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CCC owes US$1,2m in salary arrears
The opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) party is under pressure as it faces claims from its employees for over US$1.2 million in accumulated salary arrears spanning a two-year period. The e...Published: 22 Oct 2024 at 08:05hrs | 392 | by Staff reporter
Con-artist on the prowl in Bulawayo
The Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has issued a warning to organizations and the public about a fraudster impersonating one of its officials. Town Clerk Christopher Dube announced that a man named Mr. Mh...Published: 18 Oct 2024 at 08:42hrs | 184 | by Staff reporter
Shock as judges from Matebeleland continue to be overlooked
Chief Justice Luke Malaba has named Justice Munamato Mutevedzi - appointed to the bench only in 2021 - as the most senior judge in Bulawayo, astounding many lawyers.Mutevedzi is replacing Just...Published: 12 Sep 2024 at 10:28hrs | 2422 | by Staff reporter
Suspected mine extortionists in court
Two of the five suspects involved in a mining extortion scandal in Matabeleland South appeared before the Bulawayo Magistrate's Court on Friday, where they were granted bail set at US$300 each. The su...Published: 10 Sep 2024 at 09:46hrs | 482 | by Staff reporter
King Munhumutapa demands chiefs' allegiance
Timothy Chiminya, who claims the title of "King Munhumutapa," has written to Zimbabwe's Local Government Ministry and the Zimbabwe Chiefs Council, asserting that all traditional leaders, including spi...Published: 24 Aug 2024 at 11:48hrs | 235 | by Staff reporter
King Munhumutapa seeks to bar govt interference
King Munhumutapa, Timothy Chiminya, has filed a notice with the High Court to prevent Local Government and Public Works Minister Daniel Garwe from interfering with his kingship. Chiminya argues that G...Published: 16 Aug 2024 at 08:41hrs | 451 | by Staff reporter
Outrage over Zanu-PF's Matopos rituals
ZANU-PF is facing controversy over its plans to conduct rituals at Matopos and Great Zimbabwe monuments. The party has invited King Munhumutapa, Timothy Chiminya, and three other chiefs to perform the...Published: 30 Jul 2024 at 07:41hrs | 1009 | by Staff reporter
King Munhumutapa defiant
King Munhumutapa, born Timothy Chiminya, recently installed Johnsias Mugomeri as paramount Chief Goredema in Gokwe. Despite government claims that Chiminya is an impostor, he asserts that his role and...Published: 22 Jul 2024 at 07:58hrs | 1397 | by Staff reporter
King Munhumutapa challenges govt
Timothy Chiminya, also known as King Munhumutapa, has opposed a High Court application by the Ministry of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs challenging his position as king. This follows an ear...Published: 05 Jul 2024 at 11:33hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
'Mudenda, Tshabangu must be probed over corrupt recalls'
Former Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) senator Felix Magalela Sibanda has called upon the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) to investigate Sengezo Tshabangu, the interim secretary-general...Published: 21 Jun 2024 at 11:23hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
King Munhumutapa challenges govt
Timothy Chiminya, who goes by the title King Munhumutapa, recently oversaw the installment of Masimba Rubatika as Chief Seke, replacing Stanley Chimanikire. Despite government dismissal of his claims,...Published: 30 May 2024 at 08:50hrs | 27 | by Staff reporter
Mtukudzi's 'love child' tears family apart
After recent revelations that the late music superstar Oliver "Tuku" Mtukudzi might have fathered another child, Aaron Chaka, his widow, Daisy Mtukudzi, has publicly accused some of her in-laws of con...Published: 19 May 2024 at 10:32hrs | 1839 | by Staff reporter
Military blocks Mnangagwa third term?
Zimbabwean Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga and the military's post-election political strategy blocked President Emmerson Mnangagwa's third-term ambitions.This forced him to come out clean...Published: 08 Apr 2024 at 21:10hrs | 63 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa turns to Tshabangu's CCC structures
Opposition leader Nelson Chamisa's Blue Movement is using Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) structures to mobilise support amid concerns by political analysts that the organisation might just face t...Published: 11 Mar 2024 at 04:55hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Mahere speaks out against Tshabangu
Coalition for Change (CCC) interim secretary-general Sengezo Tshabangu was sworn in as a senator at the new Parliament Building in Mt. Hampden in Harare on Tuesday. He took oath with seven oth...Published: 07 Mar 2024 at 18:45hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Sengezo Tshabangu's political fate has reached a dead end?
