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Chamisa battles open rebellion
A REBELLION in the MDC-Alliance led councils over imposition of mayoral candidates has gone out of hand forcing the party's leader Mr Nelson Chamisa, who is being labelled a dictator, to summon all co...Published: 24 hrs ago | 821 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF Manicaland supporters demand Madiro ouster
SCORES of Zanu PF supporters in Manicaland yesterday stormed the provincial party headquarters in Mutare, demanding the election of a new executive to replace the current one led by Mike Madiro....Published: 20 Sep 2018 at 06:52hrs | 384 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa can only have an effective protest if all his MPs boycot Parliament
Stephen Chan, a professor of world politics at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London, says MDC leader Nelson Chamisa can only have an effective protest if all his MPs ...Published: 19 Sep 2018 at 13:14hrs | 2242 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa turns down Parly invite
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa turned down an invitation to attend the official opening of Parliament presided over by President Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday.Chamisa had been invited to attend the ...Published: 19 Sep 2018 at 13:11hrs | 7494 | by Staff reporter
Teachers demand pay for invigilating
TEACHERS have demanded payment from the Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (Zimsec) for invigilating public examinations. Invigilation has always been deemed part of teachers' duties so they...Published: 19 Sep 2018 at 07:02hrs | 379 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF expels 'rogue' party member
The ruling Zanu-PF has expelled Talent Kadzima who stood as an independent candidate in the Nyanga South National Assembly elections.Kadzima, defied the party and stood as an independent candi...Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 16:34hrs | 1810 | by Staff reporter
Teachers request ZIMSEC meeting
Teachers under the Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe PTZU have threatened to boycott participating in the upcoming ZIMSEC examinations if the examination board fails to engage them and come up wi...Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 16:31hrs | 700 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa alliance victory leaves Zanu-PF divided in Chiredzi
The election of an MDC Alliance councillor and an independent as chairman and deputy chair of Chiredzi Town Council has left the ruling Zanu-PF party deeply divided.Zanu-PF won resoundingly al...Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 07:08hrs | 1114 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa courts fired Zanu-PF rebels
Zanu-PF has extended an olive branch to former party cadres who were sacked between 2014 and last year. Among those invited back into the party are Rugare Gumbo, Didymus Mutasa, Ray Kaukonde, ...Published: 17 Sep 2018 at 07:48hrs | 13408 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa now talking dialogue
OPPOSITION MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has called on President Emmerson Mnangagwa to "come to the negotiating table" or face the real prospect of driving the country down the abyss.In a...Published: 17 Sep 2018 at 07:19hrs | 7735 | by Staff reporter
US piles pressure on Mnangagwa
Newly-appointed United States ambassador to Zimbabwe Brian Nichols says he is looking forward to seeing Zimbabwe return to being the powerhouse it used to be, once it embarks on a path of reviving its...Published: 16 Sep 2018 at 13:41hrs | 21775 | by Staff reporter
Small political parties likely to collapse before the next polls in 2023
A number of opposition political parties are likely to collapse before the next polls in 2023 primarily as a result of lack of funding and their failure to gain traction at the just-ended polls....Published: 16 Sep 2018 at 13:36hrs | 908 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa woos Mugabe protégé
President Emmerson Mnangagwa met one of former president Robert Mugabe's top allies, Ambrose Mutinhiri, amid indications that the Zanu-PF leader is on a charm offensive to lure back his foes into the ...Published: 16 Sep 2018 at 09:05hrs | 6627 | by Staff reporter
Zimsec prints exam papers in the UK
THE Zimbabwe Examinations Council (Zimsec) is printing part of the November public examination papers in the United Kingdom to avoid leakages, it has been revealed.Zimsec has its own printing ...Published: 16 Sep 2018 at 08:56hrs | 1155 | by Staff reporter
Mpofu advises MDC-T on congress
FORMER MDC legislator for Bulilima East Norman Mpofu has warned MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa to immediately call for MDC-T congress to legitimised his leadership.Chamisa and Elias Mudzur...Published: 16 Sep 2018 at 08:53hrs | 1747 | by Stephen Jakes
New exam subjects for pupils
More than 16 000 Ordinary and Advanced Level candidates will this year sit for the recently introduced Physical Education, Sport and Mass Displays exams as Government equips pupils with physical liter...Published: 16 Sep 2018 at 08:47hrs | 511 | by Staff reporter
Infighting costs Zanu PF Chiredzi town chairmanship
Zanu PF's Chiredzi Town Council chairmanship candidate, Blessing Mazinyani was recently caught by surprise after MDC Alliance's Gibson Hwende won the race after scoring more votes than what everybody ...Published: 15 Sep 2018 at 12:30hrs | 2778 | by Staff reporter
Winds of change blow in Zimbabwe
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's promise to transform the nation by broadening and revitalising its economic opportunities, while ensuring progressive steps are taken towards a democratic future, have c...Published: 15 Sep 2018 at 09:14hrs | 730 | by Staff reporter
New watchdog vows to enforce election campaign promises
A NEW watchdog and multi-party social movement, Umalusi-Mufudzi, has been formed to make accountable all elected public officials and ensure that they deliver on the promises they made in the run-up t...Published: 15 Sep 2018 at 08:37hrs | 160 | by Staff Reporter
Challenges facing Mnangagwa's govt
THE general elections have come and gone, so has the Constitutional Court (ConCourt) process of dealing with the disputed outcome. What is imperative now is how the nation moves forward.The ke...Published: 14 Sep 2018 at 16:18hrs | 674 | by Dumisani Nkomo
Female representation in local authorities dips
Female representation in local authorities has continued to drop since 2008 with a paltry 261 women councillors voted into office in the July 30 polls, down from 373 and 323 in 2008 and 2013, respecti...Published: 14 Sep 2018 at 06:49hrs | 130 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa is dead! what next?
