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Chinese gang busted at 'sex and drugs' party in Harare

Nine out of 10 Chinese nationals who appeared in court this week for illegal possession of dangerous drugs were yesterday granted bail, while one remains in custody.The group was arrested during a police raid on a suspected sex-and-drugs p…

Published: 05 Sep 2025 at 07:30hrs | 1309 | by Staff reporter

Man pushes ex-wife into oncoming vehicle

A Masvingo man, Sadam Rutsvara (36), has been sentenced to three years and four months in prison for assaulting his ex-wife and pushing her into an oncoming vehicle after she declined his plea for reconciliation.Masvingo Magistrate Elizabe…

Published: 27 Aug 2025 at 22:59hrs | 1065 | by Staff reporter

Retired police officer launches new political party

Senior retired police officer Togara Fambi has launched a new political party, the National Progressive Democrats (NPD), despite warnings from his mother about the dangers of opposing ZANU PF.Fambi revealed an emotional conversation with h…

Published: 27 Aug 2025 at 22:59hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

Zanu-PF turns party office into illegal night club

The Government has ordered the immediate closure of a Zanu-PF party office converted into a nightclub in Harare's Borrowdale area following mounting complaints from local residents over persistent noise pollution.The party office at number…

Published: 11 Jul 2025 at 08:56hrs | 1334 | by Staff reporter

Elon Musk announces creation of new political party in USA

Elon Musk unveiled plans on Saturday to establish a new political party, vowing to "give freedom back to the people" and accusing America's elites of running the country into the ground.In a post on X, the social media platform he owns, th…

Published: 06 Jul 2025 at 13:56hrs | 1076 | by Staff reporter

ZRP investigates viral Mutare sex party invite

The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has launched an investigation into a viral social media post advertising a suspected "vuzu" or sex party allegedly scheduled to take place at a private venue in Mutare. The post, which has sparked widespr…

Published: 25 Jun 2025 at 09:06hrs | | by Staff reporter

'CIO' attempt to disrupt private birthday bash

Suspected State security operatives allegedly tried to halt a private birthday celebration for Patrick Cheza's grandmother, sparking concern among locals about the government's respect for individual privacy rights.Cheza, the former Chirum…

Published: 18 Jun 2025 at 07:34hrs | 1365 | by Staff reporter

Chamisa dismisses claims he is forming new party

Opposition leader Nelson Chamisa has strongly denied swirling social media claims that he is preparing to launch a new political movement at the end of this month, describing the reports as "sponsored lies" orchestrated by political detrac…

Published: 05 Jun 2025 at 10:08hrs | 428 | by Staff reporter

MDC factions intensify battle over party properties

Rival factions within the fractured Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) have reignited hostilities over control of the party's properties, chief among them the iconic Morgan Richard Tsvangirai (MRT) House in Harare.The building, formerly …

Published: 28 May 2025 at 10:19hrs | 51 | by Staff reporter

Mthwakazi activist jailed for defending Plumtree students

A Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) activist, Mkhululi Jele, is in prison after allegedly challenging the interrogation of students at Phakamani High School in Plumtree. The students had clashed with their teacher over the controversial herit…

Published: 14 Feb 2025 at 06:19hrs | | by Staff reporter

Ghana's ruling party falls

Ghana's vice president and ruling party candidate, Mahamudu Bawumia, conceded defeat Sunday to opposition candidate and former President John Dramani Mahama in the West African nation's presidential election seen as a vote of no-confidence…

Published: 08 Dec 2024 at 17:43hrs | 4141 | by Staff reporter

Couple throws party to celebrate separation after cheating scandals

In a bizarre turn of events, a couple in Harare's high-density suburb shocked neighbors by hosting a party to celebrate their separation after the wife, Marvellous Mercy Kudzara, was caught cheating six times with different men.John Kapita…

Published: 03 Dec 2024 at 15:08hrs | 2229 | by Staff reporter

Namibia to vote in toughest election yet for ruling party

Namibians will vote on Wednesday in what is expected to be the most competitive election yet for the ruling SWAPO party, which has governed the southern African nation for 34 years.If SWAPO candidate Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah wins, she will b…

