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Zanu-PF's Matutu elbowed out of mine
FORMER Zanu-PF youth leader Lewis Matutu has been elbowed out of the late business tycoon John Bredenkamp's gold-rich Thetford Estate in Mazowe, the Zimbabwe Independent has established.This c...Published: 13 May 2022 at 19:10hrs | 188 | by Staff reporter
Fight rocks Zanu-PF Youth League
A camp opposed to Zanu-PF Mashonaland West Youth League chairman, Tapiwa Masenda, is circulating a vote of no confidence petition to have him removed from the influential post.As factionalism ...Published: 11 May 2022 at 09:17hrs | 1870 | by Staff reporter
Youth indaba divides Zanu-PF
THOUSANDS of Zanu-PF youths from across the country who were attending an indaba in Harare are departing the capital with bitterness, accusing party bigwigs of stifling democracy and fanning tribalism...Published: 06 May 2022 at 19:26hrs | 287 | by Staff reporter
ZANU PF bigwigs jostle to control Youth League ahead of Conference
ZANU PF bigwigs are reportedly engaged in efforts to control the outcomes of the Provincial youth and women wings conference elections. A Midlands ZANU PF Youth League source that spoke ...Published: 26 Apr 2022 at 15:12hrs | 1025 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chebundo's ambitious promise to Zanu-PF collapses
FORMER MDC-T legislator Blessing Chebundo's Zanu-PF promise to win back two Kwekwe seats for President Emmerson Mnangagwa spectacularly collapsed, denting his capacity to deliver, amid high expectatio...Published: 09 Apr 2022 at 11:17hrs | 3211 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's party battling fresh internal turbulence in cockpit
THE Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) is battling fresh internal turbulence after some party bigwigs openly said that they were uncomfortable with party leader Nelson Chamisa extending an olive bran...Published: 09 Apr 2022 at 08:32hrs | 3867 | by Staff reporter
MDC-T bigwigs gun for deflated Mwonzora
MDC-T leader Douglas Mwonzora's days at the helm of the opposition outfit could be numbered as hawks within the party are baying for his blood, attributing the political outfit's dismal performance in...Published: 08 Apr 2022 at 19:31hrs | 3941 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's son eyes top Zanu PF post
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's son, Kudakwashe David, has reportedly submitted his curriculum vitae to contest for a top post at the Zanu PF youth nationa...Published: 08 Apr 2022 at 00:20hrs | 4262 | by Staff Reporter
Zanu-PF bigwigs, securocrats line children up for Youth league posts
FOLLOWING speculation that the late former president Robert Mugabe's son, Robert Jnr, is set to contest for a position in the highly influential Zany PF youth league, party heavyweights and service ch...Published: 07 Apr 2022 at 06:42hrs | 2621 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa rally murder takes new twist
The grisly murder of Mboneni Ncube, the Citizens for Coalition for Change (CCC) Kwekwe activist who was killed at a rally in the Midlands town in February has taken a new twist with the suspected kill...Published: 03 Apr 2022 at 08:39hrs | 2057 | by Staff reporter
By-elections loss: Zanu-PF in witch-hunt
Zanu-PF has reportedly launched a witch-hunt targeting its supporters suspected to have voted for Nelson Chamisa's Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) in the Saturday by-elections amid fears of a bhor...Published: 01 Apr 2022 at 09:18hrs | 571 | by Staff reporter
Govt should prioritise war veterans' welfare
ZIMBABWEANS will, in a few weeks' time, be celebrating 42 years of independence attained through the sacrifices of fellow countrymen in a protracted war of liberation where thousands died on the battl...Published: 29 Mar 2022 at 11:46hrs | 131 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF heavies renew animosity
A FRESH factional frontier has opened in Zanu-PF after the ruling party's politburo resolved to hold its primary elections for the 2023 general election latest by February next year at its monthly mee...Published: 25 Mar 2022 at 18:28hrs | 1364 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa loses key allies as Kasukuwere plots comeback
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has lost the support of some of his key allies including Local Government minister July Moyo who have stood with him throughout his political rise but are now being sideli...Published: 19 Mar 2022 at 07:23hrs | 11216 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police must be professional and non-partisan in applying the law
VICE-PRESIDENT and Zanu-PF second secretary, Constantino Chiwenga recently made an interesting remark, that the police must be called to account for banning campaign rallies for the opposition Citizen...Published: 17 Mar 2022 at 05:49hrs | 479 | by Staff reporter
MDC led councils short-changing ratepayers
FOR a period stretching over 20 years, service delivery in cities, towns and even rural communities has collapsed, underpinned by unchecked plunder and theft by those voted into public office by the r...Published: 05 Mar 2022 at 08:20hrs | 79 | by Staff reporter
Stop abusing youth, political bigwigs told
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has been urged to put in place measures to stop political parties from using young people as conduits of political violence.The Zimbabwe Coalition on De...Published: 01 Mar 2022 at 05:40hrs | 1193 | by Staff reporter
