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Chamisa's MDC woos Sadc on dialogue
AS THE push for Zimbabwe's much-needed national dialogue continues to gather steam, the opposition said yesterday that it was important for Sadc and the African Union to help midwife the mooted talks....Published: 1 hr ago | 308 | by Staff reporter
Sexgate claims VP Mohadi
VICE-PRESIDENT Kembo Mohadi (71), who has been battling a series of sex scandals allegedly involving married women, his aides and students, yesterday resigned to "save government's image".In a...Published: 02 Mar 2021 at 06:51hrs | 6525 | by Staff reporter
Foreign direct investment dries up
FOREIGN investment inflows to Zimbabwe last year fell by 23.7% to US$40.06 million compared to the same period in the previous year, with analysts attributing the decline to the outbreak of Covid-19 p...Published: 28 Feb 2021 at 15:33hrs | 1075 | by Staff reporter
Musona bounces back
ZIMBABWE have received a major injury boost ahead of next month's decisive 2021 Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) football qualifiers with Warriors captain Knowledge Musona expected to make a long-awaited...Published: 28 Feb 2021 at 08:54hrs | 340 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa and the deconstruction of the anecdote of Matabeleland marginalisation
History is replete with many memories of pre and post-independence pains endured by our people. Against this backdrop, even with the Lancaster Conference right up to the Unity Accord of 1987 the natio...Published: 28 Feb 2021 at 08:44hrs | 196 | by Richard Runyararo Mahomva
Govt readies to open schools
THE Government has assured learners that this year's Zimbabwe Schools Examination Council (Zimsec) June examinations will go ahead, noting the need for the education sector to adjust to the reality of...Published: 28 Feb 2021 at 08:43hrs | 2509 | by Staff reporter
Khupe knows how to raise her concerns, says Mwonzora
MDC-T President Douglas Mwonzora says his aggrieved deputy Thokozani Khupe is very much aware of how she can raise any complaints she has than using social media platforms to vent her frustrations....Published: 28 Feb 2021 at 08:41hrs | 1000 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF internal battles escalate
The November 2017 Operation Restore Legacy changed the top echelon of political power in the country. Many business persons, politicians and politically exposed persons sponsored and supported the pro...Published: 26 Feb 2021 at 14:24hrs | 1959 | by Anonymous Writer
Mamombe press conference snubbed
Harare West legislator, Joana Mamombe's press conference which was aimed at calling for the release of Makomborero Haruzivishe, has been snubbed by many who called the legislator to order and lead the...Published: 26 Feb 2021 at 13:27hrs | 2163 | by Political Writer
SA lacks the will to rescue Zimbabwe
IN any discussion on the political and economic crisis in Zimbabwe, the need for South Africa's mediation to find resolution is invariably raised. Calls for South African involvement are getting loude...Published: 26 Feb 2021 at 06:52hrs | 930 | by Tendai Dumbutshena
Mohadi efforts at denial pathetic
ZIMBABWE is finding itself caught in the sexual proclivities of its top leadership and regaled by the phone calls allegedly between the Vice-President of the country and two married women, all in the ...Published: 26 Feb 2021 at 06:37hrs | 955 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora says all land barons are from Zanu-PF
MDC-T leader Douglas Mwonzora, who has recalled dozens of rival MDC Alliance councilors over the past several months alleging involvement in corrupt land deals, now says all land barons are from Zanu-...Published: 24 Feb 2021 at 16:53hrs | 1202 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora, Khupe rift widens?
THE rift between underfire MDCT leader Douglas Mwonzora and Thokozani Khupe over the party presidency widened yesterday with the latter demanding a rerun of the internal polls.This was after M...Published: 24 Feb 2021 at 05:54hrs | 5256 | by Staff reporter
Khupe dismisses Mwonzora claims she has accepted VP post
FORMER MDC-T interim president Thokozani Khupe has dismissed Douglas Mwonzora's claims she has finally accepted the outcome of the tempestuous December 27, 2020 party extraordinary congress in which s...Published: 23 Feb 2021 at 20:24hrs | 2992 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora ramps up dialogue push
OPPOSITION leader Douglas Mwonzora will tomorrow name the MDC team that will lead the party's planned national dialogue with President Emmerson Mnangagwa and other key stakeholders in the country....Published: 23 Feb 2021 at 20:23hrs | 1479 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora, Khupe reconcile
MDC-T leader Douglas Mwonzora says he has reconciled with his rival Thokozani Khupe. "We have resolved her issues," Mwonzora tells a press conference. Khupe, according to Mwonzora, has...Published: 23 Feb 2021 at 11:53hrs | 7544 | by Staff reporter
Magashule Houdini act, a Damascus moment to Zimbabwean politics
ANC secretary-general Ace Magashule pulled a fast one this past week when he took a swipe at his party's national executive committee saying that only party branches can remove him from his position. ...Published: 22 Feb 2021 at 21:05hrs | 1381 | by Taruberekera Masara in Pretoria
Covid-19 pandemic grounds Zanu-PF
FINANCE and Economic Development minister Mthuli Ncube boycotted the Zanu-PF politburo on Wednesday, where the party's top brass spent hours discussing the dire state of the economy and how the ...Published: 20 Feb 2021 at 19:05hrs | 1507 | by Staff reporter
Sinovac vaccine works on UK, South African variants - Brazil institute
The COVID-19 vaccine developed by China's Sinovac Biotech is effective against the UK and South African variants, the vaccine's Brazilian partner said on Wednesday, citing test results in Chinese tria...Published: 18 Feb 2021 at 06:28hrs | 1711 | by Staff reporter
Was November 2017 a false start for Zimbabwe?
