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Welshman Ncube's CCC backtracks on September congress

The Welshman Ncube-led Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) has shelved plans to hold its elective congress in September, despite earlier resolutions by its leadership to convene the indaba this year.In May, party spokesperson Willias Madzi…

Published: 22 Aug 2025 at 13:16hrs | 413 | by Staff reporter

CCC plans Congress amid legal challenges

The Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) faction led by the interim secretary-general Sengezo Tshabangu has announced plans to hold a congress, with the date to be confirmed soon. Tshabangu's right-hand man, political activist Mbuso Siso, s…

Published: 28 Jan 2025 at 07:06hrs | 622 | by Staff reporter

Zanu-PF unanimous on extending President's term of office

In a unanimous decision at the ZANU-PF's 21st National People's Conference held at the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair grounds yesterday, party delegates resolved to extend President Emmerson Mnangagwa's term of office until 2030. This r…

Published: 27 Oct 2024 at 12:20hrs | 339 | by Staff reporter

ED2030 campaign suffers setback

An ambitious campaign to extend President Emmerson Mnangagwa's term beyond 2028 has suffered a significant setback, with a key faction of the ruling Zanu-PF party failing to endorse the move in resolutions published ahead of the party's 21…

Published: 22 Oct 2024 at 08:05hrs | 1752 | by Staff reporter

Bulawayo uninspired by Zanu-PF 'love-fest'

ZANU-PF leaders, functionaries, and activists are set to begin arriving in Bulawayo today for the party's 21st National People's Conference, which kicks off tomorrow at the ZITF grounds and runs until Saturday. The conference will be offic…

Published: 22 Oct 2024 at 08:02hrs | 447 | by Staff reporter

It's now clear that ED had no intentions of stepping down!

It took only ten days! Only ten days for President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa to break the pledge he made in front of the whole nation.On 4th July 2024, whilst addressing a gathering in Mutare, Mnangagwa assured everyone that he respected…

Published: 15 Jul 2024 at 08:11hrs | 558 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana

Zanu-PF congress: The Great Betrayal

IF the late former Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Douglas Smith felt betrayed by the British government and his allies - including apartheid South Africa - whom he expected to side with him to keep Rhodesia under his firm control, then spare…

Published: 31 Oct 2022 at 18:52hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter

Zanu-PF Congress endorses Mnangagwa

ZANU-PF's ongoing elective congress has unanimously endorsed President Emmerson Mnangagwa as the sole party candidate in next year's presidential elections, giving him a fresh mandate to lead the party.The elective congress, expected to ho…

Published: 30 Oct 2022 at 07:01hrs | 1 | by Staff rporter

Zanu-PF congress: Fireworks expected

PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa will storm into next week's Zanu-PF elective congress seeking to tighten his grip on power as his age is likely to trigger a fierce succession debate.The ruling party holds its watershed congress from Wednesday…

Published: 24 Oct 2022 at 18:33hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

About time common sense prevailed

AS the clock ticks away towards Zimbabwe's 2023 general elections, a foreboding feeling of trepidation is all round.The source of this anxiety is largely emanating from the highly charged political atmosphere engulfing a country which is c…

Published: 03 Oct 2022 at 06:13hrs | | by Staff reporter

Mudenda to retain Central Committee post?

Speaker of Parliament Jacob Mudenda's political career faces a tough litmus test as he seeks to retain his ZANU PF Central Committee spot after facing strong challenges from seasoned party cadres and war veterans.Mudenda is facing a challe…

Published: 27 Sep 2022 at 17:01hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu

Court bid launched to block Zanu-PF congress

IN a fresh audacious bid to tackle President Emmerson Mnangagwa's controversial rise to power through a 2017 coup, Zanu-PF card-carrying member Sybeth Musengezi, also a local businessman, has filed an urgent High Court application seeking …

Published: 27 Aug 2022 at 20:50hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

Apostolic sect dumps child marriages

THE Johanne Masowe Wenyenyedzi Nomwe sect says it has abandoned the practice of child marriages.This was revealed during the launch of the Council of Churches for Africa Women's Fellowship (CCAWF) in Bulawayo on Sunday.The launch was held …

