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'I was told to stop supporting Mnangagwa'
WE today conclude our interview with Elphas Tshuma, a former guerilla who operated in Hurungwe in Mashonaland West Province and later on in Hwange in Matabeleland North. Tshuma, now a member of the ru...Published: 05 Feb 2023 at 08:27hrs | 841 | by Staff reporter
Fluttering the Triple C dovecote
Horror times for Triple CKikikiki, Professor Jonathan Moyo and Patrick Zhuwao have caused a perfect storm in Chamisa's already troubled, and inexorably shrinking space. They have written to "c...Published: 19 Nov 2022 at 06:26hrs | 179 | by Staff reporter
Is Zimbabwe's opposition ready for 2023 elections?
The main opposition will enter next year's election with a new name, Citizens Coalitions for Change (CCC). Hidden in the acronym perhaps not deftly is the personalistic nature of opposition politics i...Published: 09 Nov 2022 at 05:16hrs | 1950 | by Innocent Mpoki
Chiwenga flies to Togo on luxury jet linked to Libyan strongman
Zimbabwe's vice president Constantino Chiwenga on Tuesday flew to Togo on a private jet linked to Libyan strongman Khalifa Haftar, a renegade military commander who now controls the eastern and some s...Published: 24 Aug 2022 at 21:22hrs | 2106 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, Chiwenga fallout, Zanu-PF youths spring to Mnangagwa defence
A SENIOR Zanu-PF youth league official has hit out ruling party "renegades" who recently claimed there was mounting tension over a power handover agreement between President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his...Published: 20 Jul 2022 at 08:20hrs | 11229 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF threatens 'renegade' group 'with tragic consequences'
Zanu-PF has threatened 'with tragic consequences' a dissident group claiming to be part of them which recently claimed President Emmerson Mnangagwa no longer served interests of the party.The ...Published: 19 Jul 2022 at 06:15hrs | 2179 | by Staff reporter
Mnanaggwa haunted by 2017 coup skeletons
NEW information emerging from Zanu-PF corridors indicates that the current factional fights in the ruling party are emanating from a 2017 power-sharing deal gone sour, NewsDay has gathered.Pre...Published: 18 Jul 2022 at 19:27hrs | 2938 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF warns renegades
Zanu-PF has warned fired former party members, Godfrey Tsenengamu and Jimu Kunaka, against abusing the revolutionary party's regalia and trademarks as appropriate action would be taken against them....Published: 18 Jul 2022 at 08:23hrs | 1263 | by Staff reporter
Massive looting exposed at CIO
CENTRAL Intelligence Organisation (CIO) financial records are in a shambles amid fears that senior officers in the state spy agency are presiding over massive looting and hounding out two senior emplo...Published: 04 Jun 2022 at 20:00hrs | 4185 | by Staff reporter
MDC-T bigwigs gun for deflated Mwonzora
MDC-T leader Douglas Mwonzora's days at the helm of the opposition outfit could be numbered as hawks within the party are baying for his blood, attributing the political outfit's dismal performance in...Published: 08 Apr 2022 at 19:31hrs | 3962 | by Staff reporter
A golden gift from the political gods
If next year's watershed elections needed any divination, then the just-ended by-elections were the divine bones cast by a bone-thrower to provide a reading of the future.Well, they are a gold...Published: 27 Mar 2022 at 07:27hrs | 87 | by Bishop Lazi
Zanu-PF meets Hichilema's party
Zanu-PF and Zambia's ruling party, the United Party for National Development (UPND) led by President Hakainde Hichilema, met this week to exchange notes, and disowned renegades within their rank and f...Published: 18 Feb 2022 at 05:31hrs | 551 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa a cunning megalomaniac
THERE is a problem that the Zimbabwean electorate is not seeing in the opposition politics of our country.The situation cannot even be explained using the words disaster and catastrophe. Many ...Published: 17 Jan 2022 at 06:34hrs | 1136 | by Gibson Nyikadzino
Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF desperate to engage Zambia leader
