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Sounds of Soweto : A tale no of Highlanders anthems
Founded in 1926 Highlanders FC is the oldest and most supported Football club in Zimbabwe. To the Highlanders faithful the team is a way of life, a social movement and a source of pride and Joy. Today...Published: 07 Oct 2024 at 12:02hrs | 765 | by Van Vodloza
Zanu-PF must stop shellacking the laws of the land
ZANU-PF does not cease pulling surprises.And it has honed its skills at it over its 61 years of existence.And it would seem it does not give a hoot about what the world says.Ju...Published: 22 Aug 2024 at 10:25hrs | 277 | by Staff reporter
Zapu slams Zimbabwe's new currency ZiG
The 'mother' party ZAPU says as long as the country lacks legitimacy derived from free and fair elections, people will have no faith in a currency produced in Zimbabwe.On April 5, 2024, the ne...Published: 07 Apr 2024 at 21:08hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa dangles promises to restless youths
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday pledged empowerment opportunities to youths, but groups representing the restless young population immediately thumbed their noses at the promises saying the pov...Published: 22 Feb 2024 at 04:57hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Money fuels CCC brutal infighting
MONEY has taken centre stage in the deteriorating and now chaotic opposition CCC infighting triggered by recalls of elected legislators, senators, councillors and mayors by the party's self-imposed se...Published: 12 Feb 2024 at 13:48hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Tshabangu vows legal action against 'criminals' who repainted CCC offices in Bulawayo
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) interim secretary general Mr Sengezo Tshabangu says his party will be taking legal action against what he said were criminals who have painted their Bulawayo party ...Published: 30 Jan 2024 at 20:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Coltart says Bulawayo residents will decide if he stays or goes
Bulawayo mayor David Coltart said Monday that a decision on his political future is imminent, but stressed that it will be influenced by "those I am directly responsible to."Coltart, like othe...Published: 30 Jan 2024 at 09:31hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF's fingerprints in CCC chaos
THE ruling Zanu-PF party says former Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) president Nelson Chamisa should be probed over how he handled finances during his tenure at the helm of the opposition politica...Published: 30 Jan 2024 at 09:16hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
CCC to name Chamisa replacement today
The Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC)'s interim leadership has resolved to name Nelson Chamisa's replacement tomorrow.This came out during a crisis meeting held on Sunday where Nqobizitha Ml...Published: 30 Jan 2024 at 07:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
CCC MPs frustrated by Chamisa's decision to quit
CCC Members of Parliament have expressed frustration over Nelson Chamisa's decision to quit the party without informing them about his plans.On Thursday, Chamisa abruptly resigned from CCC, ca...Published: 29 Jan 2024 at 11:49hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa not forming new party
NELSON Chamisa, Zimbabwe's main opposition CCC leader who quit his party on Thursday in a huff after its descent into political turmoil due to recalls of MPs and other elected representatives by self-...Published: 29 Jan 2024 at 10:06hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
CCC names new spokesman
The Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) on Sunday named Nqobizitha Mlilo as its new spokesman as a meeting to choose a new leader was moved to Tuesday.Mlilo, a lawyer, will be deputised by Mar...Published: 29 Jan 2024 at 09:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa remains a formidable force in the court of public opinion
NELSON Chamisa has dumped the "bastardised" Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC), the party he helped to form two years ago.In an announcement on Thursday, Chamisa said he was walking away from...Published: 29 Jan 2024 at 07:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
'We are behind Chamisa'
Several Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) on Friday pledged their allegiance to Nelson Chamisa, a day after the politician ditched the party arguing that it had been hijacked the ruling Zanu-PF....Published: 29 Jan 2024 at 07:04hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
CCC MPs left in limbo after Chamisa bombshell
OPPOSITION leader Nelson Chamisa's shocking decision to quit the CCC caught the party's parliamentarians, councillors and mayors flat-footed while causing widespread confusion and panic within the ran...Published: 29 Jan 2024 at 06:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa surrenders hard-won political and democratic space
"THIS is to officially, and under my hand, inform you fellow citizens of Zimbabwe and the world, that, with immediate effect, I no longer have anything to do with CCC."With these words, Zimbab...Published: 29 Jan 2024 at 06:22hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Tshabangu and his CCC team to deliberate on Chamisa resignation
The opposition CCC nine-member interim steering committee led by secretary-general Sengezo Tshabangu says it will meet tomorrow to discuss founding party leader Nelson Chamisa's decision to quit the o...Published: 26 Jan 2024 at 06:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa ends weeks of speculation
ZIMBABWE'S main opposition leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday finally abandoned the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) saying the party had been hijacked by Zanu-PF. Chamisa formed the CCC in 2022 after...Published: 26 Jan 2024 at 04:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa drops a political bombshell
