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Zimbabwe constitutional changes loom
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has made surprise changes in the Zanu-PF politburo - the party's supreme decision-making body - amid reports that he wants to move to amend the constitution to facilitate ...Published: 21 May 2024 at 17:01hrs | 28 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa wants two more years via backdoor
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa and his close political allies are now weighing the best constitutional and legal options to secure an additional two years in power outside an election when his second te...Published: 20 May 2024 at 16:41hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa reverses PV Sibanda appointment
President Emmerson Mnangagwa announced on Saturday that he had "stayed" his controversial appointment of Zimbabwe Defence Forces Commander General Philip Valerio Sibanda to the Zanu-PF politburo, just...Published: 18 Nov 2023 at 19:43hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Tony Blair pledges to support Zimbabwe's economic recovery?
FORMER British Prime Minister Tony Blair has made a major climbdown and pledged to support Zimbabwe's economic recovery by joining the anti-sanctions lobby to remove the punitive measures which he imp...Published: 17 Jul 2023 at 06:53hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Mliswa's sister swallow her pride after primaries defeat
IN a rare climbdown Mashonaland West Provincial Affairs Minister, Mary Mliswa-Chikoka, who recently lost in Zanu-PF parliamentary primary elections, has filed her curriculum vitae (CV) for considerati...Published: 01 Jun 2023 at 06:59hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa pledges to make a public apology for his role in the Gukurahundi genocide
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa in a closed-door meeting with chiefs on Monday at Bulawayo State House pledged to make a public apology for his role in the 1980s Gukurahundi genocide if the traditional l...Published: 23 Oct 2022 at 17:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa says Zimbabwe is nobody's little boy
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has revealed how the British made a major climbdown after he insisted that he could not sign the book of condolences for the late Queen Elizabeth II because Zimbabwe is under illeg...Published: 26 Sep 2022 at 05:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt in Pomona deal climbdown
GOVERNMENT was yesterday forced to make a U-turn on the Pomona waste management deal after the Harare City Council dug in and refused to pay for dumping waste at Pomona, now managed by the Netherlands...Published: 21 Jul 2022 at 06:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's CCC in Pomona deal climbdown?
THE opposition CCC-led Harare City Council yesterday made a volte-face on the €304 million Pomona Waste to Energy deal after weeks of politicking trying to reverse an agreement they had earlier sanc...Published: 19 Jul 2022 at 06:09hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Is Robert Mugabe Jnr playing the fool?
THE late former President Robert Mugabe's son, Robert Junior's recent endorsement of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government is seen as a climbdown meant to protect the late strongman's empire and s...Published: 28 Mar 2022 at 06:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
CBD parking fees furore escalates
THE public backlash against the Bulawayo City Council's contentious parking management system in the city centre continues to escalate with more residents blasting council for failure to adequately co...Published: 22 Mar 2022 at 05:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Council reduces parking fees
The Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has scrapped the US$1 per 30 minutes parking fee in the city centre to US$1 per hour for the whole city as from Monday, an amount residents say is still high.Wh...Published: 19 Mar 2022 at 06:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
BCC climbs down on parking deal
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) has succumbed to pressure from motorists and residents over a controversial vehicle parking scheme and announced 30% of the proceeds would now be channelled towards the reh...Published: 26 Feb 2022 at 18:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kazembe in climbdown over passport deal
HOME Affairs and Cultural Heritage Minister, Kazembe Kazembe has come off his high horse, repelling an earlier Statutory Instrument empowering CBZ Bank to unilaterally receive US$20 passport applicati...Published: 07 Jan 2022 at 19:36hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
FIFA fires warning shoots at Mnangagwa's son-in-law led SRC
Football world governing body FIFA has given Zimbabwe up to January 3 to reinstate the suspended ZIFA board or face sanctions, which could include the country's exclusion from the Africa Cup of Nation...Published: 24 Dec 2021 at 16:38hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe receives 1 million vaccines from WHO's COVAX
