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Mwonzora elected as spokesperson of NERA not NERO
Douglas Mwonzora, the president of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), was elected as the spokesperson for the National Electoral Reforms Agenda (NERA) in Zimbabwe on January 18, 2024...Published: 19 Jan 2024 at 14:44hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Opposition parties, CSOs are seeing shadows in elections
As the August 23 2023 harmonised elections day draws near, there has been some shivers emanating from some opposition political parties and their funders as reality now is clear that they are facing d...Published: 17 Aug 2023 at 06:48hrs | 13 | by Mukachana Hanyani
'It's dumb for CCC to boycott elections with Mwonzora lurking!' He's bait, participate and VHUMBU! Pwete-e-e!
"It is stupid to think Zanu PF will reform itself out of power. It is also dumb stupid to suggest boycotting of elections when Mwonzora is lurking in the shadows to fill that void," shot Osama23. Shoo...Published: 26 Apr 2023 at 10:41hrs | 4 | by Wilbert Mukori
SADC will not let Zanu PF 'continue' rigging elections. After 43 years of shamelessly endorsing rigged elections!
"Zimbabwe has always been violating those (election) principles and guidelines as far as elections are concerned," acknowledged SADC Electoral Advisor, Likhwa Dlamini said after meeting Nelson Chamisa...Published: 16 Apr 2023 at 18:52hrs | 4 | by Wilbert Mukori
Zanu PF rigged by elections, a foretaste for 2023: CCC will participate and complain as 'sore losers' - set template
In the 2013 harmonized elections Tendai Biti was the MDC-T candidate for Mount Pleasant, Harare constituency. On voting day, he witnessed youths being bused in to vote; they were clearly from outside ...Published: 31 Mar 2022 at 09:25hrs | 1 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Zanu-PF Matabeleland South Province ready for by-elections
THE Zanu-PF leadership in Matabeleland South province says it is ready for by-elections slated for next year.The country will hold by-elections to fill over 133 council and parliamentary seats...Published: 13 Dec 2021 at 07:02hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Opposition flogs electoral reforms dead horse, again
Faced with increasing pressure from its largely impressionable and excitable young members, who are growing impatient, and the counter-attractions presented by other opposition players like Jacob Ngar...Published: 31 May 2021 at 06:34hrs | 1 | by Nobleman Runyanga
'Zanu PF has dismembered MDC A, will not need to rig to win 2023' - only counter, demand reforms before 2023
Dear Tony Reeler,Thank you very much for your thought-provoking article 'Zanu PF won't concede electoral defeat' in New Zimbabwe and Bulawayo24. The root cause of Zimbabwe economic meltdown an...Published: 10 Apr 2021 at 06:44hrs | 10 | by Wilbert Mukori
'MDC A must NOT boycott elections' advised Magaisa - echo of ruinous GNU advice NOT to implement reforms
"If there is a phrase that must not be entertained by the MDC Alliance right now, it is the phrase 'boycott by-elections'. Not when the opponents are doing everything to take you out of political spac...Published: 07 Apr 2021 at 10:17hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Chamisa advised against election boycott
ANALYSTS yesterday urged the MDC Alliance not to boycott elections as doing so would leave the ruling Zanu-PF party enjoying unbridled power.Nelson Chamisa's party looks set to fight with the ...Published: 06 Apr 2021 at 07:18hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora to be 'biggest opposition by 2023' - and perpetuate rigged elections, deplorable lack of imagination
The trouble with Zimbabweans is they have no clue what constitutes a competent leader and it is little wonder the nation has blundered from pillar to post, the blind leading the blind into the ditch. ...Published: 12 Jan 2021 at 14:17hrs | 10 | by Nomusa Garikai
Why unity is unachievable for Chamisa's MDC
Leading to election 2018, we saw the formation of what is now called the MDC - Alliance on the backdrop of massive campaigning for a united front against Zanu-PF, not around a common cause or unity of...Published: 13 May 2019 at 08:47hrs | 3 | by Reason Wafawarova
Chamisa missed Heroes 'mourning stolen election' - we mourn curse of 'indecisive' Chamisa and missed reforms
It was USA Ambassador to Zimbabwe, Chris Dell, who said, back in 2004, the late MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai "was a flawed and indecisive character". Events have proven that the Ambassador was right a...Published: 15 Aug 2018 at 16:43hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
Zanu PF printing fake notice from MDC Alliance claiming boycott of polls - Ruhanya
Political commentator Dr Pedzisai Ruhanya has said the ruling Zanu PF is printing posters in which they purport are from MDC Alliance announcing their boycott of the polls on Monday. "ZANU ...Published: 29 Jul 2018 at 12:04hrs | 3 | by Stephen Jakes
Chamisa endorsed by Zimbabwe 'despot'
MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday said he welcomed an endorsement of his presidential bid by former President Robert Mugabe who was booted out of power by the military in November last year...Published: 28 Jul 2018 at 09:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe: Human rights defenders at risk as elections approach
Preliminary findings of a field missionPARIS, France - Ahead of Zimbabwe's much anticipated general elections scheduled on July 30, the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders...Published: 27 Jul 2018 at 19:20hrs | 1 | by FIDH
Boycott presidential poll, Chamisa!
