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Matabeles reject Zimbabwe unitary state through election boycott
Through the boycott of the recent voter registration and by- election boycott, the the people of Matabeleland especially the youth, have ditched the oppressive Zimbabwe unitary state for the Republic ...Published: 03 Apr 2022 at 10:21hrs | 2188 | by Israel Dube
US Embassy sweats to save Chamisa's sinking ship
The United States Embassy in Harare has reactivated its propaganda machinery ahead of the forthcoming by-elections slated for March 26.After a notable lull in propaganda tweets since the depar...Published: 25 Jan 2022 at 05:40hrs | 1480 | by Hosia Mviringi
Tough questions for Mnangagwa, Chamisa ahead of 2023 polls
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's desperate quest to stop Nelson Chamisa from contesting elections under the MDC-Alliance banner betrays the Zanu-PF strongman's lack of confidence in his ability to win a...Published: 23 Jan 2022 at 20:41hrs | 3137 | by Staff reporter
'Job creation will attract more votes for Zanu-PF'
Bulawayo Provincial Affairs minister Judith Ncube has urged Zanu-PF to revive industries and create employment to win support in the country's second city.Ncube made the remarks in an intervie...Published: 21 Dec 2021 at 06:18hrs | 916 | by Staff reporter
By-elections spook opposition
PROSPECTS of by-elections in the first quarter of next year have spooked the broke and divided MDC-Alliance led by Mr Nelson Chamisa, which is now threatening to boycott the polls for alleged absence ...Published: 17 Nov 2021 at 05:12hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
NGOs denounce renewed govt threats
ZIMBABWE human rights and advocacy groups have condemned as disturbing and criminal a threat by the government to ban non-governmental organisations (NGOs) from operating in Masvingo, a threat impleme...Published: 03 Jul 2021 at 21:32hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa advised against election boycott
ANALYSTS yesterday urged the MDC Alliance not to boycott elections as doing so would leave the ruling Zanu-PF party enjoying unbridled power.Nelson Chamisa's party looks set to fight with the ...Published: 06 Apr 2021 at 07:18hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa considering boycotting 2023 elections?
MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has hinted on various strategies that his party will use to deal with the Zanu-PF menace and one of them might be an election boycott. The party's elective C...Published: 28 Apr 2019 at 07:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa will rule only in Mashonaland
MLO would like to put it categorically clear that the newly elected Zimbabwe's President, Emmerson Mnangagwa's rule will stretch as far as Mashonaland boundaries. And that this side of the Jameson Lin...Published: 05 Aug 2018 at 13:32hrs | 5363 | by Israel Dube
Boycott presidential poll, Chamisa!
Recently, the main opposition MDC Alliance leader's 40-year-old presidential candidate, Nelson Chamisa, who is challenging the ruling Zanu-PF's Emmerson Mnangagwa for the presidency, has been threaten...Published: 27 Jul 2018 at 11:21hrs | 2014 | by Simukai Tinhu
Operation restore legacy will reach its final lap on Monday - Zanu PF youth official
Zanu PF deputy youth secretary Mabutho Moyo has declared that the Operation Restore Legacy which was launched by the military in November last year leading to Robert Mugabe's ouster will be reaching i...Published: 26 Jul 2018 at 10:01hrs | 1457 | by Stephen Jakes
WATCH: MDC Alliance cannot hold Zimbabwe at ransom, says Mangwana
With many mushrooming political parties in this election, an MDC Alliance election boycott might prove futile. Obey Manayiti at the weekend had a chat with Zanu-PF secretary for legal affairs Munyarad...Published: 23 Jul 2018 at 13:56hrs | 2104 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa election boycott - a useless threat?
