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NPA bid to cover up for Ramaphosa facing resistance
The Democratic Alliance (DA) says it will urgently write to the National Director of Public Prosecutions, advocate Shamila Batohi, urging her to review the decision by the National Prosecuting Authori...Published: 14 Oct 2024 at 08:29hrs | 511 | by Staff reporter
Malema calls McKenzie a 'bandit', McKenzie hits back with 'cockroach' slur
Minister of Sports, Arts, and Culture Gayton McKenzie has retaliated against EFF leader Julius Malema for referring to him as a "lepantiti" (jailbird). McKenzie described Malema as a "cockroach"....Published: 05 Sep 2024 at 11:54hrs | 623 | by Staff reporter
Xiluva leader Bongani Baloyi to join Zuma's MKP
Xiluva leader and former Midvaal mayor Bongani Baloyi is set to join the Umkhonto Wesizwe (MK) Party this week, Sunday World reported.Baloyi is set to make the big announcement this week on We...Published: 02 Sep 2024 at 14:26hrs | 853 | by Staff reporter
Malema and EFF will survive
Since its inception, the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) has waged and survived many political battles with Julius Malema and Floyd Shivambu side by side, until last week when Shivambu dumped the EFF ...Published: 18 Aug 2024 at 21:03hrs | 787 | by Staff reporter
Mkhwebane and Carl Niehaus refute claims they are ditching the EFF
Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) members Carl Niehaus and Busisiwe Mkhwebane have refuted claims that they were leaving the party after news emerged today that Floyd Shivambu has resigned from the part...Published: 15 Aug 2024 at 13:47hrs | 526 | by Staff reporter
Malema set to hold emergency EFF meeting
The tables are turning in the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), with party leader Julius Malema set to hold an emergency meeting on Thursday.Eyewitness News understands the meeting is in relati...Published: 15 Aug 2024 at 10:43hrs | 647 | by Staff reporter
Helen Zille says South Africa's GNU was a lie
In a dramatic twist, DA federal chairperson Helen Zille has, for the first time, publicly admitted that the multi-party government in its current form is not a Government of National Unity (GNU)....Published: 02 Aug 2024 at 14:10hrs | 2371 | by Staff reporter
Malema's EFF hits back at Ramaphosa
The EFF has hit back at President Cyril Ramaphosa's statement, saying he failed to address "pressing issues" they had brought up during the opening of Parliament debate.The Red Berets' respons...Published: 25 Jul 2024 at 07:38hrs | 586 | by Staff reporter
Dr John Hlophe's election to the JSC is most feared by neoliberals
The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) has welcomed the appointment of Umkhonto weSizwe's parliamentary chief whip to represent the National Assembly in the Judicial Service Commission - the primary body...Published: 11 Jul 2024 at 09:59hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa's new cabinet as 'bloated' and DA-dominated
Immediately after President Cyril Ramaphosa announced the new collective government cabinet, the EFF condemned it, adamantly stating that the ANC is "in bed with the racist DA."The red berets ...Published: 01 Jul 2024 at 08:23hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
ANC 'supporters' paid R400 to attend Siyanqoba Rally
JUST R400 is the amount that was paid to ANC supporters to attend Saturday's Siyanqoba Rally at the FNB Stadium.Lufuno Mabulane, from Venda in Thulamela District, told The Star on Saturday tha...Published: 26 May 2024 at 21:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
How Mzila's family suffered during Gukurahundi genocide
IN 1982, I was assaulted by five Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) uniformed young men donning red berets at my Luveve house number 4136 where I lived, while I taught at St Bernards High School in Pumula, ...Published: 12 Feb 2024 at 13:52hrs | 58 | by Moses Mzila Nkalange
Justice Mbatha and a white judge blocks Malema, EFF from repossessing land
AfriForum on Wednesday welcomed a ruling by the Supreme Court of Appeal to dismiss the application of leave to appeal by EFF leader Julius Malema and his party against an interdict which AfriForum won...Published: 22 Jun 2023 at 07:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Malema ally hijacked outside his mother's home
EFF MP Vuyani Pambo was the victim of a hijacking on Monday evening, the party said on Tuesday.Pambo, who is the head of the party's presidency, was accosted by three men in Diepkloof, Gauteng...Published: 28 Jun 2022 at 19:29hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa loses trust in lieutenants
FAILURE by President Emmerson Mnangagwa to fill key vacant posts of vice-president and state security minister signals that he has lost trust in his lieutenants as he seeks to maintain a delicate ethn...Published: 18 May 2022 at 18:48hrs | 29 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance's fake victimhood, internal ructions and sanctions
Over the years, the MDC Alliance (MDC-A) faction has perfected the art of creating stunts to attract the West's attention in the vain and ill-placed hope of besmirching President Mnangagwa and to wrin...Published: 15 Nov 2021 at 05:21hrs | 7 | by Nobleman Runyanga
My listening President, this woman is bleeding from inside!
