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Chamisa's resignation created more factions in CCC
THE CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) candidate for Hunyani constituency in the August 2023 elections, Lovemore Chinoputsa has bemoaned the state of affairs in the two-year-old opposition movement, ...Published: 15 Feb 2024 at 10:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa now building a popular one-man dictatorship
One of Zimbabwe's seasoned political activists Lovemore Chinoputsa has painted a gloomy picture of the state of the opposition, saying its leaders have fundamentally departed from the late Morgan Tsva...Published: 14 Feb 2024 at 20:14hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
PHOTO: Nelson Chamisa - Wicknell Chivayo picture causes stir on the internet
A photograph featuring the leader of the Citizen Coalition for Change (CCC), Nelson Chamisa, alongside controversial ZANU PF-aligned businessman Wicknell Chivayo has sent shockwaves through social med...Published: 06 Dec 2023 at 10:30hrs | 22 | by Mandla Ndlovu
CCC candidates selection divides Bulawayo
THE Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC)'s candidates selection process has left its Bulawayo province divided amid reports that there is a plot to rig the exercise.Sources said there was...Published: 09 Jun 2023 at 06:51hrs | | 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 Unemployment Crisis: A growing mental health concern among graduates and youths'
Zimbabwe has been plagued with a number of challenges over the years, from economic instability to political unrest. However, one issue that is often ignored is the impact of government failure on men...Published: 24 May 2023 at 09:25hrs | 6 | by Mberi Prince
Zvobgo threatens to kick out Zanu-PF from offices if he loses primaries
Perennial loser Edison Zvobgo Junior, who is contesting Zanu-PF primaries for the third time, has allegedly threatened to send the party packing from his premises where the Masvingo provincial offices...Published: 25 Mar 2023 at 11:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF Young Turks plot surprises
DAGGERS are out in Zanu-PF as aspiring youthful candidates turn on the heat on the party's old guard ahead of the ruling party's primary elections.It appears the ruling party has opened up the...Published: 13 Mar 2023 at 22:04hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF councillor 'steals' fertiliser
A Zanu-PF councillor in Buhera South, Manicaland province, is in the eye of a storm after villagers accused him of stealing fertiliser meant for distribution to villagers under the Presidential Inputs...Published: 26 Jan 2023 at 07:35hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Protest vote is anti-development, says Mutsvangwa
Voters must now be politically mature and shun the culture of the protest vote during elections, as this is self-defeating and counter developmental, a senior Zanu-PF official has said.Address...Published: 10 Nov 2022 at 04:55hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
No date yet for Zanu-PF central committee polls
THE ruling Zanu-PF party is yet to announce dates for its central committee polls amid allegations of vote-buying among candidates.Party national political commissar Mike Bimha, however, told ...Published: 04 Oct 2022 at 06:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Even birds and trees indule in sex' - says Mutsvangwa as he wades into Mnangagwa-Mutami rape saga
Zanu-PF national spokesperson, Chris Mutsvangwa has sprang to the defence of top Zanu-PF officials accused of child sex abuse, rape and infidelity, saying the alleged sleaze was a ploy by the oppositi...Published: 03 Aug 2022 at 06:48hrs | 138 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora says MDC Alliance is unstable
MDC Alliance president Douglas Mwonzora has conceded serious infighting in his party ahead of their elective congress amid reports that party chairman Morgen Komichi was considering jumping ship to th...Published: 15 Jun 2022 at 07:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Football, cricket failure reflect badly on SRC
DEAR President Emmerson Mnangagwa.Your Excellency, I wish to bring to your attention the fact that the Sports and Recreation Commission (SRC) seems to be doing little to ensure that sports ass...Published: 02 Feb 2022 at 05:34hrs | 6 | by Tawanda Tafirenyika
Violence Rocks New Zanu-PF Mashonaland West PCC
VIOLENCE dominated the new Zanu-PF provincial joint council of the main wing, women's and youth leagues' inaugural meeting held in Chinhoyi Saturday.The meeting was meant to officially hand ov...Published: 10 Jan 2022 at 06:04hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Turmoil-stricken Zanu-PF to resume district restructuring
Zanu-PF will resume restructuring the once disbanded district coordinating committee (DCCs) as the party looks to garner five million votes in the 2023 polls, a party official has said.Followi...Published: 12 Dec 2021 at 19:41hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF to resume district restructuring
