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Mwonzora ready to work with Mnangagwa, Chamisa
Interim MDC secretary general Douglas Mwonzora says he is willing to work with both President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his former ally-turned rival, Nelson Chamisa, to help end Zimbabwe's myriad and dec...Published: 4 hrs ago | 4952 | by Staff reporter
Khupe is a failed politician, says Bhebhe
OUSTED MDC presidential hopeful Abednico Bhebhe has described acting party leader Thokozani Khupe as "a failed politician who has divorced herself from the people's project".He said this last ...Published: 5 hrs ago | 2321 | by Staff reporter
Has democracy deserted MDC?
FIGHTS in the opposition party, MDC-T, have exposed that all is rotten about the so-called intra-party democracy in the opposition party.The MDC-T was in March tasked to convene, within 90 day...Published: 25 Nov 2020 at 04:46hrs | 1011 | by Staff reporter
'Khupe, Chamisa mindless quarrel must end'
MDC bigwig, Elias Mudzuri, says the mindless bloodletting consuming the party is making it difficult for the opposition to engage with President Emmerson Mnangagwa and Zanu-PF meaningfully, to help en...Published: 24 Nov 2020 at 21:43hrs | 2193 | by Staff reporter
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: 24 Nov 2020 at 04:39hrs | 3987 | by Staff reporter
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 | 7067 | 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 | 3641 | by Staff reporter
Khupe spokesperson steps down over rape allegations
THE spokesperson for MDC leader Thokozani Khupe, Khaliphani Phugeni has stepped down from his position following allegations of raping an unnamed woman in Bulawayo.Last week, Phugeni, 44, who ...Published: 15 Nov 2020 at 16:17hrs | 2708 | by Staff reporter
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 | 10788 | 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 | 2253 | 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 | 4280 | 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 | 2824 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa ally loses Parliament recall challenge
MDC Alliance proportional representative for Bulawayo Metropolitan Province Dorcas Sibanda has lost a bid to challenge her recall from Parliament after the High Court dismissed her application....Published: 13 Nov 2020 at 20:24hrs | 2338 | by Staff reporter
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 | 9571 | 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 | 2861 | 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 | 1193 | 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 | 18613 | by Staff reporter
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 | 1292 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans back idea of another GNU
MANY Zimbabweans have welcomed the push by the MDC to hold talks with President Emmerson Mnangagwa and Zanu-PF, with a view to forming a new government of national unity in a bid to end the country's ...Published: 05 Nov 2020 at 19:25hrs | 1146 | 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 | 8564 | 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 | 1378 | by Staff reporter
MDC leadership keen to hold talks with Mnangagwa
THE interim MDC leadership is keen to hold talks with President Emmerson Mnangagwa and Zanu-PF, with a view to forming a new government of national unity (GNU).Speaking separately to the Daily...Published: 04 Nov 2020 at 18:22hrs | 2020 | by Staff reporter
MDC pushing for another GNU
The interim MDC leadership is keen to hold talks with President Mnangagwa and Zanu-PF with a view to forming a new government of national unity (GNU). Acting national chairman Morgen Komichi a...Published: 04 Nov 2020 at 06:11hrs | 5545 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa should stop destroying our party
As an MDC-A supporter, I want to appeal to Chamisa to stop destroying our party by side-lining party veterans and stalwarts. Nero has taken it upon himself to favour women who he is close to a...Published: 03 Nov 2020 at 13:25hrs | 5132 | by Daphine Zulu
Violence rocks Harvest House again
VIOLENCE has once again rocked the MDC after youths aligned to the Nelson Chamisa camp allegedly broke into the party's Morgan Richard Tsvangirai (MRT) House headquarters on Sunday night in an unsucce...Published: 03 Nov 2020 at 08:37hrs | 3511 | 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 | 5193 | 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 | 925 | by Staff writer
Divisions rock MDC over congress
NEW fissures have erupted in the Thokozani Khupe-led MDC as some of its leaders intend to block the Supreme Court-ordered December extra-ordinary congress to elect a new president for the party....Published: 02 Nov 2020 at 06:51hrs | 6989 | 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 | 14365 | by Staff reporter
Khupe regains Harvest House control
MDC youths aligned to secretary general Douglas Mwonzora yesterday kicked out their colleagues led by Harare province chairperson Paul Gorekore from Harvest House. Gorekore took over control o...Published: 28 Oct 2020 at 06:40hrs | 5865 | by Staff reporter
Komichi pledge to unite Zimbabwe opposition against Zanu-PF
MDC-T presidential hopeful and national chair Morgen Komichi has pledged to bring together all opposition parties in the fight for Zanu-PF poll defeat 2023 if voted party leader.The opposition...Published: 27 Oct 2020 at 07:14hrs | 2174 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa not losing sleep over Khupe
MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa said he was not losing sleep over manoeuvres by the Thokozani Khupe-led MDC-T to decimate his MDC Alliance.Mnangagwa last week formally recognised Khupe as t...Published: 25 Oct 2020 at 08:02hrs | 3624 | by Staff reporter
Khupe, Mwonzora, Mudzuri, Komichi fight for MDC-T Presidency
ENGINEER Elias Mudzuri says he will contest the post of president of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T) led by Thokozani Khupe, which is expected to hold an extraordinary congress i...Published: 25 Oct 2020 at 07:42hrs | 2785 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF won't give up power, says Mudzuri
TOP MDC-T official Elias Mudzuri Friday said President Emmerson Mnangagwa was fronting a Zanu-PF military government that would not relinquish power if it lost in national elections.Mudzuri wa...Published: 24 Oct 2020 at 07:51hrs | 1018 | by Staff reporter
Mudzuri says to challenge Khupe for MDC-T presidency
Former MDC-T vice president Elias Mudzuri will challenge interim leader Thokozani Khupe for the presidency, he announced on Friday.The party has been rocked by leadership disputes which spille...Published: 23 Oct 2020 at 17:14hrs | 4364 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa, Khupe factions must seek ZCTU mediation
SO, the constitutional and rule of law champions Morgen Komichi, Douglas Mwonzora, MDC-T leader Thokozani Khupe and Tapiwa Mashakada want the world to believe that their understanding of constitutiona...Published: 23 Oct 2020 at 08:32hrs | 3266 | by Kennedy Kaitano
Battle for control of MDC-T intensifies
Rival candidates have heightened their campaign activities ahead of MDC-T's extraordinary congress as the battle to control the party intensifies.Early this month, the Supreme Court gave MDC-T...Published: 22 Oct 2020 at 11:27hrs | 7329 | by Staff Reporter
Political parties go all out campaigning for by-elections
Zimbabwe's political parties - Zanu-PF, MDC-Alliance and MDC-T - are going all out campaigning ahead of anticipated by-elections to fill vacant parliamentary and municipal seats.The Zimbabwe E...Published: 22 Oct 2020 at 07:25hrs | 1245 | by Staff Reporter
Khupe suffers setback
A BID by Thokozani Khupe's MDC to challenge the High Court's jurisdiction in presiding over cases brought by recalled legislators was yesterday thrown out.Recalled MDC Alliance legislators Cha...Published: 21 Oct 2020 at 22:20hrs | 8582 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala's allegiance confuses Mwonzora
MDC-T secretary-general Douglas Mwonzora has said Job Sikhala's continued presence in Parliament is not a sign the party leadership feared him, but a matter of his unclear allegiance they are still to...Published: 20 Oct 2020 at 06:27hrs | 11250 | by Staff reporter
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 | 12356 | by Staff reporter
Democracy should prevail in MDC-T election
I AM praying that candidates for all the positions at the MDC-T extraordinary congress will organise one or two public debates so that their followers see through each of them and make informed choice...Published: 19 Oct 2020 at 06:25hrs | 1106 | by Precious Shumba
Khupe trying to stop Bhebhe
MDC-T interim leader Thokozani Khupe is trying to stop the party's organising secretary Abedinico Bhebhe from washing the outfit's dirty linen in public by blocking his participation in a court case....Published: 19 Oct 2020 at 06:21hrs | 1952 | by Staff reporter
Cornered Khupe makes spectacular summersault
MDC-T interim leader Thokozani Khupe is trying to stop the party's organising secretary Abedinico Bhebhe from washing the outfit's dirty linen in public by blocking his participation in a court case....Published: 18 Oct 2020 at 11:33hrs | 12498 | by Staff Reporter
Bhebhe says Khupe, Komichi wiped out $7 million MDC-T funds
DEFIANT MDC-T national organising secretary Abednico Bhebhe has thrown the cat among the pigeons, telling court party funds totalling $7 million have been wiped out by acting party president Thokozani...Published: 17 Oct 2020 at 16:23hrs | 5271 | by Staff reporter
Khupe a leader sent from hell
Zimbabwe's politics can be easily compared to Nigerian Movies in the sense that, it is quite predictable to the extent that even those that did not study politics (101) can even tell you that Zanu Pf ...Published: 17 Oct 2020 at 09:27hrs | 3624 | by Knowledge Hakata
Top aide exposes Khupe
MDC-T 2014 national organising secretary Abednico Bhebhe has accused top opposition executives of "irregular conduct", adding that they are using unscrupulous means to "shut out" bona fide members fro...Published: 16 Oct 2020 at 07:18hrs | 8243 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, Zec sued over by-elections
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa, his deputy Constatino Chiwenga and the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) have been taken to court by disgruntled voters for unilaterally suspending by-elections in cont...Published: 15 Oct 2020 at 06:47hrs | 2595 | by Staff reporter
'Audit' clears Chamisa's MDC of financial impropriety
AN audit report by Auditax International has revealed no money was abused by MDC Alliance from the period of the opposition's Gweru Congress last year up until December last year.Presenting a ...Published: 14 Oct 2020 at 06:33hrs | 1392 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Chamisa ruled out from Zimbabwean political matrix
The Professor of World Politics at the London School of Oriental and African Studies Stephen Chan, recently said Chamisa seems to have run out of strategic ideas on the way forward and basically, the ...Published: 13 Oct 2020 at 21:39hrs | 9001 | by Staff reporter
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