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Hands off King Lobengula, he was not a Zimbabwean!
Unformed, ignorant and reckless Zimbabwe satirists, journalists, whatever they call themselves, should be advised that His Majesty, King Lobengula of Matabeleland was not a Zimbabwean. Ingqungqulu Ema...Published: 24 Dec 2023 at 09:46hrs | 14 | by Israel Dube
Chamisa's political own-goal
FRENCH realist, painter and sculptor Edgar Degas once retorted: "What a horrible thing yellow is."He made this statement after discovering that despite the colour being associated with cheerfu...Published: 30 Jan 2022 at 08:18hrs | 1 | by Major Action Mandingo (Retired)
Rebranding is a matter of life and death for MDC-Alliance
WILLIAM Shakespeare, the 16th century English playwright who once prominently featured on the Zimbabwean Ordinary Level and Advanced Level English literature school curriculum, once rhetorically asked...Published: 16 Jan 2022 at 18:16hrs | 8 | by Taona T. Denhere
Zimbabweans abusing social media to bolster fake abuses
When many protests go unnoticed, creating drama can seem like a good strategy to draw attention. But if they become self-harming and harming others the public opinion can turn against the protestors....Published: 08 Oct 2021 at 18:57hrs | 7 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
View from Up Here: Gukurahundi Genocide: An Open Wound Part 1
Gukurahundi is a thorny issue for our leaders. They do not want to talk about it, neither do they want it discussed. The objective is to relegate it to the dustbins of history. But can a nation move o...Published: 24 Apr 2021 at 09:21hrs | 1 | by Peter Muzira
How to wreck a political party
One of the issues that MDC Alliance leader, Nelson Chamisa raised during his Agenda 2021 address last week were claims that Government was gunning for a one party State in Zimbabwe using some oppositi...Published: 22 Mar 2021 at 06:05hrs | 1 | by Nobleman Runyanga
MDC Alliance abduction skeletons tumble
A FORMER MDC official, Nqobizitha Khumalo, who is now with the People Democratic Party (PDP) has revealed how the opposition party has been faking abductions and causing terror in the country through ...Published: 05 Dec 2020 at 06:03hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
MDC: Beyond Congress politics
The Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) 2019 National Elective Congress has come and gone. Amongst many other things, the key achievements of the congress were uniting the party to as nearest to its ...Published: 06 Jun 2019 at 09:46hrs | | by Dadirai Chivimbiso Bvute
Why unity is unachievable for Chamisa's MDC
Leading to election 2018, we saw the formation of what is now called the MDC - Alliance on the backdrop of massive campaigning for a united front against Zanu-PF, not around a common cause or unity of...Published: 13 May 2019 at 08:47hrs | 1 | by Reason Wafawarova
Outcry on Maridadi's appointment: Much ado about nothing
The appointment of former MDC legislator for Mabvuku-Tafara, James Maridadi as one of the 15 ambassadors- designate, has torched a storm which, nonetheless, is much ado about nothing.Section 1...Published: 08 Apr 2019 at 20:06hrs | 1 | by Tafara Shumba
Mnangagwa plans to appoint more MDC official to key govt positions
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa plans to appoint more opposition officials to key government positions notwithstanding his continuing brawl with MDC boss Nelson Chamisa - who has adamantly refused to...Published: 05 Apr 2019 at 16:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Intra-party hostilities sink Chamisa's MDC at polls
THE defeat of the MDC Alliance in last weekend's Ward 28 council by-election in Cowdray Park, Bulawayo, to Zanu-PF is symptomatic of the problems bedeviling the country's biggest opposition party, whi...Published: 05 Apr 2019 at 10:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa fishes in Chamisa's pond
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa plans to appoint more opposition officials to key government positions notwithstanding his continuing brawl with MDC boss Nelson Chamisa - who has adamantly refused to rec...Published: 05 Apr 2019 at 07:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa appoints Maridadi ambassador
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has picked former MDC legislator for Mabvuku-Tafara, James Maridadi for a role as an ambassador.The former Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation disc jockey, Maridadi'...Published: 03 Apr 2019 at 20:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC-Alliance congress exposes log in party's eye
Time has an uncanny habit of exposing hypocrisy, and often times, vindicating formally perceived villains. It is a double-edged sword. In Zimbabwe, time has helped us unravel the duplicitous behaviour...Published: 02 Apr 2019 at 07:59hrs | | by Philemon Mutedzi
Mnangagwa taps ex-MDC MP for role as ambassador
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has picked former MDC MP for Mabvuku-Tafara James Maridadi for a role as an ambassador in a move likely to torch debate in the country's political circles.Maridadi...Published: 30 Mar 2019 at 17:28hrs | | by newzimbabwe
MDC revealing its true colours
The split prone MDC faces arguably its strongest test post-Tsvangirai era, when that party commences its elective congress from 24 May 2019 to 26 May 2019. Contradictory statements have alread...Published: 05 Mar 2019 at 11:14hrs | | by Claver Nyuki
Zimbabweans' lives are not bargaining chips
TRUE to the base instinct of human nature - that subconscious urge or behaviour directed by primeval, animalistic, self-serving, and/or ignoble motivations - some people have quickly rushed to complet...Published: 16 Nov 2018 at 05:54hrs | | by Conway Tutani
MDC Chamisa slammed over post-election violence
THE disturbances that led to the death of six people and damage to property on August 1 could have been avoided if the MDC-Alliance had allowed the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission to announce presidenti...Published: 14 Nov 2018 at 05:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Khupe earmarked for a diplomatic posting
Speculation is rife within the MDC led by Thokozani Khupe that its leader could be earmarked for a diplomatic posting in President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government.This follows claims on social...Published: 17 Sep 2018 at 14:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Top govt posts for Khupe?