Recently, the main opposition MDC Alliance leader's 40-year-old presidential candidate, Nelson Chamisa, who is challenging the ruling Zanu-PF's Emmerson Mnangagwa for the presidency, has been threaten...Published: 27 Jul 2018 at 11:21hrs | 4 | by Simukai Tinhu
Chamisa to be arrested
Reports from MDC Alliance rallies in recent days echo a common theme: if their candidate loses there will be anger, despair, and even revolution. Chamisa's supporters site the election as being r...Published: 25 Jul 2018 at 19:32hrs | 2 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
We will not boycott elections, July 30 will be our independence - Chamisa
MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has revealed that his party will not boycott the July 30 elections describing the day as an independence of the people ...Published: 25 Jul 2018 at 12:35hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Zanu PF is rigging these elections, don't legitimise it by participating - 'Yatsvika musheche yamwa!'
"Collective active boycott is not the end of political activism, but the beginning of a political engagement to revolutionise and democratise the electoral college in Zimbabwe. The calling is not for ...Published: 23 Jul 2018 at 16:41hrs | 2 | by Nomusa Garikai
'ED, Bob have no place in new dispensation,' says Chamisa
MDC Alliance presidential candidate Nelson Chamisa has made it clear that he will not work with former president Robert Mugabe because he, just like President Emmerson Mnangagwa, represents the old or...Published: 21 Jul 2018 at 12:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa warns Mnangagwa
MDC Alliance presidential candidate Nelson Chamisa yesterday warned President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government against manipulating the July 30 elections, saying his supporters will not accept any rigg...Published: 15 Jul 2018 at 16:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Let Zimbabwe move forward
Ever heard of the adage 'Old habits die hard'? Most people thought threats from some political parties or is it one political party to boycott elections had ended with the demise of Save. Toda...Published: 09 Jul 2018 at 13:51hrs | 1 | by Mrehwa Soko
Chamisa not boycotting elections
MDC Alliance presidential candidate Nelson Chamisa today made a u-turn on his 'there will be no election declaration' as he clearly highlighted his party will not boycott elections but will continue t...Published: 05 Jul 2018 at 18:37hrs | 2 | by Staff rpeorter
Zec to unveil ballot printing company
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission will this week unveil, before contesting political parties, the company that will print ballot papers to be used in the July 30 harmonised elections.In an int...Published: 19 Jun 2018 at 07:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mujuru says, 'victory is certain'
PEOPLE'S Rainbow Coalition (PRC) presidential candidate, Joice Mujuru, yesterday said she was ready to break new records of becoming the country's first female president after winning next month's pre...Published: 18 Jun 2018 at 07:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Do not underestimate Chamisa's resolve to boycott elections,' says MDC - only if his life was on the line
"Hupenzi enyama yegakava!" (Idiots are stubborn and there is no one more stubborn than the certified insane!) so goes the Shona adage. Insanity comes and goes, it is triggered by the full moon in wild...Published: 15 Jun 2018 at 22:19hrs | 3 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Nero, MDC not learning from the past
What Chamisa and his cronies seem to forget is, whether the MDC Alliance is participating in this coming election or not, the election will go on as planned. After suffering a humiliating electoral de...Published: 21 May 2018 at 07:10hrs | | by Ngoni Masvaya
MDC-T plots ZimbabweShutDown
THE opposition MDC-T led by Kuwadzana East lawmaker, Nelson Chamisa is planning to roll out demonstrations to protest against the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission's (Zec's) decision to allegedly "clandes...Published: 10 May 2018 at 07:14hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa threatens national shutdown
OPPOSITION MDC Alliance presidential candidate, Nelson Chamisa has threatened a national shutdown and to stop the holding of general elections this year if the Zanu-PF government ignores his party's d...Published: 08 May 2018 at 08:00hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa should stop grandstanding
Let us say things as they are. Threats to boycott elections are a very stupid idea, especially in cases where one is singing the threat as part of some attention seeking tomfoolery. This is one of tho...Published: 10 Apr 2018 at 06:52hrs | | by Nick Mangwana
Mthwakazi's boycott of elections is not docility - activist
Mthwakazi activist Hloniphani Ncube has said sometime people must not take the boycott of elections by people in Matabeleland as docility.This come in the wake of reports that there were conce...Published: 24 Mar 2018 at 07:35hrs | 5 | by Stephen Jakes
Chamisa gives EU MDC's 2018 'deal breaker' reforms - bluffing, no reforms and will never boycott
MDC leaders are corrupt and incompetent, that is a given, and they have proven this beyond all reasonable doubt during the GNU when the failed to get even one democratic reform implemented in five yea...Published: 22 Mar 2018 at 07:26hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
'No reform, no election however will not boycott elections regardless,' says Chamisa - clear as mud, pompous one!
