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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 | 468 | 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 | 5014 | by Staff Reporter
MDC Big Guns jockeying for Sikhala's positions
The jostling for Job Sikhala's positions ahead of the blabbermouth's court case scheduled for this Monday in Masvingo, has reached fever pitch with a potential to further crack the deeply divided MDC ...Published: 24 Jan 2020 at 15:50hrs | 9533 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa savages Mnangagwa
OPPOSITION leader Nelson Chamisa has savaged the government after police raided his party's offices on Friday in a surprise move which has once again raised political tensions in the country.T...Published: 19 Jan 2020 at 13:24hrs | 6903 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's youths plot against maShurugwi
MDC youths will this week set up community resistance committees to help security agencies address the violence caused by machete gangsters now infamously known as MaShurugwi.The opposition pa...Published: 19 Jan 2020 at 13:19hrs | 948 | by Staff reporter
'Machete gangs created by govt bigwigs'
Independent Norton Member of Parliament Temba Mliswa says the machete-wielding gangs that are terrorising people in most parts of the country are a creation of people in high offices.Speaking ...Published: 19 Jan 2020 at 13:18hrs | 874 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa launches fresh onslaught on G40 faction
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration has launched a fresh onslaught on its perceived political rivals, mostly former Zanu-PF bigwigs belonging to the ruling party's vanquished Generation 40 (...Published: 17 Jan 2020 at 06:28hrs | 2224 | by Staff reporter
Fringe parties bought off - Zimbabwe Vigil Diary
With people desperate and starving, the government has agreed to opposition demands smoothing the way to meeting its promise that Zimbabwe will be 'a middle-income country’ by the end of this decade...Published: 05 Jan 2020 at 13:22hrs | 2296 | by Zimbabwe Vigil Diary
Zimbabwe descends into chaos and surges to a civil war without notice. The Mashurugwi Militia
A police officer was killed and another officer was seriously injured by the Mashurugwi machete wielding gold panners. The Mashurugwi are identified with their dirty outfits covered in mud and a...Published: 01 Jan 2020 at 14:06hrs | 9477 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Noose hangs over bigwigs as ZACC sharpens its claws
The anti-corruption drive has moved a gear up towards prosecution of individuals fingered in graft, with fresh revelations the Attorney-General's Office is now being ropped in to team up with the Nati...Published: 29 Dec 2019 at 07:46hrs | 3134 | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa fired corrupt Zacc
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has revealed that he fired the previous Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) chaired by Job Wabira because the commissioners were corrupt.Mnangagwa said this on ...Published: 24 Dec 2019 at 06:18hrs | 10545 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa has intel on gold smuggling
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has revealed that Zimbabwe has lost gold worth US$60 million through a syndicate of businessmen that clandestinely export the precious mineral to Dubai.Mnangagwa m...Published: 23 Dec 2019 at 15:40hrs | 290 | by Staff reporter
ZACC; please realize Marry Chiwenga from remand prison unconditionally: This is downright unfair!!
We read with dismay how Mrs Chiwenga laundered cash and externalized it to foreign banks. What Marry did; this crime she has committed is not new to Zimbabwe. How has it become a crime now for her to ...Published: 16 Dec 2019 at 14:44hrs | 12987 | by Nomazulu Thata
Chiwenga warns corrupt Zanu-PF bigwigs
SUPER-CHARGED Vice President Constantino Chiwenga yesterday castigated Zanu-PF bigwigs mired in corruption, warning that they would be jailed before turning his guns on the MDC for continuing to prote...Published: 14 Dec 2019 at 21:07hrs | 3739 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF bigwigs set to lose farms
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has warned his government was going to seize tracts of land from multiple farm owners and further trim the sizes of some farms to leave owners with a "reasonable" size of ...Published: 14 Dec 2019 at 08:19hrs | 3298 | by newzimbabwe
Mnangagwa warns power-hungry party leaders
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has revealed that unnamed power hungry officials within the rank and file of the ruling party are out to destabilise his leadership.Addressing the 112th ordinary s...Published: 13 Dec 2019 at 08:05hrs | 2968 | by Staff reporter
Jury still out on Mnangagwa
IF Zimbabwe were a normal country, revelations that ruling party bigwigs and politically-connected land barons, housing co-operative leaders and property developers illegally sold $3 billion worth of ...Published: 13 Dec 2019 at 08:00hrs | 487 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF revenue streams run dry
THE cash-strapped Zanu-PF has become heavily reliant on donor funding and bank overdrafts to finance party programmes with over 53,7% of its income in 2019 coming from donors as member subscriptions p...Published: 13 Dec 2019 at 07:59hrs | 290 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF banquet in deep sea of poverty
"ASI hauzive mota? (why are you acting like you do not know cars?)", a boy aged about seven nudges his friend who was seemingly mesmerised by a black Lexus sport utility vehicle that was driving past....Published: 13 Dec 2019 at 07:59hrs | 530 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF land barons exposed, what next?
