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'Mnangagwa should emulate Ramaphosa'
Some of the country's politicians have praised South Africa's President, Cyril Ramaphosa for hosting South Africa's inaugural public-Presidential virtual symposium.On Tuesday evening, Ramaphos...Published: 7 hrs ago | 951 | by Daniel Itai
Plot to assasinate Tendai Biti
MDC Vice President Tendai Biti has reported that unnamed persons in the government are plotting to assassinate him. In a sensational claim posted on Twitter, Biti said, "The desperate regime i...Published: 20 hrs ago | 8166 | by Mandla Ndlovu
WATCH: Shock as soldiers engage in hair raising fight with Islamic terrorists
A shocking videos of Islamic terrorists fighting with Mozambican soldiers has gone viral on the internet. In the video, the national soldiers are seen in close combat with the extremist terror...Published: 03 Jul 2020 at 20:35hrs | 6929 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa's govt splurges millions on ambassadors' new cars
THE cash-strapped Zimbabwe government has splurged millions to purchase top-of-the-range vehicles for nearly 50 ambassadors posted across the globe when the State is failing to pay agitated civil serv...Published: 03 Jul 2020 at 07:52hrs | 3618 | by newzimbabwe
The truth about coup rumours in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe is awash with speculation, innuendo and rumours of a coup following a statement against corrupt leaders by the army General during a burial of a national hero Nleya, with even left some...Published: 03 Jul 2020 at 07:06hrs | 3259 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Bulawayo pushes for out of court settlement
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) is reportedly pushing for an out-of-court settlement with residents who dragged it to court demanding answers to the diarrhoea, typhoid and dysentery outbreak in the city....Published: 02 Jul 2020 at 18:24hrs | 1519 | by Staff reporter
It's too risky for Mnangagwa to let soldiers go hungry
REPORTS that morale has hit rock bottom in the army make for sad and terrifying reading. Zimbabwe's worsening economic situation, coupled with a severe food crisis, hyperinflation and cash shortages p...Published: 01 Jul 2020 at 07:25hrs | 6034 | by Staff reporter
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 | 5816 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe soldiers go hungry...criminal activities feared
Zimbabwean soldiers who were instrumental in effecting the November 2017 military coup are hungry and the government has been implored to step in and assist then to prevent the details from engaging i...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 14:27hrs | 5335 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chinese army begins Coronavirus vaccines
Chinese media has reported that the country’s military has approved a coronavirus vaccine for use for its soldiers. The said vaccine was created by the Chinese army research unit and a biote...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 12:03hrs | 3914 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'The army budgeted US$100 million for a coup'
The bloody military coup that ended the late President Robert Mugabe's 37 years of iron rule had a budget of US$100 million, exiled Professor Jonathan Moyo has revealed. Posting on social medi...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 11:55hrs | 10624 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe army's morale at rock bottom
DEFENCE minister Oppah Muchinguri sensationally told Parliament yesterday that morale among members of the Zimbabwe National Army had hit rock bot-tom as a result of the failing economy and that many ...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 08:23hrs | 12140 | by Staff reporter
'Deployment of Zimbabwe army to Mozambique dangerous lies'
DEFENCE minister Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri has described as dangerous rumours and lies, reports government has deployed Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) soldiers to Mozambique to help that country quell an...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 07:53hrs | 1107 | by newzimbabwe
Drones to patrol Zimbabwe borders
DRONES will soon be patrolling the country's borders as Government moves to address security challenges posed by border jumpers who could be spreading infections by avoiding compulsory quarantine and ...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 07:51hrs | 2025 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa pledges to end corruption by 2023 - rubbish, staying to rig 2023 elections!
