President Robert Mugabe will sign a power-sharing deal with MDC President Morgan Tsvangirai as Prime Minister,Metro has established. Parliament which the MDC controls is also likely to be convened as early as Tuesday.
Accommodation of losing candidates from both ZANU PF and the MDC faction led by Arther Mutambara in all inclusive government could complicate talks,casue a rift the two MDC factions and delay reaching a settlement,Metro can reveal.
State media reported on Friday that the real practical challenge that has already emerged is how losing candidates will be [...]
Accommodation of losing candidates from both ZANU PF and the MDC faction led by Arther Mutambara in all inclusive government could complicate talks and delay reaching a settlement.
State media reported on Friday that the real practical challenge that has already emerged is how losing candidates will be accommodated.
The negotiators will have to tackle how the [...]
In a shocking revelation,Metro has established that the Mutambara faction Secretary General, Welshman Ncube is scuttling the MDC unity pact and instructed all MPs not join MDC president Morgan Tsvangirai when he visits their constituencies.
It has also emerged that some in the faction had argued that their faction should not have fielded parliamentary by-election candidates [...]
Despite the MDC unity pact,the imposition of losing MDC candidates and MDC heavy weights Welshman Ncube,Gibson Sibanda and Paul Themba Nyathi,in the looming by-elections in Redcliff,Gwanda and Pelandaba-Mpopoma is being heavily resisted by MDC-Tsvangirai candidates.
Samuel Sandla Khumalo,the MDC-Tsvangirai candidate for Pelandaba-Mpopoma,told Metro this morning that he is not stepping down as he was chosen by [...]
A list of known perpetrators of operation “Mavhotera papi”,”Livotele ngaphi” and the victims who are MDC members from Matebeland. Photographs of the perpetrators to be uploaded.
Sobendle, Lupane
Martin Khumalo
Naka Gracious
Ntini (war vet)
Machenke Mpofu (Losing Zanu PF Council candidate)
Hlalani Khumalo ( young brother to Martin)
MaMpala (the late war vet Joel Mathema’s wife – houses militia base)
Gladys Moyo
Nake [...]
A list of known perpetrators of operation “Mavhotera papi”,”Livotele ngaphi” and the victims who are MDC members from Matebeland. Photographs of the perpetrators to be uploaded.
Perpetrators
Name of Victim Particulars Constituency/Area Date of Arrest/incident Perpetrator
Pauline Mlilo D.O.B 1954 Tshongongwe Pry School Lupane West 26/04/08 ZANU PF Youths and Militia
Dibiya Mlala 08- 220319D-41 Tshongongwe Pry School Lupane West 26/04/08 ZANU PF Youths and Militia
Ngwiza David Sibanda 79-005913R-79 Mashala School Hwange East 21/04//08 Leonard [...]
Flashback: On a Sunday on 17 February 2008,roughly a month before the harmonised election I went to cover a rally at Stanley Square in Makokoba which was addressed by MDC Secretary General Welshman Ncube and Vice President,Gibson Sibanda.
During his address Ncube said that he would give up politics if he lost his campaign to Thokozani [...]
