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'There are no 2023 elections without reforms' said Chamisa - same s***t different elections
Same s***t different day! That really sums up beautifully what Nelson Chamisa's E-Rally was about!"We want political reforms and these reforms must have people's consultation. We want credible...Published: 2 hrs ago | 801 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Chamisa says he is still in charge
OPPOSITION MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has assured his followers that he is still in charge of the main opposition political party in Zimbabwe, and dismissed what MDC-T leaders Thokozani Khupe,...Published: 22 hrs ago | 4134 | by Staff reporter
Douglas Mwonzora nominated for MDC-T Presidency
Former aide to MDC-T leader Thokozani Khupe, Witness Dube has thrown his support behind MDC-T Secretary General Douglas Mwonzora in the battle for the control of the soul of the party. In an u...Published: 02 Jul 2020 at 09:21hrs | 15890 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Is Khupe an MDC or Zanu-PF creation?
Zimbabwe is at crossroads, the economy is in decline, deprivation continues, with ordinary citizens yearning for reprieve from the challenges to do with daily survival.Grace KwinjeThis is ...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 20:06hrs | 3034 | by Grace Kwinjeh
Amending constitution unfair, undemocratic
To be frank, the late former president Robert Mugabe made so many errors of commission and omission during his 37-year rule.However, in my singular opinion he also omitted to groom a successor...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 08:09hrs | 289 | by Martin Stobart
Denial, blame game: Root cause of opposition failure
Back in my village, in the proverbial land of milk honey and dust - Guruve - my clique of friends often meet at the growth point early morning on weekends to buy bread or newspapers. Here, we ...Published: 26 Jun 2020 at 06:52hrs | 116 | by Isdore Guvamombe
Khupe targets Chamisa's MDC Alliance partners
INTERIM MDC-T President Thokozani Khupe has shifted a geared up in attempts to grow her dominance over rival Nelson Chamisa's MDC Alliance and is now courting opposition political party leaders who ar...Published: 22 Jun 2020 at 07:59hrs | 6315 | by newzimbabwe
'Khupe has received nothing, publicly or privately from Zanu-PF' - MDC-T
OPPOSITION MDC-T led by Dr Thokozani Khupe has hit back at its detractors who are alleging that the formation was a Zanu-PF project noting that those who were peddling such falsehoods were att...Published: 21 Jun 2020 at 09:44hrs | 2747 | by Staff Reporter
Komichi spied against Chamisa
THE Thokozani Khupe-led MDC-T party chairman Morgen Komichi yesterday unwittingly exposed that he was a spy who worked to destabilise and undermine MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa.Addressin...Published: 20 Jun 2020 at 08:38hrs | 7854 | by Staff reporter
MDC and politics of denial psychology and deflection
WE are a pretty impressionable people. We all like to say that we are independent, free individuals who make up our own minds, but the reality is that we are heavily influenced by the company we keep....Published: 19 Jun 2020 at 08:23hrs | 1699 | by Jonathan Chando
Chamisa now keen to resolve his political differences with Mnangagwa
DESPITE the ructions tearing the MDC apart, Nelson Chamisa says he remains ready to engage with President Emmerson Mnangagwa, in a bid to try and end the country's worsening political and economic cri...Published: 17 Jun 2020 at 17:57hrs | 6487 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa now keen to talk with Mnangagwa
DESPITE the ructions tearing the MDC apart, Nelson Chamisa says he remains ready to engage with President Emmerson Mnangagwa, in a bid to try and end the country's worsening political and economic cri...Published: 17 Jun 2020 at 07:12hrs | 15669 | by Staff reporter