Zimbabwe's main opposition CCC leader Nelson Chamisa, who has given President Emmerson Mnangagwa a good run for his money in two tightly-contested and disputed presidential elections, has abandoned hi...Published: 25 Jan 2024 at 19:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe is a failed state because of 'a parasitic ruling elite' admitted Chamisa, junior parasite with the anaesthetic and para
"A UNITY DAY is meaningless unless and until it is driven by Unity values and UNITY POLITICS undergirded by a unity of direction, singleness of national purpose and a preponderance of patriotic duty a...Published: 24 Dec 2023 at 10:01hrs | 11 | by Wilbert Mukori
Kasukuwere: Red herring, Chamisa's double
Becoming a political clichéGustave Flaubert of the 19th Century licentious novel, Madame Bovary, said this of language: "Language is indeed a machine that continually amplifies emotion."...Published: 10 Jun 2023 at 17:46hrs | 1 | by @Jamwanda2 0n Saturday
A new great Zimbabwe is possible
IN a few months, Zimbabweans head to the polls to decide on their future.There have been many elections before, all of which have not brought the change we desire. So, I understand why, for ma...Published: 16 Mar 2023 at 16:30hrs | | by Nelson Chamisa I CCC President
Chiefs speak out against Zanu-PF coercion
Zimbabwe's rural areas have for decades been a Zanu-PF stronghold, and are turned into no-go areas for the opposition during elections.Previous Zanu-PF election victories in the rural ar...Published: 11 Sep 2022 at 15:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa slams western hypocrisy
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has slammed western hypocrisy where "false environmental and mining lobby groups" are paid to agitate local communities to fight non-western investment in their localities. The cou...Published: 23 May 2022 at 06:39hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe patriotism being bastardised
"THAT the party enjoins the government to prioritise the employment of patriotic party youths in order to curb the issues of industrial action by retrogressive members of the public service," was one ...Published: 09 May 2022 at 07:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
A golden future: Unpacking the new direction
LAST week, Advocate Nelson Chamisa unveiled the Citizens Coalition for Change as the new name of the people's movement. Our old name had been pilfered and Zanunised by the political pirates of our tim...Published: 02 Feb 2022 at 05:28hrs | 1 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
Change your name!: Zanu-PF's new trump card against Chamisa
IN a surprise move, President Emmerson Mnangagwa proclaimed 26 March 2022 as the date for long overdue by-elections. This should fill in vacancies created through the controversial recalls of elected ...Published: 16 Jan 2022 at 18:12hrs | | by Reginald Murendo
Mnangagwa's trap for Chamisa
In a surprise move, President Emmerson Mnangagwa proclaimed March 26, 2022, as the date for long overdue by-elections. This is to fill vacancies created through the controversial recalls of elected of...Published: 15 Jan 2022 at 00:25hrs | 5 | by Reginald Murendo
Fresh push for Mnangagwa, Chamisa coalition govt
ZIMBABWE'S two main political parties have expressed interest in the formation of a unity government to unlock the country's long-standing political logjam, but seem to differ on implementation matrix...Published: 10 Sep 2021 at 07:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
We need new heroes!
Sometimes, Bishop Lazi is glad that his uncle is dead.The man was never the same ever since returning from the war.He was no longer the bubbly and chatty young man who revelled in the ...Published: 08 Aug 2021 at 07:16hrs | | by Bishop Lazarus
Jacob Zuma is receiving the politics of justice
In South Africa, we have three arms of government, that is, the legislature, the executive and the judiciary. Everyone seems content with allowing criticism of the legislators and the executive, but n...Published: 09 Jul 2021 at 12:26hrs | | by Bathabile Dlamini
Zimbabwe chiefs to dump colonial regalia
CHIEFS are set to abandon their colonial regalia as it does not reflect Zimbabwe's traditional heritage and cultural values but cements colonial dominancy. The red and purple gown and round sh...Published: 09 Jan 2021 at 07:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo's heroes day message to Zimbabwe
Former ZANU PF Politiburo Member Professor Jonathan Moyo says Zimbabwe needs to rethink the concept of the heroes acre because it is now branded as a partisan and tribal shrine that does not serve the...Published: 12 Aug 2019 at 09:15hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Biti roasts govt officials over US$3,2bn command agric loot
THE Finance ministry yesterday came under fire over how it managed to spend US$3,2 billion in six months, allegedly under the government flagship command agriculture programme between 2017 and 2018....Published: 06 Aug 2019 at 12:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi symptom of nation formation, says Mohadi
Vice President Kembo Mohadi has claimed that the killing of over 20,000 minority Ndebele people during the Gukurahundi genocide in the 1980s was in keeping with how nations are formed.Mohadi, ...Published: 26 Mar 2019 at 06:44hrs | | by ZimLive
Shock as Mnangagwa divides Ndebele leaders
United Kingdom based scholar Dr. Brilliant Mhlanga has come out gunz blazing against civic society leader Dumisani Nyongolo Nkomo over the meeting that the later had with President Emmerson Mnanga...Published: 25 Mar 2019 at 11:47hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Piece-meal austerity without reforms a wild goose chase
AUSTERITY measures introduced by Finance minister Mthuli Ncube under the Transitional Stabilisation Programme (TSP) will have a devastating effect on the economy and is at variance with Zanu-PF's elec...Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 07:02hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Civil servants strikes, opposition's Trojan horse
Zimbabwe is fast becoming a "strike country" as various civil service arms try and outdo each other in registering their grievances against Government through withdrawal of labour and other forms of p...Published: 12 Feb 2019 at 22:26hrs | | by Nicole Hondo
Chamisa's wife followed in high-speed vehicle chase?
