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Mnangagwa opens probe into army killings
President Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday swore in the team which will investigate the post elections violence which resulted in the death of at least six people, after the army used live ammunition to b...Published: 4 hrs ago | 1359 | by Staff reporterq
Mnangagwa appoints top ally as State Security minister
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday appointed his long-time ally Owen Ncube to the powerful position of Minister of State for National Security in the President's Office.Ncube, a Mnangagwa ...Published: 5 hrs ago | 1024 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa inherits Mugabe's anti-Gukurahundi traits'
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's regime has come under fire for allegedly refusing to surrender former state leader Robert Mugabe's old culture of muzzling any talk around the Gukurahundi atrocities....Published: 22 hrs ago | 2585 | by Staff reporter
Traffic cop in court over $5
A 28-YEAR-OLD Mazowe traffic cop was arraigned before Concession resident magistrate Ruth Moyo yesterday for duping a motorbike rider of his $5 at a police roadblock for ridding without a driver's lic...Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 17:45hrs | 3157 | by Simbarashe Sithole
MDC plans to embarrass Mnangagwa today
Opposition legislators are planning to humiliate President Emmerson Mnangagwa when he presents SONA in Parliament today, as the Nelson Chamisa led MDC Alliance continues to refuse to accept his July 3...Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 07:15hrs | 1911 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to be heckled by Chamisa's MPs?
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa faces the prospect of being heckled by opposition members of the National Assembly when he opens the Ninth Parliament today, a sign that the country remains deeply polaris...Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 07:07hrs | 634 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to deliver SONA, set agenda
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa is today expected to deliver his first State of the National Address (SONA) and officially open the first session of the Ninth Parliament during which he will set the legislative a...Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 06:20hrs | 205 | by Staff reporter
Bruce Grobbelaar legend reveals dark past
Bruce Grobbelaar, largely regarded as a football icon in the country because of his heroics for The Warriors and Liverpool FC, has revealed his 'other side' in a yet to be released new book, 'Life in ...Published: 17 Sep 2018 at 13:24hrs | 3513 | by Staff reporter
Bruce Grobbelaar's experiences with Rhodesian Army - 'First time i killed someone'
I still remember the first time I had to kill someone. I can still see his eyes. I'd been conscripted into the Zimbabwean Army and thrown into the Bush War - an uprising against the white farmers in m...Published: 17 Sep 2018 at 13:22hrs | 2117 | by Staff reporter
Street vendors vow to resist evictions
STREET vendors and market stall holders in Harare's CBD have vowed to return to their vending spots even after the state unleashed regular and municipal police Saturday to drive them off the streets f...Published: 16 Sep 2018 at 09:01hrs | 742 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa to expose Mnangagwa-linked companies
This threat was made in March 2018 and nothing was exposed, one wonders whether Nelson Chamisa had anything to expose.OPPOSITION leader and MDC Alliance...Published: 15 Sep 2018 at 09:27hrs | 4722 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa is a very bad and poor chip off the Tsvangirai block
Mario Vargas Llosa, the world-famed Peruvian writer, penned a small, but sweet collection of incisive essays titled "A Writer's Reality." My favourite from that collection is "Novels Disguised". Its a...Published: 15 Sep 2018 at 09:13hrs | 2861 | by Igomombe
Mnangagwa's business empire
Reputedly 'Zimbabwe's richest' man, no amount has been attached to Mnangagwa's wealth, which has allegedly also been supplemented by illicit mine deals in the DRC Congo.Zanu-PF heir-in-waiting...Published: 15 Sep 2018 at 09:09hrs | 7294 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's (Criminal) Record Check!
Chronicling abuses on women in Zimbabwe Dear Zimbabwean Women, It is high time we chronicled all abuses...Published: 15 Sep 2018 at 06:53hrs | 2266 | by Nomazulu Thata
Chamisa supporter fights UK deportation
Human rights organisations have accused the Home Office of breaking international law after it decided to deport a Zimbabwean member of the opposition party whose life would be in danger if he returne...Published: 14 Sep 2018 at 10:59hrs | 4798 | by theguardian.com
Army builds bridge in Filabusi
THE Zimbabwe National Army has brought relief to Mapholisa villagers in Filabusi after building a bridge that links them to a school, clinic and other essential services.Speaking at the offici...Published: 14 Sep 2018 at 06:44hrs | 987 | by Staff reporter
Fire razes another house
A THREE- roomed house was gutted by fire in Bulawayo's Lobengula West suburb after a 16 year old boy doing homework using a candle for light dozed off. Ndaitai Muchimba fell asleep at around 10PM on T...Published: 14 Sep 2018 at 06:11hrs | 341 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa is dead! what next?
