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Mnangagwa crafts crude strategy to stay in power
IN December 2014, the late Zanu-PF Women's League national secretary Shuvai Mahofa collapsed after spending two hours singing and dancing in support of the then First Lady Grace Mugabe. Mahofa...Published: 20 Nov 2022 at 15:41hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa crafts crude strategy to stay in power, revels in adulation
IN December 2014, the late Zanu-PF Women's League national secretary Shuvai Mahofa collapsed after spending two hours singing and dancing in support of the then First Lady Grace Mugabe. Mahofa...Published: 23 Oct 2022 at 09:20hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa legitimacy challenge struck off the roll
THE High Court has struck off the roll an application by Zanu-PF activist, Sybeth Musengezi who is challenging President Emmerson Mnangagwa's legitimacy to lead both the ruling party and Zimbabwe....Published: 03 Oct 2022 at 19:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Court bid launched to block Zanu-PF congress
IN a fresh audacious bid to tackle President Emmerson Mnangagwa's controversial rise to power through a 2017 coup, Zanu-PF card-carrying member Sybeth Musengezi, also a local businessman, has filed an...Published: 27 Aug 2022 at 20:50hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
CCC to impose leaders
THE Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) is embarking on new processes to elect its national leaders, thereby possibly ditching the traditional congresses.This follows recent reports that the p...Published: 06 May 2022 at 19:27hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's CCC refuses to go for Congress
OPPOSITION Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) yesterday said it would not be stampeded into holding an early elective congress by some Zanu-PF elements and exiled G40 members it claims harbour sinist...Published: 27 Apr 2022 at 12:56hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo speaks on CCC elective Congress
Professor Jonathan Moyo has weighed in on the impending CCC elective Congress saying a party that does not hold a Congress beforea general election is less likely to win political power. Moyo ...Published: 21 Apr 2022 at 20:47hrs | 2 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Khupe faces recall from MDC-T
IN a dramatic turn of events revolving around a political merry-go-round, and after spearheading recalls of main opposition MDC Alliance legislators in a cutthroat power struggle with Nelson Chamisa, ...Published: 12 Dec 2021 at 20:17hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
MDC implosion sets back the struggle for change
Zimbabwe is stuck in mud. People of my generation were in their late 20s or early 30s when Zimbabwe attained independence in 1980. Those fortunate to be still alive are now elderly and on the cusp to ...Published: 15 Jan 2021 at 08:00hrs | | by Tendai Dumbutshena
PHOTOS: Khupe, Komichi run for dear life as Mwonzora followers bay for their blood
MDC-T interim leader Thokozani Khupe and party national chairperson Morgen Komichi were forced to run for dear life Sunday evening when suspected followers to secretary general Douglas Mwonzora pelted...Published: 27 Dec 2020 at 19:15hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF district elections escalate Mnangagwa, Chiwenga fight
THE impending Zanu-PF District Coordinating Committee (DCC) elections have presented a new battlefield for party bigwigs, who are scheming to consolidate their political power in various provinces ahe...Published: 18 Sep 2020 at 06:44hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
ZANU PF removes General Engelbert Rugeje from office
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has removed ZANU PF Secretary for Commissariat Engelbert Rugeje from the powerful office and replaced him with Victor Matemadanda who was previously Secretary for Wa...Published: 10 Jun 2019 at 14:34hrs | 2 | by Mandla Ndlovu
SA billionaire sues Botswana paper for R6.7m
The newspaper that published an article accusing Bridgette Radebe of interfering in Botswana politics and claimed that her brother Patrice Motsepe smuggled R22 million to influence succession politics...Published: 07 Jun 2019 at 19:53hrs | 11 | by Citizen
Nelson Chamisa digs in
MDC President Nelson Chamisa says there is no law that can stop the MDC from holding its congress and pursuing a democratic change in Zimbabwe.Chamisa was commenting after a High Court judge o...Published: 10 May 2019 at 09:53hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zapu cranks up pressure on Mnangagwa
Scores of veterans of the liberation struggle who fought on the side of the Zipra - the military wing of-PF Zapu- yesterday converged in Bulawayo to explore ways of recovering their party's property w...Published: 01 Apr 2019 at 06:59hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zapu's seized properties now officially belong to Zanu-PF
THE Dumiso Dabengwa-led Zapu has reacted angrily to claims that its properties which were seized by the government during the early 1980s now officially belong to the ruling Zanu-PF.This comes...Published: 27 Mar 2019 at 15:20hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
State declines to prosecute man who dislikes Mnangagwa's face
THE case of a Maramba-PFungwe man facing charges of insulting or undermining the authority of the president failed to kickoff at the Murewa Magistrates' Courts, Tuesday after the State indicated it ha...Published: 14 Mar 2019 at 07:49hrs | 2 | by newzimbabwe
