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Mutumwa Mawere's health in a dire state
ONE would assume that blood is thicker than water in the labyrinth of familial ties. But for Mutumwa Mawere, this age-old adage has become a cruel mirage, overshadowed by the relentless greed and betr...Published: 12 Jan 2025 at 12:38hrs | 19283 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF returns to polls after violence
THE ruling Zanu-PF party has been forced to rerun local authority primary elections across the country after the outcomes were contested in the first round due to violent clashes, among other reasons....Published: 06 May 2023 at 06:36hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa claims that Zanu-PF has rejuvenated itself
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has said Zanu-PF has rejuvenated itself by having more youthful cadres in its structures who are also participating in the party's electoral processes.He said Zanu-PF polic...Published: 03 Apr 2023 at 06:27hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa demands re-run in violence hotspots
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has ordered a re-run of Zanu-PF primary elections in areas where violence was recorded.Mnangagwa said this while addressing the politburo yesterday. The party prim...Published: 31 Mar 2023 at 07:51hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Vapostori4ED leader polls 3 votes in Zanu-PF elections in Chikomba
Not even his position as a religious leader or a front for President Emmerson Mnangagwa could save him from a battering in Zanu-PF Chikomba District Coordinating Committee (DCC) elections.Vapo...Published: 08 Jan 2023 at 09:42hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF congress maintains 2017 coup hierarchy
"LOBENGULA comes back as secretary for administration," Zanu-PF leader, President Emmerson Mnangagwa announced on 29 October as he appointed the ruling party's top leadership at the recent congress at...Published: 20 Nov 2022 at 15:43hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa brings rival Chiwenga to his knees
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has brought his bitter rival Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga to his knees - literally and metaphorically - at the crucial Zanu-PF congress which ended in Harare yester...Published: 31 Oct 2022 at 18:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF elections marred by violence
VIOLENCE and ugly scenes reportedly marred the just-ended Zanu-PF central committee (CC) elections as bigwigs locked horns over positions in the party's highest decision-making body.Reports an...Published: 10 Oct 2022 at 06:11hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Fraud-accused socialite cleared to contest Zanu-PF elections
Zanu-PF has given the nod to socialite Mike Chimombe's candidature to stand in the weekend elections for the ruling party's Central Committee (CC).The polls are being fiercely contested amid a...Published: 06 Oct 2022 at 06:08hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF heavies renew animosity
A FRESH factional frontier has opened in Zanu-PF after the ruling party's politburo resolved to hold its primary elections for the 2023 general election latest by February next year at its monthly mee...Published: 25 Mar 2022 at 18:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF members attacked
Opposition activists in Bulawayo yesterday attacked and injured members of Zanu-PF elections campaign team who were going about their business peacefully.The ruling party yesterday condemned t...Published: 15 Feb 2022 at 05:32hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa endorses 'rigged' Zanu-PF elections
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday endorsed the disputed results of his Zanu-PF party's provincial elections and urged members to accept the outcome.He also rallied all party members to wo...Published: 06 Jan 2022 at 19:09hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF bigwigs denounce shameful election
THE extended delay in announcing results from Tuesday's provincial Zanu-PF elections has led to fears the outcome was deliberately manipulated in favour of candidates preferred by the party's leadersh...Published: 30 Dec 2021 at 07:52hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF Elections Director Bars Intelligence Officers From Vote Counting Venue Amid Rigging Storm
INTELLIGENCE chiefs have reported a massive rigging plot in the party's Mashonaland Central provincial chairmanship election involving a senior staffer, Collen Mharadzano, to President Emmerson Mnanga...Published: 29 Dec 2021 at 19:54hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF elections kick off in Bulawayo
ZANU-PF provincial elections in Bulawayo kicked off smoothly on Tuesday despite delays in the distribution of ballot papers to some polling stations in the metropolitan province.The ruling par...Published: 28 Dec 2021 at 18:58hrs | 18 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF elections mayhem exposes deadly infighting
POLITICAL temperature is boiling up in Zanu-PF's Mashonaland West province after acting chair Abiel Mujeri at the weekend barred provincial members from Zvimba, Chegutu, Makonde and Kadoma from presid...Published: 25 Oct 2021 at 06:28hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa is a hostage to military interests'
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's biographer Eddie Cross claims the Zanu-PF leader was a hostage to military interests for seven months after assuming power following a military coup in November 2017....Published: 07 Oct 2021 at 18:25hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa ally saved by Zanu-PF elections suspension
MASVINGO Provincial Affairs minister Ezra Chadzamira has emerged as the main beneficiary of the Zanu-PF politburo's decision to suspend provincial elections which were scheduled for month-end, as the ...Published: 23 Sep 2021 at 06:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa faction stunned by Chadzamira's arrest
THE arrest of minister of State for Masvingo Ezra Chadzamira earlier this week has left a faction aligned to President Emmerson Mnangagwa in shock, blaming the dramatic development on rivals aligned t...Published: 10 Sep 2021 at 18:58hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Is the MDC burying its head in the sand?
