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Madhadha closure, Zanu PF Manicaland factional fights turns nasty
Zanu PF Manicaland factional wars have spilt into business, with companies owned by some members close to Sports Minister Anselem Sanyatwe being targeted over allegations of backing Vice-President Con...Published: 06 Jul 2025 at 17:18hrs | 1083 | by Staff Reporter
After making Zimbabweans suffer, the ZANU-PF leadership now wants to kill them!
Do those in power really care about us? After plunging millions of Zimbabweans into untold poverty and misery through corruption, misgovernance, and authoritarian rule, the ZANU-PF leadership ...Published: 09 Apr 2025 at 11:08hrs | 720 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Axed Zanu-PF members pledge unwavering loyalty to party
Fired and suspended members of the ruling Zanu-PF party have publicly declared their unwavering loyalty to the party, despite being ousted amid factional infighting. Gutu East MP Benjamin Ganyiwa and ...Published: 15 Mar 2025 at 10:19hrs | 451 | by Staff reporter
Chivayo wades into Zanu-PF factional wars
Controversial businessman and tenderpreneur Wicknell Chivayo has thrown his support behind the extension of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's presidency beyond the constitutionally mandated two terms, in...Published: 18 Feb 2025 at 03:44hrs | 5868 | by Staff reporter
Mambo's takes jab at Zanu-PF factional wars in satirical post
Zimbabwe's popular fast-food chain, Mambo's Chicken, has stirred the political pot with its latest satirical post, taking aim at the ongoing factional tensions within the ruling Zanu-PF party....Published: 06 Feb 2025 at 09:06hrs | 900 | by Staff reporter
ZANU-PF factional wars finally admit the party's role in Zimbabwe's suffering
Whenever fierce power struggles rear their ugly heads amongst the ruling ZANU-PF leadership, there's always one thing that intrigues me. In order to outdo one another, the rival factions resor...Published: 28 Jan 2025 at 18:03hrs | 1097 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Ultimate Survivor: The nine lives of Wadyajena
JUST a few months ago, it looked almost certain that factional wars in Zanu PF had buried Justice Mayor Wadyajena. Yet, Mayor's detractors, especially in his turbulent Midlands Province, ...Published: 01 Nov 2024 at 20:02hrs | 929 | by Paul Ndou
Mnangagwa enjoy CCC internal squabbles
Zanu-PF has no dog in the internal squabbles tearing apart the country's opposition but will gladly capitalise on the fracas to entrench its dominance in a democratic Zimbabwe, President Mnangagwa sai...Published: 08 Apr 2024 at 10:42hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF fissures widen over Mnangagwa term
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is battling to prop up waning support in his ruling Zanu-PF party and disloyal party cadres are facing the axe as power battles take centre stage while the economy i...Published: 03 Mar 2024 at 08:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF ropes in security agents as factional wars escalate
THE ruling Zanu-PF party has reportedly roped in State security agents as it battles to quell the growing discontent among its members against party leader, President Emmerson Mnangagwa, amid deterior...Published: 27 Feb 2024 at 04:42hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Kamuzonda distances self from Tshabangu
Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) Masvingo West ward 2 candidate Roki Kamuzonda has distanced himself from the self-proclaimed interim party secretary general Sengezo Tshabangu who recalled a sizeab...Published: 25 Nov 2023 at 07:49hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa tells exiled Mandi Chimene to come back home
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has told exiled G40 politician Mandi Chimene to "come back home" after the former Zanu-PF rivals met in Mozambique Thursday through the facilitation of the neighbouring co...Published: 23 Nov 2023 at 22:03hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Strategic ambiguity costly to Zimbabwe
CCC's lack of a party constitution and established structures under the guise of "strategic ambiguity" is costing Zimbabweans US$5,3 million from the fiscus to run the December 9 by-elections, which w...Published: 13 Nov 2023 at 05:46hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF bungles own poll
Zanu-PF has failed to run clean primary elections in its own backyard amid vote rigging complaints by some losing candidates coupled with claims of intimidation among rival groups.Long accused...Published: 29 Mar 2023 at 06:59hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF continues to maintain its grip in rural communities - report
A local think-tank says the alliance between Zanu-PF and state institutions, coupled with a dependency syndrome shall continue to impede the opposition's efforts to penetrate rural constituencies duri...Published: 14 Mar 2023 at 18:53hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
US$15 000 stolen from Catholic Priest's bedroom in Zimbabwe
AN assistant priest of the Roman Catholic Church in Bulawayo's Kumalo suburb has been picked up by the police to assist with investigations following the disappearance of US$15 000 belonging to the ch...Published: 12 Feb 2023 at 07:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF factional wars fueled by Zec
