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CHAMISA dictatorial tendencies have no place in the 21st century -Lovemore Chinoputsa ‘I regret creating Nelson Chamisa the dictator’ Lovemore Chinoputsa says Former Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) Deputy Secretary for International Relations and Cooperation, Lovemore Chinoputsa, has become the first opposition leader to call out Nelson Chamisa a dictator. Writing on his Facebook page, Chinoputsa, who says has reached his Damascene moments, makes a public apology for having aided in the creation of a…

CHAMISA LIEUTENANT labels him a gospel backed dictator LOVEMORE Chinoputsa, a longstanding ally of opposition leader Nelson Chamisa, has announced his departure from politics in a forthright six-page resignation letter. In the letter, he criticizes the former Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) President, accusing him of behaving like a gospel-backed dictator. Chinoputsa, a respected opposition activist known from his days at the University of Zimbabwe (UZ) to his involvement in the MDC and CCC, stated…

UNITED KINGDOM High Court order rattles Zimbabwe government THE United Kingdom High Court order compelling Zimbabwe to comply with a 2015 ruling requiring the payment of US$125 million to two firms whose land was seized during the country’s contentious fast-track land reform in the early 2000s has rattled President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government, which has since directed Attorney-General Virginia Mabhiza to appeal. The Attorney-General is the government of Zimbabwe’s chief legal adviser and also sits in…

(CCC) SEC GEN Tshabangu is now a Senator Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC)’s interim secretary-general Sengezo Tshabangu has wormed his way into Senate as one of the CCC Proportional Representatives after recalling several opposition legislators for failing to follow the party line. In a Government Gazette published Friday, the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) chairperson confirmed the development. Meanwhile, the notice also announced the replacement of five CCC proportional representatives in the National Assembly. Source –…

JOB SIKHALA dumps Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) Former political detainee Job Sikhala has severed ties with the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC), likening the opposition group to a lifeless entity, and has established his own political movement. Sikhala, recently released from incarceration, had remained silent regarding his future political endeavors following the disintegration of the CCC subsequent to Nelson Chamisa’s resignation. Speaking to the press on Thursday in Harare, Sikhala unveiled his new political…

CHIEF FORTUNE CHARUMBIRA says Gukurahundi is not genocide. Fortune Charumbira, who leads traditional leaders in Zimbabwe says the disturbances in the Midlands and Matebeleland provinces in the 1980s in which over 20 000 people were killed by security forces was not a genocide. “It was not genocide, no. It was the army responding to dissidents and in the clashes, ended up victimizing innocents. But not, it cannot be called genocide,” he told editors at a…

SADC destroy Chamisa’s dream of fresh Zimbabwe elections THE Southern African Development Community (Sadc) appears to have closed the door on calls for fresh elections in Zimbabwe after the regional bloc’s secretariat endorsed a project being spearheaded by President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government. The African Union also threw its weight behind the multi-million-dollar Museum of African Liberation in Harare after a meeting with Mnangagwa’s special envoy, ambassador Simbarashe Mumbengegwi. Mnangagwa’s regime is the prime backer of…

AFTER CHIDUMO AND MASENDEKE hanging in 2005, Zimbabwe abolishes the hanging of men Zimbabwean government records show that there are more than 60 prisoners on death row. Sixty-two death row inmates in Zimbabwe could have their sentences commuted to life in prison when the government abolishes the death penalty in 2024. This was revealed after the first cabinet meeting of the year chaired by President Emmerson Mnangagwa, on Tuesday. The abolition is due to come…

ZANU PF has 190 legislators, parliamentary majority after winning all 6 contested constituencies in by-election sweep Some Zimbabweans have expressed disappointment at the outcome of the recently held by-elections where Zanu-PF attained a two-thirds parliamentary majority, describing the outcome as a sad day for the country’s democracy. Zanu-PF won all six constituencies which were being contested in Saturday’s by-elections following a recall of Citizens Coalition for Change’s (CCC) legislators by self-styled interim Secretary General Sengezo…

NAMIBIAN PRESIDENT Hage Geingob dies after undergoing experimental treatment in US The 82-year-old leader passed away days after receiving novel cancer Heig Geingob therapy in the US Namibian President Hage Geingob has died in a hospital in the capital Windhoek, where he was receiving treatment for cancer, the southwest African state’s authorities announced on Sunday. “It is with utmost sadness and regret that I inform you that our beloved Dr. Hage G. Geingob, the President…