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Military blocks Mnangagwa third term?
Zimbabwean Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga and the military's post-election political strategy blocked President Emmerson Mnangagwa's third-term ambitions.This forced him to come out clean...Published: 08 Apr 2024 at 21:10hrs | 63 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa has no third term aspirations?
PRESIDENT MNANGAGWA says he does not have intentions to run for a third term, emphasising that there is "no iota of evidence" where the ruling party, Zanu-PF, has pushed for something that violates th...Published: 07 Apr 2024 at 10:36hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
When all friendship ceases!
Von Hornick's nine principles on National EconomyIn 1684, an Austrian lawyer-turned-civil servant, Philipp Wilhelm von Hornick, published nine principal rules of a National Economy.The...Published: 04 Mar 2023 at 07:57hrs | | by Jamwanda
Grace Mugabe grabbed US$1 million stands and gave to relatives, court told
Former First Lady Grace Mugabe forced a housing cooperative to allocate her sister Shuvai Gumbochuma and relative Farai Mashonganyika two upmarket stands with a combined value of US$900,000, a court h...Published: 20 Jun 2021 at 07:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe in fresh land row
FORMER First Lady, Grace Mugabe is being accused of grabbing two Harare residential stands belonging to Rumbidzai Ankomah (nee Mzembi) and Xavier Mzembi which she gave to her relatives.The Mze...Published: 18 Jun 2021 at 07:28hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Who is profiting from negative reporting?
Not so long ago, Aljazeera correspondent Haru Mutasa was denied a visa by one Western embassy ostensibly because of lack of a guarantee that she would return home.While it is the prerogative o...Published: 30 Mar 2019 at 22:44hrs | | by Ranga Mataire
Zimbabwe is not the worst country on earth!
At the beginning of this new weekly column, more of which is going to come in the next months and years Inshallah, let me make this humble appeal to the authorities on behalf of the suffering resident...Published: 06 Mar 2019 at 06:26hrs | 8 | by Baffour Ankomah
'Before the coup, Mnangagwa was already more powerful than Mugabe'
AHEAD of the presidential run-off in 2008, she surprised a rather powerful meeting by asking why ZANU-PF was beating up people in rural areas.The subsequent frosty moments were only broken by ...Published: 13 Jan 2019 at 08:43hrs | | by Lawrence Kamwi
Mnangagwa and the theft of history
IT is with indecent haste that Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa has of late been seeking to flag his increasingly questionable presidential credentials and ambitions before Zimbabwe and the world. Th...Published: 16 Nov 2017 at 06:21hrs | 3 | by Dinizulu Macaphulana
A prophet is not without honour save in his own country
Many a times, people begin to realise the importance of something after they have lost it, the same scenario that also happens in human relations.One needs to attend a funeral to understand th...Published: 02 Feb 2017 at 13:01hrs | | by Rufaro Mufundirwa
Evil that hides behind the civil
Just last week, on this very page, we carried an interview with one Munyaradzi Paul Mangwana. He is a lawyer, a Zanu-PF lawyer and deputy secretary for the party's legal affairs.He is one ...Published: 10 Sep 2016 at 08:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe gags senior officials
An increasingly beleaguered President Robert Mugabe has gagged senior party officials from making public statements on issues he has already publicly spoken about.Prominent Zanu-PF members con...Published: 02 Sep 2015 at 15:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
State House is far, says Mnangagwa - Interview Part 1
"I have been with the president since 1963. We have been working together since then, first in Tanganyika and thereafter we were in prison together; he did 11 years and I did 10 years," says VP Mnanga...Published: 29 Aug 2015 at 10:03hrs | | by Baffour Ankomah
'VP is not a stepping stone to Presidency in Zimbabwe'
The succession issue in Zimbabwe is a hot potato. It has been for a long time. But now there is one man, Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa who is generally seen as the leading candidate to succeed Pre...Published: 07 Aug 2015 at 11:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Multicurrency use was a fight back strategy'
Zimbabwe introduced the use of multi foreign currencies as legal tender in Zimbabwe as a fightback against the attempts to destroy the Zimdollar, Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa saidThe ...Published: 07 Aug 2015 at 10:28hrs | | by Ndou Paul
'Secessionists will not be allowed to break up Zimbabwe,' says Mnangagwa
Zimbabwe is a unitary state and those who dream about secession will not be allowed to break up the country, Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa saidThe Vice President, who is also the Minister ...Published: 07 Aug 2015 at 10:22hrs | | by Ndou Paul
Why are Africans to the north of us still unable to own the means of production?
He always puts me to shame each time he writes, this Ghanaian. I am talking about Baffour Ankomah. As always, his latest Beefs pass for a gem. Adorned with well-chosen quotes from our African icons, B...Published: 19 Apr 2015 at 10:31hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
'Gono's children deported to feed Tsvangirai's ego'
Dr Gideon Gono, who retired in December 2013, after a 10 year tenure as governor of Zimbabwe's central bank and was at the forefront of the country's fight to survive crippling economic sanctions, the...Published: 02 Jul 2014 at 08:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Professor Moyo reflects on parastatals' mandate
The Minister of Information, Media and Broadcasting Services, Professor Jonathan Moyo has implored parastatals that fall under his portfolio to fulfil the ministry's mandate by delivering promises tha...Published: 18 Sep 2013 at 15:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Counting Lobengula's looted head
Just under two days ago I held a fascinating discussion with Baffour Ankomah, the British-based, Ghanaian-born Editor of the world-read New African magazine. Well known for his obdurately pro-Mugabe ...Published: 08 Sep 2013 at 08:14hrs | 6 | by Nathaniel Manheru
'If anyone was defending Nkomo, it was I. I was the last to leave Zapu,' says Mugabe
[Ed. Note: We are deeply indebted to the generosity and solidarity of Baffour Ankomah for sharing this historical interview:]Before the 2003 celebrat...Published: 19 Feb 2013 at 12:02hrs | 1 | by Interview by Baffour Ankomah - September 1, 2003
At 88, same old Robert Mugabe, Makorokoto,Amhlophe
President Mugabe on Tuesday celebrated his 88th birthday. Congratulations! Makorokoto! Amhlophe! The good Lord has saved him from the fowler's snare and from the deadly pestilence. He has satisfied h...Published: 25 Feb 2012 at 06:03hrs | | by Hildegarde Manzvanzvike
Fidel Castro of Africa!
In the 1970s and 80s, Fidel Castro sent 350,000 Cuban soldiers, civilians and doctors to support the African liberation struggle, especially in Angola, Namibia, Mozambique, Guinea Bissau, Cape Verde,...Published: 24 Aug 2011 at 08:27hrs | 2 | by Baffour Ankomah
Last Bastion of Africanism
Baffour Ankomah, editor of New African, a Pan-African magazine published by IC Publications in London is currently in Zimbabwe. Hildergarde Manzvanzvike had an interv...Published: 30 Jun 2011 at 14:30hrs | | by .
Mugabe named one of Africa's most influential figures
LOVE HIM or loathe him, and most do loathe him, but Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe has been named one of the most influential Africans in a new poll.The controversial leader has "continue...Published: 09 Jun 2011 at 07:02hrs | | by Mafu Sithabile
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