ZANU PF is contemplating legislation that will bar former legislators from returning to Parliament if they would have previously voluntarily resigned from their positions. This comes after some MPs elected on the ticket of the warring Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) resigned from the august House in solidarity with their former leader Nelson Chamisa —…
ZANU PF says members of its affiliates must not belong to two or more such groups to avoid confusion as the party focuses on economic development after winning elections last year. In a letter addressed to all ruling party affiliates inviting them to a review and planning meeting for all organisations affiliated to it which…
IT WAS inevitable that former Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa’s political career would hit the skids again in the two-year-old party, as he is allegedly a “divisive character”. So say opposition stalwarts, Elias Mudzuri and Morgen Komichi, who worked with Chamisa — a self-confident pastor, lawyer and politician who answers to the…
ZANU PF is targeting to reclaim, in Saturday’s by-elections, three parliamentary seats which were snatched from the ruling party by the opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) in last August general elections. The contested seats which Zanu PF lost to CCC last year are Seke, Zvimba East, and Chegutu West. The seats fell vacant at…
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) MP for Mount Pleasant MP Fadzai Mahere has resigned from the National Assembly in solidarity with her former leader Nelson Chamisa who also dumped the opposition party last week. In a letter dated January 29, and addressed to Speaker of the National Assembly Jacob Mudenda, Mahere said she was resigning…
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) bigwigs are plotting the way forward after the sudden departure of their leader Nelson Chamisa from the party on Thursday. CCC notables who spoke to the Daily News yesterday said while they regretted, and had been taken by surprise by Chamisa’s departure, “life will go on”. In this regard, they…
IN A dramatic development, Nelson Chamisa yesterday dumped the strife-torn Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC), while also hinting that he will form a new political party going forward. The stunning move came after political analysts told the Daily News’s sister paper, the Daily News On Sunday last weekend, that Chamisa needed to seriously consider forming…
ZANU PF chief whip Pupurai Togarepi yesterday said his party’s parliamentary caucus was ready to push for laws that punish individuals who sabotage the economy in a bid to remove the ruling party from power. This comes after Zanu PF secretary for security, Lovemore Matuke, said early this week that the hardships being faced by…
THE Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) faction loyal to party leader Nelson Chamisa has once again moved to oust the mayor of Harare, Jacob Mafume, from his position. CCC insiders who spoke to the Daily News last night confirmed that Mafume was being recalled from his position as Chamisa wanted him and a number of…
OPPOSITION stalwart, Welshman Ncube, says he will one day be forced to take the public into his confidence about the chaos ravaging the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC). Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, the highly regarded lawyer, academic and former Cabinet minister in the short-lived government of national unity (GNU) of 2009, said he…