FOR years it has been a public secret that Zanu-PF bigwigs and government bureaucrats, together with all their associates across the Zimbabwean society have been behind the often chaotic urban housing...Published: 12 Dec 2019 at 20:00hrs | 570 | by Staff reporter
Jittery Zanu-PF frets over leaks
A jittery Zanu-PF- battling to deal with country's deepening political and economic crisis has launched an expansive investigation into the sources of leaks of sensitive party and State inf...Published: 09 Dec 2019 at 07:21hrs | 2124 | by Staff reporter
Didymus Mutasa helped Jonathan Moyo retun to ZANU PF
Former ZANU PF Politiburo Member Professor Jonathan Moyo says ex-ZANU PF Secretary for Administration Didymus Mutasa assisted him to re-join the party in 2009 after he had been an Independent politici...Published: 06 Dec 2019 at 05:23hrs | 3011 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chiwenga, wife mystery deepens
Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga yesterday held a homecoming party where his wife and senior Zanu-PF officials were conspicuous by their absence.Chiwenga, who returned to Zimbabwe on Novemb...Published: 01 Dec 2019 at 06:18hrs | 19817 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo describes Chiwenga's return as bizarre
Vice-President Costantino Chiwenga returned home last week from China where he was receiving treatment. He arrived aboard a Chinese plane and the Chinese deputy ambassador to Zimbabwe, Zhao Baogang, l...Published: 30 Nov 2019 at 11:48hrs | 4907 | by Staff reporter
75 bigwigs under ZACC microscope
THE net is closing in on 75 bigwigs allegedly involved in corrupt activities as the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) says it has approached some regional and European countries for assistanc...Published: 30 Nov 2019 at 10:41hrs | 1053 | by Staff reporter
Do we still have police in Harare?
Illegal activities around the former Ximex Mall have become a cause for concern to all and sundry.Anyone familiar with the goings-on there is shocked at how the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) ...Published: 27 Nov 2019 at 21:55hrs | 2106 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa reaffirmed as 2023 presidential candidate
Mashonaland East Zanu-PF provincial structures have reaffirmed party leader Emmerson Mnangagwa as their presidential candidate for 2023 as the ruling party gears for its annual conference slated for n...Published: 25 Nov 2019 at 07:02hrs | 3362 | by Staff reporter
'Zanu-PF bigwigs should retire from govt'
THE Zanu-PF women's league has called on ageing party bigwigs to retire from government and pave way for younger women in a bid to revive the shrinking economy.Speaking at a national gender fo...Published: 25 Nov 2019 at 07:02hrs | 1762 | by Staff reporter
MPs in near fist-fight over Command Agric
TEMPERS flared yesterday as legislators nearly fought each other when Chegutu MP Dextor Nduna (Zanu PF) and his Mberengwa North counterpart, Tafanana Zhou disrupted a Public Accounts Committee meeting...Published: 24 Nov 2019 at 17:22hrs | 1482 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga's return sends shockwaves in Zanu-PF
TENSION is rising in Zanu-PF as the party counts down to its annual conference, with the imminent return of ailing Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga from China where he has been receiving medical tr...Published: 22 Nov 2019 at 18:13hrs | 7241 | by Staff reporter
Parliament walkouts: MPs must serve the national interest
ZANU-PF legislators' decision to boycott the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Public Accounts (PAC) sitting where Sakunda Holdings was expected to give oral evidence regarding how the US$3 billion...Published: 22 Nov 2019 at 18:12hrs | 988 | by Nyasha Chingono
Mwonzora bullied in front of Chamisa
THINGS took a turn for the worse in the warring MDC on Tuesday when party hooligans stormed a meeting that was being chaired by its leader Nelson Chamisa, threatening to deal with former secretary-gen...Published: 14 Nov 2019 at 05:45hrs | 8418 | by Staff reporter
General SB Moyo falls sick...airlifted to South Africa
Foreign Affairs Minister Retired Lt general Sibusiso Busi Moyo has fallen sick and was airlifted to South Africa for treatment, former Daily News Editor Stanley Gama has alleged. Posting on Tw...Published: 12 Nov 2019 at 16:29hrs | 6642 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zivhu slams bootlicking Zanu-PF bigwigs, govt officials
UNDERFIRE Chivi South legislator Killer Zivhu (Zanu-PF) has slammed party bigwigs and government officials who bootlick President Emmerson Mnangagwa while looting from ordinary people and scuttling hi...Published: 12 Nov 2019 at 07:26hrs | 2865 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to axe bigwigs
President Emmerson Mnangagwa is planning to make further changes to his Cabinet after last Friday's mini-reshuffle that saw some ministers being redeployed and new deputies appointed, it has emerged....Published: 10 Nov 2019 at 09:02hrs | 10635 | by Staff reporter
