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Zanu-PF bigwig exit: More details emerge
FORMER Zanu-PF director general, Dickson Dzora, was reportedly forced to retire over a basket of allegations that include corruption and abuse of party vehicle policy, NewsDay reported.Dzora r...Published: 25 Mar 2024 at 05:33hrs | 4642 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF wins 2 council by-elections
Zanu-PF has won Harare Ward 36 and Chinhoyi Ward 4 after defeating opposition candidates in Saturday by-elections.The Harare Municipality by-election was necessitated by the recall of former c...Published: 11 Mar 2024 at 04:50hrs | 269 | by Staff reporter
Why Donald Trump's support has been growing!
My friends in Europe and in Africa ask me the perennial question. What makes for Donald Trump's longevity in American politics? And why are the Democrats trying their best to lock him up in a ja...Published: 10 Mar 2024 at 06:59hrs | 596 | by Kenneth Mufuka
People will follow Chamisa everywhere he goes
Former MDC Alliance and the Citizens Coalition for Change Organizing Secretary Amos Chibaya has claimed that Zimbabweans do not follow political parties but people.Chibaya who was speaking to ...Published: 09 Mar 2024 at 10:42hrs | 2499 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF legislators glorify Zec
THE National Assembly degenerated into a comical spectacle this past week after Zanu-PF legislators heaped praises on the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission, (Zec), for successfully conducting last year's ...Published: 12 Feb 2024 at 13:54hrs | 87 | by Staff reporter
Nelson Chamisa's CCC resignation
ON 25 January 2024, Zimbabwean opposition Citizens' Coalition for Change (CCC) president Nelson Chamisa quit.Looking through the dancing ropes, it is more like a boxing match. Remember when Mi...Published: 12 Feb 2024 at 13:52hrs | 570 | by Vivid Gwede
Zec hit with over 100 lawsuits
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has revealed that it attracted over 100 court cases over the secrecy and controversy surrounding its handling of the August 2023 elections with some still pendi...Published: 11 Feb 2024 at 21:11hrs | 948 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF MPs praises ZEC praise for holding 'free and fair' elections
Zanu-PF MPs Tuesday reduced parliament into a chorus of superfluous praise on the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) for conducting what they claim were free and fair elections, condemned as a fraud ...Published: 07 Feb 2024 at 18:33hrs | 97 | by Staff reporter
Zesn blames recalls of opposition members for low voter turnout
THE Zimbabwe Election Support Network (Zesn) has blamed low voter turnout in the just ended by-elections on incessant recalls of opposition members.The election watchdog said the low number of...Published: 06 Feb 2024 at 04:38hrs | 301 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa gets two-thirds majority
The ruling Zanu-PF party won all the six seats in by-elections held on Saturday last week as it attained a two-thirds majority amid fears there will be rounds of constitutional amendments.Zanu...Published: 06 Feb 2024 at 04:37hrs | 323 | by Staff reporter
Opposition Politics in Zimbabwe, 1999 - 2024: An Obituary
Advocate Nelson Chamisa's capitulation last week at the behest of the fifth column led by Sengezo Tshabangu was the final nail in opposition politics in Zimbabwe. Armed with state institutions and exp...Published: 03 Feb 2024 at 09:09hrs | 1359 | by Innocent Mpoki
Tshabangu's legal team continues winning streak
The High Court in Harare has this afternoon granted CCC and its Interim Secretary General - Sengezo Tshabangu - leave to execute pending an appeal ex-CCC recallees in the Supreme Court in case Number ...Published: 02 Feb 2024 at 17:03hrs | 14483 | by Jonathan Moyo
By-elections ballot paper distribution begins today
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission is now 100 percent ready to deliver seamless by-elections on Saturday, with the distribution of ballot papers set to start today.ZEC has printed 230 000 ballo...Published: 30 Jan 2024 at 04:20hrs | 109 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa, Biti a team of irreconcilable rivals
Zimbabwe's main opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T) led by Morgan Richard Tsvangirai, launched its campaign for the 31 July 2013 harmonised elections in Marondera, a small tow...Published: 29 Jan 2024 at 08:57hrs | 1698 | by Dr Phillan Zamchiya
Zanu-PF 2 seats away from two-thirds majority agenda
Zanu-PF is two seats away from securing a much-desired two-thirds majority in Parliament ahead of the 3 February by-elections — the second since the 23 August 2023 general elections controversially ...Published: 29 Jan 2024 at 06:25hrs | 391 | by Staff reporter
Sibanda engages Bosso's Harare fans
HIGHLANDERS chairman Johnfat Sibanda believes he still has a lot to offer at the club and re-election in the upcoming elections will allow him to take the club to another level. Sibanda will g...Published: 26 Jan 2024 at 04:39hrs | 77 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF takes early lead in by-elections
Zanu-PF has already secured five wards ahead of the February 3, 2024, by-elections after the High Court nullified the nomination of 23 recalled National Assembly and local authority CCC candidates....Published: 24 Jan 2024 at 04:48hrs | 226 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF wins five council wards after CCC fails to field candidates
