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Biti begs for Ramaphosa's intervention
MDC Alliance Vice President Tendai Biti has called on South Africa President and leader of the governing ANC party, Cyril Ramaphosa to intervene and caution his fellow liberation struggle colleagues i...Published: 20 hrs ago | 4392 | by Staff reporter
UN envoy flies into Zanu-PF, MDC Alliance war
UNITED Nations (UN) special rapporteur, Alena Douhan, who arrives in the country today to assess the impact of sanctions on Zimbabwe, flies into a storm with the ruling Zanu-PF party and the oppositio...Published: 20 hrs ago | 3966 | by Staff reporter
When desperate, tactless opposition fakes victimhood
Last Monday the MDC Alliance (MDC-A) faction was at it again. It was involved in skirmishes with the people of Masvingo in an incident which involved the discharge of a firearm.This was all sc...Published: 20 hrs ago | 180 | by Nobleman Runyanga
A red card or exit package for ED and his ZANU-PF Govt in 2023
The ground is shaking for EDiot and his cronies as they crave to hold onto power in 2023 when their fall is imminent. The sudden rise and revival of ZAPU with Sibangilizwe as the man- of - the...Published: 17 Oct 2021 at 14:25hrs | 3034 | by Mjibha Ndlovu
Mnangagwa says his govt will not continue crying over sanctions
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa says his administration will not continue mourning over sanctions imposed against Zimbabwe by the West some 20 years ago.He said despite the sanctions in place, Go...Published: 17 Oct 2021 at 09:11hrs | 1276 | by Agencies
Chamisa claims to have exposed Mnangagwa
MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa says his tour of Masvingo that invited a backlash from Zanu-PF mobs exposed President Emmerson Mnangagwa as an unpopular leader.Chamisa's visits to many part...Published: 17 Oct 2021 at 09:10hrs | 3794 | by Staff reporter
Village head in trouble over shrine
A Domboshava village head has been arraigned before the courts for allegedly trying to invade an apostolic sect shrine, which he wants to subdivide and sell as residential stands.Wiriranayi Gw...Published: 17 Oct 2021 at 09:07hrs | 346 | by Staff reporter
Mr President, even a husband who makes excuses for failing his family soon finds himself with divorce papers!
Excuses, excuses, excuses! Thats is what the people of Zimbabwe have come to expect from their government, ever since coming to power in 1980 - after the country attained political independenc...Published: 16 Oct 2021 at 18:40hrs | 1142 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mnangagwa acquiring more public debt to fund second term bid
WINNING or losing an election is a referendum on the economy by citizens. More often than not politicians are aware of this fact and, therefore, go out of their way, sometimes, contracting huge debts ...Published: 16 Oct 2021 at 06:29hrs | 862 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Panic-stricken Zanu-PF unleashes terror
POLITICAL violence that reared its ugly head again on Monday in Masvingo against main opposition MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa (pictured) and his entourage could be a precursor to what Zanu-PF is...Published: 15 Oct 2021 at 20:21hrs | 616 | by Staff reporter
US plotting to discredit Chinese investments in Zimbabwe
THE Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor of the U.S. Department of State is implementing "an intricate plan" designed by Washington to smear Chinese businesses in Zimbabwe "through disinformat...Published: 15 Oct 2021 at 20:21hrs | 358 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC claims more attacks
THE MDC Alliance yesterday claimed that Zanu-PF supporters mounted a "roadblock" in Gutu, kidnapped and beat up some opposition supporters at their meeting with party leader Nelson Chamisa, who is on ...Published: 15 Oct 2021 at 06:24hrs | 2662 | by Staff reporter
Congestion locks up Beitbridge
CHAOS has rocked Beitbridge Border Post where haulage trucks are taking up to five days to be cleared after Zimborders, a private company contracted to upgrade the border on a build operate and transf...Published: 15 Oct 2021 at 06:23hrs | 2503 | by Staff reporter
Over 5m Zimbabweans food insecure, claims WFP
OVER five million Zimbabweans in urban and rural communities are food insecure due to COVID-19-induced difficulties, the World Food Programme country director Francesca Alderman said yesterday....Published: 15 Oct 2021 at 06:21hrs | 125 | by Staff reporter
Forex auction revitalises economy, claims RBZ
THE foreign currency auction introduced by Government last year has been critical in revitalising the economy despite deliberate inflation of black market exchange rates by some unscrupulous businesse...Published: 15 Oct 2021 at 06:18hrs | 118 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF frets over internal chaos
Zanu-PF yesterday conceded that jostling for positions in the district elections has caused chaos in the party, and threatened to act on the "rogue" elements who it said were fanning divisions....Published: 14 Oct 2021 at 06:26hrs | 780 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa provoked us, claims Zanu-PF
