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Boardroom war rocks GMB
A VICIOUS boardroom war has erupted at the Grain Marketing Board (GMB) where top managers have either been fired or suspended and stripped of their luxury benefits.Following a messy fall-out b...Published: 22 Jan 2021 at 06:50hrs | 2064 | by Staff reporter
Illegal use of the ZPP icon by Advocate Nelson Chamisa and MDC Alliance
The Zimbabwe People's Party ZPP would like to bring to your attention that Mr Nelson Chamisa is using the icon on our logo. This is a cause for concern for us because we have seen that he is now using...Published: 20 Jan 2021 at 06:38hrs | 1365 | by Jaison Midzi
Zec criticised for suspending elections during COVID-19 lockdown period
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has been blasted for suspending electoral activities in the country during the COVID-19 lockdown period through Press releases without legal authority from a co...Published: 18 Jan 2021 at 06:23hrs | 415 | by Staff reporter
Invigilators paid with plates of isitshwala
THE country's examination body, the Zimbabwe Schools Examination Council (Zimsec) last week allegedly paid some "O" Level examination invigilators with plates of isitshwala instead of cash, which has ...Published: 18 Jan 2021 at 06:08hrs | 2485 | by Staff reporter
Another MDC leader arrested as fight for 'headlines' hots up - all deserted fight for reforms
The Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) was launched by Morgan Tsvangirai and his friends in 1999 to answer the nation's cry for democratic changes as the only way to end the de facto one party, Zanu...Published: 12 Jan 2021 at 14:16hrs | 990 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
An independent state is the only viable option for the people of Mthwakazi from the MLF president
Greetings to all! It is important to underline in addition to the emphasis on the importance of skills development for Mthwakazi which was published last week, that we look forward to fruitful...Published: 10 Jan 2021 at 15:04hrs | 730 | by Churchill Mpiyesizwe Guduza
Reasons why by-elections spook Zanu-PF
ZIMBABWE is in perpetual election mode, so there is no harm yapping on this subject even as the year is just starting and we are more than two years away from the next national polls.The west ...Published: 10 Jan 2021 at 07:53hrs | 287 | by Tawanda Majoni
MDC Alliance remains a cry baby
Whenever die-hard cadres in the MDC Alliance see smoke in the MDC-T, they wish it was hell manifesting, except that this time it is a braai not hell. It is common cause that the victims of Tho...Published: 06 Jan 2021 at 07:14hrs | 1682 | by Robert Sigauke
Zec pleads with citizens to register to vote
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has again appealed to the public to register to vote to avoid having their constituencies cut in the next delimitation exercise.This comes as Zimbabwe a...Published: 31 Dec 2020 at 16:58hrs | 905 | by Staff reporter
USAID accused of wasting US$ 10 m 'trying to democratise Zimbabwe' - penny has finally dropped in Washington
The proverbial penny has finally drop in Washington: the Americans have finally woken up to the reality they are wasting money trying to democratise Zimbabwe!"In a damning 2020 Festivus report...Published: 30 Dec 2020 at 17:22hrs | 2211 | by Wilbert Mukori
Songstress, Congress, Compress not Oppress
Whenever the die-hard cadres in the MDC Alliance see smoke in the MDC-T, they wish it was gehena manifesting, except that this it is a braai not gehena. It is common cause that the victims of Khupe's ...Published: 30 Dec 2020 at 17:19hrs | 653 | by Robert Sigauke
US wasting millions on Zimbabwe election process - Report
THE United States (US) Senate has predicted Zanu-PF leader, President Emmerson Mngangagwa, would win the 2023 presidential election despite Washington pouring in millions of dollars to democratise the...Published: 30 Dec 2020 at 07:30hrs | 852 | by Staff reporter
Zimstat gets $4bn for census
Treasury has allocated $4,4 billion to the Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (Zimstat) to carry out its activities that include conducting the 2021 population census, which is expected to culminate ...Published: 30 Dec 2020 at 07:20hrs | 158 | by Blessings Chidakwa
Sikhala 'berates' Mnangagwa - 20 years of posturing, it is reforms Mnangagwa fears
"MDC Alliance vice-chairperson Job Sikhala has said President Emmerson Mnangagwa has proved to be one of the worst authoritarian leaders to ever lead Zimbabwe, an accusation that comes as the nation n...Published: 28 Dec 2020 at 00:07hrs | 1250 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
MP takes issue with govt over commissions' funding
DZIVARASEKWA legislator Edwin Mushoriwa yesterday blasted government for its failure to fund commissions in the 2021 national budget, saying that this was a threat to democracy. Mushoriwa said...Published: 27 Dec 2020 at 08:29hrs | 209 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa targets new first-time voters
BULAWAYO'S MDC Alliance provincial youth assembly has been given a task of recruiting 12% of the targeted one million new first-time voters as the party forges ahead with its recruitment drive in a ca...Published: 27 Dec 2020 at 08:05hrs | 772 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's deepening human rights crisis under the cover of lockdown
