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Mnangagwa thrives on being an 'arsonist fireman'!
So, President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa wants to be celebrated for finally awarding ZANU PF founding leader Ndabaningi Sithole national hero status!Why would the same people who ostracized, ...Published: 26 Jun 2023 at 22:50hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mnangagwa thrives on being an 'arsonist fireman'
So, President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa wants to be celebrated for finally awarding Zanu founding leader Ndabaningi Sithole national hero status.Why would the same people who ostracised, vil...Published: 26 Jun 2023 at 06:49hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Prophet's home set on fire
A prophet who allegedly refused to assist clients who sought his services for their ailing relative was left counting his losses after his homestead was set on fire for allegedly refusing to ass...Published: 07 Oct 2022 at 05:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Top officials pay ZW$100k each to fund Mnangagwa endorsement ritual as 2023 Presidential candidate
THE ruling Zanu-PF political party has issued a directive compelling top party leaders to make contributions of varying amounts ahead of the 7th National Congress, which has been thrown into jeopardy ...Published: 03 Oct 2022 at 06:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
CCC: A Triple Legacy for Zimbabwe
Dying for European perspectiveAMUSING if it was not tragic. The European Union, EU, has granted Ukraine candidate status. It's a remote stage along a very long continuum to eventual EU&n...Published: 18 Jun 2022 at 07:22hrs | | by Jamwanda
Sikhala arrested as Chamisa goons torch homes
POLICE last night arrested CCC deputy chairman and Member of Parliament for Zengeza West Job Sikhala in connection with the violence that erupted at Nyatsime on the outskirts of Chitungwiza where his ...Published: 15 Jun 2022 at 07:30hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe army not trained to feed porridge'
MEMBERS of the Zimbabwe National Army are not trained to feed porridge to the masses, but to ruthlessly crush any public protests whether peaceful or not, deputy defence minister Victor Matemadanda ha...Published: 03 Nov 2020 at 06:21hrs | 3 | by Staff writer
Fact finding mission that never was
We are back to square one... It took six months for Zimbabwe Election Commission (ZEC) to release the official 2008 election results with Patrick Chinamasa then Legal and Justice Minister insi...Published: 13 Sep 2020 at 23:23hrs | 1 | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
US overstepping its boundaries on Zimbabwe
The United States of America has the capacity to change the situation prevailing in Zimbabwe for the better - if it just back off and take their illegally imposed sanctions with them. On 12 Fe...Published: 14 Feb 2019 at 09:30hrs | | by Mapozho Saruchera
Zupco arsonists jailed 32 years
SIX men who burnt a Zupco bus and a car belonging to Chegutu East legislator Webster Shamu's wife during the recent violent protests that rocked Harare and other cities have been jailed a combined 32 ...Published: 28 Jan 2019 at 11:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe was right in shutting down the internet
Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights took the government to court with the Zimbabwean chapter of the Media Institute of Southern Africa, ZLHR. Access to Facebook, YouTube, WhatsApp and Twitter was closed...Published: 25 Jan 2019 at 13:52hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Zimbabweans need to do a serious soul searching
What should government do to response to ongoing tensions between police officers the army and communities. Zimbabwe must sharply condemn the rioters for damaging private property and taking i...Published: 16 Jan 2019 at 06:09hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
'ED Pfee' hitmaker's home torched
Suspected arsonists yesterday morning torched a kitchen hut belonging to Chief Shumba of the "ED Pfee" hit song at his rural home in Mapanzure Village, Zvishavane. Chief Shumba, whose real nam...Published: 10 Jan 2019 at 07:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa boils as the year end
During the year just ending, Zimbabwe confirmed to the world, within a difficult context, the soundness of its institutions, the resilience of its economy and its attachment to national unity. Despite...Published: 23 Dec 2018 at 22:35hrs | 2 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Zanu-PF offices set on fire?
ZANU-PF offices in Caledonia, on the out-skirts of Harare, were early yesterday morning burnt down in act of suspected arson. Police confirmed the burning of the building which also housed Ton...Published: 04 Sep 2018 at 12:59hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Disputed polls: Zimbabwe govt credibility in jeopardy
HOW the government of Zimbabwe rejuvenates its re-engagement strategy will be critical to the country's prospects for economic recovery and political cohesion.The government posited that the f...Published: 23 Aug 2018 at 06:44hrs | | by Piers Pigou
Mnangagwa regime legitimacy in limbo
The Zimbabwean government posited that the first elections after the November 2017 ouster of Robert Mugabe would enhance the state's credibility and strengthen the country's prospects for economic rec...Published: 21 Aug 2018 at 16:39hrs | | by Piers Pigou
Robert Mugabe: Asifuni Bumbulu - Give us a cabinet that places uMthwakazi in key Government and State positions!
