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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 | 3077 | 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 | 675 | 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

Chamisa badly missed veterans

WITH the national election done and dusted, it has become apparent that there are several Members of the National Assembly from the ninth parliament that will not be joining the new faces at the new parliament building in Mt Hampden.They w…

Published: 03 Sep 2023 at 07:55hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter

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

Tendai Biti billed to present at African Ambassadors meeting?

Citizens Coalition for Change's (CCC) diplomatic offensive is reportedly gaining traction, with senior members of that party being invited by foreign missions in the country, to present on high profile diplomatic meetings.CCC leader, Nelso…

Published: 24 Oct 2022 at 17:38hrs | | by Diplomatic Agencies

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

'Zim prison, a crime against humanity' twittered Biti, prisoner - true all because selling out on reforms

Tendai Biti, MDC A vice President, has been arrested and will spend Friday night in a Police Prison. He is charged with assault, after calling a Russian woman an idiot.Biti has denied any wrong doing and claims the arrest is to stop him an…

Published: 05 Dec 2020 at 00:04hrs | 2 | by Patrick Guramatunhu

'We need NTA or heading for Armageddon' - no, we there and Zanu PF will drag us past no-return

Zimbabwe has sleep-walked into "failed state" and now the country is heading for dark dungeons of Armageddon!"We need a national transitional authority (NTA), we need a soft landing for our country, if we do not do that we are heading for …

Published: 05 Sep 2019 at 08:43hrs | 5 | by Wilbert Mukori

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 | 2 | by Elijah Chihota

Tendai Biti speaks on ZESA blackout

MDC Vice President Tendai Biti says the Emmerson Mnangagwa led government will not be able to fix the current socio-economic challenges bedevilling the country. Zimbabwe is currently facing cash shortage, electricity blackout and sky rocke…

Published: 05 Jul 2019 at 10:09hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu

Tendai Biti calls on Ramaphosa to intervene in Zimbabwe's crisis

MDC Vice President Tendai Biti has invited South Africa's President Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa to intervene in the Zimbabwe's crisis by mediating in the national dialogue. Biti who was addressing a SAPES Trust meeting on Thursday said Zimbab…

Published: 28 Jun 2019 at 10:34hrs | 13 | by Mandla Ndlovu

'ZANU PF now a threat to the country' says Biti

MDC Vice President Tendai Biti says the SI 142 of 2019 gazetted on Monday by Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube is the last straw that shall lead to the removal of ZANU PF from power. On Monday Ncube banned the use of foreign currency in the co…

Published: 25 Jun 2019 at 10:23hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu

'Reforms are empty words, lipstick on Zanu PF crocodile' - and MDC meerkat

I once watched a documentary on a family of meerkats. In their daily foraging they group came across an ostrich egg. The whole group was certainly very excited with the find, there was a lot of good food here. The billion dollar challenge …

Published: 20 Jun 2019 at 06:34hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori

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

Government speaks on new Zim currency

The Deputy Minister of Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services Energy Mutodi has poured cold water on revelations by former Minister of Finance Tendai Biti that Zimabbwe would be introducing a new currency this week.Mutodi accused…

Published: 11 Feb 2019 at 12:00hrs | 3 | by Mandla Ndlovu

New Zim currency expected this week

Former Finance Minister Tendai Biti has revealed that government will be introducing a new currency this week as promised by current Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube that the country will soon adopt its own currency. "The regime will this wee…

Published: 11 Feb 2019 at 08:28hrs | 9 | by Mandla Ndlovu

Strong DRC Church shames puppet Zimbabwe Christians

The win by the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) opposition's Felix Tshisekedi in the recently held long-overdue elections certainly did not come on a silver platter - as witnessed by the current  president's refusal to relinquish po…

Published: 10 Jan 2019 at 09:39hrs | 3 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana

Tendai Biti speaks on fuel crisis

MDC Deputy National Chairperson Tendai Biti says the fuel queues in Zimbabwe are the most bizarre ever seen and must be captured on camera and kept as a documentary as a reminder of the difficult phase that Zimbabweans went through. "The f…

Published: 09 Jan 2019 at 08:40hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu

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

Do not kill a dead snake!

This is what former President of South Africa Jacob Zuma said in reference to Thabo Mbeki who was voted out of the party and government as party leader and president of South Africa in Polokwane. This short headline is an adage; do not cri…

Published: 28 Aug 2018 at 15:49hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata

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

Biti charged for inciting violence

MDC Alliance principal Tendai Biti has been charged for inciting violence and illegally announcing results. He appeared before Harare Magistrate Francis Mapfumo at the Rotten Row Magistrates' Court on Thursday.Bail is set at $5000 and the …

Published: 09 Aug 2018 at 16:37hrs | 2 | by Simbarashe Sithole

Political violence, deplorable and red flags ignored

Wednesday's awful shooting gave us lot to discuss as this day dawns, so let's get straight to it.. If the government and local police authorities unwilling to address violent protesters, it will fuel the perception that some sorts of polit…

Published: 02 Aug 2018 at 13:22hrs | 3 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza

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

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

Will Zanu PF rig the elections? May be yes/no/what if/but! replied 'indecisive' Biti

Former US Ambassador to Zimbabwe, Chris Dell, characterised the late MDC leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, in a leaked cable to Washington as "a flawed and indecisive character." Time has proven the ambassador was spot-on and, worse still, that t…

Published: 20 Apr 2018 at 19:11hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai

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

Time for Zimbabweans to fight for their future

It is my heart's desire to be on God's side of this battle for justice and liberation of my people. I have a particular burden that occupies my heart, it is my desire to fight on behalf of the oppressed poor. It's not that I don't have com…

Published: 30 Oct 2017 at 12:52hrs | 1 | by Tendai Mazenge

Chinamasa turns down Tendai Biti proposal

FORMER finance minister Patrick Chinamasa turned down a job offer at Tendai Biti Law firm, the People's Democratic Party (PDP) revealed this week.Chinamasa is a trained lawyer and a former Attorney General. He was finance minister between …

Published: 14 Oct 2017 at 15:40hrs | | by Staff reporter

Biti wants ZEC replaced by UN trusteeship - useless reinvention, triangle shaped wheel

Tendai Biti and his MDC friends have refused to acknowledge they failed to implement the democratic reforms designed to stop Zanu PF vote rigging and are now coming up with all manner of solutions shy of calling for the implementation of t…

Published: 12 Jul 2017 at 06:28hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori

Tsvangirai should appoint Tendai Biti and Welshman Ncube to lead negotiations

With due respect no one can dispute the fact that Morgan Tsvangirai is the father of democracy and the most respected opposition leader who can be accepted by all common loving Zimbabweans. This fact remains and it's binding. People should…

Published: 04 Jul 2017 at 10:30hrs | 1 | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo

Zimbabwe Needs Economic Solutions Not Livestock Talk Show

Survival of many depend on economic activities. If we would take a critical analysis on how the economy has been performing we can barely say Zimbabwe has literally collapsed economically and there is need the Government of Zimbabwe to com…

Published: 19 Apr 2017 at 13:21hrs | | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo

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

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