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MDC Alliance: Old wine in new wineskins? Coalitions, Congresses And Constitutions
The Supreme Court ruling on the MDC leadership wrangle sparked a national debate on parties, constitutions and congresses.This post adds to that debate by answering ten (10) questions which as...Published: 19 hrs ago | 2097 | by Staff reporter
'Zanu-PF hijacks Wold Bank funds'
OPPOSITION MDC mayors have come out guns blazing accusing the ruling Zanu-PF party of working to hijack a social welfare programme funded by the World Bank running into millions of United States dolla...Published: 20 hrs ago | 624 | by Staff reporter
Botswana deports over 200 Zimbabweans
THE government of Botswana has in recent days deported 281 Zimbabweans illegally staying in the neighbouring country as part of its measures to fight the spread of the deadly coronavirus.The 2...Published: 20 hrs ago | 326 | by Staff reporter
109 MPs pledge loyalty to Chamisa
Almost all MDC Alliance Members of Parliament have pledged to their loyalty to the leadership of Nelson Chamisa who is engaged in a messy fight with Thokozani Khupe for the control of the party. ...Published: 08 Apr 2020 at 10:33hrs | 5600 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Covid-19 got heads rolling in Zimbabwe starting in March - ZPP
The Zimbabwe Peace Project has reported that the outbreak of Covid 19 across the world has set heads rolling in Zimbabwe with government and various stakeholders scrambling to find solutions and preve...Published: 08 Apr 2020 at 08:28hrs | 918 | by Stephen Jakes
Chamisa's youths threaten bloodbath over party HQ
Militant MDC Alliance youths have threatened to end the country's 21-day national lockdown by taking to the streets to resist the planned takeover of their headquarters by MDC-T secretary-general Doug...Published: 08 Apr 2020 at 08:12hrs | 2896 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF MP in door-to-door food deliveries
ZANU-PF Chimanimani West MP Nokhutula Matsikenyeri is making door-to-door deliveries of food aid to stop people from gathering and spreading the deadly coronavirus.The legislator has already e...Published: 08 Apr 2020 at 08:11hrs | 577 | by Staff reporter
MDC-T stopped 'Young Dictator' Chamisa from winning 2018 election
FORMER MDC-T Vice President Obert Gutu says his political outfit only contested the 2018 national elections to block MDC Alliance presidential candidate, Nelson Chamisa from winning the plebiscite....Published: 08 Apr 2020 at 08:07hrs | 627 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa, Khupe told to find each other
REINSTATED MDC organising secretary Abednico Bhebhe, pictured, has called on rival claimants to the opposition party's presidency, Nelson Chamisa and Thokozani Khupe, to find each other and strive to ...Published: 07 Apr 2020 at 18:40hrs | 2782 | by Staff reporter
MDC MPs facing a tough choice
SITTING MDC legislators and councillors are facing a tough choice after the party group which has embraced the recent Supreme Court ruling that dethroned Nelson Chamisa from power warned yesterday tha...Published: 07 Apr 2020 at 18:39hrs | 4833 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa used black magic to win election - Zanu pf official
A Zanu PF official in Mashonaland Central province Goodman Musariri has accused president Emmerson Mnangagwa of using black magic to dupe electorate....Published: 07 Apr 2020 at 17:41hrs | 3046 | by Simbarashe Mwandipendaa
Mnangagwa must resign, says Zanu-PF official
A ZANU-PF official based in Mashonaland Central province was on Saturday taken to Bindura Magistrates Cours for allegedly calling on President Emmerson Mnangagwa to resign.Goodman Musariri, wh...Published: 07 Apr 2020 at 08:10hrs | 2498 | by Staff reporter
Ex-Tsvangirai aide attacks MDC officials for resisting Supreme Court ruling
