Police have arrested lawyer and opposition Movement for Democratic (MDC) Alliance party spokesperson, Advocate Fadzayi Mahere, and charged her with inciting or promoting public disorder or public violence after she allegedly tweeted about the abuse of a minor by a police officer. In a tweet, Mahere said, “Arrested. This regime […]
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. […]
The opposition MDC Alliance is panicking over suspicions of infiltration within its structures by suspected State agents to destabilise the party. A leaked audio recording by the MDC Alliance Bulawayo provincial women’s assembly chairlady Tendai Masotsha has sent the party into panic mode, with senior party officials saying there were […]
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 […]
AT least five Zanu PF candidates will contest the party’s primary elections to be held soon to fill the Marondera East constituency seat that was left vacant following the death of Patrick Chidhakwa. Chidhakwa died in South Africa last month due to heart complications and was buried at his rural […]
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 […]