Battle lines drawn as MDC Alliance plots to challenge Mnangagwa’s constitutional amendments in court The Nelson Chamisa-led opposition MDC Alliance has resolved to challenge the passage of Constitution Amendment No 1 Bill in court saying the manner in which it was passed by Parliament was unconstitutional and ultra vires the 2013 Constitution. […]
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In defence of the coup: Myanmar’s generals unleash total violence
By early April, the number of anti-coup protesters killed at the hands of police and soldiers in Myanmar had passed 550. The military, unable to appease the resistance movement with its promises of elections in a year’s time, has both escalated its use of violence and shifted to a more unbridled […]
Komichi: Why MDC-T flip-flopped and backed constitutional amendments
MDC-T senators were cajoled into voting with Zanu PF to pass controversial amendments to the constitution in the hope that the ruling party will return the favour by backing it in its battles with the mainstream MDC Alliance, it has emerged. The Douglas Mwonzora-led party made a stunning somersault last […]
Mnangagwa’s amendments to our new constitution a danger to our democracy
The passing of the controversial constitutional amendments by the Senate last week marked yet another major reversal in Zimbabwe’s push to transform into a democracy since the 2017 coup. President Emmerson Mnangagwa and the security forces that masterminded the military putsch justified their move to topple Robert Mugabe by claiming […]
Mwonzora reported to ZACC over missing $6 million
An MDC-T activist on Friday lodged a complaint with the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) accusing the party’s leader Douglas Mwonzora of stealing over $6 million from the opposition party’s coffers. Patson Murimoga, a former Mwonzora ally, accuses the MDC-T leader of conniving with the party’s finance director Toddy Mapingire to […]
Grace Mugabe officials cover up shocking sodomy scandal at orphanage: reports
By Brian Chitemba Shocking details have emerged of how the former first family’s elite schools and orphanage nestled in a vast estate in Mazowe — 40km north of Harare — were rocked by an alleged child sexual abuse scandal that was kept under wraps. Investigations revealed the shocking scandal at […]
In it for themselves: Mwonzora MPs demand farms from Zanu-PF
Douglas Mwonzora’s MDC-T MPs are demanding that the Zanu PF government should allocate them farms, accusing the ruling party of partisan land redistribution that excluded them. The demand was made to Agriculture minister Anxious Masuka when he appeared before the Gokwe-Nembudziya MP Justice Mayor Wadyajena-chaired Parliament Portfolio Committee on Agriculture […]
More than 100 COVID cases recorded at two Mat South schools in a single day
Two schools in Matabeleland South have reported 106 cases of COVID-19, reigniting fears that schools remain hotspots and that authorities were not adequately prepared for their reopening. Sacred Heart Girls High School in Esigodini was closed on Thursday after 51 pupils tested positive to COVID-19. The Health ministry also reported […]
Mozambique: What next for the insurgency in Cabo Delgado?
By Alex Vines The armed insurgency in Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado province is international news following the attacks on Palma since 24 March. The total death count is likely to be in the dozens. Since 2017, 2 500 people have been killed and nearly 700 000 internally displaced by the Islamic State (Isis) […]
Why Mnangagwa wants Chief Justice Malaba to stay beyond his term
ON 6 April 2021, the Zimbabwean senate passed Constitutional Amendment Bill (N0.1), which had been declared null and void by the Constitutional Court (ConCourt) on 31 March 2020, after it was unconstitutionally approved by the upper House on 1 August 2017 without the required two-thirds majority (54 votes out of […]