Opportunistic leaders not only cost lives and resources but also set back the march to freedom by decades. In Zimbabwe and across Africa, democracy has suffered a steady decline in recent years becaus...Published: 13 Sep 2018 at 19:49hrs | 5591 | by Sam Wezhira
Chamisa copies the Kenyan playbook
When Nelson Chamisa this week announced his intention to inaugurate himself as "People's President" of Zimbabwe, he was following in the footsteps of other African opposition leaders — specifically ...Published: 13 Sep 2018 at 18:50hrs | 5134 | by Simon Allison I M&G
'Engage every Zimbabwean' Manyika tells ED - fishing for gravy train seat, reward for selling-out
"In an open letter to Mnangagwa dated September 11, (Noah) Manyika said there was need for the country to avoid the trauma of disputed elections in future to ensure whoever is elected can govern with ...Published: 13 Sep 2018 at 16:41hrs | 2367 | by Nomusa Garikai
MDC Khupe urges new govt to be more accountable
THE Thokozani Khupe-led MDC-T has challenged the new government to abide by the Constitution and to be accountable and responsive to speed up the country's economic transformation.MDC-T spokes...Published: 13 Sep 2018 at 06:41hrs | 468 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabweans should look beyond the horizon'
ZIMBABWEAN businesses should look beyond the horizon of challenges and grab available investment opportunities under the new dispensation to help transform the country's economy, Steward Bank chief ex...Published: 13 Sep 2018 at 06:17hrs | 62 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe army threatens
The Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) will not hesitate to deal decisively with any forms of indiscipline which drag the image and reputation of the force into disrepute, a senior army official has said. ...Published: 13 Sep 2018 at 06:15hrs | 1097 | by Staff reporter
Villagers deprived of government food aid
Zimbabwe Peace Project has revealed that villagers were deprived of government sponsored food aid in the run up top elections.ZPP said these reprisals manifested through deprivation of governm...Published: 12 Sep 2018 at 16:28hrs | 1258 | by Stephen Jakes
Mnangagwa 'is now his own man'
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's new cabinet signifies his determination to "reset the government's compass", as he hopes to turn around the country's deteriorating economy, an analyst has reportedly sa...Published: 12 Sep 2018 at 15:48hrs | 5183 | by Staff reporter
International community should intervene in Zimbabwe Gukurahundi genocide
What do we think of when we hear of which such names as Rohingya, Ndebele, Tutsi, Kazakh, Armenia, and Jew - especially, when they are all in one sentence?...most likely genocide and the Holoc...Published: 12 Sep 2018 at 15:11hrs | 559 | by Peace Chiwara Marangwanda
Dabengwa condemns gukurahundi commission
ZAPU president Dumiso Dabengwa has challenged President Emmerson Mnangagwa to review his appointment of the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) whose composition he said was improper r...Published: 12 Sep 2018 at 14:56hrs | 1166 | by Staff reporter
What is the real truth?
Professor Jonathan Moyo is a very very good schemer of a politician who nearly gave Zimbabwe what it needed most, that is to get out of the Junta hands into civilian rule. It's like a foot-work talent...Published: 12 Sep 2018 at 11:58hrs | 2639 | by Clement Moyo
Mthwakazi writes to Mnangagwa
Dear MnangagwaGood day Mr President. I would have loved to congratulate you for your presidency unfortunately my conscious will not allow me to do that considering the fact that the harmonized...Published: 12 Sep 2018 at 08:24hrs | 2121 | by Mbonisi Gumbo
Mnangagwa keeps Chiwenga in check
The new Cabinet announced by President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Friday last week significantly dilutes Vice President Constantino Chiwenga's influence in the security sector, the Daily News reported....Published: 12 Sep 2018 at 08:11hrs | 19950 | by Staff reporter
Power fault fire razes $50 000 property
PROPERTY worth more than $50 000 was reduced to ashes when a four-roomed thatched cottage caught fire after sparks from Zesa overhead cables ignited its roof in Bulawayo's Harrisvale suburb. B...Published: 12 Sep 2018 at 07:09hrs | 378 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa slammed for scrapping gukurahundi ministry
THE silence around the National Peace and Reconciliation portfolio in President Emmerson Mnangagwa's new cabinet, speaks a lot on the Zanu-PF led government`s insincerity in addressing the country`s p...Published: 11 Sep 2018 at 16:43hrs | 2906 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's new Cabinet: A patronage, merit alchemy?