Change generally brings fears for the worst and hopes for the best and plays them against each other in the crucible of inescapable antagonism. The same is true for the scenario that unexpectedly befe...Published: 16 Jun 2021 at 07:21hrs | 7 | by Nhlanhla Moses
Insurgency in Cabo Delgado How did it start?
No human eye has seen such a level of cruelty perpetrated on another human being by another human. The gruesome nature of the killings rape and suffering caused by these ISIS rebels is indeed knee sha...Published: 15 Apr 2021 at 07:57hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
How to kill a country
Nearly forty years ago Ian Smith, the Prime Minister of Rhodesia, became the first and only white colonial ruler to break away from the British Crown. He had tired of London's nagging about the subjug...Published: 13 Jan 2021 at 16:49hrs | 2 | by Samantha Power
EFF's Ndlozi tells 'racisms apologists' Madonsela to go to hell
The EFF's Mbuyiseni pulled no punches in responding to Social Justice and Honorary Law Professor at the University of Stellenbosch and former Public Protector Thuli Madonsela, who criticised the party...Published: 09 Sep 2020 at 07:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Kill Mnangagwa and spare me, I've kids,' says his wife
An unhinged Auxillia Mnangagwa ranted at a top army commander, at one point telling him to SHOOT President Emmerson Mnangagwa and spare her because she has children, she is heard on a sensational leak...Published: 16 Jul 2019 at 07:50hrs | | by ZimLive
Tsvangirai remembered in style
IT is 5am, the grass is covered in morning dew and cool temperatures are biting, but to multitudes of MDC supporters it is just another time to celebrate their late leader, Morgan Tsvangirai.F...Published: 05 May 2019 at 10:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo's love letter
To trade fair or trade foul, that is the question.In the past week, Bulawayo woke up to that roving, rattling helicopter sound, hovering low, above her rusty rooftops…the harbinger of the ci...Published: 05 May 2019 at 10:33hrs | 7 | by Zifiso Masiye
Julius Malema claims that SA 'is worse than Zimbabwe'
Hundreds of EFF supporters gathered at Dlomo Dam in Sharpeville on Thursday, to pay tribute to the 70 people who were massacred by apartheid cops during a peaceful protest 59 years ago. Julius Malema ...Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 19:21hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's military changes fuel fears of internal strife
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa (pictured)'s daring manoeuvres to change and redeploy critical personnel and commanders in strategic military units in a major shake-up has triggered fears of purges among...Published: 22 Feb 2019 at 09:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Exposed: The sprawling network of US military bases in Africa
The other CSL, in the remote smuggling hub of Agadez, is set to become the premier US military outpost in West Africa. That drone base, located at Niger's Airbase 201, not only boasts a $100m construc...Published: 20 Dec 2018 at 10:06hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
South African billionaire defends white wealth
Johann Rupert, South Africa's second-richest man with a $6.3 billion fortune, spoke out to defend the stranglehold white people still have over the economy more than two decades after the end of apart...Published: 06 Dec 2018 at 06:15hrs | 1 | by Bloomberg
'We're tired of Zanu-PF machinations'
Thousands of Zimbabwean opposition supporters took to the streets of Harare on Wednesday demanding fair elections following alleged irregularities in the electoral roll ahead of the July 30 vote....Published: 11 Jul 2018 at 14:12hrs | | by AFP
Gukurahundi massacres play finally staged
A play that was banned by Robert Mugabe about a 1980s government crackdown in which rights groups say 20,000 civilians were killed has been performed in Zimbabwe for the first time.The play, "...Published: 01 Jun 2018 at 16:01hrs | | by Reuters
Welshman Ncube not contesting for parly
MDC president Professor Welshman Ncube will not contest for any position in the forthcoming elections and will only help co-ordinate and campaign for his party candidates and MDC-Alliance presidential...Published: 20 May 2018 at 09:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai left an incomplete legacy
IN Morgan Tsvangirai's final journeys and last orders, there's something quintessentially Zimbabwean.He went to Johannesburg, the city with the largest concentration of Zimbabweans living abro...Published: 26 Feb 2018 at 05:49hrs | | by Percy Zvomuya
Mnangagwa, a past tainted by a brutal massacre
When the soldiers in the red berets arrived in Alice Mwale's village in the fading light, they were not happy, ...Published: 08 Dec 2017 at 11:51hrs | | by CNN
Nightmare of Mugabe and his allies' Matabele atrocities
The first details of a shock report of Zimbabwe's government troops' atrocities in camp Bhalagwe and elsewhere has emerged despite Mugabe's curtain of silence, writes David BeresfordOne of the...Published: 08 Dec 2017 at 10:42hrs | 1 | by David Beresford
Zimbabwe soldiers 'discipline' cops in Harare