SELF-IMPOSED Citizens' Coalition for Change secretary-general Sengezo Tshabangu's political fate has effectively reached a dead end after a new steering committee led by former Entumbane-Njube MP Ding...Published: 03 Mar 2024 at 09:53hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, police disown 'marauding' executive
A BUSINESSWOMAN is allegedly using names of high-profile individuals, including President Emmerson Mnangagwa, to lay siege to a Chinese coal mine in Hwange where she has been seizing coke since last w...Published: 28 Feb 2024 at 06:29hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Biti, Ncube, Kore named CCC co-leaders
Citizens' Coalition for Change (CCC) named Welshman Ncube, Tendai Biti and Karenyi Kore as its co-leaders after Nelson Chamisa quit the party last month. Leadership will rotate every 90 days u...Published: 17 Feb 2024 at 14:32hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Has Chamisa led Zimbabwe's opposition astray?
On January 25, exactly two years and three days after Zimbabwe's main opposition party the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) was launched, its leader Nelson Chamisa quit, leaving the party in turmoi...Published: 13 Feb 2024 at 16:20hrs | 13 | by Ish Mafundikwa
Money fuels CCC brutal infighting
MONEY has taken centre stage in the deteriorating and now chaotic opposition CCC infighting triggered by recalls of elected legislators, senators, councillors and mayors by the party's self-imposed se...Published: 12 Feb 2024 at 13:48hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Tshabangu facing the axe
Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) interim secretary general Sengezo Tshabangu is now facing the axe from the same opposition party that he snatched from its former leader Nelson Chamisa for allegedl...Published: 11 Feb 2024 at 21:20hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa CCC faction MPs meet
The majority of opposition CCC MPs loyal to former party leader Nelson Chamisa will meet in Harare tomorrow to endorse Chipinge South MP Clifford Hlatywayo as the new Leader of the House in Parliament...Published: 07 Feb 2024 at 19:08hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
CCC circus continues following Chamisa exit
THE battle to control the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) continued yesterday with rival factions announcing separate plans on the way forward following the resignation of party leader Nelson Cham...Published: 31 Jan 2024 at 07:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
CCC orders MPs to stay put until Chamisa gives a signal
The Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) has directed its Members of Parliament (MPs) to remain in the National Assembly while the party engages its former leader, Nelson Chamisa. Amid the ongoing turm...Published: 31 Jan 2024 at 04:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
CCC factions face-off
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) factions are headed for a clash when they face-off at today's National Citizens Assembly.CCC has been thrown into turmoil after its leader Nelson Chamisa di...Published: 30 Jan 2024 at 07:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
'We are behind Chamisa'
Several Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) on Friday pledged their allegiance to Nelson Chamisa, a day after the politician ditched the party arguing that it had been hijacked the ruling Zanu-PF....Published: 29 Jan 2024 at 07:04hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa surrenders hard-won political and democratic space
"THIS is to officially, and under my hand, inform you fellow citizens of Zimbabwe and the world, that, with immediate effect, I no longer have anything to do with CCC."With these words, Zimbab...Published: 29 Jan 2024 at 06:22hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Tshabangu and his CCC team to deliberate on Chamisa resignation
The opposition CCC nine-member interim steering committee led by secretary-general Sengezo Tshabangu says it will meet tomorrow to discuss founding party leader Nelson Chamisa's decision to quit the o...Published: 26 Jan 2024 at 06:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa ends weeks of speculation
ZIMBABWE'S main opposition leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday finally abandoned the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) saying the party had been hijacked by Zanu-PF. Chamisa formed the CCC in 2022 after...Published: 26 Jan 2024 at 04:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's CCC to challenge dismissal of candidates at Supreme Court
The Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) has refuted claims made by the Zimbabwe Election Commission (ZEC) that its candidates have been disqualified from participating in the upcoming by-elections. In...Published: 24 Jan 2024 at 04:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Blow for Chamisa
THE Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) suffered a heavy blow yesterday after the High Court dismissed the opposition party's application to stop by-elections scheduled for February 3.The by-e...Published: 19 Jan 2024 at 13:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tshabangu goes to court to bar Chibaya, Siziva
Nearly two dozen former CCC MPs and councillors who were controversially recalled could now be barred from the February 3 by-elections after self-styled party secretary general Sengezo Tshabangu filed...Published: 16 Jan 2024 at 04:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe war veterans association splits
Zanu-PF affiliate Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association (ZNLWVA) has split following the birth of a splinter group which has portrayed the Veterans of the Liberation Struggle Affairs m...Published: 15 Jan 2024 at 05:18hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Recalls dominated 2023 Zimbabwe Parliament
The ink on the electoral certificates for the Members of Parliament (MPs) had not dried when a Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) member, Sengezo Tshabangu, cracked the whip on legislators belonging ...Published: 01 Jan 2024 at 08:12hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Tshabangu threatens drastic measures against CCC MPs
Sengezo Tshabangu, the 'interim' Secretary General of the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC), has issued stern warnings of decisive action against defiant legislators who deviate from party directive...Published: 25 Dec 2023 at 09:15hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Welshman Ncube fingers 'the Emperor'
Former MDC Alliance vice president Welshman Ncube has claimed there is a team of the trolls set up by the Emperor to push others out of the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) party.Professor ...Published: 16 Dec 2023 at 09:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Why is Welshman Ncube being ethnically targeted and bullied?