Mnangagwa endorsements dangerous for Zimbabwe
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has repeatedly told us that his post-Robert Mugabe administration won't bother about politics, but the economy. That's a measured lie that was never going to make sense an...Published: 16 Dec 2018 at 10:51hrs | 2 | by Tawanda Majoni
Mnangagwa's new headache
ZANU-PF leader Emmerson Mnangagwa comes face to face with the party's enormous demands as discord emerges over the party-state conflation following his ascendancy last November. The confe...Published: 01 Dec 2018 at 15:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa ouster plot exposed
THE gloves are off in the opposition MDC as hawks plotting the ouster of leader Nelson Chamisa are reportedly unhappy that the party's elective congress will be held in October next year, when they wo...Published: 14 Nov 2018 at 06:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Mugabe ignored coup warnings,' says Jonathan Moyo
FORMER President Robert Mugabe was forewarned about the coup that would topple him from power, but distrusted those who warned him and believed his then deputy Emmerson Mnangagwa and former Defence Fo...Published: 12 Nov 2018 at 05:49hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Gwanda to host Zanu-PF's December conference
ZANU-PF will in December hold its annual conference in Matabeleland South, Gwanda, the party's Secretary for Administration, Dr Obert Mpofu, has said.This will be the first time for the ruling...Published: 24 Sep 2018 at 23:56hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa threatens to expel MDC members opposed to his leadership
MDC-T political bigwigs are on a renewed collision course over attempts to oust some senior party members critical of its president Nelson Chamisa's leadership style after a heated National Council me...Published: 01 Sep 2018 at 13:53hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa and keeping the promise
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa's meeting with members of the white, Asian and mixed race communities at Borrowdale Race course in Harare on Saturday generated a lot of excitement among opposition parties as they...Published: 23 Jul 2018 at 06:50hrs | | by Nduduzo Tshuma
Zanu-PF stuck with Mugabe regalia
ZANU-PF is stuck with a montage of party regalia, emblazoned with the face of its deposed leader Robert Mugabe, the Daily News on Sunday reported.Last year, Mugabe had appeared to be on track ...Published: 08 Jul 2018 at 13:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Council bosses on looting spree'
OUTGOING president of the Association of Rural District Councils (ARDC), Killer Zivhu, has accused the association's executives of going on a looting spree, including awarding themselves obscene allow...Published: 09 Jun 2018 at 15:53hrs | | by Staff rpeorter
Chamisa in contempt of court?
The MDC-T faction led by Nelson Chamisa undermined the integrity of the courts and should be charged for contempt for ascribing wrong motives to a judge who presided over a case in which Chamisa sough...Published: 26 Apr 2018 at 08:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa undermines integrity of the courts
The MDC-T faction led by Mr Nelson Chamisa undermined the integrity of the courts and should be charged for contempt for ascribing wrong motives to a judge who presided over a case in which Mr Chamisa...Published: 26 Apr 2018 at 08:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC-T congress kicks off in Bulawayo
The breakaway MDC-T led by Dr Thokozani Khupe today faces a moment of truth as it holds its congress to elect substantive leaders after splitting from the group under Mr Nelson Chamisa.Thokoza...Published: 21 Apr 2018 at 11:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Khupe faces moment of truth
THE breakaway MDC-T led by Dr Thokozani Khupe today faces a moment of truth as it holds its congress to elect its substantive leaders after splitting from the group under Advocate Nelson Chamisa....Published: 21 Apr 2018 at 07:25hrs | | by Staff Reporter
MDC-T holds special congress tomorrow
THE Dr Thokozani Khupe-led MDC-T will tomorrow hold a make-or-break special congress to elect its substantive leaders after splitting from the group under Mr Nelson Chamisa.MDC-T officially sp...Published: 20 Apr 2018 at 07:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa blames Khupe attack on Zanu-PF
THE attacks on former MDC-T vice-president Thokozani Khupe are the handiwork of Zanu-PF, the opposition party's leader Nelson Chamisa told a South African television station late Monday.Khupe ...Published: 17 Apr 2018 at 09:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Robert Mugabe's generation almost gone
THE generation with which President Robert Mugabe lived and worked during the liberation struggle leading to Independence is almost gone with the death of Zanu-PF politburo member Nathan Shamuyarira o...Published: 04 Apr 2018 at 13:33hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chiyangwa's woes mount
PREMIER Soccer League boss, Keni Mubaiwa has added to Zifa president, Philip Chiyangwa's woes by declining to be co-opted into the football governing body's Executive Committee.Mubaiwa had bee...Published: 30 Mar 2018 at 09:05hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
FIFA to protect Chiyangwa and cronies?
