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Banana skins characterise Zanu-PF
Energy Mutodi came and went. Just like many others political mavericks before him, they all thought they were invincible, drunk as a lord by the maddening power of high political office....Published: 15 hrs ago | 2526 | by Josiah Mucharowana in Pretoria
Will the MDC Alliance recover from 'this sickness'?
THE MDC Alliance is probably on its deathbed, suffering from a ‘sickness' which threatens to take away its life, temporarily or permanently. The question is whether it will recover from "this sickne...Published: 17 hrs ago | 2152 | by Moses Tofa
Many Mutodis in Mnangagwa's government
The Zimbabwean government is still grappling with many incompetent and inexperienced government officials due to appointments made through nepotism and regionalism.It is unfortunate that we st...Published: 25 May 2020 at 13:51hrs | 5923 | by Leonard Koni
Cops guarding hospitalised MDC activists accused of mental torture
POLICE details deployed to monitor three hospitalised female MDC Alliance youth leaders have been accused of mental torture on the activists through alleged harassment.Harare West MP Joanna Ma...Published: 25 May 2020 at 07:41hrs | 1516 | by newzimbabwe
I had always admired Douglas Mwonzora
I had always admired Douglas Mwonzora, who I thought was being ill-treated by his colleagues in the MDC Alliance before the Supreme Court ruling. Sometimes when you are not in physical contact...Published: 24 May 2020 at 08:42hrs | 2206 | by Kennedy Kaitano
The cost of Chinese aid to Africa
THE adage that one cannot bite the hand that feeds him/her cannot be truer and more applicable than on the issue pertaining to the relations between China and Africa. There is a truism that a benefact...Published: 22 May 2020 at 07:06hrs | 366 | by Reinford Khumalo
'EU and US light fires under Mnangagwa' over abduction - nothing to fear, umpteenth empty threat
"EU, UK, US light fires under Mnangagwa!" screamed the Bulawayo24 headlines!There is increasing pressure on the regime to explain the country's worsening human rights violations including the ...Published: 22 May 2020 at 00:24hrs | 1924 | by Wilbert Mukori
Malawi judges feast on CJ Malaba
THE Malawi Supreme Court has condemned Zimbabwe's ruling on the 2018 election petition case, while unanimously upholding an earlier court ruling to annul President Peter Mutharika's narrow election vi...Published: 21 May 2020 at 08:05hrs | 6890 | by Staff reporter
Govt orders re-run of TSCZ interviews
THE government has ordered a re-run of the Traffic Safety Council of Zimbabwe (TSCZ) managerial post interviews, saying the initial process was flawed and marred by irregularities. NewsDay is reliably...Published: 21 May 2020 at 07:49hrs | 1363 | by Staff reporter
Komichi says sorry for aiding Chamisa 2018 'coup'
MDC-T national chair, Morgen Komichi has issued an apology to party structures for being one of the key architects of Nelson Chamisa's alleged power grab performed on the news of founding leader Morga...Published: 20 May 2020 at 06:54hrs | 8042 | by newzimbabwe
Govt set to stagger reopening of schools
GOVERNMENT will in the next three weeks announce more than 820 examination centres for candidates sitting for the deferred June public examinations while it prepares for the staggered opening of schoo...Published: 20 May 2020 at 06:53hrs | 1078 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe joins search for Covid-19 vaccine
Zimbabwe's international profile recently received a major lift after it was allowed to join 100 other countries participating in the ongoing Covid-19 clinical trial. The Solidarity Trial, a m...Published: 20 May 2020 at 06:52hrs | 519 | by Staff reporter
Khupe fights back
THE MDC-T has filed papers opposing an application filed by MDC Alliance legislators challenging their recall.The Thokozani Khupe-led party, in papers filed by Douglas Mwonzora as secretary-ge...Published: 19 May 2020 at 08:13hrs | 9650 | by Staff reporter
O and A Level June examinations ready
TIE Zimbabwe Schools Examination Council (Zimsec) yesterday told Parliament that examination papers and other logistics were ready with around 66 000 students expected to sit for 'O' and 'A' Level Jun...Published: 19 May 2020 at 07:38hrs | 2280 | by Staff reporter
ZIMSEC gives candidates reprieve
Candidates who failed to register for Ordinary and Advanced Levels for the November 2020 due to Covid-19 related challenges will get a reprieve after the Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (Zimsec) ...Published: 18 May 2020 at 19:32hrs | 2079 | by Staff reporter
When political dust blurs the truth