New graft blitz rattles Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF
Zanu-PF big guns are said to be quacking in their boots following Monday's surprise arrest of Cabinet minister and politburo member Joram Gumbo – who is also considered to be a close ally of Preside...Published: 06 Nov 2019 at 11:55hrs | 5582 | by Staff reporter
Joram Gumbo arrest political game: Churches
ZIMBABWE Heads of Christian Denominations executive secretary Bishop Kenneth Mtata yesterday said the arrest of Presidential Affairs minister Joram Gumbo by the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Za...Published: 06 Nov 2019 at 11:41hrs | 1520 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to launch Chiredzi sugarcane project
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa (pictured) will on Saturday officially launch the estimated US$40 million Kilimanjaro sugarcane project in Chiredzi in line with Tongaat Hulett's endeavour to empower rura...Published: 06 Nov 2019 at 11:38hrs | 320 | by Staff reporter
ZACC closes in on 44 bigwigs
Forty-four serving and former Cabinet ministers, permanent secretaries, parastatal bosses and legislators are facing "imminent" arrest for corruption, Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) chairp...Published: 06 Nov 2019 at 11:29hrs | 853 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa allies in fresh push to expel Mwonzora from MDC
AS DIVISIONS continue to ravage the MDC over how to tackle President Emmerson Mnangagwa and Zanu-PF, as well as its simmering leadership tussles, former party secretary-general Douglas Mwonzora says h...Published: 04 Nov 2019 at 12:04hrs | 5447 | by Staff reporter
Youth leader warns Zanu-PF bigwigs
Zanu-PF secretary for Youth Affairs and party chief whip Pupurai Togarepi has warned Government ministers and Zanu-PF Members of Parliament who are snubbing party programmes and events saying they ris...Published: 04 Nov 2019 at 05:52hrs | 1489 | by Staff reporter
Zesa disconnections target political bigwigs
ZESA Holdings has said political bigwigs will not be spared as the power utility disconnects electricity to defaulting clients to recover $1,2 billion in unpaid bills. The Zimbabwe Electricity...Published: 04 Nov 2019 at 05:51hrs | 217 | by Staff reporter
City bigwigs blow cash on banned trips
Harare City Council has held two workshops at Kadoma Ranch Motel in the past three weeks, blowing thousands of ratepayers money at the expense of service delivery. The jaunts are in defiance of a Gove...Published: 04 Nov 2019 at 05:44hrs | 337 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa ouster plot thickens
President Emmerson Mnangagwa reiterated yesterday that he was aware of a group within Zanu-PF that was working hard to oust him from power – before he also lashed out at unnamed Western powers, busi...Published: 01 Nov 2019 at 06:56hrs | 15585 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF officials fear 2023 defeat
ZANU-PF is growing increasingly panicky that it could lose the 2023 general election amid fears the current economic implosion is gradually alienating the party from voters, while party bigwigs remain...Published: 25 Oct 2019 at 09:34hrs | 4849 | by Staff reporter
Naming and shaming corrupt Bigwigs is not enough: They ought to rot in jail - Nomboka
Responding to a question posed by this reporter during a live interview on ‘what should have been done by seating parliamentarians which they were apparently not doing to put an immediate stop to ra...Published: 20 Oct 2019 at 23:24hrs | 470 | by Agencies
Big shots to lose Bulawayo properties
FORMER Vice-President Phelekezela Mphoko's wife Laurinda is among bigwigs that include former ministers, business people and sport personalities who stand to lose their properties if they do not pay B...Published: 18 Oct 2019 at 04:02hrs | 536 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe obstinate in death as in life
Although the deposed late former President Robert Mugabe was finally buried at his rural home in Zvimba, tongues will continue waging. As I see it, his snubbing the National Heroes Acre, a shrine he i...Published: 17 Oct 2019 at 08:53hrs | 17 | by Cyprian Muketiwa Ndawana
MDC bigwigs visit Zanu-PF HQ to push for 'bilateral talks'
Zanu-PF and MDC bigwigs have held a meeting to initiate dialogue between the two parties - raising hopes that the much needed direct talks between President Emmerson Mnangagwa and opposition leader Ne...Published: 16 Oct 2019 at 16:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
RBZ bigwigs face arrest
Three Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) officials face arrest after a committee of Parliament yesterday threatened to prefer contempt charges against them. This came after the RBZ deputy governor...Published: 15 Oct 2019 at 07:01hrs | 3799 | by Staff reporter
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