Zanu-PF has automatically won five council seats in Harare, Chiredzi and Manyame RDC following the disqualification of Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) candidates by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commissi...Published: 23 Jan 2024 at 19:19hrs | 172 | by Staff reporter
All in place for February 3 by-elections
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission has said everything is now in place for the February 3 by-elections after the High Court upheld a challenge by the CCC secretary-general, Mr Sengezo Tshabangu to bar ...Published: 23 Jan 2024 at 04:37hrs | 245 | by Staff reporter
Printing of ballot papers for Feb 3 by-elections underway
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) has said everything is set for the February 3, by-elections and revealed that the decrease in the number of candidates on the ballot papers will result in...Published: 22 Jan 2024 at 19:09hrs | 115 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa must get it right from word go
LAST week there were hints that Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader, Nelson Chamisa, may form a new political party in the wake of the chaos created in the two-year-old CCC party by some of his...Published: 22 Jan 2024 at 18:51hrs | 1027 | by Staff reporter
Fresh blow for CCC
RECALLED Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) candidates have lost a High Court challenge to remain on the ballot paper for the February 3 by-elections after the court ruled in favour of the self-impos...Published: 22 Jan 2024 at 10:01hrs | 496 | by Staff reporter
Sengezo Tshabangu wins again
CCC's interim secretary-general Sengezo Tshabangu yesterday dealt the party's beleaguered leader Nelson Chamisa yet another blow after High Court Judge Justice Pisirayi Kwenda ruled in favour of his a...Published: 20 Jan 2024 at 07:08hrs | 2132 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's recalled MPs barred from by-elections
High Court Justice Pisirayi Kwenda has ordered that 23 names of recalled opposition CCC MPs, including those of key officials Amos Chibaya and Gift Ostallos Siziba, be removed from the ballot papers a...Published: 19 Jan 2024 at 13:15hrs | 672 | by Staff reporter
High Court to hand down judgement on CCC MPs' challenge against ballot removal
The High Court has reserved its judgement in a matter Citizens Coalition for Change self-imposed secretary general Sengezo Tshabangu is seeking to block recalled MPs from contesting under the party du...Published: 19 Jan 2024 at 13:09hrs | 100 | by Staff reporter
High Court case to expunge 23 CCC recalees from ballot box
HIGH COURT CASE TO EXPUNGE 23 RECALLEES FROM BALLOT PAPER FOR 3 FEBRUARY BY-ELECTIONS SET FOR TOMORROWThe Urgent Chamber Application by CCC and its interim secretary general, Sengezo Tshabangu...Published: 17 Jan 2024 at 05:12hrs | 1501 | by Jonathan Moyo
Tshabangu goes to court to bar Chibaya, Siziva
Nearly two dozen former CCC MPs and councillors who were controversially recalled could now be barred from the February 3 by-elections after self-styled party secretary general Sengezo Tshabangu filed...Published: 16 Jan 2024 at 04:38hrs | 506 | by Staff reporter
Tshabangu seeks to bar 23 candidates
CCC interim secretary-general Mr Sengezo Tshabangu has struck again after filing a High Court application seeking to bar 23 candidates from using the party name in the by-elections slated for February...Published: 15 Jan 2024 at 05:12hrs | 211 | by Staff reporter
Ostallos Siziva wasting time, resources running as CCC candidate says Tshabangu
Sengezo Tshabangu, the self-proclaimed secretary general of the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC), asserts that Gift Ostallos Siziva, the deputy spokesperson seeking reentry into parliament, is squa...Published: 10 Jan 2024 at 08:18hrs | 1930 | by Staff reporter
The year Mnangagwa tightened grip on power
The air crackled with anticipation on November 22, 2017 as Zimbabwe witnessed a moment etched in history.Emmerson Mnangagwa, the man once cast out, returned to his homeland not as a fugitive, ...Published: 31 Dec 2023 at 12:59hrs | 507 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's party rocked by double candidate chaos
Opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) candidates are set to battle each other in several local authority by-elections February next year in yet another caricature of the country's electoral s...Published: 29 Dec 2023 at 07:11hrs | 2392 | by Staff reporter
Rival CCC candidates nominated to face a Zanu-PF candidate
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission has published an Election Notice with the names of local authority candidates nominated in some 28 wards for the 3 February 2024 by-elections.Some highlights:...Published: 28 Dec 2023 at 18:12hrs | 1081 | by Prof Jonathan Moyo
Clashes in DR Congo as opposition demands poll re-run
Police in the Democratic Republic of Congo have clashed with opposition supporters demanding that last week's presidential poll be annulled.Leading opposition candidates have denounced the ele...Published: 28 Dec 2023 at 10:45hrs | 662 | by Staff reporter
Zuma tells politicians who insult MK Party to 'zip it'