ZIMBABWE Electoral Commission's controversial preliminary delimitation report has created serious divisions in Zanu-PF as one faction believes that there are manoeuvres to sideline its members, it has...Published: 15 Jan 2023 at 11:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa drafts in G40 members in 'new' Zanu-PF politburo
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has appointed Generation 40 (G40) members into the Zanu-PF politburo while keeping the usual tired horses close to him in an apparent political balancing act that betrays ...Published: 25 Dec 2022 at 14:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ministers battle to control Zaka district
Zanu-PF factional wars in Masvingo are far from over as the battle for dominance between provincial chairperson Robson Mavhenyengwa and his predecessor and current Minister of State for Provincial Aff...Published: 17 Dec 2022 at 12:18hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe opposition must rethink its strategy to win 2023 polls
In most southern African countries political parties become entrenched once they win state power and they pull all stops to maintain the status quo. Such parties appear to be a "restorat...Published: 03 Oct 2022 at 19:54hrs | 2 | by Evans Mathanda
Mugodhi factional wars rage on
THE Mugodhi Apostolic Faith Church factional wars have taken a new twist after one of its top members was dragged to Chitungwiza Magistrates Court accused of kidnapping a congregant.The church...Published: 08 Jul 2022 at 07:39hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa facing bhora musango
ZANU PF activist Sybeth Musengezi has warned that factionalism and disgruntlement are breeding seeds for another bhora musango, that will see ruling party members voting for the opposition in the gene...Published: 06 Jun 2022 at 09:31hrs | 9 | by Staff Reporter
Chebundo roped into Mnangagwa campaign squad
BLESSING Chebundo became "marked for death" in Kwekwe, his house razed down and forced into hiding for days as Zanu-PF hounds bayed for his blood.His sin was daring to challenge Emmerson Mnang...Published: 19 Feb 2022 at 18:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugodhi sect factional wars turn nasty
VIOLENCE erupted at the Mugodhi Apostolic Shrine headquarters in Wedza at the weekend as factions clashed over control of the church.About 20 police officers from Wedza had to be called in to ...Published: 17 Feb 2022 at 05:40hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa enforcer's fall from grace
FAMED for his role as Zanu-PF's political enforcer for the Midlands province, former State Security minister Owen Ncube popularly known as "Mudha" had a nasty fall from the echelons of power to the st...Published: 15 Jan 2022 at 00:14hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere links trigger Zanu-PF witch hunt
Revelations that former Zanu-PF commissar Saviour Kasukuwere is plotting a political comeback to challenge President Emmerson Mnangagwa has triggered a witch-hunt in the ruling party with some officia...Published: 14 Nov 2021 at 05:44hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF moves to mend structures
Zanu-PF has deployed politburo and central committee members to all provinces to conduct verification exercises to resolve its chaotic restructuring programme.The party's restructuring exercis...Published: 12 Nov 2021 at 05:36hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF deploys Politburo members to faction ravaged provinces
Zanu-PF has deployed politburo and central committee members to all provinces to conduct verification exercises to resolve its chaotic restructuring programme.The party's restructuring exercis...Published: 12 Nov 2021 at 05:35hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa ouster plot thickens, Kasukuwere drawn into fight
President Emmerson Mnangagwa says the High Court must not entertain an application challenging his rise to the leadership of Zanu-PF because it will reverse the gains he is making as Zimbabwe's leader...Published: 07 Nov 2021 at 08:03hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF terror leaves opposition on the edge
TRUE to his middle name, Chenjerai Hondo Masviba, the struggle lives on.Masviba, a victim of recent unprovoked Zanu-PF-sponsored violence, says he will not abandon the struggle, and the people...Published: 31 Oct 2021 at 07:13hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa shows hand as Zanu-PF fights suck in police
President Emmerson Mnangagwa and top Zanu-PF officials intervened after ruling party members in Mashonaland Central were allegedly brutalised by police in a case that has revealed deepening factionali...Published: 17 Oct 2021 at 09:09hrs | 2 | 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 | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mashonaland East women's league endorses Mnangagwa candidature
THE Zanu-PF Mashonaland East provincial women's league has endorsed President Emmerson Mnangagwa's candidature ahead of the 2023 presidential elections.Addressing delegates during a women's le...Published: 31 Aug 2021 at 06:11hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF factional wars escalate
AS the enervating Zanu-PF factional wars threaten to rip the party apart, Politburo member, Ziyambi Ziyambi this week launched a scathing attack on Mashonaland West provincial youth chairman Vengai Mu...Published: 14 Aug 2021 at 07:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Govt 'frees' Caledonia from Harare
