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Mnangagwa ally appointed Air Zimbabwe board chairperson
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has appointed Chipo Mutasa as the new board chairperson of embattled country's flagship carrier, Air Zimbabwe.Mutasa replaces Silvano Gwarinda who had served as su...Published: 07 Feb 2023 at 05:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa ouster plot case takes bizarre twist
A Zanu-PF youth member, who is challenging President Emmerson Mnangagwa's ascendancy after the 2017 military coup, says he is receiving death threats amid a spirited campaign to cause the collapse of ...Published: 10 Apr 2022 at 08:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chinamsa and friend steals Government car
TWO men appeared in court yesterday on allegations of conniving to steal a car from the Office of the President and Cabinet after the driver parked it in Harare's city centre to buy a pair of shoes....Published: 01 Apr 2022 at 09:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa dragged to court for appointing Chinamasa Air Zimbabwe board chair
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has been dragged to the Constitutional Court for behaviour that is inconsistent with provisions of the constitution after the appointment of Zanu-PF politburo member Patri...Published: 26 Dec 2021 at 15:32hrs | 8 | by Staffreporter
ZANU PF a terrorist organisation MDC Veterans Activist Association (MDC VAA)
MDC Veterans Activiust Association (MDC VAA) National Spokesperson Mandava Blessing has described the Zanu PF as a terrorist organisation following admission by Zanu PF Commissar Patrick Chinams...Published: 17 Oct 2021 at 14:18hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
'Bigwigs causing mayhem in Zanu-PF'
ZANU-PF stalwart and ex-secretary for administration, Didymus Mutasa, says very senior party officials are behind the dog-eat dog mayhem ravaging the former liberation movement ahead of its divisive d...Published: 25 Oct 2020 at 14:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Opposition will never rule Zimbabwe'
ZANU-PF acting spokesperson Patrick Chinamasa, yesterday declared that the opposition will never rule Zimbabwe as they are allegedly working to reverse the gains of the liberation struggle.Spe...Published: 11 Oct 2020 at 17:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF warns SA over 'big brother posture'
ZANU-PF has warned South Africa's ANC not to treat Zimbabwe as one of the neighbouring country's provinces with party spokesperson Patrick Chinamsa saying South Africa's ruling party does not have any...Published: 12 Sep 2020 at 07:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chinamasa's world up in flames
ZANU PF Secretary for Finance is a man in trouble after it has come to light that he was instrumental in the disbursement of USD$ 3 billion worth of Treasury bonds which disappeared in the Command Agr...Published: 21 Jul 2019 at 13:16hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Saturday with Stanley Dube: Mnangagwa is Mugabe's old leftover fart
November 18; Zimbabweans marched and on November 21 the nonagenarian despot Robert Mugabe resigned after pressure from the military and from ZANU PF. Surely chickens had come home to roost...Published: 24 Nov 2018 at 13:31hrs | | by Stanley Dube
MDC Alliance victim of own propaganda, say Zanu-PF lawyers
The MDC Alliance was a victim of its own propaganda after it claimed to have awe-inspiring evidence to overturn President Mnangagwa's victory in last month's elections, Zanu-PF lawyers have said. ...Published: 26 Aug 2018 at 10:01hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Chinamasa loses Parly seat to MDC Alliance
Zanu PF politburo member and Finance minister, Patrick Chinamasa has suffered humiliation after losing his Makoni Central parliamentary seat to MDC Alliance's David Tekeshe.Figures released by...Published: 06 Aug 2018 at 12:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ministers in trouble over Zanu-PF funds
TRANSPORT minister Joram Gumbo and his Local Government counterpart July Moyo are in deep trouble over US$300 000 which was sunk in a botched deal in which controversial airline Zimbabwe Airways (ZimA...Published: 22 Jun 2018 at 07:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa mulls tax incentives to lure investors
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has implored Finance and Economic Planning Minister Patrick Chinamasa to consider tax incentives and tax holidays for foreign investors to encourage investment and grow the domesti...Published: 15 Jun 2018 at 07:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's special message to UK
Finance and Economic Development Minister Patrick Chinamasa last week delivered a special message from President Mnangagwa to Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May, and held cordial talks on "all bilat...Published: 04 Mar 2018 at 09:10hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Bold moves in 2018 budget
GOVERNMENT will abolish 3 700 posts for youth officers and retire civil servants above the age of 65 starting January 2018 as part of measures to trim its expenditure among other interventions meant t...Published: 08 Dec 2017 at 05:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's cabinet reshuffle paves way for succession plan
SYNOPSIS: Journalist Violet Gonda interviews veteran political analyst Ibbo Mandaza on President Robert Mugabe's recent cabinet appointments and the infighting within...Published: 15 Oct 2017 at 12:43hrs | | by Violet Gonda
'Toll fees not enough for road rehabilitation'
ROAD maintenance across the country remains a challenge as the bulk of the money from toll fees collected is going towards the $206 million loan repayment to the Development Bank of South Africa, ...Published: 11 Feb 2017 at 09:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tendai Biti's State of the Economy Address- Fulltext
STATE OF THE ECONOMY ADDRESS (SEA) BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PEOPLE'S DEMOCRATIC PARTY (PDP) PRESIDENT, HONORABLE TENDAI BITI PRESENTED ON THE 9TH OF DECEMBER 2016 AT THE PDP PARTY OFFICES IN HARARE, AT...Published: 13 Dec 2016 at 13:08hrs | | by Tendai Biti
Chinamasa to fast track Amendment Bill on bond notes
