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Zimbabwe after Robert Mugabe
This opinion-editorial piece was written by Japhet Ncube, a Zimbabwean-born former editor of South African daily, The Star, in November 2017 during the coup which ousted the late former president Robe...Published: 04 Feb 2023 at 20:10hrs | 21 | by Japhet Mathanda Ncube
How to kill a country
Nearly forty years ago Ian Smith, the Prime Minister of Rhodesia, became the first and only white colonial ruler to break away from the British Crown. He had tired of London's nagging about the subjug...Published: 13 Jan 2021 at 16:49hrs | 5 | by Samantha Power
'Army has no choice, will salute me,' says Chamisa
MDC Alliance presidential candidate, Nelson Chamisa has told his supporters that the country's securocrats could find themselves with no choice, but to salute him if he wins this year's presidential r...Published: 14 May 2018 at 07:48hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Implications of Tsvangirai's exit
This is my first opinion article of the year and I would like to start by wishing my dear readers a prosperous 2018! It is an election year and a lot of complex political stuff will be going on....Published: 12 Jan 2018 at 06:18hrs | | by Innocent Ncube
'One coalition can defeat Mugabe, regardless rigging,' says UZ lecturer - cunning vs stupid
Many people have often described President Mugabe as a 'cunning fellow'; they are right. One of the ways he has shown his cunningness is to keep his opponents doing the wrong thing even when they have...Published: 11 Nov 2017 at 09:27hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
Market place deserted as traders are forced to attend Grace Mugabe march
Mupedzanhamo market in Harare was on Wednesday left deserted when the traders were allegedly forced to attend the first Lady Grace Mugabe march.Zanu PF youth conducted the march in solidarity ...Published: 31 Aug 2017 at 06:54hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Mugabe mocks MDC Alliance
President Robert Mugabe poured scorn at attempts by opposition parties to form a grand coalition yesterday, saying their efforts will not move his ruling Zanu-PF party, which has been in power for the...Published: 15 Aug 2017 at 10:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai speaks on battle with cancer
MDC-T president Morgan Tsvangirai has lost his hair in his latest battle with cancer, telling the Daily News in an exclusive interview on Monday that he feels like he is almost close to regaining full...Published: 09 Aug 2017 at 11:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Coalition still need the likes of Mujuru and Dabengwa
Former vice president and leader of the fledgling National People's Party Joice Mujuru and other opposition chiefs who stayed away on Saturday from the launch of an electoral alliance which chose MDC ...Published: 07 Aug 2017 at 14:33hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Presidency row scuttles opposition coalition
Zimbabwe's opposition political parties could fail to form an alliance to fight the 2018 presidential and parliamentary elections against President Robert Mugabe, a South Africa-based think tank, NKC ...Published: 03 Aug 2017 at 17:03hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Fears of voter apathy in Zimbabwe's 2018 polls
After the voter apathy which marred the recent Chiwundura by-election, analysts have said electoral reforms are the only way to increase voter interest in 2018 elections.In the by-election, a ...Published: 23 Jul 2017 at 12:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Dr' Welshman Ncube dismiss Tsvangirai's cancer concerns
Forrmer Cabinet minister and leader of the smaller MDC Welshman Ncube has hinted on his preferred choice for the mooted grand coalition - telling the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) that former...Published: 12 Jul 2017 at 13:10hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai, Ncube deal opaque details emerge
Former prime minister Morgan Tsvangirai and ex-Industry minister Welshman Ncube want to cement their proposed coalition by June as the country draws closer to a watershed election next year....Published: 23 Apr 2017 at 14:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
ANC democratic than Zanu PF and MDC-T
A Zimbabwe Communist Party official Ngqabutho Nicholas Mabhena has claimed that the ANC in South Afroica is far much clean in terms of democracy compared to the ruling Zanu PF and opposition MDC-T in ...Published: 03 Apr 2017 at 06:50hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
My conscience can no longer allow me to support Joice Mujuru
After the launch of her party, and her initial tour of the country, and then the diaspora a year or so ago, I was more than convinced that Joice Mujuru presented the biggest opportunity to end Robert ...Published: 23 Mar 2017 at 01:28hrs | | by Maynard Manyowa
Plea to MDC-T to join CODE in order to defeat Mugabe in 2018
If MDC is serious about beating Zanupf in 2018 then it has to bite the bullet and become the chief partner in CODE (Coalition of Democrats). MDC-T undoubtedly commands superior support in the Zimbabwe...Published: 22 Mar 2017 at 10:59hrs | 1 | by Sibusisiwe Tshuma and Mlindelwa Mpofu
Tsvangirai claims to have survived many assassination attempts
Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai yesterday told his supporters in Chitungwiza how he had survived numerous assassination attempts at the hands of Zanu-PF goons - further assuring anxious Zimbab...Published: 21 Mar 2017 at 13:09hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF wants Tsvangirai dead
