Southern Eye
August 20, 2017, Sun
OPPOSITION MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai and other top party leaders boycotted the burial of Nkulumane legislator, Thamsanqa Mahlangu, to avoid being involved in the families’ tussle over the late MP’s body.
MDC-T deputy national organising secretary and Nkulumane legislator Thamsanqa Mahlangu has died
MDC-T treasurer-general Theresa Makone will tomorrow testify in a High Court case where the party is being sued by two Bulawayo textile companies for failing to pay a R5 million debt.
AN MDC-T official in Magwegwe constituency has applied for a peace order against the party’s area legislator Anele Ndebele whom he accused of hiring thugs to beat up rival party members.
MDC-T youth assembly yesterday said there is little to celebrate during the Day of the African Child as Zimbabwean children continue to suffer due to government failures.
MDC-T members will now be compelled to sign binding contracts barring them from using party symbols and name after crossing the floor.
THE MDC-T is celebrating the outcome of Wednesday’s by-elections in Bulawayo which saw Zanu PF winning with reduced figures after a majority of people heeded the opposition party’s calls to boycott the polls.
TRY, try, try again, if at first you don’t succeed, try again. So goes the nursery rhyme, and there is nothing more apt than it to describe newly-elected Makokoba constituency legislator Tshinga Dube’s attempts at winning a parliamentary seat.
Zanu PF was accused of intimidating voters in Tsholotsho North by recording their names while Bulawayo residents largely heeded the call to boycott yesterday’s parliamentary by-elections.
Zanu PF will today hope to win constituencies in Bulawayo for the first time in 15 years, in by-elections whose lustre has been diminished by the non-participation of the MDCs.