Published: 27 Nov 2024 at 07:13hrs | 610 | by Staff reporter

'Chamisa set to launch new party,' claims Zanu-PF

ZANU-PF provincial chairperson for Midlands, Edson Chihengere, has suggested that former Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa is preparing to launch a new political party. Chihengere, addressing supporters at Charandur…

Published: 11 Nov 2024 at 07:13hrs | 2418 | by Staff reporter

Zanu-PF indaba reinforces party supremacy over Zimbabwe govt

At its recent Annual National People's Conference held in Bulawayo, ZANU-PF resolved to reinforce the principle of party supremacy over government functions, ensuring that party objectives directly influence government policies and actions…

Published: 29 Oct 2024 at 07:33hrs | 109 | by Staff reporter

'Zanu-PF pushing for one-party State in Zimbabwe'

Experts have raised concerns that the ruling Zanu-PF party's initiative to have professionals and government employees undergo re-orientation at the Herbert Chitepo School of Ideology is aimed at creating a one-party state. Munyaradzi…

Published: 23 Aug 2024 at 06:47hrs | 293 | by Staff reporter

Chiwenga tells Zanu-PF members to be loyal to the party

Vice President Constantino Chiwenga has cautioned Zanu-PF party members against falling into the traps of self-serving personality cults, personal power struggles, and factionalism.In a speech covered by ZBC News, Chiwenga, clad in Zanu-PF…

Published: 06 Aug 2024 at 10:51hrs | 728 | by Staff reporter

Chamisa says it's 'impossible' to run a political party in Zimbabwe

Nelson Chamisa, the former leader of the opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) party, has described the challenges of running a political party in Zimbabwe's dictatorial environment as nearly insurmountable.While the ZANU-PF-led g…

Published: 30 Jul 2024 at 17:42hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter

Zuma's MK Party brings big guns to NCOP

The uMkhonto Wesizwe (MK) Party is planning to send a team of heavyweights as its new members in the National Council of Provinces (NCOP) as early as this week.Sunday World revealed that former Eskom CEO, Brian Molefe, former Prasa CEO, Lu…

Published: 07 Jul 2024 at 19:02hrs | 59 | by Mzilikazi wa Afrika

Zuma wins MK party leadership case against media favourite Khumalo

Embattled uMkhonto Wesizwe (MK) Party founder Jabulani Khumalo has been dealt a blow after the Electoral Court on Wednesday dismissed his hopes of being reinstated as the party's leader.The Specialist Court handed down judgment electronica…

Published: 12 Jun 2024 at 12:30hrs | 391 | by Staff reporter

Mnangagwa hosts lavish dinner for CCC at State House

First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa hosted a lavish dinner on Friday for Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) Secretary General Sengezo Tshabangu and his legislators, aiming to solidify President Emmerson Mnangagwa's plan to stay in power beyond …

Published: 06 Jun 2024 at 12:56hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter

Intraparty strife engulfs CCC

THE beleaguered Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) has been plunged into further turmoil as internal divisions and bitter infighting have come to the fore, following the submission of the list of Senators and Proportional Representation c…

Published: 18 Feb 2024 at 09:12hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter

Chamisa mobilises for new party

FORMER Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday launched a mobilisation drive for his new political movement that he says will be unveiled soon.Chamisa loyalists led by former legislators Amos Chibaya and Gift Os…

Published: 05 Feb 2024 at 04:14hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe's ruling elite and the quest for one-party rule

Since 1980, the Zanublack government has replicated the colonial white minority government tactics of suppressing opposition and alternative views.This is a special note to assist friends in the Sadc region to understand the political land…

Published: 02 Feb 2024 at 17:25hrs | 1 | by Tapiwa Shumba political analyst

Chamisa remains a formidable force in the court of public opinion

NELSON Chamisa has dumped the "bastardised" Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC), the party he helped to form two years ago.In an announcement on Thursday, Chamisa said he was walking away from the party as it has been "contaminated, bastar…