GOVERNMENT has separated the sprawling suburb of Caledonia from Harare and announced that the underdeveloped settlement will now be under Mashonaland East Province.This was revealed last week ...Published: 22 Jul 2021 at 07:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
When the judiciary abuses the liberators; Revolution under attack (The Zuma debacle)
When I was a prosecutor in the 1990's in Zimbabwe we had some prosecutors and lawyers who would come into court and make submissions which will be aimed at the people sitting in the gallery. They were...Published: 04 Jul 2021 at 08:42hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Bosso class of 98 honours Maphepha
Bulawayo Mayor Solomon Mguni has described the legendary Ernest "Maphepha" Sibanda, who won Premier Soccer League titles as a manager and chairman of Highlanders an administrator par-excellence, whose...Published: 14 Jun 2021 at 06:20hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa ignores noise over Justice Malaba
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has extended Chief Justice Luke Malaba's term by five years, defying pressure from critics who said the move created a constitutional crisis.The extension follows ...Published: 13 May 2021 at 06:58hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
'What good is strong party in fraying economy' - for once, Heads, povo win Tails, Zanu PF lose
Much has been said about the endless factional wars in the country's main opposition MDC ever since the party's launch in 1999. Zanu PF has suffered similar factional war with the booting out of the V...Published: 27 Apr 2021 at 06:21hrs | 1 | by Nomusa Garikai
Women organisations call for female VP
ZIMBABWEAN women have urged President Emmerson Mnangagwa to appoint a female candidate to the vice presidency post to replace his former deputy, Kembo Mohadi, who resigned on Monday. Mohadi wa...Published: 05 Mar 2021 at 17:39hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Defections expose Chamisa's frailties
DEFECTIONS by MDC-Alliance official and former legislators Lillian Timveos and that of Blessing Chebundo first to MDC-T then to Zanu-PF have exposed Nelson Chamisa's deficiencies in leading a once uni...Published: 05 Mar 2021 at 07:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
The sex scandals of VP Mohali and the anger
The Women's Academy for Leadership and Political Excellence (WALPE) has joined one Masimba Mavaza in calling for the resignation of Vice President Kembo Mohadi following the embarrassing exposure of h...Published: 23 Feb 2021 at 10:42hrs | 1 | by Nicholas Mlamuli Ndebele
The weaponisation of Covid-19 in Zanu-PF factional wars
A new deadly political threatTHERE is a new and dangerous security threat in Zimbabwe's politically dysfunctional post-November 2017 military state, under an increasingly factionalised Zanu-PF...Published: 13 Feb 2021 at 14:50hrs | 13 | by Jonathan Moyo
MDC-T continues to burn, Khupe does a Donald Trump
FORMER MDC secretary-general Douglas Mwonzora is the new leader of the country's biggest opposition party after he trounced his main rival, Thokozani Khupe, in Sunday's chaotic election in Harare....Published: 30 Dec 2020 at 16:54hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
DCCs chaos still mauling Zanu-PF
The chaos that marred Zanu-PF's keenly contested district co-ordinating committee elections last weekend continues to haunt the ruling party, with the former liberation movement failing to announce th...Published: 10 Dec 2020 at 06:55hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Youthful Sibanda cleared to contest in DCC elections
TSHOLOTSHO youthful businessman, Owen Sibanda has been cleared to contest in the Tsholotsho district co-ordinating committee (DCC) elections to be held today.Sibanda is contesting for the Tsho...Published: 05 Dec 2020 at 06:10hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa, Khupe in reunification talks?
MDC-T interim leader Thokozani Khupe held a hastily arranged meeting of the party's standing committee, which officials said was meant to clear the ground for reunification talks with Nelson Chamisa. ...Published: 30 Sep 2020 at 07:49hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
'Mashurugwi' lord minister cannot speak against violence, says MDC
MDC Alliance says State Security Minister Owen Mudha Ncube's links to a violent vigilante group in his Kwekwe backyard placed him in an awkward position when he starts making utterances of an intended...Published: 30 Sep 2020 at 07:25hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Fed up youths take MDC lead
MDC youths appeared fed up with the factional wars in the main opposition after they seized the iconic Harvest House before vowing to force dialogue between Thokozani Khupe and Nelson Chamisa. The you...Published: 29 Sep 2020 at 08:10hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa warned by State security
STATE Security minister Owen Ncube yesterday sensationally accused the Nelson Chamisa-led MDC Alliance of engaging in acts of sabotage and banditry by smuggling guns into the country and setting up mi...Published: 29 Sep 2020 at 08:00hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
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