"Many measures have been put in place to fight corruption and the people are now free to talk about it. Officials are being arrested and before that was taboo. Now we're talking about it, it means it'...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 07:17hrs | 2680 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Gumbo tells Mnangagwa to engage rivals
Returning Zanu-PF member Rugare Gumbo says that President Emmerson Mnangagwa need to join hands with the opposition and other social formations to end the country's deepening political and economic cr...Published: 29 Jun 2020 at 08:02hrs | 10779 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa forcing us to dialogue, says Chamisa
OPPOSITION MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday accused President Emmerson Mnangagwa of abusing State institutions to push his party into dialogue, pleading with Sadc and the international com...Published: 29 Jun 2020 at 07:51hrs | 12752 | by Staff reporter
Chihuri dossier exposes govt rot
EXILED former Police Commissioner-General Augustine Chihuri has exposed how serving and former top government officials and service chiefs allegedly used their spouses as conduits to grab lucrative te...Published: 29 Jun 2020 at 07:50hrs | 4272 | by Staff reporter
'Grace Mugabe heckler turning in his grave'
THE late former Zanu-PF Bulawayo youth leader Magura Charumbira, one of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's staunchy supporters at the height of the ruling party's factional wars in 2017, must be turning i...Published: 29 Jun 2020 at 07:49hrs | 4826 | by Staff reporter
4 escape from quarantine centres
FOUR more people have escaped from quarantine centres around the country, bringing the total number of quarantine escapees to 187. One person is reported to have escaped from the NSSA Hotel qu...Published: 29 Jun 2020 at 07:27hrs | 463 | by Staff reporter
6 more returnees test Covid-19 positive
SIX more people, all returnees from South Africa tested positive for Covid-19 on Saturday, bringing Zimbabwe's cumulative total to 567 cases since the outbreak of the global pandemic in March. ...Published: 29 Jun 2020 at 07:25hrs | 649 | by Staff reporter
'Zanu-PF not political party but army appendage'
EXILED former cabinet minister Jonathan Moyo says Zanu-PF has ceased to exist as a political party but was now an appendage of the military.He was sharing his thoughts on Twitter.Moyo,...Published: 29 Jun 2020 at 07:24hrs | 1260 | by newzimbabwe
Coup fears allayed after 'unusual' army drills in Darwendale
UNUSUAL heightened activity at the Zimbabwe National Army's Mechanised Brigade in Darwendale, spooked government to spiritedly dispel swirling rumours of a brewing coup against President Emmerson Mnan...Published: 29 Jun 2020 at 07:22hrs | 3469 | by newzimbabwe
ZNA dismisses social media assault claims
The Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) has dismissed social media allegations that soldiers deployed in Kadoma and Kwekwe to assist the police in ensuring compliance to lockdown regulations are assaulting c...Published: 29 Jun 2020 at 07:19hrs | 353 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans must not be used by the army to oust Mnangagwa
In this article my desire is to enlighten the public especially those that are not well connected to the corridors of power in Zimbabwe, what do I mean by the term corridors of power? It simply means ...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 11:04hrs | 4022 | by Knowledge Hakata
The three pendulums of Zimbabwean politics
The names Mugabe, Mujuru and Mnangagwa have hogged the headlines of Zimbabwean politics for over a century collectively. The three have nothing to show for the hectares of space that their names have ...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 09:58hrs | 2734 | by Joseph 'Slovo' Mupokosera
Soldiers up for a gold rush
TWO Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) members and their five accomplices were arrested at a roadblock after they were found in possession of 50 kilograms of gold ore.Prichard Padzuru (30) a corpora...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 09:54hrs | 2998 | by Simbarashe Sithole
'Mnangagwa facing an imminent end to his reign'
THE MDC Alliance leadership has come out guns blazing, threatening a showdown with President Emmerson Mnangagwa, urging him to "resign or face the wrath of the people" in the wake of severe economic a...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 08:26hrs | 6214 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance itches for Mnangagwa showdown
THE MDC Alliance leadership has come out guns blazing, threatening a showdown with President Emmerson Mnangagwa, urging him to "resign or face the wrath of the people" in the wake of severe economic a...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 08:20hrs | 798 | by Staff reporter
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 | 778 | by Bloomberg
Bread does not grow in supermarkets
IF there is an immutable truism that has stubbornly stood the test of time, it is the fact that common sense is not at all common.It is fair to say while common sense is rare, nonsense is ubiq...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 07:14hrs | 171 | by Bishop Lazarus
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 | 9068 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt probing army brutality
