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We've not yet recognised CCC party, says Zec
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has said it has not yet officially recognised the controversial Citizens Convergent for Change (CCC) as a political party in Zimbabwe, NewsDay Weekender reporte...Published: 45 mins ago | 137 | by Staff reporter
Minister accused of creating parallel structures in ZANU PF camp
Home Affairs Minister Kazembe Kazembe who is also Mashonaland Central province ZANU-PF chairperson has been accused of trying to manipulate District elections which are currently being held in the pro...Published: 11 hrs ago | 1155 | by Staff Reporter
Zanu-PF bigwigs question Mnangagwa's legitimacy
ZIMBABWEAN President Emmerson Mnangagwa, struggling to consolidate and maintain power at the volatile helm amid renewed internal Zanu-PF infighting and disintegration of the coalition which drove his ...Published: 12 hrs ago | 4195 | by Staff reporter
Nasty factional fights boil in Mnangagwa's backyard
INTENSE inter-factional fights to control President Emmerson Mnangagwa's home province Midlands, pitting two rival groups backing State Security minister Owen Mudha Ncube and the incumbent chairperson...Published: 12 hrs ago | 845 | by Staff reporter
US pressures Zimbabwe to lift ban on by-elections
THE United States government has ratcheted up pressure on Zimbabwe to hold by-elections, after nearly 30 constituencies were left with no representation following dramatic recalls of MDC Alliance legi...Published: 12 hrs ago | 368 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's man back in charge
AFTER a bruising battle President Emmerson Mnangagwa's agenda to retain the services of Chief Justice Luke Malaba at the helm of the administration of justice, as part of his power consolidation and r...Published: 12 hrs ago | 1353 | by Staff reporter
US tells Mnangagwa to hold by-elections
THE United States of (US) embassy in Harare yesterday criticised President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government over continued suspension of by-elections, arguing that elections could be held safely despit...Published: 21 hrs ago | 1345 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF to hold elections the Taliban way
Zanu-PF Information Director Tafadzwa Mugwadi says the ruling party will not hesitate to unleash Taliban-style terror to win the 2023 general election.He was responding to the United States Em...Published: 22 hrs ago | 906 | 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...Published: 22 hrs ago | 93 | by Staff reporter
When it comes to Zimbabwe’s 41 years and counting of rigged elections - it takes three to tango
When it comes to Zimbabwe's rigged elections - it takes three to tango. The ruling party Zanu PF, the MDC opposition and the ordinary Zimbabweans have all played a part in historic fact that Zimbabwe ...Published: 22 hrs ago | 103 | by Wilbert Mukori
Who is causing parallel market rates to spike?
For the past 18 months, the country's economy has been on a rebound, assisted by the stronger performance in the agricultural and mining sectors, an improved balance of payments and external sector po...Published: 23 Sep 2021 at 19:35hrs | 3206 | by Dr Tim Rainhard
Mary Mliswa accused of ordering arrests of rival
THE internecine factional ructions battle for control of Mashonaland West Zanu-PF has reached a crescendo, with claimant to the provincial chairmanship, Vengai Musengi this week accusing Provincial Af...Published: 23 Sep 2021 at 06:44hrs | 1606 | by Staff reporter
Civil society calls for stronger institutions
ZIMBABWE should deliberately strengthen its institutions, especially the Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission, so that it is able to deal with partisan traditional leaders.In a statement to commem...Published: 23 Sep 2021 at 06:37hrs | 110 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa ally saved by Zanu-PF elections suspension
MASVINGO Provincial Affairs minister Ezra Chadzamira has emerged as the main beneficiary of the Zanu-PF politburo's decision to suspend provincial elections which were scheduled for month-end, as the ...Published: 23 Sep 2021 at 06:35hrs | 1677 | by Staff reporter
Stakeholders must foster peace to ensure development
AFTER we celebrated the International Day of Peace on September 21, 2021, running under the theme Recovering Better for an Equitable and Sustainable World, the Zimbabwe Election Support Network ...Published: 23 Sep 2021 at 06:31hrs | 24 | by Zesn
Time to ratify AU Charter on Democracy
AS we reflect on the just passed International Day on Democracy, we find it worrying that Zimbabwe has not ratified the African Charter on Democracy, Elections, and Governance. It is a long time since...Published: 23 Sep 2021 at 06:30hrs | 113 | by Veritas
Mafume vows to challenge third suspension
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) and the National Prosecution Authority (NPA) are reportedly in a winding blame game over the prolonged delay in prosecuting suspended Harare mayor Jacob ...Published: 23 Sep 2021 at 06:28hrs | 214 | by Staff reporter
No Unvaccinated delegates at Zanu PF conference
