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Sengezo Tshabangu, Welshman Ncube and fellow Mthwakazi, come let's declare Matabeleland independence!
"Be sure to appoint over you a king the Lord your God chooses. He must be from among your fellow Israelites. Do not place a foreigner over you, one who is not an Israelite."Blocked by a thick ...Published: 20 Nov 2023 at 09:37hrs | 12 | by Israel Dube
Zimbabwe independent candidate offers UK healthcare job opportunities
INDEPENDENT National Assembly candidate for Mpopoma/Mzilikazi in Bulawayo, Pardon Tapfumaneyi is facilitating sponsorship for locals to acquire qualifications to work as healthcare workers in the Unit...Published: 24 Jul 2023 at 06:46hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
CCC filed a false report against Energy Mutodi, investigations reveal
In a desperate bid to woe supporters after fielding a weak candidate, the opposition CCC reportedly filed a false police report against Goromonzi West legislator Energy Mutodi who is aspiring Memb...Published: 14 Jul 2023 at 10:43hrs | 17 | by Tapiwa Chirandu
Chamisa: It's time for clarity not ambiguity
THE phrase "strategic ambiguity" has been flung into the Zimbabwean vocabulary recently and has been received with mixed feelings.But let us try to put the phrase into context by unraveling it...Published: 08 Jul 2023 at 10:01hrs | 13 | by Nevanji Madanhire
Chamisa's CCC likely to lose over 20 seats in Bulawayo
OPPOSITION Citizens Coalition For Change (CCC) President Nelson Chamisa's experimental candidate selection process imploded Wednesday, most likely costing the party over 20 seats in Bulawayo.L...Published: 22 Jun 2023 at 06:51hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa set to snub most incumbent MPs
CCC leader Mr Nelson Chamisa is set to snub some of his Members of Parliament for taking up the US$40 000 housing loan scheme offered to MPs by Government last year by deselecting them for party nomin...Published: 20 Jun 2023 at 06:51hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Prepare for Chamisa victory,' says Siziba
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) has hit back at claims that the party is weak, saying the opposition is ready for the elections set for August 23."We have our friend from Tsholotsho, Jonat...Published: 19 Jun 2023 at 06:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa right-hand man sends stern warning to Zanu-PF primaries' losers
FORMER State Security Minister Owen Ncube has bluntly warned MPs who suffered defeat in the Zanu-PF primaries against contesting as independent candidates in the upcoming general elections.Zan...Published: 17 Jun 2023 at 10:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's democratic credentials non-existent
ON his return from brief exile in South Africa on November 22, 2017 after the late former President Robert Mugabe had been deposed by his military chiefs in a coup, Emmerson Mnangagwa told Zanu-PF sup...Published: 24 May 2023 at 06:05hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Angry Zanu-PF supported disrupt meeting in Mnangagwa's backyard
A meeting in President Emmerson Mnangagwa's hometown of Kwekwe ended prematurely Sunday after some angry supporters disrupted the meeting which was aimed at introducing the party's candidates demandin...Published: 15 May 2023 at 19:12hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Candidate imposition haunts Chamisa
A trail of undemocratic practices within the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) party continues to haunt its leader Mr Nelson Chamisa after allegations that he imposed former Mutare mayor, Mr Blessin...Published: 15 Mar 2022 at 05:32hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's supporters picket over imposition of candidates
THE Nelson Chamisa-led Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) is already embroiled in discord ahead of the upcoming by-elections with party supporters on Friday staging a demonstration in Bulawayo's Ward...Published: 06 Feb 2022 at 06:55hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF reaches 3,6 million members
THE ruling party, Zanu-PF whose 2023 harmonised election voter-drive targets five-million people is achievable with at least 3,6 million eligible voters having been recorded under the party's cell reg...Published: 20 Sep 2021 at 07:08hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
How to wreck a political party
One of the issues that MDC Alliance leader, Nelson Chamisa raised during his Agenda 2021 address last week were claims that Government was gunning for a one party State in Zimbabwe using some oppositi...Published: 22 Mar 2021 at 06:05hrs | 3 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Mnangagwa, Chiwenga fight turns nasty
A POWER struggle that has been simmering for months between President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his ambitious deputy, retired General Constantino Chiwenga, has intensified over the past two weeks, with f...Published: 18 Sep 2020 at 07:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Douglas Mwonzora and Thokozani Khupe have nothing to offer
Now the cat is out of its bag. You cannot conceal something which has horns. The truth will always come out.I remember when political corridors were abuzz with discussions about how Zanu PF an...Published: 27 Aug 2020 at 14:37hrs | | by Leonard Koni