THEN there was the incident in New York on 9/11, I drove into the garden of my daughter and her husband and they shouted at me to come and see what was happening.I walked into the house and sa...Published: 17 Feb 2021 at 20:19hrs | 1096 | by Eddie Cross
Zanu-PF tears into Chamisa's MDC
ZANU-PF says the MDC is now operating from "the last chance saloon" to work with the former liberation movement and other political parties in the interests of the country and its long-suffering citiz...Published: 15 Feb 2021 at 18:18hrs | 1777 | by Staff reporter
Ex-minister's US$400k case raises eyebrows
The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) has allegedly been sitting on a dossier implicating former Labour and Social Welfare minister in the siphoning of public funds for over two years amid cl...Published: 14 Feb 2021 at 09:50hrs | 1432 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF Midlands leaders panic as Mliswa goes back to his roots
CONTROVERSIAL Norton independent MP Temba Mliswa has caused a political storm in his Midlands home province by commissioning various development projects in his village amid growing speculation and fe...Published: 13 Feb 2021 at 14:57hrs | 5341 | by Staff reporter
Mliswa complains about police abuse of law
OUTSPOKEN Norton independent legislator Temba Mliswa, who appeared in court today, says police are abusing the law by arresting him for allegedly violating Covid-19 lockdown regulations following a pr...Published: 13 Feb 2021 at 14:54hrs | 1100 | by Staff reporter
Geoff Nyarota revisits Willowgate scandal
I WAS at the time two months short of 38 years of age and a little-known editor of The Chronicle, the Bulawayo-based daily newspaper.In a building in our neighbourhood in central Bulawayo was ...Published: 13 Feb 2021 at 14:49hrs | 1282 | by Geoff Nyarota
Mliswa speaks on homosexuality
Norton Member of Parliament Temba Mliswa dismissed reports that he is homosexual at a press conference held at his Borrowdale house on Thursday."It is unfortunate that the person alleged to be...Published: 13 Feb 2021 at 09:17hrs | 3956 | by Tarisai Mudahondo
ZUJ blasts Mliswa over threats against media
The Zimbabwe Union of Journalists (ZUJ) has blasted the legislator for Norton Temba Mliswa for issuing threats against journalists and the media after the expose of his bitter fight with his estranged...Published: 12 Feb 2021 at 15:57hrs | 1171 | by Stephen Jakes
Mliswa refutes plot to assassinate Mnangagwa's son
OUTSPOKEN Norton legislator Temba Mliswa has rubbished a litany of accusations from an "emotional" former lover, Susan Mutami including a claim he was plotting to assassinate President Emmerson Mnanga...Published: 12 Feb 2021 at 05:56hrs | 4708 | by Staff reporter
Come to Polad, says Madhuku
National Constitutional Assembly (NCA) leader and constitutional law expert Professor Lovemore Madhuku has said the provision for authentic political dialogue is only through the Political Actors Dial...Published: 12 Feb 2021 at 05:35hrs | 815 | by Staff reporter
Mliswa exposes plot to destroy Mnangagwa
DETAINED Norton Independent MP Temba Mliswa has implicated State Security Minister Owen ‘Mudha' and his Local Government colleague July Moyo of plotting destroy President Emmerson Mnangagwa's politi...Published: 12 Feb 2021 at 05:33hrs | 4248 | by Staff reporter
Africa CDC backs 'useless' AstraZeneca vaccine
African countries that have not reported the circulation of the 501Y.V2 coronavirus variant first identified in South Africa should proceed with the rollout of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine, the Af...Published: 11 Feb 2021 at 18:41hrs | 1161 | by Staff reporter
Mliswa attacks State security minister
Norton Member of Parliament Temba Mliswa aired negative sentiments towards State security minister Ncube (Mudha) during a press conference held at his Borrowdale house today.Mliswa exposed the...Published: 11 Feb 2021 at 18:41hrs | 3798 | by Tarisai Mudahondo
Can we use ZUMBANI A traditional medicine for treatment of COVID19?