Tsenengamu will never rejoin Zanu-PF
FORMER Zanu-PF national youth league political Commissar Godfrey Tsenengamu has claimed that he has turned down numerous invites to rejoin the ruling party .The firebrand politician told NewsD...Published: 26 Feb 2022 at 18:36hrs | 391 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe rules out US dollar return
VICE President Constantino Chiwenga has declared Zimbabwe will never revert to the dollarisation era despite evidence the Zimdollar is sharply weakening.Economists have even warned the local c...Published: 21 Feb 2022 at 05:37hrs | 1616 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga threatens
VICE-President Constantino Chiwenga yesterday threatened black market money traders with long jail terms and declared that the country will not redollarise despite a sharp weakening of the Zimdollar....Published: 21 Feb 2022 at 05:35hrs | 7364 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF's Chitungwiza campaign raises stink
Chitungwiza residents have taken a swipe at the local authority for allegedly siding with Zanu-PF and aiding its campaign ahead of the by-election on March 26.This publication also established...Published: 13 Feb 2022 at 20:45hrs | 941 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF bigwig in messy love triangle
Zanu-PF Makoni district coordination Committee (DCC) chairperson Albert Nyakuedzwa's mistress, who is accused of threatening to kill her illicit lover for ending their relationship, says she is deeply...Published: 13 Feb 2022 at 20:45hrs | 756 | by Staff reporter
Damning CIO report rattles Zanu-PF bigwigs
Zanu-PF bigwigs are having sleepless after a recent security report showed that the ruling party had a 45% probability of winning the 2023 elections owing to supporters' unhappiness with internal elec...Published: 07 Feb 2022 at 21:24hrs | 3431 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, Chiwenga rift exposed by rigging
Zanu-PF bigwigs accused of rigging January provincial elections have embarked on a witch-hunt to silence dissent in lower structures as infighting in the ruling party boils over following the disputed...Published: 06 Feb 2022 at 06:59hrs | 4038 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF youths beat CCC driver
Zanu-PF youths savagely assaulted Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) Kwekwe by-election candidate Judith Tobaiwa's driver as the political temperature heats up ahead of the March 26 by-elections....Published: 05 Feb 2022 at 19:44hrs | 984 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF vows to wrest Marondera seat from opposition
Zanu-PF says it will wrest the Marondera Central seat from the opposition where it has deployed seasoned politicians to lead its campaign.A number of party bigwigs on Saturday attended the pro...Published: 02 Feb 2022 at 05:34hrs | 1241 | by Staff reporter
'Chamisa stole our yellow colour'
NELSON Chamisa's newly formed Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) is under attack from all angles, with the ruling Zanu-PF party now claiming he plagiarised their yellow theme colour and should be bar...Published: 31 Jan 2022 at 05:49hrs | 7477 | by Staff reporter
Chinese quarry mine unsettles Bulawayo residents amid bribery claims
SITHANDEKILE Dube* is jolted by yet another heavy blast that just shook her house in Bulawayo's Pumula North high-density suburb.The blasts have become a common occurrence in the bustling neig...Published: 30 Jan 2022 at 08:22hrs | 957 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF bigwigs unsettled by 'militant' Muguti
SENIOR officials in Zanu-PF and the government are unsettled by the militant approach adopted by Harare Metropolitan provincial secretary Tafadzwa Muguti.His abrasive approach in "bringing san...Published: 29 Jan 2022 at 14:44hrs | 2851 | by Staff reporter
Zacc, prosecutors trade barbs over graft
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption (Zacc) and the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) yesterday accused each other of failure to nail political bigwigs and private sector bosses involved in graft.T...Published: 26 Jan 2022 at 04:47hrs | 529 | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere dares Mnangagwa
Exiled former cabinet minister Saviour Kasukuwere last week declared himself a thorn in the flesh of Zanu-PF and dared President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his government to arrest him.Kasukuwere ...Published: 23 Jan 2022 at 08:05hrs | 4906 | by Staff reporter
'Zanu-PF bigwigs on firing line'
Zanu-PF Manicaland chairperson Mike Madiro yesterday warned that a number of party members were on the firing line as President Emmerson Mnangagwa desperately moves to assert his control of the party ...Published: 19 Jan 2022 at 05:26hrs | 4127 | by Staff reporter
Bread price hike exposes Zimbabwe govt rot
IN the past year, Zimbabweans have been treated to sustained State propaganda to the effect that the economy is on the recovery path.But currency volatilities have continued unabated and the a...Published: 19 Jan 2022 at 05:23hrs | 1433 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa cracks whip