The outbreak of the coronavirus in Africa has exerted social, economic, political, health and environmental challenges on a continent that was already on its knees.These challenges thus pose a...Published: 20 Dec 2020 at 07:19hrs | 91 | by Sitabile Dewa
'SA can nudge Zimbabwe toward stability' - not until Zimbabweans finally deal with gadflies
"For years, South Africa trusted in behind-the-scenes contacts to alleviate Zimbabwe's political and economic problems. But those troubles have continued to mount. By stepping up pressure, and by work...Published: 18 Dec 2020 at 21:20hrs | 493 | by Nomusa Garikai
Mwonzora fires salvo at MDC-Alliance
MDC-T Secretary General Douglas Mwonzora has fired pot shots at the lawyer-studded MDC-Alliance saying they have let down their members by not educating and leading them in the legal path to avoid bei...Published: 18 Dec 2020 at 06:26hrs | 4536 | by Staff reporter
Underfunded Zec likely to postpone 2023 elections
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) is likely to fail to run the 2023 harmonised elections due to gross underfunding, Parliament has disclosed.This came out in a report on the 2021 Nationa...Published: 15 Dec 2020 at 06:22hrs | 684 | by Staff reporter
ZEC gets $1.7 b (US$ 17 m) for 2023 elections - meaningless ritual and criminal waste of money
"The $1,744 billion allocated in the 2021 National Budget by Treasury to allow the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) to conduct the delimitation exercise ahead of the 2023 harmonised elections, has ...Published: 12 Dec 2020 at 18:05hrs | 389 | by Nomusa Garikai
MDC councillor convicted
BULAWAYO MDC councillor Arnold Batirai Dube was found guilty of distributing fliers at a polling station during the 2018 general elections in violation of the Electoral Act. Dube also faced a ...Published: 12 Dec 2020 at 07:05hrs | 1461 | by Staff reporter
ZEC requires $8,6 billion for delimitation exercise
The $1,744 billion allocated in the 2021 National Budget by Treasury to allow the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) to conduct the delimitation exercise ahead of the 2023 harmonised elections, has b...Published: 12 Dec 2020 at 06:50hrs | 166 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora expels a councillor by mistake
Controversial MDC-T secretary-general Douglas Mwonzora has said that MDC Alliance Masvingo Urban Ward 3 councillor Tarusenga Vhembo was expelled from the party by mistake.Vhembo is among three...Published: 10 Dec 2020 at 17:01hrs | 1701 | by Staff reporter
MDC-T recalls 4 Masvingo councillors
MDC-T leader Thokozani Khuphe has recalled four Masvingo City councillors.The four councillors are: Tarusenga Vhembo (Ward 3), Godfrey Kurauone (Ward 4), Daniel Mberikunashe (Ward 5) and Richa...Published: 09 Dec 2020 at 06:20hrs | 708 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa deals Chamisa blow
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has dealt opposition MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa another blow after allocating a paltry $2,3 billion to the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec), an amount inadequat...Published: 05 Dec 2020 at 06:24hrs | 5700 | by Staff reporter
The day of reckoning shall come
The political events on the ground already indicate what will happen in 2023 when political parties will bid for the occupation of the State House. While the time to prepare for such contestation is n...Published: 03 Dec 2020 at 09:02hrs | 1558 | by Grace Chekai
Mourner is killed in beer row
FOUR Chitungwiza men appeared in court yesterday for allegedly assaulting to death a mourner over beer, before dumping his body at the town's sewer plant. Never Zhuwawo (32), Edaldan Maponga (...Published: 03 Dec 2020 at 06:30hrs | 439 | by Staff reporter
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 | 5710 | by Staff reporter
Trump, Chamisa birds of the same feather
Outgoing United States (US) president, Donald Trump and Zimbabwe's opposition MDC Alliance leader, Nelson Chamisa both refused to concede defeat, in their separate elections. The world is surprised by...Published: 23 Nov 2020 at 14:38hrs | 823 | by Prosperity Mzila
Mnangagwa's straitjacket has no wriggle room, especially now coups are 'legal' - off with his head with crown upon it
"Zanu-PF has a constitution and under that constitution, we sit as a congress to elect our president," said Zanu PF acting national spokes-person Patrick Chinamasa."In 1977, a lot of the leade...Published: 21 Nov 2020 at 08:31hrs | 830 | by Wilbert Mukori
'Rushwaya gold could buy UniFreight, Zeco'
THE gold that underfire Zimbabwe Miners' Federation (ZMF) boss Henrietta Rushwaya allegedly tried to smuggle out of the country before running into an airport security trap about three weeks ago was e...Published: 14 Nov 2020 at 21:20hrs | 1896 | by Staff reporter
Trump, Chamisa use the same script on elections
"Stop counting the votes" screamed the outgoing United States (US) president, Donald Trump on realising that he was fast losing to the now US president-elect Joe Biden. He quickly jumped...Published: 12 Nov 2020 at 12:45hrs | 2678 | by Prosperity Mzila
ZEC gazettes 3 MDC-T seats vacancies