MAXWELL Shumba, a former chief strategist to the now late MDC founding president, Morgan Tsvangirai, has labelled senior MDC Alliance officials and their supporters a disappointment for dismissing a r...Published: 07 Apr 2020 at 08:09hrs | 1503 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF grabs subsidised mealie-meal
Zanu-PF Chiredzi West legislator Farai Musikavanhu (Zanu-PF) allegedly grabbed 13,4 tonnes of the subsidised roller meal from OK Triangle, while his Makoni Central counterpart David Tekeshe (MDC Allia...Published: 07 Apr 2020 at 08:04hrs | 120 | by Staff reporter
Police disperse macimbi harvesters
POLICE in Gwanda District have dispersed macimbi (mopane worm) harvesters who had flocked to the area despite the prevailing 21-day lockdown. Scores of people from different areas had flocked ...Published: 07 Apr 2020 at 07:42hrs | 458 | by Staff reporter
War veterans breath fire…bay for General Chiwenga ally’s blood
War veterans in Mazowe, Mashonaland Central province gave a strong warning on ZANU-PF official Goodman Musariri who was dragged to Bindura magistrates courts for undermining the authority of the Presi...Published: 06 Apr 2020 at 13:15hrs | 4248 | by Simbarashe Mwandipenda
Mnangagwa witnesses water, maize meal queues in Harare drive-by
President Emmerson Mnangagwa Sunday came face to face with the harsh realities of life in some of Harare's poor neighbourhoods after an unannounced drive-by tour.Mnangagwa declared a 21-...Published: 06 Apr 2020 at 10:36hrs | 4199 | by Staff reporter
'Thabani Mpofu now runs MDC from his law firm,' claims Komichi
MDC-T national chairperson Morgen Komichi said he advised MDC alliance leader Nelson Chamisa against appealing the High court judgment that nullified his ascendancy within the party leadership after M...Published: 06 Apr 2020 at 09:39hrs | 5424 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa was warned against appealing High Court judgment
MDC-T national chairperson Morgen Komichi said he advised MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa against appealing the High court judgment that nullified his ascendancy within the party leadership after M...Published: 06 Apr 2020 at 09:09hrs | 1905 | by Staff reporter
Joshua Nkomo betrayed Zipra, writes Obert Mpofu
THE late former Vice-President Joshua Nkomo's participation in the 1979 Lancaster House talks was frowned upon by the military element in his-PF-Zapu, Zipra, which felt the negotiations were a "self-c...Published: 06 Apr 2020 at 08:26hrs | 4253 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's youths threaten protests after lockdown
Militant MDC youths have threatened rolling protests soon after the 21-day national lockdown to force President Emmerson Mnangagwa to step down and allow the formation of the National Transitional Aut...Published: 06 Apr 2020 at 08:18hrs | 2437 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora denies Prime Minister ambitions
MDC top politician Douglas Mwonzora has dismissed as malicious, social media claims he was keen on dragging MDC into a government of national unity with the Zanu-PF led administration in an arrangemen...Published: 06 Apr 2020 at 08:00hrs | 1108 | by newzimbabwe
Jonathan Moyo doesn't need Nelson Chamisa
Two days after former President Robert Mugabe fired Professor Jonathan Moyo, I received a meeting request from the former information and publicity minister. It was a crazy, unpredictable time....Published: 05 Apr 2020 at 11:49hrs | 6470 | by Tafi Mhaka
Chamisa must account for $7m party funds, says Khupe
Mr Nelson Chamisa, whose ascension to the helm of the opposition MDC-T in February 2018 was recently nullified by the Supreme Court, has to account for the $7 million he received under the Political P...Published: 05 Apr 2020 at 08:31hrs | 1559 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe@ 40: Joshua Nkomo and the Liberation Footpath (Part 2)
The Lancaster Conference and the Build-up to Nkomo's temporary setbackIn 1979, Nkomo's Zapu and Mugabe's Zanu delegations under the PF banner took part in the final push for diplomatic transit...Published: 05 Apr 2020 at 08:15hrs | 247 | by Obert Mpofu