MDC-Alliance is by no doubt a strong opposition since its inception. Although it came so close to winning the outright victory (possibly did once in 2008), during a time in which a GNU was formed. Sin...Published: 11 Jul 2018 at 10:17hrs | | by Dr Takesure Tazvishaya
'Boycotting elections is suicidal,' argue Daily News - nonsense, risking all on capricious winning a rigged election is
"A boycott from this month's harmonised elections as mooted by the MDC Alliance can only have an impact if it has the buy-in of all opposition parties," argued Daily News. "The Alliance is bitter...Published: 07 Jul 2018 at 16:19hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Chamisa alone in election boycott call
LEADERS of several political parties set to contest in the July 30 general elections have said they will not follow MDC Alliance presidential candidate Nelson Chamisa's threat to pull out of the race,...Published: 06 Jul 2018 at 16:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa election boycott will be suicidal
A boycott from this month's harmonised elections as mooted by the MDC Alliance can only have an impact if it has the buy-in of all opposition parties.The Alliance is bitter that the Zimbabwe E...Published: 06 Jul 2018 at 15:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa threatens to boycott forthcoming polls
OPPOSITION coalition MDC Alliance has threatened to boycott the July 30 general elections if its demands for electoral reforms are disregarded by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec).The sp...Published: 15 Jun 2018 at 14:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Electorate misunderstood me,' says Tshinga Dube
FORMER War Veterans minister Tshinga Dube has blamed his previous election defeats in Makokoba constituency to being misunderstood by the electorate.The Makokoba legislator, however, expressed...Published: 23 May 2018 at 07:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa should stop grandstanding
Let us say things as they are. Threats to boycott elections are a very stupid idea, especially in cases where one is singing the threat as part of some attention seeking tomfoolery. This is one of tho...Published: 10 Apr 2018 at 06:52hrs | | by Nick Mangwana
Chamisa threatens election boycott
MDC-T president and MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has threatened to pull out of this year's presidential election, if Zanu-PF's President Emmerson Mnangagwa fails to implement electoral reforms d...Published: 05 Mar 2018 at 05:43hrs | 3044 | by Staff reporter
Putting God first pays for Pelandaba-Mpopoma
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's now famous catchphrase – the voice of the people is the voice of God – is what drives Pelandaba-Mpopoma legislator, Joseph Tshuma, so he said during an interview....Published: 30 Jan 2018 at 05:26hrs | 511 | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai and Khupe just have to work it out
I have never claimed to be neutral - so here I go!The standoff between MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai and one of his three deputies, Thokozani Khupe, over the political trade-offs with other o...Published: 08 Sep 2017 at 06:39hrs | | by Conway Tutani
Raila Odinga threatens re-run election boycott
Kenya's opposition leader Raila Odinga has said that he will not take part in the presidential election re-run slated for 17 October "without legal and constitutional guarantees".But he did no...Published: 05 Sep 2017 at 12:00hrs | | by BBC
Western sanctions weakened labour which were key in MDC formation
Zimbabwe Commiunist Party Secretary General Ngqabutho Mabhena has said so the American sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe, which sought to weaken and collapse the Mugabe regime, instead, have weakened and ...Published: 07 Aug 2017 at 09:58hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Morgan Tsvangirai and ghost of July 31
THERE shall be no coalition of opposition political parties any time soon beside the delusions of a "grand" one. That means Zanu-PF is left to fight demons only from within for possibly a landslide vi...Published: 28 Jul 2017 at 06:19hrs | | by Joram Nyathi
'Boycotting elections not an option'
MDC youths have called on their party leaders to adequately prepare for the upcoming general elections, saying boycotting the polls for lack of reforms was not an option.Addressing journalists...Published: 27 Jun 2017 at 06:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
A 2018 election boycott will trigger an election crisis
Democracy should allow individuals periodic opportunities to freely communicate their preferences to their leaders through regularly scheduled elections. ZANU PF has used it's confrontational strategi...Published: 09 Apr 2017 at 17:55hrs | | by Kingstone Jambawo
MDC flip flops between election boycotts and participation is the epitome of confusion
Last year in 2016 the largest opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) boycotted parliamentary by-elections citing the need for electoral reform as their primary motive; "No Reforms,...Published: 03 Apr 2017 at 12:11hrs | | by Washington Nyasha Gwarada
NERA holding 'feedback rally' next week - with no reforms, will they conform election boycott
"The National Electoral Reform Agenda, NERA is on Wednesday 5 April descending into the Africa Unity Square, now "labelled Dzamara Square," for a feedback rally," reported Zimeye."We have gone...Published: 29 Mar 2017 at 18:55hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Tsvangirai, boycotting 2013 elections was obvious option, it is the ONLY option in 2018
Morgan Tsvangirai and his MDC-T are gearing up to contest the 2018 national elections and so are the other MDC factions. What happened to "No reform, no elections"?Morgan Tsvangirai and his MD...Published: 20 Jan 2017 at 00:24hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
MDC-T inconsistency costly
"MUGABE has two thirds! Vote DA."This was the campaign message that South Africa's opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) took to the electorate in that country's 2004 elections.The party, th...Published: 19 Jan 2017 at 07:10hrs | | by Cyril Zenda
