Ncube, Biti, to close parties, Join Nelson Chamisa’s bigger MDC
HARARE: The Nelson Chamisa-led MDC is reuniting with its former secretaries-general — Welshman Ncube and Tendai Biti. Ncube and Biti, who ditched the main MDC, then under Morgan Tsvangirai’s leadership in 2005 and 2014 respectively, are expected to land senior positions at the party’s elective congress next year. The decision to reunite with their respective […]
Did Chief Justice Malaba say “we believe in facts, not figures”?
CLAIM: Senior opposition figures, including former minister Jonathan Moyo and MDC Alliance presidential candidate Nelson Chamisa’s chief election agent Jameson Timba, have alleged that Chief Justice Luke Malaba, while ruling in Chamisa’s presidential election petition, said figures were not important. CONCLUSION: The claim, which has been reduced by many critics of the Constitutional Court ruling […]
“No Progress Without Chamisa, Join Mnangagwa”: War Veterans Tell Chamisa
Secretary General of the Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association (ZNLWVA) Victor Matemadanda has called on MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa to close ranks with President Emmerson Mnangagwa because a divided house will not stand. Matemadanda said war veterans believed that the country could only move forward if Chamisa accepts Mnangagwa’s invitation to work with […]
Analysts Say Zimbabwe President Mnangagwa Has Long Road Ahead
Newly-inaugurated Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa is promising a bright future for his country, and asking all the country’s citizens to unite and embrace his vision. However, with the opposition MDC Alliance promising to punch holes into his presidency, which it challenged in court, analysts say Mnangagwa has a long road ahead. Before his fellow citizens, […]
Old Zimbabwe Is the New Zimbabwe
The old guns have retained power in Zimbabwe. On Friday the country’s constitutional court confirmed Emmerson Mnangagwa, the leader of the incumbent Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front, as the president after rejecting a legal challenge by the leading opposition party seeking the annulment of the results of the country’s July 30 election. According to the […]
Zimbabwe Opposition MDC Alliance Rejects Ruling and ‘False’ Inauguration
HARARE — Zimbabwe’s main opposition leader said Saturday he respectfully rejects the court ruling upholding President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s narrow election win and he called the inauguration set for Sunday “false.” Nelson Chamisa spoke a day after the Constitutional Court unanimously rejected the opposition’s claims of vote-rigging and said it did not bring “sufficient and credible […]
EU, U.K. Broker Zim crisis talks Talks; Chamisa may be offered State salary?
European and British diplomats proposed the creation of a U.K.-style parliamentary opposition structure in Zimbabwe to reduce political tensions after last month’s disputed presidential election. EU and U.K. emissaries met senior members of the ruling party and the opposition in the past 10 days to discuss the proposals, according to three people familiar with the […]
‘We’ve all evidence to prove we won the elections,’ says MDC
Zimbabwe’s Constitutional Court on Wednesday began to hear an opposition petition seeking to overturn the presidential election result, in a legal challenge seen as unlikely to succeed despite allegations of vote fraud. The Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) has accused the ruling Zanu-PF party and the election commission of rigging the July 30 vote, Zimbabwe’s […]
Chiwenga announces coup via ZBC advert, Congratulates Mnangagwa before court settles Chamisa petition
Yesterday evening ZBC ran a controversial advert by Zimbabwe Vice President Constantino Chiwenga, war vets, army commanders and the security forces congratulating Mnangagwa for winning Zimbabwe’s July 30 elections. A Harare man who refused to be named described Chiwenga’s move as a media coup designed to threaten and intimidate judges who will preside over the […]
Stop Colluding With Opposition, War Vets Victor Matemadanda Warn America, Britain
President elect, Emmerson Mnangagwa’s international re-engagement efforts could be thrown into disarray following remarks by the Zimbabwe Liberation War Veterans Association (ZLWVA) who accused Britain and the United States of extending sanctions on Zimbabwe as well as working with the opposition MDC Alliance. Mnangagwa who took over from former President Robert Mugabe last November through […]