Daily News editor Gift Phiri chats to MDC leader Nelson Chamisa. Find below excerpts of the interview.Q: It seems you remain trapped in election mode almost four months after the election. Wha...Published: 14 Nov 2018 at 13:30hrs | 1 | by Gift Phiri
Khupe earmarked for a diplomatic posting
Speculation is rife within the MDC led by Thokozani Khupe that its leader could be earmarked for a diplomatic posting in President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government.This follows claims on social...Published: 17 Sep 2018 at 14:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans are their own worst enemies, sometimes
I have been following with great concern negative remarks by our fellow Zimbabwean brothers and sisters since President Emmerson Mnangagwa was declared winner of the July 30 harmonised elections, befo...Published: 07 Sep 2018 at 06:46hrs | | by Tendai Guta
One to resolve election impasse objectively will be Zimbabwe's celebrated hero
Political analyst Pedzisai Ruhanya has said any person who will be in a position to objectively resolve the election impasse following the disputed 2018 elections will be celebrated as a hero....Published: 08 Aug 2018 at 08:37hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Presidential hopefuls express satisfaction over voting process
Contenders in the Presidential race yesterday voted in various constituencies, with most of them "hopeful" of springing surprises to unseat President Mnangagwa of Zanu-PF. Most of t...Published: 31 Jul 2018 at 06:59hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Snakes have been set to Swallow Snakes to Free Zimbabwe by 2019
Snakes have been set to Swallow Snakes to Free Zimbabwe by 2019Vengeance is mine!!!! says the architect of humanity. The Law of Balance soothes all World problems in phenomenal ways. To the re...Published: 06 May 2018 at 08:29hrs | | by Multiverse Dungani
Nothing changes in Zanu-PF
To any right-thinking person, it would be foolish to expect President Emmerson Mnangagwa to fix Zimbabwe's broken economy in the few months he has been in the office.That is totally impossible...Published: 27 Mar 2018 at 11:28hrs | 1 | by Eric Chiriga
Obert Mpofu - Do you know Zimbabwe history yourself?
I found laughable today's statement by Home Affairs minister Obert Mpofu, as reported by the state broadcaster, in which he urged for the correction of historical inaccuracies that he alleged were adv...Published: 01 Mar 2018 at 14:37hrs | 2 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mangoma will whittle down presidential powers
Daily News editor Gift Phiri sits down for a wide-ranging interview with the presidential candidate for the Coalition of Democrats (CODE) — an alliance of six opposition political parties about the ...Published: 14 Jan 2018 at 08:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC-T hawks push for Tsvangirai to step down
TOP MDC-T hawks have reportedly scaled up the campaign for an extraordinary congress in February next year to force party leader Morgan Tsvangirai to step down on health grounds and allow the oppositi...Published: 30 Dec 2017 at 05:48hrs | | by Staff Reporter
The Gukurahundi: Who, What, Where, When, Why
In about a week from today, on 1 July 2012, Zimbabweans across the political cleavage will be celebrating the life and times of that great nationalist, Dr Joshua Mqabuko Nyongolo Nkomo. Without ...Published: 12 Dec 2017 at 05:36hrs | | by Mncumbatha
MDC-T tells its supporters to apply for land at government offices
Zimbabwe land reform must be rationalised One of the founding principles of the MDC clearly and unequivocally advocates for holistic and sustainable land redistribution in order to guarantee f...Published: 05 Dec 2017 at 08:57hrs | 1 | by Obert Gutu
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