Opinion / Interviews
'Mnangagwa's Biti tweet misconstrued'
FEARS abound that President-elect Emmerson Mnangagwa's government will influence the Constitutional Court's decision in the landmark case in which opp...Published: 3 hrs ago | 587 | by Staff reporter
Aide shares memory of Joshua Nkomo
One of the founding fathers of Zimbabwe's liberation struggle and late Vice President Dr Joshua Nkomo, a larger than life character is still alive in ...Published: 14 Aug 2018 at 06:35hrs | 1512 | by Staff reporter
How heroes became victims of politicians
LAST week, Comrade Agrippah Gava (born 1956) whose Chimurenga name was Conary Mabuto narrated how the Rhodesian forces massacred over 100 refugees at ...Published: 12 Aug 2018 at 09:49hrs | 190 | by Staff reporter
Zipra's plan after downing Rhodesian Viscounts
Last week, Comrade Agrippah Gava (born 1956) narrated how he left Tekwane High School with a group of 34 other students to join the liberation struggl...Published: 29 Jul 2018 at 10:01hrs | 418 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe bigger than Chamisa'
ZIMBABWE is heading for elections next Monday and opposition political parties are piling pressure on the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) to refor...Published: 23 Jul 2018 at 06:58hrs | 861 | by Staff rpeorter
Mujuru to win the Zimbabwe presidential election on July 30
THREE years after she was unceremoniously fired from Zanu-PF and government, former vice-president Joice Mujuru will on July 30 contest her first elec...Published: 22 Jul 2018 at 10:36hrs | 1531 | by Staff reporter
Chigumba hits back at critics
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC)'s handling of the July 30 presidential, parliamentary and local government elections came under sharp scrutiny...Published: 15 Jul 2018 at 16:59hrs | 313 | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai's daughter bares soul
STRONG willed and ready for the rough and tumble that is characteristic of Zimbabwe's treacherous political landscape, former Prime Minister Morgan Ts...Published: 09 Jul 2018 at 07:53hrs | 1087 | by Staff rpeorter
Joshua Nkomo's Turning Point
COMRADE Elison Mupamawonde (born 1950 in Bikita), whose Chimurenga was Soft Magarasadza last week spoke about how ZIPRA out-gunned Rhodesian forces at...Published: 01 Jul 2018 at 07:59hrs | 376 | by Staff reporter
'Zanu-PF hoodwinked us'
Seven months after helping President Emmerson Mnangagwa wrestle power from his mentor Robert Mugabe, war veterans are crying foul claiming there is a ...Published: 25 Jun 2018 at 08:41hrs | 1108 | by Staffr eporter
How ZIPRA outgunned Rhodesians at Chirundu
In our last instalment, Soft Magarasadza, a former ZIPRA commander, spoke about how he joined the liberation struggle and went on to walk from Mozambi...Published: 24 Jun 2018 at 18:17hrs | 3272 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF doesn't run cheap campaigns, says Mpofu
ZANU-PF is going for broke ahead of the July 30 general elections with a war chest of over $200 million despite reports that the ruling party is...Published: 17 Jun 2018 at 20:51hrs | 937 | by Staff reporter
Bringing rural women to the frontline
Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, United Nations Under-Secretary-General and executive director of UN Women, recently began a second term in office. In her firs...Published: 11 Jun 2018 at 16:29hrs | 485 | by Africa Renewal
Youth can be agents of positive change
Jayathma Wickramanayake, 27, from Sri Lanka, is the new UN Secretary-General’s Envoy on Youth. Her role is to expand the UN’s youth engagement and...Published: 06 Jun 2018 at 14:50hrs | 327 | by Jayathma Wickramanayake, UN youth envoy
2018 polls: 4.8m inspect voters' roll
Inspection of the provisional voters' roll started on May 19 and is expected to run until May 29 this year at 10 807 centres established by the Zimbab...Published: 26 May 2018 at 14:27hrs | 147 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe needs own currency'
Since the President Emmerson Mnangagwa-led new dispensation took charge last November, long-suffering Zimbabweans feel the country's economy has remai...Published: 20 May 2018 at 19:46hrs | 2306 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Chamisa's UK trip, HARDTalk and that joke about his sister
POV w/ Zororo Makamba- Episode 11: The Battle for Britain : Chamisa's UK Trip, HARDTalk & That Joke About His Sister.https://www.youtube.c...Published: 15 May 2018 at 17:02hrs | 412 | by Eleven Dogs Inc
'I'm no criminal,' says Gilbert Muponda
HIS life has been riddled with controversy when the ENG Capital Group was placed into liquidation at the request of the directors as a way to secure t...Published: 15 May 2018 at 16:27hrs | 1492 | by Staff reporter
Majome pushed out of MDC-T?