Impatience, tactlessness expose Chamisa's immaturity
It is just one-and-a-half years since Nelson Chamisa seized control of the MDC following his predecessor, the late Morgan Tsvangirai's death on February 14, 2018. The guy is already show...Published: 29 Aug 2019 at 07:33hrs | | by Nobleman Runyanga
Impatience, tactlessness expose Chamisa's immaturity
It is just one and a half years since Nelson Chamisa seized control of the MDC following his predecessor, the late Morgan Tsvangirai's death on 14 February 2018. The guy is already showing signs of fa...Published: 27 Aug 2019 at 13:21hrs | | by Nobleman Runyanga
The oxymoron of democracy in Chamisa's MDC
The MDC-Alliance led by Nelson Chamisa is a party full of contradictions. It is common cause that the party is called the Movement for Democratic Change, itself a presumption of its "democratic" crede...Published: 14 Jun 2019 at 07:50hrs | 1 | by Philemon Mutedzi
Mwonzora was rejected by his home province Manicaland
MDC secretary-general Douglas Mwonzora says he will decide in the next few days if there is still any merit in fighting to retain his current position at the party's congress scheduled for May 24 to 2...Published: 16 Apr 2019 at 08:12hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC face threat of new split
AS THE MDC enters the final weeks of its preparations ahead of its make-or-break elective congress next month, there are real fears that the country's main opposition could suffer another damaging spl...Published: 14 Apr 2019 at 15:48hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora against centralising a lot of power in Chamisa
THE MDC is proposing a number of changes at its forthcoming elective congress to be held in Gweru next month, to ensure that power is distributed equitably within the party.Party secretary-gen...Published: 10 Apr 2019 at 13:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
How Chamisa and Mwonzora handed Zanu-PF Bulawayo by-election win
Nelson Chamisa blamed the party's shock defeat in a council by-election in Bulawayo on an "invisible hand" which he vowed to "cut off".The MDC lost the ward 28 by-election in the suburb of Cow...Published: 02 Apr 2019 at 08:27hrs | 6 | by ZimLive
Chamisa admits Bulawayo defeat
In a rare concession of defeat at the hands of the revolutionary Zanu-PF, MDC-Alliance leader Mr Nelson Chamisa yesterday blamed the disconnect between his party's leadership and its grassroots suppor...Published: 02 Apr 2019 at 08:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Of a book on democracy and democracy hypocrites
Last week MDC Alliance leader, Nelson Chamisa was on cloud nine when he officially co-launched with former Nigerian President, Olusegun Obasanjo the book, Democracy Works – Re-wiring politics to Afr...Published: 01 Apr 2019 at 13:44hrs | 2 | by Nobleman Runyanga
MDC-T disowns Chamisa
We the members of the Movement for Democratic Change (Tsvangirai) (MDC-T) as left by our Founding, Icon President Dr Morgan Richard Tsvangirai note that;Upholding the founding values of MDC-T ...Published: 12 Dec 2018 at 16:52hrs | | by MDC-T
Chamisa badly wants a deal with Mnangagwa
FROM the time Nelson Chamisa entered mainstream politics as the youth chairman for the then newly formed MDC in 1999, his ambitions were quite evident. At the time all he was armed with was political ...Published: 27 Nov 2018 at 06:19hrs | 4 | by Reason Wafawarova
Chamisa purging party structures in preparation for congress
With the much anticipated MDC-Alliance elective congress slated for early next year, details of dirty schemes are emerging from the corridors of power at Morgan Tsvangirai House. These maneuvers point...Published: 17 Oct 2018 at 21:42hrs | 2 | by Alliah Towo
Chamisa fires MDC Alliance members who stood as independent candidates
THE Nelson Chamisa-led MDC Alliance in Chiredzi West has fired members who stood as independent candidates in the July 30 polls and hundreds others who rallied behind the rebellious candidates....Published: 15 Oct 2018 at 06:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Nelson Chamisa is a dictator unfit to lead the Integrated MDC
Word on the street and in the opposition circles is that the MDC-Alliance is going to re-integrating and morph into one political party, reverting to something resembling the original 1999 MDC project...Published: 25 Sep 2018 at 07:11hrs | | by Gangemukange
Matabeleland has been captured
Mzukulu Chamisa, listen to this noble advise: pick up your toys, call all your friends and go back to Harare before tribal fires that you are stocking in Bulawayo consume you. Bulawayo is not a play g...Published: 10 Sep 2018 at 15:13hrs | 4 | by Israel Dube
Residents slam Chamisa's MDC for candidates imposition
THERE was chaos at the Victoria Falls Council offices on Wednesday evening as residents revolted against the alleged imposition of mayoral candidates and interference in balloting by coalition represe...Published: 07 Sep 2018 at 07:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
New dispensation and the rotten apple theory
Election 2018 is over, and it ended with telling lessons for the two main parties in the race. Zanu-PF nearly paid the ultimate price for years of infighting; something that clearly affected the outco...Published: 06 Aug 2018 at 07:14hrs | 1 | by Reason Wafawarova