Published: 29 Jan 2024 at 07:43hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter

Chamisa party splits

CCC could be headed for a split judging by the continued confusion and leadership crises that saw the party fielding double candidates at yesterday's Nomination Court where rival factions tussled for recognition as authentic representative…

Published: 09 Nov 2023 at 05:54hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter

Zanu-PF fallout over campaign vehicles escalates

Unsuccessful Zanu-PF candidates in the recent harmonized elections have criticized the Harare provincial leadership for their perceived punitive actions, including threats to involve the police in the retrieval of campaign vehicles from ca…

Published: 09 Oct 2023 at 06:12hrs | 2127 | by Staff reporter

Chamisa party spokes dismisses police claims that he has a 2020 warrant of arrest

Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) spokesperson Promise Mkhwananzi - who has been arrested many times for his political activism - has dismissed police claims that he has a 2020 warrant of arrest for defaulting on court proceedings.THE Zi…

Published: 26 Aug 2023 at 13:27hrs | 846 | by Staff reporter

Husband impregnates entire wedding party

Please hide my ID am woman of 3 aged 32 in a good marital house that has since been shaken. Am devastated to learn that all my former wedding maids have been sleeping with my husband and he has gotten all of them 4 pregnant.I don't know wh…

Published: 13 Jun 2023 at 10:52hrs | 209 | by Staff reporter

No second chance for Zanu-PF 'party rebels'

LOSING candidates in the Zanu-PF primaries who choose to contest as independents in the August 23 polls will be expelled from the party for good, NewsDay reported.This was one of the resolutions made at the just-ended Zanu-PF five-day indu…

Published: 12 Jun 2023 at 06:30hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe chiefs now a political appendage of the ruling party

TRADITIONAL leaders in Zimbabwe have become extensions of the ruling Zanu-PF party, if latest utterances by the party are anything to go by.Zimbabweans who live in areas controlled by traditional leaders are seeing their rights to freely c…

Published: 08 Apr 2023 at 08:18hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter

Chamisa's CCC wants Electoral Amendment Bill to be overhauled

THE opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) believes the Electoral Amendment Bill which is in the second reading stage in Parliament needs serious amendments that include improving the design of ballot papers and ensuring that trans…

Published: 03 Apr 2023 at 06:29hrs | 299 | by Staff reporter

Tsvangirai remembered five years on

February 14, 2023 marked five years since late Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader Morgan Tsvangirai succumbed to colon cancer.He was 65.Tsvangirai left the main opposition MDC party, which was formed in 2009,  a force to reck…

Published: 19 Feb 2023 at 17:36hrs | 24 | by Staff reporter

Chamisa rebukes party MPs who accepted government loot

Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa Wednesday issued a guarded condemnation of party MPs who have joined the queue to receive government's US$40,000 windfall issued generously to each legislator in unsolicited loans.T…

Published: 01 Dec 2022 at 05:05hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe's new political party launches, promises economic revival

A NEW political party, the Zimbabwe Republican Front (ZRF) was launched last Friday at the Bulawayo Media Centre.Addressing journalists, the party's 38-year-old leader Fanuel Lisenga said Zimbabwe can only succeed when its people are unite…

Published: 29 Jun 2022 at 07:48hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter

Chamisa's party has same fears of dirty tricks

ZIMBABWE'S opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa may have formed a new political party, but he is still facing the same old problems which some had hoped would end with the 2017 ousting of the country's long-…

Published: 25 Mar 2022 at 06:00hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter

New party dangles cash to informal traders

LITTLE-KNOWN opposition Ideas Party of Democracy (IPD) claims that it has provided financial aid and groceries to dozens of Harare informal traders who failed to recover from the effects of COVID-19 lockdown measures.IPD leader Herbert Cha…

Published: 23 Mar 2022 at 05:34hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter

Nasty chieftaincy row sucks in Zanu-PF, divides party

FIRST Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa's family is embroiled in a nasty fight over a chieftainship in her rural village in Mazowe district, Mashonaland Central province, amid fears she used her influence to have her brother Paradzai Kutyauripo take…

