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MDC bigwigs accused of disinformation
Reinstated MDC-T national chairman Mr Morgan Komichi has said MDC-Alliance was an electoral bloc formed among seven opposition political parties for the 2018 elections with no legal standing to recall...Published: 18 hrs ago | 595 | by Staff reporter
MDC MPs facing a tough choice
SITTING MDC legislators and councillors are facing a tough choice after the party group which has embraced the recent Supreme Court ruling that dethroned Nelson Chamisa from power warned yesterday tha...Published: 07 Apr 2020 at 18:39hrs | 4736 | by Staff reporter
Assassination attempt on Mwonzora?
Reinstated Secretary-General of the opposition Movement for Democratic (MDC) party, Senator Douglas Mwonzora has reportedly been involved in a minor road accident along Lomagundi road.Reports ...Published: 06 Apr 2020 at 08:47hrs | 5230 | by Staff reporter
Coronavirus to push Zimbabwe to the brink?
With Zimbabwe's health-care sector crippled by a strike by doctors and nurses, underfunding and years of general neglect, fears are growing that Covid-19 will hit the troubled country very hard....Published: 03 Apr 2020 at 08:20hrs | 248 | by Financial Mail
Mnangagwa not the change that Zimbabwe needs!
During the course of my life I heard three stories that I dismissed as mere jokes. Firstly a human resources lecturer once told us that he once came come across a white colour employee that did not kn...Published: 02 Apr 2020 at 11:17hrs | 1006 | by Ishemunyoro Mupokosera
Sakunda Holdings responds to COVID-19 fight assistance call
Sakunda Holdings has come up with a multi-million dollar initiative to resuscitate and re-equip Rock Foundation Medical Centre and St Annes Hospital in an effort to assist government in the fight agai...Published: 26 Mar 2020 at 08:06hrs | 2967 | by Simbarashe Mwandipendaa
COVID-19: Sakunda Holdings identifies two health facilities
SAKUNDA Holdings and its associates have come up with a multi-million dollar initiative to resuscitate and equip Rock Foundation Medical Centre and St Annes Hospital as a way of complementing Governme...Published: 25 Mar 2020 at 18:44hrs | 1313 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt too poor to pin down corrupt bigwigs
JUSTICE Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi has admitted it was not easy for the state to go after corrupt bigwigs he said had a tendency of deploying all their financial might to fight their crimes within natio...Published: 23 Mar 2020 at 05:26hrs | 304 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga left Harare aboard Mnangagwa's 'private plane'?
AILING Vice President Constantino Chiwenga was in fact airlifted to China on Sunday, as health woes continue to dog the powerful former military commander.It also comes after he missed two imp...Published: 17 Mar 2020 at 14:47hrs | 8286 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa, MDC dither on rolling demos
THE MDC is blowing hot and cold on its plans to stage rolling mass actions against President Emmerson Mnangagwa, his government and Zanu-PF.This comes as ructions consuming the party continue ...Published: 15 Mar 2020 at 17:47hrs | 3508 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga snubs Mnangagwa
Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga yesterday allegedly snubbed his boss President Emmerson Mnangagwa's field day held at the latter's Pricabe Farm in Sherwood, Kwekwe, as reported power struggles con...Published: 13 Mar 2020 at 06:00hrs | 6596 | by Staff reporter
Komichi to die in MDC
MDC secretary for presidential affairs Morgen Komichi has denied rumours that he has quit the opposition party, vowing to "die and be buried" by the party. Last week, an unsigned letter allege...Published: 12 Mar 2020 at 07:17hrs | 2091 | by Staff reporter
MDC fissures widen, supporters brawl
THE ructions consuming the MDC are escalating, resulting in under pressure party leader Nelson Chamisa now telling his disgruntled comrades to leave the party if they so wish, while his restless suppo...Published: 11 Mar 2020 at 19:08hrs | 3299 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa tells rivals to leave his MDC
THE ructions consuming the MDC are escalating, resulting in under pressure party leader Nelson Chamisa now telling his disgruntled comrades to leave the party if they so wish, while his restless ...Published: 11 Mar 2020 at 06:14hrs | 5858 | by Staff reporter
High-profile people in Zimbabwe to be jailed for corruption
THE government says the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) and the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) are not doing enough to bring to book high profile people accused of corruption....Published: 09 Mar 2020 at 20:13hrs | 3118 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo City Council fails to account for 600 properties
