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MDC politician fined for assaulting opposition activist
Yvonne Musarurwa, a politician from the MDC, has been issued a $100 fine for her involvement in the assault of Kudzanai Mashumba, who served as the party's chief of protocol. This altercation had garn...Published: 26 Oct 2023 at 06:33hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean politics in generational transition
It seems there is a growth in the number of younger candidates being nominated to represent the parties in the upcoming polls.ONE of the most stubborn facts is that the old die, and the new are bo...Published: 07 May 2023 at 19:24hrs | 2 | by Ntando Dumani
Mwonzora expels Mudzuri, demotes Komichi
PLIANT opposition MDC Alliance leader Douglas Mwonzora yesterday expelled his deputy Elias Mudzuri and announced a new standing committee that saw former party chairperson Morgen Komichi being demoted...Published: 07 Feb 2023 at 05:04hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mudzuri declares no interest in any post at MDC-T Congress
FORMER Energy and Power Development minister, Elias Mudzuri, has confirmed he is not contesting for any position in the upcoming ‘flawed' MDC-T Congress set for this weekend.Mudzuri served as En...Published: 17 Dec 2022 at 12:16hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
US$1m grant splits MDC-T, infighting reaches crescendo
DIVISIONS are rocking the Douglas Mwonzora-led MDC-T over a US$1 million government grant that insiders say was abused by party officials.Rifts are widening as top officials are fighting publi...Published: 18 Nov 2022 at 05:33hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Court blocks prisoners from voting
THE High Court has dismissed with costs an application by former prisoners seeking voting rights for inmates during elections.Through their lawyer Tererai Mafukidze of the Zimbabwe Lawyers for...Published: 28 Oct 2022 at 06:28hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe legislators push for VIP prisons
LEGISLATORS have demanded for a VIP section at prisons and correctional facilities complete with good gyms so that they do not suffer from stress and mix with common criminals.This was suggest...Published: 27 Aug 2022 at 06:19hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
MDC-T bigwigs gun for deflated Mwonzora
MDC-T leader Douglas Mwonzora's days at the helm of the opposition outfit could be numbered as hawks within the party are baying for his blood, attributing the political outfit's dismal performance in...Published: 08 Apr 2022 at 19:31hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Losing MDC candidate calls for Mwonzora sacking
LOSING MDC-T parliamentary candidate for Epworth National Assembly constituency Zivai Mhetu has come out guns blazing against his party president Douglas Mwonzora, accusing him of a plethora of flaws ...Published: 02 Apr 2022 at 07:06hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Court reserves judgment in prisoners' quest to vote
HIGH Court judge Justice Munamato Mutevedzi yesterday reserved judgment in an application seeking voting rights for prisoners during elections, saying all parties involved in the matter would be notif...Published: 11 Feb 2022 at 05:46hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Prisoners demand voting right
THE High Court will for the second time hear an application filed by prisoners in 2017, seeking to be allowed to vote during elections, after the judge who initially heard the matter, Justice Clement ...Published: 12 Jan 2022 at 04:34hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
MDC-T official up for assault
A MEMBER of the MDC-T led by Mr Douglas Mwonzora, Yvonne Musarurwa, on Friday appeared in court on allegations of assaulting the chief of protocol in her party president's office while he was addressi...Published: 29 Nov 2021 at 05:28hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
MDC-T MP arrested for assault
MDC-T proportional representation MP, Yvonne Musarurwa was arrested yesterday for allegedly assaulting party vice-president Thokozani Khupe's aide Kudzanai Mashumba at a Press conference last month....Published: 26 Nov 2021 at 08:13hrs | 7 | by Staff Reporter
Mwonzora distances self from Khupe aide violence incident
MDC-T party leader Douglas Mwonzora has distanced himself and his party from former Thokozani Khupe aide Kudzanai Mashumba violence incident in which the latter attempted to hold a press conference pu...Published: 23 Oct 2021 at 06:43hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Wheels come off Mwonzora train?
