CONSUMERS, unions and business say it is now imperative that authorities convene an urgent all-stakeholders’ meeting to deal with the country’s prices emergency. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, they warned that the current situation could not be allowed to continue if the crisis was not to degenerate into an even bigger national calamity. This…
ZANU PF won 20 out of 23 contested local council seats in last week’s by-elections, while two former Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) Harare councillors retained their seats after contesting as independent candidates. In a notice yesterday, the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) chief elections officer, Utloile Silaigwana, confirmed Zanu PF won one council seat in…
ZIMBABWEANS hoping to see the opposition dislodging Zanu PF from power will have to wait much longer as there is no chance of that happening any time soon. So says notable politician, Godfrey Tsenengamu, who also asserts that former Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader, Nelson Chamisa, will forever be haunted by his alleged “political…
ZANU PF is contemplating legislation that will bar former legislators from returning to Parliament if they would have previously voluntarily resigned from their positions. This comes after some MPs elected on the ticket of the warring Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) resigned from the august House in solidarity with their former leader Nelson Chamisa —…
ZANU PF says members of its affiliates must not belong to two or more such groups to avoid confusion as the party focuses on economic development after winning elections last year. In a letter addressed to all ruling party affiliates inviting them to a review and planning meeting for all organisations affiliated to it which…
IT WAS inevitable that former Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa’s political career would hit the skids again in the two-year-old party, as he is allegedly a “divisive character”. So say opposition stalwarts, Elias Mudzuri and Morgen Komichi, who worked with Chamisa — a self-confident pastor, lawyer and politician who answers to the…
ZANU PF is targeting to reclaim, in Saturday’s by-elections, three parliamentary seats which were snatched from the ruling party by the opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) in last August general elections. The contested seats which Zanu PF lost to CCC last year are Seke, Zvimba East, and Chegutu West. The seats fell vacant at…
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) MP for Mount Pleasant MP Fadzai Mahere has resigned from the National Assembly in solidarity with her former leader Nelson Chamisa who also dumped the opposition party last week. In a letter dated January 29, and addressed to Speaker of the National Assembly Jacob Mudenda, Mahere said she was resigning…
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) bigwigs are plotting the way forward after the sudden departure of their leader Nelson Chamisa from the party on Thursday. CCC notables who spoke to the Daily News yesterday said while they regretted, and had been taken by surprise by Chamisa’s departure, “life will go on”. In this regard, they…
IN A dramatic development, Nelson Chamisa yesterday dumped the strife-torn Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC), while also hinting that he will form a new political party going forward. The stunning move came after political analysts told the Daily News’s sister paper, the Daily News On Sunday last weekend, that Chamisa needed to seriously consider forming…
