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'Pilot collapsed at the controls, leading to fatal crash'
The body of Captain Fungai Majakwara, a 50-year-old Zimbabwean pilot who tragically died in a plane crash in Malawi, is expected to arrive in Zimbabwe today. Capt Majakwara collapsed at the c...Published: 23 Aug 2024 at 06:30hrs | 1115 | by Staff reporter
The power of goblins (Ontikolotshe)
A FEW days ago, my attention was drawn to some screaming and sensational headlines on social media. "Plane Makes Emergency Landing in Malawi." I never thought the story that appeared in the Malawi Voi...Published: 18 Aug 2024 at 12:19hrs | 238 | by Pathisa Nyathi
Chamisa's unconventional command style
Amidst growing discord within the upper ranks of Zimbabwe's Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC), leader Nelson Chamisa appears to be adopting a hands-off approach to the internal upheaval, allowing th...Published: 28 Dec 2023 at 10:46hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's CCC in leadership crisis as Nelson Chamisa steps back
The political landscape of Zimbabwe is witnessing a ripple of turbulence as Nelson Chamisa, leader of the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC), reportedly steps back from active leadership. The step ba...Published: 28 Dec 2023 at 10:32hrs | 6 | by Olalekan Adigun
Chamisa’s party is 'on autopilot amid widening cracks
Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa has seemingly left the party on autopilot amid widening divisions with senior members.This comes as ordinary members are increasingly ...Published: 27 Dec 2023 at 09:44hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Sengezo a tortoise on a lamp post
ZIMBABWE is the only country in Africa which spends much of its resources conducting by-elections for the whole term whilst unemployment is hovering above 90% with street vending hitting very high lev...Published: 11 Oct 2023 at 21:55hrs | | by Leonard Koni
Zanu-PF now past sell by date
Zanu-PF does not have any capacity to revive the country's economy, let alone improve the people's lives.Its leaders' energy is mostly spent on jailing political opponents, activists, critics,...Published: 03 Dec 2022 at 09:12hrs | | by Leonard Koni
ZANU PF cell meetings a big flop
The Zanu PF Cell Day which has been recently held last Saturday has been done a proverbial sucker punch.Zanu PF has now been reduced into rubble and debris. The opposition must snatch this opp...Published: 14 Jun 2022 at 07:11hrs | 6 | by Leonard Koni
The price of bread to humble Mnangagwa
Emmerson Mnangagwa's new dispensation should should always play a track from Simon 'Chopper' Chimbetu's song Survival which is very informative and educative.This is a well choreographed track...Published: 09 Jun 2022 at 11:56hrs | | by Leonard Koni
Price of bread to humble Mnangagwa
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's new dispensation should always play a track from Simon "Chopper" Chimbetu's album Survival - it is informative and educative.This is a well-choreographed song wh...Published: 09 Jun 2022 at 06:43hrs | | by Leonard Koni
Harare town clerk gets ultimatum over AG report
HARARE acting town clerk Mabhena Moyo has been given a two-week ultimatum to respond to queries raised in the Auditor-General's report after he snubbed Parliament yesterday.Moyo was supposed t...Published: 02 Apr 2022 at 07:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chaos at Harare House
HARARE City Council (HCC) is reportedly on autopilot after a special council meeting called on Monday to elect an acting mayor failed to constitute a quorum.The situation is said to be dire to...Published: 29 Sep 2021 at 06:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
New dispensation quite a joke
WITH the 2023 elections around the corner, Zanu-PF can promise heaven on earth.The ruling party will promise all the good things that the nation wishes to be put on table if people vote for Za...Published: 05 May 2021 at 07:22hrs | | by Chief Chiduku
Outcry over Khupe recalls
Harare and Bulawayo residents say they have been caught in the crossfire in the ongoing opposition power struggles after the Thokozani Khupe-led MDC-T engineered the mass recalling of councillors in M...Published: 20 Sep 2020 at 08:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Econet in major blackout
Econet users on Saturday complained about their failure to use the Econet services from Ecocash to Data services. Online magazine Techmag said the following service were confirmed not working...Published: 20 Jul 2019 at 11:16hrs | 2 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chiwenga and Mnangagwa's fight reaches boiling point
