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ZAKA – It’s time to prepare for political campaigns for political parties as the talk of an election grabs the country’s political agenda. But for people living at the back of the beyond, particularly those in rural Zaka, it’s time to look for shells to hide in.
HARARE – Zanu PF on Wednesday reportedly kicked out members of South African President Jacob Zuma’s backroom facilitation team from a full Joint Monitoring and Implementation (Jomic) meeting arguing they had no mandate to attend.
HARARE – Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC and other parties are sweating over what they say is a covert military operation that could scupper prospects of a peaceful election.
HARARE – Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s party warned yesterday that the arson attack on the home of a member of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) — allegedly by ruling Zanu PF supporters — signalled the start of a violent general election campaign.
A suspected member of the Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO), who also holds a position in ZANU PF, is allegedly recruiting youths in the Midlands Province and using them to threaten anyone supporting the MDC with death.
The brawl between Big Brother Zimbabwe representatives Roki and Maneta Mazanhi in the house can be blamed on Zimbabwe’s political leaders who have created a culture of violence, MDC-T Bulawayo South MP Tabitha Khumalo said on Friday.
SADC leaders are reportedly disturbed by state security service chiefs’ brazen meddling in local politics ahead of watershed elections and are pressing the facilitator, South African President Jacob Zuma, to tackle the issue at his next meeting with GPA principals.
Leaders of the three political parties in the inclusive Government should immediately hold joint rallies as part of efforts to curb political violence, Jomic national committee members said yesterday.
The murder of Sekuru Cephas Magura, the MDC-T chairman for Ward One Mudzi North, has again cast a spotlight on the issue of police loyalty to ZANU PF, and many Zimbabweans are demanding that the perpetrators be punished to the full extent of the law.
HARARE – Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai and the MDC are pushing for the murderers of the 2008 political violence to be brought to justice without any further delays.