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Zec ready to replace Chamisa's senators
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) is ready for filling of proportional representation seats in the Senate and National Assembly, since there is no extra voting in this regard, the results of the...Published: 3 hrs ago | 1565 | by Staff reporter
Khupe's MDC-T to take over Bulawayo offices
MDC-T led by acting president Dr Thokozani Khupe is expected to take over the Bulawayo offices that were now being used by the MDC-Alliance this week.The move comes after the party also succes...Published: 05 Jul 2020 at 11:08hrs | 1659 | by Staff reporter
Plot to assasinate Tendai Biti
MDC Vice President Tendai Biti has reported that unnamed persons in the government are plotting to assassinate him. In a sensational claim posted on Twitter, Biti said, "The desperate regime i...Published: 04 Jul 2020 at 08:45hrs | 9303 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa asks Kenya to urgently deport Jonathan Moyo
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government has requested assistance from the government of Kenya to assist in the extradition of Professor Jonathan Moyo. Moyo who went to exile in 2017 after th...Published: 04 Jul 2020 at 07:33hrs | 8188 | by Mandla Ndlovu
ZEC in election U-turn, covid-19 'new norm' - without reforms, why risk even one life over a farce
"The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has said it would withdraw its proposal to suspend electoral activities during the COVID-19 lockdown because the ...Published: 04 Jul 2020 at 05:25hrs | 1865 | by Nomusa Garikai
Zec makes U-turn over elections
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has said it would withdraw its proposal to suspend electoral activities during the COVID-19 lockdown because the pandemic was likely to be long-term.Zec...Published: 03 Jul 2020 at 08:05hrs | 5668 | by Staff reporter
MDC fights shift to Zec
NELSON Chamisa's MDC Alliance has vowed to block Thokozani Khupe and her party from replacing proportional representation (PR) legislators and senators recalled by the MDC-T from Parliament over the p...Published: 03 Jul 2020 at 08:03hrs | 1991 | by Staff reporter
Attempts to amend Census, Statistics Act hailed
ATTEMPTS to amend the Census and Statistics Act have been hailed by an election watchdog as necessary to prevent the manipulation of electoral boundaries ahead of the 2023 harmonised elections....Published: 03 Jul 2020 at 07:46hrs | 251 | by Staff reporter
From Mnangagwa's oil and soup dripping hands, to Chamisa's naivety
BESIDES pulling down an outdated calendar and hanging up another on the wall each year in Zimbabwe, has anybody ever asked themselves if really we are going anywhere as a country? I say this with ever...Published: 02 Jul 2020 at 18:26hrs | 1569 | by Robert Sigauke
Mnangagwa pledges to end corruption by 2023 - rubbish, staying to rig 2023 elections!
"Many measures have been put in place to fight corruption and the people are now free to talk about it. Officials are being arrested and before that was taboo. Now we're talking about it, it means it'...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 07:17hrs | 2682 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Chamisa has been hijacked, says Mashakada
Founding MDC member and Economic Planning former minister Tapiwa Mashakada recently left the MDC-Alliance led by Nelson Chamisa claiming the party had stopped being a workers' movement and that it had...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 17:44hrs | 8916 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe constitution amendment (bill no. 2) - 2019
Written submission in accordance with section 328 amendment of constitution ZAPU notes with grave concern about the implications of the proposed r...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 10:47hrs | 878 | by Sakhile Sibanda
From Zanu's Oil and Soup Dripping Hands, to the Opposition's Naivety
Besides pulling down an outdated calendar and hanging up another on the wall each year in Zimbabwe, has anybody ever asked themselves if really we are going anywhere as a country? I say this with ever...Published: 27 Jun 2020 at 08:54hrs | 4866 | by Robert Sigauke
Mounting challenges for Chamisa
THE MDC-Alliance, and the entire legacy of the opposition movement, faces the gravest political challenges it has had to confront since its formation in 1999.This is the result of a combinatio...Published: 26 Jun 2020 at 07:56hrs | 9949 | by Brian Raftopoulos
'Vultures of progress will never win!' declared Mnangagwa - 'You are that vulture!'
