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South African buffalo is nakéd, media goes on mute
The silence of the South African leadership on the ongoing revelations of gross corruption and subversion of good governance is treasonous. Since the damning findings of the Public Protector, Busisiwe...Published: 18 Aug 2019 at 20:47hrs | 2352 | by Zanele Lwana
'Zifa Capture' fightback begins, Chiyangwa's sidekick 'spills the beans'
EXPELLED ZIifa board member Chamunorwa Chiwanza has challenged his recent dismissal from the football association's excecutive committee before accusing Zifa president Felton Kamambo and acting vice-p...Published: 18 Aug 2019 at 09:58hrs | 1721 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe and the crisis of one-sided democracy narrative
THE co-existence of political dissent is healthy for any political set-up. However, it is risky to reduce the density of political dissent to the narrowest of extremes of allowing certain political ac...Published: 18 Aug 2019 at 09:36hrs | 88 | by Richard R Mahomva
Zimbabwe is not a banana republic
Blessed Sunday good people.How was Friday?Has the Government changed yet?Is Nelson Chamisa now president of our teapot-shaped republic? Kikikiki.Yes, exactly as Bishop ...Published: 18 Aug 2019 at 09:30hrs | 251 | by Bishop Lazi
Chiyangwa, Chiwanza in FIFA appeals
COSAFA president Philip Chiyangwa has escalated to the Fifa corridors his battle against a life ban imposed on him by Zifa, with the Harare property mogul arguing that in fact, it is the Association t...Published: 18 Aug 2019 at 09:30hrs | 113 | by Staff reporter
Chief Ndiweni's incarçeration an attack on peoples rights
Chief Ndiweni has been incarcerated not only because of the crime he is alleged to have committed but he has long been an undesirable element according to ZANU PF.The sending away of the chief...Published: 17 Aug 2019 at 21:30hrs | 1511 | by Iphithule Maphosa
'Solve socio-economic crisis' prescribe UN - rubbish, treat disease, bad governance, not the symptom
Zimbabwe is a pariah state ruled by corrupt, incompetent, vote rigging and murderous thugs. The ruling party, Zanu-PF, has captured all state institutions so that the Police, Army, Judiciary, etc. are...Published: 17 Aug 2019 at 10:48hrs | 311 | by Wilbert Mukori
Latest on ex-VP Phelekezela Mphoko's arrest saga
The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission has issued a statement regarding an incident that happened on Friday evening when one of their officers attempted to arrest the former Vice President of the cou...Published: 17 Aug 2019 at 09:47hrs | 6005 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Go home Nero! The demons are with you
We are told sister Piri, as Prisca Mupfumira was known in her close circles, is demanding too much luxury behind bars. Yes, she has not yet been convicted, but it could be her insatiable quest for swa...Published: 17 Aug 2019 at 07:58hrs | 794 | by Staff reporter
PHOTO: Journalists crowd a police victim insteading of helping
An image of journalists surrounding a victim of police brutality after the August 16 skirmishes in Harare has gone viral. The image shows the photo journalists shooting pictures instead of che...Published: 16 Aug 2019 at 16:32hrs | 2720 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Rhodesian days are back in Zimbabwe
This is a litmus test for democracy. We have prophets of doom who have already forseen the negativity of holding a peaceful demonstration. The rule of law must be observed and it is the duty o...Published: 16 Aug 2019 at 15:40hrs | 1107 | by Leonard Koni
Army boss sidelined over audio
The commander of One Presiential Guard Infantry Battalion at State House, Lieutenant-Colonel Samson Murombo, was sidelined from commanding the parade at the Defence Forces Day commemorations on Tuesda...Published: 16 Aug 2019 at 08:28hrs | 2286 | by Staff reporter
MDC 16 August Demonstrations: Why there shall be a huge turnout!