Zanu-PF councillor in soup over alliance with opposition
ZANU-PF leadership in Chikomba District wants council chairman Isarel Dhikinya stripped of his post for working closely with MDC Alliance councillors, which the leadership says was not in line with pa...Published: 04 Apr 2020 at 14:29hrs | 1832 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF backs coronavirus measures
Zanu-PF is confident that measures being implemented by Government to contain the spread of Covid-19 will be successful, the party's Secretary for Finance and Economic Development Patrick Chinamasa ha...Published: 04 Apr 2020 at 08:10hrs | 73 | by Staff reporter
Process vs populism: Unpacking the Supreme Court ruling against Chamisa
Populism without process has turned out to be wholly inadequate for the party of excellence.The judgement is germane to the MDC. MDC-T was a moniker developed to distinguish the Tsvangirai faction...Published: 03 Apr 2020 at 15:22hrs | 2051 | by David Hofisi
Khupe can recall MDC MPs
Leading academic and University of Zimbabwe political science lecturer, Eldred Masunungure, says that the MDC is facing significant turmoil.All this comes after the Supreme Court upheld last y...Published: 03 Apr 2020 at 14:29hrs | 3634 | by Staff reporter
Khupe's group moves to take charge of MDC-T
FEARS are mounting regarding the future of the MDC, amid warnings from both within and outside the country's main opposition that Tuesday's Supreme Court ruling could have far-reaching implications on...Published: 03 Apr 2020 at 14:28hrs | 2529 | by Staff reporter
MDC judgment sets tongues waging
Zimbabweans woke up from their coronavirus slumber to read an ambiguous judgment designed to discredit Nelson Chamisa's MDC-A presidency. The judgment, which was passed a few hours before April Fool's...Published: 03 Apr 2020 at 14:28hrs | 1151 | by Sibanengi Dube
Zanu-PF distributes mealie-meal at night
Chiredzi Zanu-PF supporters yesterday received subsidised mealie-meal under the cover of darkness following clashes with MDC supporters led by MDC MP (Proportional Representation), Mucharairwa Mugidho...Published: 03 Apr 2020 at 08:55hrs | 492 | by Staff reporter
Coronavirus to push Zimbabwe to the brink?
With Zimbabwe's health-care sector crippled by a strike by doctors and nurses, underfunding and years of general neglect, fears are growing that Covid-19 will hit the troubled country very hard....Published: 03 Apr 2020 at 08:20hrs | 249 | by Financial Mail
Zanu-PF 'infiltrates' MDC structures in South Africa
ANOTHER breakup is projected for the troubled Zimbabwean official opposition, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC).This follows a Supreme Court ruling ousting Nelson Chamisa as party presi...Published: 02 Apr 2020 at 20:36hrs | 3995 | by Agency staff
Zanu-PF will never choose leadership for us - MDC
MDC Alliance, Mashonaland Central province has rubbished the Supreme Court ruling which found that Nelson Chamisa is not the legitimate leader of MD...Published: 02 Apr 2020 at 19:41hrs | 4073 | by Simbarashe Mwandipendaa
What the Khupe-Chamisa Supreme Court ruling means
On March 31, 2020, the Supreme Court delivered a unanimous ruling in the seemingly interminable battle over stewardship of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC). In the case of MDC and O...Published: 02 Apr 2020 at 13:26hrs | 4720 | by David Hofisi
MDC criticises top court's ruling on Nelson Chamisa
Zimbabwe's top court on Tuesday upheld the decision of a lower court that Nelson Chamisa was not the legitimate leader of the country's largest opposition party.Chamisa's leadership was contes...Published: 02 Apr 2020 at 11:53hrs | 784 | by Agency Staff
US backs Nelson Chamisa
OFFICE OF SECRETARY OF COMMUNICATIONS.We in the MDC NAP are clear, resolute and behind Adv President Nelson Chamisa. We have always maintained that the judiciary in Zimbabwe and courts have be...Published: 02 Apr 2020 at 11:53hrs | 5955 | by MDC North America
