Columnist / Takunda maodza
Gushungo Dairy funded Chamisa campaign?
ZIMBABWEANS have a choice today to vote for former President Robert Mugabe through Mr Nelson Chamisa or for a new Zimbabwe through President Mnangagwa. This was said by President Mnangagwa yesterday a...Published: 30 Jul 2018 at 06:50hrs | 2 | by Takunda Maodza
Gen Mujuru's 13 children wallow in poverty
CHILDREN of the late General Solomon Mujuru are wallowing in poverty amid revelations that Dr Joice Mujuru, the surviving spouse and leader of Zimbabwe People First, is allegedly frustrating the execu...Published: 23 Aug 2016 at 07:22hrs | | by Takunda Maodza
Tsvangirai violates MDC-T constitution
OPPOSITION MDC-T leader Mr Morgan Tsvangirai threw the MDC-T constitution into the dustbin when he appointed to the vice presidency Advocate Nelson Chamisa and Engineer Elias Mudzuri last Friday....Published: 19 Jul 2016 at 06:24hrs | | by Takunda Maodza
Knives out for Chamisa, Mudzuri
SOME senior MDC-T officials are up in arms with party leader Mr Morgan Tsvangirai for elevating Advocate Nelson Chamisa and Engineer Elias Mudzuri to the party vice presidency, a move they allege viol...Published: 18 Jul 2016 at 06:49hrs | | by Takunda Maodza
War vets, churches censure violence
War veterans and church leaders yesterday strongly condemned the violence that engulfed parts of Harare on Monday and Beitbridge last Friday, saying only dialogue should be used to resolve challenges ...Published: 06 Jul 2016 at 06:35hrs | | by Takunda Maodza and Fidelis Munyoro
David Whitehead workers enlist Mphoko's help
DAVID Whitehead Textiles employees have petitioned Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko demanding the removal of the final judicial manager Mr Knowledge Hofisi of Aurifin and Capital, claiming that two a...Published: 05 Jul 2016 at 06:57hrs | | by Takunda Maodza
Russians pour $53m into Zimbabwe's Great Dyke Investments
RUSSIANS have so far sunk over $53 million at the Darwendale platinum mining project – a joint venture between Moscow and Harare running as Great Dyke Investments.Zimbabwe and Russia commiss...Published: 16 Jun 2016 at 14:19hrs | | by Takunda Maodza
RBZ hunts cash hoarders
THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe has launched an operation targeted at assessing banking trends by high cash generators like wholesalers, retailers, mobile phone companies and fuel dealers amid revelation...Published: 13 Jun 2016 at 06:35hrs | | by Takunda Maodza
4 anti-corruption bosses suspended
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) has suspended four managers for allegedly engaging in corrupt activities at an agency set up to combat graft.The Herald is reliably informed that...Published: 26 Apr 2016 at 06:38hrs | 1 | by Takunda Maodza
Zanu-PF you are a family!
