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Factionalism rocks Zanu-PF's in Bulawayo
The Zanu-PF cell verification programme in Bulawayo has been marred by factionalism and infighting within the ruling party, sources have revealed. The exercise, which is essential for party organisati...Published: 27 Feb 2025 at 12:31hrs | 1124 | by Staff reporter
ZIFA lawyer celebrates victory
ZIFA lawyer Lovemore Madhuku celebrated a legal victory yesterday after one of the two court bids aimed at stopping this week's crucial elections ended in his clients' favour. Temba Mliswa, an aggriev...Published: 24 Jan 2025 at 07:36hrs | 372 | by Staff reporter
Ian Khama sounds alarm on Zanu-PF's election interference in Sadc
Former Botswana President Ian Khama has issued a stark warning to opposition parties in Botswana about the ruling Zanu-PF's alleged electoral manipulation in the southern African region. This developm...Published: 21 Oct 2024 at 07:50hrs | 1189 | by Staff reporter
Zanufication of the ANC on
AS South African general elections approach, the country's governing ANC is increasingly undergoing a further Zanufication process as it openly accepts offers of help from Zimbabwe's ruling Zanu-PF wh...Published: 19 May 2024 at 11:52hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
SADC convenes extraordinary summit on Zimbabwe over elections
THE Southern African Development (Sadc) will hold an extraordinary summit of heads of state and government on Zimbabwe on Wednesday under the auspices of its current chairperson, Angolan President JoÃ...Published: 23 Oct 2023 at 10:53hrs | 31 | by Staff reporter
Nelson Chamisa's Alienating 100 Page Manifesto
The Citizen Coalition for Change (CCC) lost in the 2023 electoral plebiscite, and as expected immediately rejected the results complaining the elections were "marred by vote suppression and egregious ...Published: 29 Aug 2023 at 22:29hrs | 3 | by Dr Moses Moyo
Zimbabwe political parties in final call for peace
POLITICAL parties yesterday pleaded with their supporters and other citizens to shun violence as the country votes today.Zanu-PF youth leader Tinoda Machakaire called on the police to ensure a...Published: 23 Aug 2023 at 06:38hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa clearly needs tutoring on the mandate of election observers
It is most unfortunate and disheartening, or rather tragic and embarrassing, listening to President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa ranting and throwing a huge tantrum over international election observer...Published: 21 Aug 2023 at 14:18hrs | 16 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zanu-PF 'supporters' walk out on Mnangagwa
BY 8AM on Wednesday last week, Harare's usually bustling Mupendanhamo flea market was quiet and deserted.Hundreds of its mostly youthful informal entrepreneurs had been directed to shut down a...Published: 11 Aug 2023 at 18:36hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa recalls army officers on leave?
Ahead of the crucial elections, army officers on leave have been called back to the barracks as President Emmerson Mnangagwa seeks to control the military.This has now been extended to those a...Published: 01 Aug 2023 at 07:59hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa appoints new CIO fixer to consolidate grip on power
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has moved to re-assert his vice-like grip on Zimbabwe's state security service, the Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO), which is critical to his power consolidation a...Published: 28 May 2023 at 08:42hrs | 205 | by Staff reporter
Mr. President, Zimbabweans don't care about your 'critical pronouncements' as long as we're hungry and poor!
Recently, during a performance contract signing ceremony, President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa chided his information and communications personnel for failing to properly articulate and disseminate h...Published: 20 Mar 2023 at 09:27hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Did the emergence of a strong opposition extinguish the revolutionary spirit in Zimbabweans?
To me, those where the good old days - when Zimbabweans were a people of valor, who did not brook any nonsense from their government and never wasted any time in courageously standing up for themselve...Published: 02 Feb 2023 at 19:27hrs | 3 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabweans not ready for a better life as long as we treat our livelihoods as football matches!
We all know that Zimbabwe is a sports-crazy nation! We love our sporting activities with passion and reverence - the most popular being football, or soccer - with overwhelming support, borderi...Published: 24 Jan 2023 at 16:57hrs | 5 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
The goal should never be simply removing ZANU PF but electing a better government!