Aspiring candidate to sue Mugabe and Kasukuwere
Aspiring young Mhondoro-Ngezi constituency Independent Member of Parliament candidate, Nomboka Kurebwa Javangwe, who was recently ousted from the MDC Alliance, has since vowed to continue representing...Published: 29 Jul 2018 at 12:26hrs | | by Own Correspondent
Primary polls ghost haunts Zanu-PF
The chaotic manner in which Zanu-PF selected its parliamentary candidates could cost the ruling party in Mashonaland East (Mash East) province where disgruntled supporters have threatened to vote for ...Published: 02 Jul 2018 at 13:32hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Sobriety should characterise campaign discourse
Aspiring for public office is not an infatuation, neither is it a trivial hunch. As I see it, there is no aspect of human enterprise that deserves to be undertaken after reasoned forethought than that...Published: 29 Jun 2018 at 07:52hrs | 2 | by Cyprian Ndawana
Residents castigate candidate imposition in Bulawayo
Bulawayo residents have castigated some political parties for imposing candidates for local government elections scheduled for 30 July 2018. Participants at a meeting organized by BPRA and WILD to sha...Published: 20 Jun 2018 at 09:13hrs | 1 | by Michael Mdladla Ndiweni
I have not resigned: Gumbi breaks silence
Controversial MDC T Masvingo provincial chairman, James Chafungamoyo Gumbi who allegedly resigned recently has dismissed reports that he has resigned from the party position in the face of mounting co...Published: 18 Jun 2018 at 11:41hrs | 3 | by A Mhlongo
Gumbi quits MDC-Chamisa, forced to stay
MDC-T Masvingo provincial chairperson James Gumbi threw the whole province into quandary on Sunday night when he announced his resignation citing pressure of work but national organising secretary Amo...Published: 17 Jun 2018 at 18:00hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa has lost a candidate imposition court case
The Movement for Democratic Change led by Nelson Chamisa has lost a candidate imposition court case. Blessing Nhende sued the party for imposing a candidate in a Ward reserved for youths. They...Published: 12 Jun 2018 at 14:51hrs | 1 | by Social media
Dewa Mavhinga cooks Zanu-PF violence video?
MDC-T activist based in South Africa Mr Dewa Mavhinga yesterday cooked a video on alleged threats of violence by Zanu-PF and dished it out on social media as fact, earning a backlash from alert Zimbab...Published: 12 Jun 2018 at 06:54hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zapu picks up the pieces in Gwanda South
The circus that started soon after Provincial Affairs minister Abednico Ncube was reinstated as ZANU PF candidate following his previous defeat by media personality Ompile Marupi has become a blessing...Published: 04 Jun 2018 at 19:27hrs | 2 | by Christopher Ndlhovu
MDC-T plunges into turmoil
The MDC-T in Masvingo has been plunged deeper into turmoil over allegations of rampant imposition of candidates in the just-ended primary elections to choose the party's parliamentary and council cand...Published: 29 May 2018 at 07:06hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa going to Matebeleland North on 2 June
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa will take his campaign trail to Matebeleland North Province next month where he is expected to address a star rally, as the party gears for this year's harmonised election...Published: 20 May 2018 at 09:50hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Challenging side of democracy: MDC-T
As the MDC T tries to come up with its candidate list for the up- coming harmonised elections, commotion and confusion has become the order of the day. Candidate imposition in the name of consensus bu...Published: 18 May 2018 at 10:40hrs | 7 | by Brightface Mutema
MDC Alliance, a house of confusion
Zimbabwean politics is not for the faint-hearted people who cannot contain the pressure which comes with it. It only takes tried and tested politicians such as President Emmerson Mnangagwa to steer th...Published: 18 May 2018 at 09:08hrs | 2 | by Elijah Chihota
Zanu-PF rerun results expected today
ZANU-PF primary election reruns continued yesterday and voting went smoothly in some constituencies while chaos characterised areas like Harare South. In Harare South, voting ended on Monday evening, ...Published: 16 May 2018 at 06:43hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance primary elections: bottled smoke
African politics appears simple, yet it is a delicate balancing act. The most savage part of it is that those involved never tell each other the truth of what they think of each other, but what the ot...Published: 11 May 2018 at 16:20hrs | 1 | by Bruce Zvandasara
ZANU PF 2018 Manifesto: the mother of all manifestos
Prophets of political doom had already written off ZANU PF and committed it to the political dustbin –never to rise again. On Friday, 4 May 2018 history was re-written again as the political giant r...Published: 10 May 2018 at 14:54hrs | | by Elijah Chihota
Bad omen for Mnangagwa
As State-controlled media journalists, who lost in Zanu-PF primary elections retracted to their newsrooms, ethical quandaries they face constitute material for my future article.In view of the...Published: 09 May 2018 at 07:11hrs | | by Cyprian Ndawana
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