Opportunistic leaders not only cost lives and resources but also set back the march to freedom by decades. In Zimbabwe and across Africa, democracy has suffered a steady decline in recent years becaus...Published: 13 Sep 2018 at 19:49hrs | 5595 | by Sam Wezhira
'Engage every Zimbabwean' Manyika tells ED - fishing for gravy train seat, reward for selling-out
"In an open letter to Mnangagwa dated September 11, (Noah) Manyika said there was need for the country to avoid the trauma of disputed elections in future to ensure whoever is elected can govern with ...Published: 13 Sep 2018 at 16:41hrs | 2367 | by Nomusa Garikai
Chamisa, MDC Alliance councillors head for clash over mayoral elections
THE MDC Alliance is heading for a clash with councillors in Masvingo and Victoria Falls, who defied party directives on the selection of mayors, with the opposition party ordering one of the elected c...Published: 13 Sep 2018 at 06:40hrs | 1117 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa, MDC Alliance's options
THE results of the elections and the outcome of the Constitutional Court did not go in favour of the youthful MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa and his party, but there remains numerous avenues and o...Published: 13 Sep 2018 at 06:36hrs | 1078 | by Dumisani Nkomo
Villagers deprived of government food aid
Zimbabwe Peace Project has revealed that villagers were deprived of government sponsored food aid in the run up top elections.ZPP said these reprisals manifested through deprivation of governm...Published: 12 Sep 2018 at 16:28hrs | 1258 | by Stephen Jakes
Mnangagwa beat Nelson Chamisa by over 300 000 votes, says Eddie Cross
All of us have a stake in what is going on right now in Zimbabwe.When I say all of us - I mean everyone, every Zimbabwean from the peasants in the Tribal Areas, the Zimbabweans in the Diaspora...Published: 12 Sep 2018 at 15:11hrs | 6164 | by Eddie Cross
MDC Alliance councillor nominates self for 7 council posts
MDC Alliance's sole councillor for Marondera Rural District Council (MRDC), Nelson Mukwenha recently tried the impossible when he nominated himself to contest in all committee positions available desp...Published: 12 Sep 2018 at 07:26hrs | 869 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa orders elected Mayor to step down
MDC Alliance president Mr Nelson Chamisa has ordered the newly elected Masvingo Mayor Clr Collins Maboke to step down or be recalled over allegations of defying a party directive. Clr Maboke o...Published: 12 Sep 2018 at 06:54hrs | 1645 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa’s dictatorial tendencies exposed
Following the confirmation of President Mnangagwa's election victory by the Constitutional Court and his subsequent inauguration last month, the nation had one eye on the unfolding mayoral elections a...Published: 12 Sep 2018 at 06:46hrs | 599 | by Nobleman Runyanga
19 shades of the MDC
Yesterday marked the 19th birthday of the Movement of Democratic Change - Zimbabwe's once formidable opposition party. Of course, one can be forgiven for not knowing what that name actually now repres...Published: 12 Sep 2018 at 06:38hrs | 398 | by Tichaona Zindoga
Dabengwa's Zapu gears for post-election meeting
THE Dumiso Dabengwa-led Zapu party says it is preparing to hold its first post-election national people's council (NPC) meeting in Bulawayo on Saturday.This was revealed by party spokesperson ...Published: 11 Sep 2018 at 13:39hrs | 424 | by Staff reporter
MPs vote for presiding officers
The First Session of Parliament has opened with the members selecting presiding officers, that is, the Speaker of the National Assembly, Deputy Speaker, Senate President and Deputy Senate President....Published: 11 Sep 2018 at 12:18hrs | 1310 | by Staff Reporter
Zim Achievers USA to honour Maimba Mapuranga and several young achievers at upcoming gala
Former ZTV presenter and founder of Kutting Edge Sport, Maimba Mapuranga will receive the Zim Achievers Ambassador Award and honorary patronage, for services rendered nationally and internationally, Z...Published: 11 Sep 2018 at 09:32hrs | 439 | by Tidi Kwidini
MDC-T Statement on cabinet appointments
The MDC-T would like to congratulate the new cabinet which was sworn in today. We note with great appreciation efforts of inclusion of women, youth and other minority groups in our country. The cabine...Published: 10 Sep 2018 at 18:45hrs | 3084 | by Linda Tsungirirai Masarira
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 | 4481 | by Israel Dube
