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David Coltart rejects an automatic extension, putting Bulawayo voters first as he weighs his political future and the city’s needs.
News Zimbabwe » Bulawayo » Politics: Mnangagwa’s third term bid sparks violence and deepens political divisions in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s bid for an unconstitutional third term turned violent this week. A hall in Harare was torched hours before his opponents were to meet there to launch a ...
News Zimbabwe » Bulawayo » Politics: Brett Muvheti: Zimbabwe’s next president, or just another internet sensation?
Brett “Muvheti” Holley has ambitions to transform Varanda VeZimbabwe from an online political movement into a force capable of challenging for power. Gabriel Manyati asks whether he is building ...
News Zimbabwe » Bulawayo » Politics: Zimbabwe: Chamisa resignation leaves CCC legislators in quandary
Opposition lawmakers in Zimbabwe are torn between following former Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa in his walk-out from the party or staying. The situation, following Chamisa ...
News Zimbabwe » Bulawayo » Politics: Bulawayo’s silent shutdown
Bulawayo’s industrial collapse is one of the most tragic and telling chapters in Zimbabwe’s economic history. Once celebrated as the country’s manufacturing powerhouse, the city now bears the scars of ...
News Zimbabwe » Bulawayo » Politics: Zimbabwe: ZANU-PF is redrawing electoral map in opposition strongholds
The ruling Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) party is on the path to taking over the legislature, after snatching two seats in the capital Harare that fell vacant following the ...
News Zimbabwe » Bulawayo » Politics: U.S. sanctions Zimbabwe leaders for political, economic, human rights abuses
March 4 (UPI) --The United States on Monday announced a new series of sanctions aimed at top Zimbabwe government officials -- including its president and vice president -- in response to what the ...
News Zimbabwe » Bulawayo » Politics: Zimbabwe Police Arrest Bulawayo Writer in Literary-Political Criticism Row
Writer Styx Mhlanga said the poem by an unidentified writer who presented it at a cultural center should have mentioned heroes from other regions, including the late Vice President Joshua Nkomo, among ...
News Zimbabwe » Bulawayo » Politics: Kirsty Coventry and whiteness in Zimbabwe: how sport can rewrite the political rules
Kirsty Coventry’s story is one of apparent contradictions. She’s a white woman celebrated as a national hero in a Black-majority Zimbabwe and an Olympic swimmer turned politician. She’s also now one ...
News Zimbabwe » Bulawayo » Politics: Zimbabwe’s water supply is in crisis: how political interference and underfunding did the damage
In Zimbabwe, control over water is supposed to be decentralised. In other words, the seven regions in the country have the authority to govern their own water resources in the way that best suits ...