Smaller MDC-T is dead, says Khupe
THE smaller MDC-T led by Thokozani Khupe died upon a court reinstatement of the original MDC-T as the main opposition in the country.This was said by Khupe through her spokesperson Khalipani P...Published: 15 Jun 2020 at 07:16hrs | 8306 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa pulled the plug on shady Covid-19 deals, claims Charamba
WITH the advent of the global pandemic, coronavirus (Covid-19), many civil society organisations have called for transparency in the use of various donations that the government has been receiving....Published: 14 Jun 2020 at 19:01hrs | 1972 | by Staff reporter
'Chamisa is hindering talks with Mnangagwa'
NELSON Chamisa's alleged "big-headedness" and refusal to join the Political Actors Dialogue (Polad) has hampered much-needed national dialogue to help resolve Zimbabwe's myriad challenges, presidentia...Published: 14 Jun 2020 at 11:21hrs | 10103 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: Chief Ndiweni's lawyer Dumisani Dube arrested
Bulawayo lawyer Dumisani Dube has been arrested by Police Special Anticorruption Unit on allegations of defeating justice in obtaining a court order in a matter which is still pending in court to the ...Published: 06 Jun 2020 at 11:16hrs | 8726 | by Mandla Ndlovu
NSC reshuffle irks allies
The recent reshuffle of the MDC Alliance National Standing Committee by the alliance's stressed leader, Nelson Chamisa, has peeved his top lieutenants who believe the reordering was hurriedly done to ...Published: 03 Jun 2020 at 16:25hrs | 7191 | by John Sigauke
Latest on court case against Welshman Ncube over MDC dissolution
An activist of the now defunct MDC (Green) Ntokozo Tshikizamkhonto Tshili who had in the past threatened to sue Professor Welshman Ncube over what he termed the illegal dissolution of MDC says the par...Published: 03 Jun 2020 at 11:14hrs | 11020 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mashakada crushes Chamisa Parliament boycott call
The outcome of Court the SC and High Court judgements have clearly leveraged the MDC-T led by Dr Thokozani Khupe and put the MDC Alliance into an invidious position. The MDC Alliance has lost the lawf...Published: 02 Jun 2020 at 20:16hrs | 10962 | by Dr Tapiwa Mashakada: M DA Alliance Secretary for Policy & Research
MDC Alliances loses confidence in Adv Mpofu?
MDC bigwigs in the Nelson Chamisa-led faction have expressed concern over the continued loss of MDC court cases by the opposition party's top lawyer Advocate Thabani Mpofu.A source within the ...Published: 27 May 2020 at 20:13hrs | 2982 | by Christopher Makaza
Mwonzora 2 Chamisa 0
THE day of reckoning came sooner than expected, as events outpaced and outdated fortunes in the mainstream opposition. It does read that the alliance's top names have now come to face the reality that...Published: 27 May 2020 at 07:56hrs | 9644 | by Robert Sigauke
Welshman Ncube to be taken to court over dissolving MDC Green
An activist of the now defunct MDC (Green) Ntokozo Tshikizamkhonto Tshili has threatened to sue its former President Professor Welshman Ncube over what he termed the illegal dissolution of the party....Published: 26 May 2020 at 19:32hrs | 5946 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mwonzora barricade on ex-MDC-T chair Lovemore Moyo possible return
REINSTATED MDC-T secretary general Douglas Mwonzora has placed legal barricades on a possible return to the MDC fold by former party chairman Lovemore Moyo.Mwonzora has emerged de facto protag...Published: 26 May 2020 at 07:15hrs | 6943 | by newzimbabwe
MDC Alliance was on the right direction until......
The MDC Alliance was on the right direction until Komichi, Mwonzora and others decided to drag the party into the gutter for their personal political interests. All party cadres and structures should ...Published: 24 May 2020 at 10:10hrs | 4612 | by Christopher Nyamandi
Lovemore Moyo snubs Welshman's 30 pieces of silver?
