself has also taken e…

Published: 26 Sep 2018 at 09:16hrs | | by Views Matopo

Zimbabwe is Zanu PF Property

If you think that Philip Valerio Sibanda is the commander of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces you are living in your own dream land. The name 'commander' yes that's his title but functionally, zanu pf is in charge. Wake up, know for a fact that…

Published: 16 Aug 2018 at 23:48hrs | | by Clement Moyo

MDC, are you on the side of the Zimbabwean people?

In this turmoil of devastating news, one item stood out lately as I went through my twitter feed. It was probably not the one you are thinking about, as it didn't dominate the feed. But trust me on this, it is the one with the most long-te…

Published: 12 Aug 2018 at 21:56hrs | | by Anthony Mkondo

Advice to MDC Allians:Know what to oppose and what to support

The opposition politicians must know what to oppose and what to support unless if they want to lose respect in the eyes of the citizens . There are people who just oppose something without reasoning simply because the idea has come from a …

Published: 23 Jun 2018 at 13:12hrs | 3 | by Erick Matotoba

The Alliance is irrelevant; MDC-T

There were fireworks during the recent MDC-T National Executive meeting over the Alliance issue. This was revealed by some members who chose to remain anonymous.One senior member based in Bulawayo said, "During our National Executive Meeti…

Published: 01 Jun 2018 at 08:07hrs | 2 | by Fungai Taruvinga

Mangudya Is Not Learn: Real reason why there is USD shortage in the market and how it can be fixed

It's always sad to see people mess up the country, It's even worse when you know how it could be done right. Dr Mangudya broke an economics law by introducing the bond notes the law he broke is called Gresham's law. One would wonder if he …

Published: 27 May 2018 at 08:57hrs | 1 | by Simplisio Muvunde

No Nelson Chamisa, sexism is not part of our culture, it's just you

Just when you thought Nelson Chamisa couldn't put his foot any further into his mouth, he goes and proves you wrong.Chamisa who has come under fire from many Zimbabweans, even in his own party, for his sexist attitudes, doesn't seem to be …

Published: 09 May 2018 at 10:56hrs | 1 | by Mike, Harare

MDC Alliance to drop other Alliance partners

Zimbabwe may be headed towards some serious divisions in its political milieu ahead of this year's watershed election. With the already disastrous squabbles in the MDC T threatening one of the greatest split in the history of MDC T, anothe…

Published: 19 Mar 2018 at 15:10hrs | | by Tinashe Tapfumanei

Chamisa, Khupe fight, Matebeleland will encircle to protect its own

The leadership fight in the MDC, it appears is far from over. In actual fact as the elections dates draw nearer the violence between the two factions is escalating by the day if events in Bulawayo in the last two days are anything to go by…

Published: 06 Mar 2018 at 14:08hrs | | by Lloyd Msipa

Another MDC self-made defeat on the horizon

Driving through the noisy downtown streets of Harare on a lazy, sunny, Tuesday afternoon, this writer came across a bumper sticker that got her thinking on the current state of affairs in one of the country's largest opposition parties, th…

Published: 11 Jan 2018 at 11:09hrs | | by Charles Motsi

Should sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe be lifted or not?

Let me start by saying that my dear colleagues and friends, the likes of Dewa Mavhinga, Tendai Biti and Nelson Chamisa may have to think twice on an international platform on issues that have a direct or indirect impact on Zimbabwe populac…

Published: 22 Dec 2017 at 20:26hrs | 1 | by Dr. Takesure Tazvishaya, a concerned citizen.

Why bond notes can't save Zimbabwe, and what ordinary citizens can do -

The government of Zimbabwe is again trying to pull a fast one on its citizens. The Zimbabwe dollar was abandoned in 2009 after the government ran the printing presses so wildly that the national currency became worthless.The country then a…

Published: 13 Dec 2016 at 16:17hrs | | by Tendai Biti and Todd Moss

Biti a political spent-force

Tendai Biti, the People's Democratic Party (PDP) president is a political spent-force after his entire Matabeleland North provincial executive of 20 members defected to join former Vice-President Joice Mujuru's party, Zimbabwe People First…

Published: 11 Oct 2016 at 14:21hrs | | by Sparkleford Masiyambiri

The case of a National Transitional Authority

Waiting for GodotWananchi, the motherland continues to heave and suffocate under the weight of a sterile oligarchy, exhausted and indeed frail nationalism, downright statism, indifference and inertia.For too long we have been poisoned by t…

Published: 15 Aug 2016 at 16:37hrs | 1 | by Tendai Biti

Hands off our Chiefs

It's now over ten months since Tendai Biti and colleagues left a seemingly hopeless Morgan Tsvangirai-led MDC-T to form the People's Democratic Party (PDP). However, PDP has not inspired any hope and has rather relapsed into the tendencies…

