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Zanu-PF completes only 7% of 2018 promises - study
THE Zanu-PF-led government only managed to fulfil 16 of the 234 pledges in its 2018 election manifesto, which translates to just 7%, policy think-tank Sivio Institute has said.The figure indic...Published: 03 Aug 2023 at 06:47hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Nigerian billionaire's US$1 billion Zimbabwean mining deals stall
NIGERIAN oil and gas billionaire Benedict Peters' massive investment plans to shell out over US$1 billion into a local platinum mining project and more into lithium, iron ore, tin, gold and rare earth...Published: 16 Jul 2023 at 13:54hrs | 25 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean teachers bemoan US$13 slave wage
TEACHERS say they can no longer report for work consistently, amid revelations their basic salary has been eroded by inflation to US$13, with the government failing to solve the plight of public secto...Published: 01 Jul 2023 at 07:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa backtracks on free education
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday appeared to be backtracking on his government's pledge to roll out free education, saying only the vulnerable and people with disabilities would be catered for....Published: 18 Apr 2023 at 19:55hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
The poor are on their own in Zimbabwe
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa was all smiles as he officially opened the privately-developed Aspindale apartments in Harare. His infrastructure programme - housing for all - seemed to be all in order y...Published: 20 Feb 2023 at 05:30hrs | 1 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
'We can only afford 232 houses, not 300 000'
HOUSING Amenities minister Daniel Garwe yesterday said government had budgeted to build less than 250 houses this year, indirectly admitting to selling the public a dummy when it pledged 300 000 annua...Published: 13 Aug 2022 at 07:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa election fear jolts Zanu-PF
Zanu-PF'S structures in Harare are meeting to strategise on a quick economic recovery programme to avert defeat in the 2023 general elections at the hands of the main opposition Citizens' Coalition fo...Published: 17 Jul 2022 at 09:43hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's scorecard after 4 years
THIS week had two special days - Workers Day and Press Freedom Day - they both had muted celebrations. Something has changed, the economy is not working and the two are now holidays threatened by exti...Published: 07 May 2022 at 06:20hrs | 13 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Mnangagwa dangles title deeds to win urban vote
IN a highly patronising move, President Emmerson Mnangagwa is preparing title deeds for tens of thousands of Harare residents considered to be illegal occupants in several suburbs as Zanu-PF launches ...Published: 10 Feb 2022 at 05:39hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa goes for broke
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has dangled title deeds for votes to an estimated 80 000 desperate home-seekers in the capital whose informal settlements and structures face demolition as the ruling part...Published: 10 Feb 2022 at 05:38hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF development trajectory step ahead
Zanu-PF is leaving no stone unturned in implementing people-centred policies meant to turn the country into a middle income economy by 2030.In the year 2021, the party continued to spearhead u...Published: 12 Dec 2021 at 19:50hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Govt splashes $30 billion on Harare-Beitbridge road
THE Government has spent more than $30 billion on funding the reconstruction of over 260km of the Harare-Masvingo-Beitbridge highway, while an additional $1,3 billion has been directed towards the reh...Published: 05 Dec 2021 at 06:14hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Great strides made in road rehab project
The Government has spent more than $30 billion on funding the reconstruction of over 260km of the Harare-Masvingo-Beitbridge Highway, while an additional $1,3 billion has been directed towards the reh...Published: 05 Dec 2021 at 06:11hrs | 34 | by Staff reporter
Mliswa attacks Zanu-PF probe
NORTON Member of Parliament (MP) Temba Mliswa has dismissed a board of inquiry report by Hurungwe District war veterans, which has accused him of dabbling in Zanu-PF politics.Mliswa is an inde...Published: 03 Dec 2021 at 18:22hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Second Republic marred by litany of unfulfilled pledges
WHEN President Emmerson Mnangagwa got into power in 2017, a lot of promises were made, creating the impression that Zanu-PF was ready to give Zimbabweans a fresh start.Four years later, it see...Published: 22 Nov 2021 at 06:16hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
President warns economic saboteurs
Economic saboteurs who are bent on derailing milestones of the Second Republic will be dealt with accordingly, without fear or favour, President Mnangagwa said. In his address to the Central C...Published: 29 Oct 2021 at 09:03hrs | 6 | by Staff Reporter
Road rehab creates 1 500 job opportinuties
