Politics

As Zimbabwe barrels towards next year’s harmonised elections, Zanu PF is firing from all cylinders winning elections in urban areas and increasing its leads in rural constituencies in a bold statement that analysts say spell doom for the crisis-riddled opposition. In the past few years, Zanu PF has been thumping …

Exiled former Cabinet minister, Professor Jonathan Moyo, who has been on a tirade poking holes at opposition Citizens’ Coalition for Change (CCC) for operating without party structures, has once again taken aim at its leader, Nelson Chamisa. This time around, the acerbic ally of late former president Robert Mugabe who …

Jailed opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) lawmaker Job Sikhala has been denied bail again by Harare magistrate Tafadzwa Miti who ruled that he is an incorrigible and unrepentant criminal. This is despite the fact that Sikhala has no conviction in over 60 arrests. Sikhala had applied for bail on …

Self-exiled former minister Saviour Kasukuwere has accused the ruling Zanu PF party of failing to abide by its constitution in elevating President Emmerson Mnangagwa as its leader following the ousting of the late former leader Robert Mugabe. Speaking at a discussion on the fifth anniversary of Mugabe’s ouster held under …

Members of Parliament with a criminal conviction will no longer be allowed to contest future elections. According to the Electoral Act Amendment Bill, 2022 that was gazetted on Friday, legislators or councillors will be disqualified if they commit physical violence or dishonesty crimes and get convicted within a period of …

On Thursday 17 November 2022, Sapes Trust run by academic and publisher Professor Ibbo Mandaza convened a webinar on Zoom, titled Back to the Future: A Review of the Post-November 2017 Coup in Zimbabwe. The webinar coincided with the commemoration of the fifth anniversary of the coup that is a …

Late former President Robert Mugabe’s artefacts are not part of the fascinating array of Zimbabwe liberation heroes’ war relics currently on display at the much-hyped Museum of African Liberation in Harare amid signs the late leader’s family could be deliberately keeping the vestiges from a project so passionately spearheaded by …

Zanu PF spokesman Christopher Mutsvangwa on Wednesday said late former president Robert Mugabe’s nephew, Patrick Zhuwao, and the former information minister Jonathan Moyo were “welcome back into Zanu PF”, hours after the duo penned an open letter to Zanu PF members apologising for previously calling for a change of government. …

Robert Mugabe’s nephew Patrick Zhuwao and the late president’s former information tzar Jonathan Moyo have inched closer to rejoining Zanu PF after issuing a statement apologising to “comrade members” for backing the opposition. In an open letter to Zanu PF members, seen by ZimLive, the duo – ousted during a …

Four Citizens’ Coalition for Change (CCC) activists arrested in Chinhoyi for allegedly threatening to kill MDC Alliance leader, Douglas Mwonzora, appeared in court Tuesday. They had to spend another night in custody after Chinhoyi Magistrate, Chido Garwe, deferred bail ruling to Wednesday, November 16. The arrested quartet have been identified …