Obert Mpofu to work full-time at Zanu-PF
The Zanu-PF politburo is also expected to rubber-stamp a proposal by President Emmerson Mnangagwa to allow some senior officials such as secretary for administration Obert Mpofu and Simon Khaya Moyo t...Published: 10 Sep 2018 at 12:04hrs | 4406 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa seems more tribal than Mnangagwa
Mthwakazi activist Hloniphani Ncube has said the MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa seems more tribal than President Emmerson Mnangagwa. "I do not support Mnangagwa neither do I subscrib...Published: 10 Sep 2018 at 07:27hrs | 4475 | by Stephen Jakes
Mthwakazi leader hits back at 'childish' Chamisa
MTHWAKAZI Republic Party (MRP) president Mqondisi Moyo has hit back at "clumsy and childish" MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa, after the latter last week accused secessionist party activists of prot...Published: 10 Sep 2018 at 07:00hrs | 1379 | by Staff reporter
Hunt on for new Prosecutor-General
Government has started hunting for a substantive Prosecutor-General following the publication of the resgination of Prosecutor-General Advocate Ray Goba in the Government Gazette on Friday, a senior G...Published: 10 Sep 2018 at 06:27hrs | 195 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's endorsement of Mnangagwa did not come cheap
Former president Robert Mugabe's endorsement of Emmerson Mnangagwa after an ugly fallout did not come cheap.Mugabe and Mnangagwa's relationship broke down in November last year after the 94-ye...Published: 09 Sep 2018 at 18:11hrs | 14123 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa bomb blast probe raises questions
Police are still to make inroads in their investigations into the White City Stadium bomb blast in June in spite of claims by President Emmerson Mnangagwa that the suspects are now known.Polic...Published: 09 Sep 2018 at 17:09hrs | 1912 | by Staff reporter
Musings from an outgoing minister Chinamasa
Zimbabwe should not heed any dictation by foreign institutions on how best to address outstanding issues to the land question, but should deal with the matter in terms of its Constitution, an outgoing...Published: 09 Sep 2018 at 08:20hrs | 1002 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF, MDC Alliance square off for top Parly seats
Zanu-PF has activated internal processes to select the party's preferred candidates for presiding officers in the Ninth Parliament of Zimbabwe ahead of Tuesday's elections.Parliamentarians wil...Published: 09 Sep 2018 at 08:15hrs | 1293 | by Staff reporter
Eddie Cross calls out Chamisa on poll lies
Former MDC Alliance senior official Mr Eddie Cross has called out Mr Nelson Chamisa for lying that he won the July 30 Presidential elections as local authority results - which have remained unconteste...Published: 09 Sep 2018 at 08:14hrs | 2712 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa is a dangerous smiling tribalist.
The 2018 local council elections produced an outcome which was very complicated in Bulawayo. The underlying factor is the disrespect which the MDC Alliance propagated by fielding the majority of Shona...Published: 09 Sep 2018 at 07:36hrs | 4392 | by Thulani Nkala
Elections in retrospect: Women's perspectives
Women's organisations have concurred over the need to promote constitutional literacy of women in Zimbabwe, lobby for more seats for women in parliament and in public offices as well as set up gender ...Published: 09 Sep 2018 at 07:29hrs | 134 | by UN Women
Mnangagwa invites Chamisa to play a positive role in running the country
September is the first month of spring in Zimbabwe. The jacaranda trees that line Harare's avenues will soon flower into a sea of purple. Last November their blossom formed the backdrop to the people ...Published: 08 Sep 2018 at 21:15hrs | 5202 | by Emmerson Mnangagwa
Chamisa, Biti fighting for party leadership?
A power struggle is reportedly brewing within Zimbabwe's Movement of Democratic Change (MDC) Alliance - between party leader Nelson Chamisa and one of its principals, Tendai Biti - as a contest for ma...Published: 08 Sep 2018 at 13:04hrs | 5204 | by Staff reporter
Sessel Zvidzai's garden boy now Gweru Ward 3 councillor
In a notable tale of grace to grass, former MDC-T Gweru Urban MP and senior official in the MDC Alliance, Sessel Zvidzai's gardener is now City of Gweru Ward 3 councillor.Doubt Ncube, who is 3...Published: 08 Sep 2018 at 11:30hrs | 2885 | by Staff reporter
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