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'West must support ED and no regime change for 20 years' argued Mutsvairo - so why bother
"IF Western governments are sincere about political reforms in Zimbabwe, then they have to support President Emmerson Mnangagwa's new government," wrote Bruce Mutsvairo."There are no two ways ...Published: 7 hrs ago | 1606 | by Nomusa Garikai
Zimbabweans pin hopes on ED as he attends maiden UNGA Summit
Zimbabwean President, Emmerson Mnangagwa, is attending his maiden United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) summit amid rising confidence in his leadership back home. Mnangagwa won this year's elections,...Published: 20 Sep 2018 at 11:44hrs | 1506 | by Nicole Hondo
'Focus on delivering campaign promises and 2030' said ED - no, focus on BROKEN free election promise and 2023
"As we officially open the 9th Parliament, our focus is on delivering the promises made during the campaign period," said President Mnangagwa in his speech marking the official opening Zimbabwe's parl...Published: 19 Sep 2018 at 10:36hrs | 868 | by Nomusa Garikai
'What can deadwood cabinet advise dream team?' ask ZCTU - no ask; what will we do if it fails, yet again?
"The reshuffle of cabinet actually promoted all those deemed 'excess baggage' by certain sections of the media. The big boys whom the majority called dead wood were actually reassigned to full time jo...Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 14:24hrs | 777 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
New watchdog vows to enforce election campaign promises
A NEW watchdog and multi-party social movement, Umalusi-Mufudzi, has been formed to make accountable all elected public officials and ensure that they deliver on the promises they made in the run-up t...Published: 15 Sep 2018 at 08:37hrs | 160 | by Staff Reporter
Judges should not run elections
On 11 September 2018, a video circulated on social media showing some opposition politicians in Parliament chanting: "mbavha! mbavha!" as Justice Chigumba entered the Parliament chamber to conduct the...Published: 14 Sep 2018 at 16:27hrs | 2389 | by Tererai Mafukidze
Why Mnangagwa 'won', but lost the 2018 election
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa won the 2018 election on one hand, but lost it on the other. First, while the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) and Mnangagwa celebrated their vindication by the Constitutional C...Published: 14 Sep 2018 at 07:57hrs | 7415 | by Moses Tofa
Mujuru partner joins Zanu-PF
OPPOSITION Democratic Assembly for Restoration and Empowerment (Dare) leader Gilbert Dzikiti has dumped his own party that was a member of People's Rainbow Coalition (PRC), led by National People's Pa...Published: 12 Sep 2018 at 07:27hrs | 1103 | by Staff reporter
Zanu PF rigged elections and stampeding us to move on - we must, never again, forget past with sleep
"Usa kanganwa chezuro nehope!" (One must never forget yesterday's troubles with sleep!) so goes the Shona adage. All those who forget the past are doomed to repeat the same mistake over and over again...Published: 11 Sep 2018 at 19:55hrs | 2186 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Zimbabwe a nation of contradictions
If Zimbabwe was a patient on a hospital bed we the relatives of the patient would have been expecting nothing less than being told by the doctors that the hospital has tried all we could do and we hav...Published: 10 Sep 2018 at 18:57hrs | 2095 | by Isaac Nkomah
'I will take Zimbabwe forward' twittered Coventry - how naïve, vote rigging ED is taking it backward
"I am honoured to be appointed by President Mnangagwa as Zimbabwe's Minister of Youth, Sports, Art and Recreation. I will continue to carry our Flag with pride and dedication of service so we can come...Published: 10 Sep 2018 at 18:56hrs | 5454 | by Wilbert Mukori
'Zimbabwe's future is bright,' says Mnangagwa
The future is bright after the 2018 elections renewed the confidence of global powerhouses like China and the European Union in Zimbabwe, with the international community ready to assist the socio-eco...Published: 09 Sep 2018 at 08:08hrs | 273 | by Staff reporter
