Late on Saturday night, I was sitting in a hotel room in Guangzhou, China, streaming the announcement of the results of the presidential race in Zimbabwe. Zimba.
The people of Zimbabwe need to be able to hold opposition accountable if they’re to ever build an effective movement that will unseat the ZANU-PF. They need to build a movement as a collective – one which is not formed in the image of an individual.
Late on Saturday night, I was sitting in a hotel room in Guangzhou, China, streaming the announcement of the results of the presidential race in Zimbabwe. Zimbabweans went to the polls on the 23rd of August in a harmonised election that many believed would mark a turning point in the country’s politics. Towards elections, there…
By Nomazulu Thata
My previous article regarding the nomination of Sibangilizwe Nkomo to contest the Zapu presidential candidacy could have come across as too emotional for some people to appreciate my perspective.
What is disturbing is that be it Matabeleland, Mashonaland, Manicaland, the Tongaland or whatever corner of the land we live in, we learn and internalise wrong things in our social settings.
We should have learnt a lesson from one “Dr” Grace Mugabe that it is improper to think that if she was the wife of former President Robert Gabriel Mugabe, it still did not mean she automatically assumes leadership of Zanu PF on the demise or exit of her husband.
By Staff Reporter
THE MDC-T top leadership has moved to rubberstamp party leader Douglas Mwonzora’s “unconstitutional” appointment of Elias Mudzuri as party vice president.
Mudzuri, one of the three losing challengers to Mwonzora in a chaotic December extraordinary congress to find a substantive MDC-T leader, was appointed by the latter as party co-vice president with Thokozani Khupe.
However, some disgruntled party activists were quick to accuse the hawkish politician of violating the MDC-T constitution which has no room for two vice presidents.
In fact, the appointment of two extra VPs outside an elective congress by late former MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai 2016 is the source of the main opposition’s split which saw Khupe – the only elected VP then – withdraw from party processes in protest.