ROWDY MDC-T supporters yesterday violently disrupted a fellow party member who was addressing a Press conference in Harare to expose party leader Douglas Mwonzora's alleged misuse of party funds, assa...Published: 22 Oct 2021 at 06:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora ally storms, ends press conference meant to expose theft of MDC funds
MDC-T senator Yvonne Musarurwa Thursday stormed and brought to an immature end a press conference by a party official Kudzanai Mashumba who wanted to expose how party leader Douglas Mwonzora was alleg...Published: 21 Oct 2021 at 22:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC-T distances itself from a chaotic press conference
The MDC T led by Douglas Mwonzora has distanced itself from the violent attacks that took place at a press conference held in the afternoon at Media...Published: 21 Oct 2021 at 20:54hrs | 2 | by Alice Mangwanda /Simbarashe Sithole
Chamisa's MDC raps Mwonzora 'sellouts'
THE MDC Alliance has accused legislators who became MPs on its ticket and dumped the party for the MDC-T led by Douglas Mwonzora in order to retain their positions of being sellouts who sacrificed the...Published: 24 Aug 2021 at 06:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Whose who in Mwonzora's shadow Cabinet - Full list
Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T) leader Douglas Mwonzora Thursday announced a 26-member shadow cabinet which he said will monitor and check the performance of President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s ca...Published: 19 Aug 2021 at 17:35hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe exporting waste for recycling
ZIMBABWE is now collecting waste and exporting it to Dubai for recycling, Parliament was told yesterday.This was disclosed by the Environmental Management Agency (EMA) director-general Aaron C...Published: 27 Jul 2021 at 07:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora's MDC unperturbed by ex-inmate activists joining Chamisa
THE Douglas Mwonzora led MDC-T says it respects the decision by Last Maengahama and Tungamirai Madzokere to align themselves with the rival MDC Alliance faction following the pair's recent release fro...Published: 11 Jun 2021 at 07:47hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Madzokere's pain over his lost wife after 10 years behind bars wrongly jailed
HARARE - Jailed for 10 years for a murder he might not have committed. Tungamirai Madzokere on Monday surveyed the ruins that are his personal life and remarked: "I lost everything."Madzokere ...Published: 08 Jun 2021 at 17:08hrs | 3 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Zimbabwe starts vaccinating prisoners
ZIMBABWE has started vaccinating prisoners for Covid-19 under the country's second phase vaccination programme, as the Government continues with its quest to vaccinate more than 60 percent of the popu...Published: 28 Mar 2021 at 06:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Jailed MDC activists appeal to Malaba over delayed ruling
CHIEF Justice Luke Malaba has been asked to look into a year-long delay on pronouncement of judgment on an appeal by incarcerated MDC activists Tungamira Madzokere and Last Maengahama.The two ...Published: 05 Mar 2021 at 06:29hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
MDC Youth Assembly calls for dialogue and immediate release of all political prisoners
The MDC-T Youth Assembly joins the rest of the country in commemorating National Youth Day, which is celebrated on 21 February every year. This year's commemorations are taking place against the backd...Published: 21 Feb 2021 at 09:40hrs | | by Yvonne Musarurwa
Chamisa loses more senior members?
MDC-Alliance continues to count costs after it lost more senior party officials to the MDC-T led by Mr Douglas Mwonzora, who now leads the biggest opposition party in terms of representation in Parlia...Published: 08 Feb 2021 at 05:45hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chaos rocks Mwonzora's MDC-T?
CHAOS rocked the MDC-T national executive and national council meetings on Saturday with calls for the nullification of the party's December 2020 extraordinary congress presidential election results, ...Published: 07 Feb 2021 at 19:56hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora makes 6 key MDC-T appointments
MDC-T president Douglas Mwonzora has announced several appointments to the Standing Committee during the meetings of the party's National Executive and National Council held today as an extension of t...Published: 06 Feb 2021 at 18:15hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora's MDC amends constitution, readmits Abednego Bhebhe and Dorcas Sibanda
The National Executive and National Council today met, as an extension of the Extra Ordinary Congress, to consider and resolve on a number of internally and externally focused issues. Key on t...Published: 06 Feb 2021 at 17:21hrs | | by itness Dube
Swearing in of Khupe and her MDC-T allies as MPs, Senators challenged
A Kwekwe man has sued the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) seeking to nullify the swearing into Parliament of MDC-T leader Thokozani Khupe and 14 MPs from her party following the recalls of MDC All...Published: 02 Dec 2020 at 06:36hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Khupe disempowers Chamisa
IN another move to further disempower the MDC Alliance led by Nelson Chamisa, the Thokozani Khupe-led MDC-T yesterday removed Hwange Central MP Daniel Molokele from the chairmanship of the Parliamenta...Published: 30 Oct 2020 at 06:45hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Khupe takes over as leader of the opposition in Parliament
Thokozani Khupe's opposition power grab was complete on Wednesday after she was sworn-in as an MP, along with a coterie of her supporters who were defeated in elections in 2018.The MDC-T leade...Published: 07 Oct 2020 at 18:29hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Khupe Parly return return hits a pothole