Published: 12 May 2022 at 06:30hrs | | by Staff reporter

Chamisa's CCC refuses to go for Congress

OPPOSITION Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) yesterday said it would not be stampeded into holding an early elective congress by some Zanu-PF elements and exiled G40 members it claims harbour sinister motives.After CCC leader Nelson Cham…

Published: 27 Apr 2022 at 12:56hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

Zanu-PF factions sharpen knives as December congress beckons

ALTHOUGH President Emmerson Mnangagwa seems to have contained his ambitious deputy Constantino Chiwenga, there is growing concern in Zanu-PF that the former military general may challenge for the party leadership at a congress scheduled fo…

Published: 19 Feb 2022 at 18:36hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

Zanu-PF factions sharpen knives as December congress beckons

ALTHOUGH President Emmerson Mnangagwa seems to have contained his ambitious deputy Constantino Chiwenga, there is growing concern in Zanu-PF that the former military general may challenge for the party leadership at a congress scheduled fo…

Published: 13 Feb 2022 at 20:47hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter

Zapu to hold elective congress next month

ZAPU is expected to hold its elective congress next month with six candidates jostling for the party's top post. The elective congress, which seeks to elect a new leadership following the death of the party president and national hero, Dr …

Published: 24 Sep 2021 at 09:11hrs | | by Staff reporter

Zapu orders members to vaccinate ahead of October congress

Zapu has ordered all its members wishing to participate in the upcoming elective congress in October to be vaccinated against Covid-19.The move is part of efforts to make sure that congress delegates are â€˜at least' protected against the …

Published: 26 Jul 2021 at 19:28hrs | | by Staff reporter

Zapu at crossroads

THE discord in Zapu continues to rage on with the opposition party's South Africa-based youth wing attacking the party leadership over alleged ineptitude and poor organisation ahead of its elective congress.The youths also rapped the party…

Published: 12 Jun 2021 at 07:56hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

Mthwakazi leadership dissolved ahead of congress

SECESSIONIST political party Mthwakazi Liberation Front (MLF) has dissolved its leadership and appointed a taskforce to oversee its elective congress.MLF is known for burning the Zimbabwe flag in South Africa in 2011 and for demanding that…

Published: 03 May 2021 at 06:29hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter

Zapu explodes ahead of congress

ZAPU secretary-general Strike Mnkandla is battling attempts to oust him from the post by the party's northern province as infighting dogs the opposition party ahead of its elective congress.Zapu's congress initially scheduled for the end o…

Published: 18 Apr 2021 at 09:08hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter

COVID-19 stalls Zapu congress preps

THE opposition Zapu party's plans to restructure early this year have been derailed due to the 30-day lockdown imposed to contain the COVID-19 pandemic.Zapu had targeted to start its restructuring exercise this month ahead of the party's e…

Published: 14 Jan 2021 at 07:59hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

Khupe leaves MDC-T vote in a huff

CHAOTIC scenes rocked the combustible MDC-T extraordinary congress which was held at the Harare International Conference Centre yesterday, with backers of the interim party president Thokozani Khupe (pictured) and those of the secretary-ge…

Published: 28 Dec 2020 at 07:42hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter

LIVE: MDC-T Congress begins

MDC-T congress started at Rainbow Towers, Harare this Sunday morning with wild cheering directed at presidential hopeful and current secretary-general Douglas Mwonzora.Mwonzora's arrival at the venue was greeted by excited cheering by supp…

Published: 27 Dec 2020 at 10:36hrs | 37 | by Staff reporter

Mwonzora thanks Chamisa's followers for behaving

MDC-T congress started at Rainbow Towers, Harare this Sunday morning with wild cheering directed at presidential hopeful and current secretary general Douglas Mwonzora.Mwonzora's arrival at the venue was greeted by excited cheering by supp…