THE ruling Zanu-PF party yesterday said it was making frantic efforts to engage Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema over social media rants targeted at President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government by th...Published: 12 Nov 2021 at 05:37hrs | 23 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC probes mass defections
THE MDC Alliance says it is investigating the defection of 11 of its Gweru councillors to the rival MDC-T last week.Media reports indicated that at least 11 Gweru Urban and four Vungu Rural Di...Published: 07 Sep 2021 at 18:28hrs | 49 | by Staff reporter
New Kwekwe Deputy Mayor Recalled after serving 4 days in Office
Kwekwe Deputy Mayor Melody Chingarande has been recalled yesterday with other two Councillors by MDC T led by Douglas.Chingarande was recalled together with Kasipo Angeline of ward 10 an...Published: 07 Aug 2021 at 18:24hrs | 5 | by Fanuel Chinowaita
Mnangagwa under pressure to bring closure to Gukurahundi genocide matter
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is increasingly coming under pressure to bring closure to the 1980s Gukurahundi atrocities with Kezi traditional leader, Chief Bhidi yesterday saying piece-meal efforts ca...Published: 12 Jun 2021 at 07:54hrs | 18 | by Staff reporter
View from Up Here: Gukurahundi Genocide: An Open Wound Part 1
Gukurahundi is a thorny issue for our leaders. They do not want to talk about it, neither do they want it discussed. The objective is to relegate it to the dustbins of history. But can a nation move o...Published: 24 Apr 2021 at 09:21hrs | 43 | by Peter Muzira
Chaos reigns supreme within MDC-Alliance
The MDC Alliance members who attended the MDC-T Extra Ordinary Congress last year are under fire as pro-Chamisa members continue to call for their expulsion.The issue has been raised at almost...Published: 21 Apr 2021 at 14:33hrs | 7 | by Political Reporter
Mnangagwa gave me a task, says ex-Chamisa ally
FORMER MDC Alliance deputy treasurer-general Lillian Timveos, who recently defected to Zanu-PF, has confirmed long-held fears that the ruling party was plotting to decimate the opposition party ahead ...Published: 08 Mar 2021 at 05:51hrs | 19 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's ally under fire
MDC Alliance secretary-general, Chalton Hwende, pictured, who has been accused of bullying and at the centre of the ructions bedevilling the Nelson Chamisa-led formation, has offered to go before the ...Published: 27 Feb 2021 at 19:00hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Hwende blames Zanu-PF, Timveos for MDC Alliance implosion
MDC ALLIANCE secretary-general Chalton Hwende yesterday accused the ruling Zanu-PF party of trying to create a wedge between him and party leader Nelson Chamisa as a part of a grand plot to decimate t...Published: 27 Feb 2021 at 08:41hrs | 15 | 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 | 14 | by Simon BarleyChalton Hwende
Mamombe press conference snubbed
Harare West legislator, Joana Mamombe's press conference which was aimed at calling for the release of Makomborero Haruzivishe, has been snubbed by many who called the legislator to order and lead the...Published: 26 Feb 2021 at 13:27hrs | 3 | by Political Writer
Big Saturday read: The other side of the story
On the 27th of July 2017, the late President Morgan Tsvangirai convened an Extra-Ordinary National Council Meeting at his Highlands home.On the Agenda was the ratification of the Coalition Agr...Published: 17 Jan 2021 at 16:13hrs | 14 | by Lloyd Damba
Dead bodies in Chamisa's hands
On the 27th of July 2017, the late President Morgan Tsvangirai convened an Extra-Ordinary National Council Meeting at his Highlands home.On the Agenda was the ratification of the Coalition Agr...Published: 17 Jan 2021 at 15:28hrs | 2 | by Lloyd Damba
An open letter to all former Zipra cadres - Response to comments from the president of the MLF
17 December, 2020 Comments on any presentation, debate and indeed on any other body of ideas put forward are one of the cornerstones of what makes us human. It is through such engagements that...Published: 18 Dec 2020 at 21:40hrs | 37 | by Churchill Mpiyesizwe Guduza
MDC Alliance abduction skeletons tumble
A FORMER MDC official, Nqobizitha Khumalo, who is now with the People Democratic Party (PDP) has revealed how the opposition party has been faking abductions and causing terror in the country through ...Published: 05 Dec 2020 at 06:03hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC morphs into a terrorist ragtag?