FORMER MDC-T national chairperson, Lovemore Moyo has distanced himself from the fierce battles raging over the control of the main MDC party pitting Nelson Chamisa's MDC Alliance on one hand as well a...Published: 24 May 2020 at 09:09hrs | 4124 | by Staff reporter
Lovemore Moyo fuels Chamisa, Khupe fight intrigue
MOVES to rally MDC veterans behind Nelson Chamisa in the fight for the control of Zimbabwe's mainstream opposition party have taken a new dimension with reports that former party chairman Lovemore Moy...Published: 24 May 2020 at 08:59hrs | 3504 | by Staff reporter
PHOTO: Lovemore Moyo visits Welshman Ncube
Former MDC-T Chairman Lovemore Moyo made a flash visit to MDC Alliance Vice President Professor Welshman Ncube on Saturday. Confirming the meeting on Twitter, Ncube said, "Mr Speaker Sir, Hono...Published: 23 May 2020 at 15:37hrs | 6647 | by Mandla Ndlovu
The Zimbabwean dilemma: Currently there is no alternative to Zanu-PF
The dilemma of the suffering Zimbabweans who have hope in the opposition is engraved in class struggle spiced up by intra-party fighting, tribalism, nepotism, domination for purposes of exploitation w...Published: 21 May 2020 at 19:42hrs | 4158 | by Chadya Tapiwa Diamond
8 MDC Alliance rebel MPs attend Parliament
MDC Alliance co-vice president Welshman Ncube has described as "rebellious", eight party MPs who on Tuesday defied a party directive to disengage from all parliamentary business and attended sittings....Published: 21 May 2020 at 07:15hrs | 4531 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa, Khupe camps in early talks to end brawl
IT HAS emerged that warring MDC factions are engaging in tentative talks, in a bid to end their damaging power feud, the Daily News on Sunday revealed.This comes as concerned insiders have als...Published: 17 May 2020 at 19:57hrs | 10165 | by Staff reporter
Joshua Nkomo's symbolism in Matabeleland's search for true freedom
BackgroundIt all began with Sipho Malunga's speech which was virtually delivered in honour of the late revered Zimbabwe nationalist, Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo, on the occasion of his annual Memorial Le...Published: 17 May 2020 at 09:40hrs | 805 | by George M Mkhwanazi
Fighting for nothing, living for anything
Blessed are those who will intently read Bishop Lazi's sermon today and take it to heart for they will be able to see the future.You see, politics is not a beauty pageant: You cannot just catw...Published: 17 May 2020 at 09:17hrs | 143 | by Bishop Lazarus
Mudzuri pleads for church, chiefs mediation into MDC fall-out
MDC top politician and senator, Elias Mudzuri has called on church leaders, traditional chiefs, business executives, among some prominent figures within society, to help bring together the party's feu...Published: 17 May 2020 at 09:16hrs | 649 | by newzimbabwe
Joshua Nkomo's symbolism in Matabeleland's search for true freedom
It all began with Sipho Malunga's speech which was virtually delivered in honour of the late revered Zimbabwe nationalist, Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo, on the occasion of his annual Memorial Lecture Series o...Published: 16 May 2020 at 14:12hrs | 1212 | by George M Mkhwanazi
Time to hold MDC leaders to account
IT was in 2000 when I had just begun my "A" level studies at Rupare High school in Bikita, Masvingo.We were going towards the 2000 parliamentary election. Zanu-PF had just lost a constitutiona...Published: 15 May 2020 at 08:27hrs | 2666 | by Moses Tofa
Arrogance vs ignorance: How the MDC's lurching deeper into chaos
RECENTLY, I wrote two articles which were both published in the Zimbabwe Independent. The first was an opinion piece titled The MDC imbroglio is devastating for the opposition. In the opinion piece, I...Published: 15 May 2020 at 08:16hrs | 754 | by Jonathan Chando
MDC must show strength and defy headwinds
THE ongoing battle for the heart and soul of the MDC is unfortunate, coming at a time Zimbabwe needs a strong, united and focussed opposition to tackle President Emmerson Mnangagwa's incompetent admin...Published: 15 May 2020 at 08:10hrs | 595 | by Owen Gagare
MDC Vice President Lynette Karenyi-Kore joins Thokozani Khupe?
