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Desperate CCC members pay for candidacy

By Elizabeth Sitotombe WHEN the opposition CCC party announced they were not going to hold primary elections but conduct a fancy sounding ‘community consensus candidate selection process’ supporters had thought they would get a chance to choose their preferred candidates, however, it’s turning out to...

Plot to tarnish polls

WESTERN countries, together with their local allies, have put in motion plans to discredit the forthcoming harmonised elections.  The plan is anchored on maligning the outcome of the election which will be won resoundingly by ZANU PF as shown by several projections. Several meetings have taken...

Trouble in ‘paradise’…fights for funds turn nasty

By Elizabeth Sitotombe DESPITE the opposition CCC claiming to be a party in pursuit of democracy, evidence on the ground point to the contrary.  The ideologically bankrupt party has all but given new meaning to the word ‘democracy’. CCC leader Nelson Chamisa has taken his eccentric behaviour...

With the youth in mind

By Wilton Mutepfe and Naledi Maunganidze “A COUNTRY, a movement, a person that does not value its youth and children does not deserve its future,” South African revolutionary Oliver Tambo once said. And as Zimbabwe celebrated National Youth Day, President Emmerson Mnangagwa could not have been...

Proxies on the prowl

By Elizabeth Sitotombe THE threat to nationhood and territorial integrity of nations, especially in the so-called developing countries, is not so much from guns and bombs. The predatory nature of the sabre-rattling US and its equally cannibalistic allies has adopted insidious strategies. After the worldwide censure of...

Factionalism tearing CCC apart

By Elizabeth Sitotombe THE power war in the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) opposition party rages on unabated as the 2023 harmonised elections draw nearer. The divisions in the party have become more defined. Not only are there cracks from within but clear lack of patience,...

ccc swindling sponsors

By Elizabeth Sitotombe THE CCC claims to be a Christian movement with the hashtag #GODISINIT, therefore, its followers must be familiar with Luke 16:10 which says: “Whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much.”  In a new development, the Citizens Coalition for...

CCC adores ZANU PF

THE efficiency and work ethic of ZANU PF has CCC leader Nelson Chamisa in a quandary, threatening to put asunder the opposition, yet again. That the MDC, which morphed into CCC, has always been an admirer of ZANU PF is no secret. That the top echelons...

No time for violence in 2023

By Elizabeth Sitotombe 2023 is finally here, meaning the harmonised elections are around the corner. One could mistake 2023 for just another year based on the silence and peace prevailing in the country. Ahead of the elections, in the past, the country was usually rocked with...

A year to savour

THE coming down of the 2022 curtain would have ordinarily spurred the masses to take a well-deserved breather reflecting on the year that has been armed with gleaming prospects of 2023. Not so with Zimbabweans of a progressive political inclination, especially when we have in...

Sanctions: The Damascene moment

By Elizabeth Sitotombe WHEN one of the country’s biggest sell-outs suddenly makes a U-turn and admits that sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe are not only affecting targeted individuals but the ordinary citizen, it can only be viewed as a ‘Damascene’ moment.  Hopewell Chino’no was forced to eat...

Palace coup in CCC

By Elizabeth Sitotombe NELSON CHAMISA’s Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) risks implosion if recent events in the party are anything to go by. A few years after crowning himself president of the former MDC-T, the party is now a pale shadow of its former self: what...

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