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Mnangagwa's legitimacy crisis deepens
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's legitimacy crisis stemming from the contested victory in the August 23 election is intensifying, as it becomes apparent that the Southern African Development Community (...Published: 24 Sep 2023 at 18:49hrs | 4149 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's top aide claims he was shot in the face during Zimbabwe's bush war
Anywhere Mutambudzi, the Chief Director of Strategic Communications in the Office of the President and Cabinet, has appealed to fellow social media users to refrain from making disparaging comments ab...Published: 24 Sep 2023 at 11:49hrs | 2000 | by Staff reporter
Urgent Call for adoption of Regional Counter-Terrorism Strategy by member states
The Southern African Development Community (SADC) region has long been considered a safe haven from the threat of terrorism. However, recent developments, particularly the insurgency in Mozambique, ha...Published: 23 Sep 2023 at 21:13hrs | 502 | by Nicholas Ncube
SADC leaders to close ranks on Zimbabwe in New York
Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa is planning to hold meetings with southern African heads of state who are currently attending the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA78) in New York.T...Published: 21 Sep 2023 at 13:24hrs | 1344 | by Staff reporter
PPC consolidates shareholding in Zimbabwe unit
Cement manufacturer PPC has increased its shareholding in its Zimbabwean unit to 90% by repurchasing shares previously held by various indigenisation parties. The shares were repurchased at a price of...Published: 21 Sep 2023 at 06:16hrs | 171 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa has a solid plan
Opposition leader Nelson Chamisa of the Citizens' Coalition for Change (CCC) has revitalized the dwindling hopes of millions of Zimbabweans who had lost faith in the prospect of a change in government...Published: 18 Sep 2023 at 07:03hrs | 3944 | by Staff reporter
Student takes Zimsec to court over results
A FORMER pupil at Drake High School in Torwood, Redcliff, has taken the Zimbabwe Schools Examination Council (Zimsec) to court for allegedly failing to release his November 2020 Ordinary Level results...Published: 18 Sep 2023 at 06:57hrs | 447 | by Staff reporter
Mobile telecom firms expand LTE network
Zimbabwe's telecommunication firms are drifting away from older-generation mobile technology in favour of faster fourth-generation wireless technology, which offers high capacity, faster download and ...Published: 18 Sep 2023 at 06:56hrs | 103 | by Staff reporter
Congo denies coup attempt reports, reassures public
The Congo Brazzaville government has denied reports of a coup attempt against President Denis Nguesso, who has been in power for 38 years.The government's denial came after Information Ministe...Published: 18 Sep 2023 at 06:55hrs | 377 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe on the Sadc radar?
The Southern African Development Community (Sadc) is currently deeply involved in addressing the post-election crisis in Zimbabwe, which has caused divisions within the nation and the region, while al...Published: 17 Sep 2023 at 22:13hrs | 683 | by Staff reporter
An account of Zimbabwe's elections of August 2023
I HAVE been present at Zimbabwean elections since 1980. The independence elections of that year followed intense negotiations first in Lusaka, Zambia, and then in London over the latter part of ...Published: 14 Sep 2023 at 16:24hrs | 613 | by Stephen Chan
CCC will find it hard to lobbying on the disputed polls while its MPs are in parliament
Despite the flaws in Zimbabwe's recent elections, it may be challenging for the opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) to exert regional pressure on the ruling Zanu-PF, according to a seminar ...Published: 13 Sep 2023 at 19:00hrs | 383 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa could potentially thwart Sadc emergency summit on Zimbabwe lobby efforts
Despite Zimbabwean authorities' strong criticism of Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema and the SADC Election Observer Mission, led by Nevers Mumba, for their rejection of Zimbabwe's recent election ...Published: 11 Sep 2023 at 21:34hrs | 1392 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa blows US$1m on inauguration
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's government reportedly blew more than US$1 million for his inauguration in Harare last week as he continues to flaunt the extravagance which characterised his nationwide ...Published: 11 Sep 2023 at 06:30hrs | 954 | by Staff reporter
SADC countries to link digital fingerprint system with population registers?