AUTHORITIES are probing cases of alleged army brutality in Harare and at the country's borders, after soldiers are said to have gone on a rampage on Wednesday night - assaulting people and looting the...Published: 27 Jun 2020 at 17:00hrs | 983 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga to serve Transitional Zimbabwe Presidential term
Vice President, Rtd General Constantino Chiwenga, is now reportedly being prepared to takeover the presidency from President Emmerson Mnangagwa, by the country's military on a transitional term, to fi...Published: 27 Jun 2020 at 08:42hrs | 14305 | by Itai Mushekwe
Malaba's lawyers dress code directive reversed
CHIEF Justice Luke Malaba has withdrawn Practice Direction (PD) 6 of 2020 banning tight-fitting, body-hugging and colourful attire for legal practitioners appearing before the Magistrates Courts. ...Published: 27 Jun 2020 at 08:08hrs | 713 | by Staff reporter
Of ugly vultures and bad wolves in good sheep's clothing
I shall begin with our own fathers and ancestors, it is both just and proper that they should have the honor of mention, for handing free to us this country, augmented by valiant valor, their blood an...Published: 27 Jun 2020 at 00:25hrs | 1539 | by Evangelist Sendekai W.T
Blood money as Army, Police fight to benefit from the Mozambique Islamic attack
The Institute for Global Threats and Democracies Studies has reported that the anti-riot police and the military forces of Mozambique are engaged in an acrimonious competition to benefit from the ...Published: 26 Jun 2020 at 14:21hrs | 4143 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Fresh land seizures target white farmers
SENIOR government officials have put in motion plans to grab productive white-owned farms in Mashonaland West, with Provincial Affairs minister Mary Mliswa spearheading the action.Sources in t...Published: 26 Jun 2020 at 07:54hrs | 8371 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga wins children's custody
THE Supreme Court has set aside a recent High Court judgment and granted VicePresident Constantino Chiwenga custody of his three minor children following protracted legal battles with estranged wife, ...Published: 26 Jun 2020 at 07:33hrs | 987 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe army, Chinese deal collapses
The military is terminating its platinum mining deal with a Chinese firm to pave the way for new investors after over a decade of unfruitful engagement.The development comes after Global Plati...Published: 25 Jun 2020 at 16:37hrs | 2588 | by Staff reporter
General PV Sibanda slams Zimbabwe leaders for becoming 'corrupt'
Gen Philip Valerio Sibanda, commander of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF), says the level of corruption displayed by some of the country's leaders is tantamount to selling out.Speaking in a r...Published: 24 Jun 2020 at 18:49hrs | 6280 | by Staff reporter
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
Army doctors deployed to Bulawayo
The Central Government has deployed army doctors to assist the City of Bulawayo in containing the outbreak of Gastrointestinal Disease which has left 9 people dead and more than a thousand seeking med...Published: 24 Jun 2020 at 14:55hrs | 9607 | by Mandla Ndlovu
ZAPU President Isaac Mabuka speaks
Q1: Thank you Mr. Mabuka for your time. Please introduce yourself to the people. Who is Mabuka?A: I am Isaac Mabuka. I was born in 1953 on 26 April in Gwanda South. I did my primary education ...Published: 24 Jun 2020 at 13:15hrs | 3158 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Pray for Mnangagwa, minister pleads
ZimbabWe's leadership needs prayers as the country's socio-economic crisis shows no signs of abetting, a minister said yesterday.The country is undergoing its worst crisis in years characteris...Published: 24 Jun 2020 at 07:30hrs | 9077 | by Staff reporter
Minister pleads with citizens not to shun own currency
ZIMBABWEANS have been urged to shun economic saboteurs who want to reverse the gains of the liberation struggle that National Hero Stanley Nleya and his colleagues bitterly fought to achieve. ...Published: 24 Jun 2020 at 07:10hrs | 1310 | by Staff reporter
Luveve deaths caused by water shedding
GOVERNMENT has attributed Bulawayo's diarrhoea outbreak in Luveve and surrounding suburbs that has killed nine people to water shedding and vandalism of pipes, and released an additional $7.4 million ...Published: 24 Jun 2020 at 07:09hrs | 415 | by Staff reporter
General Philip Valerio Sibanda salutes hero Nleya
Zimbabwe Defence Forces Commander General Philip Valerio Sibanda yesterday described national hero Stanley Nleya as a humble, dedicated and selfless cadre who contributed immensely to the liberation o...Published: 24 Jun 2020 at 07:04hrs | 909 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's solders fear crippling mass protests
THE security sector is on high alert, amid fears among authorities of crippling mass protests by the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) - over the country's deteriorating economic situation....Published: 23 Jun 2020 at 14:55hrs | 2816 | by Staff reporter
Mutsvangwa disowns Twitter account
War veteran's leader Chris Mutsvangwa Ambassador Chris Mutsvangwa has disowned Twitter accounts in his name saying they are creations of self-exiled G40 kingpin Jonathan Moyo.This comes after ...Published: 23 Jun 2020 at 14:47hrs | 1153 | by Staff reporter
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