Published: 27 Dec 2020 at 10:30hrs | | by Staff reporter

Khupe shifts goalposts ahead of congress

THE Thokozani Khupe-led MDC-T is heading for an implosion after its national standing committee (NSC) resolved to suspend provincial nominations for presidential candidates, and "railroaded" the national council (NC) to choose only two can…

Published: 13 Nov 2020 at 07:45hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

Divisions rock MDC over congress

NEW fissures have erupted in the Thokozani Khupe-led MDC as some of its leaders intend to block the Supreme Court-ordered December extra-ordinary congress to elect a new president for the party.This comes as secretary-general Douglas Mwonz…

Published: 02 Nov 2020 at 06:51hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

Resolutions of the MDC 5th National Congress

Resolutions of the MDC 5th National Congress held at Ascot Stadium, Midlands, Zimbabwe 2019-2024The Movement for Democratic Change convened a successful and historic Congress from the 24th to the 26th of May 2019 at Ascot Stadium in Gweru,…

Published: 28 May 2019 at 17:13hrs | 2 | by MDC

'Hello Congress delegates! May I deeply kiss your conscience?'

Naturally, pangs of conscience should mercilessly prick and pound every normal MDC 5th Congress delegate who is likely to misguidedly cast any stray vote in shameless defiance of the party founding principles. The Congress vote has a decis…

Published: 24 May 2019 at 08:02hrs | 5 | by Nhlanhla Moses

MDC congress: Redefining the people's agenda

This weekend the MDC will hold its elective congress in Gweru, Midlands province, under the theme Defining a new course for Zimbabwe. This is the 5th congress we are holding since February 1999, when we gathered at the Women's Bureau in Ha…

Published: 24 May 2019 at 07:39hrs | | by Tendai Biti

MDC congress: Does real democracy exist?

ALL through history, the word democracy has been immortalised and evidently viewed as the greatest desire of the political world. Democracy is worshiped and viewed as sacred and sacrosanct. Virtually, 90% (this could be an understatement) …

Published: 23 Apr 2019 at 07:12hrs | | by Learnmore Zuze

Who should lead the MDC after Congress? A View from the grassroots voter

Although the MDC has been a beacon of hope for most Zimbabweans  since its inception in 1999, the same cannot be confidently asserted this time around. Successive splits that have been rocking the party for years have left it bruised,…

Published: 14 Apr 2019 at 19:25hrs | 1 | by Nhlanhla Moses

MDC Congress processes in strict constitutional compliance says Chibaya

The Organising department runs the Congress in strict compliance to the MDC constitution and the template adopted by the party.Once a province meets the quorum, the Congress must and will continue until it is finished. To date, the Organis…

Published: 14 Apr 2019 at 19:22hrs | | by Amos Chibaya

Congress will weaken MDC

THE MDC congress scheduled for next month will deliver a weaker party without strength in diversity.There is a significant number of articles expressing opinion that the subtle fights for positions within the MDC are acts of self-destructi…

Published: 11 Apr 2019 at 07:19hrs | | by Brian Sedze

MDC Congress: The struggle for supremacy

As the MDC heads for its inaugural post-Morgan Tsvangirai congress slated for 24 to 26 May 2019, sharp divisions have started to rock the party as members are split on who to choose for various positions. Since the formation of the party i…

Published: 10 Apr 2019 at 16:00hrs | 2 | by Elijah Chihota

'MDC after congress is gonna be a Rollercoaster and Unstoppable'

The most important thing in the MDC calendar is the 24 May congress. It is this that may decide the fate of the party and country.According to an audio doing the rounds on social media by Tendai Biti, MDC has to revert to the pioneers of t…

Published: 03 Apr 2019 at 15:05hrs | 2 | by Henry Madiro

MDC-Alliance congress exposes log in party's eye

Time has an uncanny habit of exposing hypocrisy, and often times, vindicating formally perceived villains. It is a double-edged sword. In Zimbabwe, time has helped us unravel the duplicitous behaviour of some of our political players in a …

