August 2018

HARARE – The legal team representing the MDC Alliance is accusing President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s administration of breaking into their attorney’s offices and stealing large amounts of data from their computer, days before the opposition alliance filed a petition challenging the results of the presidential election. The allegation, based on documents prepared by Mnangagwa’s lead advocate…

HARARE – ZANU PF will today file its opposing papers at the Constitutional Court (Con-Court), following an application by MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa, in which he is challenging the outcome of the July 30 presidential election. Chamisa filed his petition last Friday, challenging Zanu PF leader Emmerson Mnangagwa’s win. Zanu PF secretary of legal…

HARARE – The commander of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF), General Philip Valerio Sibanda, has blamed opposition political parties for the ugly scenes of violence witnessed in Harare just after the July 30 harmonised elections. At least six people have since died from the violence after soldiers deployed to quell the disturbances used live ammunition…

HARARE – Opposition MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has taken his battle with President Emmerson Mnangagwa for the country’s leadership a notch higher by referring to himself as the commander-in-chief of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF). In his Defence Forces Day message yesterday, Chamisa said he was proud of the ZDF’s professional conduct but slammed…

HARARE – Former minister of State for Midlands Provincial Affairs Jaison Machaya, who is facing abuse of office charges, has approached the High Court seeking to quash his prosecution. In the application, Machaya is arguing that the charges he is facing are politically-motivated. Machaya told the court that he was arraigned before the court for…

HARARE – Results for the 2018 harmonised election announced by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) expose disturbing arithmetic errors, an election watchdog has said. Election Resource Centre (ERC) said apart from the arithmetic errors there were also issues to do with over voting (more votes than registered voters), results counted more than once, missing polling…

HARARE – Former president Robert Mugabe’s factor has destabilised Zanu PF Mashonaland West province after MDC Alliance president Nelson Chamisa recorded a significant number of votes from the July 30 harmonised elections. Previously, Mashonaland West was a stronghold for the ruling party, however, the opposition managed to get 217 732 votes while president-elect Emmerson Mnangagwa…

HARARE – After successive defeats at the hands of the ruling Zanu PF party, the MDC as the biggest opposition party in the country was urged to form a grand coalition that would fight from one corner. The call was so loud that the late MDC president Morgan Tsvangirai initiated the project and invited other…

BULAWAYO – The Bulawayo community has blamed President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government for the renewal of Zimbabwe sanctions by the United State of America (USA). United States (US) President Donald Trump last week signed into law sanctions against Zimbabwe, after Mnangagwa’s government failed to fully embrace US’s electoral reform demands as outlined by that country’s Bill….