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Trump is 'not safe' says Putin
Vladimir Putin has said he does not believe US President-elect Donald Trump, who survived several assassination attempts during his run for the White House, is safe.The Russian president made ...Published: 28 Nov 2024 at 18:24hrs | 3018 | by The Herald
Harare City Council issues 3 bins per premise directive
The City of Harare has issued a new directive requiring all buildings and business premises to have a minimum of three bins outside their properties. The directive, which takes effect immediately, was...Published: 28 Nov 2024 at 18:14hrs | 2309 | by The Herald
Midwife in court for trafficking an infant
A midwife stationed at Sally Mugabe Central Hospital, Betty Sena, appeared before the Harare Magistrates' Court on Wednesday facing charges of human trafficking and unlawfully falsifying the death of ...Published: 28 Nov 2024 at 18:06hrs | 573 | by The Herald
4 armed robbers steal over US$46,000 and R924,000 in heist
In a daring robbery that has sent shockwaves through the community, four armed robbers raided a money transfer outlet in Ngundu on November 25, 2024, making off with more than US$46,300 and R924,000 i...Published: 28 Nov 2024 at 18:05hrs | 1181 | by The Herald
ZCTU's incest with MDC Alliance not best for the worker
The proposals by the leadership of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions to become formally aligned with a political party, in this case the MDC-Alliance, and to have a quota of seats on the national ...Published: 17 Apr 2019 at 06:55hrs | | by Editorial - The Herald
Chamisa's deception triggers violence
If there is any Zimbabwean politician who reads religiously Niccolò Machiavelli's "bible", The Prince, it has to be MDC-Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa. Chamisa has personified Machiavelli's imagery o...Published: 03 Apr 2019 at 08:16hrs | | by Editorial - The Herald
Mnangagwa's dialogue stance a step in right direction
Multi-party democracy has been entrenched in Zimbabwe, yet the system has been missing one crucial part - dialogue among political parties and players. We note that President Mnangagwa is pret...Published: 08 Feb 2019 at 08:34hrs | | by Editorial - The Herald
ANC solidarity with Zanu-PF laudable
Zanu-PF and the African National Congress (ANC) of South Africa are among Africa's few revolutionary parties that still remain in power. The ANC was founded on January 8,1912 and is Africa's o...Published: 04 Feb 2019 at 07:43hrs | | by Editorial - The Herald
Western-funded 'one-way flow of information' must end
In their Unesco-funded research paper aptly titled: "Television traffic: a one-way street? A survey and analysis of the international flow of television programme material," Kaarle Nordenstren...Published: 29 Jan 2019 at 23:12hrs | | by Editorial - The Herald
The mis-narrating of Zimbabwe's opposition riots
We are not surprised at all, are we? The recent violence by the opposition MDC-Alliance and its civic society partners has dominated the headlines putting Zimbabwe on the spotlight once again. ...Published: 22 Jan 2019 at 22:44hrs | | by Editorial - The Herald
Mnangagwa can do without Chamisa
IN the next few days, most likely next week, President Mnangagwa will announce his new Cabinet. This will follow the swearing-in of members of the National Assembly on Wednesday. Advice has be...Published: 01 Sep 2018 at 08:48hrs | | by Editorial - The Herald
When the gavel falls, peace must prevail
AT 2pm today, the Constitutional Court will rule in the application by MDC-Alliance leader Mr Nelson Chamisa challenging President Mnangagwa's victory in the July 30 presidential election. The...Published: 24 Aug 2018 at 05:37hrs | | by Editorial - The Herald
Zimbabwe bigger than all of us
THE Constitutional Court today convenes to deliberate on a petition by MDC-Alliance candidate Nelson Chamisa challenging President Mnangagwa's victory in the July 30 election. The President po...Published: 22 Aug 2018 at 05:59hrs | | by Editorial - The Herald
Constitutional Court to set number of precedents
On Wednesday, the Constitutional Court starts hearing oral arguments and evidence in the electoral petition launched by one of the 23 Presidential candidates in the just-ended election. This i...Published: 20 Aug 2018 at 05:49hrs | 1 | by Editorial - the herald
