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Khupe MDC-T ship in troubled waters
THE Thokozani Khupe-led MDCT has plunged further into chaos with Elias Mudzuri, one of the party presidential hopefuls, rubbishing calls by some of the party bigwigs to hold a virtual extraordinary co...Published: 8 hrs ago | 2568 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC failure-bound foray to the countryside
MDC-Alliance's youth assembly held a national executive council meeting in Bulawayo two weeks ago where it resolved to boost the party's electoral fortunes in 2023 by moving to rural areas to recruit ...Published: 8 hrs ago | 459 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Chamisa's councillors in deadlock over posts
BULAWAYO councillors reportedly reached a deadlock over the position on chairperson of the Finance and Development Standing Committee, with a run-off now expected to be held in the next couple of week...Published: 22 Nov 2020 at 04:41hrs | 211 | by Staff reporter
Bhebhe fights expulsion from MDC-T at High Court
MDC-T acting national organising secretary Abednico Bhebhe has approached the High Court seeking a review of his expulsion from his party position last week by the national council.MDC-T inter...Published: 21 Nov 2020 at 22:35hrs | 2431 | by AFP
MDC-T Masvingo turns against Khupe, Mwonzora
The Thokozani Khupe led MDC-T Masvingo province has nominated Elias Mudzuri as their presidential candidate for the forthcoming extraordinary congress slatted for December despite there being an inter...Published: 21 Nov 2020 at 22:28hrs | 6883 | by Staff reporter
Khupe mulls virtual congress
THOKOZANI Khupe's MDC-T is mulling holding an online congress to elect a new party leader following the death of its founder Morgan Tsvangirai in February 2018.The party said it could not risk...Published: 19 Nov 2020 at 05:43hrs | 3630 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe slowly going down under the new dispensation
The livelihoods of the people of Zimbabwe had been brought back and down to the levels of 1953.For the last fourty years ZANU PF government has lept from one corruption scandal to the other. I...Published: 17 Nov 2020 at 08:52hrs | 5207 | by Leonard Koni
'MDC A #OneMillionCampaign will fight rural voter apathy' - biggest impediment to free elections, MDC sell-outs
"Mdc Alliance Namibia greatly appreciates and admires the historic innovation since the inception of the political behemoth to invade rural constituencies in preparation of the harmonised elections in...Published: 17 Nov 2020 at 08:47hrs | 1529 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Khupe declared winner in MDC-T presidential nomination poll
The independent Election Management Body that conducted MDC-T's provincial presidential nomination election in Bulawayo last week declared interim party leader Thokozani Khupe the winner, despite repo...Published: 15 Nov 2020 at 06:23hrs | 10760 | by Staff reporter
Khupe 'expels' Bhebhe
THE MDC-T says it has expelled its firebrand national organiser Abednico Bhebhe for grossly violating the party's constitution.The party's National Council also resolved that only acting presi...Published: 15 Nov 2020 at 06:18hrs | 2251 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora 'backtracks' on new purge?
A letter purportedly signed by disputed MDC-T secretary general Douglass Mwonzora notifying the Minister of Local government, Public Works and National Housing of the recall of 87 MDC Alliance council...Published: 14 Nov 2020 at 21:35hrs | 4269 | by Staff reporter
'Dirty war' erupts in Khupe camp
The MDC-T yesterday expelled one of its top officials as one of the contestants for the party's presidency warned that the race to succeed Morgan Tsvangirai has left the group deeply divided.A...Published: 14 Nov 2020 at 21:28hrs | 2816 | by Staff reporter
'Real issue in Zim is a crisis of (Zanu PF) leadership' said Biti - admitting half the truth, as usual
"At the end of the day the real issue in Zim is a crisis of governance and leadership. "The nation carries the burden of illegitimacy, of corrupt incompetent clueless and incompetent leadershi...Published: 13 Nov 2020 at 15:41hrs | 1266 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Khupe shifts goalposts ahead of congress
THE Thokozani Khupe-led MDC-T is heading for an implosion after its national standing committee (NSC) resolved to suspend provincial nominations for presidential candidates, and "railroaded" the natio...Published: 13 Nov 2020 at 07:45hrs | 9555 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe needs fresh, able leadership, says Bhebhe
FORMER MDC-T national organising secretary Abednico Bhebhe has said the country should break from the past and commit to the future generations by ending Zanu-PF hold on power.Bhebhe told News...Published: 13 Nov 2020 at 05:51hrs | 2857 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's ex-councillor to represent Khupe
A FORMER councillor with Nelson Chamisa's MDC Alliance is set to contest the Kwekwe Central parliamentary by-election on an MDC-T ticket.Mbekezeli Ndlovu served as Kwekwe City Councillor for t...Published: 12 Nov 2020 at 18:42hrs | 1684 | by Staff reporter
Congress agents abandon meeting over Khupe 'rigging'