ZIMBABWEAN President Emmerson Mnangagwa, following a disputed narrow victory in July which had to be validated by the Constitutional Court in August, appointed a new Cabinet on Friday, September 7....Published: 11 Sep 2018 at 13:38hrs | 1588 | by Washington Katema
Zimbabwean wife beater jailed 7 year in Botswana
Molepolole Magistrate Michael Itumeleng this Tuesday sentenced Mike Graduate Mutizwa to seven years in jail for grievously assaulting his wife Cathrine Mutizwa.When the ruling was made, the co...Published: 11 Sep 2018 at 07:31hrs | 1452 | by Staff Reporter
MDC-T Statement on cabinet appointments
The MDC-T would like to congratulate the new cabinet which was sworn in today. We note with great appreciation efforts of inclusion of women, youth and other minority groups in our country. The cabine...Published: 10 Sep 2018 at 18:45hrs | 3083 | by Linda Tsungirirai Masarira
Mugabe's endorsement of Mnangagwa did not come cheap
Former president Robert Mugabe's endorsement of Emmerson Mnangagwa after an ugly fallout did not come cheap.Mugabe and Mnangagwa's relationship broke down in November last year after the 94-ye...Published: 09 Sep 2018 at 18:11hrs | 14103 | by Staff reporter
Musings from an outgoing minister Chinamasa
Zimbabwe should not heed any dictation by foreign institutions on how best to address outstanding issues to the land question, but should deal with the matter in terms of its Constitution, an outgoing...Published: 09 Sep 2018 at 08:20hrs | 999 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's new Cabinet: The raison d'être
Students of politics and philosophy will be familiar with Francis Bacon, who some call the Father of Empiricism because of his contention that inductive reasoning and observation of events were the ro...Published: 09 Sep 2018 at 08:11hrs | 307 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa and Mugabe are both puppets of the military
Political commentator Pedzisai Ruhanya has described President Emmerson Mnangagwa and former President Robert Mugabe as both puppets of the military."Both Mugabe and Mnangagwa were given power...Published: 09 Sep 2018 at 07:50hrs | 399 | by Stephen Jakes
Biti cries political persecution
Former Finance minister Tendai Biti has said the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) is being used by President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government to politically persecute him.Biti said th...Published: 08 Sep 2018 at 18:05hrs | 1051 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa silences critics with new Cabinet
A developmental Cabinet I would call it. Brilliant balance between old and trusted hands, technocrats and youthfulness. A well thought out Cabinet that balances the competing demands of the economy an...Published: 07 Sep 2018 at 19:23hrs | 15340 | by Lloyd Msipa
Mugabe says was in the dark over Mnangagwa presidential ambitions
FORMER President Robert Mugabe Thursday made startling claims he had not been aware his then deputy Emmerson Mnangagwa harboured presidential ambitions.The 94-year-old veteran politician was a...Published: 07 Sep 2018 at 14:57hrs | 2896 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe 'accepts' Mnangagwa's election win
Zimbabwe's former President Robert Mugabe has said that he accepts the election victory of his successor, Emmerson Mnangagwa, IOL news site reports."Mnangagwa won. It's now constitutional... I...Published: 07 Sep 2018 at 13:44hrs | 1284 | by Staff reporter
Joshua Nkomo's daughter commends govt funding of foundation
THE late Vice-President Joshua Nkomo's daughter, Tandiwe Barbara Nkomo-Ebrahim, says government's decision to partner the Joshua Nkomo National Foundation brings more hope to the fulfilment of the lat...Published: 07 Sep 2018 at 07:15hrs | 650 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe doomed as May, Merkel back Mnangagwa
On August 28, British Prime Minister Theresa May arrived in Cape Town, South Africa, for a one-day working visit. This visit was part of a three-nation tour of South Africa, Kenya and Nigeria designed...Published: 07 Sep 2018 at 07:04hrs | 1020 | by Tafi Mhaka
Churches demand security reforms
ONE of the country's leading Christian bodies, the Zimbabwe Council of Churches (ZCC), has written to President Emmerson Mnangagwa, urging him to restore economic and political stability following the...Published: 07 Sep 2018 at 06:59hrs | 251 | by Staffr eporter
ED rigged the elections, first came cash shortage and next is the exodus - no lights to turn out
"If Kinnock wins today will the last person to leave Britain please turn out the lights." Screamed the headlines in The Sun April 1992, Britain's leading tabloid newspaper. Neil Kinnock, Labour, did n...Published: 07 Sep 2018 at 06:56hrs | 1180 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Open Letter to Makandiwa and Mahiya
It came not as surprise to Zimbabweans to hear the words of Makandiwa denouncing USA concerning sanctions to Zimbabwe. Your prophesies are fake. Remember you were to vocal in support of introd...Published: 06 Sep 2018 at 09:01hrs | 6545 | by Isaac Nkomah
Two vital pillars towards 'fixing' Zimbabwe
THESE are trying times we find ourselves in; the election has come and gone. Peaceful voting was met with excessive use of force by the police and army, which resulted in the regrettable loss of life....Published: 06 Sep 2018 at 06:50hrs | 462 | by Stakes Chigs
Commission of inquiry meant to discredit MDC Alliance- Ruhanya
The political commentator Pedzisai Ruhanya has said the commission of inquiry set by President Emmerson Mnangagwa was set up to discredit the MDC Alliance for allegedly sparking violence which led to ...Published: 05 Sep 2018 at 21:43hrs | 1184 | by Stephen Jakes
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