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Zanu-PF fissures laid bare in Mash East
TENSION is brewing within the Zanu-PF Mashonaland East province women's league after the league reportedly refused to hand over a party vehicle to the recently reinstated chairperson Nyarai Tsvuura....Published: 18 hrs ago | 713 | by Staff reporter
AIPPA scrapped
The new Freedom of Information Bill became law yesterday after being gazetted following the approval of the final amended version from Parliament by President Mnangagwa. The new Act, a giant s...Published: 02 Jul 2020 at 18:34hrs | 793 | by Staff reporter
From Mnangagwa's oil and soup dripping hands, to Chamisa's naivety
BESIDES pulling down an outdated calendar and hanging up another on the wall each year in Zimbabwe, has anybody ever asked themselves if really we are going anywhere as a country? I say this with ever...Published: 02 Jul 2020 at 18:26hrs | 1434 | by Robert Sigauke
So much lies and distortions in Zimbabwean history - the true story needs to finally be told
When renowned pan-Africanist Marcus Garvey famously said, "A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots", he had a very valid point, as indeed,...Published: 02 Jul 2020 at 14:27hrs | 1791 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
We need a transitional government: CSO
Pressure Group Ibhetshu Lika Zulu has called for a Transitional government as the economy is sinking at a very fast rate.The pressure group secretary Mbuso Fuzwayo said the only way forward fo...Published: 02 Jul 2020 at 09:08hrs | 2083 | by Stephen Jakes
Joshua Nkomo: A dream deferred but still attainable
Joshua Nkomo, perhaps like many great men and women before him saw a dream for Zimbabwe, one that would have seen the country cross over from colonialism to the proverbial Jordan. Born in 1917 he dedi...Published: 01 Jul 2020 at 18:06hrs | 876 | by Lt Col JZ Dlamini
A new oppostion front stronger than MDC threatens ZANU PF
Presidential Spokesperson George Charamba has revealed that the government is aware of a new opposition front led by market manipulators which seeks to overthrow the government. In an intervie...Published: 01 Jul 2020 at 11:02hrs | 20422 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe security chefs fingered in mobile money suspension
Zimbabwe's security force leaders sidelined the nation's economic chiefs and forced the government to close the stock exchange and halt most mobile-money transactions, people familiar with the situati...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 22:44hrs | 5809 | by Staff reporter
War vets reconnected after 40 years
"Happiness is meeting an old friend after a long time and feeling that nothing has changed," wrote Cris Dar.It seems the prolific writer coined the statement with two wartime friends in mind (...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 13:38hrs | 4426 | by John Sigauke
Zimbabwe needs competent managers: APA
The Alliance for People's Agenda, led by Nkosana Moyo has said Zimbabwe is in serious need of competent managers amid concerns that President Emmerson Mnanaggwa's administration has failed to run the ...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 08:08hrs | 505 | by Stephen Jakes
Introduction - Reform Agenda Part 1 of 3
1. What is the Reform Agenda?The Reform Agenda is a politically conscious organisation that seeks to inform and influence political and civic outcom...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 07:24hrs | 375 | by Robert Sigauke
Mnangagwa's govt to stop at nothing in arresting corruption, SB Moyo
President Mnangagwa, at the coming in of the new dispensation, pledged to fight corruption and true to his word, the Government will stop at nothing in arresting graft and dealing with economic sabote...Published: 29 Jun 2020 at 07:23hrs | 1289 | by Staff reporter
Is Khupe an MDC or Zanu-PF creation?
Zimbabwe is at crossroads, the economy is in decline, deprivation continues, with ordinary citizens yearning for reprieve from the challenges to do with daily survival.Grace KwinjeThis is ...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 20:06hrs | 3028 | by Grace Kwinjeh
Chamisa told to go back to the drawing board
BATTERED and bruised MDC-Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa, should go back to the drawing board and come up with new strategies to fight for his political life in the wake of the political and legal loss...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 17:49hrs | 2121 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe opposition facing extinction?
IT WAS a journey of 40 years, one which the children of Israel endured until they reached Canaan, but unlike the Israelites, who turned a corner after four decades, the opposition in Zimbabwe has rema...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 17:48hrs | 563 | by Tendai Kamhungira
Chamisa has been hijacked, says Mashakada
Founding MDC member and Economic Planning former minister Tapiwa Mashakada recently left the MDC-Alliance led by Nelson Chamisa claiming the party had stopped being a workers' movement and that it had...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 17:44hrs | 8888 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe constitution amendment (bill no. 2) - 2019
Written submission in accordance with section 328 amendment of constitution ZAPU notes with grave concern about the implications of the proposed r...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 10:47hrs | 878 | by Sakhile Sibanda
Zimbabwe on the edge again?