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) has gazetted vacancies for three more proportional representation National Assembly seats following the recall of legislators by the Dr Thokozani Khupe led MDC-...Published: 12 Nov 2020 at 05:44hrs | 976 | by Staff reporter
ZEC ready for polls
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) is ready to hold by-elections that are Covid-19 compliant once the ban imposed on health grounds is lifted. Voter registration has reached top gear, wit...Published: 12 Nov 2020 at 05:40hrs | 504 | by Staff reporter
We're not in control, says Zec
ELECTORAL management body, Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has washed its hands over the by-elections which Vice-President and Health minister Constantino Chiwenga embargoed citing the novel coron...Published: 11 Nov 2020 at 06:33hrs | 2828 | by Staff reporter
Trump called Chamisa for advice
The American elections have shown us a number of interesting things and indeed it has given us shocking similarities between Trump and Nelson Chamisa. There is a striking similar behaviour between the...Published: 09 Nov 2020 at 22:47hrs | 7583 | by Dr Masimba Mavza
Chamisa will not allow his 2023 'Presidential Victory' to be stolen
MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa says he will not allow his victory in the 2023 presidential election to be stolen again as was the case in 2018.Chamisa contested the 2018 presidential elect...Published: 08 Nov 2020 at 08:32hrs | 3000 | by Staff reporter
No by-elections anytime soon, declares Chiwenga
VICE-PRESIDENT and Health minister Constantino Chiwenga has vowed that by-elections will not take place anytime soon during the COVID-19 pandemic period despite health officials saying polls were poss...Published: 06 Nov 2020 at 06:57hrs | 2695 | by Staff reporter
By-elections moved to 2021, says Ziyambi
JUSTICE Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi confirmed Sunday the government had decided to shelve holding parliamentary and council by-elections while it focuses on fighting the spread of the coronavirus....Published: 03 Nov 2020 at 06:26hrs | 586 | by Staff writer
'Zimbabwe army not trained to feed porridge'
MEMBERS of the Zimbabwe National Army are not trained to feed porridge to the masses, but to ruthlessly crush any public protests whether peaceful or not, deputy defence minister Victor Matemadanda ha...Published: 03 Nov 2020 at 06:21hrs | 1673 | by Staff writer
Mnangagwa ups anti-corruption fight
President Mnangagwa has appointed a 13-member steering committee to oversee the implementation of the National Anti Corruption Strategy, which was launched in July. Members of the committee in...Published: 02 Nov 2020 at 06:51hrs | 1973 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance cries foul over bussed new Zanu-PF voters
MDC Alliance has demanded explanation from the Zimbabwe Elections Commission (ZEC) on how hordes of ruling party supporters have been bussed to register as voters ahead of the Kwekwe Central by-electi...Published: 02 Nov 2020 at 05:44hrs | 1419 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa must lift by-elections ban'
THE government must lift the suspension on by-elections as the ban stifles democracy and violates the rights of Zimbabweans to express themselves politically, analysts contend.Statutory Instru...Published: 26 Oct 2020 at 18:53hrs | 514 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga's by-election ban challenged
HARARE resident Enock Mukudu of ward 30 in Glen View, has approached the High Court challenging the recent suspension of by-elections by Health minister, Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga on health ...Published: 23 Oct 2020 at 08:37hrs | 2060 | by Staff reporter
Sanctions removal will leave Zanu-PF exposed, says Madhuku
THE National Constitutional Assembly (NCA) president, Lovemore Madhuku has said the reason why he supports the removal of sanctions in Zimbabwe is to make sure Zanu-PF will be left with no excuses to ...Published: 23 Oct 2020 at 08:29hrs | 3582 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga poll ban takes new twist
Parliament is backtracking on its stance that Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga's suspension of by-elections to fill vacant parliamentary and municipal seats was constitutional, saying the pronounce...Published: 19 Oct 2020 at 06:22hrs | 4654 | by Staff reporter
ZANU-PF is a virus which can never be cured by elections
Elections have become a problem that has sunk us into vicious violence, unreformed state institutions, political and economic strife. It is my desire to enlighten those that still believe in the polit...Published: 18 Oct 2020 at 11:41hrs | 2976 | by Knowledge Hakata
VP Chiwenga poll ban takes new twist
Parliament is backtracking on its stance that Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga's suspension of by-elections to fill vacant parliamentary and municipal seats was constitutional, saying the pronounce...Published: 18 Oct 2020 at 11:37hrs | 12247 | by Staff Reporter
ZEC suspension of elections baseless, Mudenda rules
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) had no legal basis to call off by-elections based on a statutory instrument that has not undergone parliamentary scrutiny, the Speaker of Parliament declared on...Published: 15 Oct 2020 at 20:30hrs | 1263 | by Staff reporter
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