‘Government Don’t Purchase Bullets For Shooting Trees, I Will Shoot People,’-Zanu PF 2018 Polls Promise

‘Government Don’t Purchase Bullets For Shooting Trees, I Will Shoot People,’-Zanu PF 2018 Polls Promise

TOP Zanu-PF officials and traditional leaders in Masvingo have reportedly threatened to track down and kill all suspected MDC-T supporters who attended opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai’s campaign rally at Man’a business centre in Gutu South last Saturday. This came as political tension builds up in several parts of the country, with seven homesteads belonging to opposition Renewal Democrats of Zimbabwe (RDZ) supporters torched by suspected Zanu-PF supporters in Makoni North on Tuesday. According to an…

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‘Tsvangirai Now Counting The Cost Of Boycotting By-Elections’

‘Tsvangirai Now Counting The Cost Of Boycotting By-Elections’

The MDC-T is now counting the cost of its decision to boycott by-elections that were occasioned by its recall of 21 Members of Parliament and the death of some of its legislators. The decision has had adverse effects on the opposition party’s political and financial well-being. Zanu-PF and MDC-T are the two main political parties that are entitled to get money from Treasury under the Political Parties (Finance) Act, because they managed to garner more…

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Are Zimbabwe’s Estimated Sixty To Eighty Opposition Parties Simply Driven By Chance And Greed?-Analyst

Are Zimbabwe’s  Estimated Sixty To Eighty  Opposition Parties Simply Driven By Chance And Greed?-Analyst

ZIMBABWE’s oppressive political system is often regarded as an affront to the painstaking search for elusive democracy under long serving President Robert Mugabe and his Zanu PF party.   However, the continued surge in the number of political parties currently being formed has presented a false sense of a multi-party system which allows citizens vast choices.   Pre-July 2013 elections, there were 28 of them in the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC)’s data base.   Two…

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‘Zanu PF Grabbing Land From Poor, Parcelling To Tycoons,Like Billy Rautenbach’ Mangoma

‘Zanu PF Grabbing Land From Poor, Parcelling To Tycoons,Like Billy Rautenbach’ Mangoma

ZANU PF is trying to reverse the country’s independence by grabbing vast tracts of land from the poor and parcelling it out to tycoons such as Green Fuel financier Billy Rautenbach, the opposition Renewal Democrats of Zimbabwe (RDZ) party has said. RDZ national spokesperson, Pishai Muchauya, said party leader Elton Mangoma has nothing to do with disturbances taking place in Chinyamukwakwa area, saying locals were only expressing their anger. Rautenbach, last week accused Mongoma, energy…

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‘I Exposed Mugabe For Not Paying Electricity Bills,’ Says Elton Mangoma

Former Energy Minister and the interim leader of the opposition Renewal Democrats of Zimbabwe, Elton Mangoma, says he must be commended for exposing a scandal at the state-owned Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (ZESA) in which President Robert  Mugabe, cabinet ministers and Members of Parliament were not paying electricity bills at their private properties. The story was first published by a local newspaper, the Daily News, in 2012. In an exclusive interview with VOA, Mangoma refuted…

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‘We Can Form The Next Gvt’-Democrats of Zimbabwe (RDZ) ‘Elton Mangoma’

‘We Can Form The Next Gvt’-Democrats of Zimbabwe (RDZ) ‘Elton Mangoma’

RENEWAL Democrats of Zimbabwe (RDZ) are not just another political party making up the numbers, but are a genuine contender to become the next government, party president Elton Mangoma has said. Addressing journalists at the Harare Press Club on Friday, Mangoma said he was presenting an alternative political party to Zimbabwe, which has gone 35 years under the rule of one party, Zanu PF. Mangoma was flanked by his party members Fortune Munyonga (Youth President),…

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Mugabe Bars Zambian Opposition UPND, Leader ‘Hakainde Hachilemba’ From MDC Renewal Congress

Mugabe Bars Zambian Opposition UPND, Leader ‘Hakainde Hachilemba’ From MDC Renewal Congress

THE opposition MDC Renewal Team led by former Finance Minister Tendai Biti has accused government of “blocking” its choice of guest-of-honour at the party’s inaugural congress set to begin in Harare on Thursday. Party’s spokesperson Jacob Mafume told NewZimbabwe.com that the Renewal Team had invited Zambian opposition United Party for National Development, leader Hakainde Hachilemba but had met with obstacles from the government. “We had invited other social democrats from the region and Mr Hachilemba…

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‘Zim Now Mugabe’s Private Property & Zanu PF Is Inflicting ‘Untold Misery’ On People-‘ Bhasikiti

‘Zim Now Mugabe’s Private Property & Zanu PF Is Inflicting ‘Untold Misery’ On People-‘ Bhasikiti

One of the leaders of the Gamatox faction has complained that Zanu-PF has been turned into Mugabe’s private property and says the party is inflicting ‘untold misery’ on Zimbabweans. Former Masvingo Minister of State Kudakwashe Bhasikiti was speaking in an interview with the Daily News. Bhasikiti says he was one of three people who could speak officially for the proposed People First partyexpected to be launched next month. The others are the former Presidential Affairs…

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Renewal Democrats Of Zimbabwe (RDZ) Leader, Elton Mangoma Rules Out Mutasa/Mujuru

Renewal Democrats Of Zimbabwe (RDZ) Leader, Elton Mangoma Rules Out  Mutasa/Mujuru

Mutare:The newly formed Renewal Democrats of Zimbabwe (RDZ) leader, Elton Mangoma, has ruled out any possibility of joining forces with politicians who were sacked by Zanu PF, saying their hands were dripping with blood. Mangoma, who formed his party after a fall out with ex- finance minister Tendai Biti in their MDC Renewal project, said the likes of former Vice President Joice Mujuru and former Zanu PF National Secretary for Administration Didymus Mutasa have blood…

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MDC Renewal Set To Adopt New Name, (People’s Democratic Party)-Jacob Mafume

MDC Renewal  Set To Adopt New Name, (People’s Democratic Party)-Jacob Mafume

MDC Renewal Team say they are set to adopt a new name (People’s Democratic Party) with a view to giving the electorate “confidence” ahead of the 2018 national election. “We need a new narrative that gives people of Zimbabwe hope and confidence and we need a sellable brand name and People’s Democratic Party is gaining traction and this is going to happen in August,” spokesperson Jacob Mafume told NewZimbabwe.com in an interview Thursday. The Renewal…

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