POLITICS is a dirty game. It is full of lies and deceit as well as character assassination. Real killing of nemeses is commonplace. It is a game full of unholy practices and double standards.T...Published: 18 May 2020 at 07:52hrs | 534 | by Tapiwa Gomo
Zimsec faces Parly grilling
THE Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Primary and Secondary Education will today sit to receive oral evidence from the Zimbabwe Schools Examination Council (Zimsec) on running public examinations d...Published: 18 May 2020 at 07:51hrs | 1546 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa, Khupe war in new twist
The battle for the control of Zimbabwe's mainstream opposition party pitting Nelson Chamisa and Thokozani Khupe will be fought in the courts once again after four legislators approached the High Court...Published: 17 May 2020 at 09:37hrs | 11441 | by Staff reporter
Hypocrisy and more power inspired hypocrisy
iN the centre of harare there is a world-famous building named Karigamombe which is Robert Mugabe's example of self-glorification at the expense of a man named Joshua Nkomo, who was considered by Muga...Published: 17 May 2020 at 09:30hrs | 228 | by Jonathan Maphenduka
Chamisa's tit for tat, no quid pro quo for participating in rigged elections, backfires
During the 2008 to 2013 GNU, Morgan Tsvangirai shameless used his political position as Prime Minister to promote his selfish interests at the expense of the commonwealth. Nelson Chamisa is doing the ...Published: 16 May 2020 at 12:51hrs | 2286 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Gold 'robbers' out on $1 000 bail
TWO illegal gold panners who allegedly trailed a haulage truck, which was coming from a mine in Filabusi before they attacked and robbed the driver of 1,17kg of gold worth $1 million at gunpoint have ...Published: 16 May 2020 at 07:22hrs | 320 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF missing the target
MDC-AlliAnCe leader nelson Chamisa is simply a face representing an ongoing struggle against a multifaceted catastrophe that has been ravaging the livelihoods of the ordinary people of Zimbabwe for fa...Published: 15 May 2020 at 08:20hrs | 1294 | by Gumisai Nyoni
VACANCY: Executive Director wanted
A leading network of human rights organizations in Zimbabwe, that advocate the promotion and protection of human rights has an exciting new opening for a suitably qualified person to fill in the posit...Published: 14 May 2020 at 12:35hrs | 1630 | by Online
Chamisa disowns diplomats
The opposition MDC Alliance has severed ties with its members that were posted to diplomatic missions and are refusing to leave their posts as the party scales up its fight against President Emmerson ...Published: 13 May 2020 at 21:48hrs | 7104 | by Staff reporter
'It's time for real dialogue,' says Mnangagwa's advisor
A MEMBER of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's advisory council, Shingi Munyeza says Zimbabwe needs a new political leadership and broad-based dialogue to tackle political and economic crises that have le...Published: 13 May 2020 at 07:47hrs | 5624 | by Staff reporter
Khupe vows will not dump POLAD
REINSTATED MDC-T leader, Thokozani Khupe says her party will not disengage from President Emmerson Mnangagwa's Political Actors Dialogue (POLAD) despite calls by her new-found allies in the fractured ...Published: 13 May 2020 at 07:25hrs | 1534 | by newzimbabwe
Mudzuri break ranks with Chamisa camp
Former MDC Vice President Elias Mudzuri says the decision by Nelson Chamisa led Executive to withdraw MPs from parliament was against rule of law and good governance. In a tweet on Tuesday Mud...Published: 12 May 2020 at 11:22hrs | 5452 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Nursing interviews decentralised
Government has increased nurse training interview sites from three to 22 to reduce travelling costs for prospective candidates. In addition to Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals, United Bulawayo ...Published: 12 May 2020 at 07:37hrs | 413 | by Staff reporter
Another blow for Chamisa
In a further blow to Chamisa, the losing MDC Alliance parliamentary candidate for Zaka West in the 2018 polls has rejected claims that the alliance fielded people in that year' s general elections - a...Published: 11 May 2020 at 08:47hrs | 14422 | by Staff repprter
Armed robbers steal gold worth $1 million
FIVE armed robbers who were travelling in a Honda Fit followed a haulage truck, which was coming from a mine in Filabusi before they attacked and robbed the driver of 1,17kgs of gold worth $1 million ...Published: 11 May 2020 at 08:19hrs | 1172 | by Staff reporter
Stop complaining and get involved!