Zanu-PF has accused opposition MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa of provoking its supporters to attack him and his team by "trying to impose his views and trying to address disinterested Zanu-PF supp...Published: 13 Oct 2021 at 06:15hrs | 6007 | by Staff reporter
Ex-MDC legislator survives car crash
FORMER MDC-T organising secretary Abednico Bhebhe cheated death on Sunday evening when he was involved in a car accident that saw his vehicle fell off a cliff along the Bulawayo-Beitbridge Highway....Published: 13 Oct 2021 at 06:14hrs | 3120 | by Staff reporter
No leader has enjoyed universal approval
DEAR President Emmerson Mnangagwa.Your Excellency, if ever there was a period in your life that you needed to exercise diligence and foresight, it is now. It is at this moment that you need to...Published: 13 Oct 2021 at 06:13hrs | 1936 | by Cyprian M Ndawana
Chiwenga's estranged wife fit to stand trial, claims State
A HARARE court is on Friday expected to rule on whether Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga's estranged wife, Marry Mubaiwa is fit to stand trial on allegations of fraudulently acquiring an ungraded m...Published: 13 Oct 2021 at 06:12hrs | 771 | by Staff reporter
Lecturer challenges eviction from Esidakeni farm
BULAWAYO businessman and National University of Science and Technology (Nust) lecturer Dumisani Madzivanyati yesterday approached the Supreme Court challenging a High Court judgment which ordered his ...Published: 13 Oct 2021 at 06:11hrs | 978 | by Staff reporter
Russia rubbishes UK vaccine theft claims
Claims in the British press that Russian spies stole the blueprint for the British-made Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine are unfounded, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said.An October 10 arti...Published: 13 Oct 2021 at 06:09hrs | 257 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF slams Masvingo violence claims
AHEAD of President Mnangagwa's visit to the United Kingdom for the UN Climate Change conference of the parties (COP 26) in Glasgow and the expected arrival of the United Nations Special Rapporteur Dr ...Published: 13 Oct 2021 at 06:08hrs | 262 | by Staff reporter
COVID-19 overstreches medical aid industry
THE health insurance industry has been overstretched by the COVID-19 pandemic, with statistics indicating that 69% of healthcare funders have experienced a surge in cases of respiratory illnesses attr...Published: 12 Oct 2021 at 06:00hrs | 182 | by Staff reporter
Silobela community demands share of Jena Mine
VILLAGERS in Silobela are demanding that the redundant Jena Gold Mine claims be allocated to them as they are living in poverty while their area is endowed with gold deposits.The Jena Mine cla...Published: 12 Oct 2021 at 05:58hrs | 307 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa told to reopen Moyo graft case
ZIMBABWEANS have petitioned President Emmerson Mnangagwa to reopen the corruption case against former Health minister Obadiah Moyo , who was acquitted last week by the High Court over the irregular aw...Published: 11 Oct 2021 at 06:03hrs | 3809 | by Staff reporter
Elections will cut Mwonzora to size
THE centre is no longer holding anymore. The cow no longer produces milk as it used to do.MDC-T leader Douglas Mwonzora is suffering from leadership kwashiorkor and it is clear that he is a Za...Published: 11 Oct 2021 at 06:01hrs | 2281 | by Leonard Koni
Mnangagwa must remove sanctions he has imposed on Zimbabwe first
A GROUP of academics last week announced that they had joined the anti-sanctions fight, and hoped to do something that the government and its shrill supporters have failed in nearly two decades: have ...Published: 11 Oct 2021 at 05:54hrs | 1726 | by Staff reporter
PG orders probe into Esidakeni
Prosecutor General Mr Kumbirai Hodzi has directed the police to investigate possible violations of the exchange control and the tax laws in a transaction that saw two Zimbabweans claiming ownership of...Published: 11 Oct 2021 at 05:53hrs | 353 | by Staff reporter
PG orders probe into farm purchase
Prosecutor General Mr Kumbirai Hodzi has directed the police to investigate possible violations of the exchange control and the tax laws in a transaction that saw two Zimbabweans claiming ownership of...Published: 11 Oct 2021 at 05:52hrs | 175 | by Staff reporter
Democracy is not about generational entitlement
Following the United Parties for National Development's (UNPD) win in Zambia's August 12, 2021, general elections, the MDC Alliance faction leader Nelson Chamisa became unnecessarily excited.T...Published: 11 Oct 2021 at 05:52hrs | 125 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Mnangagwa warns 'name-droppers' in bloody clashes over gold claims
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's office has distanced the Zanu-PF leader from the bloody clashes over the control of one of Manicaland's richest gold mines.Pedzai Scott Sakupwanya, a gold dealer...Published: 10 Oct 2021 at 06:57hrs | 2361 | by Staff reporter
Show us criminals that surrounded Gushungo
My People,Ignatius Chombo, the man who was branded the biggest criminal around Gushungo, is now a free man.Chombo was seized by soldiers on the night of the infamous coup while sleepin...Published: 10 Oct 2021 at 06:55hrs | 1312 | by Dr Stop It
'Paltry salaries aching Zimbabwe workers'