PATRICK Chinamsa, Zimbabwe's Finance and Economic Development Minister, is this afternoon expected to push through Parliament the fast-track passage of the Reserve Bank Amendment Bill which aims t...Published: 24 Nov 2016 at 11:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe tense as crisis deepens
The government's savage clampdown against dissenting voices got even heavier this weekend, with panicking authorities deploying tens of thousands of police and other law enforcement agents around ...Published: 18 Sep 2016 at 15:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chinamasa, Mugabe bonus flip-flop
Seventeen months ago - on April 13, 2015 to be precise - Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa held a game-changing press conference in Harare in which he announced that government had suspended civi...Published: 11 Sep 2016 at 18:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
MP Maridadi confront Chinamasa over corruption in Zanu PF ministers
Tafara Mabvuku MP James Maridadi for MDC-T has confronted Finance and Economic development Minster Patrick Chinamsa asking him what was he doing concerning some ministers from his party who have been ...Published: 24 Jun 2016 at 06:19hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Govt engages on fixing boundaries on land acquired for resettlement and reforms
The minister of Finance and Economic Development Patrick Chinamasa has said the government is seized with efforts to make boundaries for the land acquired for resettlement and reform as most of the ac...Published: 16 May 2016 at 06:57hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Govt to install electronic devices at businesses
Minister of Finance and Economic Development Patrick Chinamasa has said the government through Zimbabwe Revenue Authority will install electronic devices at businesses of major tax [payers at the poin...Published: 22 Mar 2016 at 05:24hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Mugabe's purported economic growth a myth
MDC Bulawayo Senator Tholakele Khumalo has said the economic growth projections always mentioned by President Robert Mugabe and his Finance Minister Patrick Chinamsa was just a myth which has no possi...Published: 18 Dec 2015 at 06:15hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Dismissing our vendor economy is 'selling-out'
'The streets are our employers' : Dismissing our vendor economy is 'selling-out' and failure to nurture economic nationalism.The ultimatum by the stat...Published: 09 Jun 2015 at 11:12hrs | | by Richard Mahomva
Discord in Zanu PF government disgusting- MDC-T
THE MDC-T has castigated the Zanu PF for being confused in its policy implementation and in its running of the country after President Robert Mugabe and Finance Minister Patrick Chinamsa issued differ...Published: 20 Apr 2015 at 13:26hrs | | by Stephen Jackson
Zanu-PF demise is nigh
Battered and deeply polarised, Zimbabwe's ruling party, Zanu-PF, triumphantly continues to rule the roost. However, all signs seem clearer than before that the centre is no longer holding and the par...Published: 28 Jan 2015 at 16:56hrs | | by Grace Kwinjeh
Zanu-PF to amend Constitution
THE ruling Zanu-PF is reportedly planning to amend the Constitution with the clauses on presidential running mates and presidential term limits to be dropped.In the new Constitution, the p...Published: 15 Dec 2014 at 16:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe introduces 5% duty on airtime, 25% duty on mobile phone handsets
Finance Minister Patrick Chinamasa has said that he will levy excise duty of 5% on air time for voice and data with effect from September 15. Chinamsa said customs duty at 25% on mobile hands...Published: 11 Sep 2014 at 22:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe arrives in China
President Robert Mugabe has arrived in Beijing, China for a state visit.President Mugabe, who is accompanied by the First Lady, Grace Mugabe was met at Beijing Internati...Published: 24 Aug 2014 at 16:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans suffer from 'import mania' says Chinamasa
The problem of Zimbabwe's ballooning trade imbalance is being exacerbated by businessmen who are importing goods that can be manufactured locally thus rendering the industry inefficient, Finance Minis...Published: 06 Aug 2014 at 16:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Self-styled prophet applies vaseline on teen cousin's privates, rapes her
A self-styled Binga prophet who raped his female cousin after claiming that he had been inspired to apply Vaseline on her privates during a prayer session, has been sentenced to 15 years in jail. ...Published: 19 Jul 2014 at 06:44hrs | 1 | by Lindani Dube
Chinamasa to inject $100m into RBZ
GOVERNMENT will restore the banker of last resort function of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe with effect from April 2014 by injecting $100 million into the institution, Finance Minister Patrick C...Published: 20 Dec 2013 at 05:54hrs | | by Business reporter
Gono hails Chinamsa's appointment to Finance Minister
Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Gideon Gono hailed the appointment of former Justice minister Patrick Chinamasa as the Finance minister saying it was extremely reassuring that the new Cabinet had been insta...Published: 12 Sep 2013 at 05:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa gets closer
Recycling dead wood, loyalists and corrupt cadres is a major component of Zanu-PF's DNA. The inclusion of Francis Nhema, Joseph Made, Ignatius Chombo, Josiah Hungwe and many others in the new cabine...Published: 11 Sep 2013 at 05:43hrs | | by Moses Chamboko
Zanu-PF has never 'negotiated in good faith': Mwonzora
Zanu-PF says it has lost faith with the GPA (Global Political Agreement) forum of negotiators, calling for the establishment of other platforms to deal with outstanding issues, state media repor...Published: 02 Nov 2011 at 19:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Human rights lawyers accuse Chinamsa of misinforming Zimbabweans
Human rights lawyers have accused Minister of Justice and Legal Affairs Patrick Chinamasa and the police of misinforming Zimbabweans, by saying suspects can be detained in prisons without being ...Published: 10 Apr 2011 at 06:27hrs | | by Byo24News
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