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ZANU PF refuses to grant Clark Mpofu national hero status
May Clark Mpofu's soul rest in eternal peace and may his gallant deeds be forever etched in the hearts and minds of those who care to know the truth about his sterling contribution which is a painful ...Published: 02 Apr 2020 at 15:33hrs | 4213 | by Moses Mzila Ndlovu
Clark Mpofu: Zanu-PF had no reason to declare him a national hero
May Clark Mpofu's soul rest in eternal peace and may his gallant deeds be forever etched in the hearts and minds of those who care to know the truth about his sterling contribution which is a painful ...Published: 01 Apr 2020 at 18:58hrs | 4179 | by Moses Mzila Ndlovu
'Mnangagwa's lockdown a joke,' says ZCTU
WORKERS have expressed dismay over the lack of seriousness on part of the government after it exempted more companies to operate during the 21-day lockdown meant to stop the spread of the deadly coron...Published: 01 Apr 2020 at 13:32hrs | 1803 | by Staff reporter
Hero status for Clark Mpofu
PIONEER liberation fighter Clark Mpofu has been declared a liberation war hero and his family would be provided with a State assisted burial.Mpofu succumbed to a heart attack on Saturday at Mp...Published: 27 Mar 2020 at 15:26hrs | 911 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF recommends national hero status for Clark Mpofu
ONE of the pioneers of the country's liberation war Clark Mpofu has died and the Zanu-PF leadership in Bulawayo has recommended that he been declared a national hero. He was 81. Mpofu succumbe...Published: 26 Mar 2020 at 06:22hrs | 638 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean singer resumes shows in China
AFRO-FUSION musician Whitney "Brity" Matiyanga, who is part of the line-up of artistes performing at The Xiamen Ling Ling International Circus in China, said she has resumed her shows that were put on...Published: 24 Mar 2020 at 06:37hrs | 468 | by Staff reporter
Circus reigns supreme in Zimbabwe parliament
This aptly sums up what characterises most sessions of the National Assembly.Usually, on Wednesdays the National Assembly will be packed to the rafters as MPs get a chance to raise questions w...Published: 15 Mar 2020 at 17:45hrs | 1421 | by Staff reporter
NetOne circus continues
NetOne Cellular chief executive officer, Lazarus Muchenje, has won a court case in which he was challenging his suspension. Mr Muchenje was suspended on February 20 for alleged incompetence in...Published: 11 Mar 2020 at 05:47hrs | 532 | by Staff reporter
There is plenty mealie-meal, claims CIO minister
THE question and answer session in the National Assembly degenerated into a circus yesterday after State Security minister Owen Ncube briefly assumed the position of acting leader of the H...Published: 27 Feb 2020 at 06:16hrs | 767 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF moves to solve circus
Top Zanu-PF leaders from Mashonaland East province on Saturday descended on Goromonzi South to solve disharmony among members, which had resulted in the party having shaky structures.The meeti...Published: 24 Feb 2020 at 10:11hrs | 2506 | by Staff reporter
Is the New Dispensation keen on devolution?
It should be recalled that the nationalist struggle's main focus was the achievement of an electoral system with one person one vote as its basis and the resultant establishment of a newly independent...Published: 20 Feb 2020 at 13:25hrs | 110 | by Vivian Viyo Siziba
Queen Bee and Chinamasa's fat lies
Where just about everything is going nowhere very fast — as is the case in Zimbabwe — even a badly scripted drama series is not a bad idea.There was that time when we were kept glued to th...Published: 16 Feb 2020 at 08:40hrs | 650 | by Tawanda Majoni
Matutu, Tsenengamu censure a master-stroke for Zanu-PF
It is Monday February 3, 2020 and I see two esteemed comrades getting into the Media Centre in Harare. They arrive in five-minute intervals, much to the excitement of the who-is-who in the media indus...Published: 14 Feb 2020 at 05:55hrs | 527 | by Tafadzwa Mugwadi
'RBZ losing parallel market fight'
THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ)'s fight to curb distortions in the parallel market is losing momentum due to its failure to apprehend and deal decisively with the culprits amid fears of political i...Published: 31 Jan 2020 at 19:16hrs | 4938 | by Staff reporter
Is the new dispensation keen on devolution?