POLLING agents of MDC-T aspiring presidential candidates Saturday boycotted the Bulawayo province Extra Ordinary Congress nomination process citing massive electoral fraud.The MDC-T 2014 Bulaw...Published: 12 Nov 2020 at 18:39hrs | 1192 | by Staff reporter
ZEC gazettes 3 MDC-T seats vacancies
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) has gazetted vacancies for three more proportional representation National Assembly seats following the recall of legislators by the Dr Thokozani Khupe led MDC-...Published: 12 Nov 2020 at 05:44hrs | 959 | by Staff reporter
Khupe MDC-T spokesperson up for rape
THE Thokozani Khupe-led MDC-T national spokesperson Khaliphani Phugeni has appeared in court facing a rape charge.Phugeni (44) denied the charge of contravening section 65 of the Criminal Law,...Published: 11 Nov 2020 at 13:56hrs | 3528 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe GNU is premised on personal gains'
Opposition FreeZim Congress leader Joseph Makamba Busha has said the country was not ready for a government of national unity (GNU), which he said would serve personal, rather than majority interests....Published: 11 Nov 2020 at 13:54hrs | 918 | by Staff reporter
Bhebhe trounces Khupe, Mwonzora
MDC-T organising secretary Abednico Bhebhe has reportedly secured Bulawayo nomination for the party presidency after trouncing four other candidates, among them acting president Thokozani Khupe and in...Published: 10 Nov 2020 at 05:53hrs | 18582 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa bemoans health sector decay
OPPOSITION MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has lamented the decay in the country's public hospitals which he described as death traps where people now die from curable ailments as the Zanu-PF gover...Published: 09 Nov 2020 at 06:58hrs | 1436 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe politicians bank on Biden presidency
ZIMBABWE'S warring political leaders yesterday fell over each other in expressing their readiness to work with United States (US) President-elect Joe Biden, hoping to mend relations between Harare and...Published: 09 Nov 2020 at 06:57hrs | 2895 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF calls for peaceful DCC campaigns
ZANU-PF Matabeleland North leadership has called for a peaceful campaign as the party prepares for the District Development Committee (DCC) elections. The ruling party disbanded the DCCs in 20...Published: 09 Nov 2020 at 05:31hrs | 253 | by Staff reporter
Gutu apologises for his role in 'satanic sanctions' against Zimbabwe
FORMER MDC-T top official Obert Gutu has issued an apology to Zimbabweans for being part of opposition party politicians who repeatedly called on the West to impose and maintain sanctions on Zimbabwe....Published: 08 Nov 2020 at 08:34hrs | 1970 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe faces tougher Covid-19 lockdown
ZIMBABWE may be forced into implementing more stringent measures, possibly another lockdown, if Covid-19 cases continue to rise, an official has said.The chief coordinator for the National Res...Published: 08 Nov 2020 at 07:14hrs | 1249 | by Staff reporter
Gutu apologises for calling for sanctions against Zimbabwe
FORMER MDC-T Vice President Obert Gutu has apologised for his role in calling for the imposition of unilateral & punitive sanctions against Zimbabwe by some powerful Western nations.Gutu a...Published: 07 Nov 2020 at 22:19hrs | 3255 | by Staff reporter
'2008 GNU stabilised economy' - true but that was not its primary purpose much less justify new GNU
"In 2009, the late former president Robert Mugabe was forced into forming a GNU with the MDC's late and much loved founding father, Morgan Tsvangirai, after the hotly disputed 2008 polls," reported Da...Published: 07 Nov 2020 at 18:48hrs | 795 | by Wilbert Mukori
Bhebhe eyes MDC-T presidency
BATTLELINES have been drawn ahead of the MDC-T extraordinary congress scheduled for month-end with party leader Thokozani Khupe's top ally Abednico Bhebhe throwing his hat into the ring to challenge f...Published: 06 Nov 2020 at 06:45hrs | 1290 | by Staff reporter
Chinamasa rubbishes Khupe's overtures
Zanu-PF acting spokesperson Patrick Chinamasa has rubbished opposition MDC-T leader Thokozani Khupe's push for a government of national unity.Chinamasa told journalists during a party Press co...Published: 05 Nov 2020 at 06:42hrs | 12039 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's allies in secret unity talks with Khupe
TENSIONS are running high in the structures of the Midlands provincial of the MDC Alliance after former Kwekwe Central MP, Blessing Chebundo led some senior party officials to secretly meet with MDC-T...Published: 05 Nov 2020 at 06:41hrs | 8550 | by Staff reporter
'Deploying military personnel in hospitals not sustainable'
HEALTH experts have warned that President Emmerson Mnangagwa's decision to deploy military health personnel to replace striking doctors and nurses at public hospitals could backfire as it was reaction...Published: 05 Nov 2020 at 06:36hrs | 1375 | by Staff reporter
Tongai Matutu shocked MDC leaders by joining Zanu-PF
Former MDC-T Masvingo Urban MP Tongai Matutu shocked opposition leaders by joining Zanu-PF on Monday.Matutu was welcomed by President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his deputies Constantino Chiwenga a...Published: 04 Nov 2020 at 12:53hrs | 2881 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa says Zimbabwe needs exorcism