First things first: re-shuffle yourself first, Mr Mugabe! At a 100, you have no place (forget, right) being there. Retire yourself to your rural home and leave State House. We all know you are...Published: 10 Oct 2017 at 10:41hrs | | by Xoxani Ngxoxo
Mugabe's violence call despicable
President Robert Mugabe's statements encouraging Zanu-PF youths to take the law into their own hands in dealing with members of the ruling party that go around perpetrating violence in his wife's name...Published: 23 Jul 2017 at 11:56hrs | | by The Standard Editor
Spate of violence and thuggery must be stopped
The MDC is deeply disturbed and concerned about the recent spate of thuggery and banditry taking place in and around the country, particularly in the capital city, Harare. Only last week, an Isuzu pic...Published: 19 Jul 2017 at 09:37hrs | | by MDC-T National Spokesperson
Chamisa warns of bloody 2018 polls
MDC-T vice-president, Nelson Chamisa yesterday accused Zanu-PF of planning a violent 2018 election after arsonists allegedly torched the opposition's youth assembly vehicle at a car park in Kuwadzana,...Published: 14 Jul 2017 at 07:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC-T car torched
The burning of a truck belonging to MDC-T in Kuwadzana, Harare, in the early hours of yesterday could be an "inside job" carried out to smear the Government and elicit sympathy from foreign donors, so...Published: 14 Jul 2017 at 06:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
2018 Election: Sanyati residents live in fear of State sponsored Political Violence
As the nation braces for the 2018 polls, Sanyati residents in the Midlands province said they are living in constant fear of state sponsored politically motivated violence. They fear being victimised ...Published: 27 Mar 2017 at 17:00hrs | 3 | by Alfred Towo
Matabele lives not important, what matters is Zimbabwe's future and peace?- Mujuru & Tsvangirai
MLO was shocked to note that while MDC T leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, was calling for blanket immunity and pensions for Matabeleland genocide perpetrators in an interview in Harare, the leader of NPP Jo...Published: 23 Mar 2017 at 19:13hrs | | by Israel Dube
Biti resolves to contest in flawed elections 'unshaken' by arsonist attack - still an 'unshaken' selfish act
"Zimbabwe's former Finance Minister, Tendai Biti's rural homestead has been burnt down by suspected Zanu PF arsonists," screamed the headlines!Whilst every peace-loving Zimbabwean will join in...Published: 21 Feb 2017 at 21:36hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Getting rid of the name 'Zimbabwe' is a panacea!
What's in a name, you may ask rhetorically? Well, everything! And in the particular context of present-day Zimbabwe, totally everything! Get rid of that name and you have all but solved all th...Published: 20 Jan 2017 at 13:47hrs | | by Michael Jamela
Zimbabwe: 2017 the Year of the Monster
It was a stern Emmerson Mnangagwa, the Minister of State Security, who looked at Ken Flower in the eye told him that Robert Mugabe, "the Prime Minister wishes you to know that the Commissioner of Poli...Published: 30 Dec 2016 at 16:08hrs | 1 | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
The Beitbridge situation
THE violent protests in Beitbridge last Friday that led to the torching of Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) warehouse at the border post was no ordinary street march but a programme by the oppositio...Published: 06 Jul 2016 at 06:39hrs | | by Nduduzo Tshuma
Jonathan Moyo defends Mugabe
Higher Education minister Jonathan Moyo lept to the defence of President Robert Mugabe, who has been under criticism for threatening to crush war veterans loyal to Vice President Emmerson Mnangagw...Published: 13 Jun 2016 at 18:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo defends Mugabe on Gukurahundi remarks
Zanu PF trusted spin doctor Professor Jonathan Moyo has strongly defended President Robert Mugabe over his Gukurahundi threats on war veterans.In a series of tweets late Friday evening, Moyo s...Published: 11 Jun 2016 at 08:41hrs | | by Thobekile Zhou
Time for Radical Revolution!!!