"We shall not allow a situation where our people live in chronic insecurity, lack and deprivation. It has become apparent that in our midst, there are wolves in sheep clothing, vultures. The end is co...Published: 25 Jun 2020 at 19:07hrs | 3946 | by Wilbert Mukori
MDC jecha boys' tendency for mindless destruction
A walk along Harare's Simon Muzenda Street (formerly Forth Street), past a City of Harare paid parking lot, reveals a rusting body of a bus parked near the eastern part of the municipal space. ...Published: 24 Jun 2020 at 07:07hrs | 1865 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Zanu-PF MPs feast on expelled MDC Alliance MPs' misfortune
EXCITED Zanu-PF MPs Tuesday rubbed salt on expelled MDC Alliance MPs' wounds as they exited the house following an announcement by the Speaker they had ceased to be sitting legislators.The bat...Published: 24 Jun 2020 at 07:04hrs | 1318 | by newzimbabwe
ZEC speaks on pending by-elections
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) this week said all pending by-elections will only proceed after it has finished working on a draft Covid-19 electoral practice policy that will guide electoral ...Published: 20 Jun 2020 at 08:06hrs | 227 | by Staff reporter
Elections remain banned: Zec
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has said electoral activities remain banned following the introduction of lockdown measures by the government to curb the spread of the coronavirus (Covid-19)....Published: 19 Jun 2020 at 17:18hrs | 1326 | by Staff reporter
9 000 Zimbabweans return home from 48 countries
OVER 9 000 Zimbabweans have returned home from 48 countries following the outbreak of Covid-19. The figure includes 241 who arrived at Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport from the Unit...Published: 17 Jun 2020 at 06:34hrs | 501 | by Staff reporter
Rise in voter apathy as public loses trust in ZEC, claims ERC
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission's (ZEC) reluctance to share the voter's roll with stakeholders has eroded the public's trust and their voting enthusiasm, an electoral watchdog has said.The E...Published: 17 Jun 2020 at 06:32hrs | 174 | by newzimbabwe
'God, You made me leader of Zimbabwe' - blasphemy, can't implicate God in rigged elections
It is often said the distinction between madness and genius is a fine line, the same cannot be said about the yawning chasm that separate piety humility and blasphemy. Emmerson Mnangagwa has crossed t...Published: 16 Jun 2020 at 21:07hrs | 1875 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Mnangagwa 'to re-activate freedoms promised' - shame, will never understand they are inalienable
Mnangagwa is a creature of habit - his habit is to make promises which he clearly has no intention of honouring. Empty promises! "Charovedzera charovedzera, gudo rakakwira mawere kwasviba!" as one wou...Published: 13 Jun 2020 at 13:20hrs | 5648 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Zec urged to find ways to conduct polls during COVID-19
LOCAL election watchdogs have called on the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) to pilot innovative ways of running elections during COVID-19 pandemic saying an indefinite suspension of polls was a vi...Published: 13 Jun 2020 at 09:35hrs | 279 | by Staff reporter
Komichi 'election results challenge' sentence upheld
THE High Court has upheld a conviction passed against reinstated MDC chairperson Morgen Komichi for disrupting announcement of 2018 election results after his appeal was dismissed for lack of merit....Published: 12 Jun 2020 at 18:27hrs | 1343 | by Staff reporter
Exposing corruption got Killer Zivhu fired
OUTSPOKEN Chivi South legislator, Killer Zivhu, who was expelled from the ruling Zanu-PF party on Wednesday, says his "crime" was trying to recover US$1,5 million owed to him by an unnamed politburo m...Published: 12 Jun 2020 at 07:57hrs | 1519 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC takes ZEC head on
The opposition MDC has accused Zimbabwe Electoral Commission of using the COVID-19 regulations to suspend political rights of Zimbabweans. The accusations come after President Emmerson Mnangag...Published: 11 Jun 2020 at 15:00hrs | 4720 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zec defends suspension of electoral activities
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) yesterday denied any wrongdoing in suspending all electoral activities over COVID-19 after an independent electoral watchdog red-flagged the move as potentially...Published: 10 Jun 2020 at 08:00hrs | 711 | by Staff reporter
'Chamisa doesn't want to play by the rules'
MDC-Alliance leader Mr Nelson Chamisa's failure to accept court rulings is evidence that he assumed power improperly within MDC, Zanu-PF Politburo member and secretary for Science, Technology and Deve...Published: 10 Jun 2020 at 07:45hrs | 3656 | by Staff reporter
Khupe's MDC-T wants Supreme Court to rule on MPs
MDC-T has appealed to the Supreme Court challenging Monday's High Court decision to block it from replacing four legislators it recently recalled until their court application contesting the party's r...Published: 10 Jun 2020 at 07:44hrs | 1462 | by Staff reporter
'Ziyambi, Zanu-PF behind MDC chaos'
ZANU PF politburo member Christopher Mutsvangwa has said Justice minister Ziyambi Ziyambi was behind the chaos in the opposition MDC, telling party officials that he was using the courts to ensure tha...Published: 09 Jun 2020 at 08:14hrs | 3616 | by Staff reporter
High Court blocks Khupe
In a rare legal victory for the MDC Alliance, the High Court has ruled in favour of the two of the party's legislators, who had approached the court seeking an order barring the Thokozani Khupe-led MD...Published: 08 Jun 2020 at 16:47hrs | 6372 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe far from democracy
This country is founded on the principle of ubuntu respect of law freedom and democracy. The stone age politics being exhibited in Zimbabwe by the ruling party is a cause of concern.Th...Published: 08 Jun 2020 at 10:14hrs | 1109 | by Leonard Koni
Zec suspends elections 'as a way of aiding Thokozani Khupe'?
