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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
How to fix Zimbabwe's broken politics
Resolving this stalemate is key to moving the nation forward constructively. What can be done to change this? What stands in the way? What are the opportunities?Broken politicsZimbabwe's p...Published: 22 Oct 2023 at 22:08hrs | | by Siphosami Malunga
Zimbabwe's main opposition implodes, handing Zanu-PF full control
Just over a month after disputed general elections in Zimbabwe, the main opposition party, Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC), appears to be imploding as a renegade outfit starts recalling parliament...Published: 10 Oct 2023 at 18:30hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimdollar rescue mission too late
THE surprise move by Zimbabwe's fiscal and monetary authorities to liberalise the foreign exchange policy after months of shillyshallying amid a fixed rate could be a case of closing the stable door a...Published: 12 Jun 2023 at 06:45hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe election date triggers hope, despair
MUNYARADZI Mushawatu, an electrician in Zimbabwe's capital Harare, was both ecstatic and jittery after President Emmerson Mnangagwa recently announced that national elections would be held on August 2...Published: 12 Jun 2023 at 06:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's 5 election hurdles
AFTER days of political drama, anxiety and bated breath, President Emmerson Mnangagwa proclaimed the election date, setting the stage for a season of intrigue, joy and heartaches. Zimbabwe decides on ...Published: 05 Jun 2023 at 19:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's cash-rich govt suppliers fuel currency volatility
GOVERNMENT procurement and service providers - who include public works contractors and suppliers of goods and services - are destabilising the foreign exchange market by offloading part of their stag...Published: 10 Aug 2022 at 08:40hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Polad pushes for currency crisis indaba
CHAIRPERSON of the Political Actors Dialogue (Polad)'s economic thematic committee Trust Chikohora has called for an urgent currency crisis meeting before the economy implodes.Chikohora, who i...Published: 07 May 2022 at 06:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF Marondera implodes
THE ruling Zanu-PF party in Marondera, Mashonaland East province, has imploded, with party members baying for the blood of the entire ward 7 district executive which they accuse of incompetence and fa...Published: 19 Apr 2022 at 06:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora's MDC-T implodes
FOLLOWING a humiliating electoral defeat in the just-ended by-elections, MDC-T leader Douglas Mwonzora has allegedly gone on a purging spree against members who question his leadership and the party's...Published: 07 Apr 2022 at 06:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mutare City Council explodes
FACTIONALISM has rocked Mutare City Council and is now affecting service delivery at the eastern border town.This was disclosed by ward one councillor Thomas Nyamupandedengu, who called for ur...Published: 13 Dec 2021 at 07:09hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF implodes
Zanu-PF internal fights have marred preparations for the party's Mashonaland East province elections.A recent meeting at the provincial party offices in Marondera resulted in the provincial wo...Published: 13 Aug 2021 at 07:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora party implodes?
DOUGLAS Mwonzora's MDC-T formation faces implosion after top executives including his deputy Thokozani Khupe, were ordered to leave the party for recently defying a directive to withdraw financial imp...Published: 07 May 2021 at 06:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's' MDC implodes, Thanks to Zanu-PF
WHAT is in a name? The rumbling dispute over the proprietary rights to the name - Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) - looks set to blow Zimbabwe's opposition out of the political water.Acti...Published: 25 Mar 2021 at 16:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa to give MDC a a new name as MDC implodes
Zimbabweans owe Tsvangirai some gratitude for supporting maintaining democracy by holding the MDC together and provide the nation with a solid opposition. Ironically the MDC has transformed to be the ...Published: 01 Mar 2021 at 09:45hrs | 9 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Water crisis ravages Bulawayo
Women carry the burden of collecting water for households...Published: 15 Dec 2020 at 07:48hrs | | by Brezhnev Malaba
Khupe party implodes
INFIGHTING and political gamesmanship have ripped apart interim MDC-T leader Thokozani Khupe's party ahead of its planned extraordinary congress to choose a substantive successor for the opposition's ...Published: 20 Oct 2020 at 06:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Huge blow for Chamisa
A DIPLOMATIC offensive by the Nelson Chamisa-led MDC within the Sadc region appears to be hitting a brick wall as the bloc has indicated that there are no issues threatening security and politics in Z...Published: 22 Jun 2019 at 15:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Biti challenges Ramaphosa
MDC Deputy National Chair Tendai Biti says President Ramaphosa has a key role to play in resolving the crisis in Zimbabwe. And he warned: 'If Zimbabwe implodes South Africa will suffer'.Biti w...Published: 09 Jun 2019 at 19:44hrs | | by Zimbabwe Vigil Diary
