Zimbabwe heads into a storm with early election

Zimbabwe faces a new political storm with President Robert Mugabe pushing for an early election opposed by rivals while hardliners are threatening Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai over secret briefings with United States (US) officials. Mugabe’s Zanu-PF party is expected to officially endorse the 86-year-old leader this weekend as candidate for a general election he wants [...]

Mugabe and his mob to blow half a million at party bash

Zimbabwe’s former ruling party, Zanu-PF, is set to blow close to $500,000 in five days when it gathers for its annual Christmas bash disguised as a party conference. President Mugabe’s party meets from Wednesday (December 15) to Sunday (December 19) in the eastern border city of Mutare. About 4,000 delegates drawn countywide and some from [...]

Zanu PF to endorse Mugabe’s re-election bid

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu PF party will be meeting from Wednesday for its annual conference, which is expected to endorse the veteran ruler’s bid to stand for another term next year. The 86 year-old ruler appears to have crushed dissent and his succession is one subject that will not be discussed at the three-day [...]

MDC Activist Fined, Deputy Minister Faces Arrest

Chimanimani,- A Movement for Democratic Change activist in Zhombeni area here, Donald Sithole has been fined a beast by the local headman for allegedly putting up his party’s posters in the area while in another incident an MDC minister faces arrest for refusing to pay road toll fees. Sithole, an MDC activist was last week [...]

Mugabe’s madness is underway again – Bennet

Roy Bennett says Zanu-PF is once again readying to kill and wreak havoc. Speech by Roy Bennett, Treasurer General of the Movement for Democratic Change, to the Foreign Correspondents’ Association Johannesburg, December 10 Ladies and gentlemen, Thank you for inviting me to speak to you tonight. It’s always a privilege to meet again with those [...]

Light on Zanu (PF)’s Road To Damascus?

MDC continued to show leadership at home and in the region as splinter parties splintered even further and Zanu (PF) claimed to have seen a new light – with vice-president Joice Mujuru claiming that President Robert Mugabe doesn’t know about on-going violence, and Dr Mavis Chidzonga saying “whites should be given land”. Meanwhile House of [...]