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Professor Mugano's meeting with RBZ Governor raises eyebrows
Outspoken economist and long-time government critic Professor Gift Mugano has surprised many after expressing praise for the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) and its team following a meeting with the ce...Published: 24 Jul 2025 at 15:31hrs | 1825 | by Staff reporter
Visit by my nemesis ED and Chiwenga will be story of my life!" boasted Chamisa. But why nemesis!
This visit by my nemesis ED and General Chiwenga and the dynamics around it will feature prominently in the story of my life." Posted Chamisa on X accompanied by a video of motorcade of the two arrivi...Published: 11 Jan 2025 at 10:06hrs | 1571 | by Wilbert Mukori
Jonathan Moyo defends Mnangagwa's term extension, labels critics as malcontents
Exiled former Cabinet Minister Jonathan Moyo, once a vocal critic of President Emmerson Mnangagwa, has described those opposing Mnangagwa's proposed presidential term extension as malcontents....Published: 11 Jan 2025 at 08:42hrs | 1500 | by Staff reporter
Latest on alleged ZANU PF meddling in Namibia elections
Namibia's ruling party, Swapo, has strongly denied allegations of interference by Zimbabwe's Zanu-PF in the country's recent elections, calling the accusations a baseless conspiracy aimed at undermini...Published: 11 Dec 2024 at 09:04hrs | 1249 | by Nkululeko Nkomo
Freeboy was given freebies to lie, says Chamisa ally
CCC spokesperson Promise Mkwananzi has exposed that Freeman Chari was given freebies to lie on Zimbabwe's 2023 Presidential election results.Chari, a US-based software engineer and long-time o...Published: 28 Aug 2024 at 16:28hrs | 1684 | 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 ...Published: 27 Aug 2024 at 13:21hrs | 675 | by Wilbert Mukori
Jonathan Moyo tells Chamisa that 'facts are stubborn'
Former Zimbabwean minister and political analyst, Professor Jonathan Moyo, has raised questions about former opposition leader Nelson Chamisa's handling of the 2023 presidential election, suggesting t...Published: 25 Aug 2024 at 18:01hrs | 5385 | by Staff reporter
Pachedu exposes Chamisa
In last year's harmonized elections, President Mnangagwa secured 52.6 percent of the vote, while Nelson Chamisa received 44 percent. However, groups aligned with Chamisa, including Pachedu, claimed th...Published: 25 Aug 2024 at 11:27hrs | 3359 | by Staff reporter
Data from Freeman Chari is neither surprising nor new
ALTHOUGH INEXPLICABLY COMING OUT INCOMPLETE AND TOO LATE, data from Freeman Chari is neither surprising nor new. Tellingly, it vindicates ZEC and explains why:1. Nelson Chamisa did not m...Published: 24 Aug 2024 at 15:11hrs | 638 | by Prof Jonathan Moyo
Mandla reveals that Chamisa lost to Mnangagwa in 2023 Zimbabwe Presidential elections
Thank you for your patience. It is the 1st anniversary of the elections. We all worked hard to mobilize resources and encourage people to vote. We went into a flawed election hoping that maybe we coul...Published: 24 Aug 2024 at 14:54hrs | 1180 | by Freeman Chari
Chamisa prepares report for SADC leaders
Opposition leader Nelson Chamisa, facing a significant loss of political influence since last year’s elections, has now resorted to spreading misinformation and deceit in a desperate bid to remain r...Published: 17 Aug 2024 at 12:26hrs | 569 | by Staff reporter
Tshabangu takes ZEC toilet scandal to Senate
Opposition senator Sengezo Tshabangu has demanded answers from the Finance Ministry on why Treasury went ahead to disburse US$9 million towards the procurement of portable toilets and vests from a Sou...Published: 01 Jul 2024 at 04:29hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
ZEC paid US$5.4 million for fancy V11 display boxes that it never used
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) splurged US$5 million on gadgets to display digital V11 polling station forms for last August's elections - but the devices, bought at inflated prices, were onl...Published: 28 Jun 2024 at 09:16hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Opposition Politics in Zimbabwe, 1999 - 2024: An Obituary
Advocate Nelson Chamisa's capitulation last week at the behest of the fifth column led by Sengezo Tshabangu was the final nail in opposition politics in Zimbabwe. Armed with state institutions and exp...Published: 03 Feb 2024 at 09:09hrs | 13 | by Innocent Mpoki
Welshman Ncube releases more V11s on CCC debate
OPPOSITION stalwart Welshman Ncube has exposed power-hungry Citizens Coalition For Change leaders who were in the National Council who have decided to run away with the party and constituted their par...Published: 15 Dec 2023 at 09:49hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Council urges residents to open weep holes to prevent flash floods
Bulawayo City Council Chamber Secretary Sikhangele Zhou has appealed to residents to open weep holes in their precast perimeter walls to prevent flash floods during the upcoming rainy season.W...Published: 25 Nov 2023 at 10:16hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
CCC boycott of opening of Parliament risks boomeranging as only a news headline stunt with no reform headway