DAYS before its internal candidate selection process roared into life, the opposition MDC-T was last Friday thrown into turmoil after one of its long-...Published: 14 May 2018 at 06:53hrs | 705 | by Staff reporter
Zipra operations in Mashonaland
This week we continue our interview with former Zipra regional commander for the Northern Front 3 (NF3), Joseph Mbedzi pseudo name Joseph Sibuko. NF3 ...Published: 13 May 2018 at 11:40hrs | 864 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa is 'new face of the old order', says Chamisa
President Emmerson Mnangagwa is not delivering change in the country after the years of Robert Mugabe, a Zimbabwean opposition leader, Nelson Chamisa,...Published: 12 May 2018 at 14:13hrs | 968 | by Austin Karonga
Matibenga endorses Mujuru
LUCIA Matibenga, leader of the breakaway faction of the People's Democratic Party (PDP), recently opened up on how she was hounded out of the MDC-T le...Published: 07 May 2018 at 07:18hrs | 749 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa hits back at Chiwenga
At the launch of Zanu-PF's election manifesto on Friday, Vice- President Constantino Chiwenga devoted the bulk of his speech to attacking MDC Alliance...Published: 06 May 2018 at 10:13hrs | 2828 | by Staff reporter
Story of Zipra field commander
GROWING up in the arid district of Beitbridge in Matabeleland South after his family had been removed from the rich soils and good pastures in West Ni...Published: 06 May 2018 at 09:41hrs | 1258 | by Staff reporter
Freedom Camp massacre: I saw 226 cadres gunned down
COMRADE Bulukani Masola (born 13-05-1959) , whose Chimurenga name was Peter Scotch last week narrated how he joined the liberation struggle and the es...Published: 06 May 2018 at 09:23hrs | 261 | by Staff rpeorter
'Mnangagwa must apologise for Gukurahundi genocide' - Tshinga Dube
THE Zimbabwe Independent this week engaged former minister, senior Zanu-PF official and liberation struggle fighter retired Colonel Tshinga Dube who u...Published: 04 May 2018 at 08:26hrs | 3581 | by Staff reporter
I didn't steal, says Mugabe's son-in law
Former president Robert Mugabe's son-in-law Simba Chikore's name has been at the centre of a raging debate over government's controversial plans to se...Published: 22 Apr 2018 at 10:41hrs | 3242 | by Staff reporter
Ex-bodyguard bares all on Nikita Mangena
THE late Zipra commander, Rogers Alfred Nikita Mangena, was recently honoured by the Government of President Emmerson Mnangagwa by naming a cantonment...Published: 22 Apr 2018 at 10:05hrs | 2291 | by Staff rpeorter
Mnangagwa using military's 'spider-web' campaign strategy
RM: Your appointment as ZANU-PF national political commissar was hailed by war veterans and other party membership as a positive development. What are...Published: 21 Apr 2018 at 11:57hrs | 1654 | by Staff reporter
Gumbo defends Zimbabwe Airways deal
As Zimbabweans continue to ask questions on the murky Zimbabwe Airways deal, which for long was said to be a private project until last week when gove...Published: 18 Apr 2018 at 06:57hrs | 384 | by Staff rpeorter
Jonathan Moyo ready for Mnangagwa
Exiled former Higher and Tertiary Education minister Jonathan Moyo (pictured) has declared that he is ready to face President Emmerson Mnangagwa's gov...Published: 15 Apr 2018 at 11:21hrs | 4109 | by Staff reporter
The eye that witnessed Nikita Mangena's death
ON Friday the Government of President Emmerson Mnangagwa officially named the cantonment, which houses the Zimbabwe National Defence University and ot...Published: 15 Apr 2018 at 11:17hrs | 1672 | by Staff reporter
Robert Mugabe jnr speaks out
Robert Mugabe Jnr has revealed that people need to stop complaining about pricing and must simply work hard to afford the things that they wish to buy...Published: 11 Apr 2018 at 19:17hrs | 29501 | by Staff reporter
MDC-T isn't Chamisa private property, says Bhebhe
OUSTED former MDC-T national organising secretary Abednico Bhebhe has remained defiant and refused to recognise the recent appointment of Nelson Chami...Published: 11 Apr 2018 at 07:25hrs | 1282 | by Staff reporter
Inside Mnangagwa's China sojourn
