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Canaan Banana's widow seriously ill
Former first lady Janet Banana is seriously ill and is seeking medical treatment.The 83-year-old wife of Zimbabwe's first post-independence president Canaan Sodindo Banana is being taken care ...Published: 12 Apr 2019 at 08:23hrs | 1966 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora goes after Chamisa's job
FORMER Nyanga North MP and MDC secretary general Douglas Mwonzora has finally emerged from his closet and declared his readiness to wrestle current party president Nelson Chamisa for the country's big...Published: 11 Apr 2019 at 07:28hrs | 7586 | by newzimbabwe
Facing national challenges: None but ourselves
In mid-March Zimbabwe together with Malawi and Mozambique fell victim to the violent and destructive Cyclone Idai which killed hundreds of people and left thousands displaced in these three southern A...Published: 08 Apr 2019 at 15:31hrs | 318 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Facing national challenges: None but ourselves
In mid-March Zimbabwe together with Malawi and Mozambique fell victim to the violent and destructive Cyclone Idai which killed hundreds of people and left thousands displaced in these three southern A...Published: 08 Apr 2019 at 12:17hrs | 135 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Mtukudzi did not leave a will, 4 more children emerge
CONTROVERSY continues to stalk the family of the late national hero, Dr Oliver "Tuku" Mtukudzi, as the entire clan gathers today in Madziva to decide how the vast wealth the singer left behind will be...Published: 07 Apr 2019 at 08:28hrs | 5914 | by Staff reporter
You ain't a saint Mr Mugabe
Reading through Jealousy Mawarire's Twitter handle, the alleged to utterances of former president Robert Mugabe on his birthday celebrations, one can see a clear confirmation that the old man's anger ...Published: 27 Feb 2019 at 13:55hrs | 3258 | by Tafara Shumba
Mzembi puts $2m mansion for sale
Former Cabinet Minister Walter Mzembi has put his palatial Harare mansion on the market for a princely $2 million amid speculation the 55-year-old politician is finalising moves to flee the country to...Published: 24 Feb 2019 at 06:37hrs | 1648 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga's coup strategy exposed
FEAR of treason charges and a possible counter-coup that then Justice minister Happyton Bonyongwe tried to set up around now Agriculture minister Retired Chief Air Marshal Perrance Shiri spurred delic...Published: 14 Feb 2019 at 07:17hrs | 5194 | by Staff reporter
5 of the most expensive apartments throughout the world
Today's luxury apartments are designed to provide you with ample space, top amenities, beautifully appointed rooms and balconies, flawless landscaping, stunning views and other features all in a prize...Published: 04 Feb 2019 at 21:21hrs | 581 | by Staff reporter
Why Dan Tshanda became Bulawayo's darling
WHILE he was never shy to talk about his roots, few knew that Dan Tshanda, the music legend and founder of the music movement known as Splash, was actually of Shona extraction from Zimbabwe.Th...Published: 13 Jan 2019 at 07:48hrs | 1127 | by Bruce Ndlovu
It's cold out there Jonathan Moyo
Those living in glass houses should not throw stones! This should have been a guiding adage to Prof Jonathan Moyo before he tried to expose the so called skeletons in Strive Masiyiwa's closet....Published: 11 Jan 2019 at 06:39hrs | 5536 | by Brightface Mutema
Jonathan Moyo exposes Strive Masiyiwa's Zanu-PF links?