While CCC is well within its rights to boycott today's opening of the First Session of the 1Oth Parliament by Emmerson Mnangagwa, the boycott could in fact boomerang on CCC; and ultimately leave the p...Published: 03 Oct 2023 at 13:39hrs | | by Jonathan Moyo
Strategic Ambiguity, so near but so far
Addressing thousands of change champions on his last political rally at the Freedom Square, Chamisa highlighted to the CCC supporters that it was impossible for President Mnangagwa to rig the August 2...Published: 29 Sep 2023 at 11:55hrs | 2 | by Knowledge Hakata
'Chamisa has a solid plan.' Muscle into new GNU and thus guarantee yet another wasted opportunity to implement ALL reform
"Chamisa has a solid plan!" read the Bulawayo24 headline!If each one of Chamisa’s "solid plan" was a brick then one would have built by now a pyramid of solid brick ten kilometres square and...Published: 19 Sep 2023 at 23:27hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
UK diaspora hands over Zimbabwe poll petition
VARIOUS civic society organisations and political party representatives in the United Kingdom have handed over a petition to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak over alleged rigging during Zimbabwe's August 23...Published: 18 Sep 2023 at 07:01hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Hopewell Chin’ono says Chamisa's CCC left with a few options
Zimbabwean journalist and government critic Hopewell Chin'ono has said that Nelson Chamisa's Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) has been left with a few option on the table to overturn the recently h...Published: 10 Sep 2023 at 14:02hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
End of the road, the curtain has fallen as elected CCC councilors take their oath of office
THE CURTAIN HAS FALLEN, as elected CCC councilors took their oath of office, with elected CCC MPs set to take theirs tomorrow, on the back of the presidential oath of office taken by Emmerson Dambudzo...Published: 06 Sep 2023 at 19:00hrs | 2 | by Jonathan Moyo
Plot to subvert 2023 Presidential elections foiled
The arres tof thirty-nine (39) activists from the Zimbabwe Election Support Network (ZESN), on 23 August 2023, foiled a plot to subvert the 23 August 2023 Presidential elections.Reports from a...Published: 06 Sep 2023 at 14:30hrs | 1 | by Joice Munemo
The law cannot resolve Zimbabwe's political question
AS debate raged over the weekend on whether the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) should have gone to court in the matter of the sham election, l was and still remain unconvinced on what would have ...Published: 06 Sep 2023 at 06:20hrs | 16 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
Sadc must come clean on Zimbabwe elections
THE Southern African Development Community (Sadc) should stand with the people of Zimbabwe if it wants to restore or boost its credibility.As citizens of Zimbabwe we agree, support...Published: 05 Sep 2023 at 06:18hrs | 1 | by Kurauone Chihwayi
Mnangagwa inauguration under a dark cloud
ZIMBABWEAN President Emmerson Mnangagwa will today be inaugurated in Harare for a second term after his hotly-disputed re-election under a dark cloud of illegitimacy as the main opposition abandoned i...Published: 04 Sep 2023 at 21:12hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa sat on US$3 million from EU to finance CCC campaign?
AHEAD of the recent harmonised elections, the European Union (EU) extended US$3 million to CCC leader Mr Nelson Chamisa to build a war chest for the polls, but he sat on the money and is now facing a ...Published: 04 Sep 2023 at 21:12hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Watchers wait on Chamisa's next move
Zimbabweans and those around the world who have been watching the recently ended elections are wondering what Citizens Coalition for Change leader, Nelson Chamisa will do next after he rejected Emmers...Published: 03 Sep 2023 at 22:25hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Plot to ruin Mnangagwa's inauguration
When ZEC declared Emmerson Mnangagwa as the winner of the 2023 harmonised general election on 26 August 2023, the constitutional clock started ticking in respect of at least two constitutional timelin...Published: 03 Sep 2023 at 22:13hrs | 55 | by Jonathan Moyo
EU extended US$3 million to Chamisa to build a war chest for the polls
AHEAD of the recent harmonised elections, the European Union (EU) extended US$3 million to CCC leader Mr Nelson Chamisa to build a war chest for the polls, but he sat on the money and is now facing a ...Published: 03 Sep 2023 at 07:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa deploys Jameson Timba and Gladys Hlatshwayo to SADC countries
Nelson Chamisa has deployed Jameson Timba and Gladys Hlatshwayo to selected Sadc countries, starting with South Africa, with a Hail Mary assignment to convince key leaders in the region that he won la...Published: 02 Sep 2023 at 19:37hrs | | by Jonathan Moyo
Mkomana's thirst for power exposed
"DEMOCRACY cannot survive when one side believes there are only two outcomes to an election; either they win, or they were cheated. That is not democracy. And that is where the vast majority of Maga R...Published: 31 Aug 2023 at 06:43hrs | 19 | by Sikhumbuzo Moyo
Where’s the logic in fresh elections under the same unfair conditions?