Published: 05 Mar 2022 at 17:14hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter

Zanu-PF bullying antics have no space in a multi-party democracy

TOP Zanu-PF officials' threats to punish critics with local sanctions for holding the ruling party and government to account, is shocking and only strengthens the belief that the ruling party is averse to the tenets of democracy.This is a …

Published: 04 Feb 2022 at 05:42hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter

Zanu-PF scoffs at Chamisa Chete Chete

THE ruling party Zanu-PF has scoffed at former MDC leader Mr Nelson Chamisa's newly formed party - the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC), saying changing the name does not change the fact that they are a punch bag.Addressing journalists …

Published: 27 Jan 2022 at 04:37hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter

Chamisa's MDC in crunch meeting over party name

THE Nelson Chamisa led MDC Alliance will Monday hold a "crucial" meeting to deliberate on a possible new name for the party ahead of the March 26 by-elections and the 2023 plebiscite after their nemesis, the MDC-T led by Douglas Mwonzora l…

Published: 09 Jan 2022 at 06:05hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter

Chamisa claims he will get back his party headquarters

MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa said his party would get back everything it lost to a rival faction, including the party's Morgan Richard Tsvangirai (MRT) headquarters.He said the MDC Alliance did not react radically to the "illegal Sta…

Published: 24 Sep 2021 at 09:29hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter

Chamisa party name change imminent

MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has suggested that his party was moving towards changing its name after a rival faction started angling to claim its name. Douglas Mwonzora and his MDC-T faction have claimed ownership of the MDC Alliance…

Published: 13 Sep 2021 at 06:17hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter

Coalition vs single party election approach

IN the past three weeks, I discussed the importance of reforms ahead of the 2023 elections. While the discussion is gaining momentum, it is yet to be matched by action on the ground.The objective of reforms is not to target a political par…

Published: 13 Sep 2021 at 06:06hrs | 18 | by Tapiwa Gomo

Zimbabwe opposition party consults spirit mediums

THE recently-launched Conservative Zimbabwe party has consulted spirit mediums and elders at the Njelele shrine in Matobo to enhance its chances of winning the 2023 polls.Conservative Zimbabwe president Patrick Matsinhanise confirmed the p…

Published: 28 Aug 2021 at 05:56hrs | 1135 | by Staff reporter

Conservative Zimbabwe Party launched in Bulawayo

A NEW political party which claims that it can transform Zimbabwe's ailing economy was launched in Bulawayo at the weekend.Conservative Zimbabwe Party was launched in Hillside on Saturday and is led by its president Patrick Matsinhanise.Ma…

Published: 16 Aug 2021 at 07:22hrs | 28 | by Staff reporter

Mthwakazi party re-brands

THE Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) has embarked on a re-branding exercise, which will see the opposition changing its flag and party regalia.The party's spokesperson, Velile Moyo confirmed the development and said the new party's paraphern…

Published: 03 Aug 2021 at 08:06hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter

Intra-party violence rocks Mwonzora party

SEVERAL MDC-T supporters were reportedly injured following intra-party clashes at a senior leader's house in Marlborough, Harare, on Sunday.The Douglas Mwonzora opposition outfit yesterday accused the rival MDC Alliance of fanning the viol…

Published: 11 May 2021 at 06:48hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter

How to wreck a political party

One of the issues that MDC Alliance leader, Nelson Chamisa raised during his Agenda 2021 address last week were claims that Government was gunning for a one party State in Zimbabwe using some opposition political parties. Notwithstanding t…

Published: 22 Mar 2021 at 06:05hrs | 10 | by Nobleman Runyanga

15 arrested at birthday bash

FIFTEEN people who were part of more than 100 people who attended a suspected gold dealer's birthday party on Sunday in violation of lockdown rules at a house in Nkulumane suburb where police officers were attacked, have been arrested. The…

Published: 26 Jan 2021 at 06:53hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter

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