Post Tagged with: "Zanu PF"

Pedzisai Ruhanya
Elections / News / Politics

Zanu PF will struggle to beat MDC-T

on March 27, 2013 at 8:03 pm × 3 comments

HARARE – Zanu PF will not cruise to a landslide victory against the MDC-T in the forthcoming harmonized elections, as suggested by some analysts.

Following its conference in Gweru, Zanu PF is running around with its tail up telling the country it will win the next election.
News / Politics

Mugabe’s office ‘imposes candidates for party elections’: Zanu PF MP

on March 22, 2013 at 3:41 am × 3 comments

HARARE – A Zanu PF legislator on Wednesday stunned the court when she said the president’s office plays a hand in imposing candidates to represent the party in elections.

Members of the youth and main wing engaged in fist fights over the weekend at the Bulawayo provincial headquarters, Davies Hall using chairs and other weapons against each other, disregarding appeals for calm from national chairperson, Simon Khaya Moyo.
News / Politics / Violence

Violence breaks out at Byo Zanu PF HQ

on March 12, 2013 at 10:05 am × 1 comment

BULAWAYO – Zanu PF youths and members of the main wing fought raging battles which needed police intervention to quell at the party headquarters over leadership differences as intra-party violence threatens to tear the former ruling party.

Members of the Zanu PF Women's League.
Elections / News / Politics

Zanu PF may lose in Mash Central: Mafios

on March 10, 2013 at 3:22 pm × 6 comments

ZANU PF Mashonaland Central chairperson Dickson Mafios said party structures in the province are in shambles and urgent interventions are needed for it to avoid an embarrassing defeat in the next elections.

Robert Mugabe addressing Zanu-PF 13th Annual National People’s Conference
Elections / News / Politics

Mugabe faces defiance on vote buying

on February 25, 2013 at 5:17 pm × 3 comments

CHINHOYI – Zanu PF aspiring candidates who are campaigning clandestinely for support are in breach of party rules regarding the use of money to get grassroots support.

2012 elections will be no laughing matter for Mugabe and Zanu PF
News / Politics

Zanu PF official equates Mugabe to Jesus

on February 18, 2013 at 10:50 pm × 16 comments

BULAWAYO – In an apparent bootlicking crusade that has become synonymous with Zanu PF officials, Bulawayo provincial chairperson Killian Sibanda has equated President Robert Mugabe to Jesus Christ.

John Mafa
Elections / News / Politics

Zanu PF primaries shrouded in mystery

on February 16, 2013 at 6:27 am × 0 comments

CHINHOYI – A dark cloud of uncertainty is hovering over former ruling party Zanu PF members who want to represent the party in forthcoming elections as they are still yet to set guidelines on how candidates will be vetted.

Meikles Ltd majority shareholder and chairman John Moxon
Elections / News / Politics

Meikles mogul donates cars to Zanu PF

on February 8, 2013 at 4:23 pm × 23 comments

LOCAL business mogul John Moxon, widely regarded as one of the richest men in Zimbabwe, has nailed his political colours firmly to the Zanu PF mast by donating brand new vehicles to spearhead the party’s campaign for crucial general elections.

Zanu PF officials secretly meet US ambassador
News / Politics

Zanu PF officials secretly meet US ambassador

on January 3, 2013 at 4:22 am × 3 comments

HARARE – Zanu PF has warned its bigwigs to watch their mouths when meeting with American envoys amid revelations that party “stalwarts” last week clandestinely met United States ambassador Bruce Wharton.

Following its conference in Gweru, Zanu PF is running around with its tail up telling the country it will win the next election.
Elections / Opinion / Politics

Zanu PF winking in the dark: Zimind

on December 21, 2012 at 7:13 pm × 12 comments

The MDC-T needs to wake up and exercise leadership. Zanu PF is finished as a political party with nothing to offer Zimbabwe. They are tired yet still obsessed with power. What can they do now that they had every opportunity to do over the past 30 years?

NO LAUGHING MATTER: Zanu PF National Chairman Simon Khaya Moyo, President Robert Mugabe and his Vice Joice Mujuru
Elections / News / Politics

Zanu PF admits losing support

on December 11, 2012 at 12:05 am × 21 comments

GWERU – President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu PF party is bleeding voters massively, losing almost 250 000 members over the past year. In the UK, the party failed to sell even a single card last year and this year.

Mugabe’s ailments include periodic convulsions and stroke like episodes (perhaps eschemia) brought on by diabetes and a lipid disorder which affects the covering of the brain
Opinion / Politics

Why Zanu PF will not survive beyond Mugabe

on November 27, 2012 at 1:42 am × 31 comments

Zimbabwe is bleeding. Its citizens are scattered across the globe. At home, unemployment has reached unprecedented levels. Majority of people are living in abject poverty. Streets are flowing with raw sewage and homes are constantly without electricity and water.

Military intensifies poll drive in Hurungwe
Elections / News / Politics

Military intensifies poll drive in Hurungwe

on November 22, 2012 at 5:11 am × 10 comments

The military is intensifying its campaign for Zanu PF ahead of elections next year in Hurungwe, Mashonaland West province reports the Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition, a grouping of civil society pressure groups.

President Mugabe hands over a packet of maize seed to Chief Fortune Charumbira while Chief Musarurwa and other chiefs look on at the launch of the US$27 million Presidential Well Wishers Special Inputs Scheme in Harare
Elections / News / Politics

Mugabe scores own goal with inputs scheme

on November 18, 2012 at 5:59 pm × 4 comments

HARARE – President Robert Mugabe’s $20 million agricultural inputs scheme — a project widely seen as a vote-buying gimmick— is turning out to be his biggest setback in the drive to lure new voters.

Mutsa Murenje
Opinion / Politics

Has democratic change become ‘chimera’ in Zimbabwe?

on November 18, 2012 at 1:34 pm × 2 comments

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.

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