Published: 02 Apr 2019 at 07:59hrs | 4 | by Philemon Mutedzi

Chamisa in pole position as MDC Alliance congress beckons

The MDC Alliance will elect new leaders at congress in May - a process which will make or break the country's biggest opposition party. While the nomination process has not yet started, party leader Nelson Chamisa is likely to fight out hi…

Published: 18 Mar 2019 at 09:45hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter

MDC Congress: Proposals to achieve unity, progress

THERE is nothing amiss about the split of political parties, churches, football or other sporting teams, partnerships, corporates, or any voluntary organisation for that matter. While for the most, splits are the result of irreconcilable d…

Published: 17 Mar 2019 at 18:12hrs | 3 | by Makaita Noel Mutasa

Dog-eat-dog affair ensues in MDC ahead of congress

Jostling for positions has intensified in the MDC ahead of its elective congress in May.Party bigwigs are likely to take each other head-on at the congress as they battle for supremacy in the 19-year-old opposition outfit.It's already a do…

Published: 27 Feb 2019 at 14:30hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

Chamisa will not be challenged at the elective congress

MDC Alliance national organising secretary Amos Chibaya has revealed that the party does not expect party leader Nelson Chamisa to be challenged at the coming elective congress, because the grassroots supporters were strongly behind the yo…

Published: 19 Feb 2019 at 08:40hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

Zanu-PF plots to embarrass Chamisa at congress

The clampdown on the ring leaders of the national shutdown that left a trail of destruction and over 12 civilians dead at the hands of security forces across the country is a Zanu-PF ploy to target MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa's supp…

Published: 09 Feb 2019 at 20:11hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter

Zapu rebranding ahead of 2020 congress

The Dumiso Dabengwa-led Zapu is rebranding and rejuvenating itself ahead of the 2020 congress, which will see the former Home Affairs minister stepping down as leader of the opposition party and the inclusion of youth and women in the part…

Published: 10 Oct 2018 at 06:53hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

MDC-T congress endorses Dr Khupe

THE much-talked about Dr Thokozani Khupe-led MDC-T extraordinary congress held in Bulawayo yesterday resembled a routine meeting meant to rubberstamp Dr Khupe's rise to the helm of the faction of the opposition party.The faction which has …

Published: 22 Apr 2018 at 10:07hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter

Mugabe's fate to be decided at Zanu-PF Congress

President Robert Mugabe's fate could only be decided at the Zanu-PF conference 12 -16 December 2017, Zanu-PF party constitution is very important and respected in the party.#Zimbabwe my personal uneducated opinion .... President Mugabeâ€™s…

Published: 17 Nov 2017 at 05:23hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

Mugabe squeezes Mnangagwa

President Robert Mugabe railroaded Zanu-PF to convert its December conference into a congress in order to force out his deputy Emmerson Mnangagwa, insiders have revealed.In what appears to be a choreographed move, Zanu-PF structures have b…

Published: 22 Oct 2017 at 13:54hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

Kasukuwere proposes special congress

ZANU-PF national political commissar Saviour Kasukuwere, believed to be a G40 kingpin, proposed this week at the party's politburo meeting that an extraordinary congress be held in December, two years before it is due in 2019.Politburo sou…

Published: 13 Oct 2017 at 18:05hrs | | by Staff reporter

War veterans elect new executive

The Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association (ZNLWVA) has elected a new national executive committee that will lead the organisation to elections in December.The change of guard was announced at a Press conference in Harare ye…

Published: 21 Sep 2017 at 06:14hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

The resurgence of the democratic movement in Zimbabwe

It might have taken long in coming but the past few months have seen the much-awaited resurgence of the democratic movement in Zimbabwe.For a long time, this is what the people of Zimbabwe have been clamouring for; in the hope that such a …

Published: 29 May 2017 at 12:55hrs | 5 | by Morgan Richard Tsvangirai

War vets congress set for weekend

The war veterans' congress to elect a new National Executive Committee has been set for the 15th and the 16th of this month in Masvingo.Elders of the War Veterans Committee Chairperson, Patrick Nyaruwata made the announcement while briefin…

Published: 11 Nov 2014 at 18:48hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter

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