WORLD football governing body FIFA are today expected to make a landmark pronouncement which will be the guiding principle in the resolution of the saga which has exploded in ZIFA in the wake of some ...Published: 30 Mar 2018 at 08:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Khupe is right, Chamisa is right
With the benefit of hindsight, most would believe mainstream opposition leaders ought to have made better decisions on various key issues dogging their parties and opposition politics in the country. ...Published: 26 Mar 2018 at 10:04hrs | 1 | by Robert Sigauke, Political Analyst, Johannesburg
Khupe organises elective congress
EMBATTLED MDC-T deputy president, Thokozani Khupe, has announced plans to hold a special congress next month where she hopes to be endorsed as substantive leader of the party's breakaway faction....Published: 23 Mar 2018 at 06:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC-T split looms
MDC-T Vice President, Dr Thokozani Khupe says she is the legitimate party leader and will not lose sleep over threats by the Acting President Nelson Chamisa.Addressing thousands of supporters ...Published: 18 Mar 2018 at 18:29hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Externalisers repatriate $300 million ahead of amnesty deadline
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday said the amount of money repatriated back to Zimbabwe has increased to $300 million from $250 million as he called on externalisers to heed the Government's call...Published: 17 Mar 2018 at 07:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Chamisa endorsed by spirit mediums at Njelele shrine'
MDC president, Welshman Ncube, has bizarrely claimed that MDC Alliance presidential candidate Nelson Chamisa's appointment had been endorsed by spirit mediums at Njelele shrine as evidenced by the rai...Published: 13 Mar 2018 at 06:10hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Is Thokozani Khupe serious or just a spoiler?
EDITOR,Thokozani Khupe was conspicuous by her absence from MDC party business for some eight months but suddenly comes out guns blazing when our icon, Morgan Tsvangirai, died.I would l...Published: 02 Mar 2018 at 16:01hrs | | by A Mbire
Khupe appeals to MDC-T Guardian Council
MDC-T deputy president Thokozani Khupe has all but surrendered her fight for the party leadership to Nelson Chamisa after she appealed to the party's elders to resolve the internecine dispute followin...Published: 28 Feb 2018 at 06:04hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe is being betrayed by the MDC - The opposition must think outside the box
Morgan Richard Tsvangirai stands as a giant in Zimbabwe politics. More than any other, he has taken the fight up to ZANU PF for the last 18 years and he has paid dearly for his courageous stance. At a...Published: 14 Feb 2018 at 10:09hrs | | by Tapson Muchena
New look Zanu-PF refocused, stronger
Zanu-PF is reconfiguring itself, detoxifying itself from the destructive politics of the G40 cabal and restoring its revolutionary legacy through a number of initiatives that will make it the stronges...Published: 24 Jan 2018 at 05:34hrs | | by Nduduzo Tshuma
Tsvangirai appears increasingly frail, MDC-T mulls future without him
The MDC-T is in a quandary over whether its long-serving leader and founder Morgan Tsvangirai, who's undergoing treatment for colon cancer, should retire before this year's elections.While Tsv...Published: 14 Jan 2018 at 11:38hrs | 1 | by Bloomberg
Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF to amend party constitution
The ruling Zanu-PF party is set to amend its constitution to synchronise the tenure of its First Secretary and President with the provisions of the national Constitution while the contentious "one cen...Published: 14 Jan 2018 at 08:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
The day Mnangagwa visited Tsvangirai - Is it a noble gesture or cheap political points scoring?
Campaigning in Zimbabwe for 2018 elections has begun, at Tsvangirai's bedside, ZANU PF using his painful situation for image building, campaigning at the expense of MDC T /Alliance. This is for public...Published: 05 Jan 2018 at 18:30hrs | | by Sikhumbuzo SK Ndiweni
Khupe under fire
MDC-T vice president Thokozani Khupe is under attack from the Bulawayo province that criticises her continued opposition to Morgan Tsvangirai's plan for an opposition alliance to take on Emmerso...Published: 05 Jan 2018 at 16:17hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Tsvangirai in crisis meetings
MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai will next week hold crisis meetings of his party's top organs in a bid crush dissent and re-energise the movement that appears to be running out of steam ahead of crucial ...Published: 03 Jan 2018 at 10:53hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
MDC-T hawks push for Tsvangirai to step down
TOP MDC-T hawks have reportedly scaled up the campaign for an extraordinary congress in February next year to force party leader Morgan Tsvangirai to step down on health grounds and allow the oppositi...Published: 30 Dec 2017 at 05:48hrs | | by Staff Reporter
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