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Trump goes for 'jecha' tactics
In the first TV interview since losing his re-election bid, President Donald Trump indicated Sunday that he will never concede to Joe Biden and abandon his conspiracy theory about mass ballot fraud....Published: 29 Nov 2020 at 20:03hrs | 3770 | by Staff reporter
MDC welcome Thomas-Greenfield US ambassador to UN - she must read ambassador Dell's Tsvangirai report
MDC Alliance treasurer-general David Coltart has welcomed the appointment of United States human rights defender and career diplomat Linda Thomas Greenfield as US ambassador to the United Nations....Published: 26 Nov 2020 at 06:37hrs | 556 | by Nomusa Garikai
Chamisa's MDC failure-bound foray to the countryside
MDC-Alliance's youth assembly held a national executive council meeting in Bulawayo two weeks ago where it resolved to boost the party's electoral fortunes in 2023 by moving to rural areas to recruit ...Published: 24 Nov 2020 at 04:24hrs | 1485 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Trump, Chamisa birds of the same feather
Outgoing United States (US) president, Donald Trump and Zimbabwe's opposition MDC Alliance leader, Nelson Chamisa both refused to concede defeat, in their separate elections. The world is surprised by...Published: 23 Nov 2020 at 14:38hrs | 809 | by Prosperity Mzila
Open Letter to the heads of state of SADC nations
More than business as usual needed to save wildlife and people from covid-19 destructionYOUR EXCELLENCIES:We are facing an unprecedented wildlife conservation crisis. With COVID-19 imp...Published: 23 Nov 2020 at 14:33hrs | 825 | by Emmanuel Koro
US elections expose flaws in Western democracy
AMERICANS love to promote the myth that they have the corner on government by and for the people, but the latest brouhaha at the polls suggests otherwise.Despite the cheers ringing around the ...Published: 22 Nov 2020 at 04:39hrs | 254 | by Steven Friedman
Chinamasa warns opposition
ZANU-PF says political parties that are shunning President Emmerson Mnangagwa's dialogue overtures and preferring violent confrontations will be dealt with by the law.This comes as MDC Allianc...Published: 21 Nov 2020 at 22:17hrs | 181 | by Staff reporter
'Trump promised an elixir for their racial anxiety' said Obama - Thank God and democracy Trump lasted only one term
"It was as if my very presence in the White House had triggered a deep-seated panic, a sense that the natural order had been disrupted," CNN quoted an excerpt from former US President Barack Obama upc...Published: 18 Nov 2020 at 08:15hrs | 2581 | by Wilbert Mukori
Pray, President Biden upgraded ZDERA Mark 2 effect change in 20 months, can't afford another 20 years waiting
"Mnangagwa's govt taking initiative to woo Joe Biden, Washington!" reported Daily News. "From the historical narration, the election of Biden may mean more of the same for Zimbabwe, although w...Published: 16 Nov 2020 at 09:46hrs | 3341 | by Nomusa Garikai
Zanu-PF seeks Biden indulgence on sanctions
THE Zanu-PF government has tasked Foreign Affairs minister Sibusiso Moyo to approach the United States President-elect Joe Biden in a fresh bid to mend the frosty relations between Harare and Washingt...Published: 16 Nov 2020 at 05:57hrs | 1185 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt taking initiative to woo Joe Biden, Washington
THE ruling Zanu-PF has urged Foreign minister Sibusiso Moyo, to move with speed to engage with American president-elect Joe Biden - in a bid to mend Harare's strained relationship with Washington....Published: 15 Nov 2020 at 16:18hrs | 2817 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa is Trump's 'perfect biological son', says Chinamasa
ZANU PF has drawn parallels between opposition MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa and United States losing presidential candidate Donald Trump who has refused to concede defeat in the just-ended Ameri...Published: 14 Nov 2020 at 05:47hrs | 4368 | by Staff reporter
'Sanctions frustrate Zimbabwe intervention in Mozambique'
THE ruling Zanu PF party yesterday claimed that government efforts to intervene and stop Islamic insurgents in neighbouring Mozambique were being frustrated by economic sanctions imposed on Harare by ...Published: 14 Nov 2020 at 05:31hrs | 2644 | by Staff reporter
Nichols should stop interfering in Zim affairs
The United States ambassador to Zimbabwe Brian Nichols' continued interference to the Zimbabwe's internal affairs has reached alarming levels with the ambassador now behaving like a prefect with the t...Published: 13 Nov 2020 at 13:46hrs | 1942 | by Innocent Mujeri
'Mugabe tactics replicated by Trump'
JOURNALISTS in the United States yesterday accused their President Donald Trump of emulating Zimbabwe's late former leader Robert Mugabe in refusing to concede electoral defeat.The US went to ...Published: 13 Nov 2020 at 05:53hrs | 2480 | by Staff reporter
Obama defends Biden vote 'rigging'
Former President Barack Obama has said senior US Republicans are undermining democracy by going along with President Donald Trump's unsubstantiated claims of election fraud.In an interview wit...Published: 13 Nov 2020 at 05:35hrs | 1033 | by BBC