Former president Jacob Zuma has told politicians who "think they know politics" and are insulting the Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) Party to "zip it" before he reveals their true colours.Zuma was spe...Published: 27 Dec 2023 at 07:32hrs | 875 | by Staff reporter
Drama-filled 2023 ends in tears for CCC
POLITICS, according to social scientists, is loosely translated as a battle to control resources with man putting political contestation as a means to ensure equitable distribution of whatever is foun...Published: 22 Dec 2023 at 18:22hrs | 806 | by Staff reporter
The elusive promise of a democratic breakthrough
SINCE 2000, there have been several attempts to dislodge the ruling party, Zanu –PF, from government. The ruling party's mismanagement of the economy has led to an economic crisis that has rendered ...Published: 22 Dec 2023 at 18:19hrs | 154 | by Liam Kanhenga & Youngerson Matete
Donald Trump suffers Kasukuwere fate
Colorado's Supreme Court has ruled former United States President Donald Trump is ineligible to run for the White House because of his role in the 2021 assault on the Capitol by his supporters and sho...Published: 20 Dec 2023 at 05:57hrs | 1320 | by Staff reporter
Shock as Amos Chibaya double crosses Chamisa with Tshabangu
Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) Organiser, Amos Chibaya, once considered a staunch ally of the Nelson Chamisa faction, has strategically positioned himself as the sole CCC candidate in the Mkoba N...Published: 19 Dec 2023 at 07:53hrs | 5243 | by Mandla Ndlovu
CCC MPs sold out
THE Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) on Thursday had a bloodrush to the head. They caused a mini commotion in the National Assembly and took with them down the people of Zimbabwe when they received...Published: 17 Dec 2023 at 18:09hrs | 839 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Zapu celebrates 62 years
Zapu is today celebrating 62 years after its formation with the party spokesperson Mso Ndlovu saying they celebrate this milestone, as they continue on their journey to achieve the full emancipation o...Published: 17 Dec 2023 at 11:50hrs | 205 | by Stephen Jakes
Chamisa's Chitungwiza rally cancelled
Nelson Chamisa's rally in Chitungwiza scheduled for Sunday has been cancelled. In a statement on it's X account (formerly Twitter), the party did not provide any spe...Published: 17 Dec 2023 at 09:56hrs | 896 | by Staff reporter
Welshman Ncube fingers 'the Emperor'
Former MDC Alliance vice president Welshman Ncube has claimed there is a team of the trolls set up by the Emperor to push others out of the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) party.Professor ...Published: 16 Dec 2023 at 09:10hrs | 2370 | by Staff reporter
Rigging mars Zanu-PF primaries
Zanu-PF's primary elections held on Wednesday in Seke and Goromonzi, Mashonaland West province, were marred by massive rigging despite the low voter turnout.In Seke, Munyaradzi Kashambe emerge...Published: 15 Dec 2023 at 07:31hrs | 259 | by Staff reporter
Zambia is on the verge of being a one-party state
Zambia's former ruling parties have typically fared poorly after losing power. The United National Independence Party (UNIP) ruled for 27 years but gradually collapsed following its defeat in 1991. Th...Published: 12 Dec 2023 at 21:11hrs | 1048 | by Sishuwa Sishuwa
CCC factions lost 3 council seats to Zanu-PF in Bulawayo
The Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) lost three of the eight council seats it had won in August to Zanu-PF after five of its recalled councillors retained their seats from the eight contested wards...Published: 12 Dec 2023 at 09:24hrs | 677 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF on cusp of two thirds majority
Zanu-PF claimed seven of the vacant nine National Assembly seats to get to within three seats of a two thirds majority in parliament.The ruling party also gained four council seats – three i...Published: 12 Dec 2023 at 07:26hrs | 708 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's CCC leadership meets
THE Citizens Coalitions for Change (CCC) leadership is meeting today to deliberate on the way forward after the party was barred from participating in Saturday's by-election which saw Zanu-PF winning ...Published: 12 Dec 2023 at 06:05hrs | 1251 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's CCC vows to challenge 'judicial coup' that promises Zanu-PF a supermajority
Zimbabwe opposition on Sunday said it would challenge the results of "sham" weekend by-elections, which could give the ruling party enough of a majority to change the constitution.The south Af...Published: 11 Dec 2023 at 19:19hrs | 1349 | by Staff reporter
Voter apathy rocks Zimbabwe's by-elections
Zimbabwe held special elections on Saturday for nine seats in Parliament after opposition lawmakers were removed from their positions and disqualified from running again.The opposition called ...Published: 10 Dec 2023 at 18:15hrs | 1498 | by Staff reporter
ZEC to throw away 225,000 ballot papers
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) has announced it is dumping 222,550 ballot papers bearing the names of CCC candidates now barred from participating in the December 9 by-elections.This ...Published: 08 Dec 2023 at 05:47hrs | 1120 | by Staff reporter
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