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  • Zanu-PF Big Guns Walk Out of Crucial Cabinet Meeting

    ZANU PF "big guns" dramatically left en masse an hour after a Cabinet meeting, which was due to discuss the crucial election roadmap, started on Tuesday. The meeting was also supposed to discuss an agreement made by the political parties at the just ended SADC summit, to send Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa to ask the Constitutional Court for a two week delay in the election date. ...

  • Examining Prospects for Democratic Reform and Economic Recovery in Zimbabwe

    Zimbabwe: Examining Prospects for Democratic Reform and Economic Recovery in Zimbabwe - Testimony of Dewa Mavhinga, Senate Foreign Relations ...

  • Chamisa Says Zanu-PF Will Lose Poll Under Free and Fair Conditions

    Nelson Chamisa, the national organizing secretary of the MDC-T, insisted on Tuesday that demands for reforms before the next general election does not mean they're afraid of defeat as insinuated by President Robert Mugabe. The ZANU PF leader accused both formations of the MDC of being afraid of defeat, after they sought to postpone elections scheduled for July during the SADC summit held ...

  • MDC-T Chegutu Officials Protest Primary Election Irregularities

    Officials from the MDC-T have called for fresh primary elections to take place in the Chegutu East constituency, claiming irregularities had marred the poll there. More than 30 Chegutu members of the party gathered at the MDC-T headquarters, Harvest House, in Harare on Monday, to petition organising secretary Nelson Chamisa about the problems they say happened during Saturday's primary ...

  • Diaspora to Protest Voting Rights Failure

    Members of the Zimbabwean Diaspora will this weekend gather in London where they will protest, among other issues, the failure of the government back home to allow them to vote. The demonstration is being hosted by the Zim pressure group The Vigil, the Restoration of Human Rights in Zimbabwe (ROHR) and a coalition of other groups. They are calling on the Zim government and Southern African ...


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  • Racism Allegations Hit MDC-T Bulawayo Province

    Following primary elections held in Bulawayo over the weekend, allegations have surfaced about a plan to prevent white MDC-T members from making it past the internal selection process. Sources close to the process reported 'serious vote rigging' in the Bulawayo Central Constituency, where party heavy weight Dorcas Sibanda, was pitted against Nicola Watson (Watson lost the primary ...

  • MDC-T Unleashes Wave of Violence

    MDC-T has unleashed a wave of intra- and inter-party political violence in a bid to not only trash the political environment to abet its call for poll postponement, but to also provide fodder for its Western allies to discredit the poll. Harmonised elections are scheduled for July 31, with nomination courts for contesting candidates sitting next Friday. The terror campaign began last year, but ...

  • Zimbabwe Why the Opposition Shouldnt Be Distracted By the Election Date

    The MDC has been joined by SADC in calling for the election to be delayed slightly, but is this really a victory for the opposition? On 15 June, the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) held an extraordinary summit on Zimbabwe in Mozambique's capital of Maputo. The main issue discussed was the Zimbabwean elections, currently scheduled for the 31 July. The 31 July date was set by ...

  • Zimbabwe Zimbabweans Must Sort Out Election Row - AU

    The African Union says it is up to Zimbabweans to resolve disputes over election dates. At a press conference in Geneva on Monday, the chair of the commission, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, said that the primary concern is for the elections to be free and fair. President Mugabe proclaimed July 31 for harmonized elections in compliance with a directive from the Constitutional Court of Zimbabwe to hold ...

  • Zimbabwe MDC-T Legislators Disrupt Business

    MDC-T legislators today temporarily disrupted parliamentary business in the House of Assembly protesting against a decision by the three political parties represented in parliament to indefinitely suspend portfolio committee business from this Friday. Parliament's life comes to an end on Saturday next week at a time most committees have run out of business. Chief whips from Zanu-PF (Cde ...

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