Over 200 kilometres of road have been reconstructed and opened to traffic on the Harare-Masvingo-Beitbridge highway, underlining progress being made by the Second Republic towards the attainment of Vi...Published: 15 Aug 2021 at 08:29hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF does not deserve our votes
TIME and again I have been questioning Zanu-PF's 2018 election manifesto on education, health and housing. It left me with so many doubts about the ruling party's capability to fulfil the highly exagg...Published: 14 Aug 2021 at 07:23hrs | 2 | by Concerned
Mr President destroy corruption not people's livelihoods
The second republic led by President Emmerson Mnangagwa needs to be proactive than being reactive and employing knee jerk policies.This cold winter have seen the government giving a thump up t...Published: 22 Jun 2021 at 21:00hrs | 1 | by Leonard Koni
Mnangagwa reads riot act to Zanu-PF big wheels
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has once again read the riot act to Zanu-PF's district co-ordinating committees (DCCs), saying they must desist from fomenting divisions and advancing personal agendas in ...Published: 28 Mar 2021 at 16:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Oil deal strategic, says Mnangagwa
The Zanu-PF-led Government has made considerable progress in delivering on developmental projects and other election promises outlined in its manifesto despite disruptions caused by the coronavirus pa...Published: 28 Mar 2021 at 06:41hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF challenges party members on Govt projects
ZANU-PF has challenged party members to monitor the implementation of Government projects to ensure that public officials do not sabotage the programmes. Zanu-PF national chairperson Oppah Muc...Published: 22 Mar 2021 at 06:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mat'land 'green belt' nigh
In the 2018 election manifesto, ZANU PF party promised to improve service delivery to the people and eventually catapult Zimbabwe to an Upper Middle Income Economy by 2030 with or without sancti...Published: 04 Mar 2021 at 10:26hrs | 6 | by Tirivanhu Kateera
'No free lunch under Second Republic'
THE Second Republic has no place for moonlighting and entitlement as it values creativity, initiative and persistence towards fulfilling both Zanu-PF's 2018 election manifesto and the National Develop...Published: 04 Mar 2021 at 06:17hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa and the politics of water in Matebeleland
Today, His Excellency President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa marches back to history and affirmatively posts his legacy to posterity by officiating at the Gwayi-Shangani water pipeline groundbreaking c...Published: 25 Feb 2021 at 06:23hrs | 4 | by Richard Runyararo Mahomva
Mastering art of 'villagising' cities
In Bishop Lazi's village, there lived this super-reclusive chap who, after a quarrel with his father over witchcraft, decided to build his own hut a spitting distance from the family homestead....Published: 20 Sep 2020 at 08:30hrs | 1 | by Bishop Lazarus
No need to panic over land?
Zimbabweans who benefited under the Land Reform Programme should not panic, but focus on improving productivity since their farms will not be repossessed, Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Servi...Published: 04 Sep 2020 at 06:09hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Anjin corruption and meddling in Zimbabwe's affairs are not China's foreign policy' - nonsense, they are the core pillars
China and Russia are the two countries that have played a major role in many African countries' fight for independence. It is a historic fact that most of these African countries have since found that...Published: 25 Aug 2020 at 20:28hrs | 10 | by Wilbert Mukori
Mnangagwa wants hospitals improved
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has underscored the need to capacitate district and provincial hospitals with state-of-the-art equipment as part of Government's efforts to revive the health sector. Speaki...Published: 29 Jul 2019 at 07:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo council to hike rates by up to 42%
COUNCIL is mulling raising service charges for water, refuse collection and leases by up to 42 percent to help balance its books.This flies in the face of the MDC-run municipality's pledge to ...Published: 28 Mar 2019 at 07:51hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mudzuri takes aim at Chamisa
MDC vice-president Elias Mudzuri has given the clearest indication yet that he will challenge the main opposition party's leader Nelson Chamisa at the party's congress in May.Mudzuri (EM) (pic...Published: 17 Mar 2019 at 14:44hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa's 'Smart cities' concept plucked from MDC manifesto'
THE MDC has claimed that President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration "stole" the opposition party's smart cities concept and factored it into his recently-launched national clean-up campaign which h...Published: 07 Jan 2019 at 08:40hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF maintains dominance in Matebeleland South
Zanu-PF has maintained its dominance in Matabeleland South province where Government is implementing a lot of development and economic empowerment programmes to improve people's standards of living, a...Published: 02 Aug 2018 at 07:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