The World Health Organization (WHO) defines traditional medicine as "the sum total of the knowledge, skills, and practices based on the theories, beliefs, and experiences indigenous to different cultu...Published: 11 Feb 2021 at 18:15hrs | 965 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Mliswa arrested at his press conference
CONTROVERSIAL Norton MP Temba Mliswa has been arrested at his Borrowdale residence in Harare in full view of over a dozen journalists.Mliswa was addressing journalists following his messy brea...Published: 11 Feb 2021 at 10:09hrs | 6734 | by Staff reporter
Mliswa to hold an explosive press conference at 10AM today
Outspoken Independent Norton MP Temba Mliswa will today 10 AM hold an explosive press conference at his Borrowdale home in Harare to expose what he says is a "security plot by a minister" to disc...Published: 11 Feb 2021 at 07:12hrs | 5906 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe must embrace 'spirit of optimism and confidence'
IT is my singular honour and privilege to have been invited to address this virtual Africa Reconstruction Global Summit organised by the World Economic Congress.The theme of this conference, Colla...Published: 10 Feb 2021 at 06:16hrs | 183 | by ED Mnangagwa
Land probe opens can of worms
GOVERNMENT'S latest blitz on land barons has exposed serious political undercurrents, with one of the suspected barons, Wellington Peyama, sensationally claiming that he was being hounded by Housing a...Published: 09 Feb 2021 at 06:43hrs | 1277 | by Staff reporter
Talks between Mnangagwa and the opposition is now inevitable
DIALOGUE between President Emmerson Mnangagwa and the opposition is now inevitable, and also remains the best way to ending Zimbabwe's decades-long myriad challenges, professor of World Politics at th...Published: 08 Feb 2021 at 19:12hrs | 3561 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa moving to tighten his dead man's grip on power
AFTER his initial daring purges of military commanders who propelled him to power through a military coup in November 2017, President Emmerson Mnangagwa is now capitalising on political contingency an...Published: 06 Feb 2021 at 16:26hrs | 2567 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora appoints team to work on national dialogue strategy
OPPOSITION leader Douglas Mwonzora has now appointed a formal MDC committee to work on a strategy to engage the ruling Zanu-PF and other key stakeholders in the country, as his push for all-inclusive ...Published: 06 Feb 2021 at 16:19hrs | 541 | by Staff reporter
New Zimbabwean political party to launch shadow councils
A NEWLY formed political party, Patriotic Zimbabweans, says it will soon unveil shadow councils throughout the country to ensure service delivery.The party, led by the United States based reti...Published: 06 Feb 2021 at 16:18hrs | 638 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa administration: Comedy of errors
GENESIS 3 v 9-11 (NIV), "But the Lord God called the man, where are you? He answered: I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid."This is the first time in the B...Published: 06 Feb 2021 at 07:06hrs | 438 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Tanzania will not vaccinate citizens against Covid-19
Tanzania's government, which has been criticised for its handling of the pandemic, has no plans to rollout Covid vaccines, the health minister says.The comments come days after President John ...Published: 03 Feb 2021 at 05:53hrs | 1344 | by BBC
Where is Comrade Albert Matapo?
We always realize extremely late that we the general populace is taken for a ride by people without any conscience, unscrupulous chancers in politics who masquerade as genuine revolutionaries and yet ...Published: 31 Jan 2021 at 08:20hrs | 1031 | by Nomazulu Thata
Zimondi: A brave, ice-cool war commander
Major General (Retired) Paradzai "Tonderai Nyika" Zimondi was the pinnacle of ZANLA's military prowess.He commanded the ZANLA positional guerrilla forces during the battle of Mavonde, a.k.a Mo...Published: 31 Jan 2021 at 06:50hrs | 419 | by Ambassador Christopher Mutsvangwa
Chamisa movie on 'rigged' 2018 elections released
AMERICA just scraped through an election where the President of the United States and a radical sect of his colleagues and constituents incorrectly claimed that there was fraud that resulted in the Re...Published: 31 Jan 2021 at 06:46hrs | 1882 | by Slash Film
China introduces anal swabs to screen COVID-19 infections
BEIJING - Some Chinese cities are using samples taken from the anus to detect potential COVID-19 infections as China steps up screening to make sure no potential carrier of the new coronavirus is miss...Published: 29 Jan 2021 at 10:11hrs | 4019 | by Reuters
Alarming numbers of false COVID-19 tests
THERE are alarming numbers of false COVID-19 test results due to the fact that the new strain of the virus is difficult to pick during routine testing, an expert has said.This was disclosed ye...Published: 27 Jan 2021 at 06:00hrs | 832 | by Staff reporter
SB Moyo: Epitome of Zimbabwe revolution's finest cadre
Comrade Sibusiso Moyo, the General of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces who pronounced the demise of the four decade-old Mugabe dictatorship in November is no more. Comrade SB Moyo, what a journey we have t...Published: 23 Jan 2021 at 06:21hrs | 567 | by Ambassador Christopher Mutsvangwa
Mnangagwa to cut his leave
President Mnangagwa will cut his leave tomorrow to preside over the joint burial of national heroes Moton Malianga and Dr Ellen Gwaradzimba at the National Heroes' Acre, showing the importance he atta...Published: 20 Jan 2021 at 07:10hrs | 10470 | by Staff reporter
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