MDC-T interim leader Thokozani Khupe and her 14 party nominees' march to Parliament, where they are set to replace recalled MDC Alliance MPs, is now hanging in the balance following an urgent court ap...Published: 07 Oct 2020 at 07:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Voters ready to reject Khupe MPs'
OPPOSITION MDC Alliance secretary-general Chalton Hwende yesterday claimed that opposition supporters in different parts of the country were already mobilising to reject MPs nominated by the MDC-T led...Published: 02 Sep 2020 at 06:42hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's recalled MPs refusing to return 'Parliament' vehicles
THE GOVERNMENT has issued a stern warning to recalled MDC legislators who are refusing to return vehicles they got under parliament's car loan scheme.Thokozani Khupe, who was declared the legi...Published: 31 Aug 2020 at 19:08hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
MDC turf war escalates over vacant seats
THE messy turf war between MDC-T rival faction leaders Thokozani Khupe, who is the party's interim president, and secretary-general Douglas Mwonzora has escalated in the aftermath of hotly contested n...Published: 28 Aug 2020 at 07:25hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Khupe pushes to drown Mwonzora
THERE is no let-up to the mayhem devouring the divided MDC, with the party's interim leader Thokozani Khupe now pushing to have her secretary- general Douglas Mwonzora disciplined, the Daily News repo...Published: 26 Aug 2020 at 20:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Khupe pushing to have Mwonzora disciplined
THERE is no let-up to the mayhem devouring the divided MDC, with the party's interim leader Thokozani Khupe now pushing to have her secretary- general Douglas Mwonzora disciplined.This comes a...Published: 26 Aug 2020 at 07:30hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora, Khupe wrangle escalates
THE MDC's mindless infighting continues to escalate - with the tension between interim party leader Thokozani Khupe and her secretary-general Douglas Mwonzora now said to be approaching breaking point...Published: 25 Aug 2020 at 18:07hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo voters reject Khupe
SOME voters in Bulawayo East constituency have vowed to object the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC)'s decision to replace MDC Alliance National House of Assembly Women Proportional Representative T...Published: 25 Aug 2020 at 10:28hrs | 1 | by newzimbabwe
US continues tangling in Zimbabwean politics
Problems of African development and integration with the world have continued to attract concern in the policy making within and beyond the shores of the continent as American hegemony continues to ta...Published: 07 Dec 2018 at 15:05hrs | | by Daphine Zulu
Con-Court bench members' profiles
Chief Justice Luke MalabaLuke Malaba was born in 1951.He received his law degree from the University of Warwick in 1974, and another law degree from the University of Zimbabwe in 1982....Published: 23 Aug 2018 at 13:07hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Profiles of Zimbabwe's Constitutional Court judges
Nine Constitutional Court (ConCourt) judges will today preside over a matter which will decide on who will lead Zimbabwe for the next five years. Chief Justice Luke Malaba will lead a cast of eight ju...Published: 22 Aug 2018 at 06:26hrs | 28 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's fate lies with 9 judges
ZIMBABWE'S estimated 14 million citizens are today holding their collective breaths as the Constitutional Court bench made up of nine men and women sit to make a determination in one of the greatest p...Published: 22 Aug 2018 at 06:24hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zim prisoners in long wait over voting fate
HIGH Court Judge Justice Clement Phiri has reserved judgment after presiding over the hearing and determination of an application filed by some prisoners seeking an order compelling Zimbabwean authori...Published: 11 Jul 2018 at 18:16hrs | 3 | by Stephen Jakes
High court hears prisoners petition to vote
HIGH Court Judge Justice Clement Phiri will on Wednesday preside over the hearing and determination of an application filed by some prisoners seeking an order compelling Zimbabwean authorities to allo...Published: 10 Jul 2018 at 15:49hrs | 2 | by Stephen Jakes
Saluting brave women fighting for equality and human rights in Zimbabwe
AS is the case in all spheres of life in Zimbabwe, patriarchy rules and women despite their invaluable contributions to the country's socioeconomic as well as political development continue to play se...Published: 03 Jul 2018 at 06:57hrs | 1 | by Makho-precious Moyo
Explaining the confusion in MDC-T primaries - Part II of II
This article was originally published by ZOOMZimbabwe.com While the grassroots are eyeing the July elections, the top officials are eyeing the December...Published: 27 May 2018 at 15:29hrs | 1 | by Felix Mbonderi Chiroro
Khupe attracts only 30 people, calls off Harare manifesto launch
THE MDC-T Thokozani Khupe faction had to call off their Harare Manifesto launch after less than 30 people attended the occasion with the party's secretary general blaming the low turnout on intimidati...Published: 19 May 2018 at 15:30hrs | 2 | by Staff rpeorter
MDC-T split must not be celebrated
An MDC-T supporter Mandla Masuku has warned that the opposition political parties must not be celebrated as it means another set back to the democratic processThokozani Khupe on Saturday was e...Published: 24 Apr 2018 at 07:29hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
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