ZIMBABWE Friday took delivery of 943 200 Covid-19 vaccine doses from the Covid-19 Vaccines Global Access (COVAX) facility to complement the ongoing national vaccine programme.COVAX, is a world...Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZEC in major MDC Alliance climbdown
ZIMBABWE Electoral Commission (ZEC) has given opposition MDC Alliance the greenlight to attend its provincial meetings, NewZimbabwe.com has learnt.The Nelson Chamisa-led outfit had been barred...Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
July Moyo lifts suspension of Umguza councillors
LOCAL Government minister July Moyo has reversed the suspension of four Umguza Rural District Council (RDC) councillors after they took him to court.The ministry suspended David Moyo, Ernest S...Published: 17 Aug 2021 at 07:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Sikhala bids to end Zimbabwe's myriad challenges
FIREBRAND opposition grandee, Job "Wiwa" Sikhala, has joined other MDC bigwigs in calling for dialogue with President Emmerson Mnangagwa and Zanu-PF, to end the country's myriad challenges.Spe...Published: 04 Dec 2020 at 16:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Sikhala says 'It's time for talks with Mnangagwa'
FIREBRAND opposition grandee, Job "Wiwa" Sikhala, has joined other MDC bigwigs in calling for dialogue with President Emmerson Mnangagwa and Zanu-PF, to end the country's myriad challenges....Published: 03 Dec 2020 at 07:03hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Civil servants in major climbdown
HARD-PRESSED civil servants, who had been demanding a significant pay rise, made a surprise climbdown yesterday when they agreed to a 41 percent salary increment, just a week after they had rejected a...Published: 18 Nov 2020 at 20:21hrs | | by Staff writer
Lawyers call for Chief Justice Malaba probe
Chief Justice Luke Malaba brought "disgrace" to the bench after sitting in an appeal court where his judgement was being challenged, lawyers have said.The incident, back in 2016, has been desc...Published: 29 Oct 2020 at 06:21hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Matemadanda in major climbdown, calls for dialogue
IN an unprecedented development, the Defence deputy minister and Zanu-PF national commissar Victor Matemadanda has been forced to make a major climbdown from a threat that Zanu-PF would use any means ...Published: 15 Sep 2020 at 06:18hrs | | by Election Resource Centre
Zanu-PF in major climbdown
SOUTH African President Cyril Ramaphosa's emissaries yesterday held a closed-door meeting with Zanu-PF officials and later indicated that they would be back in the country "in a month"to engag...Published: 10 Sep 2020 at 07:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mutodi apologises for controversial comments on Ndebele nationhood
Deputy Information Minister Energy Mutodi was forced into a climbdown on Wednesday after he withdrew controversial comments which critics said questioned the nationality of the Ndebele people....Published: 05 Sep 2019 at 08:28hrs | | by ZimLive
Chamisa to change tact on demos
POLICE yesterday sealed off Gweru after banning a demonstration organised by the MDC with the opposition party making a climbdown on its earlier position to defy the prohibition order.The part...Published: 21 Aug 2019 at 07:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe retailers in major price climbdown
THE price hike madness that had manifested in the country in recent weeks appears to be dissipating with some of the major players in the economy starting to see reason following the gazetting of Stat...Published: 08 Jul 2019 at 07:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa makes major climbdown
One of MDC leader Nelson Chamisa's three deputies will be a woman after the party resolved to set aside the position for female candidates yesterday.Chamisa has been nominated unopposed by 11 ...Published: 29 Apr 2019 at 07:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa in major climbdown, drops hardline stance on Mnangagwa dialogue
MDC-Alliance president Mr Nelson Chamisa has made a major climb-down on his hardline stance against inter-party dialogue and called for an engagement between him and President Mnangagwa to tackle nati...Published: 22 Apr 2019 at 08:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Chamisa, Mnangagwa power-sharing not on the agenda'
Four political parties - Zanu-PF, MDC-Alliance, MDC-T and the National Patriotic Front - that are represented in Parliament, met in Bulawayo last weekend to lay the groundwork and set the agenda for t...Published: 22 Feb 2019 at 22:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa to testify before Commission
MDC-Alliance president Mr Nelson Chamisa has made a major climbdown after he was forced to abandon conditions he had set to testify before the Commission of Inquiry into the August 1 Post-Election Vio...Published: 26 Nov 2018 at 05:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa in major climbdown
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa is now amenable to appearing before a Commission of Inquiry investigating the post-election violence that killed at least six people in central Harare on August 1, the Daily ...Published: 20 Nov 2018 at 06:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
EU Observer Mission in climbdown over Zimbabwe elections?