The country's presidency is now reportedly paraplegic thus causing tectonic divisions in government, amid disclosures that President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his second in charge, Vice President, Rtd Ge...Published: 24 Jun 2019 at 12:34hrs | | by Itai Mushekwe
WATCH: Zimbabwe on autopilot, says Mliswa
Norton MP Temba Mliswa (Independent) recently tore into President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration, claiming the country was now on autopilot and blundering into the unknown.Addressing memb...Published: 06 Jun 2019 at 07:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Top 10 Tech and Innovation Predictions for 2019
It’s amazing how technology has rapidly grown for the last 40 years. Software and hardware have changed drastically, starting from big clunky devices such as life-sized 128 bit hard drives and dial-...Published: 26 Apr 2019 at 21:07hrs | 1 | by Staff Writer
3 reasons why the Gabon coup failed
Military coup drums continue to beat on the African continent in 2019. At 4:30am on January 7, Lieutenant Kelly Odong Obiang, leader of the Patriotic Youth Movement of the Gabonese Defence and Securit...Published: 11 Jan 2019 at 09:30hrs | 1 | by Martin R Rupiya
'Current economic chaos to define future'
As Zimbabwe hurtles towards into the New Year, the majority of the country's population is bruised economically, socially and politically. The "Daily News on Sunday's Assistant Editor Maxwell ...Published: 06 Jan 2019 at 17:55hrs | 1 | by Maxwell Sibanda
Mnangagwa's Cabinet appointments
President Emmerson Mnangagwa is under pressure to appoint his Cabinet ahead of his trip to the Far East on Friday where he is scheduled to attend the Beijing Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooper...Published: 30 Aug 2018 at 13:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai sets July 31 deadline for coalition against Mugabe
MDC-T leader, Morgan Tsvangirai yesterday declared that the proposed coalition of opposition parties will be a done deal by the month-end, so that various stakeholders would have enough time to strate...Published: 06 Jul 2017 at 06:55hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Ian Khama's chopper banned from British airspace
Politicians love helicopters, quick-moving aircraft that don't need a runway and can get you between meetings while others are stuck in traffic.But in Britain and Norway, a ban on a model used...Published: 26 Jun 2017 at 14:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZimPF a rainless cloud?
WAR veteran, author and long-serving diplomat, Agrippa Mutambara, bared his soul early last year when he announced his decision to resign from his comfy government post to join the then newly form...Published: 16 Feb 2017 at 06:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Why I left Mujuru: Mutambara
Daily News writer, Farayi Machamire, chats to former ambassador and Zimbabwe People First (ZPF) member, Retired Brigadier-General Agrippa Mutambara, in the wake of the implosion of the Joice Mujur...Published: 14 Feb 2017 at 12:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mass resignations follow Mujuru party fiasco
The unfolding drama in the Zimbabwe People First which officially split on Tuesday, continued yesterday with several senior members resigning from the party protesting the expulsion of founding me...Published: 10 Feb 2017 at 05:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kaukonde resigns from Mujuru's ZimPF
THE unfolding drama in the troubled Zimbabwe People First, which officially split on Wednesday, continued yesterday with several senior party members quitting the embattled party in protest over the e...Published: 10 Feb 2017 at 05:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe must stay at home, do his job
For almost two months, Zimbabwe has been at a standstill because President Robert Mugabe was on holiday with his family, shuttling between Dubai and China.As has become the norm, governmen...Published: 29 Jan 2017 at 09:41hrs | | by The Standard Editor
'Mugabe losing control of his succession'
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe has led Zanu-PF and Zimbabwe with an iron fist since independence in 1980, but as age catches up with one of the world's oldest leaders, there are signs his tight grip on p...Published: 13 Nov 2016 at 09:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Where Is the Independence? - The Response.