The piece by former Zanu-PF elections strategist Jonathan Moyo chronicling the missed opportunities by the opposition in the political history of Zimbabwe has once again raised debate on the state of ...Published: 20 Dec 2020 at 07:21hrs | 1 | by Karsten Noko
Mnangagwa to meet Zanu-PF security dept as he bids to fix bickering party
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is stepping in to try and end the widening fallout from Zanu-PF's chaotic district coordinating committee (DCC) elections, which have raised political temperatures higher ...Published: 14 Dec 2020 at 19:01hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa moves in to end DCC chaos
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is stepping in to try and end the widening fallout from Zanu-PF's chaotic district coordinating committee (DCC) elections, which have raised political temperatures higher ...Published: 14 Dec 2020 at 07:46hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF primaries worsen party wars
ZANU-PF has failed to announce the results of its elections to choose the party's parliamentary and council candidates for Harare, amid claims that the polls were riddled with bribery and rampant chea...Published: 21 Oct 2020 at 22:19hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF bigwigs box over positions, power spoils
THIS weekend's Zanu-PF elections to choose the party's parliamentary candidates for Harare are the latest activities of the former liberation movement to be hit by debilitating chaos - with senior off...Published: 09 Oct 2020 at 21:36hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's Politburo nullifies Bulawayo Zanu-PF elections
THE dates for the Zanu-PF provincial elections for Bulawayo and Harare provinces will be announced by the Politburo following the nullification of the results of the Bulawayo provincial elections last...Published: 28 May 2019 at 07:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Victims shot in the absence of soldiers'
Some of the victims of the August 1, 2018 post-election violence were shot while they were in the midst of a crowd with no soldiers in sight, a Commission of Inquiry heard yesterday. News24 in...Published: 23 Nov 2018 at 05:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Army dodges questions on power transfer
ZIMBABWE's military, for long accused of dabbling in partisan Zanu-PF politics, yesterday ducked questions on whether they would allow for smooth transfer of power in the event of a victory by an oppo...Published: 05 Jul 2018 at 07:07hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF warns party members against violence
The Zanu-PF leadership here has strongly warned party members against instigating or perpetrating violence, saying the culprits would be prosecuted in line with the revolutionary party's rules, irresp...Published: 23 May 2018 at 07:24hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's nephew denies vote manipulation
ZANU-PF aspiring candidate for Harare South constituency, Tongai Mnangagwa who claims to have trounced war veterans spokesperson Douglas Mahiya has denied any voter fraud in the hotly contested primar...Published: 04 May 2018 at 12:51hrs | 4 | by OpenParly
Mutsvangwa blames police for rigging Zanu-PF polls
The desperate Chris Mutsvangwa is turning tables upside down in the ZanuPF party claiming that his resounding defeat in the Norton parliamentary primary elections was staged by the police officers in ...Published: 04 May 2018 at 09:04hrs | | by Mhlongo
Zanu-PF primary elections: Success wrapped in chaos
Last week I focussed on unpacking the Zanu-PF primary elections, which have now come, but have not gone as they still dominate the news cycle.There is a prevalent view that the commissariat (o...Published: 04 May 2018 at 08:04hrs | 2 | by Innocent Batsani Ncube
Zanu-PF manifesto set to be launched
Zanu-PF has finished drafting its manifesto for the 2018 harmonised elections, which will be launched soon.This was said by the party's secretary for Information and Publicity, Simon Khaya Moy...Published: 12 Apr 2018 at 06:53hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF opens primaries race
THE Zanu-PF politburo yesterday opened the race for primary elections, with the party's national commissar Engelbert Rugeje expected to immediately initiate the candidate selection process in all prov...Published: 15 Mar 2018 at 06:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Politburo to select Zanu-PF candidates
Zanu-PF has set tough conditions for the selection of the party's candidates ahead of this year's crunch elections, with the politburo set to have the final say on who will stand or not on the ruling ...Published: 15 Mar 2018 at 06:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF gears for elections
