Columnist / Owen gagare
Mnangagwa can't just sweep genocide under the carpet
IT is normally serene on Zimbabwe's diplomatic scene, but there was high drama last week when government summoned United States Ambassador to Zimbabwe Brian Nichols after Washington imposed sanctions ...Published: 09 Aug 2019 at 15:06hrs | | by Owen Gagare
A damning indictment on Mnangagwa
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration's failure to address the economic challenges bedevilling the country - despite lofty promises - could have been described as spectacular if it were not so...Published: 14 Jun 2019 at 08:20hrs | | by Owen Gagare
Time to feed hungry nation, not globetrotting
THE government is appealing for US$3,2 billion emergency assistance in the middle of a drought which is set to worsen the vulnerability of long-suffering Zimbabweans, the majority of whom are already ...Published: 15 Mar 2019 at 17:07hrs | | by Owen Gagare
Mnangagwa must act before it's rather too late
THERE was some bittersweet news for President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration this week when the European Union (EU) decided not to extend existing sanctions against Harare despite a recommendatio...Published: 22 Feb 2019 at 09:18hrs | | by Owen Gagare
Mugabes' show of opulence scandalous
PICTURES of President Robert Mugabe's step son Russel Goreraza gallivanting in Harare's potholed roads in a brand new and super luxurious Rolls Royce amid widespread poverty underlined how insensitive...Published: 22 Sep 2017 at 20:36hrs | | by Owen Gagare
Military veterans take over Mugabe's Zanu-PF
THE appointment of Emmerson Mnangagwa and Phelekezela Mphoko as President Robert Mugabe's new deputies, besides forming a new Zanu-PF presidium triad which has consolidated power, has reinforced secur...Published: 16 Dec 2014 at 12:05hrs | | by Owen Gagare/Herbert Moyo
Mugabe's likely new Zanu-PF presidium
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe is expected to name his new-look Zanu-PF presidium tomorrow which will most likely see the elevation of Justice minister Emmerson Mnangagwa and Zimbabwe's former ambassador to ...Published: 05 Dec 2014 at 18:04hrs | | by Owen Gagare
Mujuru: A new battle for survival
VICE-President Joice Mujuru finds herself in an invidious position as she has literally been squeezed into a tight corner ahead of the Zanu-PF congress next month through incessant attacks, contrived...Published: 14 Nov 2014 at 07:02hrs | | by Owen Gagare
Will Grace Mugabe swim stormy Zanu-PF waters?
FIRST lady, Grace Mugabe's unexpected headlong plunge into full-time active politics, though it is still early days, has so far been a baptism of fire as she begins to realise that in the treache...Published: 22 Aug 2014 at 07:02hrs | | by Owen Gagare
'Zuma musn't turn Sadc into a market for SA's products,' says Mugabe
Robert Mugabe has said Jacob Zuma should cooperate with other SADC countries instead of trying to turn the region into a market for SA's products. South African President Jacob Zuma and Namibi...Published: 18 Aug 2014 at 20:47hrs | | by Owen Gagare, Everson Mushava
Zanu-PF strife divides ex-Zapu leaders
RELATIONS among former-PF Zapu leaders, who are now in Zanu-PF, have been poisoned by factional fights in the party ahead of the party's crucial congress in December where the vice-presidency and the ...Published: 08 Aug 2014 at 12:08hrs | | by Owen Gagare
Robert Mugabe 'no longer fit to govern'
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe is once again in Singapore for a week-long private visit where he will undergo "a routine eye check-up" according to government, his third visit to the Asian country this year...Published: 18 May 2014 at 20:12hrs | | by Owen Gagare
Security concerns for Bona Mugabe
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe may have let his daughter Bona go in marriage, but he appears to make sure his favourite child keeps safe at her new home along Quorn Avenue in the leafy suburb of Mt Pleasant...Published: 17 Apr 2014 at 10:51hrs | | by Owen Gagare
New details on Mugabe's 1 million extra votes
THE Research and Advocacy Unit (Rau) has released a new report which questions the source of President Robert Mugabe's controversial one million extra votes in the disputed July 31, 2013 general elect...Published: 11 Apr 2014 at 12:38hrs | | by Owen Gagare/Wongai Zhangazha
Lack of political will stymies devolution
THE decision by former minister and member of the National Assembly for Lobengula in Bulawayo, Samuel Sipepa Nkomo, to take Local Government minister Ignatius Chombo, Justice minister Emmerson Mnangag...Published: 04 Apr 2014 at 06:54hrs | 1 | by Owen Gagare
EU resume direct aid to Zimbabwe
THE European Union (EU) is likely to scrap Article 96 of the Cotonou Agreement on Zimbabwe in November this year, unless there is a serious violation of principles of human rights, respect for the ru...Published: 28 Mar 2014 at 07:36hrs | | by Owen Gagare
Cabinet ministers sued over devolution
FORMER minister and member of the National Assembly for Lobengula in Bulawayo, Samuel Sipepa Nkomo, has dragged Local Government minister Ignatius Chombo, Justice minister Emmerson Mnangagwa and the...Published: 28 Mar 2014 at 10:11hrs | 1 | by Owen Gagare
MDC-T members asked to contribute $100 each to fund party
THE cash-strapped MDC-T has put in place a proposal for party officials and members to contribute $100 to fund its operations following recommendations from acting treasurer-general Tapiwa Mashakada....Published: 28 Mar 2014 at 08:08hrs | | by Owen Gagare
MDC-T battle rages on behind the scenes
THE raging battle for the heart and soul of MDC-T continues behind the scenes despite an announcement by party leader Morgan Tsvangirai this week that the warring parties had found each other after fr...Published: 28 Mar 2014 at 08:07hrs | | by Owen Gagare
Police raid tycoon's mansion
POLICE last week raided fugitive Oman tycoon Thamer Al Shanfari's Harare mansion searching for his brother-in-law, Ashraf Raslan, in connection with the kidnapping of his German business partner, Die...Published: 21 Mar 2014 at 09:25hrs | 2 | by Owen Gagare
Zimbabwean volcano about to erupt
IT is now a bare-knuckles or hand-to-hand fratricidal combat in the imploding MDC-T as fierce political rivals who for years have been working in the shadows plotting against each other have finally...Published: 14 Mar 2014 at 08:33hrs | | by Owen Gagare
MDC-T heart, soul scales boiling point
THE MDC-T this week edged closer to yet another split as the acrimonious fall-out between party leader Morgan Tsvangirai and secretary-general Tendai Biti seems to have reached a point of no retur...Published: 14 Mar 2014 at 08:10hrs | | by Owen Gagare/Herbert Moyo
'Democracy must not be a mere slogan,' says Biti
MDC-T secretary-general Tendai Biti says the MDC-T should dissociate itself from dictatorship and intolerance by refocusing on core values and principles which include "tolerance, respect, dialog...Published: 21 Feb 2014 at 06:45hrs | | by Owen Gagare
Robert Mugabe's grand exit plan gets underway
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe, who was sworn in yesterday in Harare for another five-year term after his controversial re-election in what was initially billed to be a historic occasion, has a plan to manag...Published: 23 Aug 2013 at 09:50hrs | | by Brian Chitemba-Owen Gagare
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