IT would be remiss to not ac-knowledge the outpouring of responses to last week's article entitled What are Zimbabweans known for. It touched a raw nerve with many people, especially those who deliber...Published: 09 May 2020 at 08:17hrs | 1043 | by Miriam Tose Majome
Supreme Court ruling means Zimbabwe's 2018 election null and void
DO the following people, Senator Douglas Mwonzora, Speaker of Parliament Jacob Mudenda, MDC-T leader Thokozani Khupe, lawyer Lovemore Madhuku, Senator Morgen Komichi, Justice minister Ziyambi Ziyambi ...Published: 09 May 2020 at 08:15hrs | 3774 | by Kennedy Kaitano
MDC Alliance candidate questions party's legality
LOSING MDC Alliance parliamentary candidate for Zaka West in the 2018 general elections claims the umbrella political party did not field any candidate in that year's general election but instead cand...Published: 09 May 2020 at 08:09hrs | 1798 | by newzimbabwe
June exams pushed back by a month
Zimbabwe School Examination Council (ZIMSEC) on Friday announced the postponement of June examinations by four weeks due to the global Coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic. Schools in Zimbabwe were...Published: 08 May 2020 at 22:56hrs | 1814 | by Staff reporter
Health ministry sets nursing interviews dates
Controversial E-Nursing May 2020 intake shorlisted applicants have been summoned to attend interviews from the 11 - 15 May 2020. The online nursing application process has been marred with con...Published: 08 May 2020 at 12:34hrs | 1627 | by Michael Mdladla Ndiweni
Shameless move when people are starving
PUBLIC Service, Labour and Social Welfare minister Paul Mavima tells the world that government can only afford to cater for people facing hardships to enable them to survive the impact of COVID-19. ...Published: 08 May 2020 at 00:35hrs | 738 | by Kennedy Kaitano
'MDC-T must be a party of rules'
MDC-T has been thrown into a state of confusion and uncertainty following the recall of its four legislators from Parliament on grounds that they had ceased acting in the interest of their party. The ...Published: 07 May 2020 at 11:11hrs | 981 | by Staff reporter
Welshman Ncube promises a strong response over Chamisa MPs recall
MDC Alliance deputy president Welshman Ncube says they anticipated the recalling of four of the party's lawmakers from parliament on Tuesday, which he says is a state-orchestrated programme to destabi...Published: 07 May 2020 at 02:01hrs | 6438 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance rips into Zanu-PF
Confusion reigned on Tuesday after the Speaker of Parliament Jacob Mudenda announced that parliament - meeting for an emergency session to rubberstamp coronavirus lockdown regulations - had noted and ...Published: 06 May 2020 at 15:24hrs | 2889 | by Staff reporter
The challenges of implementing the Khupe judgment
THE implementation of the Thokozani Khupe judgment tells us no more, and no less, than we should know about the legitimacy of a court judgment. In political and legal sequence, it describes the growth...Published: 02 May 2020 at 07:57hrs | 5905 | by Sharon Hofisi
Dr Moyo itching to contest 2023 with no reforms, 'innovative solution' - another blinded by greed
The people of Zimbabwe have risked life and limb to elect Zanu PF's political opponents on the understanding, once in power, they would implement the democratic reforms the nation was dying for.&n...Published: 27 Apr 2020 at 10:36hrs | 2205 | by Nomusa Garikai
Lest the Alliance will bark outside the camp
To correctly capture where we are right now, it is either the MDC-T faction in the MDC-Alliance, influences the alliance and its partners to run before events, or events will run over them and all the...Published: 27 Apr 2020 at 10:22hrs | 1529 | by Robert Sigauke, Political Commentator, Cape Town
'Attention-seeking' Zanu-PF, MDC MPs roasted
FORMER Harare mayor, Ben Manyenyeni has taken a swipe at both Zanu-PF and MDC MPs who are falling over each other to donate loads of mealie-meal and other groceries to locals during the current lockdo...Published: 27 Apr 2020 at 09:30hrs | 478 | by newzimbabwe
Constitutional ramifications of Khupe-Chamisa judgement
What implications arise from the Supreme Court judgment on Thokozani Khupe's or Nelson Chamisa's presidential legitimacy in the MDC-T? Essentially, we must maintain and strengthen the concept of socia...Published: 26 Apr 2020 at 12:31hrs | 2761 | by Sharon Hofisi
June exams pushed back by a month
THE Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (Zimsec) has provisionally pushed back this year's June examinations by a month.The decision was reached by senior Zimsec officials last week at a meet...Published: 26 Apr 2020 at 12:12hrs | 733 | by Staff reporter
Zanu PF denying MDC elected councillors to do their mandate: Manyenyeni
Former MDC Harare Mayor Bernard Manyenyeni has revealed that Zanu PF government has for the past years been blocking the opposition elected councillors in the capital city to exercise their mandate of...Published: 26 Apr 2020 at 08:00hrs | 610 | by Stephen Jakes
Voters must consider track records of candidates in the next elections: APA
Alliance for People's Agenda led by Nkosana Moyo has urged the voters in the future elections to consider one's track record so that they chose people through their efforts to delivery.In a st...Published: 26 Apr 2020 at 07:57hrs | 712 | by Stephen Jakes
Postpone Zimsec examinations, says Parents
PARENTS and guardians have called on the Zimbabwe Schools Examination Council (Zimsec) to postpone the 2020 June and November examinations to December considering that lessons have been affected by th...Published: 24 Apr 2020 at 08:29hrs | 2086 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa fails to copy Ramaphosa's billions model, but social safety nets expanded
Government has expanded social protection programs to mitigate the effects of Covid-19 and drought on people's livelihoods. When restrictions were imposed on March 30 to prevent the spread of Covid-19...Published: 23 Apr 2020 at 07:47hrs | 648 | by Staff reporter
Nkosana Moyo to get more votes in the 2023 elections
Alliance for the People's Agend (APA) has claimed that its leader Nkosana Moyo is likely to get more votes in the 2023 election considering the fact that in the shortest period he campaigned ahead of ...Published: 21 Apr 2020 at 08:33hrs | 1550 | by Stephen Jakes
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