Biti fled prosecution, not persecution
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa and his Government went out of their way to deliver credible, free, fair and transparent harmonised elections in the hope that all contestants would be magnanimous enough to put th...Published: 09 Aug 2018 at 07:31hrs | | by Editorial - The Herald
MDC-Alliance not ready for real power
One of the major advantages of the first-past-the-post electoral systems is that coalition governments are the exception rather than the rule. Proportional representation electoral systems tend to gra...Published: 08 Aug 2018 at 06:11hrs | | by Editorial - The Herald
Gukurahundi chief architect urged to close chapter on 'moment of madness'
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has shown his desire to cut Executive costs by going for a leaner Cabinet. And we note that in the lean and mean Cabinet he has a department that will deal with the vexed ...Published: 04 Dec 2017 at 11:25hrs | | by The Herald Editorial
Zimdollar payouts haunts Old Mutual
Old Mutual faces its first major challenge from a policyholder over its very low post-hyperinflation payouts as the London-listed giant has been served with summons by a Harare veterinarian surgeo...Published: 27 Mar 2017 at 06:42hrs | | by The Herald
'MDC-T must decide whether its for or against Zimbabwe'
Morgan Tsvangirai's MDC-T party must take full responsibility for the chaos and destruction of property that happened mainly in Harare last week. They started it and must accept the consequences o...Published: 30 Aug 2016 at 06:22hrs | | by The Herald
MDC-T sanctions call rapped
MDC-T has been widely condemned for seeking to impose "internal sanctions" on Zimbabwe by urging people to boycott what the party called Zanu-PF-linked and owned businesses.Industrialists,...Published: 20 Aug 2015 at 08:32hrs | | by the herald
You are politically ugly Mr Tsvangirai
ACCORDING to Soviet political scientist Natan Sharansky, the threshold Test for a free society is what he called The Town Square Test. The test holds that, "If a person cannot walk into the middle of ...Published: 09 Feb 2015 at 09:10hrs | | by the herald - Wenceslaus Murape
Zimbabwe fuel prices should come down
There is no excuse for players in the fuel sector to hold the nation to ransom. Prices of fuel have retreated in the last couple of weeks globally, but strangely, the local fuel sector has not respond...Published: 08 Jan 2015 at 08:56hrs | | by The Herald editorial
Post Mugabe Era fantasy back fires
Recent developments in Zanu-PF, which have seen the public unmasking of vultures who have been abusing their positions of trust to betray the nation is the perfect warning against the pitfalls of appa...Published: 04 Dec 2014 at 14:23hrs | | by The Herald Editorial team
'Ian Khama wants EU to extend sanctions on Zimbabwe'
Recent comments by Botswana President Ian Khama about the July 31, 2013 Zimbabwe elections are a ploy by the Botswana leader to get the European Union to extend its sanctions on Zimbabwe, Zanu-PF poli...Published: 28 Jan 2014 at 06:33hrs | | by The Herald
Man commits suicide after testing HIV+
Darron Chakanya, 30, of Kambanje Village under Chief Mangwende committed suicide by drinking poison after his wife threatened to abort a two-month pregnancy when he disclosed he was HIV positive. ...Published: 27 Jan 2014 at 08:43hrs | | by The Herald
Why Tsvangirai dislikes China Vice Premier Wang Yang's visit
The official visit this week by the People's Republic of China Vice Premier Wang Yang is a demonstration of the strong relations between the Government of Zimbabwe and China.VP Wang became the...Published: 25 May 2013 at 14:26hrs | | by The Herald editorial
Residents afraid of rats 'as big as cats'
RESIDENTS living along South Africa's Port Elizabeth salt pans are afraid to fall asleep at night because when they do rats "as big as cats" infest their homes and bite them.At their wits' end...Published: 13 Jun 2012 at 08:08hrs | | by Lynn Williams | The Herald
MDC-T youth bombed Zanu-PF district office in Mbare, state media suspects
This Article was originally published by The Herald on Monday 14th Feb, its not clear yet if the two suspected bombers are really MDC-T members or its just som...Published: 15 Feb 2011 at 10:17hrs | | by The Herald
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