Message of Congratulations to the American people
Message of Congratulation to the American People, President Elect Joseph Biden and Vice President Elect Kamala Harris from ZAPU.The Zimbabwe African People's Union wishes to express heartfelt ...Published: 12 Nov 2020 at 20:05hrs | 968 | by Isaac Mabuka
Trump, Chamisa use the same script on elections
"Stop counting the votes" screamed the outgoing United States (US) president, Donald Trump on realising that he was fast losing to the now US president-elect Joe Biden. He quickly jumped...Published: 12 Nov 2020 at 12:45hrs | 2663 | by Prosperity Mzila
Donald must phone Dambudzo
It never rains but pours for the little boy. Things haven't been going his way of late and I would never want to be in his shoes. Zvakaomera Chamisa hama dzangu and I feel sorry for him. Morgan Richar...Published: 11 Nov 2020 at 18:47hrs | 2456 | by Mapombi
War vets see no change of bitter Zimbabwe-US relations
ZANU-PF secretary for war veterans, Douglas Mahiya expects no change of relations between US President elect Joe Biden's envisaged administration and the Zimbabwean government.His sentiments a...Published: 11 Nov 2020 at 06:44hrs | 1479 | by Staff reporter
US, UK will beg us for dialogue, says Zimbabwe war vets
ZANU-PF and war veterans have threatened to take drastic measures against the United States and its ally Britain that will force the two super- powers to beg for dialogue within a fortnight.Th...Published: 11 Nov 2020 at 06:34hrs | 1690 | by Staff reporter
Trump camp vows legal fight against 'elections theft' just began
US President Donald Trump's spokeswoman has vowed the legal battle to contest Joe Biden's White House election victory is only just beginning."This election is not over," White House press sec...Published: 10 Nov 2020 at 06:39hrs | 4298 | by Staff reporter
Trump called Chamisa for advice
The American elections have shown us a number of interesting things and indeed it has given us shocking similarities between Trump and Nelson Chamisa. There is a striking similar behaviour between the...Published: 09 Nov 2020 at 22:47hrs | 7564 | by Dr Masimba Mavza
Harare seeks better relations with Washington
THE government is hopeful that United States of America (USA) president-elect, Joe Biden, pictured, will be open to mending the strained relationship between Harare and Washington.This comes a...Published: 09 Nov 2020 at 20:51hrs | 333 | by Staff reporter
ANC tells US Vice President-elect Kamala Harris to remove Zimbabwe sanctions
The African National Congress' Women's League has congratulated United States Vice-President-elect Kamala Harris, urging her to continue pioneering and championing a global campaign to end racism and ...Published: 09 Nov 2020 at 20:50hrs | 746 | by African News Agency
Zimbabwe trends in US elections for wrong reasons
THE confirmation of Joe Biden as the 46th President of the United States of America on the evening of November 7 put paid to the anxiety that gripped the world in what almost appeared to be a tumultuo...Published: 09 Nov 2020 at 20:46hrs | 1220 | by Staff reporter
Over the moon Trump lost 2020, his 'America (cum Trump) first' divided free world - folly to tempt providence again
It was not until Friday evening 6th November 2020, three full day after the voting date, that it was finally clear Joe Biden had won the USA presidential election. I was over the moon with joy and, li...Published: 09 Nov 2020 at 08:14hrs | 2397 | by Wilbert Mukori
Zimbabwe politicians bank on Biden presidency
ZIMBABWE'S warring political leaders yesterday fell over each other in expressing their readiness to work with United States (US) President-elect Joe Biden, hoping to mend relations between Harare and...Published: 09 Nov 2020 at 06:57hrs | 2907 | by Staff reporter
Africans taken aback by US election turmoil
FOR some Africans, President Donald Trump's actions in the aftermath of the US election have been a cause for dark humour, while others reacted with dismay or disbelief.In countries whose own rece...Published: 08 Nov 2020 at 18:40hrs | 3470 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa will not allow his 2023 'Presidential Victory' to be stolen
MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa says he will not allow his victory in the 2023 presidential election to be stolen again as was the case in 2018.Chamisa contested the 2018 presidential elect...Published: 08 Nov 2020 at 08:32hrs | 2978 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa congratulates new US president
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday led Zimbabweans in congratulating United States president-elect Joseph Robinette Biden (Joe Biden) who won last week's US presidential election, beating incumbent Donald ...Published: 08 Nov 2020 at 07:04hrs | 345 | by Staff reporter
Joe Biden defeats Trump in US presidential election
Joe Biden is now projected to have 290 Electoral College votes, the Associated Press (AP) news agency said on Saturday, above the threshold needed to clinch the hard-fought United States presidential ...Published: 07 Nov 2020 at 18:15hrs | 3711 | by AP
Biden win: What's in it for Zimbabwe?