Exiled former G40 Kingpin and Robert Mugabe's spin doctor Professor Jonathan Moyo who had threatened to expose embattled telecoms guru Strive Masiyiwa of being a two-timer who played double standards ...Published: 07 Jan 2019 at 16:15hrs | 7067 | by Ndou Paul
BREAKING: Jonathan Moyo spills the beans on Strive Masiyiwa
Exiled former G40 Kingpin Jonathan Moyo has come out guns blazing against telecoms guru Strive Masiyiwa. In a series of Twitter thread Moyo revealed how Masiyiwa has always been a staunch supporter of...Published: 07 Jan 2019 at 15:53hrs | 20963 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Democrat or Closet Dictator
As I reflect on what is going on in Zimbabwe, I could not help but turn to the best democratic nation in the world - USA. As I embarked on this journey, I had many questions on my mind and just wonder...Published: 29 Dec 2018 at 14:37hrs | 1789 | by Sam Wezhira
Chiwenga wants to be Zimbabwe president before 2023
Combative Vice President, Rtd General Constantino Chiwenga, is reportedly on his way to become president of the country and first secretary of the ruling Zanu-PF party before the next election slated ...Published: 25 Nov 2018 at 09:15hrs | 5542 | by Itai Mushekwe
Zifa elections in doubt
It's six days before the Zifa elections, but the end of a battle between the disqualified aspiring office bearers Felton Kamambo and Gift Banda and the national association, led by businessman Phillip...Published: 25 Nov 2018 at 08:39hrs | 593 | by Staff reporter
Ginimbi, Wicknell and the evolution of Zimbabwe's flamboyant businessman
WHEN Zimbabwe's Minister of Finance Mthuli Ncube announced the country's highly anticipated budget last Thursday, it would have been interesting to have been a fly on the wall in the residences of the...Published: 25 Nov 2018 at 08:26hrs | 2761 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga to be Zimbabwe president before 2023 heartbeat away
COLOGNE - Combative Vice President, Rtd General Constantino Chiwenga, is reportedly on his way to become president of the country and first secretary of the ruling Zanu PF party before the next electi...Published: 23 Nov 2018 at 07:11hrs | 24580 | by Itai Mushekwe
Mnangagwa faces Mugabe-style coup - Report
COLOGNE/HARARE - President Emmerson Mnangagwa is increasingly behind the eight ball, amid disclosures that his presidency could be on the line, as the opposition and his closet internal ruling party f...Published: 02 Nov 2018 at 07:53hrs | 25423 | by Itai Mushekwe/Mary-Kate Kahari
EXCLUSIVE: Mnangagwa wins Zimbabwe Presidential Election through the barrel of a gun
HARARE - Caretaker leader, Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa, is all but almost certain to be announced the winner of today's historic presidential election, by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) by lu...Published: 30 Jul 2018 at 07:09hrs | 12047 | by Mary-Kate Kahari- Zimbabwe Editor
Brutish and Ferocious 'Crocodile' your time is up to vacate Munhumutapa Building
With less than 5 days before Zimbabweans cast their votes for the make or break presidential elections on July 30, it is important especially for those in the rural areas to punish Emmerson Munangagwa...Published: 28 Jul 2018 at 12:55hrs | 1713 | by Knowledge Hakata
Gukurahundi skeletons tumble out of the closet
AS Zimbabwe inches towards critical general elections on Monday, skeletons of Gukurahundi massacres - which remain an emotive political and electoral issue in the country - are tumbling out of the clo...Published: 27 Jul 2018 at 11:19hrs | 2046 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe, yet another opportunity gone begging? Possibly?