Recently, I came across Twitter posts made by the 'new kid on the block', Robert Chapman - who leads a political party named the Democratic Union of Zimbabwe (DUZ).However, what grabbed my att...Published: 21 Jan 2023 at 18:22hrs | 2 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Some apostolic sects shun ID blitz
REGISTRAR-General Henry Machiri says some apostolic sects are still refusing to get identity documents (IDs), death and birth certificates as government concludes its registration blitz today....Published: 30 Sep 2022 at 06:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa pleads with SA
Opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa has called on South Africa's ruling African National Congress (ANC) party and other political parties in the neighbouring country t...Published: 07 Sep 2022 at 06:47hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe makes first journalist arrests under cybersecurity law
Zimbabwe's Press freedom credentials suffered further criticism with the arrest of two journalists from a privately-owned newspaper charged with transmitting "false data messages."The pair wer...Published: 12 Aug 2022 at 06:36hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Youth indifference and lack of involvement in determining nation's destiny most worrying
The just-ended Zimbabwe parliamentary and local government by-elections held on March 26, 2022, painted another grim picture of the growing youth indifference and lack of involvement in shaping the co...Published: 31 Mar 2022 at 14:30hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
This is not democracy
A clear a pattern of police using draconian laws to block the country's main opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) from effectively campaigning ahead of the March 26 by-elections is emerging ...Published: 13 Mar 2022 at 08:06hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF dreams of reclaiming all seats in Bulawayo
ZANU-PF national deputy political commissar Omega Hungwe has said the party is poised to reclaim all seats in Bulawayo in the 2023 harmonised elections following a successful restructuring exercise in...Published: 15 Nov 2021 at 05:25hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt turns to UN over gem ban
ZIMBABWE'S ruling Zanu-PF and 16 fringe opposition parties under the Political Actors Dialogue (Polad) have requested the United Nations (UN) to help it resume international trade in diamonds, the Zim...Published: 07 Nov 2021 at 08:07hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt pampers army, police
ZIMBABWE plans to splurge millions of United States dollars to procure about 1 000 brand new vehicles for the security services sector next year, to bolster their operations in a move that is likely t...Published: 31 Oct 2021 at 08:28hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa and dodgy Zanu-PF characters
WHEN Zanu-PF activist Marx Mupungu filed a Constitutional Court (ConCourt) application in June seeking to quash the High Court judgment by the three brave judges who had barred Chief Justice Malaba fr...Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:21hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt pleads with teachers
GOVERNMENT yesterday said it was committed to ensuring better conditions of service for teachers after they pled incapacitation and demanded that their salaries be restored to the 2018 US$520 to US$55...Published: 30 Mar 2021 at 06:47hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Drawing parallels between bitter election losers Khupe and Trump
Is it even possible to make such comparisons between Madam Thokozani Khupe and Donald Trump regarding the shenanigans of the two politicians' elections defeat? Yes, it is possible; this is a global vi...Published: 02 Jan 2021 at 08:30hrs | 1 | by Nomazulu Thata
Mnangagwa sits on Zanu-PF bigwigs corruption inquiry
A MONTH after the Zanu-PF youth league named alleged corrupt Zanu-PF bigwigs, ministers, government officials and business people, the matter seems to be slowly dying a natural death.President...Published: 24 Jul 2019 at 14:15hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa should respect people's voice
Zimbabwe's 2018 harmonised elections have come and gone. While this was a tightly-contested plebiscite, it was Emmerson Mnangagwa and Zanu-PF who emerged victorious. Let me take this moment to humbly ...Published: 09 Aug 2018 at 07:38hrs | | by Cuthbert Mavheko
Mnangagwa performance: Is it worthy second chance?
ZIMBABWEANS will on Monday hold crucial elections, where they will be choosing the country's next President and Members of Parliament to guide the nation in the next five years.NewsDay will, i...Published: 25 Jul 2018 at 07:45hrs | 1 | by Mthandazo Nyoni
Chamisa's Alliance at crossroads
The MDC Alliance is between a hard place and a rock as it holds a crucial meeting with the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) over key demands it wants addressed before Monday's national harmonised e...Published: 24 Jul 2018 at 14:06hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa dangles more incentives for civil servants
GOVERNMENT yesterday dangled another carrot at civil servants two weeks before crucial elections, promising to provide them with additional incentives on top of a 17,5% special civil service allowance...Published: 18 Jul 2018 at 06:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Election run-up takes nasty turn
As Zimbabwe's crunch national elections draw ever closer, the jostling for votes is increasingly taking an ominous tone - with leading presidential candidates and the under-fire chairperson of the Zim...Published: 17 Jul 2018 at 15:04hrs | | by Staff rpeorter
Mnangagwa's army salary increase ploy to buy votes