The MDC has reacted angrily to threats by a State media columnist who said yesterday that popular opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai was only being saved from harm by the "grace" of President Robert ...Published: 13 Mar 2017 at 06:18hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai warned
As opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai accelerates his nationwide consultations regarding the formation of an anti-Zanu-PF grand coalition ahead of next year's eagerly-anticipated national electio...Published: 30 Jan 2017 at 16:31hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai sends Mugabe scrambling for cover with coalition talk
Opposition MDC leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, has shot down Zanu-PF's "premature celebrations" and also asserted that he would form a coalition alliance with former Vice President Joice Mujuru despite...Published: 27 Jan 2017 at 12:23hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai shoot down Zanu-PF's 'premature celebrations'
Opposition MDC leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, yesterday shot down Zanu-PF's "premature celebrations" and also asserted that he would form a coalition alliance with former Vice President Joice Mujuru d...Published: 27 Jan 2017 at 06:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
The going has just got tougher for Mujuru
There was widespread agreement yesterday that the going has just got tougher for former Vice President Joice Mujuru and her fledgling Zimbabwe People First (ZPF) party, after they suffered a crush...Published: 24 Jan 2017 at 06:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Opposition to defeat Mugabe not only about Tsvangirai
Political commentator Rejoice Ngwenya has warned that the coalition to defeat President Robert Mugabe and his Zanu PF cronies is not all about MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai but about the leader who h...Published: 11 Jan 2017 at 05:42hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Mujuru banks on Tsvangirai help
Faced with a tough by-election in Bikita West in two weeks' time, former Vice President Joice Mujuru's Zimbabwe People First (ZPF) is banking on the heavyweight support of opposition leader Morgan...Published: 09 Jan 2017 at 07:32hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai hits out at 'traitors'
Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai appeared to slam the door shut yesterday on the prospects of him working with his former comrades who deserted him and the MDC over the years, saying he did not...Published: 02 Dec 2016 at 14:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Tsvangirai to crush Mugabe in 2018'
Newly-elected Norton legislator Temba Mliswa says a grand opposition coalition led by indomitable MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai and including war veterans, will beat President Robert Mugabe and his...Published: 26 Oct 2016 at 12:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Tsvangirai can't lead Zimbabwe, he did not fight in the liberation struggle'
THE opposition Zimbabwe People First (ZimPF) at the weekend described its leader, Joice Mujuru, as the most suitable candidate to lead the proposed coalition of opposition parties, arguing she had...Published: 24 Oct 2016 at 09:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Next elections are NOT either Mugabe or Tsvangirai - this is a false choice
Zimbabweans have become masters at rationalizing their folly under the disguise it was the better of two equally unpalatable choices when in fact the choices were a false dilemma. Accordin...Published: 01 Sep 2016 at 06:43hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Grand Coalition: Cdes without a Code
No sooner have they come together than they had forgotten the code that brought them together. That is the story of our opposition, and their famed grand coalition that was hyped to tediousness by the...Published: 04 Jun 2016 at 09:07hrs | 1 | by Nathaniel Manheru
'I will be back,' woes Tsvangirai
Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai, who has been ill, has told his enemies, some of whom have been scripting epitaphs - that he will soon be back to take on Zanu-PF and its leader President Robert Mu...Published: 28 May 2016 at 12:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe behind 'million man' march
The much publicised million man march was a strategy that emanated from Robert Mugabe's bedroom initiated by non other than the first family itself as a way of sending signals to the lacoste leade...Published: 26 May 2016 at 16:17hrs | 2 | by Gugugu Magorira
ZimPF targets Zanu-PF strong holds
Zimbabwe People First (ZimPF) Chitungwiza co-ordinator Marakia Bomani, has said his party was targeting Zanu-PF strongholds in rural areas as urban voters had already rejected the ruling party since 2...Published: 03 May 2016 at 09:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Free elections are 'political suicide' for Mugabe vs rigged elections are human sacrifice for the nation
I agree with Patrick Guramatunhu, Mugabe has a nuclear arsenal with which to fight off Mai Mujuru and her PF if they should ever become a real serious political threat to the tyrant (Bulawayo24 opinio...Published: 25 Jan 2016 at 20:17hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
To defeat Mugabe we must implement the reforms and be fooled by Mutasa, a dumped passenger!