A Zimbabwean shopper in a Harare supermarket shook his head, grumbling as he returned a loaf of bread to a rack after finding the price had jumped by a third and he could no longer afford it.N...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 10:17hrs | 3250 | by AFP
Mnangagwa courts unrest
Zimbabweans celebrated in their tens of thousands when the military ousted Robert Mugabe and installed Emmerson Mnangagwa as president. Two-and-a-half years later, the party is over.Mnanga...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 08:13hrs | 777 | by Bloomberg
Dr Nkomo: The triumph and paradox of the liberation agenda
Early career timing and ideological wiringTHE nationalist anti-colonial movement in modern Zimbabwe directly intertwines the ideological efforts and political charisma of the late Vice-Preside...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 07:28hrs | 165 | by Dr Obert Mpofu
Joshua Nkomo: A globalist, political negotiator and institution builder
FORMER Vice-President Joshua Nkomo's legacy is prominently embedded in the military and radical polemic side of Zimbabwe's liberation struggle.This historiography bias towards Nkomo's contribu...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 07:21hrs | 151 | by Richard Runyararo Mahomva
Chamisa's faction receives another morale-sapping blow
IT DOES not rain but pours for Nelson Chamisa's MDC faction, with the beset group receiving another morale-sapping blow yesterday after it lost the battle for the warring party's hugely symbolic natio...Published: 27 Jun 2020 at 17:02hrs | 8968 | by Staff reporter
From Zanu's Oil and Soup Dripping Hands, to the Opposition's Naivety
Besides pulling down an outdated calendar and hanging up another on the wall each year in Zimbabwe, has anybody ever asked themselves if really we are going anywhere as a country? I say this with ever...Published: 27 Jun 2020 at 08:54hrs | 4864 | by Robert Sigauke
Mounting challenges for Chamisa
THE MDC-Alliance, and the entire legacy of the opposition movement, faces the gravest political challenges it has had to confront since its formation in 1999.This is the result of a combinatio...Published: 26 Jun 2020 at 07:56hrs | 9945 | by Brian Raftopoulos
Factionalism not peculiar to Zanu-PF
FACTIONALISM is not a phenomenon peculiar to Zanu-PF. Political parties, the world over, are plagued by "parties within a party" whose members band together to achieve particular goals and advance the...Published: 26 Jun 2020 at 07:27hrs | 132 | by Lovemore Sibanda
Chamisa vows to fight back
MDC-Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has vowed to fight against the recall of his legislators from Parliament by the rival Thokozani Khupe-led MDC-T.Khupe recalled a total of 13 MDC-Alliance leg...Published: 25 Jun 2020 at 16:21hrs | 5976 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa warns his corrupt aides
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday warned key figures in his government involved in corruption that they would be dealt with mercilessly, the Daily News reports.This comes as several senio...Published: 25 Jun 2020 at 16:17hrs | 1544 | by Staff reporter
Greed is killing Zimbabwe, says Mthuli Ncube
FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube yesterday said people could take the bond notes being rejected by the market to the bank in exchange for new notes, accusing economic saboteurs of hindering his economic ...Published: 25 Jun 2020 at 07:11hrs | 5771 | by Staff reporter
Calls for civil society to be audited
ZANU PF-aligned Zimbabwe Citizens Forum (the Forum) has called for the auditing of civil society organisations (CSOs) operating in Zimbabwe to establish where they are getting their funding among othe...Published: 24 Jun 2020 at 20:32hrs | 1006 | by Staff reporter
Factionalism in Zanu-PF: G40 vs Lacoste
Factionalism is not a phenomenon peculiar to the ZANU PF. Political parties are plagued by "parties within a party" whose members band together to achieve particular goals and advance their agenda wit...Published: 24 Jun 2020 at 20:08hrs | 4673 | by Lovemore Sibanda Ph.D.
Country sold to Chinese by Zanu-PF
Recent reports of Zimbabwean nationals who were shot by a Chinese employer over a wages dispute and also the emergence of evidence the Chinese nationals are now forming part of the country's sec...Published: 24 Jun 2020 at 19:20hrs | 1025 | by Iphithule Maphosa
Mnangagwa challenges Zimbabweans to be patriotic
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has called on Zimbabweans to be patriotic and work towards achieving the national vision 2030.The President made the remarks at the National Shrine where the late ...Published: 24 Jun 2020 at 17:34hrs | 904 | by Staff reporter
Mahere takes Mnangagwa, Khupe head on
MDC Spokesperson Fadzai Mahere has condemned the dismissal of MDC MPs from parliament. Mahere was speaking after the Speaker of Parliament Jacob Mudenda chucked out 9 more MPs on Tuesday. Read...Published: 24 Jun 2020 at 13:37hrs | 7024 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zivhu accepts expulsion from Zanu-PF
CHIVI South legislator Mr Killer Zivhu has accepted his expulsion from Zanu-PF, saying he will continue supporting the ruling party's developmental programmes as an ordinary citizen. The Zanu-...Published: 23 Jun 2020 at 07:49hrs | 5058 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa moves in to deal with his successor'
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's ZANU PF party is pushing for the amendment of the constitution to deal with the succession plan that is provided by the constitution, Constitutional law expert Professor...Published: 22 Jun 2020 at 12:16hrs | 17351 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Obadiah Moyo shot in the head?