Alliance executives stampeded to voice their support for Chamisa
MDC Alliance leaders and former office-bearers of the opposition party yesterday rallied behind their beleaguered president Nelson Chamisa after the Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that he had assumed ...Published: 02 Apr 2020 at 11:47hrs | 1476 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa frowns at COVID-19 joke
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday frowned at what was meant to be an April Fools' Day prank which claimed the Zanu-PF leader had tested positive for the deadly coronavirus.There were soci...Published: 02 Apr 2020 at 08:01hrs | 14825 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance leaders rally behind Chamisa
MDC Alliance leaders and former office bearers of the opposition party yesterday rallied behind their beleaguered president Nelson Chamisa after the Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that he had assumed ...Published: 02 Apr 2020 at 08:00hrs | 2577 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF hijacks mealie-meal distribution
CHIREDZI residents have declared that they will not comply with the 21-day lockdown order which began on Monday after Zanu-PF took over the sale of mealie-meal in the sugar-cane producing town....Published: 02 Apr 2020 at 07:56hrs | 1807 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance's Bulawayo structures back Chamisa
THE MDC Alliance's Bulawayo structures have scorned party leader Nelson Chamisa's ouster in a watershed Supreme Court ruling Tuesday and further expressed unwavering support for the under-fire opposit...Published: 02 Apr 2020 at 07:23hrs | 885 | by Staff reporter
Clark Mpofu: Zanu-PF had no reason to declare him a national hero
May Clark Mpofu's soul rest in eternal peace and may his gallant deeds be forever etched in the hearts and minds of those who care to know the truth about his sterling contribution which is a painful ...Published: 01 Apr 2020 at 18:58hrs | 4193 | by Moses Mzila Ndlovu
Challenging the attempt to remove Nelson Chamisa as MDC president in Zimbabwe
On 30 March, Zimbabwe's Supreme Court has issued a judgement that would effectively remove Nelson Chamisa as the leader of the MDC-A. Although the name of the party is not essential as a new moniker c...Published: 01 Apr 2020 at 14:20hrs | 4156 | by David Coltart
Ministers, MPs told to donate salaries to fight COVID-19
Gokwe-Nembudziya MP Justice Mayor Wadyajena (Zanu-PF) has challenged fellow legislators to donate their salaries and allowances towards the fight against coronavirus, which has so far infected eight p...Published: 01 Apr 2020 at 07:53hrs | 684 | by Staff reporter
Re-imagining the post-COVID-19 political scene in Zimbabwe
There is no denying that the global pandemic figuratively known as COVID-19 has disrupted our everyday lives. Even our economies have ground to a halt. Our educational institutions have been for...Published: 01 Apr 2020 at 07:50hrs | 215 | by Admire Mare
Chamisa ouster angry reactions
MDC Alliance and other politicians were Tuesday left fuming over a Supreme Court judgement passed by Chief Justice Luke Malaba declaring as illegitimate, party president Nelson Chamisa's leadership an...Published: 01 Apr 2020 at 07:38hrs | 4114 | by newzimbabwe.com
Chamisa ouster is 'null and void'
MDC Alliance secretary-general Chalton Hwende has insisted Tuesday's Supreme Court ruling declaring as illegitimate Nelson Chamisa's leader was null and void, adding the MDC leadership question was lo...Published: 01 Apr 2020 at 07:33hrs | 3404 | by Staff reporter
Politics in Zimbabwe is a game with no rules
Zimbabwe's political field is a game with no rules. It is a game any player can just enter provided he/she meets the right age. It does not matter whether the individual fully ascribes to the dos and ...Published: 01 Apr 2020 at 07:28hrs | 248 | by Obert Gutu
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