From the everyday Mugabe signed the Global Political Agreement (GPA) in 2008 committing him and Zanu PF to accepting democratic reform the next national elections were as good as won for Tsvangirai an...Published: 03 Dec 2015 at 06:24hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Ncube admits opposition obsessed with 'removing' Mugabe but not the afterwards
In a rare moment of insightful thinking, Professor Welshman Ncube has admitted Zimbabwe's corrupt and incompetent opposition will at best unity to remove Mugabe and then will not know what to do after...Published: 26 Oct 2015 at 21:01hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Opposition obsessed with removing Mugabe - Welshman Ncube
MDC leader Welshman Ncube has said a grand coalition aimed only at defeating President Robert Mugabe is bound to collapse soon after the elections.Ncube said there was "too much obsessio...Published: 26 Oct 2015 at 07:38hrs | | by Staff Reporter
'Anti-Mugabe coalitions bound to fail'
OPPOSITION MDC leader Welshman Ncube has warned against the formation of a grand coalition for the sole purpose of defeating President Robert Mugabe, saying such a project was bound to collapse soon a...Published: 26 Oct 2015 at 05:47hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Research body say Mujuru has 'clout' to defeat Mugabe but that is plan B
"A regional research unit, NKC African Economics, has described that Joice Mujuru as "Zimbabwe's realistic hope of salvation", saying the veteran politician had more political clout than current oppos...Published: 19 Sep 2015 at 09:23hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Those denying Tsvangirai sold-out are being pedantic as asking Judas Iscariot be a saint!
Richard Morgan Tsvangirai has been rightly criticized with people like music legend, Thomas Mapfumo, rightly calling him a "sell-out" for his failure to implement even one democratic reform througho...Published: 28 Apr 2015 at 19:44hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
'Tsvangirai the only leader who has defeated Mugabe since independence'
Commentators have said MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai must be respected for being the first person to defeat President Robert Mugabe in the Presidential elections as there has been no one who did so s...Published: 28 Apr 2015 at 09:27hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
British credulity about source of Zimbabwean amorphous politics
The British Police in London arrested Martin Chinyanga an MDC demonstrator who stormed the Zimbabwean embassy in London demanding the release of Itai Dzamara. Arthur Molife, a Zapu official in London ...Published: 01 Apr 2015 at 10:34hrs | | by Rakanga Danble
'We won't wait for 2018 elections,' says Tsvangirai
MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai yesterday said his party will not wait for the 2018 elections because people will die of hunger considering the rate at which the economy is deteriorating in the coun...Published: 27 Apr 2014 at 15:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe military junta subverting democratic processes
The continuation of the country's political and economic crisis, nine months after the 2013 elections, is a result of the failure by the government of national unity to implement security sector refor...Published: 24 Apr 2014 at 07:16hrs | | by Tichaona Sibanda
'Army wields influence on Mugabe succession matrix'
ZIMBABWE'S military has too much influence on the Zanu-PF succession matrix that whoever will succeed President Robert Mugabe will inherit a party beholden to the armed forces, a new research has ...Published: 23 Apr 2014 at 07:54hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Tsvangirai must forgive Biti, Mangoma'
Returning MDC former secretary for security and ex-St Mary's legislator - Job "Wiwa" Sikhala - feels like he never ditched the party.As he speaks to Senior Assistant Editor Guthrie Munyuki, t...Published: 17 Mar 2014 at 13:38hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Western countries, MDC-T officials gang up to topple Tsvangirai
Top MDC officials, Western countries and Zanu-PF have all ganged up to topple MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai amid fresh details that some of his senior party members financially crippled and sabotaged ...Published: 27 Jan 2014 at 14:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC-T claims it will shame prophets of doom
MDC-T Bulawayo provincial chairperson Gorden Moyo says the MDC-T is here to stay and will shame "false" prophets who have said the party will never rule Zimbabwe. The MDC-T is trying to re-gro...Published: 27 Jan 2014 at 07:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Police warn against leaked poll results
Police vowed to crack down on any attempts to leak early results from Wednesday's vote, complicating plans by some civic groups to pre-empt official announcements by the country's election commission....Published: 01 Aug 2013 at 06:47hrs | 1 | by Reuters
'MDC formation leaders joined government to amass wealth,' says Sikhala
MDC99 leader Mr Job Sikhala Sikhala has ruled out a union with the Movement for Democratic Change whom he accused of joining the inclusive Government to amass wealth.Sikhala accused the MDC-T ...Published: 24 May 2013 at 03:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe is always five or so steps ahead of his rivals
ZIMBABWE will go to the polls this year with the presidential election likely to be a fierce two-horse race between President Robert Mugabe and MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai.Other presidentia...Published: 01 Apr 2013 at 18:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
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