When my dad fell sick - cancer of the lungs - like a troop of baboons we grouped as a family. We buried our differences on noticing as a family we were in the midst of a crisis. We fought the fight ev...Published: 15 Apr 2016 at 06:47hrs | | by Takunda Maodza
Mujuru comes out of shell, to relook at land policy
FORMER Vice President Dr Joice Mujuru launched her political outfit - Zimbabwe People First - in Harare yesterday and pledged to return Zimbabwe to the Commonwealth and to reverse the indigenisation p...Published: 02 Mar 2016 at 07:53hrs | | by Takunda Maodza
92 death row inmates spared
NINETY-TWO prisoners on death row in Zimbabwe will not be executed as the country's leadership is convinced it is only God who has the right to take away life, Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa has sa...Published: 25 Feb 2016 at 05:56hrs | | by Takunda Maodza
'Zimbabwe to eliminate death penalty,' says Mnangagwa
Zimbabwe is making significant strides towards the elimination of the death penalty from its statutes as demonstrated by the removal of all women and persons aged below 21 from facing the death senten...Published: 23 Feb 2016 at 05:07hrs | | by Takunda Maodza
Mnangagwa arrives in Rome
VICE President Emmerson Mnangagwa arrived here yesterday to attend the 9th International Meeting of Justice Ministers on the abolition of the death penalty. Mnangagwa oversees the Ministry of ...Published: 22 Feb 2016 at 05:38hrs | | by Takunda Maodza
'No one owns Zanu-PF,' says Mugabe
Zanu-PF members should be orderly and united, and those fanning factionalism risk being kicked out of the party, President Mugabe has said. Officially opening the 15th Zanu-PF Annual National People's...Published: 12 Dec 2015 at 11:21hrs | | by Takunda Maodza
Rousing Zimbabwean welcome for China's Xi Jinping
THOUSANDS of people, among them President Mugabe and First Lady Amai Grace Mugabe, yesterday thronged Harare International Airport to welcome Chinese President Xi Jinping who is on a two-day State vis...Published: 02 Dec 2015 at 05:06hrs | | by Takunda Maodza and Lloyd Gumbo
Unprecedented shake-up at Police Headquarters
The Zimbabwe Republic Police has carried out massive transfers and redeployment of senior officers at Police General Headquarters in what the force described as part of improving "effectiveness" in la...Published: 16 Nov 2015 at 05:09hrs | | by Takunda Maodza
Anger over barefooted pupil denied exam
Belvin Chibi, a Form Four pupil at the Catholic Church run Mweyamutsvene Mission, missed his third national examination paper today because he does not have school shoes, The Herald can reveal....Published: 30 Oct 2015 at 05:58hrs | | by Takunda Maodza
Barefooted pupil misses another exam paper
BELVIN CHIBI, a Form Four pupil at the Catholic Church-run Mweyamutsvene Mission, yesterday missed his third national examination paper after he was barred from entering the exam room without school s...Published: 30 Oct 2015 at 05:21hrs | | by Takunda Maodza
Barefooted pupil barred from exams
A FORM Four pupil at Mweyamutsvene Mission School was allegedly barred from sitting for his English and Commerce zimsec examinations because he did not have shoes, it has emerged. Mweyamutsvene Missio...Published: 29 Oct 2015 at 05:18hrs | | by Takunda Maodza
Zimbabwe raps Clinton, UN agencies
GOVERNMENT is disturbed that some United Nations agencies have turned themselves into lobby groups who think they have the locus standi to snipe at a sitting Head of State and Government like Presiden...Published: 06 Oct 2015 at 06:19hrs | | by Takunda Maodza
MDC-T blasts Madhuku over coalition call snub
MDC-T yesterday angrily reacted to the snub of its coalition call by National Constitutional Assembly leader Professor Lovemore Madhuku, telling him to concentrate on his "small, miserable and one-mem...Published: 08 Sep 2015 at 06:13hrs | | by Takunda Maodza
'Targeting Mugabe wrong,' says Madhuku
Removing President Mugabe from office cannot be an economic policy issue around which political parties can form a coalition, Professor Lovemore Madhuku has said. In an interview last week, Pr...Published: 07 Sep 2015 at 06:28hrs | | by Takunda Maodza
