President Cyril Ramaphosa has found himself in another dilemma after Zimbabwe’s Zanu-PF spokesperson, Tafadzwa Mugwadi, threatened to reveal “a bombshell” regarding a recent visit by an ANC delegation to Zimbabwe. According to sources within Zanu-PF, there is a growing belief inside the party that Ramaphosa has been secretly funding opposition […]
Newly elected MDC-T president, Douglas Mwonzora has received gushing endorsement from President Emmerson Mnangagwa, raising serious questions about the party’s standing as a genuine opposition committed to dismantling Zanu-PF’s four decades stranglehold on state power. In tweets posted on his @edmnangagwa handle, the Zanu-PF leader welcomed Mwonzora’s pledge to transform […]
OPPOSITION MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa (pictured) has challenged President Emmerson Mnangagwa to stop violence in the country, arbitrary arrests, abductions and torture of civilians under his watch as such atrocities have rendered Unity Day “irrelevant”. This came as Mnangagwa, in his Unity Day speech emphasised peace-building and conflict resolution […]
By Patrick Guramatunhu “What we know is victory is certain, it’s only a matter of time. Every struggle has its own unique characteristics. We know exactly what we are doing – please do not panic,” Nelson Chamisa told his audience over the weekend. If MDC knew what it was doing […]
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has dealt opposition MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa another blow after allocating a paltry $2,3 billion to the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC), an amount inadequate to conduct by-elections next year. Chamisa lost 32 MPs and 165 councillors to recalls by rival MDC-T faction led by Thokozani Khupe. […]
MDC Alliance president Nelson Chamisa says institutions such as the African Union (AU) must take a tough stance against leaders on the continent that abuse human rights, including killing peaceful protesters. Chamisa told The Standard in an exclusive interview yesterday that the use of soldiers by African leaders to kill […]
The ruling by Justice Chitapi that MDC Alliance party does not legally exist is set to stand after the Supreme Court struck down the appeal by MDC Alliance lawyers. The appeal was stroke down after MDC Alliance lawyers failed to appear in the Supreme Court this Monday to challenge Justice Chitapi’s earlier […]
In another move to further disempower the MDC Alliance led by Nelson Chamisa, the Thokozani Khupe-led MDC-T yesterday removed Hwange Central MP Daniel Molokele from the chairmanship of the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Higher and Tertiary Education. Speaker of the National Assembly Jacob Mudenda yesterday announced that Molokele had been […]
Kwekwe mayor Angeline Kasipo has dismissed reports that she had crossed over to the Thokozani Khupe-led MDC-T, saying she would remain loyal to the MDC Alliance party led by Nelson Chamisa. Kasipo was recently reported to have jumped ship together with other members of the MDC Alliance. In an interview […]
By Ibbo Mandaza This time last year, Excelgate was about to be published, in the expectation, inter alia, that the MDC Alliance in particular would capitalize on the revelations therein, to both fuel their legal challenge against the Constitutional Court’s ruling on the disputed 2018 presidential election; and mount a […]