Zanu-PF will resume restructuring the once disbanded district coordinating committee (DCCs) as the party looks to garner five million votes in the 2023 polls, a party official has said.Followi...Published: 13 Nov 2021 at 05:59hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Daggers out in Zanu-PF restructuring
THE Zanu-PF restructuring exercise has exposed deep-rooted factionalism as well as infighting fuelled by jostling for positions ahead of the party's provincial elections.The party is set to co...Published: 20 Sep 2021 at 07:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF employs secret ballot system
Zanu-PF has employed the secret ballot system ahead of its district executive elections to be held next week.In a circular dated September 9 and signed by acting political commissar Patrick Ch...Published: 17 Sep 2021 at 06:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZANU PF bigwigs hiding behind a finger
Whilst it has been the norm that political parties hold internal elections periodically in a bid to rejuvenate structures and remain up to date, the current and pending ZANU PF district and provincial...Published: 15 Sep 2021 at 08:41hrs | | by Paul Ndou
Zanu-PF factions in mudslinging campaigns
A BATTLE for the post of Zanu-PF Midlands provincial chairperson has ensued with party stalwarts already engaging in underground campaigns despite an official directive that members should desist from...Published: 10 Sep 2021 at 18:51hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Obert Mpofu: Mnangagwa's most reliable lieutenant
President Emmerson Mnangagwa deployed Dr. Obert Mpofu to serve at party Headquarters on a full-time basis. This deployment was similar to the Robert Mugabe deployment of Didymus Mutasa one of ZANU PF'...Published: 09 Aug 2021 at 14:32hrs | 1 | by Nicholas Ncube
No to factional mudslinging…Discipline comrades discipline!
My 54 political toddler years which are founded 'On the Shoulders of Struggle' signify a journey of robust African revolutionary tutelage which has been vastly enabled by those national paternal and m...Published: 25 Jul 2021 at 08:04hrs | 1 | by Obert Moses Mpofu
'State of opposition politics in Zimbabwe worrying'
Former MDC-T National Organising Secretary, Abednico Bhebhe, who denied allegation that he has joined the MDC Alliance led by Nelson Chamisa says the state of the opposition politics in Zimbabwe is wo...Published: 02 Apr 2021 at 15:41hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Abednico Bhebhe denies joining Chamisa's MDC
THE continued polarisation within the MDC family has long been a cause of concern to many progressive Zimbabweans. My position on this matter is known. I have not only decried the persistent fractiona...Published: 02 Apr 2021 at 12:34hrs | | by Abednico Bhebhe
Power hungry DCC members causing chaos in Zanu-PF, says Matemadanda
THE newly-elected Zanu-PF district coordination committees (DCCs) countrywide have become battlefields for power-hungry members who are fanning divisions in order to ascend to senior leadership positi...Published: 14 Mar 2021 at 06:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Biti apologises for Chipinge witchcraft 'joke'
Tendai Biti, the MDC Alliance vice president, has given a half-hearted apology to the Chipinge people for calling them witches in his response to a comment by Professor Lovemore Madhuku.In the...Published: 10 Mar 2021 at 17:30hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Mohadi: Tale of a brave man knocked down by ruinous sex
LIKE many of his contemporaries, Kembo Dugishi Campbell Mohadi - who hails from Mtetengwe area 40 kilometres west of Beitbridge border town along the Bulawayo highway - belongs to a generation which w...Published: 06 Mar 2021 at 08:03hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
I give unquestionable support to president Nelson Chamisa
ZANU-PF has continued with its protracted war of attrition against the MDC Alliance and its leadership. The regime is using our erstwhile colleagues who have left us and joined their moribund regime t...Published: 27 Feb 2021 at 08:31hrs | | by Simon BarleyChalton Hwende
Bev, MisRed clash over dancer's real name
With just two weeks into the tightened lockdown, locals are already showing signs of fatigue if the clash between media personality MisRed and raunchy dancer, Bev Sibanda today is anything to go by....Published: 18 Jan 2021 at 17:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance remains a cry baby
Whenever die-hard cadres in the MDC Alliance see smoke in the MDC-T, they wish it was hell manifesting, except that this time it is a braai not hell. It is common cause that the victims of Tho...Published: 06 Jan 2021 at 07:14hrs | | by Robert Sigauke
Chamisa's MDC brands Mwonzora a Zanu-PF proxy
The MDC Alliance has accused newly-elected MDC-T leader Douglas Mwonzora of being a Zanu-PF proxy, days after he exchanged vows of "cooperation" with President Emmerson Mnangagwa.Mwonzora took...Published: 04 Jan 2021 at 19:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora says he is not on Zanu-PF payroll
NEWLY elected MDC-T president, Douglas Mwonzora has scoffed at repeated claims by political rivals that he and colleagues in the opposition party were on the Zanu-PF-led government's payroll.M...Published: 31 Dec 2020 at 11:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Songstress, Congress, Compress not Oppress