Tsvangirai 'misinforms' civil servants
MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai is alleged to be moving around the country telling civil servants and parastatal heads that 150,000 government workers will soon be retrenched, as he tries to cause alar...Published: 02 Sep 2015 at 06:04hrs | | by Takunda Maodza
Dzamara probe details revealed
POLICE launched extensive investigations into the whereabouts of Itai Dzamara from the day he was reported missing, contrary to claims of inactivity by Western embassies and opposition political part...Published: 16 Jul 2015 at 09:47hrs | | by Takunda Maodza
Didymus Mutasa in $400,000 bank loan scandal
ARDA Board chairman and businessman Mr Basil Nyabadza has been sucked into a billion-dollar scandal that involves axed Presidential Affairs Minister Didymus Mutasa in which he sourced a $400 000 loan ...Published: 06 Jul 2015 at 07:25hrs | | by Takunda Maodza
Mutasa used his political clout as a shield and survival arsenal
FORMER Zanu-PF secretary of Administration and ex-Presidential Affairs Minister Mr Didymus Mutasa is broke and is being pursued by creditors and service providers.It has emerged that Mr Mutas...Published: 26 Jun 2015 at 06:25hrs | | by Takunda Maodza
Mugabe not happy with safari operators
PRESIDENT Mugabe says the Government is unhappy with the state of affairs in private safaris and conservancies where owners - who are largely of European origin - make secret arrangements with visitor...Published: 22 Jun 2015 at 06:59hrs | | by Takunda Maodza
Mugabe pledges 300 cattle to AU
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe has pledged to donate 300 cattle from his vast family herd to the African Union Foundation but that depends on his wife - Grace giving it a go ahead.Mugabe is in ...Published: 15 Jun 2015 at 07:19hrs | | by Takunda Maodza
Mangoma supporters beat up Tevera
THE case in which MDC Renewal Team treasurer-general Elton Mangoma stands accused of snatching a provincial youth leader's wife took a nasty turn today when the victim, Mr Believe Tevera, was seve...Published: 26 May 2015 at 15:38hrs | | by Takunda Maodza
Didymus Mutasa loses his farm
MANICALAND Governor Mandiitawepi Chimene has taken over Mona Agro Farm on the outskirts of Rusape town, an investment project linked to former Zanu-PF secretary for administration Didymus Mutasa....Published: 04 May 2015 at 07:14hrs | | by Takunda Maodza
Mujuru disowns Solomon's son
FORMER Vice President Dr Joice Mujuru has disowned her late husband General Solomon Mujuru's son as the fight for the national hero's estate, believed to be running into billions of dollars, gets nast...Published: 16 Mar 2015 at 06:57hrs | | by Takunda Maodza
Mutasa's white ally kicked out of farm
A white commercial farmer believed to be a close associate of former Zanu-PF secretary for Administration Mr Didymus Mutasa has been kicked out of a Rusape farm. Allegations are that during hi...Published: 03 Mar 2015 at 06:25hrs | | by Takunda Maodza
'Tsvangirai scared of losing mansion,' says wife
MDC-T leader Mr Morgan Tsvangirai refuses to stay with Ms Elizabeth Macheka in Borrowdale because he fears vacating the Highlands mansion, bought for his use as Prime Minister during the inclusive Gov...Published: 24 Feb 2015 at 06:41hrs | | by Takunda Maodza
Tsvangirai cheats again, wife demands to be 'set free'
MORGAN Tsvangirai's wife, Elizabeth, has demanded to be "set free" from her marriage to the MDC-T leader after accusing him of cheating on her with two women.In sensational audio tapes obtai...Published: 23 Feb 2015 at 12:46hrs | | by Takunda Maodza
Mujuru's son demands that Dr Joice Mujuru releases Gen Mujuru's will
General Solomon Mujuru's will is nowhere to be found, forcing his long-forgotten son Tendayi Mujuru to seek legal action after the late national hero's widow and former Vice President Dr Joice Mujuru ...Published: 17 Jan 2015 at 12:21hrs | | by Takunda Maodza
Solomon Mujuru estate will disappears
