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Chamisa alliance victory leaves Zanu-PF divided in Chiredzi
The election of an MDC Alliance councillor and an independent as chairman and deputy chair of Chiredzi Town Council has left the ruling Zanu-PF party deeply divided.Zanu-PF won resoundingly al...Published: 12 hrs ago | 965 | by Staff reporter
Poor urban service delivery leads to disease outbreak
POOR service delivery in towns and cities has been the major cause of diseases such as cholera and typhoid.It is a pity that residents in most urban centres in the country have since the turn ...Published: 16 Sep 2018 at 08:51hrs | 101 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa primes Zanu-PF for rebirth
The redeployment of several senior Zanu-PF officials from Government is part of an ongoing reorganisation and modernisation of the ruling party's operations to enable it to strictly monitor implementa...Published: 16 Sep 2018 at 08:45hrs | 205 | by Staff reporter
Let's give Mnangagwa a chance to turnaround Zimbabwe
For a long time, Zimbabwe was a country in the wilderness with little taking place, but since November 24, 2017 when President Mnangagwa took over the levers of powers, things started to tick. He emba...Published: 15 Sep 2018 at 09:16hrs | 181 | by Elijah Chihota
Daunting task awaits Mnangagwa's new Cabinet
WITH Zimbabwe in serious economic woes, announcement of the new Cabinet was obviously a keenly awaited event. Tongues had for some time been wagging, posturing on a number of possibilities, ranging fr...Published: 12 Sep 2018 at 07:43hrs | 1035 | by Cyprian M Ndawana
Mujuru partner joins Zanu-PF
OPPOSITION Democratic Assembly for Restoration and Empowerment (Dare) leader Gilbert Dzikiti has dumped his own party that was a member of People's Rainbow Coalition (PRC), led by National People's Pa...Published: 12 Sep 2018 at 07:27hrs | 1099 | by Staff reporter
Mudenda retains Speaker of Parliament post
Zanu-PF Politburo member Advocate Jacob Mudenda was yesterday voted as the Speaker of the National Assembly to retain the post he held in the previous Parliament, after beating MDC Alliance's Ms Pauri...Published: 12 Sep 2018 at 06:59hrs | 227 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa’s dictatorial tendencies exposed
Following the confirmation of President Mnangagwa's election victory by the Constitutional Court and his subsequent inauguration last month, the nation had one eye on the unfolding mayoral elections a...Published: 12 Sep 2018 at 06:46hrs | 587 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Let's give Mnangagwa a chance to turn Zimbabwe around
For a long time, Zimbabwe was a country in the wilderness with virtually nothing taking place, but since 24 November 2017 when President Emmerson Mnangagwa took over the levers of powers things starte...Published: 11 Sep 2018 at 16:16hrs | 2429 | by Elijah Chihota
Chamisa meets MDC joint caucus
Today MDC-A president Chamisa met with the joint caucus of MDC parliamentarians and members of the Senate totaling 112 to outline his expectation going forward. The President stressed on the issues of...Published: 11 Sep 2018 at 12:54hrs | 3912 | by MDC Communications Department
Why the party is always supreme
Political parties are constructed in order to conquer and exercise political power. The political party does the conquering but the Government does the exercising of the power. Therefore, the question...Published: 11 Sep 2018 at 06:34hrs | 229 | by Nick Mangwana
Election 2018 the aftermath and opportunities to embrace
Politics is not entertainment neither is it Christian evangelical crusades. Politicians need to be serious and not take the electorate for granted as there are not there to entertain or preach. Grante...Published: 10 Sep 2018 at 07:19hrs | 192 | by Zimbabwe Solidarity Campaign
Why technocrats succeed or fail in the Zanu government
Apologies for boring you with citing in full Mukoma Muzivazvose Google's definition of technocrats. However, this will help some of us to know a bit about technocrats in view of recently appointed min...Published: 10 Sep 2018 at 07:01hrs | 505 | by Ndaba Nhuku
We experienced a repeat of 2008 calamity - Bajila
MDC Alliance official Discent Collins Bajila has said the nation has again experienced the repeat of the 2008 calamity arising from the just disputed harmonised elections."I have said it befor...Published: 07 Sep 2018 at 09:33hrs | 2028 | by Stephen Jakes
Churches demand security reforms
ONE of the country's leading Christian bodies, the Zimbabwe Council of Churches (ZCC), has written to President Emmerson Mnangagwa, urging him to restore economic and political stability following the...Published: 07 Sep 2018 at 06:59hrs | 251 | by Staffr eporter
Letter to Comrade Julius Malema
Dear Mr. Malema, Firstly, I would like to apologize to you personally because when you started your political path, I am one of those you did not take you seriously. I was deeply concerned abo...Published: 07 Sep 2018 at 06:51hrs | 3114 | by Nomazulu Thata
ZIFA bosses ready for parly
NEWLY elected MPs for Zvimba South and Vungu constituencies Phillip Chiyangwa and Omega Sibanda, who are also the Zifa president and vice-president respectively have said they are ready for the politi...Published: 06 Sep 2018 at 21:24hrs | 965 | by Staff reporter
The honour of ruling a country
What we must realise as a people is that it is an honour for anybody or any political party to be given the mandate by the electorate to rule in a country. It is also important that such an honourable...Published: 06 Sep 2018 at 09:03hrs | 1580 | by Clement Moyo