MAIN opposition MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has said Zimbabwe needs to be exorcised by the church as it is too polarised and cannot move forward as a nation.Chamisa said this while addr...Published: 03 Nov 2020 at 07:31hrs | 1475 | by Staff reporter
NPF plots to retain Kwekwe Central seat
THE National Patriotic Front (NPF), a breakaway party from the ruling Zanu-PF party, has announced that it will participate in all the by-elections should their suspension over COVID-19 be lifted and ...Published: 03 Nov 2020 at 07:16hrs | 757 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa slapped with US$10 000 court fine
THE Supreme Court Monday struck-off the roll an appeal by the opposition MDC Alliance against a High Court ruling delivered a couple of months ago that the Nelson Chamisa-led party was not a legal per...Published: 03 Nov 2020 at 06:29hrs | 5184 | by Staff writer
By-elections moved to 2021, says Ziyambi
JUSTICE Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi confirmed Sunday the government had decided to shelve holding parliamentary and council by-elections while it focuses on fighting the spread of the coronavirus....Published: 03 Nov 2020 at 06:26hrs | 573 | by Staff writer
Chamisa's youths break into Khupe's regalia shop
YOUTHS aligned to MDC-Alliance leader Mr Nelson Chamisa on Sunday night broke into a regalia shop run by the MDC-T led by Dr Thokozani Khupe in an attempt to regain access into the party headquarters....Published: 03 Nov 2020 at 06:25hrs | 919 | by Staff writer
Chamisa MDC appeal struck off
The MDC-Alliance appeal challenging a High Court decision that the party does not legally exist as a legal person who can sue or be sued in court, was struck off the roll after the organisation's lawy...Published: 03 Nov 2020 at 06:25hrs | 254 | by Staff writer
Sikhala says, 'Zimbabwe has reached tipping point'
ZENGEZA West Member of Parliament Job Sikhala celebrated his 48th birthday on Friday. The politician was recently arrested and charged with inciting violence ahead of the abortive July 31 protests. He...Published: 02 Nov 2020 at 05:46hrs | 1109 | by Staff reporter
Supreme Court to rule on MDC Alliance appeal today
The Supreme Court will today determine the MDC-Alliance's appeal against the High Court's May judgment which ruled that the outfit is not a legal person with the capacity to sue or be sued. Th...Published: 02 Nov 2020 at 05:41hrs | 1418 | by Staff reporter
Khupe suspends top ally
MDC-T leader Thokozani Khupe has suspended her party's national organising secretary Abednico Bhebhe after he exposed alleged plans to manipulate the forthcoming extraordinary congress to choose a new...Published: 01 Nov 2020 at 08:37hrs | 14361 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala talks tough
MDC Alliance vice-chairperson Job Sikhala says Zimbabwe has reached a tipping point, warning President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government not to take boiling discontent against its leadership lightly....Published: 01 Nov 2020 at 08:35hrs | 5571 | by Staff reporter
Why police stormed Harare Town House
POLICE stormed Harare City Council chambers to stop the city fathers from passing a resolution that would have seen suspended executives returning to work as fears of government interference in the op...Published: 01 Nov 2020 at 08:33hrs | 2145 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF supporters storm party offices
SCORES of disgruntled Zanu-PF supporters in Marondera on Tuesday night stormed the ruling party's provincial party offices accusing their leaders of imposing candidates ahead of primaries for the Maro...Published: 31 Oct 2020 at 06:16hrs | 2396 | by Staff reporter
Khupe disempowers Chamisa
IN another move to further disempower the MDC Alliance led by Nelson Chamisa, the Thokozani Khupe-led MDC-T yesterday removed Hwange Central MP Daniel Molokele from the chairmanship of the Parliamenta...Published: 30 Oct 2020 at 06:45hrs | 11685 | by Staff reporter
Zacc uncovers rot in BCC land allocation and sales
MORE arrests over corruption are imminent at Bulawayo City Council (BCC) and other local authorities following a series of investigations on land allocation and sales by the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption C...Published: 30 Oct 2020 at 06:21hrs | 609 | by Staff reporter
Corruption in councils riles Mnangagwa
Unprecedented levels of corruption and poor governance bedevilling local authorities across the country, particularly Harare, are worrying President Mnangagwa and the Government, a Cabinet Minister ha...Published: 30 Oct 2020 at 06:17hrs | 252 | by Staff reporter
War veterans demand automatic entry to elections
War veterans are demanding automatic tickets to represent the governing Zanu-PF party in the by-elections to fill vacant parliamentary and municipal seats.They want the same to be done in the ...Published: 29 Oct 2020 at 06:26hrs | 1249 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance NEC member dies
GENDER activist and former MDC-T Proportional Representation Fanny Chirisa has died.Chirisa was 69. She was born in Mutare in 1951 and grew up in Sakubva. At the time of reporting it was still...Published: 28 Oct 2020 at 20:58hrs | 3499 | by Staff reporter
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