GENERAL Solomon Mujuru's will is nowhere to be found forcing his long forgotten son Tendayi Mujuru to seek legal action after the late national hero's widow and former Vice President Joice Mujuru fai...Published: 16 Jan 2015 at 07:16hrs | 1 | by Takunda Maodza
Didymus Mutasa faces expulsion from Zanu-PF
ZANU-PF'S Manicaland Provincial Co-ordinating Committee meets in Mutare today with the fate of former secretary for Administration Didymus Mutasa topping the agenda amid a growing chorus from all pro...Published: 15 Jan 2015 at 05:53hrs | | by Takunda Maodza and Cletus Mushanawani
'Barack Obama a curse,' says Mugabe
US President Barack Obama retires from office with an African curse as the continent expected a lot from his election but he disappointed, President Mugabe said yesterday.Addressing the 6th Za...Published: 05 Dec 2014 at 06:37hrs | | by Takunda Maodza
Repent or face Zanu-PF axe, Mutasa warned
WAR veterans yesterday warned Zanu-PF secretary for administration Didymus Mutasa to dissociate himself from elements covertly pushing for the removal of President Mugabe or face the axe.T...Published: 15 Nov 2014 at 05:43hrs | | by Takunda Maodza
Tsvangirai unlikely to be contested at the MDC-T congress in October
MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai is unlikely to be contested at congress in October amid revelations Elias Mudzuri, who was eyeing party presidency, is developing cold feet. Reliable sources wi...Published: 11 Sep 2014 at 06:06hrs | | by Takunda Maodza
'Zanu-PF must not tear itself apart,' says Mugabe
PRESIDENT Mugabe yesterday dissuaded senior Zanu-PF officials from taking their differences to opposition media houses, saying there were internal party mechanisms to resolve grievances. The Presiden...Published: 05 Sep 2014 at 06:37hrs | | by Takunda Maodza
Mugabe bemoans gender disparity in the army
President Mugabe has bemoaned the low number of women enrolling for gruelling military officer cadet training.He was speaking at the commissioning of 188 cadets who included personnel from the...Published: 31 May 2014 at 07:00hrs | | by Takunda Maodza
Mugabe off to SA for Zuma's inauguration
PRESIDENT Mugabe arrived here yesterday for President Jacob Zuma's inauguration that has drawn 37 other leaders. President Zuma will be sworn-in for a second term at the Nelson Mandela Amphith...Published: 24 May 2014 at 09:19hrs | | by Takunda Maodza
UK based Zimbabweans petition govt over land
SOME Zimbabweans in the Diaspora have petitioned Government to assist them acquire farming land in a development reflecting a major change in discourse and attitude towards tenure reforms by a constit...Published: 16 May 2014 at 06:41hrs | | by Takunda Maodza
Health disaster looms in Bulawayo
Bulawayo Municipality and industries are discharging 35 million litres of raw sewage and hazardous effluent directly into the Umguza catchment per year, which has been linked to the incidence of seri...Published: 07 May 2014 at 07:48hrs | | by Takunda Maodza
Temba Mliswa in $165m scandal
ZANU-PF Mashonaland West provincial chairman and Hurungwe West legislator Temba Mliswa tried to force businessman Mr Muller Conrad "Billy" Rautenbach to pay him at least $165 million as "consultancy" ...Published: 31 Mar 2014 at 05:12hrs | | by Takunda Maodza
Tsvangirai fires Biti allies, senior officials
MDC-T Chitungwiza Province yesterday expelled chairperson Mr Alexio Musundire and other senior officials as infighting continues to rock the party.This is despite claims by party leader Mr Mo...Published: 29 Mar 2014 at 06:37hrs | | by Takunda Maodza
Sponsors abandon MDC-T
THE international community and local companies that traditionally funded the MDC-T stopped doing so after it lost to Zanu-PF on July 31 leaving the party broke and on the brink of collapse, Mr Eddie ...Published: 19 Mar 2014 at 06:19hrs | | by Takunda Maodza
Tsvangirai visits Job Sikhala
MDC99 leader Mr Job Sikhala yesterday denied reports that he had rejoined MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai's party saying it could have been politically lucrative reuniting with him in the run up ...Published: 11 Mar 2014 at 06:10hrs | | by Takunda Maodza
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