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Mwonzora vows to 'rise again'
MDC-T president, Douglas Mwonzora, whose party lost dismally in the recent by-elections, has vowed to reclaim the party's lost ground in future elections.This is despite the fact that senior o...Published: 12 Aug 2022 at 06:43hrs | 2158 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora says ZEC problems lie with the secretariat
MDC-T president, Douglas Mwonzora has said problems with the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC)'s independence do not necessarily lie with commissioners themselves but the electoral management body's...Published: 11 Aug 2022 at 18:09hrs | 2061 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora claims he is brewing a shocker for Zimbabwe
MDC-T president Douglas Mwonzora has said his party is brewing a shocker for the nation ahead of the crucial harmonised elections pencilled for next year.This is despite his party having fared...Published: 11 Aug 2022 at 18:09hrs | 1041 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora to announce congress dates
MDC-T leader Douglas Mwonzora has said he will announce the party's elective congress dates in the next few days as pressure mounts on him to hold the meeting.Mwonzora has been accused of dith...Published: 10 Aug 2022 at 06:37hrs | 1091 | by Staff reporter
Inside three swing provinces that will decide entry to State House in 2023 polls
The 2023 general election may see the highest turnout in decades, though it comes at the same time as vast uncertainty about the independent auditability of the voters roll and electoral systems, ball...Published: 05 Aug 2022 at 09:29hrs | 1716 | by Farai Chirimumimba
Zanu-PF MP survives road accident
Zanu-PF Mutasa South legislator Misheck Mugadza survived a road accident on Wednesday afternoon after his vehicle was involved in a head on collision with a haulage truck in Macheke, Mashonaland East ...Published: 05 Aug 2022 at 06:42hrs | 3007 | by Staff reporter
Outrage over BCC parking funds
DELAYS by the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) to use funds collected from Tendy Three Investment (TTI) to rehabilitate the city's roads has sparked outrage among residents.TTI is charging US$1 per...Published: 05 Aug 2022 at 06:40hrs | 279 | by Staff reporter
Mabhikwa orders re-instatement of divisive Kambarami
The Bulawayo High Court has ordered the reinstatement of former Bulawayo deputy mayor and Ward 3 councillor Tinashe Kambarami .Justice Martin Makonese delivered the ruling Thursday.Bac...Published: 04 Aug 2022 at 22:33hrs | 1412 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's CCC will not be pushed by critics
THE opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) has said it will not be goaded by critics calling on the party led by Nelson Chamisa to reveal its electoral strategies, party structures and policie...Published: 02 Aug 2022 at 06:53hrs | 4248 | by Staff reporter
CCC ditches Chamisa's face as it unveils new party logo
OPPOSITION Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) party yesterday unveiled a new logo with the sun replacing its leader Nelson Chamisa's image in the old logo.Chamisa formed the CCC party in Janu...Published: 27 Jul 2022 at 06:30hrs | 11560 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora defends Mohadi's daughter
MDC-T president Douglas Mwonzora has defended the appointment of former vice-president Kembo Mohadi's daughter Abigail Mohadi Ambrose as a Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) commissioner.Abig...Published: 25 Jul 2022 at 07:59hrs | 1808 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's CCC must not be a ghost organisation, it needs to be accountable
The question of whether or not CCC must frame a constitution, come up with structures and go to congress to select party leaders is, no doubt, such a hot and wearying one.But that's one questi...Published: 24 Jul 2022 at 12:34hrs | 3981 | by Tawanda Majoni
'ED is Zanu PF's 2023 presidential candidate' Chiwenga (grudgingly) endorsed - which Zanu PF rigging to guaranteed legitimacy, t
The 2017 military coup that removed the late Robert Mugabe from office was about power and not good governance, as the coup plotters’ spin-doctors would...Published: 23 Jul 2022 at 20:52hrs | 1494 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Mthuli Ncube evades Parliament grilling
UNDERFIRE Finance minister Mthuli Ncube on Thursday dodged Senate after he was summoned to give a ministerial statement on the currency crisis, gold coins and state of the economy.Senate deput...Published: 23 Jul 2022 at 07:32hrs | 667 | by Staff reporter
Arm of colonialists getting more active, told to form structures
THE mad season is upon us where the country's detractors enter into all sorts of alliances with willing vessels in an attempt to effect illegal regime change.Even the Citizens Coalition for Ch...Published: 21 Jul 2022 at 06:41hrs | 237 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's problem is Zanu-PF's intimidation and kleptocracy, not the country's youth
THERE is a certain blindness in understanding the nature of Zimbabwean politics and elections if the problem is mostly attributed to an apathetic youth. A more analytical view includes other consequen...Published: 20 Jul 2022 at 06:41hrs | 242 | by Tony Reeler
Mwonzora faces pressure to step down