MORE than 600 non-residential properties belonging to the Bulawayo City Council are not captured in the local authority's inventory, raising fears that some bigwigs were taking advantage of the loopho...Published: 08 Mar 2020 at 08:24hrs | 208 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's G40 aligned faction goes after Mwonzora
THE mindless and factional bloodletting within the MDC was further exposed yesterday when the party's secretary-general Chalton Hwende issued a "final warning" to his predecessor Douglas Mwonzora for ...Published: 04 Mar 2020 at 17:18hrs | 1652 | by Staff reporter
Zacc letting down the masses
ZIMBABWEANS were made to believe that the scourge of sanctions imposed on the country by Western countries more than a decade ago are behind the demise of our economy, yet corruption is silently abett...Published: 03 Mar 2020 at 07:37hrs | 517 | by Innocent Mbadzi
'Zimbabwe is Hell on Earth'
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa has called for ‘revolutionary' action this year. He said the constitution gave the people every right to demonstrate following the stolen 2018 presidential election and the...Published: 29 Feb 2020 at 07:33hrs | 598 | by Zimbabwe Vigil Diary
There is plenty mealie-meal, claims CIO minister
THE question and answer session in the National Assembly degenerated into a circus yesterday after State Security minister Owen Ncube briefly assumed the position of acting leader of the H...Published: 27 Feb 2020 at 06:16hrs | 767 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF moves to solve circus
Top Zanu-PF leaders from Mashonaland East province on Saturday descended on Goromonzi South to solve disharmony among members, which had resulted in the party having shaky structures.The meeti...Published: 24 Feb 2020 at 10:11hrs | 2506 | by Staff reporter
Tsenengamu says we cannot pretend all is well
Following the suspension of Zanu-PF youth league leaders Godfrey Tsenengamu and Lewis Matutu from their positions in the ruling party after they spoke strongly against corruption outside the party par...Published: 24 Feb 2020 at 07:02hrs | 2756 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF desperate to tame theatre of factional wars
ZANU-PF will soon resume internal elections in its provinces after the process was suspended last year following vicious factional clashes in Harare and Bulawayo as the party prepares to roll out a ma...Published: 20 Feb 2020 at 13:32hrs | 738 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa approaches Sadc, AU on Mbeki, talks
OPPOSITION leader Nelson Chamisa says he will approach Sadc and the African Union (AU) in a bid to compel the government to accept former South African President Thabo Mbeki as a mediator in the count...Published: 17 Feb 2020 at 20:09hrs | 2012 | by Staff reporter
Biti sucked in dodgy fuel deal
Mine Oil and Gas Services, which of late has been making futile attempts to build a second pipeline in Zimbabwe was a project meant to bankroll the opposition, official documents have revealed....Published: 15 Feb 2020 at 15:37hrs | 6661 | by Staff reporter
CBZ vows to thwart dodgy transactions
CBZ Holdings Limited has vowed to stop dodgy transactions involving political bigwigs that had blighted the bank's operations over the years.CBZ Holdings board chairperson Marc Holtzman in an ...Published: 14 Feb 2020 at 06:47hrs | 839 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe courts to summon corrupt bigwigs
Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) chairperson Justice Loice Matanda-Moyo has introduced a new system that will see high-profile corruption suspects being summoned to court when their dockets ...Published: 14 Feb 2020 at 05:53hrs | 365 | by Staff reporter
MOGS fuel deal: An MDC project
NEW details are emerging regarding Mine Oil and Gas Services (MOGS), which of late has been making futile attempts to build a second pipeline in Zim...Published: 13 Feb 2020 at 21:51hrs | 2349 | by Paul Ndou
Matutu, Tsenengamu now face expulsion from Zanu-PF
IN A dramatic turn of events, it has emerged that the newly-installed leadership of Zanu-PF's youth league may now be pushing for the expulsion of the wing's suspended executives from the ruling party...Published: 13 Feb 2020 at 19:31hrs | 5051 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC divided over talks: Chamisa wants them but Biti says 'no'
FRESH divisions have emerged in the opposition MDC as its bigwigs are not happy with the idea of the party engaging in a national dialogue with the ruling Zanu PF.Rising inflation and a genera...Published: 10 Feb 2020 at 07:00hrs | 5691 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa warned against 'hyenas'
SUSPENDED Zanu-PF youth league kingpin, Godfrey Tsenengamu, warned opposition leader Nelson Chamisa, pictured, last week to beware of being used by hardliners in both the ruling party and his MDC as h...Published: 10 Feb 2020 at 06:08hrs | 4854 | by Staff reporter
Who's taking the Zanu-PF young Turks seriously?