November, 2018, another heart stopping moment for Zimbabwe. Could that be the long awaited moment? Many wondered. The long dreamed about dawn when the nation would rediscover its soul? Hadn't the nati...Published: 27 Jul 2018 at 06:51hrs | 426 | by Dr Ralph Mguni
The dirty truth about OIL
What does "oil" make you think of? Do "invasions" and "emissions" top your list? Why have leaders thought it worth spilling so much blood for the sake of this pungent mud? And why has it been so hard ...Published: 26 Jul 2018 at 10:13hrs | 2594 | by Erick Matotoba
Chamisa legitimising neo-colonialism
Because Mother Africa's children residing at home and abroad are paying extremely close attention to Zimbabwe's upcoming harmonised elections, the individual profiles of the candidates will automatica...Published: 20 Jul 2018 at 07:33hrs | 439 | by Obi Egbuna Jnr Simunye
Mr. Biti, A snake cannot outrun its head
I am not writing this article as a disrespect for Tendai Biti but to bring to the fore how he has helped the status core to prevail. Biti has been a figure associated with opposition politics but not ...Published: 19 Jul 2018 at 19:46hrs | 3169 | by Sam Wezhira
Chamisa, Mnangagwa shut door on gays
President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his main rival, Nelson Chamisa, have both shut the door on gay rights, saying same-sex marriage remains banned in Zimbabwe.This comes after Zimbabwe's gays and...Published: 13 Jul 2018 at 08:33hrs | 3956 | by Staff reporter
2018 elections, implications on Ndebele
Parliamentary representation has not helped Ndebele speaking territories much since attainment of independence. For a good hopeless 25 years or more Zanu PF MPs and ministers playing the tune of that ...Published: 09 Jul 2018 at 12:09hrs | 1776 | by Sazi Ntozonke
Mnangagwa's lies exposed
Mnangagwa's government has come under fire after it availed the electronic voters roll Zanu-PF and the British embassy in Harare while opposition parties were asked to wait for a printed copy....Published: 19 Jun 2018 at 09:27hrs | 3556 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa grooming Kasukuwere as Zanu PF And Presidential Successor
President Emmerson Mnangagwa, is reportedly grooming former Mugabe cabinet minister and ousted Zanu PF political commissar, Saviour Kasukuwere, to be his preferred ruling party successor and possible ...Published: 15 Jun 2018 at 07:21hrs | 14972 | by Itai Mushekwe
Charamba was Sodindo Banana's 'closet aide' - Jonathan Moyo
FORMER higher education minister, Jonathan Moyo and President Emmerson Mnangagwa's spokesperson George Charamba are, once again, at each other's throats, with Moyo insinuating he was privy to details ...Published: 22 May 2018 at 07:20hrs | 5854 | by Staff reporter
Job Sakala: As worst as they come!
The Editor,On 18 April 2018, Tendai Biti was quoted as saying, "Zimbabwe's elections scheduled to take place this year will be the most important in a generation and critical to restoring demo...Published: 16 May 2018 at 13:23hrs | 2811 | by Wezhira Sam
Mengistu now Chiwenga's special VP advisor
COLOGNE- Exiled and fallen Ethiopian autarch, Mengistu Haile Mariam, who is thought to have had an invisible hand in last November's Operation Restore Legacy, which was launched by the military to ous...Published: 27 Apr 2018 at 05:50hrs | 16380 | by Itai Mushekwe
Skeletons falling out of ZANU PF closet
Skeletons are falling out of the closet as a smear campaign hits ZANU PF Mazowe North constituency with some aspiring candidates plotting to sabotage the party if they lose the primaries ahead of the ...Published: 25 Apr 2018 at 22:22hrs | 4670 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Mnangagwa using military's 'spider-web' campaign strategy
RM: Your appointment as ZANU-PF national political commissar was hailed by war veterans and other party membership as a positive development. What are your priority areas of concern?ER: I was ...Published: 21 Apr 2018 at 11:57hrs | 1696 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: 'I saved my mom's contact number as 'Gucci Grace'
Grace Mugabe's son jokingly said that he saved his mother's contact number as "Gucci Grace" - before laughing and retracting the during an interview with a local radio station, Zim Metro.Rober...Published: 16 Apr 2018 at 12:09hrs | 5480 | by Staff reporter
Robert Mugabe jnr speaks out