Zanu-PF leader, President Emmerson Mnangagwa has sacked the party's director for administration, Dickson Dzora, after NewZimbabwe.com exposed a massive corruption scandal in which he colluded with oth...Published: 17 Jan 2022 at 06:42hrs | 4640 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa fires party chef over ballot scandal
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has reportedly fired the Zanu-PF director for administration, Dickson Dzora for allegedly conniving with some officials to corruptly engage a private company to print thou...Published: 17 Jan 2022 at 06:40hrs | 3581 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's options for by-elections
ZIMBABWE'S main opposition MDC-Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa — who is hugely popular and got over two million votes in the 2018 presidential election — is caught between a rock and a hard place a...Published: 16 Jan 2022 at 18:16hrs | 1213 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa warns plotters
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday issued a stern warning to ruling party bigwigs allegedly plotting to "unseat him", and threatened to "destroy" them before the December elective congress....Published: 16 Jan 2022 at 09:05hrs | 2466 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa caught in between a rock and a hard place
ZIMBABWE'S main opposition MDC-Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa is caught between a rock and a hard place ahead of crucial by-elections on 26 March.Nomination is on 26 January.Chamisa fa...Published: 15 Jan 2022 at 15:04hrs | 4357 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt grabs Chombo's farm, gives to ex-wife
Government is continuing its retributive land seizures targeting political opponents, real or imagined, this time cancelling former Finance minister Ignatius Chombo's 99-year lease for Allan Grange Fa...Published: 15 Jan 2022 at 15:01hrs | 2310 | by Staff reporter
Mudha and nexus of Kwekwe gold terror
AT the time former president Robert Mugabe was deposed in a military coup in November 2017, police were investigating senior Zanu-PF officials linked to then Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa over all...Published: 15 Jan 2022 at 15:00hrs | 773 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF calls for truce
WARRING Zanu-PF factions have been urged to bury the hatchet and stop dropping names of party bigwigs during campaigns.The call was made by party secretary for commissariat Mike Bimha in a sta...Published: 10 Jan 2022 at 06:03hrs | 2737 | by Staff reporter
Tables turn against Chadzamira
THE battle for the Zanu-PF Masvingo provincial chairperson's post that raged between 2016 and 2017 was reignited in the recently held provincial elections which saw Provincial minister Ezra Chadzamira...Published: 08 Jan 2022 at 06:00hrs | 1557 | by Staff reporter
Temba Mliswa mocks Zanu-PF 'bigwigs'
NORTON legislator Temba Mliswa (Independent) has mocked former Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation chief executive Happison Muchechetere, who lost the Mashonaland West ZANU PF provincial chairmanship el...Published: 06 Jan 2022 at 08:12hrs | 6509 | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa, Chiwenga rivalry widens
THE ruling Zanu-PF party has banned its members from celebrating presumed victories in its internal polls for provincial executive members in a move seen as an attempt to quash factional fights betwee...Published: 03 Jan 2022 at 06:01hrs | 10939 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF bigwigs denounce shameful election
THE extended delay in announcing results from Tuesday's provincial Zanu-PF elections has led to fears the outcome was deliberately manipulated in favour of candidates preferred by the party's leadersh...Published: 30 Dec 2021 at 07:52hrs | 1568 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF Bigwigs Cause Mayhem In Provinces
Zanu-PF is struggling fend off nagging interference by its senior officials accused of meddling in the ongoing restructuring exercise and trying to influence the outcome of upcoming provincial electio...Published: 21 Dec 2021 at 06:18hrs | 1406 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF frets over infighting
Zanu-PF bigwigs are expected to meet today for a politburo meeting amid reports of worsening infighting that has rocked the party's restructuring exercise and protests against senior leaders.P...Published: 21 Dec 2021 at 06:16hrs | 252 | by Staff reporter
'Zanu-PF scared of diaspora vote'
THE opposition MDC Alliance has claimed that the ruling Zanu-PF party is scared of the diaspora vote as it could be a game changer in the country's 2023 elections, hence the decision to keep them out ...Published: 14 Dec 2021 at 05:53hrs | 638 | by Staff reporter
ZACC boast 'great strides in stamping out corruption', seized US$700M - super slow applaud, 6% gold looted in one decade alone
"The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) said it had seized property worth over $700 million," reported Zimeye."The anti-corruption body has also filed 18 unexplained wealth order case file...Published: 13 Dec 2021 at 13:58hrs | 451 | by Wilbert Mukori
ZACC to seize assets worth $730m
Zimbabwe's anti-corruption body has allegedly located unexplained $730 million worth of assets whose owners must face the courts to disclose how they accumulated their fortunes or risk state forfeitur...Published: 05 Dec 2021 at 06:19hrs | 43 | by Staff reporter
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