Columnist / Farirai machivenyika
Stop meddling in ZEC affairs!
Mr Speaker, Sir As the election date beckons the MDC Alliance is becoming hysterical in accusing ZEC of plotting to rig the elections in favour of Zanu-PF. The Alliance, which to all i...Published: 05 Jul 2018 at 06:49hrs | | by Farirai Machivenyika
Democracy is about quality, not quantity
The ruling by Chief Justice Luke Malaba that formation of a political party is not a business for funding through the public purse to enrich individuals is a welcome caveat given developments we have ...Published: 31 May 2018 at 06:55hrs | | by Farirai Machivenyika
Stop it, Mr Tsvangirai!
Mr Speaker Sir, a week ago Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko made an important observation during the Senate's Question Time on the cause of political violence and what should be done about it....Published: 10 Aug 2017 at 06:51hrs | | by Farirai Machivenyika
'DA, MDC-T an alliance meant to protect white interests'
Political analysts have blasted ties between opposition MDC-T, the People's Democratic Party and South Africa's Democratic Alliance, saying they are an alliance meant to protect white interests in the...Published: 30 May 2017 at 06:52hrs | | by Farirai Machivenyika
New twist to Tomana case
Government is studying the Constitutional Court judgment compelling Prosecutor-General Johannes Tomana to issue certificates of private prosecution with a view to addressing contradictions in the Cons...Published: 02 Nov 2015 at 05:17hrs | | by Farirai Machivenyika
MPs told to resign
Speaker of Parliament Advocate Jacob Mudenda has told legislators that do not take Parliament business seriously to resign from their seats. He said he will issue a statement next week outlining measu...Published: 23 Oct 2015 at 06:06hrs | | by Farirai Machivenyika
'Grace Mugabe simply handing over government sourced implements'
Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday said First Lady Amai Mugabe was not donating but simply handing over the various farming implements to the irrigation schemes identified by Government. The ...Published: 22 Oct 2015 at 06:29hrs | | by Farirai Machivenyika
Russia's Gazprom eyes Lupane gas
RUSSIAN energy giant, Gazprom, has expressed an interest in the extraction of coal bed methane gas in Lupane, Matabeleland North province, Mines and Mining Development Minister Walter Chidhakwa said y...Published: 17 Oct 2015 at 09:57hrs | | by Farirai Machivenyika
Massive Zimbabwe platinum project to start next year
The second phase of the $3 billion platinum project in Darwendale, a joint venture between Zimbabwe and Russian companies, is expected to start next year, with visiting Russian Deputy Minister of Indu...Published: 16 Oct 2015 at 06:14hrs | 1 | by Farirai Machivenyika
Zimbabwe orders industry, mines to cut power use by 25%
MAJOR mining companies and other huge electricity consumers will have to reduce consumption by up to 25 percent while security cantonments have been asked to load-shed non-critical areas as part of me...Published: 07 Oct 2015 at 06:31hrs | | by Farirai Machivenyika
Mugabe's nephew wants a 10% empowerment levy
Youth Development, Indigenisation and Empowerment Minister Patrick Zhuwao is proposing a 10 percent empowerment levy on companies as part of efforts to generate internal resources to fund the indigeni...Published: 05 Oct 2015 at 06:19hrs | | by Farirai Machivenyika
Parliament debates Mugabe's 'correct' speech
President Mugabe's speech during the official opening of the Third Session of the Eighth Parliament shows Government's commitment to creating a conducive environment to attract investment, Parliament ...Published: 23 Sep 2015 at 06:09hrs | | by Farirai Machivenyika
Mugabe invites China's Xi Jinping to Zimbabwe
PRESIDENT Mugabe has invited China's president Xi Jinping to visit Zimbabwe. This was said by outgoing Chinese ambassador to Zimbabwe Mr Lin Lin yesterday after paying a courtesy call on President Mug...Published: 18 Sep 2015 at 06:16hrs | | by Farirai Machivenyika
'I don't fear Mujuru,' says Mugabe
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe says he does not fear a political challenge from Joice Mujuru because he has dispensed with trickier political opposition in the past.Speaking at a luncheon hosted by t...Published: 16 Sep 2015 at 09:34hrs | | by Farirai Machivenyika
MDC youths want Misihairabwi out
The Welshman Ncube led MDC Matabeleland South proportional representation member Mrs Priscillah Misihairabwi-Mushonga, faces recall from Parliament after the party's youth assembly passed a resolution...Published: 14 Sep 2015 at 06:13hrs | | by Farirai Machivenyika and Masline Mavudzi
Zanu-PF dismisses Mujuru manifesto
ZANU-PF has scoffed at the manifesto released by former Vice President Dr Joice Mujuru on Monday, saying the ruling party would not bother itself with her promises as it was preoccupied with efforts t...Published: 10 Sep 2015 at 06:26hrs | | by Farirai Machivenyika
New housing scheme unveiled
Government has introduced a new housing scheme to protect the public from land barons that have fleeced them of millions of dollars through illegal sales of residential stands on undesignated sites. T...Published: 31 Aug 2015 at 07:02hrs | | by Farirai Machivenyika and Innocent Ruwende