There is a time to turn Radical if you want your party to gain momentum. Such a time comes in different ways which are either accidental, coincidental or by design.Fame in politics does not ju...Published: 18 Mar 2015 at 08:27hrs | | by Rakanga Danble
Mujuru's plans to challenge Mugabe in 2018 rattles Zanu-PF
FORMER Vice President Dr Joice Mujuru's plans to launch a political party to challenge President Mugabe on the back of blaming him for the prevailing economic challenges is the height of hypocrisy...Published: 19 Jan 2015 at 06:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
The End of Mugabe and Mujuru, rise of Mnangagwa
Cologne - Zimbabwe is now at a very critical juncture of her nationhood, two months before President Robert Mugabe's Zanu PF party meets for what is expected to be an explosive Congress, to sel...Published: 23 Oct 2014 at 01:14hrs | | by Itai Mushekwe
The Rwandan People's Party Statement on the Rwandan government's failure to deal with recent fires in the country
It is the sacred duty of every government to defend the lives and property of its citizens. This the Rwandan government is failing to do. There has been a spate of fires that have caused death an...Published: 20 Jul 2014 at 08:48hrs | | by John V Karuranga
'Violence has been imported to the MDC-T,' says Biti
MOVEMENT for Democratic Change (MDC) Secretary General, Tendai Biti, has said he and his family were left in shock after the second petrol bombing of their Harare home this week. Biti says he never s...Published: 27 Feb 2014 at 07:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean family targeted in UK arson attack
A FAMILY of seven targeted in an arson attack in the UK are in fear for their lives after a second attack on a neighbouring home.An unoccupied terraced home in Heyford Road, Braunstone, Leices...Published: 03 Dec 2013 at 04:16hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
ZEC In Full Throttle To Frustrate a Free & Fair Election
The issue started with police force numbers. It never required rocket scientists to know the official number of our police officers in Zimbabwe. The Salary Services Bureau had the statistics. The ...Published: 26 Jul 2013 at 03:06hrs | | by Kramer Murindagomo
Arsonists on the prowl in Honde Valley, two kitchens burned
A 63-YEAR-OLD Honde Valley widow was left cursing the gods after some unknown arsonists, suspected to be on the prowl in the area, on Sunday, torched her kitchen grass thatched hut, reducing val...Published: 28 Jun 2013 at 03:34hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Tsvangirai , MDC-T pay their last respect to Christpowers Maisiri
Thousands of mourners today joined Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai and the MDC-T National leadership in paying their last respect to the late Christpowers Maisiri of Headlands.Speaking to the...Published: 28 Feb 2013 at 11:59hrs | | by Ndou Paul
PM Tsvangirai to attend Christpowers' burial
The leader of MDC-T Morgan Tsvangirai will on Thursday join the Maisiri family, MDC-T members and the people of Zimbabwe for the burial of Christpowers Simbarashe Maisiri who was callously murdered by...Published: 27 Feb 2013 at 12:41hrs | | by Staff Reporter
ZAPU: Condolence message to the Maisiri family
We have learnt with deep sadness the death of 12 year old Christpower Simbarashe Maisiri in a mysterious fire at his home in Headlands on the 23rd of February 2013. While investigations continue to e...Published: 26 Feb 2013 at 19:20hrs | | by Mso Ndlovu, ZAPU Regional Director for Information, Publicity and Marketing.
Mubobobo man's huts burnt after he was caught with 58 women's panties
Arsonists widely believed to be angry husbands have burnt and erased to the ground the homestead of a Zaka man convicted of using juju to sleep with scores of married women in the village (mubobobo)....Published: 10 Jan 2013 at 07:26hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
MDC official's home torched
A thatched hut belonging to Tongai Gava, the MDC-T district committee member was early this month razed to the ground by suspected Zanu-PF supporters in Ward 15, Chezhara Village in Masvingo Central....Published: 30 Aug 2012 at 12:07hrs | | by Ndou Paul
The newspaper is going nowhere
I JUST read an article that says that the writing is on the wall for newspapers in Zimbabwe. The technology website, TechZim, quotes statistics released by the Zimbabwe All Media Products Survey (Zamp...Published: 30 Mar 2012 at 17:52hrs | | by Lenox Mhlanga
Seven schools burnt down, Islamist group suspected
Arsonists have burnt down seven schools in northeastern Nigeria over the past few days, the authorities said Thursday, blaming the violent Islamist sect Boko Haram. No casualties were reported...Published: 02 Mar 2012 at 05:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Whoever takes over from Mugabe could be even worse
The reported secret moves within SADC to get Mugabe a so-called soft landing (Sunday Times, 09/10/11) do not inspire confidence at all because they are an admission of failure by the regional body to ...Published: 09 Oct 2011 at 17:16hrs | | by Clifford Chitupa Mashiri
Tsvangirai’s hypocrisy on political violence
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ZANU PF planned the attacks on foreign traders in Harare
It took the urgent and timely intervention of Zimbabwe's security agents to avert total mayhem in the capital Monday after planned demonstrations by Zanu PF youths, seeking to dispossess foreign trad...Published: 08 Feb 2011 at 00:29hrs | | by Byo24NEWS
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