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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 | 805 | 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 | 818 | 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 | 1882 | 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 | 2660 | 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 | 960 | 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 | 496 | 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 | 2819 | 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 | 7525 | 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 | 2976 | 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 | 2686 | 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 | 577 | 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 | 1634 | 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 | 1961 | 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 | 1411 | 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 | 505 | 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 | 2053 | 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 | 3576 | 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 | 4641 | 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 | 2968 | 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 | 12225 | 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 | 1215 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, Zec sued over by-elections
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa, his deputy Constatino Chiwenga and the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) have been taken to court by disgruntled voters for unilaterally suspending by-elections in cont...Published: 15 Oct 2020 at 06:47hrs | 2594 | by Staff reporter
'Mgodoyi' is Jonathan Moyo's predicate he used to express disgust!
It is one of Professor Moyo's terms to express anything disgusting him.Umgodoyi is an overly thin malnourished dog whose mouth unendingly oozies slummy saliva, a sign of obvious illness relate...Published: 15 Oct 2020 at 06:39hrs | 1927 | by Nomazulu Thata
ZEC sued over by-election dates
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) breached the constitution by failing to hold by-elections when they became due, a group of citizens joined by the Elections Resources Centre (ERC) said in a law...Published: 14 Oct 2020 at 19:08hrs | 1596 | by Staff reporter
It's not yet safe for by-elections, says Mnangagwa's Cabinet
GOVERNMENT has said it will open the electoral playing field for contestation once it was satisfied that political parties will stick to set COVID-19 regulations.Speaking during a post-Cabinet...Published: 14 Oct 2020 at 06:40hrs | 1179 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Chamisa ruled out from Zimbabwean political matrix
The Professor of World Politics at the London School of Oriental and African Studies Stephen Chan, recently said Chamisa seems to have run out of strategic ideas on the way forward and basically, the ...Published: 13 Oct 2020 at 21:39hrs | 8995 | by Staff reporter
Violence, chaos rock Zanu-PF primaries
VIOLENCE and chaos rocked Zanu-PF primary elections in Harare over the weekend as the ruling party was forced to postpone the Kuwadzana East polls amid allegations of electoral malpractices.Th...Published: 13 Oct 2020 at 18:49hrs | 417 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa and Biti suffer a heart attack at the same time?
Our flag does not fly because the wind moves it, it flies with the last breath of each soldier who died protecting it. The pole which carries this flag is watered by the blood of our sons and daughter...Published: 13 Oct 2020 at 07:57hrs | 25141 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Mnangagwa says 'vote-buying a dismissible offence'
ZANU-PF First Secretary and President, Mnangagwa, yesterday warned senior officials against breaching party rules and regulations when conducting District Coordinating Committee (DCC) and primary elec...Published: 13 Oct 2020 at 06:46hrs | 313 | by Staff reporter
US Ambassador to Harare lays re-engagement cards on the table
WORLD superpower, the United States of America, stands accused of interfering in Zimbabwe's internal political affairs by President Emmerson Mnangagwa, his government and the ruling Zanu-PF party....Published: 12 Oct 2020 at 19:51hrs | 3517 | by Staff reporter
Demagogues are abandoning democratic values and high ground to defend recalled sell-out MPs
Democracy is the greatest gift the Greeks gave to mankind. "Government of the people, by the people, for the people," as US President Abraham Lincoln defined democracy in his famous Gettysburg speech ...Published: 12 Oct 2020 at 08:07hrs | 1699 | by Wilbert Mukori
Pressure mounts over Chiwenga ban
SCORES of civil society organisations (CSOs) have called on the government to reverse VicePresident Constantino Chiwenga's indefinite suspension of by-elections imposed to ostensibly prevent the sprea...Published: 11 Oct 2020 at 11:14hrs | 9651 | by Staff reporter