THE MDC-T is in fresh chaos amid renewed pressure for party leader Douglas Mwonzora to step down for failing to respect the constitution, alleged abuse of funds and hobnobbing with Zanu-PF while destr...Published: 17 Jul 2022 at 09:38hrs | 6045 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa denies parliamentary appointments a 'shadow cabinet'
Citizens Coalition for Change leader Nelson Chamisa on Saturday denied naming a shadow cabinet, insisting that recent appointments were merely point persons in the various portfolio committees in parl...Published: 17 Jul 2022 at 09:20hrs | 2364 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe army is part of Zanu-PF, says Mutsvangwa
THE ruling Zanu-PF party has bragged that it has the country's armed forces and war veterans on its side, raising fears that the security sector might be used to influence the outcome of next year's p...Published: 13 Jul 2022 at 07:23hrs | 6634 | by Staff reporter
Mutsvangwa grilled over propaganda
FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube and the Reserve Bank have run out of ideas and are introducing complicated policies that continue to confuse and disadvantage the ordinary people while failing to address...Published: 12 Jul 2022 at 18:15hrs | 2687 | by Staff reporter
'Can elect a bad CCC government or worse Zanu PF one' - being tricked into giving Zanu PF legitimacy again
"But Coltart, a comparison of 'worse' and 'bad' does not make the 'bad' good," was Professor Jonathan Moyo's answer to David Coltart, CCC Treasurer General's hypothetical choice between "bad CCC gover...Published: 11 Jul 2022 at 09:23hrs | 1431 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
State assisted funeral for MDC T vice-chairperson
President Mnangagwa has granted a State assisted funeral to the late MDC-T vice-chairperson and former co-Minister of Home Affairs in the Government of National Unity, Mr Giles Mutseyekwa.Mr M...Published: 03 Jul 2022 at 09:25hrs | 496 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa mourns former MDC-T vice chairperson Mutseyekwa
President Mnangagwa says he was "greatly saddened" by the death of former MDC-T vice chairperson and former co-Minister of Home Affairs in the Government of National Unity, Giles Mutseyekwa.Mu...Published: 03 Jul 2022 at 09:15hrs | 125 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean opposition's history of election fraud exposed
Each time Zimbabwe prepares for elections, the opposition prepares a case for a stolen vote.By now, the trend is abundantly clear: no matter the election, no matter the evidence and sometimes ...Published: 03 Jul 2022 at 09:13hrs | 312 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Former MP's death exposes Zanu-PF's intolerance
THE death of former Gweru Urban legislator Rodrick Tutsvara has exposed deep-rooted political intolerance within the ruling Zanu-PF party in the Midlands province after party members said the former M...Published: 29 Jun 2022 at 07:49hrs | 1448 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance's Giles Mutseyekwa dies
FORMER co-Home Affairs minister in the Government of National unity Giles Mutseyekwa has died.In a statement yesterday, his party the MDC Alliance announced that Mutsekwa passed on yesterday....Published: 28 Jun 2022 at 07:26hrs | 1892 | by Staff reporter
'2013 elections were so flawed, so illegal withdraw was the only logical step' - today it's only sane step
"Zanu PF has won the Masvingo West ward 21 by-election," reported Zimeye."Sources in the ward spoke of intimidation of voters and rampant rigging by Zanu PF."What is really infuriating is thes...Published: 27 Jun 2022 at 06:43hrs | 579 | by P Guramatunhu
Chamisa welcomes Alex Magaisa's body
The body of prominent lawyer and constitutional expert Alex Magaisa arrived in Harare yesterday to a sombre atmosphere ahead of his burial.Magaisa, a former adviser to late former prime minist...Published: 26 Jun 2022 at 10:47hrs | 791 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa claims infiltration plot
THE Citizens' Coalition for Change (CCC) has raised a red flag over a plot by President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration to infiltrate the opposition by allegedly deploying operatives to penetrate ...Published: 25 Jun 2022 at 10:05hrs | 8356 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF subverts traditional leaders
Zanu-PF has promised to give incentives to hundreds of traditional leaders in Masvingo province for them to mobilise people to vote for the party during the 2023 general election while also moving to ...Published: 25 Jun 2022 at 10:04hrs | 735 | by Staff reporter
Former Gweru MP laid to rest
FORMER Gweru Urban legislator Rodrick Rutsvara, who died of kidney failure last Saturday, has been laid to rest.Rutsvara, who was elected Member of the House of Assembly in 2008 on an MDC-T ti...Published: 25 Jun 2022 at 08:37hrs | 228 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe politics remains a two-horse race
THE Mass Public Opinion Institute (MPOI) on Wednesday released the Afrobarometer round nine survey on Zimbabwe.The survey shows the incipient decline of the ruling Zanu-PF's leader, Emmerson M...Published: 17 Jun 2022 at 08:30hrs | 207 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's CCC moots paramilitary group with foreign help
THE opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) is contemplating setting up a paramilitary wing within its party's ranks ahead of the 2023 harmonised general elections in the name of "defending the...Published: 17 Jun 2022 at 08:18hrs | 323 | by Staff reporter
MDC-T Harare chair dumps party, joins Chamisa's CCC