Chamisa has no intentions of removing Mnangagwa unconstitutionally
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday told hundreds of his party followers during the memorial service of the late Morgan Tsvangirai in Buhera that he will drag President Emmerson Mnangagwa to the negot...Published: 05 May 2019 at 17:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Criminals around Mnangagwa and Chamisa derailing Progressive politics
This documentary will enlighten those who may think decisions are done in standing committees or politburo, the debacle is wider and beyond your imagination. The good part about President Mnangagwa an...Published: 04 Feb 2019 at 21:39hrs | | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
Army morale lowest as economy implodes
MORALE within the Zimbabwe Defence Forces has reportedly hit rock bottom, the lowest ever since the country's Independence in 1980, amid reports that the troops are disgruntled over the rising cost of...Published: 25 Jan 2019 at 14:20hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF OKs Mnangagwa as its 2023 candidate
ZANU-PF ruling party on Saturday approved President Emmerson Mnangagwa as its candidate in 2023, just five months after a bitterly disputed election.The Zanu-PF at its party conference passed...Published: 15 Dec 2018 at 18:17hrs | | by AP
MDC implodes as Chamisa clings to power
Following the death of the MDC founding leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, in February this year and the drubbing the party received at the hands of ZANU PF during the 30 July 2018 harmonised elections, the p...Published: 13 Nov 2018 at 13:32hrs | | by Elijah Chihota
Zanu-PF Manicaland implodes
KNIVES have been drawn against Zanu-PF Manicaland political commissar Gift Kagweda, with some provincial executive committee members (PEC) calling for his suspension after he wrote to the party's nati...Published: 29 Oct 2018 at 05:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dembare implodes
THE axe that Lloyd "Samaita" Mutasa had for so long dreaded finally fell on him yesterday with Dynamos drafting in Lloyd "Mablanyo" Chigowe as interim coach for the rest of the season. Chigowe will be...Published: 28 Sep 2018 at 07:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Small political parties likely to collapse before the next polls in 2023
A number of opposition political parties are likely to collapse before the next polls in 2023 primarily as a result of lack of funding and their failure to gain traction at the just-ended polls....Published: 16 Sep 2018 at 13:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe rattles Mnangagwa's cage
Although former president Robert Mugabe's dramatic return to active politics has been dismissed by Zanu-PF as inconsequential, some analysts are convinced that he could inflict significant damage on t...Published: 16 Mar 2018 at 07:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC implodes - Rumours and gossip destroys the once strong party
Zimbabweans owe Tsvangirai some gratitude for supporting maintaining democracy but It feels as if he was doing it to become a dictator himself. Ironically the constitution of the MDC is the most undem...Published: 18 Feb 2018 at 19:41hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Zanu-PF implodes
ZANU-PF National Secretary for Transport and Welfare Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri was yesterday hauled over the calls by the revolutionary party's Women's League representatives in Manicaland for sowing h...Published: 07 Nov 2017 at 05:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Baptism of fire for 'CIO' Bonyongwe
New Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs minister Happyton Bonyongwe (pictured) had a baptism of fire in the National Assembly yesterday.Along with other new ministers in President Robert ...Published: 19 Oct 2017 at 07:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC-T implodes as Khupe ally faces ouster
MDC-T vice-president Thokozani Khupe's ally, Tamani Moyo, faces possible ouster from the opposition party over her alleged links to top party officials who have openly denounced the MDC Alliance....Published: 30 Aug 2017 at 06:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mbeki, Mugabe meet Zimbabwe Security chiefs
Former South African leader Thabo Mbeki attended Tuesday's Cabinet meeting before holding a meeting with the country's security chiefs and President Robert Mugabe amid growing concerns in the southern...Published: 03 Aug 2017 at 17:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe regresses to barter trade
Zimbabwe, currently facing its worst cash shortage since the adoption of the multi-currency regime in 2009, now has a new medium of exchange, which is too big to be added to a basket of curren...Published: 21 Apr 2017 at 08:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
It's Tsvangirai versus Mugabe
There was all-round agreement yesterday that the much-anticipated 2018 presidential election would be another titanic contest between popular opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai and President Robe...Published: 14 Feb 2017 at 06:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
VP Mnangagwa interview makes troubling reading- Moyo
Higher and Tertiary Education Minister Jonathan Moyo has said the piece that features an interview with Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa was making a troubling reading on many fronts and was terri...Published: 04 Jan 2017 at 05:39hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Is Zimbabwe a coconut Republic or a banana republic?