President Emmerson Mnangagwa arrived back home from a five-day state visit to China yesterday amid optimism that his campaign to woo investors is payi...Published: 10 Apr 2018 at 15:11hrs | 1245 | by Staff reporter
The Day Chikerema rebuked Mphoko
Today we round up our interview with veteran guerilla and nationalist Abraham Dumezweni Nkiwane. In the past two weeks Nkiwane spoke about the state o...Published: 08 Apr 2018 at 09:23hrs | 1188 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa close associate eyes MDC-T VP post
MDC-T president Nelson Chamisa's close associate Bekithemba Mpofu is allegedly eyeing the vacant position of deputy party president and also declared ...Published: 06 Apr 2018 at 07:34hrs | 5255 | by Staff reporter
'Opposition party splits delay people's victory'
Strong opposition politics in Zimbabwe begun in 1999 when dissent escalated against the Zanu-PF government then led by former President Robert Mugabe....Published: 06 Apr 2018 at 07:32hrs | 475 | by Staff reporter
Trudy Stevenson quits MDC
Lottie Gertrude "Trudy" Stevenson is a remarkable political survivor, appointed as Zimbabwean Ambassador to Senegal in 2009 during the GNU as a deploy...Published: 04 Apr 2018 at 15:23hrs | 8804 | by Staff reporter
Tshabangu explains MDC splits
SINCE its formation in 1999 the MDC has split a number of times, that is in 2005 when then secretary general Welshman Ncube and others formed another ...Published: 03 Apr 2018 at 12:52hrs | 2324 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa will win 2018 polls'
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's dramatic rise to power last year was mainly driven by former freedom fighters, who were working closely with the milita...Published: 01 Apr 2018 at 15:01hrs | 784 | by Staff reporter
Dabengwa tackles Mnangagwa on Gukurahundi
FORMER president Robert Mugabe, in an interview with the Zimbabwe Independent a fortnight ago, laid the blame of the Gukurahundi atrocities on the Zap...Published: 29 Mar 2018 at 14:09hrs | 2866 | by Staff reporter
Dabengwa tackles Gukurahundi head on
FORMER president Robert Mugabe, in an interview with the Zimbabwe Independent a fortnight ago, laid the blame of the Gukurahundi atrocities on the for...Published: 29 Mar 2018 at 14:04hrs | 1455 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa and David Stannard led Gukurahundi, says Mugabe
Former President Robert Mugabe has opened on several high profile secrets Zimbabweans have always had questions on.In a wide ranging interview...Published: 28 Mar 2018 at 08:52hrs | 10231 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa incapable of resolving Zim problems'
Coalition for Democrats (Code) president Elton Mangoma (EM) has dismissed President Emmerson Mnangagwa as incapable of resolving the country's economi...Published: 28 Mar 2018 at 07:34hrs | 610 | by Staff rpeorter
How Joshua Nkomo was spotted
NOW aged 90, Abraham "BroNnkie" Dumezweni Nkiwane still has that fire in his belly that saw him fighting for the independence of two African states, Z...Published: 25 Mar 2018 at 09:02hrs | 1200 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to deploy soldiers at hospitals
The government has put Zimbabwe National Army doctors on standby as the situation at the country's public hospitals continues to deteriorate due to a ...Published: 25 Mar 2018 at 08:58hrs | 452 | by Staff reporter
'No barriers to Zimbabwe rejoining Commonwealth'
Zimbabwe was a member of the Commonwealth since its independence in 1980, but was suspended in 2002 after a diplomatic fallout between Harare and Lond...Published: 24 Mar 2018 at 10:06hrs | 457 | by Sifelani Tsiko
Mugabe blame 'Ndebeles' and Zapu for Gukurahundi
Q: What role have you played in the formation of the National Patriotic Front, the new opposition party led by Retired Brigadier-General Ambrose Mutin...Published: 23 Mar 2018 at 14:37hrs | 4935 | by Staf reporter
'I'm not a barking dog'
The release of the second edition of the controversial book Tuku Backstage by his former publicist Shepherd Mutamba last week has been met with mixed ...Published: 19 Mar 2018 at 08:00hrs | 2538 | by Staff reporter
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