2018 election an opportunity for citizens to change their lives
The MDC Alliance has said the 2018 election presents citizens with an opportunity to change their lives through the way they would vote and it was ready to serve them as expected.In its 2018 e...Published: 07 Jun 2018 at 14:58hrs | | by MDC Alliance
The rise of Zanu-PF
As the 2018 harmonised elections draw near, July 30 2018 to be exact, ZANU--PF, as the proverbial Phoenix, is rising from the ashes of the previous dispensation to become a formidable political player...Published: 04 Jun 2018 at 07:23hrs | 1 | by Elijah Chihota
Beyond bullet trains and homestead airports
What exactly is the MDC Alliance offering in this election? I ask because I have failed to point precisely what I, as an ordinary person, stand to benefit under their Government, should they win the f...Published: 28 May 2018 at 14:24hrs | | by Mapozho Saruchera
Incredible claims in party manifestos
Several opposition parties and President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s ruling Zanu-PF have launched their manifestos, all projecting themselves as committed to providing a messianic solution to the vast majo...Published: 27 May 2018 at 16:27hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
APA defends one on one campaign strategy
THE Nkosana Moyo-led Alliance for People's Agenda (APA) has defended its one-on-one campaign strategy, saying it was more effective and interactive than mass rallies.APA spokesperson, Nyaradzo...Published: 24 May 2018 at 07:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa aims to move Zimbabwe from pariah to global partner
Zimbabwe's ruling Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (Zanu PF) says that if it is re-elected in the forthcoming national polls, it will focus on opening the country for business, fighting...Published: 22 May 2018 at 08:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mujuru launches election manifesto
The People's Rainbow Coalition (PRC) yesterday launched its 2018 election manifesto at Dotito business centre in Mashonaland Central province.All five political parties under the PRC banner na...Published: 20 May 2018 at 19:35hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance praise Zanu-PF manifesto
THE Nelson Chamisa-led opposition MDC Alliance yesterday took an unusual step and, for the first time, hailed the ruling Zanu-PF party's 2018 election manifesto, saying it "speaks to people's issues r...Published: 18 May 2018 at 10:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa a messenger of hope,' says Zanu-PF
Zanu-PF has described its Presidential candidate in the forthcoming general elections, President Mnangagwa, as a trustworthy messenger of hope keen to develop Zimbabwe through sustainable economic tra...Published: 15 May 2018 at 06:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF Parliament aspirants preach unity
ZANU-PF Bulawayo province yesterday held constituency meetings to introduce candidates for the forthcoming general elections to the electorate.The message at all the meetings was that the part...Published: 14 May 2018 at 06:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa lines up MEGA rallies
ZANU-PF First Secretary and President, Emmerson Mnangagwa, is expected to meet youths and students before holding star rallies in all provinces as the ruling party's campaign juggernaut gathers moment...Published: 13 May 2018 at 11:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's dangerous new slogan
THE ruling Zanu-PF last Friday launched its 2018 election manifesto which has been widely criticised as tantamount to building castles in the air, just like the 2013 one.Neutrals and critics s...Published: 12 May 2018 at 15:27hrs | 2 | by Dumisani Muleya
ZANU PF 2018 Manifesto: the mother of all manifestos
Prophets of political doom had already written off ZANU PF and committed it to the political dustbin –never to rise again. On Friday, 4 May 2018 history was re-written again as the political giant r...Published: 10 May 2018 at 14:54hrs | | by Elijah Chihota
Zanu-PF promise farms and stands for women, youths
ZANU-PF has promised to empower youths, women, the disabled and the vulnerable through allocation of farms and residential stands as part of its efforts to ensure indigenous people participate in econ...Published: 08 May 2018 at 07:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF pledges to clamp down on land barons
The ZANU-PF Government says it will put an end to irregular allocations of land and development of shanty towns if re-elected in the forthcoming 2018 harmonised elections.In its 2018 election ...Published: 08 May 2018 at 07:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF announces additional rerun
Zanu-PF's National Elections Commission (NEC) yesterday ordered an additional rerun of elections in Kambuzuma Constituency.However, there will not be a rerun in Gutu East (Masvingo province) a...Published: 08 May 2018 at 07:02hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Zanu-PF manifesto populist scam'
POLITICAL analysts and residents' associations yesterday described the recently-launched Zanu-PF 2018 election manifesto as jumbled up, unrealistic and contemptuous of the electorate, as most of the p...Published: 07 May 2018 at 07:14hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
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