The last few days were very dramatic and seriously revealing. The nation was entertained with the saga surrounding the Drakegate featuring a businessman Mr. Nguwaya and the other side presenting the m...Published: 21 Jun 2020 at 18:03hrs | 10728 | by Dr. Masimba Mavaza
Fragmentation in Zimbabwe is of our own making: APA
The Dr Nkosana Moyo led Alliance for People's Agenda (APA) has lamented that the fragmentation that is rocking the country is of the citizens' own making.The party said the fathers day could b...Published: 21 Jun 2020 at 17:11hrs | 564 | by Stephen Jakes
Law changes to give Mnangagwa edge on succession
A PROPOSED new law which seeks to empower President Emmerson Mnangagwa, to handpick his deputies could see him deciding who takes over after him both as Zanu-PF's and the country's new leader....Published: 21 Jun 2020 at 17:02hrs | 2185 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa is seeking to consolidate power through amendment'
PARLIAMENT last week embarked on nation-wide public hearings into Constitution Amendment (No 2) Bill to gather views of the people on the proposal to tinker with a number of provisions in the supreme ...Published: 21 Jun 2020 at 16:59hrs | 1540 | by Staff reporter
'Khupe has received nothing, publicly or privately from Zanu-PF' - MDC-T
OPPOSITION MDC-T led by Dr Thokozani Khupe has hit back at its detractors who are alleging that the formation was a Zanu-PF project noting that those who were peddling such falsehoods were att...Published: 21 Jun 2020 at 09:44hrs | 2746 | by Staff Reporter
Senior MDC Alliance officials didn't loot party funds, claims Coltart
STATEMENT ON FALSE ALLEGATIONS OF FINANCIAL MISMANAGEMENT IN MDC-ALLIANCEI have noted with concern the allegations by Mr Mashakada reported in The Herald of the 16th of June, 2020 alleging tha...Published: 20 Jun 2020 at 20:36hrs | 1745 | by David Coltart
Mnangagwa faces sterner test
EMBATTLED President Emmerson Mnangagwa is facing his sternest economic test since assuming power in 2017 as the crash of the Zimbabwean dollar pushes up prices, amid growing disenchantment with his le...Published: 19 Jun 2020 at 08:26hrs | 9734 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's economic collapse govt's own doing
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's claims that the deepening economic crisis is the work of his political detractors and greedy businesspeople reflect the government's failure to take responsibility for i...Published: 19 Jun 2020 at 08:25hrs | 1602 | by Staff reporter
Police brutality Why the Zimbabwe, US outrage is different
THE past few weeks have seen unprecedented global outrage at the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis by a white police officer Derek Chauvin, who knelt on his neck for almost nine minutes while Floy...Published: 19 Jun 2020 at 08:16hrs | 725 | by Dzikamai Bere
Govt clarifies US dollar Covid-19 allowance
THE interim US$75 Covid-19 relief allowance for civil servants, which was announced by the Ministry of Finance and Economic Development as part of a raft of measures to cushion workers against wanton ...Published: 19 Jun 2020 at 08:09hrs | 1303 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF's paranoia is growing again, and this is a threat to us all
IT was a finger-pointing week. at Zanu-PF headquarters on Wednesday, President ` emmerson Mnangagwa had an explanation for the economic crisis; it was the detractors."On the economic front, we...Published: 19 Jun 2020 at 08:07hrs | 535 | by newzwire
ZNA dismisses online media lockdown claims
THE Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) has dismissed online media claims that the military took over Bulawayo on Tuesday, saying soldiers were on the ground complementing police to enforce national lockdown...Published: 19 Jun 2020 at 07:33hrs | 526 | by Staff reporter
Ziyambi laments parliamentarians delay in passing laws
JUSTICE, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi has lamented the failure by parliamentarians in passing most of the bills.He said the president has once before urged Members ...Published: 18 Jun 2020 at 09:54hrs | 923 | by Stephen Jakes
MATTER OF FACT: Army responds to reports about Bulawayo's Tuesday security situation
The Zimbabwe National Army has refuted reports that members of the armed forces moved in to take charge of Bulawayo Central Business District on Tuesday Morning. In a statement issued by Zimba...Published: 17 Jun 2020 at 16:57hrs | 5783 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Police chief admits officers are taking bribes
ZIMBABWE Republic Police commissioner-general Godwin Matanga, yesterday bared his soul confirming in Parliament that his officials are accepting bribes because of government neglect.Appearing ...Published: 17 Jun 2020 at 12:59hrs | 3212 | by Staff reporter
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