ZPP exposes threats BVR was to be used for witch hunting voters
The Zimbabwe Peace Project (ZPP) has extensively reported on widespread intimidation and harassment used in the run up to the elections. The organisation said there were threats of using the B...Published: 09 Sep 2018 at 07:24hrs | 316 | by Stephen Jakes
Mnangagwa accused of 'name bombing'
Smarting from his failure to wrestle power from Zanu-PF, the main opposition MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has poured cold water on rave views on Mnangagwa's government cabinet appointments sayin...Published: 08 Sep 2018 at 20:51hrs | 5405 | by Staff reporter
Salary increment an imperative for the new Cabinet - ARTUZ
Amalgamated Rural Teachers' Union of Zimbabwe, ARTUZ welcomes the new Ministers of Public Service and Finance, Hon Sekesai Nzenza and Hon Prof Ncube respectively. We wish them well during their tenure...Published: 07 Sep 2018 at 14:50hrs | 2666 | by ARTUZ
Chamisa to hold first thank you rally in Chitungwiza
MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa is set to hold his first post election rally in Chitungwiza at Huruyadzo Shopping Centre....Published: 07 Sep 2018 at 09:38hrs | 3676 | by Sithabile Mafu
Teachers to continue with its Safe Schools Campaign
THE Amalgamated Rural Teachers' Union of Zimbabwe (Artuz) has revealed plans to continue with its 'Safe Schools Campaign' amid fears educators face a backlash, particularly in rural areas following th...Published: 07 Sep 2018 at 06:59hrs | 87 | by Staff reporter
Belling Zimbabwe's electoral-ideological cat
IT will take a while yet for the national after-effect of the 2018 harmonised election to wear off. Praise singers of President Emmerson Mnangagwa will continue justifying his eventual victory, while ...Published: 05 Sep 2018 at 07:10hrs | 452 | by Takura Zhangazha
MDC Alliance youths call for Zec disbandment
YOUTH leaders from various political parties and civil society groups convening under the banner of National Electoral Reform Agenda (Nera) youth forum yesterday petitioned Parliament, demanding the r...Published: 05 Sep 2018 at 06:58hrs | 393 | by Staff reporter
Third term opens as Nation transit from fear to acceptance
The hullabaloo of the inconsequential routine rituals of elections is now over. The political elites find themselves on different polar ends, the citizens are petrified and are slowly accepting the ne...Published: 03 Sep 2018 at 15:11hrs | 769 | by ARTUZ
Open letter to the president of Zimbabwe
Dear honourable President (ED MNANGAGWA), First of all I would like to say congratulations for winning the 2018 elections. Yes we were not pleased as youth of Zimbabwe but anywhere we don't ha...Published: 03 Sep 2018 at 08:19hrs | 5467 | by Tracy Mpofu
The ZANU PF Chamisa-Mwonzora Stage Managed Conflict Is Their Only Weapon Left
Nelson Chamisa is among the heroes of faiths and honest, I have no doubt that he has joined the league of Simon Peter, Stephen, Paul, Aristarchus, Silas and other biblical heroes of faiths. I was expe...Published: 02 Sep 2018 at 10:45hrs | 926 | by Don Chigumba
Massive drop in poll petitions
The number of challenges against National Assembly and local authority poll outcomes brought to Electoral Courts fell significantly this year as compared to 2013.In all, 28 petitions were file...Published: 02 Sep 2018 at 08:50hrs | 151 | by Staff reporter
Mliswa claims 10 000 new voters
NORTON MP-elect Temba Mliswa has claimed to have secured more than 10 000 new voters during the just-ended elections, beating Zanu-PF and the MDC Alliance, whose focus was on presidential rallies inst...Published: 01 Sep 2018 at 09:06hrs | 1028 | by Staff reporter
Jobless Chamisa the biggest loser of 2018 elections
Zimbabwe's July 30, 2018 elections have come and gone and the Constitutional Court on August 24 buttressed the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC)'s position that President Mnangagwa was the winner. ...Published: 29 Aug 2018 at 06:38hrs | 540 | by Staff reporter
Do not kill a dead snake!