Zanu PF has barred unvaccinated members to attend its annual conference scheduled for Bindura next month.Speaking at the Patty's Politi...Published: 22 Sep 2021 at 00:50hrs | 769 | by Shelton Muchena
Mnangagwa; Citizens are converging for change
DEAR President Emmerson Mnangagwa,Your Excellency, at the start of this year, the people's president, Nelson Chamisa presented our Zimbabwe Agenda 2021 address in which he announced our big id...Published: 21 Sep 2021 at 21:35hrs | 2416 | by Fadzayi Mahere
Opportunistic politicians must be voted out
IF one walks the streets, they will ask themselves will there ever be change or they need to reconsider where their vote will be.Well, the truth is, it doesn't even matter. The routine is the ...Published: 21 Sep 2021 at 21:34hrs | 298 | by Kaunda
Polad takes publicity stunt to ZITF
THE Political Actors Dialogue (Polad) has taken its publicity stunt to the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair (ZITF), which began yesterday in Bulawayo, with principal actors saying they could not miss...Published: 21 Sep 2021 at 21:31hrs | 697 | by Staff reporter
Residents associations champion voter mobilisation
RESIDENTS' associations countrywide have resolved to engage in a massive voter mobilisation campaign to ensure that the majority of citizens participate in the 2023 elections. About 20 residents' orga...Published: 21 Sep 2021 at 21:30hrs | 165 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt urged urged to respect people's rights
DISPLACEMENT of villagers from their ancestral land to pave way for corporate activities is increasingly becoming one of the major human rights violations in the country, the Zimbabwe Human Rights Ass...Published: 21 Sep 2021 at 21:29hrs | 225 | by Staff reporter
Mahere says youth of Zimbabwe will show Zanu-PF who's boss in 2023 general elections
The youth will show you who's boss in Zimbabwe come the 2023 general elections.This is the gist of MDC Alliance spokesperson Fadzayi Mahere's reaction to Zanu-PF's tactic of blocking Nelson Ch...Published: 21 Sep 2021 at 21:03hrs | 1304 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's backyard stews in Zanu-PF fights
Zanu-PF factional fights exploded in its leader, President Emmerson Mnangagwa's Midlands home province Monday, with under siege provincial chairman Daniel Mackenzie Ncube issuing a strong warning to h...Published: 21 Sep 2021 at 20:56hrs | 853 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF suspends provincial elections
Zanu-PF on Monday resolved to suspend its provincial elections that were set for this week and had threatened to further tear apart the party.The ruling party's national acting spokesperson Mi...Published: 21 Sep 2021 at 20:54hrs | 149 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa not losing sleep
The MDC Alliance said it was not fazed on Monday after a new political party appeared to have hijacked one of its social media mobilisation slogans which some were advocating for to be the new party n...Published: 21 Sep 2021 at 20:53hrs | 908 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF 'hijacks' Chamisa project
OPPOSITION MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday accused "jittery" Zanu-PF and State security agents of hijacking his party's Citizens Convergence for Change (CCC) project and registering it at...Published: 21 Sep 2021 at 06:27hrs | 7876 | by Staff reporter
'Zanu-PF chefs jostling for positions for self-enrichment'
A Zanu-PF politburo member has charged that the nationwide jostling for positions by party members in the ongoing restructuring exercise was aimed at self-enrichment.Zanu-PF secretary for exte...Published: 21 Sep 2021 at 06:24hrs | 826 | by Staff reporter
Compulsory indoctrination for civil servants on the cards
The ruling Zanu-PF party wants to force government employees to attend its Herbert Chitepo School of Ideology ahead of the 2023 elections, in a move widely seen as an attempt to brainwash government w...Published: 21 Sep 2021 at 06:21hrs | 1568 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean youths urged register to vote
YOUTHS have been urged to register in large numbers to vote in the 2023 general elections in order to safeguard and advance their interests. This came out during Friday's meeting on voter regi...Published: 21 Sep 2021 at 06:19hrs | 398 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF suspends provincial elections
Zanu-PF yesterday resolved to suspend its provincial elections that were set for this week and had threatened to further tear apart the party.The ruling party's national acting spokesperson Mi...Published: 21 Sep 2021 at 06:18hrs | 699 | by Staff reporter
Vladimir Putin's party wins Russian polls
Russian citizens in Zimbabwe at the weekend exercised their democratic right to vote in legislative elections in their country with near final results yesterday showing an emphatic victory for the rul...Published: 21 Sep 2021 at 06:11hrs | 341 | by Staff reporter
Saul Gwakuba Ndlovu declared national hero posthumously
THE Zanu-PF Politburo yesterday posthumously declared the late Cdes Rabelani Choeni, Saul Gwakuba Ndlovu, Elliot Ngwabi, Professor George Kahari and Professor Sheunesu Mpepereki as national heroes. Pr...Published: 21 Sep 2021 at 06:10hrs | 535 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabweans, military talks will end disputed elections, looting'