As the opposition CCC struggles to agree on a way forward after the clearly disputed harmonized elections in Zimbabwe - there have been several options thrown around.In a plebiscite that was w...Published: 30 Aug 2023 at 23:46hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Blunders expose Zec, according to Mumba
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec)'s false pronouncements before and after the elections have exposed the electoral body which now stands accused of misleading the nation.On August 18, fo...Published: 30 Aug 2023 at 06:47hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Archbishop Ndanga endorses elections
President of the African Christian Council International (ACCI), Archbishop Johannes Ndanga has endorsed the just ended Presidential elections saying allegations of rigging by Advocate Nelson Chamisa,...Published: 29 Aug 2023 at 21:32hrs | 2 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Chamisa stopped the Polling Station Point Person initiative, fearing that Biti would use it to topple him
Those in the know within CCC ranks are aware that the plan was to have what in CCC lingo was called "PSPP" [Polling Station Point Person].This would have ensured that every polling station has...Published: 29 Aug 2023 at 08:18hrs | 3 | by Jonathan Moyo
How Zec bungled a crucial poll
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec)'s move to sideline Printflow in favour of Fidelity Printers and Refiners to print ballot papers backfired during this week's crucial poll, the Zimbabwe Independ...Published: 29 Aug 2023 at 08:11hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
ZEC dismisses claims it is calling agents and observers back to sign new V11 forms
Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) has dismissed reports that polling agents and observers were being recalled to sign new V.11 forms.Social media was on Monday awash with reports of election...Published: 29 Aug 2023 at 07:11hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Why parallel vote tabulation becomes a problem
IT is not surprising but indeed disheartening that independent observers were arrested under charges that the police said would be revealed in court.When it served the interests of Zanu-PF, th...Published: 29 Aug 2023 at 07:05hrs | 2 | by Rekai Rusinga
CCC bigwig exposes party claims on V11s
A senior CCC leader in a WhatsApp group today posted the attached message, also reproduced below for ease of reading:"There were no V11s and no V23s in 2018 because we didn't have polling agen...Published: 28 Aug 2023 at 21:17hrs | | by Jonathan Moyo
ZEC dismisses fake V-11 media reports
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) has described as false social media reports that election agents and observers are being recalled to sign V11 result forms.In a statement, the electoral...Published: 28 Aug 2023 at 21:09hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa declares offensive to 'save' vote
DEFIANT opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa has rejected the August 23 and 24 election results, which saw President Emmerson Mnangagwa being declared the winner, sayin...Published: 28 Aug 2023 at 06:59hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF ready for progressive opposition, claims Mutsvangwa
Zanu-PF is ready to work with all progressive opposition political parties who participated in the just ended harmonised elections for the benefit of the people, the party's spokesperson, Christopher ...Published: 28 Aug 2023 at 06:50hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa will not wait for five years to take action
OPPOSITION Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa has rejected Zimbabwe's general election results vowing his party will not wait five more years to take action.Chamisa did ...Published: 27 Aug 2023 at 23:37hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa is a 'sore loser' says Mutsvangwa
Zanu-PF has labelled Citizens Coalition for Change leader Nelson Chamisa a sore loser after the latter refused to acknowledge the just-ended general election results.Chamisa, the main challeng...Published: 27 Aug 2023 at 15:30hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa does not have all the 12,374 V11s: The case of Chirumanzu-Zibagwe
Factually it is not true that, unlike in 2018, Chamisa this time round has all the V11s from the 12,374 polling stations that were created for the 2023 harmonised general election, because he and his ...Published: 27 Aug 2023 at 15:16hrs | 2 | by Jonathan Moyo
WATCH: Nelson Chamisa dismisses ZEC results and gives way forward
The Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa tells a Press conference in Harare that the V11 forms are showing, without doubt, that the opposition party has won Zimbabwe's presidentia...Published: 27 Aug 2023 at 15:00hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
V11s saga: Polling agents under siege
State security agents have been accused of haranguing polling agents and observers whom they are allegedly forcing to amend V11 forms used in last week's elections amid allegations of rigging....Published: 27 Aug 2023 at 13:12hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Verifying Zimbabwe presidential election results might take 2 days
VERIFYING THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION RESULT MIGHT TAKE TWO DAYSIf the verification and determination of the result for the 2023 Presidential election is completed tonight, that will be a histor...Published: 26 Aug 2023 at 19:52hrs | 1 | by Jonathan Moyo
Zanu PF is buying time delaying announcing result to 31 August. 'In the name of God, go!'
"Zimbabwe's election management body, ZEC, is seeking an urgent court order extending the period of announcing election results from 5 days as currently stipulated in the constitution to 8 days to all...Published: 26 Aug 2023 at 19:27hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
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