"There will be no delaying of an election. There will be reforms. It is either reforms or there will be no election. That is our position and we are prepared to surrender ourselves before we surrender...Published: 16 Mar 2018 at 06:46hrs | 2 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Mnangagwa shocked
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has said he was shocked to learn that the country has more than 100 political parties that want to contest this year's harmonised elections.Addressing journalists during a ...Published: 16 Mar 2018 at 06:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa tells MDC-T supporters of flying elephants
MDC-T vice president Nelson Chamisa is taking too long to realise that winning a national election or running a country is not the same as performing theatrics for a rented crowd or posting pictures f...Published: 10 Mar 2018 at 09:21hrs | | by Radar
5 million youth targeted by mass BVR exercise - to game-change Zimbabwe politics
CHITUNGWIZA - The MDC-T-led National Mass Biometric Voter Registration campaign orchestrated by the Deputy Secretary in the MDC-T National Youth Assembly, Chamu Madya and his team comprising Jabulani ...Published: 07 Nov 2017 at 07:19hrs | 8 | by Staff Reporter
'Boycotting 2018 is not an option,' says ZUNDE - not when it is the only option, which it is
"Nhamo inenharo!" (There is no one more foolishly stubborn than a fool!) as one would say in Shona. The question of whether Zimbabweans should continue to contest the Zanu PF managed elections...Published: 27 Sep 2017 at 09:50hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
'Everyone must boycott elections,' says Paradza - start with yourself, ZUNDE
"There is no point in holding elections. For once everyone must boycott elections," wrote Ben Paradza. He was writing in response to the article "Mudede tells Rita Makarau to abandon the biometric vot...Published: 02 Sep 2017 at 19:35hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Western sanctions weakened labour which were key in MDC formation
Zimbabwe Commiunist Party Secretary General Ngqabutho Mabhena has said so the American sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe, which sought to weaken and collapse the Mugabe regime, instead, have weakened and ...Published: 07 Aug 2017 at 09:58hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Of elections, media space, donor and mental slavery
Zimbabwe is a small country with a small population of about 15 million people, most of whom are youth, young, vibrant and energetic,but with no employment. It's a peaceful country compared to her sis...Published: 25 Jun 2017 at 16:40hrs | | by Tendai Mazenge
Tsvangirai and Mujuru are beginning to excite
MY heart bleeds for Comrade Chinx. What a jolly good comrade? Shamwari yeropa. Music was his gun. 2 Timothy 4 vs 7 comforts me: "I have fought the good fight. I have finished the race. I have kept the...Published: 18 Jun 2017 at 10:09hrs | | by Bishop
Mujuru, contesting yet another flawed election is not new or 'strategic' - it is the crass of stupidity
"You can lead a horse to the river but you cannot make it drive." So, goes the common proverb. People are like an animal, you can present them with a golden opportunity, but you cannot force the indiv...Published: 13 Jun 2017 at 08:28hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
'Poll boycott is a poor strategy,' says Mujuru
NATIONAL People's Party leader, Joice Mujuru has vowed to contest the upcoming 2018 general elections despite claims the ruling party has already rigged the polls.This comes amid reports some ...Published: 12 Jun 2017 at 07:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Women must now lead, says Mujuru
Former vice-president Joice Mujuru is the face of a new campaign by female politicians in Zimbabwe for more participation by women in national elections ahead of next year's polls.The Women El...Published: 11 Jun 2017 at 10:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu PF 'connect' with voters through 20 kgs input - now demand 20kgs of reforms
ZANU PF politburo member and cabinet minister Jonathan Moyo has admitted his party abuses government programmes to gain advantage over opponents he scorned for attempts to connect with land dependent ...Published: 04 Jun 2017 at 15:27hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
Why povo must boycott 2018 election with middle finger defiance to Zanu PF
My case for calling ordinary Zimbabweans to boycott next year's elections is based on the eyewitness accounts of two senior MDC politicians, Samuel Sipepa Nkomo and David Coltart."We (MDC) fai...Published: 07 Apr 2017 at 09:11hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
NERA holding 'feedback rally' next week - with no reforms, will they conform election boycott
"The National Electoral Reform Agenda, NERA is on Wednesday 5 April descending into the Africa Unity Square, now "labelled Dzamara Square," for a feedback rally," reported Zimeye."We have gone...Published: 29 Mar 2017 at 18:55hrs | 1 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
The case for boycotting 2018 elections until reforms is even more compelling than 2013
The first and by far the most important reality in Zimbabwe today is that the country is in a real economic mess; unemployment has soared to 95%, millions now live in abject poverty - they type that k...Published: 22 Mar 2017 at 10:54hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Chamboko says voters are selling out 'for beer' - how insulting when he is the one selling out
A General who is indifferent to the suffering and death of those under his command and even sees glory is the bloody the business and is always demanding more soldiers to send to the frontline is a cu...Published: 06 Mar 2017 at 09:19hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
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