Khupe faction blames 'rebel' tag for poor election showing
THE Thokozani Khupe-led faction of the MDC-T claims that the "breakaway faction and rebel" tag given to it by its rivals significantly contributed to its poor performance in the July 30 general electi...Published: 06 Sep 2018 at 07:00hrs | 1104 | by Staff reporter
Belling Zimbabwe's electoral-ideological cat
IT will take a while yet for the national after-effect of the 2018 harmonised election to wear off. Praise singers of President Emmerson Mnangagwa will continue justifying his eventual victory, while ...Published: 05 Sep 2018 at 07:10hrs | 452 | by Takura Zhangazha
How the electorate rejected Mawarire and Povo
When Pastor Evan Mawarire first emerged, many felt he had what it takes to challenge at least for a parliamentary seat. To be fair to those who saw him as a potential face for our esteemed august Hous...Published: 05 Sep 2018 at 06:52hrs | 2011 | by Leroy Dzenga
Protest vote yields mediocrity in Bulawayo
SAD chaotic scenes characterised the swearing in of Bulawayo city councillors last Friday with irate residents meting out instant justice on a councillor whose behaviour they deemed unacceptable. ...Published: 03 Sep 2018 at 06:16hrs | 951 | by Editorial - chronicle
Mnangagwa's likely trajectory
THE most significant political fact about Zimbabwe today is that it is mired in a complex and turbulent multi-dimensional transition of which the just-ended elections were a part. The bitterly contest...Published: 01 Sep 2018 at 13:48hrs | 3152 | by Eldred V Masunungure
Big town fellows' mentality cost MDC Alliance rural vote
Agreed the election was stolen, the people's will was subverted for the gains of a few, selfish individuals that claim to have monopoly over Zimbabwe.The motherland is battered and shuttered, ...Published: 01 Sep 2018 at 09:08hrs | 1143 | by Roy Muroyi
Mliswa claims 10 000 new voters
NORTON MP-elect Temba Mliswa has claimed to have secured more than 10 000 new voters during the just-ended elections, beating Zanu-PF and the MDC Alliance, whose focus was on presidential rallies inst...Published: 01 Sep 2018 at 09:06hrs | 1028 | by Staff reporter
Poll results dash young people's hopes
IT is just after 6pm in the city centre and human traffic is at its peak as pedestrians race to conclude a gruesome day of socio-economic activities.Zimbabwean youths, many of whom threw their...Published: 01 Sep 2018 at 09:00hrs | 128 | by Staff reporter
Thucydides' 'something is not quite fair' with elections - is no licence to rig elections
One of the things that has helped to drag us into the economic and political mess we are in as a nation is our failure to distinguish the wood from the trees, the trivial from the important, lies and ...Published: 31 Aug 2018 at 21:21hrs | 731 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Chiwenga, Mohadi appointment met with criticism
The reappointment of Kembo Mohadi and Constantino Chiwenga as vice presidents has been met with criticism with analysts saying President Emmerson Mnangagwa missed an opportunity to do things different...Published: 31 Aug 2018 at 16:32hrs | 1388 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga, Mohadi tasked to fulfil pre-election promises
Vice Presidents Constantino Chiwenga and Kembo Mohadi were sworn-in yesterday with their immediate task being to ensure the promises Zanu-PF made to the electorate are fulfilled within the next five y...Published: 31 Aug 2018 at 06:54hrs | 866 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's Alliance challenges Matambanadzo's Kwekwe victory
MDC-Alliance'S losing candidate for Kwekwe Central National Assembly seat, Mr Blessing Chebundo, has approached the Electoral Court challenging MP-elect Mr Masango Matambanadzo's victory. He is accusi...Published: 31 Aug 2018 at 06:42hrs | 1038 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa: Different democrat with many 'shades of grey'
"In a democracy, someone who fails to get elected to office can always console himself with the thought that there was something not quite fair about it," remarked Thucydides, a respected Athenian his...Published: 31 Aug 2018 at 06:39hrs | 989 | by Gibson Nyikadzino
Jobless Chamisa the biggest loser of 2018 elections
Zimbabwe's July 30, 2018 elections have come and gone and the Constitutional Court on August 24 buttressed the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC)'s position that President Mnangagwa was the winner. ...Published: 29 Aug 2018 at 06:38hrs | 539 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans thrown under the bus again
The much anticipated 2018 watershed harmonised elections in Zimbabwe have come and gone. The biggest losers in this election were the electorate. They are losers because most voters don't know what ha...Published: 28 Aug 2018 at 23:04hrs | 3520 | by Frazer Muzondo
Chamisa, the biggest loser of 2018 elections
Zimbabwe's 30 July 2018 elections have come and gone and the Constitutional Court on 24 August buttressed the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) position that President Emmerson Mnangagwa was the win...Published: 28 Aug 2018 at 12:00hrs | 4113 | by Elijah Chihota
Acid test for President Mnangagwa
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa will face his first greatest test when he selects his new Cabinet in which he will have to strike a balancing act between his old Zanu PF lieutenants' political interests ...Published: 28 Aug 2018 at 07:14hrs | 3014 | by Staff Reporter
It's the economy; stupid!