Zimbabwe leads on mental health cases among workers, with the majority suffering depression due to paltry salaries that cannot sustain them in an inflationary environment, research has established....Published: 10 Oct 2021 at 06:54hrs | 924 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa surrounded by dodgy characters
ALMOST four years after getting into power, riding on the narrative of removing criminals that had surrounded the then president Robert Mugabe, President Emmerson Mnangagwa's circle of associates and ...Published: 09 Oct 2021 at 07:36hrs | 3408 | by Staff reporter
Rautenbach enjoys Zanu-PF links
MULLER Conrad "Billy" Rautenbach is one of the most controversial business moguls in Zimbabwe, with several legal challenges against him and his company Green Fuel. Rautenbach, who is into vast mining...Published: 09 Oct 2021 at 07:35hrs | 1993 | by Staff reporter
Name, shame exercise divides Zanu-PF
GOVERNMENT's name and shame operation targeting companies and individuals accused of fuelling the galloping foreign currency parallel exchange rate has triggered fierce fights within Zanu-PF, with som...Published: 09 Oct 2021 at 07:33hrs | 1044 | by Staff reporter
Sanctions: Politics of sabotage in 'Jambanja'
The opening chapter of Eric Harrison's memoir, "Jambanja" (2006) is telling in that it places Zimbabwe in the context of the many sanctions the country had been exposed to, either by the United Nation...Published: 09 Oct 2021 at 07:29hrs | 124 | by Elliot Ziwira
Rushwaya emerges in the thick of shady Zimbabwe military dealings
FOR long, Martin Rushwaya was the military's point man in its multi-million-dollar commercial ventures, as the permanent secretary in the Defence ministry from 2009 until 2019.In April 2019, P...Published: 09 Oct 2021 at 07:24hrs | 409 | by Staff reporter
Businessman files complaint against High Court judge over property deal
HARARE businessman Kingston Hamutendi Munyawarara, the executive director of Bariadie Investments (Private) Limited, has lodged an official complaint against High Court judge Justice Tawanda Chitapi (...Published: 09 Oct 2021 at 07:24hrs | 179 | by Staff reporter
China sees third force in huge outcry over its Zimbabwe activities
FOLLOWING months of a huge outcry over Chinese enterprises' "exploitative" strategy in Zimbabwe's mineral resources, Beijing's diplomats in Harare spoke out this week, telling the Zimbabwe Independent...Published: 08 Oct 2021 at 19:01hrs | 1173 | by Staff reporter
Trust gets US$5million, collapses in 3 years
THE Marange-Zimunya Community Share Ownership Trust (MZCSOT) has collapsed only three years after the Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamonds Corporation (ZCDC) injected US$5 million to prop it, a Zimbabwe Ind...Published: 08 Oct 2021 at 18:58hrs | 117 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans abusing social media to bolster fake abuses
When many protests go unnoticed, creating drama can seem like a good strategy to draw attention. But if they become self-harming and harming others the public opinion can turn against the protestors....Published: 08 Oct 2021 at 18:57hrs | 69 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
'Mnangagwa speech hot air'
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday said that the country's economy was on rebound, with this year's projections indicating over 7,8% economic growth, but opposition MPs rubbished his claims, accus...Published: 08 Oct 2021 at 06:33hrs | 3467 | by Staff reporter
Govt threatens crackdown on businesses fuelling forex black market
GOVERNMENT has threatened to suspend operating licences for business entities manipulating the official foreign currency rate, thus fuelling the high parallel market exchange rate.In a stateme...Published: 08 Oct 2021 at 06:32hrs | 500 | by Staff reporter
27% Zimbabwean youth depressed, claims Unicef
AT least 27% of young people in Zimbabwe aged 15 to 24 are suffering from depression, some of it caused by COVID-19, a research conducted by the United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef) has revealed....Published: 08 Oct 2021 at 06:31hrs | 226 | by Staff reporter
Bosso hose down bloated salary schedule 'claims'
HIGHLANDERS have refuted reports that the delay in paying players' salaries was caused by the club sending a bloated list of employees to their new principal sponsors Sakunda Holdings.After ne...Published: 08 Oct 2021 at 06:27hrs | 215 | by Staff reporter
ZimAlloys to resume production next year
Zimbabwe Alloys (ZimAlloys), one of the country's largest ferrochrome producer is looking to re-start production during the first quarter of next year, an official has saidThe company owns thr...Published: 08 Oct 2021 at 06:24hrs | 291 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe scoffs at TV Show theft charges
THE host of the popular TV show 'Closure DNA' Global DNA Zimbabwe consultant, Tinashe Mugabe has rubbished claims he stole the paternity show concept from filmmaker Tanaka Dube.This comes afte...Published: 08 Oct 2021 at 06:19hrs | 180 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa is a hostage to military interests'
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's biographer Eddie Cross claims the Zanu-PF leader was a hostage to military interests for seven months after assuming power following a military coup in November 2017....Published: 07 Oct 2021 at 18:25hrs | 3118 | by Staff reporter
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