In 1918, Eller Wheeler Wilcox the great American author once said "to sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of many" . Subsequently, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) has call...Published: 15 Aug 2019 at 07:41hrs | 5996 | by Erasmus Pongo
Captured Ramaphosa warns infighting will drive investors away
President Cyril Ramaphosa has warned that the country's economy will battle to recover if infighting persists within the ANC and country, as investors would abandon the country.Ramaphosa was s...Published: 13 Aug 2019 at 21:37hrs | 2639 | by Political Bureau
'Apartheid spy' sues Zuma for R500,000
Former Cabinet minister and prominent ANC member Derek Hanekom is taking former president Jacob Zuma to court to the tune of R500 000 for defamation, Business Day reported. This follows a twee...Published: 13 Aug 2019 at 09:01hrs | 1322 | by Staff reporter
The situation in Zimbabwe has moved to another level
"FELLOW Zimbabweans … the situation in our country has moved to another level. Firstly, we wish to assure the nation that His Excellency, President Robert Mugabe and his family are safe and sound an...Published: 13 Aug 2019 at 07:19hrs | 1930 | by Cliff Chiduku
Patrick Zhuwao talks tough
Zimbabwe sadly remembers its heroes and heroines whilst the World commemorates the United Nations International Youth Day. The liberation struggle that dismantled the yoke of colonialism was executed ...Published: 12 Aug 2019 at 18:18hrs | 5911 | by Patrick Zhuwao
Jacob Zuma laughs at Ramaphosa
Former South African President Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Mhlanganyelwa Zuma on Monday posted a tweet that was an indirect jibe at the embattled current President Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa who is accused of ...Published: 12 Aug 2019 at 17:19hrs | 6603 | by Mandla Ndlovu
MDC Alliance ready to expose the army
MDC Alliance says it will use technology in its August 16 planned protests to capture any human rights violations by the army. Par...Published: 11 Aug 2019 at 20:16hrs | 5207 | by Staff Reporter
War heroes who died in vain
The war was raging on. Every person in the village had had an encounter with the freedom fighters. We all knew the drill. The arrival of the freedom fighters in a village was so secret but an open one...Published: 10 Aug 2019 at 07:52hrs | 2519 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Mnangagwa tell lawyers to be advocates of economic justice
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has urged legal practitioners to be instruments of peace building, social cohesion, beacons of equality and advocates of economic justice, as the task of rebuilding a coun...Published: 09 Aug 2019 at 14:27hrs | 1053 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to open lawyers' conference
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa arrived here last evening for the 20th Sadc Lawyers' Association annual conference he is expected to officially open this morning. The President landed just before 6PM at t...Published: 09 Aug 2019 at 07:26hrs | 132 | by Staff reporter
'Zanu PF is denying us the right to demos' - true, but thick jail wall is not why we are stuck
Zimbabwe is in this economic and political mess for one over-riding reason – ignorance. What makes ignorance such a difficult, a near impossible, failing to cure is that the ignorant are rarely awar...Published: 08 Aug 2019 at 22:11hrs | 1898 | by Nomusa Garikai
MDC run Harare city's 2018 audit in jeopardy
The Harare City Council's 2018 external audit lies in limbo amid a row between the local authority and BIQ billing software developer over a US$75 000 debt. This has jeopardised the city's chances of ...Published: 08 Aug 2019 at 07:54hrs | 366 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo reveals ZANU PF strategy for winning in rural areas
Professor Jonathan Moyo says the ruling ZANU PF is using poverty and underdevelopment as a strategy to capture the rural voters to vote for it. Moyo was commenting on the recently held Lupane ...Published: 06 Aug 2019 at 23:49hrs | 13051 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Captured South Africa ConCourt fails the test: Who guards the judges?
The Constitutional Court may be the highest Court in the land. But it does not have a monopoly on what justice entails. The Court's pronouncement in the case involving the Public Protector raises conc...Published: 06 Aug 2019 at 16:37hrs | 1721 | by Professor Sipho Seepe
Zanu-PF bigwigs plot against Mnangagwa
Defence and War Veterans minister, Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri has confirmed that the ugly Zanu-PF factional and succession wars - which led to the stunning ouster from power of former president Robert M...Published: 06 Aug 2019 at 08:03hrs | 17583 | by Staff reporter
Biti hints on massive demos
MDC Alliance has given indications that it will soon embark on mass demonstrations against the failure by President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his government to attend to the tumbling Zimbabwean economy t...Published: 05 Aug 2019 at 17:30hrs | 6702 | by Staff Reporter
No vacancy in presidium, says Muchinguri-Kashiri
THERE is no vacancy in the Presidium and elements covertly jostling for the top positions must stand guided, Defence and War Veterans Affairs Minister who is also Zanu-PF chairperson, Oppah Muchinguri...Published: 05 Aug 2019 at 07:33hrs | 2600 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean man pops up in SA state capture inquiry
You will find Zimbabweans in the most unlikely of places.As South Africans embark on a bruising inquiry into allegations of whether the state was captured by a corrupt clique that milked gover...Published: 04 Aug 2019 at 10:10hrs | 2934 | by staff reporter
In memory of August 2018 victims
As you would be aware, today marks one year since the tragic gunning down of our citizens by the Military regime. On this day, what started off as an exercise of every Zimbabwean's right to freedom of...Published: 02 Aug 2019 at 16:02hrs | 412 | by ZEFF