Robert Mugabe Jnr has revealed that people need to stop complaining about pricing and must simply work hard to afford the things that they wish to buy. In an interview with a South African radio stati...Published: 11 Apr 2018 at 19:17hrs | 38287 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa can't touch Grace Mugabe
Grace Mugabe visited Gwina Farm - one of her numerous farms - in Banket in late February and said something telling. She boldly told her farm workers who were demanding their terminal benefits that sh...Published: 01 Apr 2018 at 15:03hrs | 1606 | by Tawanda Majoni
The NPF-Mugabe factor in 2018 polls
The emergence of the National Patriotic Front (NPF) led by the former minister of state for Mashonaland East provincial affairs, Retired Brigadier-General Ambrose Mutinhiri, has created possibilities ...Published: 29 Mar 2018 at 14:00hrs | 1483 | by ZDI RESEARCH INSTITUTE
Drawing parallels between the ZANU PF and ANC recalls, the issue of Constitutional order
Whether this is by design or it is the swinging pendulum of fortune swinging in reverse it stands to be seen. The ANC has had two recalls in successive Presidencies. This is the biggest problem Africa...Published: 26 Mar 2018 at 12:25hrs | 676 | by Dr Vusumuzi Sibanda
China, Russia and Iran helping Zimbabwe to set-up own NSA
COLOGNE - Zimbabwe is reportedly on the brink of setting up a powerful multi-million dollar sophisticated surveillance system facility, said to be similar in function to the National Security Agency (...Published: 23 Mar 2018 at 07:13hrs | 5178 | by Itai Mushekwe
Mayor, councillors clash over stands
MUTARE mayor - Councillor Tatenda Nhamarare - has ordered the Town Clerk, Mr Joshua Maligwa, to immediately present a report that details all the stands that were allocated to sitting councillors at t...Published: 23 Mar 2018 at 07:07hrs | 315 | by Staff reporter
'Zanu-PF a cult'
The ruling Zanu-PF party is a cult where one is safe as long as he/she remains part of the group and vilified the moment they jump ship, analysts have said.Several former Zanu-PF officials hav...Published: 18 Mar 2018 at 10:00hrs | 2128 | by Staff reporter
'Mugabe will be treated just like anyone,' says Khaya Moyo
Former president Robert Mugabe, who allegedly seized 21 commercial farms during his reign, faces the spectre of losing 20 of those farms as the new administration moves to recover property reportedly ...Published: 07 Mar 2018 at 13:19hrs | 7597 | by Staff reporter
Emmerson Mnangagwa is not Robert Mugabe
Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa (EDM) is not cut from the same cloth as Robert Gabriel Mugabe (RGM). While they participated in the war of liberation that was meant to bring true freedom and prosperity to...Published: 14 Dec 2017 at 17:12hrs | 7918 | by Sam Wezhira
Simon Khaya-Moyo to become 2nd Vice President of Zimbabwe - report
Father Zimbabwe, the late Dr Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo's former aide and, now ruling Zanu PF's information and publicity secretary, Simon Khaya-Moyo, is reportedly poised to become one of the two vice pres...Published: 13 Dec 2017 at 06:59hrs | 20562 | by Itai Mushekwe
Mugabe's skeletons tumble out of the closet
FORMER president Robert Mugabe and his wife Grace are leasing out land they controversially seized from Interfresh Holdings Ltd's Mazoe citrus estate a few years ago to local businessman Hamish Rudlan...Published: 08 Dec 2017 at 09:10hrs | 12004 | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe's rages set off army semi-coup
Nobody is safe from the rages of Zimbabwe's first lady, "Dr Amai" Grace Mugabe. There was the young South African model Grace lashed with extension cords. The 93-year-old President Robert Mugabe's lon...Published: 17 Nov 2017 at 08:59hrs | 5939 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's silence worrisome
THAT Zimbabwe is on the cusp of a military coup is out of question after the Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) Commander, General Constantino Chiwenga, called President Robert Mugabe to stop Zanu-PF succe...Published: 15 Nov 2017 at 09:49hrs | 4345 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa is in Pretoria
Sources say Mnangagwa is in South Africa. Police in Mutare have leaked a radio communication which confirms that they were on Tuesday ordered to stop him leaving the country for Mozambique.The...Published: 14 Nov 2017 at 08:00hrs | 13448 | by Staff reporter
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