Hope for Zimdollar pensioners
President Mugabe swore in an eight member commission to probe the conversion process of insurance and pension benefits when the country dollarised in 2009 following concerns raised by policy holders a...Published: 21 Aug 2015 at 10:31hrs | | by Farirai Machivenyika and Masline Mavudzi
Zimra targets churches
The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) will soon tax churches and is working on a legislative framework that should be ready by November for the purpose.This was by said Zimra Commissioner-Gen...Published: 26 Jun 2015 at 06:56hrs | | by Farirai Machivenyika
Mnangagwa claims that the Nigerian reporter said 'sorry'
VICE-President Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday told the National Assembly that the discredited Nigerian activist-cum-journalist, Adeola Fayehun, has apologised to her government for making a nuisance of...Published: 18 Jun 2015 at 06:14hrs | | by Farirai Machivenyika
Zanu-PF dismiss Mujuru statement as 'self-serving and hypocritical'
The government and Zanu-PF, yesterday dismissed utterances by expelled former Vice President Joice Mujuru apologising to the nation for her role in the alleged misrule of the country since Independenc...Published: 03 Jun 2015 at 07:35hrs | | by Farirai Machivenyika
List of 89 suspended Zanu-PF officials
ZANU-PF has suspended 87 members from holding any leadership positions within the party for two years, while two others were handed three-year suspensions after the Politburo upheld the recommendation...Published: 29 May 2015 at 06:57hrs | | by Farirai Machivenyika and Nyemudzai Kakore
Fired Zanu-PF members accept their fate
People fired or suspended from Zanu-PF yesterday accepted the decisions taken by the Politburo and pledged to continue supporting the revolutionary party and President Mugabe.Zanu-PF on Thursd...Published: 23 May 2015 at 10:15hrs | | by Farirai Machivenyika and Tafadzwa Ndlovu
Afrobarometer survey a wake-up call for MDC-T
THE latest Afrobarometer survey findings that President Mugabe's support is surging at a time trust for the blundering opposition is plummeting is consistent with the outcome of the 2013 harmonised el...Published: 08 May 2015 at 06:53hrs | | by Farirai Machivenyika
Tsvangirai heavily criticised
MDC-T leader Mr Morgan Tsvangirai was yesterday heavily criticised by workers who attended the Workers' Day commemorations organised by the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions at Gwanzura Stadium after ...Published: 02 May 2015 at 13:27hrs | | by Farirai Machivenyika and Diana Nherera
RBZ boss calls for an immediate further reduction in prices
Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Governor Dr John Mangudya has called for an immediate further reduction in prices of locally-produced goods if the country is to stem the influx of cheap imports and the liqui...Published: 25 Apr 2015 at 09:46hrs | | by Farirai Machivenyika
Kasukuwere warns Zanu-PF members
Zanu-PF political commissar Saviour Kasukuwere has warned party cadres against causing chaos in the revolutionary party in their unrestrained pursuit of power. He said such elements will be de...Published: 24 Apr 2015 at 06:58hrs | | by Farirai Machivenyika
Zanu-PF bars no confidence vote officials
The Politburo has upheld the vote of no confidence passed on several party leaders in the run up to the 6th National People's Congress held last year and prohibited them from holding leadership positi...Published: 04 Apr 2015 at 07:39hrs | | by Farirai Machivenyika
Allegations against Joice Mujuru - list
Addressing journalists after the Politburo meeting that lasted nine hours yesterday, Zanu-PF Secretary for Information and Publicity Simon Khaya Moyo said the decision to expel Dr Mujuru was reached ...Published: 03 Apr 2015 at 19:22hrs | | by Farirai Machivenyika
'Biti should mention Zanu-PF officials working with MDC-T'
Zanu-PF has dismissed accusations by MDC Renewal leader Mr Tendai Biti that the revolutionary party worked with MDC-T to ensure that 21 legislators aligned to his team were expelled from Parliament....Published: 20 Mar 2015 at 07:24hrs | | by Farirai Machivenyika
'Mujuru must be expelled,' says Zanu-PF youth
Zanu-PF Mashonaland Central Youth League chair Godfrey Tsenengamu says former Vice-President Joice Mujuru should be expelled from the revolutionary party as a way of dealing decisively with factionali...Published: 15 Mar 2015 at 09:08hrs | | by Farirai Machivenyika
Mugabe robbed
President Mugabe has lost property and farm produce worth thousands of dollars to daring thieves, some of them working in cahoots with his relatives. In one incident at his Kutama home, the Pr...Published: 09 Mar 2015 at 06:28hrs | | by Farirai Machivenyika
'Mugabe surprised that Gumbo plotted against him'
President Mugabe has said former Zanu-PF secretary for information and publicity Mr Rugare Gumbo was unrepentant after being brought back from the cold following a botched coup attempt against the par...Published: 02 Mar 2015 at 06:37hrs | | by Farirai Machivenyika
'I'm still in charge and not Grace,' says Mugabe
