Zimbabwe has one shot at redemption
“The application is dismissed with costs.” With these words, Chief Justice Luke Malaba brushed aside whatever irregularities there might have been in the July 30 elections in Zimbabwe to affirm Emmerson Mnangagwa’s victory as “the will of the people”, setting the stage for his inauguration. Elections all over the world, he argued, are not simply […]
Chiwenga’s “Coup Deep State” where the real power lies in Zimbabwe
Since the events of November 2017, the power that governs Zimbabwe has become fully apparent. There are different kinds of power at play in the Zimbabwean society and as I write, military power overrides all the others. This military power is in the hands of none other than the coup maker, Constantino Chiwenga. Every other […]
President Mnangagwa lines up Thank You rallies
President Mnangagwa will soon embark on a countrywide tour to thank the people for voting him and Zanu PF in the July 30 harmonised elections and will take the opportunity to outline Government’s programme on devolution of power. President Mnangagwa said this when he handed over 90 cars to chiefs to fulfill Government’s commitment to […]
Zimbabwe’s president takes oath as U.S censure hangs over vote
HARARE (Reuters) – Emmerson Mnangagwa urged Zimbabwe to unite behind his presidency on Sunday, as he took the oath of office following a divisive election that U.S. observers said had called the country’s democratic credentials into question. The Constitutional Court confirmed Mnangagwa as president on Friday, dismissing a challenge by the man he beat in […]
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 […]
A Subdued Zimbabwe Inaugurates Emmerson Mnangagwa Again
HARARE — Zimbabwe on Sunday inaugurated a president for the second time in nine months as a country recently jubilant over the fall of longtime leader Robert Mugabe is now largely subdued by renewed harassment of the opposition and a bitterly disputed election. The military-backed President Emmerson Mnangagwa, who again took the oath of office, […]
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 […]
Mnangagwa looks beyond Chamisa challenge, belittles pending ConCourt
PRESIDENT-ELECT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday appeared unfazed by opposition MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa’s Constitutional Court (ConCourt) petition challenging the results of last month’s presidential election. In his speech at the burial of national heroine and former Matabeleland North Provincial Affairs minister Thokozile Mathuthu, the Zanu PF leader dwelt on his vision for the “Second Republic” […]
Swear in Chamisa or re-run elections… Tajamuka declares war on ED Mnangagwa, ZEC
By Tajamuka| The Zimbabwean judiciary must swear in Nelson Chamisa as President of Zimbabwe with immediate effect or call for peaceful, free, fair, credible and international conducted re-run of the Presidential election. The alteration of figures by ZEC reveal that the Presidential figures were tempered with in favour of the outgoing President Emmerson Mnangagwa. We […]