Mugwiji, Mugabe's rigging mastery vs Gambia's Jammeh, an amateur is chalk and cheese
The election of opposition candidates in countries like Gambia and Seychelles has re-energized people like Mugwiji who think we in Zimbabwe can do the same EVEN with not even one democratic reform imp...Published: 09 Dec 2016 at 22:02hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
Election boycotts, Demos and Rigging
AFTER MARCHING THEN WHAT?DEMOSOf late Media has been awash with National Electoral Reforms Agenda demonstrations where Opposition parties engage...Published: 01 Oct 2016 at 07:48hrs | | by Mangosuthu Mbele
Of Nera, Election Boycotts and Rigging
INTRODUCTIONCruel as it may sound, for progress sake I think it's safe if we assume that most Zimbabweans suffer from an extreme and dangerous case of dementia and are in dire need for medical att...Published: 27 Sep 2016 at 17:51hrs | | by Mangosuthu Mbele
MDC-T admits 2018 will not be free and flip-flops to boycott - always take part in the end
The stage is set for yet another MDC-T election boycott flip-flop. Since Mugabe blatantly rigged the July 2013 elections all the country's main opposition parties including Tsvangirai's MDC-T, PDP and...Published: 23 Aug 2016 at 20:10hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
MDC-T council 'deadlocked' on election boycott - still have no clue of reforms
"The MDC-T national council that met on Wednesday was deadlocked on whether to lift its election boycott stance which has seen the opposition party surrendering to Zanu-PF parliamentary and council se...Published: 06 Aug 2016 at 07:57hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
MDC-T deadlocked over polls
The MDC-T national council that met on Wednesday was deadlocked on whether to lift its election boycott stance which has seen the opposition party surrendering to Zanu-PF parliamentary and council...Published: 05 Aug 2016 at 11:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Demonstrations new MDC-T campaign strategy
The Morgan Tsvangirai-led MDC-T party is using mass demonstrations around the country to mobilise support ahead of the 2018 general elections, analysts have said.The party has announced that i...Published: 05 Jun 2016 at 11:38hrs | 2113 | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai's explicit support for gays will cost him politically
"Nothing that isn't a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency," noted Joseph Addison (1672-1719), an English essayist and politician....Published: 06 May 2016 at 20:31hrs | | by Tafara Shumba
Tsvangirai must come out clear on homosexuality
"Nothing that isn't a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency," noted Joseph Addison (1672-1719), an English essayist and politician.&nbs...Published: 06 May 2016 at 07:58hrs | | by Tafara Shumba
Tsvangirai backtracks on election boycott
Opposition MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai has made climbdown in his controversial election boycott stance.He said his party will now contest the 2018 general polls despite its "No Reforms, No ...Published: 01 May 2016 at 08:07hrs | | by Staff Reporter
'MDC-T might take part in next by-elections,' says Tsvangirai
MDC-T leader, Morgan Tsvangirai yesterday said his party may participate in the forthcoming by-election to fill the seat left vacant after the death of Gweru Deputy Mayor, Councillor Artwell Matyoraut...Published: 23 Apr 2016 at 12:44hrs | 2359 | by Staff reporter
MDC applauds election boycott stance
The Welshman Ncube led MDC National Council has resolved to join forces with other opposition parties to pile pressure on government to implement electoral reforms.The electoral reform agenda ...Published: 20 Apr 2016 at 15:38hrs | | by Thobekile Zhou
Remove the log in your eye
This writer once attended a workshop that was designed to encourage a health reform in the eating habits so as to reduce cancer, which was said to be the number one killer disease the world over....Published: 18 Mar 2016 at 06:58hrs | | by Tafara Shumba
Tsvangirai spot-on on electoral reforms in Zimbabwe
MDC-T embattled president, Morgan Richard Tsvangirai, is spot on when he says Zanu-PF Government has put in place a vast array of electoral reforms in recent months in preparation for the 2018 elector...Published: 28 Jan 2016 at 07:09hrs | | by Suitable Kajau
MDC-T seeks relevance through Demonstrations
The MDC-T has become so predictable that whenever it opens its mouth to speak, they talk about either mass protests or election boycott. True to that, the party recently announced its intention to eng...Published: 22 Oct 2015 at 16:02hrs | 3215 | by John Sigauke
Tsvangirai backtracks on election boycott
MDC-T leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, has dismissed the claim that his party has resolved to boycott elections, saying his party is pushing for meaningful reforms before polls can be conducted....Published: 12 Sep 2015 at 09:22hrs | 2657 | by Staff reporter
MDC-T out of touch with reality
MDC-T has been widely known for a series of boycotts, running from election boycotts to the recent call for boycotting Zanu-PF linked businesses and products.I was actually shocked when I rea...Published: 25 Aug 2015 at 10:40hrs | | by Peacemaker Zano
MDC-T to force Zanu PF 'kicking and screaming' to implement reforms by end of this year!
When Tsvangirai announced that the MDC-T was ending it "No reforms, no elections" elections boycott in the first breath and then said the party will only take part in free and fair elections in the n...Published: 05 Aug 2015 at 21:44hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Tsvangirai calls off boycott but will participate in free elections only - clear as mud!
The thing about Morgan Tsvangirai, Welshman Ncube, Tendai Biti and the rest of MDC leaders without exception is that they are both breathtakingly corrupt and breathtakingly incompetent in equal measu...Published: 04 Aug 2015 at 23:22hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
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