It should be recalled that the nationalist struggle's main focus was the achievement of an electoral system with one person one vote as its basis and the resultant establishment of a newly independent...Published: 31 Jan 2020 at 13:45hrs | 488 | by Vivian Viyo Siziba
Zimbabwe basketball in shambles
The Zimbabwe senior basketball team's failure to make the grade at the FIBA AfroBasket pre-qualifiers has exposed shortcomings in the administration of the sport, amid accusations of bias in team sele...Published: 27 Jan 2020 at 19:04hrs | 272 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa Executive plots coup against Parliament
WHILE the citizens are glued to the ongoing circus in Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga's messy divorce, President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his Cabinet have decided to sneak in a sinister constitution...Published: 22 Jan 2020 at 07:42hrs | 5899 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Zimbabwe's complex situation requires political will
People continue to die from curable disease in Zimbabwe as the health sector remains paralysed while the country is going through what has been described by the United Nations as a man-made drought. S...Published: 19 Jan 2020 at 13:10hrs | 198 | by Tapiwa Ziviri
Witchcraft, power in Zimbabwe politics
CHIPINGE is some small district in the south east of Zimbabwe, on the edge of the Mozambican border, well known not for its scenic environment, cooler temperatures or the tropical rainforests of Mt Se...Published: 19 Jan 2020 at 05:24hrs | 331 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Two wrongs don't make a right
The fact that Mary Chiwenga is alleged to have done something unjust is no justification for the State acting in a similar way .Zimbabwe justice system never ceases to amaze me.Corrupt...Published: 01 Jan 2020 at 12:55hrs | 1789 | by A Kadada
Heard of Government Organised NGO (GONGO), in POLAD have Zanu PF organised opposition (Zoo)
After 40 years of corrupt and tyrannical Zanu PF dictatorship Zimbabwe is in a serious mess with the economy in ruins, millions of our people now living in abject poverty and, worst of all, the plungi...Published: 01 Jan 2020 at 08:42hrs | 1308 | by Nomusa Garikai
Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF panics over new Zanu-PF party formation
ZANU-PF was Friday forced to issue a statement describing as insult, the formation of a new political party calling itself Zanu-PF Original.The formation of the new Zimbabwe African National U...Published: 07 Dec 2019 at 12:31hrs | 6141 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe being turned into a grand circus arena
The main objective of the MDC party led by the late Dr Morgan Tsvangirai in 1999 at its formation was to dislodge Zanu Pf from power.The fact that Zanu Pf has been in power since 1980 is not r...Published: 07 Dec 2019 at 09:44hrs | 982 | by A Kadada
Rein in Chamisa's legislators
Mr Speaker Sir Parliament's Rules and Orders Committee's decision to constitute a Privileges Committee that will investigate possible breach of Parliamentary procedures and etiquette by MDC-Al...Published: 06 Dec 2019 at 07:09hrs | 317 | by Zvamaida Murwira
Why Obadiah Moyo must go
The appointment of Obadiah Moyo as Health and Child Care minister in September 2018 was received with mixed feelings.On one hand, there were some who wanted to see a change of leadership at th...Published: 01 Dec 2019 at 06:08hrs | 418 | by Fortune Nyamande
No 'Road to Damascus' awakening in Zimbabwean politics - citizens can vote for recycled opportunistic politicians at own risk!
I am not much of a soccer fan, but there is something that I have always found strange - if not downright weird - without anyone able to provide a satisfactory explanation. Why is it that a coach fire...Published: 28 Nov 2019 at 10:44hrs | 1629 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
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 | 994 | by Nyasha Chingono
Institutional violence of the ZANU PF regime
Police Attack on Civilians on the 20th of November 2019 is unacceptable and abhorrent. This conduct by the Zimbabwean government is an attack on humanity and a fight against positive progress in the c...Published: 22 Nov 2019 at 07:37hrs | 2676 | by Bigboy Sibanda, Human Rights Activist
Chamisa and Mnangagwa's MPs reducing Second Republic into one big circus
THE animosity between the two political adversaries, the ruling Zanu PF party and the opposition MDC, who have perpetually been trading barbs in Parliament, has now degenerated into a farce and turned...Published: 18 Nov 2019 at 18:50hrs | 2852 | by NewsDay Comment
Zimbabwe allowed to trade elephants
The government has accused animal rights pressure groups of sending "wrong and damaging" information about the country after they said Zimbabwean authorities had "illegally" sent 30 young elephants to...Published: 30 Oct 2019 at 07:50hrs | 1829 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans have indulged the vanity of politicians long enough
IT is indicative of the polarisation in Zimbabwe politics that on a rather unusual holiday, specifically created to voice the country's disquiet about sanctions imposed by the United States of America...Published: 26 Oct 2019 at 07:46hrs | 496 | by Editorial Comment - newsday
The curious case of Peter Lobengula, the Prince of Salford
On a Wednesday morning in the spring on 1899 the Union Ocean liner called Goth sailing from Cape Town South Africa, docked in Southampton United Kingdom carrying the entire cast of a show called â€...Published: 17 Oct 2019 at 19:50hrs | 75 | by Joseph Qobo Mayisa
The truth behind Mugabe's burial in Zvimba
The former president and national hero cde Robert Mugabe has caused much tension in his death than in his life. He died in Singapore and three weeks down the line he is yet to be buried. It is rather ...Published: 27 Sep 2019 at 22:15hrs | 18183 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Is the British Royal Family a Global Brand or Its simple Inferiority Complex on African Part.