A REPORT, recently released by the Democracy in Africa, has called for urgent civilian and military negotiations in Zimbabwe to avoid future disputed elections and the ongoing unrestrained plunder of ...Published: 20 Sep 2021 at 19:23hrs | 2559 | by Staff reporter
'Zanu-PF only political party to embrace gays'
Zanu-PF is the only political party that managed to respond to concerns raised by the Gays and Lesbians Association of Zimbabwe (GALZ) in 2018.Ahead of the 2018 elections, GALZ approache...Published: 20 Sep 2021 at 18:59hrs | 1016 | by Staff reporter
Kazembe Kazembe's rigging plot exposed
FIREWORKS are expected at a potentially explosive Zanu-PF Mashonaland Central provincial executive meeting Monday as the provinces top guns lock horns in a do-or-die pre-election encounter.The...Published: 20 Sep 2021 at 18:58hrs | 2036 | by Staff reporter
'Zanu PF are cowards, Zimbabwe does not belong to their mothers!' - whilst they enjoy absolute power, it does
"Good pple there is need to teach ZANU PF a big lesson once and for all in 2023. They talk a lot of nonsense as if this country belongs to their mothers. They have got arrogance of a coward.Th...Published: 20 Sep 2021 at 17:15hrs | 619 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
'ERC call for reform in not push for regime change' - why apologise, it is consequence of free elections
Zimbabwe is in this economic mess and political paralysis (both the ruling party and the opposition are corrupt, incompetent and clearly have no clue how to get the nation out of the mess and paralysi...Published: 20 Sep 2021 at 17:14hrs | 330 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Daggers out in Zanu-PF restructuring
THE Zanu-PF restructuring exercise has exposed deep-rooted factionalism as well as infighting fuelled by jostling for positions ahead of the party's provincial elections.The party is set to co...Published: 20 Sep 2021 at 07:17hrs | 2545 | by Staff reporter
Democracy is dying under Mnangagwa
LAST Wednesday, Zimbabwe joined the rest of the world in commemorating World Democracy Day but the country faces a darkening future under the current leadership, with gains made in the recent past bei...Published: 20 Sep 2021 at 07:17hrs | 2451 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF reaches 3,6 million members
THE ruling party, Zanu-PF whose 2023 harmonised election voter-drive targets five-million people is achievable with at least 3,6 million eligible voters having been recorded under the party's cell reg...Published: 20 Sep 2021 at 07:08hrs | 266 | by Staff reporter
All Zanu-PF provinces endorse Mnangagwa
ALL Zanu-PF provinces have endorsed President Mnangagwa as the ruling party's presidential candidate in 2023 elections in a major show of confidence in his leadership following the advent of the New D...Published: 20 Sep 2021 at 07:08hrs | 147 | by Staff reporter
All set for Zanu-PF polls
ALL is set for the holding of Zanu-PF district elections across the country's 10 provinces following the completion of a hugely successful grassroots restructuring exercise. Over the weekend, ...Published: 20 Sep 2021 at 07:07hrs | 126 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, Chiwenga in fierce battle to control Masvingo provinces
"Ladies and gentlemen the situation in our country has reached another level…," said the late army General Sibusiso Moyo while addressing the nation during the November 2017 sanitized coup whi...Published: 19 Sep 2021 at 18:14hrs | 6195 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo politicians 'weak'
A BULAWAYO-faith-based organisation, Habbakuk Trust has accused local politicians of being "politically weak" and unable to advance the devolution agenda in the region.The new Constitution ado...Published: 19 Sep 2021 at 18:10hrs | 1199 | by Staff reporter
Simple recipe for Zanu-PF or MDC victory
A good number of those outstanding Zimbabweans who have chosen to serve their country as doctors, accountants, teachers, clergymen, lawyers, journalists, businessmen, politicians, documentary film-mak...Published: 19 Sep 2021 at 08:54hrs | 845 | by Geoffrey Nyarota
From David party to Forus: new political outfits raise eyebrows
The sprouting of political parties on the eve of a major election in Zimbabwe has become a tradition, but the period leading to 2023 might see even a bigger number of new formations if the current tre...Published: 19 Sep 2021 at 08:42hrs | 240 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's minister fuelling Harare mess
Local Government minister July Moyo's meddling in the affairs of Harare City Council is one of the reasons why service delivery continues to deteriorate in the capital.Moyo, who is driven by p...Published: 19 Sep 2021 at 08:34hrs | 119 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PFs provinces endorse President Mnangagwa for 2023
Zanu-PF provinces have endorsed President Mnangagwa as the ruling party's sole presidential candidate for the 2023 harmonised elections, stressing that his desire to uplift the lives of Zimbabweans ha...Published: 19 Sep 2021 at 08:13hrs | 150 | by Staff reporter
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