Where is the independence? That is a profound question to ask Cde Farai Kuveya. In my own view though I don't think we really got our independence as a nation but it was a smoke screen halting of outr...Published: 15 Oct 2016 at 20:43hrs | | by Mangosuthu MJ Mbele
I can't scientifically explain how God sent me to Britain from Zimbabwe
Science works on proof. But, I have no explanation how, as a rural raised Zimbabwean boy, I ended up living in Britain. I know, however that, scientifically, when human beings evolved from Homo ...Published: 16 Aug 2015 at 13:10hrs | | by Ryton Dzimiri
'No economic turnaround with Mugabe in power'
Zimbabwe is on the road to nowhere under the tired, clueless and out of depth leadership of Robert Mugabe, MDC leader Welshman Ncube has said.Ncube, addressing the Matabeleland South MDC Provi...Published: 28 Jul 2015 at 20:26hrs | | by Sij Ncube
'Mugabe's government clueless, useless,' says Welshman Ncube
MDC President Professor Welshman Ncube says Zanu-PF is clueless on how to resuscitate the comatose economy and there will be no economic revival as long as the status quo remains unchanged.Ncu...Published: 28 Jul 2015 at 09:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo attacks 'foolish' NewsDay
INFORMATION MINISTER Jonathan Moyo has this morning flatly denied that Cabinet last met in January saying the article by NewsDay is a "premature April 1 Fools story."Today, NewsDay ran its l...Published: 31 Mar 2015 at 07:54hrs | | by Thobekile Zhou
Zanu-PF insensitive to the plight of civil servants and the poor
The MDC Renewal Team notes with great concern the high level of incompetence by the Zanu-PF government in its management of the day to day affairs of the country, which has resulted in the worsening o...Published: 08 Jan 2015 at 16:31hrs | | by MDC Renewal
Outcry over absent Mugabe
MDC formations yesterday accused President Robert Mugabe of being insensitive and leaving the country on autopilot while on an extended holiday to the Far East a time Zimbabwe is facing an ...Published: 06 Jan 2015 at 07:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe aide dismiss charges levelled against Mujuru
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe's spokesman George Charamba yesterday dismissed an assortment of charges levelled against Vice-President Joice Mujuru and other ministers, describing them as mere political all...Published: 27 Nov 2014 at 07:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Bloodbath in Zanu-PF'
At least 10 Cabinet ministers and more than 100 Zanu-PF legislators face the political wilderness as the mindless bloodletting in the divided party reaches alarming levels ahead of its crucial "electi...Published: 25 Nov 2014 at 12:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Fresh crises hit Zanu-PF
The Zanu-PF politburo meets again in Harare tomorrow with President Robert Mugabe under mounting pressure to stop the ruling party from imploding altogether as its factional and succession wars turn ...Published: 21 Nov 2014 at 16:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe loses control of Zanu-PF
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe may have virtually lost control of Zanu PF which has been on his helm for more than three decades. The chaos and infighting which is currently the order of the day in the p...Published: 12 Nov 2014 at 06:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean economy now drifting on autopilot
AS First Lady Grace Mugabe seems to have taken over the running of the state and government behind the scenes while President Robert Mugabe looks to have lost control to his rabble-rousing wife, the e...Published: 24 Oct 2014 at 08:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC-Renewal to assist communities
Over the past three months, the MDC Renewal Team has been travelling across Zimbabwe; interacting with the general populace at all levels and hearing their views on how best the country can move ahead...Published: 24 Aug 2014 at 11:33hrs | | by Elton Mangoma
Doom looms as Zanu-PF, MDC-T lose focus
ZIMBABWEANS should brace for tougher times and worsening economic turbulence between now and December as the country's two main parties - Zanu-PF and MDC-T - have shifted focus to succession politics...Published: 16 Jun 2014 at 15:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Missing Malaysian plane: CIA, Boeing accused of cover-up
Kuala Lumpur - Missing Flight MH370 did not crash and its current whereabouts may be known to the Central Intelligence Agency and the Boeing aircraft company, Malaysia's influential former prime minis...Published: 20 May 2014 at 17:31hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Mugabe to read riot act as infighting threatens his legacy
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe is under pressure to rein in party factions tearing apart Zanu-PF's rule book in a bid to clear the way for their preferred candidates in the event that it becomes necessary t...Published: 01 Nov 2013 at 03:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
President Mugabe Could Practically Curb Corruption If He Wanted
President Mugabe could kill the corruption bug if he seriously wanted to. He controls the state machinery and the force to practically deal with the issue. All this talk about how ...Published: 25 Dec 2012 at 19:17hrs | | by Tapiwa Kapurura
Matebeleland and the emergent Generational Challenges
The current political trends obtaining in Matebeleland and calls for different systems of governance and policies, such as devolution of power, should be understood as offshoots of...Published: 03 Sep 2012 at 09:45hrs | | by Dr Brilliant Sigabade Mhlanga
Gono wanted to collapse the economy for regime change
Former Information and Publicity Minister and Zanu-PF politburo member Jonathan Moyo on Thursday launched an astonishing attack on Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe governor Gideon Gono saying revelations in ...Published: 04 Oct 2011 at 08:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
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