The only peaceful, free and fair election in Zimbabwe was probably in 1980 when ZANU PF was confident that it enjoyed popular support which would result in resounding victory. Thereafter, we have had a litany of shameful and farcical formalities disguised as elections.
HARARE – Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai on Saturday railed against the $20 million presidential farming inputs scheme, questioning the source of funding. The MDC-T leader was addressing thousands of people at Murambinda Growth Point in his home area of Buhera District.
The first time I wrote about democratic government becoming chimera in Zimbabwe was in May 2011 and I wrote, then, from Ibadan, Oyo State, in Nigeria where I read for a Master of Science in Humanitarian and Refugee Studies at the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Ibadan.
Villagers in Gokwe have reported that uniformed soldiers are forcing them to attend political rallies, where they are being warned that more soldiers with guns will be deployed to punish them if they do not support ZANU PF policies on the constitution and in elections due next year.
HARARE – Civil war has broken out in the former ruling ZANU PF over interviews given by senior party figures saying that Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai will not be allowed to take over power should he win next year’s presidential elections.
Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has reacted to Zanu PF threats of a coup if he wins the next election saying “our colleagues have already conceded defeat and are mulling unconstitutional methods of averting that defeat.”
HARARE – Zanu PF has warned there could be a bloodbath if Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai wins next year’s Presidential elections. Zanu PF spokesperson Rugare Gumbo chillingly revealed how hardliners would find it difficult to hand over the reins of power to Tsvangirai.
HARARE – Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai is set to confront President Robert Mugabe over the military’s use of intimidation and violence to block MDC activities.
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu PF party is reportedly splashing about $14 million on as many as 550 vehicles as it prepares a massive election campaign but the source of the funding for the vehicles remains a mystery.
HARARE – Zanu PF has hit back at leader of the smaller MDC Welshman Ncube for alleging the former ruling party was incapable of stopping violence. Ncube had said Zanu PF supporters are like pigs.
HARARE- There were fireworks at a decision-making Zanu PF politburo meeting in Harare on Thursday, as senior party officials engaged in heated exchanges over the raging Select Committee of parliament on the new constitution disputes ahead of elections which President Robert Mugabe wants this year at all costs.
HARARE- Zanu-PF has nullified the election of Philip Chiyangwa as its vice chairman for Mashonaland West Province. He was elected on March 16 in Chinhoyi, beating former acting chairman Reuben Marumahoko. Zanu-PF spokesperson Rugare Gumbo yesterday said Chiyangwa will remain an ordinary member of the party.
HARARE – Zanu PF has dismissed renowned prophet TB Joshua, saying he is treading on the taboo by foretelling the imminent death of an African leader. Rugare Gumbo, the Zanu PF spokesperson, said TB Joshua’s “prophecy” was offside.
HARARE- Zanu PF’s heavyweights are in a bitter fight over Phillip Chiyangwa with information emerging that the businessman has once again been cleared to stand in elections for the vacant post of provincial chairperson slated for later this month.
HARARE- The smaller formation of the MDC has accused President Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai of conniving against the party claiming the two are afraid of Professor Welshman Ncube’s stance on matters of principle.
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