Senior journalist Zenzele Ndebele has reported that information reaching him indicates that top MDC leaders have dumped the faction led Nelson Chamisa and joined the smaller faction led by Thokozani K...Published: 13 May 2020 at 18:19hrs | 5957 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mwonzora 2 - Chamisa 0
The day of reckoning came sooner than expected, as events outpace and outdate fortunes in the mainstream opposition. It does read that the alliance's top names have now came to face the reality that t...Published: 13 May 2020 at 11:53hrs | 6057 | by Robert Sigauke, Political Commentator, Johannesburg
It's now clear why Tsvangirai couldn't ascend to power
RECENT events within the main opposition are living proof that the late founder of the MDC in 1999, Morgan Tsvangirai, was all but surrounded by insincere, dishonest and mean-spirited people.T...Published: 12 May 2020 at 08:02hrs | 6875 | by Learnmore Zuze
Victoria Falls mayor disowns resignation letter
REINSTATED Victoria Falls Mayor Councillor Somveli Dlamini has disowned a letter he reportedly wrote resigning from the mayor's position, saying the MDC Alliance leadership drafted it and forced him t...Published: 12 May 2020 at 07:40hrs | 529 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's suicidal response to internal storms
Following the March 31, 2019, Supreme Court ruling which declared that the MDC leader, Nelson Chamisa's ascension to the leadership of that party in 2018 was unprocedural, there has been turmoil in th...Published: 11 May 2020 at 08:16hrs | 2011 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Welshman Ncube told to quit politics
Former MDC Chief Communications Strategist Gifford Mehluli Sibanda has urged MDC Alliance Vice President to retire from politics and focus on building a legacy in the legal fraternity. Writing...Published: 10 May 2020 at 17:09hrs | 5389 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Reality check on Parliamentary recall
FOUR Movement for Democratic Change legislators were recalled from Parliament on May 5, 2020.Charlton Hwende, Prosper Mutseyami, Thabitha Khumalo and Lillian Timveos' seats were declared vacan...Published: 10 May 2020 at 07:28hrs | 422 | by Tinashe D. Hofisi
Advocate Thabani Mpofu is failing the MDC-Alliance dismally! I should be forgiven if I say he is an implant
You do not need to be a lawyer to recognize the chronic errors MDC-Alliance made after Richard Morgen Tsvangirai's death. It is equally surprising that a political party blessed with several lawyers, ...Published: 09 May 2020 at 20:26hrs | 8612 | by Nomazulu Thata
MDC Alliance candidate questions party's legality
LOSING MDC Alliance parliamentary candidate for Zaka West in the 2018 general elections claims the umbrella political party did not field any candidate in that year's general election but instead cand...Published: 09 May 2020 at 08:09hrs | 1802 | by newzimbabwe
Mutodi hints on scrapping by-elections to accommodate MDC-T nominees
INFORMATION Deputy Minister Energy Mutodi has hinted that parliamentary by-elections to replace MDC Alliance MPs who were expelled from Parliament this week will be scrapped to accommodate MDC-T nomin...Published: 09 May 2020 at 07:57hrs | 1269 | by newzimbabwe
Will Tendai Biti and job Sikhala join Zanu-PF as MDC MPs are recalled?
The old saying that "if you stay in the glass house do not throw stones." It goes on to say if stones are to be thrown back you must not cry the loudest. MDC in all its shapes has been masquerading as...Published: 08 May 2020 at 19:40hrs | 6871 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
'Chamisa does not respect us' Mwonzora says
Secretary General of the small MDC faction led by Thokozani Khupe, Douglas Mwonzora has accused main MDC leader Nelson Chamisa of undermining other opposition officials. Mwonzora who was respo...Published: 07 May 2020 at 09:06hrs | 5108 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Welshman Ncube promises a strong response over Chamisa MPs recall
MDC Alliance deputy president Welshman Ncube says they anticipated the recalling of four of the party's lawmakers from parliament on Tuesday, which he says is a state-orchestrated programme to destabi...Published: 07 May 2020 at 02:01hrs | 6466 | by Staff reporter
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