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Drama-filled 2023 ends in tears for CCC
POLITICS, according to social scientists, is loosely translated as a battle to control resources with man putting political contestation as a means to ensure equitable distribution of whatever is foun...Published: 22 Dec 2023 at 18:22hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
How Zec bungled a crucial poll
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec)'s move to sideline Printflow in favour of Fidelity Printers and Refiners to print ballot papers backfired during this week's crucial poll, the Zimbabwe Independ...Published: 29 Aug 2023 at 08:11hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Election: 13:30 CCC update
Good afternoon. In the past few hours, CCC presidential candidate Nelson Chamisa cast his vote at Kuwadzana primary school in Harare. Meanwhile, I gave an update to the press on voting irregul...Published: 23 Aug 2023 at 16:30hrs | 11 | by Charles Kwaramba - CCC Presidential Chief Elections Agent
Bosso unhappy with Brito over Warriors job
THE relationship between Highlanders and coach Baltemar Brito is said to have soured following the Portuguese's admission that he was looking for a job, having already applied to be Warriors coa...Published: 19 Aug 2023 at 16:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF pledges to rid cities of opposition mess
The Government has finished a geo-technical survey for a number of irregular urban dwellings which sprouted under the watch of inept opposition led local authorities and will soon move workmen on the ...Published: 28 Jul 2023 at 06:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's CCC likely to lose over 20 seats in Bulawayo
OPPOSITION Citizens Coalition For Change (CCC) President Nelson Chamisa's experimental candidate selection process imploded Wednesday, most likely costing the party over 20 seats in Bulawayo.L...Published: 22 Jun 2023 at 06:51hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zec to blame for electoral disputes
JUST about two months to the 2023 polls, the electoral environment has never been this murky ever since Zimbabwe gained its independence in 1980.Never has the country experienced such a contes...Published: 17 Jun 2023 at 08:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Why is Clerk still on duty despite computer scandal?'
CITIZENS' Coalition for Change (CCC) legislator for Kuwadzana East Chalton Hwende has challenged the Speaker of Parliament to explain why under-fire Clerk of Parliament Kennedy Chokuda is still coming...Published: 22 May 2023 at 08:10hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Magistrate convicts CCC councillor without trial
A Chiredzi magistrate who bungled a case of an 'unauthorized' meeting involving a CCC councilor by convicting him at the close of the State case apologised for the error and wrote to the High Court in...Published: 30 Apr 2023 at 09:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
UAE refuses to extradite Gupta brothers to South Africa
South Africa said on Friday it had learned with "shock and dismay" that the United Arab Emirates had turned down its request to extradite two brothers accused of orchestrating industrial-scale corrupt...Published: 08 Apr 2023 at 09:58hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF bungles own poll
Zanu-PF has failed to run clean primary elections in its own backyard amid vote rigging complaints by some losing candidates coupled with claims of intimidation among rival groups.Long accused...Published: 29 Mar 2023 at 06:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa preside over Zimbabwe implosion
WHILE President Emmerson Mnangagwa claimed that the majority of his ministers were doing well - with three outstanding and two being a dismal failure - the reality on the ground is different: Zimbabwe...Published: 20 Mar 2023 at 15:05hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Poor Pamela Tremont and Triple C: Politics without lawful issue
I have watched Pamela Tremont's hearing in preparation for her posting to Zimbabwe as US' next ambassador.Both the line of questioning by US Senators, as well as her responses, were, to say th...Published: 18 Mar 2023 at 06:32hrs | | by @Jamwanda2
CIO spooks on the prowl
A LEAKED Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) report on the dire situation at privately-owned publishing house Alpha Media Holdings (AMH) exposes the rot at the company, accentuated by spooky manoe...Published: 22 Jan 2023 at 13:19hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
CIO spooks on the prowl at Trevor Ncube's AMH?