AT the time of going to print last night, indications were that United States' Democratic party candidate John Biden would edge his Republican counterpart and incumbent President Donald Trump in the h...Published: 07 Nov 2020 at 05:56hrs | 1377 | by Staff reporter
Mueller likens Trump to MDC Alliance
Lawyer and former Special Counsel for the United States Department of Justice, Robert Swan Mueller, blasted ‘outgoing' US president Donald Trump for acting like the opposition political party in Zim...Published: 06 Nov 2020 at 13:31hrs | 3796 | by Zivanai Dhewa
Trump or Biden, Zimbabwe expects no favours
United States Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden inched closer last night to clinching the presidency following this week's historic poll that might bring a dramatic close to incumbent Donald...Published: 06 Nov 2020 at 06:53hrs | 1408 | by Staff reporter
Chinamasa rubbishes Khupe's overtures
Zanu-PF acting spokesperson Patrick Chinamasa has rubbished opposition MDC-T leader Thokozani Khupe's push for a government of national unity.Chinamasa told journalists during a party Press co...Published: 05 Nov 2020 at 06:42hrs | 12067 | by Staff reporter
Zimdollar weakens against USD
The local currency continued to fluctuate within the 81.00 band as it depreciated against the dollar. The ZWL lost 0.3929% to trade at 81.6740 against the dollar from 81.3531 attained late last week. ...Published: 03 Nov 2020 at 20:15hrs | 5917 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans await US election with apathy, anticipation
THE upcoming vote could mark a major shift in American politics, but it's unclear how the outcome will affect the two nations' frosty relationship.Whether the issue is the coronavirus pandemic...Published: 02 Nov 2020 at 16:44hrs | 2584 | by Staff reporter
ZANU-PF MDC dominance must die
There is a strong belief among many political analysts that a two-party system in parliament is a good indicator of democracy maturity. In USA this is symbolised by the Republicans vs Democrats and in...Published: 01 Nov 2020 at 17:29hrs | 806 | by Lubani Nondo
Joe Biden's debate guests run the only Zimbabwean restaurant in America
There were not many people in the audience at the final presidential debate, held in Nashville, Tennessee, last Thursday. To supplement the campaign staffers and family members, each candidate was all...Published: 30 Oct 2020 at 18:16hrs | 3192 | by Staff reporter
Criminals around Mnangagwa will surely bring him down
ONE night in November 2017, a chubby soldier donning a red beret and military fatigues appeared on ZBC-TV. It was immediately clear something was amiss. His demeanour immediately betrayed what mischie...Published: 30 Oct 2020 at 06:44hrs | 5948 | by Staff reporter
Unmasking sanctions promoters
Many had hoped that the coming of a new administration led by President Donald Trump in America was going to usher in a fresh foreign policy trajectory. This deduction was wrong. Let me ...Published: 19 Oct 2020 at 06:13hrs | 975 | by Ranga Mataire
The inscrutable Mr Trump!
*This letter uses American jargonIt took me sometime to figure out why the inscrutable, rascally US President Donald J Trump drives so many elites into a lunatic frenzy until I read a post fro...Published: 11 Oct 2020 at 11:09hrs | 567 | by Kenneth Mufuka
Trump 'free of symptoms and fever'
President Donald Trump has had no Covid-19 symptoms for 24 hours and has been fever-free for more than four days, his doctor says.Sean Conley said the president also had "detectable levels of ...Published: 07 Oct 2020 at 19:53hrs | 1185 | by Staff reporter
Fashion and fabric: African history told through printed wax clothing
A mainstay of African fashion, "ankara," "wax hollandais "or "kitenge" fabric holds up a mirror to history In most West and Central African main market...Published: 26 Sep 2020 at 08:12hrs | 217 | by Franck Kuwonu
US media has become the true opposition
LISTEN ye men of Dzimbahwe, even those foolish MaShurugwi, to these wise words.Over the last 30 years, the power of the media has grown out of all proportion to its intended purpose, which was...Published: 06 Sep 2020 at 08:59hrs | 865 | by Ken Mufuka
BREAKING: Bill Gates, Kanye West Twitter accounts hacked
Some sophisticated hackers temporarily took over Twitter accounts belonging to popular people on Wednesday evening and started tweeting Bitcoin scam messages. The accounts were seen tweeting a...Published: 15 Jul 2020 at 23:00hrs | 2318 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Donald Trump is an atheist and a blasphemer
DONALD Trump is a liar when he claims that his unbridled dictatorship owes its currency through God's appointment. Trump declared recently that he is the most powerful president of the United States b...Published: 05 Jul 2020 at 11:09hrs | 1152 | by Jonathan Maphenduka
Engagement is not surrender
Some compatriots are confusing the New Dispensation's re-engagement and engagement thrust as some kind of surrender. This line of thinking is couched within a linear liberal rapprochement approach tha...Published: 15 Jun 2020 at 07:07hrs | 326 | by Ranga Mataire
The international elites are at the gate!
AS the month of November draws near and the United States national elections in the first week of November become a reality, it behoved me to search with diligence why this is an explosive season. The...Published: 24 May 2020 at 09:22hrs | 721 | by Kenneth Mufuka
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