US to support Zimbabwe's trade in baby elephants
US zoos now plan to import baby elephants from Zimbabwe, undeterred by the international furore over their 2016 import of 18 wild elephants from Swaziland.The US Association of Zoos and Aquari...Published: 02 Aug 2019 at 15:43hrs | 4181 | by Melissa Reitz
Unions clash with Mnangagwa's govt
AS the nation plunges deeper into economic turmoil, trade unions have come under the spotlight as they clash with government and business over the working conditions of the country's ever-dwindling wo...Published: 02 Aug 2019 at 08:18hrs | 5904 | by Staff reporter
Capacitate Ekusileni Hospital, says Khaya Moyo
MATABELELAND South Senator Simon Khaya Moyo yesterday called for the capacitation of Ekusileni Medical Centre in Bulawayo, which was built by the late Vice-President Joshua Nkomo when he was suffering...Published: 02 Aug 2019 at 07:55hrs | 290 | by Staff reporter
When 'skinning a live snake' is not working
SOON after Fortune Chasi was sworn in as Energy minister in May, he admitted that the country was in a rut. In spelling out his immediate plan to avert power shortages, Chasi vowed to skin a live snak...Published: 30 Jul 2019 at 07:34hrs | 1233 | by Cliff Chiduku
'Grace Mugabe instructed the shutdown of internet in Zimbabwe'
Former First Lady Grace Mugabe instructed the then Minister of Cyber Security Patrick Chinamasa to shutdown social media during the height of the bloody military coup in November 2017.Hagiogra...Published: 29 Jul 2019 at 14:05hrs | 11018 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mupfumira's case provides litmus test
The arrest of Tourism minister Prisca Mupfumira has generated a lot of interest with some commentators aligned to the government claiming it is a sign that President Emmerson Mnangagwa's anti-corrupti...Published: 28 Jul 2019 at 18:25hrs | 645 | by Editorial - The Standard
The Second-Republic reform axis and counter-revolutionary fad
The transitional challenges we are facing are part of the mandatory experience which we need if we are to build a lasting foundation to the new future our country deserves. The current instabi...Published: 28 Jul 2019 at 10:00hrs | 855 | by Richard R. Mahomva
Ndebele villages or regiments: Organisational units within the state
FOR about 25 weeks now we have been investigating the phenomenon of naming, initially starting off at the cosmic level but later getting down to the terrestrial plane. Our interest has been to investi...Published: 28 Jul 2019 at 09:56hrs | 468 | by Pathisa Nyathi
State Capture: The imperfect metaphor
Language and its expressions and metaphors does not only deliver messages and meaning but it can also do a lot to hide the truth. In that way language can be used, sometimes innocently and at ...Published: 28 Jul 2019 at 09:20hrs | 85 | by Cetshwayo Zindabazezwe Mabhena
WATCH: Cops in bloody fight over barlady
A VICIOUS brawl between two police officers in Bulawayo suspectedly over a bar lady and which was also captured on video nearly ended in bloodshed, after one of them reportedly sustained bruises...Published: 26 Jul 2019 at 09:00hrs | 2685 | by Staff reporter
$3 billion corruption while the nation starves
The agriculture sector has become a point of weakness in the Zimbabwean economy where over five million Zimbabweans are food-insecure despite billions public funds being invested in the sector....Published: 25 Jul 2019 at 19:25hrs | 897 | by Rusty Markham
The reluctant reformer, Mnangagwa is thy name
IT'S nearly a year since Emmerson Mnagangwa (ED) was sworn as the President of Zimbabwe after the disputed July 2018 elections.The common talk among many is that Zimbabwe should be better than...Published: 25 Jul 2019 at 08:03hrs | 698 | by Rashweat Mukundu
Mnangagwa unveils stamps
President Mnangagwa yesterday unveiled commemorative stamps conveying the "Zimbabwe is open for business" mantra at a function held at his Munhumutapa offices. The stamps were issued by Zimpos...Published: 25 Jul 2019 at 07:55hrs | 667 | by Staff reporter
Biti now speak dialogue and not protests
MDC deputy president Tendai Biti has warned the country is facing imminent implosion due to President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration's failure to deal with the deteriorating economic situation....Published: 24 Jul 2019 at 14:13hrs | 3847 | by Staff reporter
Rest in Peace Isaac 'Bra Ike' Lesiba Maphoto. A tribute shared by ZAPU
EULOGY BY PRESIDENT CYRIL RAMAPHOSA AT THE FUNERAL OF COMRADE LESIBE ISAAC ‘IKE' MAPHOTOPOLOKWANE, LIMPOPO PROVINCE 21 JULY 2019Programme DirectorMembers of the Maphoto familyMin...Published: 23 Jul 2019 at 19:54hrs | 1672 | by CR17
Zimbabweans in SA to get health insurance
Zimbabweans and other foreign nationals living and working legally here will be taken care of under the proposed National Health Insurance (NHI), South Africa's Minister of Health, Dr Zweli Mkhize, sa...Published: 23 Jul 2019 at 08:09hrs | 435 | by Staff reporter
17 CIA spies sentenced to death
(CNN)Iran has detained 17 Iranian citizens accused of acting as spies for the United States Central Intelligence Agency, according to the country's Ministry of Intelligence.An Intelligence Min...Published: 22 Jul 2019 at 18:53hrs | 3149 | by CNN
China to help remove Mnangagwa over Zimbabwe diamonds war with Russia
This article first appeared on Spotlight Zimbabwe. LONDON - President Emmerson Mnangagwa's presidential exit is all but sealed amid reports that China ...Published: 22 Jul 2019 at 09:02hrs | 14993 | by Itai Mushekwe
Zimbabwe: It is time to panic, a little
I THINK it was 1992, the season started badly and as it progressed the heat increased until we were experiencing temperatures over 50 degrees Celsius in the lowveld. We had a business there and my son...Published: 22 Jul 2019 at 08:15hrs | 4194 | by Eddie Cross
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