Politics

President Joe Biden and ex-President Donald Trump held duelling rallies as the election to reshape Congress entered its final campaign day. Mr Biden and Mr Trump made their last-minute pleas to voters in New York and Florida respectively. Momentum has shifted recently towards Republicans, who are trying to wrestle both …

The Zimbabwe Gender Commission (ZGC) has finally spoken against attacks on CCC legislators and other female opposition activists by alleged Zanu PF supporters in Matabeleland South last month. Persons driving on Zanu PF marked vehicles descended on CCC supporters in two separate campaign activities ahead of by-elections in Matobo and …

President Emmerson Mnangagwa may call snap general elections in the first quarter of next year — in March — after securing a fresh mandate as Zanu PF leader and its candidate in the polls, it emerged during the party’s congress at the weekend. Inside sources say although constitutionally elections should …

With the Zanu PF congress set to confirm that President Emmerson Mnangagwa has outsmarted Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga, the late former president Robert Mugabe’s warning to the ex-military general amid the 2017 coup has now come to pass. Mugabe warned Chiwenga that Mnangagwa would use and dump coup leaders unless he …

ZANU PF’s highest decision making body, the Central Committee has endorsed President Mnangagwa as the party’s First Secretary and sole party Presidential candidate for the 2023 harmonised elections ahead of the official opening of the 7th Zanu PF National People’s Congress today. The Central Committee also endorsed names of successful …

High Court Judge Munamato Mutevedzi has dismissed with costs, a case in which former opposition jailbirds Yvonne Musarurwa, Tungamirirai Madzokere and Last Maengahama sought to be afforded the right to vote in the country’s polls while still serving time. The three applicants who were still detained at Chikurubi Maximum Prison …

Presidential spokesperson, George Charamba, has poured scorn on Citizens’ Coalition for Change (CCC) leader, Nelson Chamisa’s Chikurubi visit, telling the opposition leader he can meet his party members at their next court appearance. Prior to Charamba’s remarks, Chamisa was denied access to visit incarcerated lawmakers, Job Sikhala and Godfrey Sithole, …

President Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday implored Zanu PF supporters to shun violence in their mobilisation campaigns ahead of the 2023 elections. He made the remarks while addressing central committee members at the ongoing congress in the capital. Mnangagwa said: “The path of peace, tolerance and non-violence must remain the fundamental hallmark …

HOME Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe has been summoned to Parliament to issue a ministerial statement on what the police is doing to clamp down on perpetrators of political violence targeting opposition Citizens’ Coalition for Change (CCC) officials and activists ahead on next year’s general elections.  The development comes as political …

Business was as usual in Bulawayo on Tuesday, as most residents ignored the few hundreds of government sympathisers marching against sanctions in the central business district. The march, convened under the so-christened SADC anti-sanctions day, started from government’s Mhlahlandlela Complex, with the placard waving group proceeding onto Joshua Nkomo Street …