Why the suspension of elections is unconstitutional, illegal
This is an opinion concerning the illegality of a government decree suspending by-elections on account of the Covid-19 pandemic.The Covid-19 RegulationsOn September 30, 2020, the gover...Published: 11 Oct 2020 at 11:05hrs | 302 | by Election Resource Centre
Zanu-PF ready for by-elections, says Chinamasa
ZANU-PF is ready for by-elections and is proceeding with its primary elections despite an indefinite ban by the government for any plebiscite to be held to curb the spread of Covid-19.The ruli...Published: 11 Oct 2020 at 10:54hrs | 518 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance bigwigs lose primary poll
MDC alliance bigwigs yesterday fell by the wayside in party primary elections to select the Kwekwe Central parliamentary candidate to represent the main Nelson Chamisa-led formation in the coming by-e...Published: 11 Oct 2020 at 10:44hrs | 10744 | by Staff reporter
Khupe Parly return an attack on democracy, claims ZimRights
THE Zimbabwe Human Rights Association (ZimRights) has described the swearing in of MDC-T interim leader Thokozani Khupe and 14 of her acolytes as MPs to replace recalled MDC Alliance legislators as an...Published: 10 Oct 2020 at 07:28hrs | 1317 | 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 | 1414 | by Staff reporter
'Rogue Khupe is adding no value to our politics' - and corrupt Chamisa is? Incurable insanity
Most of us have heard of the great Physicist Albert Einstein's famous line: "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." And, here is the nub of it, all of u...Published: 09 Oct 2020 at 17:29hrs | 3055 | by Nomusa Garikai
Democracy under siege in Zimbabwe
MDC Alliance deputy spokesperson Felix Magalela Mafa Sibanda has said democracy has been put under threat after MDC-T leader Thokozani Khupe was sworn in in Parliament as a leader of opposition despit...Published: 09 Oct 2020 at 14:04hrs | 1584 | by Stephen Jakes
Chamisa demands lifting of election ban
THE Nelson Chamisa-led MDC Alliance has condemned the suspension of by elections by Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga, saying the move was a violation of the Constitution.Chiwenga, who heads...Published: 08 Oct 2020 at 06:59hrs | 3495 | by Staff reporter
'Sad day for democracy'
LAWYERS, political analysts and opposition party leaders yesterday described the swearing in of opposition MDC-T leader Thokozani Khupe and her 14 party nominees as replacements for the recalled MDC A...Published: 08 Oct 2020 at 06:56hrs | 3774 | 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 | 2094 | 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 | 9014 | by Staff reporter
'Chiwenga decree on by-elections unconstitutional'
LEGAL think-tank, Veritas, has described Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga's move to suspend by-elections, citing COVID-19 fears, as unconstitutional.Chiwenga, who is also the Health ministe...Published: 07 Oct 2020 at 07:08hrs | 1205 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: Fresh headache for Thokozani Khupe...swearing in challenged at court
MDC-T Acting President Thokozani Khupe has suffered a setback after her much hyped swearing in ceremony as a Member of Parliament was challenged by one Charles Madhiwa who took the matter to the High ...Published: 06 Oct 2020 at 18:51hrs | 8912 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chiwenga sends Chamisa packing
Tongues are being rolled overtime as Zimbabweans are being fed propaganda over the suspension of by elections on December. The Vice President Dr comrade Constantino Gueveya Chiwenga, who is also...Published: 06 Oct 2020 at 10:50hrs | 24876 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
'Chiwenga has quarantined democracy'
Electoral watchdog, Zimbabwe Elections Support Network (Zesn), has accused Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga, who doubles as Health minister, of putting democracy on quarantine by suspending the hol...Published: 06 Oct 2020 at 07:14hrs | 1657 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF in massive voter registration drive
ZANU-PF has implored its Bulawayo provincial leadership to rally residents to register en masse to vote following reports that the city risks losing some constituencies in the next delimitation exerci...Published: 06 Oct 2020 at 07:13hrs | 809 | by Staff reporter
'General Chiwenga caught offside'
Vice President in charge of the Ministry of Health and Child Care Constantino Chiwenga's banning of elections has been interpreted as a politicical decision and not a COVID -19 related decision. ...Published: 05 Oct 2020 at 10:17hrs | 19184 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Biti allegations are baseless
MDC-ALLIANCE co-vice-president Tendai Biti has on countless occasions made unsavoury and bald assertions, mainly to his gullible supporters, that "Zanu-PF may rig elections, but it cannot rig the econ...Published: 05 Oct 2020 at 06:41hrs | 1932 | by Rutendo Jiri
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