Speculation is rife between the MDC led by Thokozani Khupe that its leader could be earmarked for a diplomatic posting in President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government. This follows claims on soci...Published: 17 Sep 2018 at 07:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF, MDC salute Trudy Stevenson
BOTH the ruling Zanu PF and opposition MDC Alliance parties yesterday briefly set aside their differences and saluted the late Trudy Stevenson, who served as Zimbabwean ambassador to Senegal and The G...Published: 08 Sep 2018 at 08:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Trudy Stevenson's body arriving tomorrow
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Trade say the remains of the late diplomat and Zimbabwe's Ambassador to Senegal, Ambassador Trudy Stevenson, who died in Senegal on 24 August, wil...Published: 02 Sep 2018 at 19:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Trudy Stevenson to be cremated
THE family of Zimbabwe's former Ambassador to Senegal, Mrs Trudy Stevenson, yesterday announced she will be cremated next Friday. In an announcement on her Twitter handle, the family said: "Th...Published: 01 Sep 2018 at 08:51hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Repatriation of Stevenson body underway
Preparations for the repatriation of the remains of late Zimbabwean ambassador to Senegal and The Gambia Mrs Trudy Stevenson are underway in the north western African country.In a telephone in...Published: 28 Aug 2018 at 20:07hrs | 6 | by Staff Reporter
Ambassador Trudy Stevenson found dead
Zimbabwe's ambassador to Senegal and the Gambia Ms Trudy Stevenson has died.She was 73.Ambassador Stevenson was reportedly found dead at her residence in Dakar, Senegal, today....Published: 24 Aug 2018 at 18:53hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Leaked - Chamisa's Cabinet
Before reading: Please note that these are Sam Wezhira's views and they do not represent those of Bulawayo24.com...Published: 23 Jul 2018 at 20:09hrs | 3 | by Sam Wezhira
Zimbabwe postal vote row fuels political tensions
THE political furore over the postal voting process, the latest battlefront between opposition parties and the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has fuelled political tensions ahead of general elect...Published: 20 Jul 2018 at 15:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chigumba hits back at critics
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC)'s handling of the July 30 presidential, parliamentary and local government elections came under sharp scrutiny last week after the opposition MDC Alliance claim...Published: 15 Jul 2018 at 16:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Chamisa's militia created to counter Mugabe's youth brigade
MDC-T elections secretary Murisi Zwizwai told a political debate radio show that its 'Order of the Vanguard' youth outfit which was widely condemned as a version of Zanu PF's Chipangano and Green Bomb...Published: 29 May 2018 at 14:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Incredible claims in party manifestos
Several opposition parties and President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s ruling Zanu-PF have launched their manifestos, all projecting themselves as committed to providing a messianic solution to the vast majo...Published: 27 May 2018 at 16:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
The MDC Alliance and its anti-women DNA exposed
When the MDC Alliance was launched in Harare in August 2017, the immediate reaction of most progressive Zimbabweans was that the political grouping was conspicuous by the absence of women in its leade...Published: 18 May 2018 at 10:30hrs | 7 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Mnangagwa, Zanu-PF have absolutely nothing to hide
When we reflect on our days as children and the games we used to play, in most cases hide and seek appears to rank extremely high on the list. The main reason could be the adventurous nature of the ga...Published: 04 May 2018 at 07:17hrs | | by Obi Egbuna Jnr Simunye
Trudy Stevenson quits MDC
Lottie Gertrude "Trudy" Stevenson is a remarkable political survivor, appointed as Zimbabwean Ambassador to Senegal in 2009 during the GNU as a deployee of the MDC led by Welshman Ncube.A form...Published: 04 Apr 2018 at 15:23hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa calls African leaders to shift focus
President Emmerson Mnangagwa says the current crop of political leaders in Africa now need to shift focus from political nationalism to economic nationalism and the integration of economies in order t...Published: 27 Mar 2018 at 15:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