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has suspended all electoral activities in a move analysts described as a way of aiding Thokozani Khupe's MDC-T to appoint its legislators without going through ...Published: 06 Jun 2020 at 08:28hrs | 5082 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa chocking justice system, says Biti
MDC Alliance deputy president Tendai Biti has accused President Emmerson Mnangagwa of using the justice system to harass and intimidate political opponents while turning a blind eye on high level corr...Published: 05 Jun 2020 at 08:26hrs | 1153 | by Staff reporter
Time to demilitarise Zimbabwean politics for the good of Jews, Gentiles
FOUR decades of independence did not mature Zimbabweans to the probity of unity and prosperity in diversity.They did not embrace the winsome culture of political tolerance.Consequently...Published: 01 Jun 2020 at 08:53hrs | 384 | by Cyprian Muketiwa Ndawana
Chamisa et al primeval instinct stopping them admit he broke rules - to break free, we must
Once upon a time, a few moons ago although I remember it as if it was yesterday, I visited a number of High Schools and Colleges up and down Zimbabwe to talking about the UN Universal Declaration of H...Published: 30 May 2020 at 21:49hrs | 4089 | by Wilbert Mukori
Chamisa's MPs challenge recall
MDC-Alliance legislators have approached the High Court seeking an order barring the Thokozani Khupe-led MDC-T and speaker Jacob Mudenda from replacing them as lawmakers after they were recalled on Ap...Published: 28 May 2020 at 19:20hrs | 5263 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's radical cure for depression
Zimbabwe is pioneering a groundbreaking mental health programme with stunning results – and the rest of the world is taking note.Late one evening, Dixon Chibanda, a psychiatrist in Harare, Z...Published: 28 May 2020 at 08:28hrs | 2012 | by Rachel Nuwer from Zimbabwe
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
Do not amend but implement the constitution: ZLHR tells government
IN the seventh anniversary of the Constitution of Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) has expressed extreme saddness over government’s failure to fully stop the wilful violation and t...Published: 26 May 2020 at 09:22hrs | 465 | by Stephen Jakes
'Don't abandon push for electoral reforms'
An independent election watchdog has called on political parties and other stakeholders to continue pushing for reforms following the CovID-19-induced disruption to electoral processes.The Zim...Published: 26 May 2020 at 08:24hrs | 425 | by Staff reporter
Khupe to rout Zanu-PF, Chamisa's MDC in Parly by-elections, claims Mwonzora
THOKOZANI Khupe's MDC-T has enough muscle to thrash both Zanu-PF and Nelson Chamisa's MDC Alliance in by-elections expected soon following the recall of four MDC Alliance MPs.The claim was mad...Published: 25 May 2020 at 07:59hrs | 4987 | by newzimbabwe
Zec considers by-election options
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) is crafting an operational framework to pave way for the "safe resumption" of by-elections following an indefinite suspension of all electoral activities....Published: 24 May 2020 at 08:10hrs | 296 | by Staff reporter
Mtetwa, I'm done flattering tyrants: if ED 'committed no crime' then who is 'the monster of depravity'
My dear sister Beatrice Mtetwa, I am done with appeasing tyrants! We have allowed tyrants like Mugabe and Mnangagwa ride roughshod over us, denying us our freedoms and rights for the l...Published: 20 May 2020 at 07:56hrs | 3893 | by Wilbert Mukori
Komichi says sorry for aiding Chamisa 2018 'coup'
MDC-T national chair, Morgen Komichi has issued an apology to party structures for being one of the key architects of Nelson Chamisa's alleged power grab performed on the news of founding leader Morga...Published: 20 May 2020 at 06:54hrs | 8088 | by newzimbabwe
ZEC's suspension of by-elections 'unlawful'
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) acted unlawfully when it suspended the holding of all by-elections due to the deadly Covid-19 pandemic, legal watchdog, Veritas has said.The legal think...Published: 20 May 2020 at 06:49hrs | 615 | by newzimbabwe
Chamisa, Khupe war in new twist
The battle for the control of Zimbabwe's mainstream opposition party pitting Nelson Chamisa and Thokozani Khupe will be fought in the courts once again after four legislators approached the High Court...Published: 17 May 2020 at 09:37hrs | 11522 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe sport's top earners
THE secrecy around sportspersons' salaries and earnings in Zimbabwe has been around for decades but as the world of sport has developed into big business, that veil is slowly being lifted and these is...Published: 17 May 2020 at 09:31hrs | 881 | by Staff reporter
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
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