MDC-T FACTIONALISM: Senior Matebeleland members, including vp Khupe, Moyo and Bhebhe boycott fundraising dinner

MDC-T FACTIONALISM: Senior Matebeleland members, including vp Khupe,  Moyo and  Bhebhe boycott fundraising dinner

  MDC-T factionalism has reached fever pitch amid revelations that senior party members, including vice president Ms Thokozani Khupe, national chairman Mr Lovemore Moyo and national organising secretary Abednigo Bhebhe boycotted a fundraising dinner that was meant to mobilise funds for Mr Morgan Tsvangirai’s chemotherapy.This was despite the fact that the three were in Harare for the National Budget delivered last Thursday by Finance Minister Patrick Chinamasa. Ms Khupe battled cancer a few years ago. The…

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MDC-T Mudzuri urges opposition and other stakeholders to expose Zanu PF’s rigging antics ahead of 2018 elections.

MDC-T co-vice-president, Elias Mudzuri has urged opposition political parties and other stakeholders to close ranks and expose Zanu PF’s electoral rigging antics, particularly increased use of State-sponsored violence ahead of the 2018 elections. Mudzuri, in a statement last week, accused Zanu PF of unleashing a terror campaign in rural areas to intimidate voters. He warned that Zanu PF intimidation had become so entrenched that “even if the ruling party accedes to all electoral law reforms,…

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Tsvangirai calls an emergency crisis national council meeting over Chamisa & Mudzuri appointments

OPPOSITION MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai has summoned members of his national council to an emergency meeting tomorrow to resolve internal fissures triggered by his recent appointment of Nelson Chamisa and Elias Mudzuri as the party’s vice-presidents. Tsvangirai’s spokesperson Luke Tamborinyorika confirmed the development, but declined to disclose the agenda of the meeting which comes hardly two weeks after another firefighting indaba failed to resolve the impasse. “It’s true that on Wednesday there will be a…

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Harare Airport Runway Lifetime Expires In 3 Years, Unless US$11 Million Rehabilitation

THE runway at Harare International Airport, among the longest in Africa, faces being declared unsafe in three years if government fails to complete its rehabilitation while debris from the stalled works poses risks to aircraft, Parliament has heard. Civil Aviation Authority of Zimbabwe (CAAZ) announced the rehabilitation of the runway in July 2011 which, on completion, will be five kilometres long. The repairs were part of a major facelift for the airport and included the…

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