MDC-T Harare provincial chairman Zivai Mhetu has ditched the Douglas Mwonzora led opposition party which he described as a ‘dead donkey', to join Nelson Chamisa's Citizens Coalition for Change....Published: 14 Jun 2022 at 06:45hrs | 1399 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora's MDC-T burns
FACTIONALISM and blame games have hit the MDC-T ahead of the elective congress that has been kept a closely guarded secret by party leader Douglas Mwonzora and his loyalists who are now plotting the e...Published: 13 Jun 2022 at 17:50hrs | 2207 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa ally who was once arrested for murdering MDC activist, nominated for ZEC post
FORMER Kwekwe town clerk Emmanuel Musara, who is also a close ally of President Emmerson Mnangagwa, has been shortlisted for possible appointment as the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) post....Published: 13 Jun 2022 at 06:48hrs | 2659 | by Staff reporter
Ex-Mwonzora ally defects to CCC
Former MDC-T's Harare chairperson Zivai Mhetu has dumped the Douglas Mwonzora-led opposition party, saying its drubbing during recent by-elections showed that Zimbabweans now preferred the Citizens Co...Published: 12 Jun 2022 at 09:25hrs | 6639 | by Staff reporter
Komichi says MDC-T decision to cosy-up to Zanu-PF has cost them
TROUBLED opposition MDC-T's decision to cosy up to Zanu-PF and failure to oppose some of the ruling party's ills has lost them public support, chairperson Morgen Komichi has said.Commenting on...Published: 10 Jun 2022 at 08:06hrs | 4318 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa' popularity surges to 48%
THE majority of Zimbabweans now trust the Nelson Chamisa led Citizens Coalition (CCC) to change the country's fortunes more than the ruling Zanu-PF party, a Mass Public Opinion Institute (MPOI) survey...Published: 09 Jun 2022 at 06:47hrs | 7397 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe electoral violence looms'
THE Zimbabwe Peace Project (ZPP) has warned that the country risks sliding into electoral violence similar to the 2008 mayhem which resulted in several opposition activists being killed or had their l...Published: 09 Jun 2022 at 06:39hrs | 324 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF closing opposition's political space, says ZPP
Zanu-PF party members topped human rights violations, with 165 cases in April and 193 in May in a development rights groups say indicates the ruling party's penchant for violence.The figures w...Published: 08 Jun 2022 at 09:19hrs | 1041 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga settles down, marries army Colonel
VICE-PRESIDENT Constantino Chiwenga has settled down with army Colonel Miniyothabo Baloyi after an acrimonious divorce with former model Marry Mubaiwa, it has emerged.In a leaked video seen by...Published: 07 Jun 2022 at 10:58hrs | 11232 | by Staff Reporter
Chamisa's CCC dismisses true story on Khupe office donation
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) Bulawayo province has dismissed claims that former MDC-T President Thokozani Khupe donated offices to the Nelson Chamisa-led opposition party.We reported th...Published: 01 Jun 2022 at 06:38hrs | 2527 | by Staff reporter
Harare will not pay even a cent on Pomona deal, Mafume vows
HARARE mayor Jacob Mafume (pictured) says the city council will not pay a cent to Geogenix BV, a company fronted in Zimbabwe by businessman Delish Nguwaya, describing the agreement signed by the local...Published: 31 May 2022 at 12:26hrs | 957 | by Staff reporter
Moyo to contest Mnangagwa, Chamisa for presidency
FORMER speaker of parliament, Lovemore Moyo, will be contesting for presidency against President Emmerson Mnangagwa and former ally, Nelson Chamisa, at next year's elections.Moyo announced thi...Published: 31 May 2022 at 06:35hrs | 5593 | by Staff reporter
Nothing new about CCC's same old characters
When CCC won in the majority of constituencies in by-elections held in March, its leaders ran with a line that they had done well, yet they were a new party on the scene.Yet the claim that CCC...Published: 28 May 2022 at 08:50hrs | 488 | by Lovemore Chikova
Norway to bankroll CCC participation in rigged elections - condemned never to aspire for free elections
"Opposition leader Mr Nelson Chamisa and his surrogates yesterday attended a dinner hosted by the Norwegian embassy in Pretoria South Africa where they discussed how the European country can assist CC...Published: 26 May 2022 at 20:53hrs | 3263 | by Wilbert Mukori
PHOTO: Thokozani Khupe donates office to Chamisa
Former MDC-T President Thokozani Khupe has donated her former office to the CCC party led by Nelson Chamisa. The office have since been changed form the former MDC red colours to the CCC yellow colors...Published: 26 May 2022 at 10:58hrs | 15985 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa's minister threatens the opposition
MASVINGO North Zanu-PF legislator Davies Marapira has declared that beneficiaries of the land reform programme should not support opposition parties and those supporting the opposition will be evicted...Published: 24 May 2022 at 07:28hrs | 2543 | by Staff reporter
Komichi, Mudzuri names feature in MDC-T takeover bid
POLITICAL hawks within the MDC-T are baying for party leader Douglas Mwonzora's blood and plotting his ouster ahead of an elective congress set for July, with supporters accusing him of leading the op...Published: 21 May 2022 at 18:31hrs | 1262 | by Staff reporter
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