RECAP. During the course of this election I penned a total of four articles. The first "JONATHAN MOYO EDUCATED BUT NOT LEARNED" dealt with the obs...Published: 28 Aug 2018 at 06:57hrs | 809 | by Noble Tawanda Ngara
Wasted vote went to Chamisa
The behaviour of the opposition in elections was deplorable they entered the race with a warped mind which was bent on creating anarchy and distress. The supporters of the opposition dwell in serious ...Published: 27 Aug 2018 at 06:04hrs | 6179 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Mliswa to turn Norton into 'Dubai of Zimbabwe'
NORTON MP-elect Themba Mliswa said he believes that independent candidates have a future, but only if they are more visible on the ground and work with the people if they wish to be elected into offic...Published: 23 Aug 2018 at 06:42hrs | 912 | by Staff reporter
Khupe in U-turn on poll outcome
THE breakaway MDC-T faction led by Thokozani Khupe has made an about-turn, dismissing earlier reports that it endorsed the disputed July 30 harmonised elections as free, fair and credible.Khup...Published: 23 Aug 2018 at 06:39hrs | 2898 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's constitutionalism moves notch up
Today is a momentous day for Zimbabweans as constitutionalism moves a notch up with the Constitutional Court sitting to consider submissions by MDC-Alliance presidential contestant Nelson Chamisa in c...Published: 22 Aug 2018 at 06:02hrs | 157 | by Elliot Ziwira
Mnangagwa must resign or face humiliation
NOW that the collusion between President-elect Emmerson Mnangagwa and Zimbabwe Electoral Commission has been exposed, the best thing for Mnangagwa is to resign from his position as President-elect and...Published: 21 Aug 2018 at 06:53hrs | 4867 | by Kennedy Kaitano
MDC mount spirited fight 'to protect vote' - too late, Zanu-PF has stolen the vote already
The spirit is willing but the intellect is weak. MDC Alliance leaders and supporters are like an army mounting a spirited attack of an enemy on top of a hill when it was them who had the hill top adva...Published: 20 Aug 2018 at 15:41hrs | 1842 | by Nomusa Garikai
The dilemma in interpreting the will of the people in the 30 July 2018 Zimbabwe election
Nelson Chamisa's ConCourt application disputing the Presidential election result announced by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC), is premised on the claim and belief that he (Chamisa) resoundingl...Published: 20 Aug 2018 at 14:30hrs | 1508 | by Nicholas Mlamuli Ndebele
Storm over plan to bar Chamisa from polls
Zimbabwe risks confirming its pariah status in spite of claims by the new dispensation that it has broken away from former president Robert Mugabe's autocratic rule if it tweaks with the Constitution ...Published: 20 Aug 2018 at 12:52hrs | 4779 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance MP vows to battle Kwekwe machete gangs
NEWLY-ELECTED Mbizo legislator Settlement Chikwinya (MDC Alliance) has vowed to confront head-on youths moving around attacking residents with machetes over politics and mineral resources in and aroun...Published: 20 Aug 2018 at 06:07hrs | 1161 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's supporters organise solidarity sit-in
The MDC Veterans Activists Association (VAA) has started mobilising supporters and members of the organisation to back MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa during the Constitutional Court (ConCourt) cha...Published: 20 Aug 2018 at 06:07hrs | 2658 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa gets court deadline
CHIEF Justice Luke Malaba has given MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa a deadline of 12 noon today to file his answering affidavit in support of his petition to the Constitutional Court (ConCourt) cha...Published: 18 Aug 2018 at 08:13hrs | 1928 | by Staff reporter
Zec exonerates Zanu PF over voters' phone numbers
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) says Zanu PF got mobile numbers of voters during its door-to-door campaigns, denying allegations that it gave President-elect Emmerson Mnangagwa a different vot...Published: 18 Aug 2018 at 08:06hrs | 829 | by Staff reporter
Chief Justice gives Chamisa deadline
CHIEF Justice Luke Malaba has given MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa a deadline of 12 noon today to file his answering affidavit in support of his petition to the Constitutional Court (ConCourt) cha...Published: 18 Aug 2018 at 07:28hrs | 2277 | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa's new cabinet will either kill or awaken Zimbabwe's economic prospects
The real threat to Zanu-PF's survival does not come from Nelson Chamisa's election petition court challenge. It comes from within Zanu-PF itself and how its leader will decide to confront the politica...Published: 17 Aug 2018 at 17:09hrs | 3355 | by Hopewell Chin'ono
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