Published: 03 Mar 2016 at 10:52hrs | 2 | by John Sigauke

COP 21 Agreement; a door of hope, introspection

The Conference of Parties session 21 (COP 21) under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) came to a close in the French capital of Paris on 13 December 2015 after more than two weeks of intense negotiations to …

Published: 15 Dec 2015 at 14:41hrs | 5 | by Tendai Biti

Tendai Biti firing in the dark

EDITOR,Tendai Bitis recent insinuations that Zimbabwe is heading for chaos based on the assumption of perceived fictions in Zanu-PF as the force behind the economic turbulence do not hold at any level to do with political science.While it …

Published: 30 Sep 2015 at 10:14hrs | | by Caitlin Kamba

Please get Tendai Biti back on the economy levers

Cooperation, inclusivity, true patriotism and sanity only hope for Zimbabwe: Please get Tendai Biti back on the economy levers The post-independence generation does not know the sound of drums of war; neither do the echoes of marauding hel…

Published: 30 Aug 2015 at 16:00hrs | 2 | by Dr Tapiwa Shumba

When opposition loses sense

MDC-Renewal leader, Tendai Biti, has unashamedly thrown in the towel on politics by secretly slipping out of the country to the United States of America for an unspecified period of time.The Nicodemus departure by the former Minister of Fi…

Published: 09 Apr 2015 at 08:46hrs | 2 | by Onward Chiswa

Tendai Biti is a troubled man

Tendai Biti is a troubled man. Unfortunately his views mirror an alienated opposition movement in Zimbabwe leading many astray with its bauble of democracy and human rights. Last week he seized an opportunity during a public discussion org…

Published: 14 Feb 2015 at 17:06hrs | 1 | by Joram Nyathi

Challenges lie ahead for Welshman Ncube, Tendai Biti

MONTHS of behind-the-scenes negotiations between Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) formations led by Welshman Ncube and Sekai Holland culminated in the formation of the United Democratic Union (UDU). The development, coming after years …

Published: 04 Dec 2014 at 08:52hrs | | by Ray Ndlovu

Tendai Biti's infidelity

From Tsvangirai's camp came revelations of Biti's infidelity. Apparently the judgemental Mr Biti was out carousing with his mistress when he pranged his car in Chegutu, a secret that Tsvangirai had never used against him. The MDC Renewal T…

Published: 26 Jul 2014 at 13:54hrs | 1 | by Jera

Tendai Biti calls for rethink on Zimbabwe State

Zimbabwe's pre and post-independence politicians have failed the nation and the current generation needs to stand up and recreate the "nation state that should be Zimbabwe" former Finance minister Tendai Biti has said.Biti told his renewal…

Published: 16 Jun 2014 at 10:58hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

Tendai Biti overestimated his influence

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 MDC has dominated news headlines over the last fe…

Published: 08 May 2014 at 11:41hrs | 1 | by Wezhira Marihwepi

Tendai Biti's letter to Parliament

From the Office of the Secretary -GeneralThe Speaker Parliament of ZimbabweCnr Nelson Mandela/Third StreetHarareDear Sir,Re: Notice of the Suspension of Morgan Tsvangirai, Thokozani Khupe, Lovemore Moyo, Morgan Komichi, Nelson Chamisa, Abe…

Published: 30 Apr 2014 at 06:18hrs | | by Tendai Biti

Biti statement on Tsvangirai suspension - Full text

THE MDC-T, the country's main opposition party is in turmoil and faces a second bitter split after a group advocating leadership renewal met in Harare on Saturday and agreed to suspend party leader Morgan Tsvangirai and a number of those b…

Published: 29 Apr 2014 at 09:46hrs | 3 | by Tendai Biti

Tendai Biti will not survive the next congress

"I AM proud to announce today that we have discussed our issues and there is now unprecedented harmony and unity of purpose in the MDC cockpit," Tsvangirai explained. Describing calls for him to step down as "dynamic contradictions" that d…

Published: 14 Apr 2014 at 16:11hrs | | by Mai Jukwa

The opposition in Zimbabwe has failed, says Tendai Biti

This is the second part of of a series of MDC-T secretary general Tendai Biti's address to a SAPES Trust Policy Dialogue on March 6, 2014, in which he dissects the problems facing his party and other opposition parties that he says have fa…

Published: 19 Mar 2014 at 11:39hrs | | by Tendai biti

Zimbabwe in economic, political crisis - Biti

THIS is the first part of a series of MDC-T secretary general Tendai Biti's address to a SAPES Trust Policy Dialogue on March 6, 2014 in which he gives his take on the state of the economy and domestic politics among other things.GOOD even…

Published: 17 Mar 2014 at 09:41hrs | 12 | by Tendai Biti

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