The ruling Zanu PF will establish an Elections Commission in line with provisions of its Constitution to manage the party's primary elections ahead of the harmonised elections scheduled for later this...Published: 15 Mar 2018 at 06:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF elections will be held from cell level
The 315th Politburo meeting and the second to be chaired by President Emmerson Mnangagwa in his new capacity also resolved party elections will be held from the cell to provincial level.The pr...Published: 11 Jan 2018 at 19:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF elections kick off
THE ruling Zanu-PF will this week hold elections for its Central Committee members with the party's 10 provinces given up to Friday to complete the process ahead of the Extra-Ordinary Congress in Hara...Published: 12 Nov 2017 at 07:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe deploys massive election campaign machinery
A HIGH level Zanu-PF Elections Directorate, composed of senior Politburo members, is seized with the party's 2018 election roadmap which is targeting a robust winning strategy that encompasses voter r...Published: 17 Sep 2017 at 08:42hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Chombo leads Zanu-PF elections directorate cast
President Robert Mugabe has announced members of a national elections directorate, expected to steer the party towards crucial elections next year.An official list seen by the Daily News showe...Published: 15 Sep 2017 at 15:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe appoints Zanu-PF elections directorate
PRESIDENT Mugabe has appointed a five-member Zanu-PF national elections directorate to spearhead preparations and mobilising of resources for the 2018 harmonised elections.The party's election...Published: 13 Sep 2017 at 06:18hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'More purges costly for Zanu-PF'
President Robert Mugabe's Zanu-PF party cannot afford to expel more of its members ahead of the crucial 2018 elections, as this will lead to a costly implosion, analysts have said.This c...Published: 09 Jul 2017 at 13:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tension, fear as Zanu-PF Masvingo votes
Emotions are running high in the politically volatile province of Masvingo, ahead of this weekend's re-run of regional Zanu-PF elections to choose a substantive provincial chairperson - amid claims th...Published: 02 May 2017 at 12:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere in Zanu-PF elections rigging storm
The State controlled Heralds reported that shocking details have emerged showing that Zanu-PF candidate in the recent Norton by-election Ronald Chindedza was imposed by the party's national commis...Published: 01 Nov 2016 at 06:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Biggie Matiza is the new Zanu-PF Mash East chairman
Zanu-PF elections held in Mashonaland East Province have ushered in a new provincial executive, amid calls by senior party leaders for the dawn of a new dispensation.Joel Biggie Matiza is the...Published: 12 Jul 2015 at 19:31hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Restructuring stalls Zanu-PF provincial polls
Zanu-PF elections to replace ousted former Mashonaland East provincial chairman Ray Kaukonde originally slated for next month are in limbo as the current ongoing restructuring exercise could likel...Published: 25 Mar 2015 at 07:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe to decide Mutasa's
President Robert Mugabe will decide if embattled former Zanu-PF secretary for administration, Didymus Mutasa, will continue as the vice-chairperson of the Development Trust of Zimbabwe (DTZ) - initiat...Published: 05 Feb 2015 at 12:22hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Draft resolutions of Zanu-PF's 6th National People's Congress
Introduction The Zimbabwe African National Union Patriotic Front (Zanu-PF) held its 6th National People's Congress in Harare, at the Robert Gabriel Muga...Published: 07 Dec 2014 at 08:13hrs | 4 | by Staff Reporter
Mugabe dumps liberation values
President Robert Mugabe is constructing a reconfigured personalised rule, or a regime unbounded by rules - one that operates at total variance with the ruling party's 1980 manifesto.The rulin...Published: 26 Nov 2014 at 11:49hrs | 1 | by Gift Phiri
ZEC to take charge of Zanu-PF's elective congress
Zanu-PF's factional fights have gone a notch up amid reports there are demands by one camp for the election management body, the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC), to take charge of the party's ele...Published: 16 Sep 2014 at 13:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF elections to be held under a secret ballot system
Elections to choose members of the Presidium at the Zanu-PF National Congress slated for December are set to be held under a secret ballot system while the party's constitution will be amended to ...Published: 07 Sep 2014 at 07:09hrs | | by Africa Moyo
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