The tragedy of MDC-T orphans
What reforms are you talking about Nelson? Political space has been opened and more than 100 political parties will contest in the elections, but you still want to cause confusion with the unsaleable ...Published: 25 Mar 2018 at 08:50hrs | | by Vukani Madoda
MDC-T: A tradition of political violence
As the pre-election season rolls on, the MDC-T leader, Nelson Chamisa continues to address people as both that party's leader and the MDC Alliance presidential elections candidate. He has so far held ...Published: 15 Mar 2018 at 16:20hrs | | by Nobleman Runyanga
MDC-T's politics of 'shayisano'
While elections are the embodiment of democracy, it is crucial that they be prefixed by "free and fair" to achieve their true objective feat, otherwise they become soiled with non-credibility....Published: 11 Mar 2018 at 09:21hrs | | by Nyakurerwa-Matinde
Violence damages MDC-T credibility
INTRA-PARTY violence currently engulfing the MDC-T and the party's propensity for resolving leadership squabbles through brutality have disproved the mantra that the opposition formation is deeply roo...Published: 09 Mar 2018 at 12:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC-T violence cross-examined
Succession wars rock MDC again, MDC Bulawayo violence hugely condemned, MDC intra party violence worrisome. Bloody clashes rock MDC T, MDC T succession violence and tribalism. These are some of the he...Published: 09 Mar 2018 at 09:35hrs | | by Believe Chikomo.
Forthcoming election is a no contest
OUR politics is entering uncharted territory. In one day, a Presidential candidate wishes his putative opponent good luck in the coming elections and hopes that the campaign will be peaceful, and ...Published: 09 Mar 2018 at 05:51hrs | | by Tinomudaishe Chinyoka
MDC-T drama: We have learnt very little about the past 37 years
Yesterday when Robert Mugabe celebrated his 94th birthday after 37 years of initial hope and then subsequent plunder and a ruinous rule, it is an important point and day where one must reflect on wher...Published: 23 Feb 2018 at 12:21hrs | | by Hopewell Chin'ono
Tsvangirai burial was never going to be complete without violence
THE burial on Tuesday of the late MDC-T leader Mr Morgan Tsvangirai was never going to be complete without incidents of violence that he often used to crush dissent in the party.Mr Tsvangirai,...Published: 22 Feb 2018 at 05:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
WATCH: ZBC reporter tells interviewee what to say on camera
A ZBC reporter who was caught on camera telling an interviewee what to say has been criticized by many people on social media.Zimbabwe Ambassador to Senegal and the Gambia, Trudy Stevenson on ...Published: 09 Feb 2018 at 13:56hrs | | by Staff Reporter
The folly of MDC's mission of shame
The latest excursion to the West by the MDC, donning the new coat of "Alliance", is nothing more than the opposition returning to its treacherous roots. The MDC, with the help of the United States (US...Published: 15 Dec 2017 at 05:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai and the violent DNA
ATTEMPTS by MDC-T leader Mr Morgan Tsvangirai to shift blame on the violence that rocked his party at the weekend is not only laughable but betrays the hypocrisy of the opposition leader accused by hi...Published: 09 Aug 2017 at 11:07hrs | | by Nduduzo Tshuma
MDC-T violence timeline
When Elton Mangoma was beaten up, Tsvangirai's supporters said he had merely been "scratched" and was seeking attention.- September 2001: MDC lawmakers - Priscilla Misihairabwi-Mushonga,...Published: 08 Aug 2017 at 08:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai and how he deals with opposing views
Violent clashes erupted yesterday at the MDC party offices after a dozen party youths stormed the meeting that was being addressed by deputy president Thokozani Khupe.According to witnesses, a...Published: 07 Aug 2017 at 14:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC-T intra-party violence deplorable
The Zimbabwe Peace Project condemns an incident of intra-party violence that occurred at the MDC-T offices in Bulawayo on 6 August 2017. A yet unverified number of youths barged into the meeting disru...Published: 07 Aug 2017 at 11:48hrs | | by zimpeaceproject
'Youths remain Tsvangirai's tools ready to be deployed to settle differences'
As the 2018 beckons, the MDC-T brand is growing increasingly unattractive to donors, unattractive to fence-sitters, unattractive to new political entrants, and - what's scary in this day and age - the...Published: 07 Aug 2017 at 10:38hrs | | by Felix Chiororo on Facebook
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