I repeat and for good reasons, no matter what it takes, Shona ethnic majoritarianism, Gukurahundism and imperialism has to be fought in the following spheres: culture and language , education, healthc...Published: 16 Dec 2023 at 08:48hrs | 1 | by Bekithemba Sibhalwa Jnr
CCC MPs booted out of hotels
OPPOSITION Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) legislators were yesterday ejected from Parliament after they broke into song protesting the swearing in of their recently elected colleagues, in particu...Published: 15 Dec 2023 at 07:31hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Tshabangu flexes his muscles again, recalls Harare's Chitengu
The City of Harare will have its fourth mayor in four months after local government minister Winston Chitando confirmed the recall of Lovejoy Chitengu as councillor for Ward 36.The recall inst...Published: 14 Dec 2023 at 16:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF on cusp of two thirds majority
Zanu-PF claimed seven of the vacant nine National Assembly seats to get to within three seats of a two thirds majority in parliament.The ruling party also gained four council seats – three i...Published: 12 Dec 2023 at 07:26hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Judgement reserved in case CCC MPs are challenging removal from ballot
The High Court has reserved its judgement in a matter Sengezo Tshabangu, claiming to be Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) interim secretary general, is seeking to block recalled MPs and senators fro...Published: 06 Dec 2023 at 17:29hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
'Tshabangu's efforts to bar recalled candidates will fail'
The Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) says Sengezo Tshabangu's efforts to bar its recalled candidates from contesting under the CCC banner will fail because their representatives were successfully n...Published: 04 Dec 2023 at 17:18hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Sengezo Tshabangu issues apology
Sengezo Tshabangu has apologised to former Masvingo mayor Shantel Chiwara after he was filmed referring to her as a "little girl".The self-styled Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) interim se...Published: 04 Dec 2023 at 15:03hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Thabani Mpofu tackles Tshabangu
THE crucial Supreme Court appeal by 14 main opposition CCC legislators against their arbitrary recalls by an opposition activist upheld by the High Court will be heard this week after their lawyer Adv...Published: 29 Nov 2023 at 15:13hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Jacob Mafume fearing for his life after threats from CCC officials
Harare councillor Denford Ngadziore is reported to have blocked former mayor Jacob Mafume from entering a councillors' caucus meeting at Town House before the election of Lovejoy Chitengu.Chit...Published: 28 Nov 2023 at 17:47hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Biti exposes Chamisa's hand
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) vice-president Tendai Biti yesterday fingered activists linked to party president Nelson Chamisa for creating parody social media accounts to link him to self-impos...Published: 28 Nov 2023 at 05:29hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Catholics Bishops in Zimbabwe wades into Zimbabwe opposition factionalism
CATHOLIC Bishops in Zimbabwe have decried what they are terming a "new form" of post-election violence characterized by "recalls of the elected" political candidates in the Southern African nation....Published: 26 Nov 2023 at 08:38hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
'Chamisa does not listen to anybody'
Trevor Ncube, a local media publisher who owns Alpha Media Holdings (AMH), has revealed that opposition CCC leader Nelson Chamisa does not listen to anybody.A Chamisa adviser told The NewsHawk...Published: 24 Nov 2023 at 18:29hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Thabani Mpofu tears Tshabangu recalls apart
Advocate Thabani Mpofu, one of Zimbabwe's most prominent lawyers, has ruthlessly torn asunder opposition political activist Sengezo Tshabangu's case of recalling main opposition CCC MPs, senators and ...Published: 24 Nov 2023 at 17:48hrs | 34 | by Staff reporter
Tshabangu makes more recalls
Opposition CCC's interim Secretary General Sengezo Shabangu has issued a recall for Kwekwe Mayor Henry Madzorera, Deputy Mayor Melody Chingarande, and another councilor, Simon Machisvo.This mo...Published: 17 Nov 2023 at 05:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
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