The European Union Election Observer Mission to Zimbabwe's July 30, 2018, harmonised elections yesterday made a huge climb-down by admitting that Government had already implemented some of the recomme...Published: 17 Oct 2018 at 06:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube in tax climbdown
FINANCE Minister Mthuli Ncube yesterday unveiled several exemptions to the tax on monetary transfers saying the 2 cents per dollar tax will only apply to transactions of $10 and above while intra-comp...Published: 06 Oct 2018 at 09:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa looking at Mnangagwa's offer
OPPOSITION MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday said he was ready to weigh any offers tabled by President Emmerson Mnangagwa to enable them to work together for the good of the country, but ca...Published: 24 Sep 2018 at 10:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
I'll weigh ED's offer, says Chamisa
OPPOSITION MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday said he was ready to weigh any offers tabled by President Emmerson Mnangagwa to enable them to work together for the good of the country, but ca...Published: 24 Sep 2018 at 09:54hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Chamisa in embarrassing climbdown
MDC-Alliance leader Mr Nelson Chamisa has reportedly been forced to reverse his decision to fire newly-elected Masvingo mayor Advocate Collins Maboke from his post after residents in the country's old...Published: 20 Sep 2018 at 06:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mudede in humiliating climbdown over Gonda's passport blacklist
REGISTRAR-GENERAL (RG) Tobaiwa Mudede has made a U-turn and admitted that his officers erred by refusing to grant a passport to freelance journalist Violet Gonda, who had been blacklisted by the gover...Published: 13 Sep 2018 at 16:36hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Mugabe in major climbdown over Mnangagwa
Former President Robert Mugabe yesterday made a major climbdown, saying said he now recognised President Emmerson Mnangagwa's leadership after the latter won the July 30 elections.Mugabe, who ...Published: 07 Sep 2018 at 07:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa chickens out on vows to defy rally ban
MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa and his party weekend went back on their vows to proceed with their banned ‘thank you' rally which was set for Mbizo in Kwekwe on Sunday.Police last week b...Published: 03 Sep 2018 at 13:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa abandons rally
MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday abandoned his planned Kwekwe "thank you" rally, diffusing a potentially explosive situation after his supporters had vowed to disregard a police ban issued...Published: 03 Sep 2018 at 06:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mliswa's double standards exposed
Norton Member of Parliament Mr Temba Mliswa's double standards have been exposed after making a major climbdown on the conditions of service for legislators where he has of late been vocal demanding t...Published: 08 Nov 2017 at 05:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe in dilemma
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe is in a dilemma on how to deal with Prosecutor-General-in-waiting, Ray Goba, who is yet to take the oath of office almost a month after his appointment through an Extraordinary...Published: 05 Oct 2017 at 06:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Cabinet battle looms
GOVERNMENT has virtually admitted that the country's economic blueprint, the Zimbabwe Agenda for Sustainable Socio-Economic Transformation (ZimAsset), has all but failed and is now dead in the water. ...Published: 19 May 2017 at 15:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mphoko on Gukurahundi climbdown
Vice-President Phelekezela Mphoko has made a dramatic u-turn on Gukurahundi telling members of the late Chief Masuku's family in Nzula, Nathisa in Matobo district that people buried in shallow g...Published: 03 Apr 2017 at 03:55hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Temba Mliswa in climbdown
Norton National Assembly Member Temba Mliswa, who vowed not to accept a parliamentary vehicle last year saying it was a waste of taxpayers' money, has now applied to have one. Mliswa, an i...Published: 06 Dec 2016 at 08:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo disowns ZimAsset
Zanu PF trusted propagandist Professor Jonathan Moyo this morning made a stunning climbdown as he disowned Zanu PF election blueprint - ZimAsset.Moyo crafted the wish list 2013 election pamphl...Published: 10 May 2016 at 07:20hrs | | by Thobekile Zhou
Tsvangirai backtracks on election boycott
Opposition MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai has made climbdown in his controversial election boycott stance.He said his party will now contest the 2018 general polls despite its "No Reforms, No ...Published: 01 May 2016 at 08:07hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Mugabe's nephew launches scathing attack on foreign investors
YOUTH Development, Indigenisation and Empowerment Minister Patrick Zhuwao has launched a scathing attack on would-be foreign investors, accusing them of wanting to loot the country, press reports said...Published: 26 Dec 2015 at 08:09hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Misihairabwi-Mushonga survives MDC purge
THE MDC led by Professor Welshman Ncube has reportedly made a climbdown on attempts to fire its proportional representation legislator Priscilla Misihairabwi-Mushonga after the party failed to make a ...Published: 23 Sep 2015 at 06:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
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