This is what former President of South Africa Jacob Zuma said in reference to Thabo Mbeki who was voted out of the party and government as party leader and president of South Africa in Polokwane. This...Published: 28 Aug 2018 at 15:49hrs | 3873 | by Nomazulu Thata
Chamisa, the biggest loser of 2018 elections
Zimbabwe's 30 July 2018 elections have come and gone and the Constitutional Court on 24 August buttressed the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) position that President Emmerson Mnangagwa was the win...Published: 28 Aug 2018 at 12:00hrs | 4116 | by Elijah Chihota
State Agents threaten to pull ARTUZ down
The President of Amalgamated Rural Teachers' Union of Zimbabwe, ARTUZ, Cde Obert Masaraure today received threats from three known members of the dreaded Central Intelligence Organization. The threats...Published: 27 Aug 2018 at 11:17hrs | 3649 | by ARTUZ
Open letter to E.D. Mnangagwa the Incoming president of Zimbabwe
Mr. President, I congratulate you with 'heavyheart' for being sworn in as the next president of the republic of Zimbabwe for the next five years. I am sure that that you are aware that millions of Zim...Published: 26 Aug 2018 at 23:10hrs | 2806 | by Don Chigumba
Mnangagwa's greatest test, camel through needle's eye, was to hold free elections - he failed miserably
The greatest test If Zimbabwe's 2018 elections were free, fair and credible would President Mnangagwa and his Zanu PF junta have won the elections? The answer must be an emphatic YES. ...Published: 26 Aug 2018 at 20:19hrs | 2051 | by Wilbert Mukori
Disputed polls: Zimbabwe govt credibility in jeopardy
HOW the government of Zimbabwe rejuvenates its re-engagement strategy will be critical to the country's prospects for economic recovery and political cohesion.The government posited that the f...Published: 23 Aug 2018 at 06:44hrs | 770 | by Piers Pigou
'We neither give up nor give in!' twittered Chamisa - fancy that, insane too never give up
"Insanity," said the great Physicist Albert Einstein, "is doing the same thing over and over again, expecting a different result!"I had my first encounter with the insane when I visited my aun...Published: 22 Aug 2018 at 15:12hrs | 9025 | by Wilbert Mukori
Mnangagwa regime legitimacy in limbo
The Zimbabwean government posited that the first elections after the November 2017 ouster of Robert Mugabe would enhance the state's credibility and strengthen the country's prospects for economic rec...Published: 21 Aug 2018 at 16:39hrs | 3283 | by Piers Pigou
US sanctions on Zimbabwe - truths, history and lies
A new regime of US sanctions has just been signed into law, opening a fresh front in the increasingly polarised political debate in Zimbabwe.Critics say they hurt the economy, while supporters...Published: 20 Aug 2018 at 19:01hrs | 5637 | by newsZWire
Why Judge Chigumba should resign ahead of ConCourt ruling
There is no doubt that Judge Chigumba has lost both legal, moral and witchcraft authority to lead ZEC and Zimbabwe elections in future. Judge Chigumba is the first ever elections chairperson on earth ...Published: 19 Aug 2018 at 11:52hrs | 11918 | by Don Chigumba
Electoral outcome predetermined
There is nothing new about the shortcomings of the 2018 harmonised elections as the stage for the current dispute was set when authorities refused to strengthen the legal framework for elections immed...Published: 18 Aug 2018 at 14:01hrs | 2026 | by Maxwell Sibanda
Zimbabwe elections: Recognition and God's Case, No Appeal
RECOGNITION of the result of Zimbabwe's 2018 harmonised elections was always going to be a matter of basic international relations. One would be forgiven for arguing about which countries recognise th...Published: 18 Aug 2018 at 08:04hrs | 704 | by Takura Zhangazha
Gunning down people, legitimacy and hope, The position of peasants under the 'new dispensation'
Dear Mango News, I wish to complement the publication of this factual news on the political realities that faced ordinary Zimbabweans after independence and thirty nine years after by Mango. I...Published: 17 Aug 2018 at 07:40hrs | 837 | by Andrew Mamyevere