President Mugabe has said he is still fully in charge of affairs in both Zanu-PF and the Government and dismissed media reports that the First Lady Amai Grace Mugabe is now the power behind the thron...Published: 27 Feb 2015 at 05:34hrs | | by Farirai Machivenyika
Mugabe challenges anyone who has not fallen in their lives
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe yesterday said his recent fall at the Harare International Airport was not surprising since falling occurs on several occasions and challenged anyone who has not fallen in thei...Published: 27 Feb 2015 at 06:21hrs | | by Farirai Machivenyika
Mugabe reiterates warning to Mutasa
Zanu-PF President and First Secretary Mugabe yesterday has warned the party's former secretary for Administration Didymus Mutasa against taking his grievances to the High Court, saying the affairs of...Published: 12 Feb 2015 at 05:56hrs | | by Farirai Machivenyika
'Let's not waste time on imbeciles'
A CONSTITUTIONAL democracy like Zimbabwe should not waste time using the law to discipline imbeciles in politics and the media as society always moves on leaving them behind, Government, legal and pol...Published: 02 Feb 2015 at 12:59hrs | | by Farirai Machivenyika
Zimbabwe Defence Forces to apply for farms
The Zimbabwe Defence Forces will soon approach Government to be allocated farms under the land reform programme as part of efforts to generate income to augment their budgetary allocations.Thi...Published: 31 Jan 2015 at 10:45hrs | | by Farirai Machivenyika
Zanu-PF Politburo orders Mutasa probe
The Zanu-PF Politburo yesterday set up a six-member national disciplinary committee to immediately deliberate on the fate of former secretary for Administration Didymus Mutasa who faces expulsion for ...Published: 29 Jan 2015 at 07:07hrs | | by Farirai Machivenyika
Seremwe denies Mujuru links
Zanu-PF candidate for Mt Darwin West Barnwell Seremwe denies any links with former Vice President Joice Mujuru as reported by some sections of the media yesterday.Seremwe said he could have ...Published: 28 Jan 2015 at 07:57hrs | | by Farirai Machivenyika
Mutasa's Zanu-PF survival chances slim, says Kasukuwere
THE fate of former Zanu-PF secretary for Administration Didymus Mutasa is set to be sealed today when the Politburo is widely expected to endorse his expulsion from the party as recommended by his hom...Published: 28 Jan 2015 at 07:18hrs | | by Farirai Machivenyika and Felex Share
D-Day for Didymus Mutasa
THE fate of former Zanu-PF secretary for administration Didymus Mutasa is set to be sealed today when the Politburo convenes in a crunch meeting widely expected to endorse his expulsion from the party...Published: 28 Jan 2015 at 03:45hrs | | by Farirai Machivenyika and Felex Share
Prof Jonathan Moyo says 'Zimbabwe to meet digitisation deadline in June'
INFORMATION, Media and Broadcasting Services Minister Professor Jonathan Moyo yesterday said he had never said the best way to destroy Zanu-PF was from within, saying his statement on reforming the re...Published: 27 Jan 2015 at 17:46hrs | | by Farirai Machivenyika
Prof Jonathan Moyo speaks on 'destroying Zanu-PF from within'
INFORMATION, Media and Broadcasting Services Minister Professor Jonathan Moyo yesterday said he had never said the best way to destroy Zanu-PF was from within, saying his statement on reforming ...Published: 24 Jan 2015 at 09:21hrs | 7 | by Farirai Machivenyika
Zanu-PF told to 'stop suspensions of Mujuru loyalists or else'
Disciplinary action will be taken against Zanu-PF members defying a directive to stop suspensions of alleged sympathisers of ousted Vice President Joice Mujuru from party structures, the secretary fo...Published: 09 Jan 2015 at 08:21hrs | | by Farirai Machivenyika
MPs clash in parliament over 'bloated' defence budget
Debate on the 2015 National Budget briefly came to a halt amid chaos after Zanu-PF Buhera Central representative Ronald Muderedzwa, labelled some opposition parties in the country "a security threat" ...Published: 18 Dec 2014 at 07:14hrs | | by Farirai Machivenyika
Mujuru plot, the Wikileaks footprint
Vice President Joice Mujuru and her close confidants David Butau and Mr Tirivanhu Mudariki met United States diplomats on different occasions where they discussed plans to topple President Mugabe and...Published: 09 Dec 2014 at 08:50hrs | | by Farirai Machivenyika
'Let Mugabe do his job'
ZANU-PF will not hesitate to take action against power-hungry individuals working to topple President Robert Mugabe before he sees his mandate through, the party's secretary for indigenisation and eco...Published: 15 Nov 2014 at 17:00hrs | | by Farirai Machivenyika
Zanu-PF will chase away 'big headed' individuals - Kasukuwere
ZANU-PF will not hesitate to take action against power-hungry individuals working to topple President Robert Mugabe before he sees his mandate through, the party's secretary for indigenisation and...Published: 15 Nov 2014 at 06:07hrs | 1 | by Farirai Machivenyika
Rugare Gumbo speaks out
Zanu-PF secretary for Information and Publicity Rugare Gumbo's utterances on ZBCTv's Media Watch programme on Monday that the succession issue is the most critical matter for the party's forthcoming ...Published: 12 Nov 2014 at 06:16hrs | | by Farirai Machivenyika
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