A LEAKED Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) report on the dire situation at privately-owned publishing house Alpha Media Holdings (AMH) exposes the rot at the company, accentuated by spooky manoe...Published: 21 Jan 2023 at 09:42hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Town House, Sakunda trade barbs over bungled Rufaro deal
Harare mayor Jacob Mafume has accused Kuda Tagwirei's Sakunda Holdings of attempts snatch Rufaro Stadium from the local authority on the mere promise of terrace bucket seats as the two parties took to...Published: 16 Nov 2022 at 19:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe military commanders investigate Beitbridge arms saga
WHAT started as an arms smuggling racket by seasoned gun-runners who bungled their mission like amateurs has now deteriorated into a major political scandal maddening President Emmerson Mnangagwa and ...Published: 09 Oct 2022 at 17:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chivayo begs another chance to complete bungled Gwanda solar project
Businessman and socialite Wicknell Chivayo has begged for another chance to work on the Gwanda solar project whose contract was terminated after his Intratek company bungled the job through delays....Published: 14 Sep 2022 at 18:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
NetOne fails to fix abuse of US$1m Covid-19 fund
MOBILE network operator NetOne has failed to properly account for a US$1 million fund the organisation was mandated with distributing to vulnerable citizens whose livelihoods were adversely affected b...Published: 04 Sep 2022 at 15:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF terrified of losing elections since they know their party practically a dead horse with no prospects of ever regaining p
Ever wondered why governing political parties in several democratic countries around the globe are not particularly terrified of losing elections?Of course, the main purpose of any political p...Published: 02 Sep 2022 at 06:45hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
US$45 000 stolen in daylight robbery
Two robbers armed with a pistol grabbed a businessman and bungled him into their Honda Fit car before robbing him of US$45 110. The businessman walked into Metro Peech wholesale in the city cent...Published: 27 Aug 2022 at 06:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Of Chamisa's rally utterances, lack of substance
Following the formation of the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) on January 24, 2022 after being forced by MDC-T leader, Douglas Mwonzora to adopt a new party name, the interim leader, Nelson Chamis...Published: 18 Mar 2022 at 05:28hrs | 8 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Hodzi suffers double stroke, mental health collapse
FORMER Prosecutor General (PG) Kumbirai Hodzi was hounded by the Office of the President and Cabinet (OPC) and senior officials from the Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs following the submissi...Published: 03 Mar 2022 at 05:47hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Zec indicating right but turning left
ON its website, the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) lists among its top goals "to conduct and manage elections and referenda in Zimbabwe in a transparent, impartial and independent manner and to p...Published: 11 Jan 2022 at 18:37hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Govt delays bungle US$150m solar deal
A US$150 million solar power plant deal is facing collapse after prolonged bureaucratic delays frustrated the investor, who top government officials say is now considering pulling out and suing for lo...Published: 02 Jul 2021 at 19:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC factions have bungled in running Harare
The MDC Alliance (MDC-A) faction leader, Nelson Chamisa, uses every opportunity he gets to pontificate about smart cities each time he has to talk of Zimbabwe's urban areas.Given the fact that...Published: 14 Jun 2021 at 06:17hrs | | by Nobleman Runyanga
Mnangagwa tries to wriggle out of Malaba crisis
President Emmerson Mnangagwa will use a carrot-and-stick approach against the judiciary in an attempt to wriggle out of what has been described as a constitutional crisis after he bungled the renewal ...Published: 23 May 2021 at 07:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Opposition MPs confront Ziyambi
JUSTICE Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi has denied opposition claims there was selective application of the law in the country.Opposition MPs Wednesday accused government of arbitrary arrests and det...Published: 19 Apr 2021 at 06:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Go back to law school, judge tells PG Hodzi
THE glaring legal deficiencies in Prosecutor-General Kumbirai Hodzi, who was preferred for the job despite faring poorly in public interviews held in 2019, were exposed on Thursday when High Court jud...Published: 13 Mar 2021 at 06:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Foul play: 5 FC Platinum players test 'positive' for Covid-19
IN what will surely further tarnish African football, five key FC Platinum players have been ruled out of Wednesday's Caf Champions League match against Simba SC in Tanzania after allegedly testing po...Published: 06 Jan 2021 at 16:19hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
40 million South Africans to receive COVID-19 vaccine in 2021
Health minister Zweli Mkhize said on Sunday that the government was committed to rolling out vaccines with urgency to establish herd immunity against Covid-19.Speaking during a virtual public ...Published: 03 Jan 2021 at 17:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Is Mnangagwa's govt ready for the new variant of COVID-19?