Whenever the die-hard cadres in the MDC Alliance see smoke in the MDC-T, they wish it was gehena manifesting, except that this it is a braai not gehena. It is common cause that the victims of Khupe's ...Published: 30 Dec 2020 at 17:19hrs | | by Robert Sigauke
'Mwonzora transferred $5,955,000 from MDC-T bank account'
SKELETONS are now tumbling in the MDC-T party amid allegations that Mr Douglas Mwonzora, the runaway winner in Sunday's disputed party presidential elections, misused nearly $6 million of party funds....Published: 29 Dec 2020 at 06:50hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Khupe leaves MDC-T vote in a huff
CHAOTIC scenes rocked the combustible MDC-T extraordinary congress which was held at the Harare International Conference Centre yesterday, with backers of the interim party president Thokozani Khupe (...Published: 28 Dec 2020 at 07:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora skeletons tumble
ASPIRING MDC-T leader Douglas Mwonzora was yesterday exposed by one of his top allies who described him as "a deceitful and crooked trickster" as the fight for the presidency reaches a chaotic climax ...Published: 27 Dec 2020 at 08:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC chaos worsens
IN YET another sign of the chaos that has been engulfing the opposition, the Thokozani Khupe-led MDC yesterday cancelled its much-anticipated extraordinary congress hours before it was due, citing log...Published: 20 Dec 2020 at 18:31hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa frets over social media
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has ordered disgruntled party members to stop taking out their anger over the just ended district co-ordinating committee (DCC) elections to the media.Zanu-PF held...Published: 17 Dec 2020 at 07:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Chamisa's MDC controlled by G40,' says Mwonzora
MDC-T Secretary-General, Douglas Mwonzora, has alleged that the MDC Alliance is heavily influenced by elements of Zanu-PF's Generation 40 (G40) faction.G40 was said to be a group of Zanu-PF po...Published: 16 Dec 2020 at 14:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora tries to come clean over accusations
THE MDC-T owes US$100 000 to its lawyers who include constitutional expert Lovemore Madhuku, Kholwani Ngwenya, Nomatter Kadoko, and another lawyer only named as Mtungura, it has emerged.This w...Published: 15 Dec 2020 at 06:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Cont Mhlanga threatens to sue
KeYona TV chairperson, Cont Mhlanga is fuming and has threatened to sue all those who made claims on social media that their television station was awarded a licence because of his affiliation to Zanu...Published: 08 Dec 2020 at 06:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Pastors to stage protests against attack on Christian leaders in South Africa.
The Pan African Christian Business Forum notes with concern the attack on Christian leaders in South Africa.As a Christian grouping, we are bound by the teachings of Christ and the Apostles. W...Published: 07 Dec 2020 at 10:49hrs | | by PACBF
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 | | by Staff reporter
Mudslinging in fight for Makoni DCC chairmanship
THE tussling for Makoni chairmanship in the Zanu-PF district co-ordination committee (DCC) elections tomorrow has escalated, with candidates engaged in smear campaigning.One Albert Nyakuedzwa ...Published: 04 Dec 2020 at 06:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF cacophony remains needless!
THE seemingly growing cacophony in the ruling Zanu-PF party is needless and a threat to President Emmerson Mnangagwa's thrust to turn around the fortunes of the country's flagging economy.Over...Published: 27 Nov 2020 at 17:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Govt pay offer divides civil servants
LABOUR unions representing civil servants were yesterday divided over the 40% pay offer by government following a prolonged salary dispute with their employer.Some said negotiations had failed...Published: 16 Nov 2020 at 05:56hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF centralises printing of ballot papers
ZANU-PF has centralised the printing of ballot papers for its forthcoming district co-ordinating committee (DCC) elections, to avert cases of fraud and rigging which have previously blighted its inter...Published: 12 Nov 2020 at 18:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF infighting continues to mar run-up to divisive DCC polls
So bad is the political climate within Zanu-PF at the moment that its secretary for security in pictured, readily admitted to the Daily News yesterday that senior the deepening infighting within the r...Published: 01 Nov 2020 at 08:30hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Nguwaya savages Temba Mliswa
HARARE businessman Dilesh Nguwaya, has savaged Norton legislator TembaMliswa for maligning his reputation by labelling him as corrupt without providing evidence.This comes after Mliswa accused...Published: 27 Oct 2020 at 17:48hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
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