'Mnangagwa must serve only 5 years, pass baton'
NORTON MP-elect Temba Mliswa (independent) yesterday said if President-elect Emmerson Mnangagwa is confirmed as winner of the just-ended elections by the Constiutional Court, the Zanu-PF leader must p...Published: 17 Aug 2018 at 06:24hrs | 3860 | by Staff reporter
2018 elections failed test
Zimbabwe's just-concluded harmonised elections have failed the real test of fairness, being free and transparent.On July 30, Zimbabweans went to vote in high numbers hoping that their voice wo...Published: 16 Aug 2018 at 06:59hrs | 1224 | by Staff reporter
Sally Mugabe's grave 'abandoned' as Mugabes 'snub heroes day celebrations
Zimbabwean former president Robert Mugabe's late wife Sally and his sister Sabina's graves were reportedly "abandoned" after "no single relative appeared to have turned up to visit them" on Monday dur...Published: 15 Aug 2018 at 07:20hrs | 2620 | by Staff reporter
Kazembe a common denominator of ZEC in disputed elections since 1996 - Ruhanya
Political commentator Pedzisai Ruhanya has said the Zimbabwe Electoiral Commission official Joice Kazembe has been a common denominator of the disputed election s in Zimbabwe since 1996....Published: 14 Aug 2018 at 09:44hrs | 4907 | by Stephen Jakes
'Set up complaints mechanism against Defence Forces'
THE Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission (ZHRC) has urged the government to put up mechanisms that will enable citizens to lodge complaints against members of the security services if they felt that their...Published: 14 Aug 2018 at 06:43hrs | 518 | by Staff reporter
Polls aftermath: Highly personal but collective political catharsis
THERE was always going to be a disputed winner of Zimbabwe's 2018 elections, especially after Robert Mugabe was no longer on the presidential ballot paper.And it was always going to be very pe...Published: 14 Aug 2018 at 06:42hrs | 312 | by Takura Zhangazha
Chiwenga poised to topple Mnangagwa, as another coup imminent in Zimbabwe
The 30 July 2018 harmonized elections were like no other ever held in the country for so many reasons, but the most outstanding was the huge difference between the two-thirds majority won by the rulin...Published: 13 Aug 2018 at 19:48hrs | 29812 | by Kudakwashe Sheddy Marangwanda
When politics blocks hope
SO here we are again, stalled by inconclusive politics. Only time, dates and names of politicians have changed and the clock continues to tick. The scenario is the same. With every day that passes, ou...Published: 13 Aug 2018 at 06:55hrs | 534 | by Tapiwa Gomo
Chamisa's US sanctions expected to sow misery in Zimbabwe
The decision by President Donald Trump to extend sanctions on President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration came after Zimbabwe's new government failed to meet international obligations, and spurned a...Published: 12 Aug 2018 at 15:03hrs | 4180 | by Staff reporter
'Opposition parties must close ranks for 2023'
MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has to swiftly turn the Alliance into a fully-fledged political party and unite parliamentarians who won seats under the coalition banner, analysts contend.A...Published: 12 Aug 2018 at 15:02hrs | 1048 | by Staff reporter
'Hard work over miracles,' says Chiwenga
Tomorrow, Zimbabwe marks Heroes Day and on Tuesday Zimbabwe Defence Forces Day. The Sunday Mail News Editor Darlington Musarurwa spoke with Vice-President Dr Constantino Chiwenga about these i...Published: 12 Aug 2018 at 09:43hrs | 322 | by Staff reporter
Parliament awaits President's inauguration
Parliament has notified the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission and Judicial Services Commission of the impending establishment of the Ninth Parliament.Zimbabwe has a bicameral system of a National ...Published: 12 Aug 2018 at 09:42hrs | 150 | by Staff reporter
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