A young politician with vibrancy is what many people thought of the advocate-cum-pastor and leader of a party that some believed was the true voice of an alternative logic. Nelson Chamisa foun...Published: 26 Nov 2020 at 07:10hrs | 1 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Mnangagwa says anti-graft crusade will spare no one
GONE are the days when senior Zanu-PF members would engage in corruption hiding behind their statuses, President Mnangagwa said yesterday as he called for free and fair elections in the ongoing pa...Published: 22 Oct 2020 at 10:38hrs | 4 | by Staff Reporter
Chamisa's MDC-A should give Zimbabwe a break
ON October 25, Zimbabwe will be walking tall, arm in arm with its regional partners in calling for the unconditional removal of illegal sanctions imposed on the country by Western nations that seek to...Published: 19 Oct 2020 at 06:14hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Punter sues OK Zimbabwe over groceries
LEADING retail chain, OK Zimbabwe has been taken to court by a local punter, who is seeking an order to compel the supermarket to supply him with groceries valued at US$200 every month for life in ter...Published: 16 Oct 2020 at 07:07hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Police summon NewsDay scribe over expose
POLICE in Karoi have allegedly invited NewsDay correspondent Nhau Mangirazi for interrogation over a story that exposed their colleague who, in the company of Zanu-PF youths in the area, raided shopow...Published: 01 Oct 2020 at 07:29hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Government and household budgets are not the same
We often talk about the national debt as though it is the same as the burden of debt shouldered by households.But the two couldn't be more different."People think 'paying down the debt...Published: 22 Sep 2020 at 08:46hrs | 5 | by Erick Matotoba
ANC, Zanu-PF collides
Zanu-PF and the African National Congress have sharply disagreed over the latter's future role in trying to find a solution to the deepening crisis in Zimbabwe.The ANC on Tuesday said it inten...Published: 16 Sep 2020 at 12:07hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
'ANC should not abuse its fraternal relations with Zanu-PF'
THE South African ruling party, the ANC, should not abuse its fraternal relations with Zanu-PF to poke its nose in the country's internal affairs, but should focus on multiple problems affecting that ...Published: 16 Sep 2020 at 06:15hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC reject claims it is training militias in Serbia, Moldova
The MDC Alliance has rejected Zanu-PF attempts to link the party to the shooting death of a soldier in Chivhu last week, and claims that Zimbabwe's main opposition party is training insurgents in Serb...Published: 12 Sep 2020 at 21:14hrs | 18 | by Staff reporter
Chinamasa issues chilling Chamisa, Biti warning
MDC Alliance President Nelson Chamisa and one of his co-vice presidents, Tendai Biti have been warned to stop behaving like little children and immediately close their party's violent cells before the...Published: 12 Sep 2020 at 07:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
When Excellencies grace Chitungwiza shebeen
What a couple of weeks of diplomatic intrigue.Epoch-making, maybe.Hallelujah! Praise be to the living God!We had desperately reckless American diplomats abandoning their airy a...Published: 25 Aug 2019 at 08:37hrs | 360 | by Bishop Lazi
Afcon renegades blacklisted
THE new Warriors technical team will be told not to select big goalkeeper George Chigova and China-based Nyasha Mushekwi among other players for future Warriors assignments, B-Metro Sport has learnt. ...Published: 24 Aug 2019 at 09:25hrs | 4663 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa in show of force to thwart MDC Bulawayo demo
Anti-riot police were out in full force in Bulawayo on Monday to thwart any attempts by members of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) to stage its planned demonstration.Most parts of the...Published: 19 Aug 2019 at 15:37hrs | 3351 | by Staff reporter
Ex-guerillas custodians of economic revolution
The freedom we enjoy today in the Southern Africa region is a product of a generation's sacrifice. The freedom which we have is at a cost of the sacred human life, with some having been deformed perma...Published: 05 Aug 2019 at 07:26hrs | 221 | by Collen Mharadzano
Deafening silence from ZANU PF Youth League over Auditor General’s report
The Auditor General has done a very good job exposing the rot , corruption and pure theft that exists in some state owned enterprises. The Auditor General and her team have done a very good job and we...Published: 01 Jul 2019 at 09:20hrs | 4227 | by Nicholas Ncube
'My main focus is to make urbanites understand Zanu-PF'
The ruling party Zanu-PF on Tuesday appointed Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans' Association (ZNLWVA) secretary-general Victor Matemadanda as secretary for the Commissariat. He replaced Engelb...Published: 15 Jun 2019 at 08:51hrs | 450 | by Staff reporter
MDC activists 'abducted'
TWO MDC activists were reportedly abducted by suspected State security agents in Gokwe early Tuesday morning and their whereabouts were still unknown last night.MDC Midlands provincial spokesp...Published: 06 Jun 2019 at 07:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Hands off flea markets' ZANU PF Youth leader warns
They say a fish rots from the head and indeed the MDC whose leadership is disputed is rotten to the marrow. The foreign sponsored opposition movement is fast degenerating into a renegade organization ...Published: 19 May 2019 at 10:31hrs | | by Pupurai Togarepi
Khupe is dancing Nobert Kunonga music
Not so long ago the Anglican Church in Zimbabwe had tasted abhorrent deep factional fights pitted embattled cleric Bishop Nobert Kunonga and the then incumbent Chad Gandiya cabal. Kunonga, a stan Muga...Published: 18 May 2019 at 08:44hrs | | by Benny Gudo
Mnangagwa bankrolls Tsvangirai memorial
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration is bankrolling the memorial service of the late former Zimbabwe Prime Minister and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai, which is being held at his Buhera ...Published: 04 May 2019 at 20:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF youths yet to receive Tsenengamu's resignation notice
THE Zanu-PF Youth League is yet to receive a formal resignation notice from its political commissar Godfrey Tsenengamu following his social media statements highlighting his departure from the youth w...Published: 04 May 2019 at 08:03hrs | 1625 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe opposition and lost opportunities
Election 2018 was largely considered a landmark event for the different meanings and opportunities that were attached to it, particularly for the new faces in the presidential race, Emmerson Mnangagwa...Published: 29 Apr 2019 at 06:48hrs | 362 | by Reason Wafawarova
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