It's hard to imagine the monarchs of Murehwa and Masvingo selling souvenir tchotchkes in quite the same way as the British Monarch. South Africa is gripped with the euphoria of the visit of Prin...Published: 26 Sep 2019 at 15:32hrs | 1651 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Mugabe family wants him buried at Blue Roof?
An online public Zimmorning post has alleged that the family of the late Robert Mugabe has sent a delegation to the council's management with a proposal to have Mugabe's mausoleum built at his B...Published: 25 Sep 2019 at 16:23hrs | 3767 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Africa has lost one of its strong pillars
Because of his stance on the land issue, and the need to empower his people, not merely by giving them an electoral voice, but through equitable distribution of the means of production, former Preside...Published: 07 Sep 2019 at 08:56hrs | 146 | by Elliot Ziwira
Mnangagwa govt pay offer divides civil servants
SHARP divisions have emerged within the civil service following the decision by the Apex Council to accept a paltry 76% pay hike from their employer at a time the workers wanted an over 400% pay hike....Published: 29 Aug 2019 at 07:44hrs | 3267 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's son in-law guns for Zifa board
The Sports and Recreation Commission (SRC) has made damning corruption allegations against the Zifa board, accusing the Felton Kamambo-led football association of gross incompetence, mismanagement and...Published: 18 Aug 2019 at 09:46hrs | 394 | by Staff reporter
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 | 836 | by Staff reporter
'God put Mnangagwa in power' - that must be a false prophesy from a false prophet
"We invited [Emmerson Mnangagwa] so that we can pray together and thank God the Almighty who put him in the position he is currently holding," prayed Nehemiah Mutendi, the leader of the Zion Christian...Published: 12 Aug 2019 at 23:23hrs | 2190 | by Nomusa Garikai
By-elections TKO and below the belt politics
If the Matabeleland North by-elections held recently were a boxing match, the MDC-Alliance would have been dealt a technical knock-out (TKO).After jabs and uppercuts, then a flurry of combinat...Published: 10 Aug 2019 at 08:50hrs | 300 | by Staff reporter
Jobless and witless Sikhala
Well, when I see jobless and witless Sikhala what comes to mind are Tom and Jerry gimmicks! The MDC-Alliance might have tried hard to openly disown him on his utterances, but we are not fooled...Published: 13 Jul 2019 at 07:55hrs | 1127 | by Staff reporter
Job Sikhala must stop behaving like a teaser bull
MDC-Alliance deputy national chairperson Job Sikhala, who has been arraigned before the courts on allegations of subverting a constitutionally-elected Government, is indeed, not new to controversy. It...Published: 12 Jul 2019 at 07:28hrs | 978 | by Isdore Guvamombe
President Mnangagwa's government condemned
Human Rights lawyer Pedzisayi Ruhanya has accused President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government of turning Zimbabwe into a circus. Ruhanya was speaking after a Mutare man was arrested and de...Published: 19 Jun 2019 at 11:58hrs | 6354 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zanu-PF executive rescues Mutoko MP
A HIGH-POWERED Zanu-PF delegation from Mashonaland East province at the weekend descended on Mutoko district, where they held three rallies as the ruling party moved to resolve the impasse between the...Published: 19 Jun 2019 at 07:42hrs | 1610 | by Staff reporter
Ngarivhume calls for a hunger strike against ED
In a first of its kind, the Transform Zimbabwe (TZ) leader has called for a hunger strike and picketing at Parliament against the ZANU PF government. This follows a meeting that was held yesterday in ...Published: 17 Jun 2019 at 12:01hrs | 2892 | by Fungai Taruvinga
Zimbabwe's endless currency circus and cycle
When it comes to currency management in Zimbabwe there is always déjà vu which is a result of repeated fallible prescriptions. It's a circus where the actors enjoy their never-ending play with the a...Published: 14 Jun 2019 at 11:46hrs | 3662 | by Ngonidzaishe Makaha and Adrian Mapiye
Hungry lions hoovering around to devour Nyaminyami RDC response
I am Mwiimpu Hanjeleha of Monze, Zambia. I read the above story in your news online. I have been serving in the NGOs sector in that district. The persons being attacked in that piece I know them total...Published: 10 Jun 2019 at 07:34hrs | 1657 | by Mwiimpu Hanjeleha
Mnangagwa's govt an enemy of its own people
The failure of Emmerson Mnangagwa's government to fix the wayward economy is spelling disaster to the whole nation.We do not need a rocket scientist or Prophet T B Joshua to tell us that our e...Published: 29 May 2019 at 17:25hrs | 2974 | by Leonard Koni
Complications of the congress season
WELCOME to the MDC Congress season. The circus has just dropped right down at Harvest House. All the actors have already donned their stage costumes, save for Vimbai Tsvangirai-Java, whose congress ap...Published: 18 May 2019 at 10:37hrs | 1548 | by Chenai Mutasa
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