The Editor, A coconut Republic or a banana republic? After reading Dr. George Ayittey's attempt to distinguish the difference between a coconut republic and a banana republic below, I ...Published: 13 Nov 2016 at 07:41hrs | | by Sam
Zanu-PF implodes over Jonathan Moyo's graft probe
The probe by authorities into alleged corruption by Higher Education minister Jonathan Moyo has heightened fears within President Robert Mugabe's brawling Zanu-PF that the ruling party is on the v...Published: 10 Oct 2016 at 12:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Blair will keep his Britain
I AM enjoying the debate about UN secretary-general Kofi Annan and his chosen mediator between Zimbabwe and Britain, or more specifically, between President Robert Mugabe (pictured) and prime minister...Published: 08 Oct 2016 at 09:28hrs | | by Joram Nyathi
'Mugabe turns Zimbabwe into a vampire state'
In his book, Defeating Dictators, George B.N Ayittey makes the point that much of Africa is a vampire state that metastasizes into a coconut republic and finally implodes into a collapsed or failed st...Published: 06 Oct 2016 at 17:30hrs | | by PDP
As the end of the road nears for Mugabe regime, IMF must resist prolonging our suffering
Robert Mugabe's regime has reached the end. Out of money, out of friends, imploding from within - freedom beckons for Zimbabwe. The IMF's proposed plan to loan Mugabe...Published: 14 Sep 2016 at 16:56hrs | | by Patson Dzamara
G40 engages character assassination strategy
Outspoken Zanu PF youth activist Energy Mutodi has said a faction in Zanu PF going by the name G40 is ratcheting its attempts to drive out members perceived to be loyal to Vice President Emmerson Mnan...Published: 05 Sep 2016 at 16:46hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Zimbabwe in the grip of a multiple of strands of crises
Zimbabwe is in the grip of a multiple of strands of crises, which we squarely blame on Zanu-PF's Robert Mugabe and Finance minister, Patrick Chinamasa.The events unfolding in the country clear...Published: 12 Jul 2016 at 17:21hrs | | by Tendai Biti
Mugabe and his Leadership are clueless - Zanu-PF member
The Editor Mugabe and his Leadership are clueless The meeting held in Triangle this past weekend by our President and leadership of Masvingo province to discuss factionalism in ZANU PF...Published: 27 Jun 2016 at 14:30hrs | | by Sam
War vets Mugabe called 'dissidents' are 'scared stiff' but so is he - deadly endgame phase
Life is sweet and no one would want their life cut short. Still there are some people out there who would are murderous thugs and would cut short other people's lives for selfish gain and, worse s...Published: 23 Jun 2016 at 07:12hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
Zim 'will go Rwanda way' warned Biti - with Zanu PF imploding be warned!
"I smell blood in this country. I smell war. I smell disaster. I am not a prophet, but I see dark clouds, I see a hurricane, a tsunami. If one plants a whirlwind, he will reap a tsunami. This country ...Published: 15 Feb 2016 at 17:51hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
'Pasi nemvongamvonga!' calls Mugabe sanctimoniously waving olive brunch but with a concealed dagga
Mugabe has become the master of the art of "Do as I say and do not dare to do as I do!" and he showed this once again when he spoke to the members of the party's Central Committee on the eve of the pa...Published: 10 Dec 2015 at 17:44hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Hope for Zimbabweans as Mugabe's Zanu-PF implodes
Zimbabweans are learning more and more about Zanu-PF's ugly modus operandi - thanks to the party's worsening internal wars and its purged senior officials who are singing like canaries.And at ...Published: 23 Apr 2015 at 14:04hrs | | by Chris Goko
MDC-T salivates as Zanu PF implodes
HARARE - Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai's MDC is salivating at the prospects of contesting dozens of by-elections across the country should the brutal infighting within President Robert Mugabe's ...Published: 31 Dec 2014 at 04:49hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Mugabe under fire for shunning Zimbabwe, Africa
President Robert Mugabe and his family have as usual gone to the Far East for his annual holiday amid growing criticism that he is a double-faced leader who loves to talk a tough pan-African language ...Published: 16 Dec 2014 at 12:51hrs | | by Staff Writer
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