Soldiers whipped and clubbed police officers even as they lay on the ground in violent unrest on Tuesday night stirred by resentment over the use of police spikes.While both the army and the p...Published: 03 Aug 2017 at 17:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Soldiers threaten Mugabe's nephew
Soldiers allegedly blocked Indigenisation minister Patrick Zhuwao's vehicle outside Harare, threatening him with unspecified action and the minister says he now fears for his life.Zhuwao, who ...Published: 18 Jun 2017 at 10:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Britain's vested interests in the newly independent Zimbabwe
THIS is the third in a series of articles of a detailed research paper by British academic Hazel Cameron on the state-sponsored killings of civilians by Zimbabwean security forces between 1982 and 198...Published: 19 May 2017 at 07:57hrs | 1 | by Hazel Cameron ,British academic
Mujuru not involved in Gukurahundi operations
A debate is raging as to whether or not the late former Zimbabwean army commander, Solomon Mujuru had a hand in the government's ethnic cleansing campaign in Matabeleland and some parts of the Midland...Published: 05 Apr 2017 at 10:37hrs | 2 | by Thabo Kunene
Zanu-PF brushes off Malema attack
Officials from Zanu-PF have downplayed Julius Malema's "Grandpa it's enough" criticism of longtime president, Robert Mugabe, ...Published: 24 Jan 2017 at 13:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Aleck Macheso in trouble over debt
Popular singer Aleck Macheso is in trouble over a R18 000 long standing debt demanded by a local designing firm, Mataga Promotions, for promotional materials and services.The firm ...Published: 18 Jan 2017 at 04:40hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Macheso threatened with legal action
SUNGURA music outfit, Orchestra Mberikwazvo, has been threatened with legal action for allegedly failing to settle a R16 612 debt.This is said to have been accrued after hiring another org...Published: 11 Jan 2017 at 09:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe dishes out goodies to Zanu PF members
First Lady Grace Mugabe dished out five kilograms of rice to each delegate attending the Zanu PF annual conference in Masvingo.Announcing what he termed as a Christmas present fr...Published: 17 Dec 2016 at 14:36hrs | | by Thobekile Zhou
Malema says, 'it is time for Mugabe to go'
Although the EFF loves Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, it's time for the long-serving president to go, its leader Julius Malema says."We love Robert Mugabe for who he is, although we a...Published: 02 Dec 2016 at 14:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's troops terrorise kombi crews
KOMBI crews and touts plying the Harare-Norton route have accused troops from President Robert Mugabe's Presidential Guard of terrorising and assaulting them after being denied free transport from...Published: 03 Oct 2016 at 16:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Army requests the NewsDay to retract its story
The Zimbabwe Defence Forces are not concerned with peaceful protesters because the nature of their activities does not constitute threats that warrant their involvement, a senior official said yes...Published: 20 Aug 2016 at 09:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe army general calls on industry to invest in research, development
ZIMBABWE industry should invest in research and development and link with the defence forces and the government to promote local production and procurement to support economic growth, Defence Forces G...Published: 27 May 2016 at 06:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
The day Mugabe brought Masvingo to a standstill
UNCOMPROMISING security personnel stood guard at the point where the road takes a sudden upward turn to scale a hill leading to the Great Zimbabwe Monuments, to usher all vehicles.The order, i...Published: 03 Mar 2016 at 10:41hrs | | by Andrew Kunambura
Prophet Makandiwa records brisk business ahead of 'Judgment Night 3'
PROPHET EMMANUEL Makandiwa's United Family Interdenominational Church (UFIC) recorded brisk business from selling a wide variety of church regalia and paraphernalia ranging from shoes, T-shirts, d...Published: 29 Aug 2015 at 20:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC official files notice to sue ZNA
MDC youth assembly Happymore Chidziva has filed a notice of intention to sue the army after he was allegedly assaulted by five members of the force last month. In a March 30, 2015 notice a...Published: 02 Apr 2015 at 08:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZAPU Youth and Women Lead a street rally in Manchester
The Zimbabwe African Women's Union (ZAWU) and The ZAPU Youth Front (YF) would like to invite you to their revolutionary event in Manchester at the end of the month. This is going to be the first event...Published: 13 Feb 2015 at 08:24hrs | 1 | by Nkosi Vundla and Ms Susan Ndlovu
Nathaniel Manheru - A misbegotten son of a foul mother?
After reading the latest article by Nathaniel Manheru in the Herald of 27 December 2014 titled "Southern Zimbabwe: Ending an overdue myth", I thought the article had a lot of positives covered in ...Published: 29 Dec 2014 at 11:38hrs | | by Hlosukwakha
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