THE decision by President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government to award salary increases to the security services sector a few weeks before this month's crucial election is a stark reminder of how far the ...Published: 16 Jul 2018 at 07:18hrs | 3 | by Staff rpeorter
MDC Alliance breaking election rules
A top opposition party official has just equated rival party members to cockroaches that must be crushed and exterminated. The party's leader and presidential candidate has openly declared that he wil...Published: 13 Jul 2018 at 06:59hrs | 1 | by Tichaona Zindoga
Waiting for Nelson Chamisa's phone call
At the time of writing, the opposition MDC-Alliance is holding its march against the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC), the independent body whose mandate is to administer elections in this country....Published: 12 Jul 2018 at 07:21hrs | 2 | by Tichaona Zindoga
'Big Man' politics is what has got us to where we are, says Mangoma
Coalition of Democrats (Code) leader and presidential candidate in the July 30 harmonised elections, Mr Elton Mangoma, says Zimbabwe does not need politics of personalities, but requires leaders who a...Published: 21 Jun 2018 at 06:48hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
It is time we had leaders who listen
For all his shortcomings, real or imagined, Morgan Tsvangirai had two great strengths – humility and the ability to listen. My first direct interaction with him was in 1999 in Gaborone, Botswana, wh...Published: 17 Jun 2018 at 11:33hrs | | by Moses Chamboko
Chief summons headmen to meet Zanu-PF candidates
JUST days after President Emmerson Mnangagwa urged Zanu-PF aspiring candidates to provide trinkets to traditional leaders as part of the ruling party's campaign ahead of crucial elections next month, ...Published: 12 Jun 2018 at 06:59hrs | | by Statf reporter
Zanu-PF poised for landslide election victory
Zimbabwe's political parties are now campaigning vigorously ahead of the harmonised elections slated for July 30 with the two main political parties – Zanu-PF and the MDC Alliance –promising to me...Published: 12 Jun 2018 at 06:49hrs | | by Cuthbert Mavheko
MDC-T demo an admission of imminent poll defeat
On April 23, 2018 MDC Alliance presidential candidate and MDC-T leader, Nelson Chamisa, claimed his party had unearthed Zanu-PF's alleged election rigging machinery and was now confident of an outrigh...Published: 05 Jun 2018 at 07:10hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance demonstration an admission of imminent electoral defeat
On 23 April 2018 MDC Alliance presidential candidate and MDC-T leader, Nelson Chamisa, claimed that his party had unearthed Zanu PF's alleged election rigging machinery and was now confident of an out...Published: 04 Jun 2018 at 08:47hrs | 1 | by Nicole Hondo
Gukurahundi victims should not be weak by electing compromised leaders
As Zimbabweans brace themselves for the 30 July 2018 harmonised elections, various sections of the nation have only two months left in which to seriously consider who, amongst the candidates, will bes...Published: 31 May 2018 at 07:31hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
No justification for the cancelation of Magwegwe constituency primary elections
Magwegwe constituency primary elections have been canceled. The reason is Anele is writing his final law exam. Ordinary members have been sacrificed for his personal interests. Anele is preparing fina...Published: 26 May 2018 at 22:14hrs | | by Henry Madiro
War veterans can't hold the country perpetually hostage
THAT President Emmerson Mnangagwa is mulling coming up with a new package for the country's veterans of the liberation struggle cannot go unchallenged.It is an open secret that the Zimbabwe Na...Published: 14 May 2018 at 06:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu PF is under serious threat from an enemy within
ZANU PF has been hijacked by 'enemies of democracy' there is this wisdom: "In life, you must be worried when an enemy celebrates with you. So, in this case we [are] worried that an opposition party is...Published: 09 May 2018 at 23:40hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Zanu-PF splashes millions on regalia, vehicles
Zanu-PF has refused to disclose the source of millions of dollars oiling its campaign machinery ahead of crucial elections later this year after former Higher and Tertiary Education minister Jonathan ...Published: 15 Apr 2018 at 11:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu PF plots razzmatazz campaign
ZANU PF has come up with a new grassroots-based campaign strategy in a bid to corner voters and win July's crucial elections at a time the party is worried about the main opposition MDC Alliance resur...Published: 06 Apr 2018 at 10:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa banks on Tsvangirai sympathy
AHEAD of Zimbabwe's crucial elections this year, the biggest opposition party has selected a charismatic lawyer and pastor to challenge the military-backed president in the first vote without former l...Published: 19 Mar 2018 at 13:52hrs | 1 | by AP
'Mnangagwa represents the past,' says Chamisa
Ahead of Zimbabwe's crucial elections this year, the biggest opposition party has selected a charismatic lawyer and pastor to challenge the military-backed president in the first vote without former l...Published: 19 Mar 2018 at 13:45hrs | | by AFP
High Court orders embattled Khupe to vacate MDC-T offices
THE High Court has ordered embattled MDC-T deputy president, Thokozani Khupe and her followers to vacate the party's Bulawayo offices they grabbed on March 4, as she challenged Nelson Chamisa's recent...Published: 17 Mar 2018 at 07:32hrs | | by Staff Reporter
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