Something is awkward here. How come, whenever people from Zanu-PF and their cronies start talking about corruption, many things stop making sense?Well, they say corruption is to Zanu-PF what water...Published: 09 Feb 2020 at 06:12hrs | 493 | by Tawanda Majoni
Cartels rip up Zanu-PF camps
ZANU-PF infighting came to a head in Wednesday's politburo meeting, where two rival camps sought to deal with corruption allegations levelled against President Emmerson Mnangagwa's allies by the party...Published: 07 Feb 2020 at 06:50hrs | 7299 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF rocked by fresh power struggles
A FRESH power struggle has erupted in Zanu-PF, with senior officials clashing over the suspension of Youth League leaders during Wednesday's stormy politburo meeting in what insiders have described as...Published: 07 Feb 2020 at 06:12hrs | 2658 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa now weak and vulnerable
ZANU-PF yesterday summarily fired President Emmerson Mnangagwa's close allies, youth league leader Pupurai Togarepi and his deputy Lewis Matutu, from its top decision-making body, the politburo, for "...Published: 06 Feb 2020 at 18:22hrs | 9239 | by Staff reporter
Heads roll in Zanu PF
ZANU PF yesterday summarily fired President Emmerson Mnangagwa's close allies, youth league leader Pupurai Togarepi and his deputy Lewis Matutu, from its top decision-making body, the politburo, for "...Published: 06 Feb 2020 at 06:25hrs | 6493 | by Staff reporter
Sparks to fly at Zanu-PF meeting?
ZANU-PF bigwigs met in Harare today at what turned out to be an explosive politburo gathering, amid worsening factional fights in the ruling party.Youth League deputy se...Published: 05 Feb 2020 at 15:49hrs | 2813 | by Staff reporter
Bigwigs raiding gold claims
SMALL-SCALE miners in Manicaland province are up in arms against the Mines ministry over double allocation of gold claims which, they say, has led to disputes among miners.This was revealed on...Published: 03 Feb 2020 at 06:22hrs | 764 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF youths to protest against cartels
ZANU-PF youths are expected to take to the streets tomorrow in protest over business "cartels" sabotaging the economy.The ruling party's deputy youth league secretary, Lewis Matutu, told the D...Published: 02 Feb 2020 at 20:38hrs | 3312 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF, MDC hawks work to derail dialogue
AMID growing calls for dialogue between President Emmerson Mnangagwa and opposition leader Nelson Chamisa, it has emerged that hardliners within both Zanu-PF and the MDC are escalating their efforts t...Published: 02 Feb 2020 at 20:35hrs | 3261 | by Staff reporter
New twist to Zimsec saga
THE matter involving four Chiredzi South teachers who allegedly wrote public examinations for their wives and girlfriends during last November's Zimbabwe Schools Examination Council (Zimsec) examinati...Published: 02 Feb 2020 at 12:06hrs | 1088 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa returns from SA
OPPOSITION leader Nelson Chamisa said yesterday that South Africa and the rest of Sadc now fully appreciated the scale of Zimbabwe's political and economic crisis - necessitating urgent intervention....Published: 01 Feb 2020 at 19:39hrs | 4993 | by Staff reporter
Trump tightens screws on Mnangagwa
THE United States of America (USA) is mulling adding more top Zanu-PF and government officials to its targeted sanctions list - in a bid to force Harare to embark on much-needed political and economic...Published: 31 Jan 2020 at 19:24hrs | 5411 | by Staff reporter
Trump piles misery on Mnangagwa
UNITED States senators have proposed to add more Zimbabweans on the sanctions list, a move likely to pile misery on embattled President Emmerson Mnangagwa (pictured)'s government desperate to re-engag...Published: 31 Jan 2020 at 19:13hrs | 699 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa flies to SA to confer with Mbeki, Ramaphosa
AMID rising political tensions and economic strife in the country, opposition leader Nelson Chamisa is in South Africa to meet former president Thabo Mbeki - in a last ditch effort to foster dialogue ...Published: 30 Jan 2020 at 19:46hrs | 2927 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's graft commission yet to meet
A ZANU-PF commission of inquiry set up by President Emmerson Mnangagwa in August last year to investigate bigwigs accused of corruption by the party's youth league has not met since then to deal with ...Published: 29 Jan 2020 at 14:42hrs | 196 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF bigwigs' investigation grows old
A Zanu-PF commission of inquiry set up by President Emmerson Mnangagwa in August last year to investigate bigwigs accused of corruption by the party's youth league has not met since then to deal with ...Published: 29 Jan 2020 at 07:25hrs | 4372 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC vows to defy Mnangagwa's police
THE MDC will no longer seek police clearance to hold demonstrations, party Organising Secretary Amos Chibaya has vowed, in what could trigger a showdown between the main opposition party and the State...Published: 28 Jan 2020 at 12:31hrs | 630 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF secret exposed
FORMER Zanu-PF Harare provincial commissar Shadreck Mashayamombe has opened the lid on how the ruling party used land to buy votes ahead of national elections.Mashayamombe is one of the key me...Published: 26 Jan 2020 at 06:21hrs | 479 | by Staff reporter
Zanu PF secret on vote buying exposed
FORMER Zanu PF Harare provincial commissar Shadreck Mashayamombe has opened the lid on how the ruling party used land to buy votes ahead of national elections.Mashayamombe is one of the key me...Published: 25 Jan 2020 at 09:24hrs | 5138 | by Staff Reporter
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