OUR government has never taken things seriously, even something as deadly as the coronavirus. The bungled response, the "time to eat" scandals vis-a-vis personal protective equipment procurement, and ...Published: 28 Dec 2020 at 07:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kazembe faces $500 000 lawsuit over bungled abortion
A HARARE woman is claiming $500 000 damages from Home Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe in respect of non patrimonial loss suffered as a result of failure by the police to carry out their constitutiona...Published: 27 Sep 2020 at 07:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Air Zimbabwe back in the skies
AIR Zimbabwe's Boeing 767, which developed a technical fault on Friday in Bulawayo, is back in the skies after engineers solved the problem. It resumed flights on Sunday evening when it starte...Published: 03 Sep 2019 at 07:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Likukuma fired as ZTA boss
ZIMBABWE Tourism Authority (ZTA) acting chief executive, Mrs Rita Likukuma, has been removed from her position under unclear circumstances. Sources say the removal relates to the way she bungl...Published: 23 Aug 2019 at 07:38hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Harare pays Mushore $113 000 in damages
HARARE City Council has finally paid about $113 00 to former town clerk Mr James Mushore, whose appointment they bungled in 2016. The city, which was allegedly reluctant to pay its former boss, finall...Published: 15 Aug 2019 at 07:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dear Mr President Mnangagwa
Dear Emmerson,I am writing this in response to your call on Zimbabweans to cherish the peace we are enjoying as you addressed members of the Defence forces.I would to like to bring to your...Published: 14 Aug 2019 at 22:41hrs | | by AT Kadada
Xenophobic arrests and raids in the so called 'multi-pronged Approach'
The Constitution of South Africa enshrines the right to Human dignity, equality of treatment before the law and in the enjoyment of all rights, the freedom and security of the person which includes no...Published: 11 Aug 2019 at 17:14hrs | | by V Sibanda
Bulawayo residents denounce Mnangagwa's govt
THERE was pandemonium in Nkulumane 12 on Tuesday after officials from the Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare ministry bungled the grain distribution process, leading to residents running amok a...Published: 26 Jul 2019 at 08:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dumiso Dabengwa: An epitome of courage, endurance and integrity
HE used to call me at random and odd times; almost always late at night. The last time he did was at 11pm several weeks ago. He wanted to tell me he was in South Africa and was not well. This was the ...Published: 01 Jun 2019 at 15:55hrs | | by Siphosami Malunga
MDC mulls Tsvangirai school of ideology
The opposition MDC says it plans to introduce the Morgan Tsvangirai School of Ideology immediately after its elective congress slated for May 24 to 26.This was revealed by the party's national...Published: 15 May 2019 at 08:20hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Suspected rapist freed after police bungle
The trial of a suspected Chikombedzi serial rapist failed to take off at Chiredzi Provincial Magistrate's Court on Tuesday after bungling by the investigating officers led to the accused walking free....Published: 10 Jan 2019 at 07:49hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Wicknell Chivayo fails to stop trial
THE High Court has overruled a bid by Intratrek Zimbabwe Private Limited director Wicknell Chivayo to stop his criminal prosecution over the Gwanda solar project. Chivayo is facing $5,6 millio...Published: 03 Jan 2019 at 21:54hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Man kidnapped, assaulted and left for dead in bush
A KWEKWE man was dragged to court for allegedly kidnapping another man within the Central Business District (CBD)before driving to the bush where he assaulted him all over the body with a machete and ...Published: 23 Dec 2018 at 09:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
The cost of botched transition
WHEN former president Robert Mugabe was ousted through a cautious military coup in November 2017, most Zimbabweans across the political divide and from all walks erupted with jubilation and relief....Published: 22 Dec 2018 at 18:47hrs | | by Dumisani Muleya
ZBC suspend managers after news bulletin glitch
THE Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) has sent two managers home over a technical hitch that saw a 30 minute delay in last Sunday news bulletin edition.The suspended managers are Informa...Published: 06 Nov 2018 at 07:27hrs | 7 | by newzimbabwe.com
Rhino poaching drop may mean we're running out of rhinos
A strategic report on poaching just released by the Department of Environmental Affairs shows that fewer rhinos but more elephants are being killed. Of concern, however, is what it leaves out....Published: 01 Oct 2018 at 09:36hrs | | by Janine Avery
Chamisa orders Masvingo mayor to step down
MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has ordered Masvingo Mayor and party official Collin Maboke to step down for allegedly disobeying party instructions in the wake of a bungled mayoral election proces...Published: 11 Sep 2018 at 16:42hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Why elections are bad for democracy
Brexit was a turning point in the history of Western democracy in general, and that of Britain in particular. A drastic decision was taken through a one round referendum based on a simple majority, an...Published: 13 Aug 2018 at 06:42hrs | | by Reason Wafawarova
MDC Alliance 'big rally' set for July 28
The Movement for Democratic Change Alliance says a big election rally will take place on July 28 in Harare, the final one before July 30 elections....Published: 11 Jul 2018 at 11:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
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