The Gauteng government and regional bloc SADC [Southern African Development Community] representatives have agreed to link immigrants to the Digital Fingerprint System so that undocumented migrants ca...Published: 10 Sep 2023 at 14:53hrs | 710 | by Staff reporter
African Union becomes permanent member of G-20
The group of the world's 20 leading economies is welcoming the African Union as a permanent member, a powerful acknowledgement of Africa as its more than 50 countries seek a more important role on the...Published: 09 Sep 2023 at 12:11hrs | 309 | by Staff reporter
African Union becomes permanent member of G-20
The group of the world's 20 leading economies is welcoming the African Union as a permanent member, a powerful acknowledgement of Africa as its more than 50 countries seek a more important role on the...Published: 09 Sep 2023 at 12:11hrs | 455 | by Staff reporter
Zambia convenes extraordinary meeting of the SADC Ministerial Committee of the Organ
The Government of the Republic of Zambia as Chair of the SADC Organ on Politics, Defence and Security Cooperation convened the Extraordinary Meeting of the Ministerial Committee of the Organ (EO MCO) ...Published: 09 Sep 2023 at 10:32hrs | 2379 | by Zambia
SA, Namibian presidents roasted over Zimbabwe Mnangagwa inauguration
CONTROVERSY over Zimbabwe's disputed elections continues to hog the global limelight as foreign Parliaments debate the polls which saw President Emmerson Mnangagwa being declared winner last month....Published: 07 Sep 2023 at 06:14hrs | 1539 | by Staff reporter
G40 and Gamartox embrace Mnangagwa re-election
Former First Lady Grace Mugabe, the widow of Zimbabwe's late founding leader, Robert Mugabe, was in attendance at President Emmerson Mnangagwa's inauguration ceremony held at the National Sports Stadi...Published: 06 Sep 2023 at 06:44hrs | 1675 | by Staff reporter
'Zanu-PF vitriol bolsters Sadc'
Zanu-PF attacks on the Southern African Development Community election observer mission (SEOM) have likely enhanced the credibility of the regional bloc which often attracts criticism for being "tooth...Published: 06 Sep 2023 at 06:21hrs | 595 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa issues stern warning to SADC
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has shot back at the opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC)'s decision to seek the intervention of the Southern African Development Community (Sadc) in Zimbabwe's ...Published: 05 Sep 2023 at 06:23hrs | 4051 | by Staff reporter
Time for action, Mr Mnangagwa
President Emmerson Mnangagwa began his second and final term yesterday with the daunting task of uniting the nation after a disputed poll which observers said did not meet regional and international b...Published: 05 Sep 2023 at 06:18hrs | 260 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa parties with ex-adversaries
Only three out of 16 Southern African Development Community (SADC) heads of state attended Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa's inauguration in Harare on Monday, but that did not stop the party....Published: 04 Sep 2023 at 21:24hrs | 1223 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe-Zambia relations deteriorate
ZIMBABWE'S relations with Zambia have become frosty since the Sadc observer mission led by the neighbouring country's former vice-president Nevers Mumba revealed gross irregularities in the country's ...Published: 04 Sep 2023 at 21:14hrs | 2067 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa inauguration damp squib?
Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa's much-hyped inauguration in Harare today turned out to be the proverbial Shakespearean tale told by an idiot full of sound and fury signifying nothing....Published: 04 Sep 2023 at 21:13hrs | 362 | by Staff reporter
700 buses dispatched for Mnangagwa inauguration
GOVERNMENT has dispatched about 700 buses countrywide to ferry people to the National Sports Stadium in Harare for President-elect Emmerson Mnangagwa's inauguration ceremony today.On August 26...Published: 04 Sep 2023 at 06:35hrs | 973 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Communist Party elections observer report for 2023 elections
OBSERVATIONS ON THE 2023 GENERAL ELECTIONGeneralFirstly, as Communists, we do not confuse democracy with voting.The word ‘democracy' is derived from Greek and means ‘rule by the pe...Published: 04 Sep 2023 at 06:34hrs | 946 | by Central Committee of the Zimbabwe Communist Party
Sadc urged to trash Mumba's biased report
ZIMBABWE is consolidating a national response to the Preliminary Report of the SADC Elections Observer Mission (SEOM) which is fraught with irregularities, hearsay and pure hyperbolic nonsense imputed...Published: 29 Aug 2023 at 07:01hrs | 282 | by Staff reporter
Freddie Gwala, Platform One, Babes Wodumo coming to Bulawayo
South African artistes, Babes Wodumo, Freddy Gwala and Platform One are set to perform at the delayed Ultra Beer Festival to be held at Queens Sports Club on September 30.Queens Sports Club wa...Published: 23 Aug 2023 at 06:33hrs | 33 | by Staff reporter
SADC leaders express hope for fair polls in Zimbabwe
Heads of state who attended the SADC Summit in Luanda, Angola, said they hope the elections in Zimbabwe would be free and fair, as well as those in Eswatini, Madagascar, and the Democratic Republic of...Published: 20 Aug 2023 at 09:26hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe elected as vice chair of Sadc
Zimbabwe has been elected as vice chair of the Southern Africa Development Community (Sadc) after a Heads of State and Government meeting in Angola, which is the new chair of the regional bloc....Published: 18 Aug 2023 at 06:55hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa heads to Angola for Sadc summit
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa is expected to briefly leave the campaign trail to attend a Southern Africa Development Community (Sadc) summit here that will be focusing on sustainable regional industralisation....Published: 16 Aug 2023 at 06:38hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa says western countries are vultures
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday said Zimbabwe will never be ruled by puppets, describing Western countries as "vultures" hovering over the country's resources.In his speech during the c...Published: 15 Aug 2023 at 06:36hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
ZNLF mourns Tomana
Zimbabwe National Lawyers Forum (ZNLF) has sent its condolence message to the Tomana family following the passing on the late National Hero Johannes Tomana who died recently.Zimbabwe National ...Published: 12 Aug 2023 at 18:36hrs | 3 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Tomana declared national hero
LATE Zimbabwe's ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) Johannes Tomana has been declared a national hero.President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa, Wednesday announced the hero...Published: 10 Aug 2023 at 06:42hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
UK scientists are developing a vaccine for an unknown disease
UK scientists have begun developing vaccines as an insurance against a new pandemic caused by an unknown "Disease X".They have drawn up a threat list of animal viruses that are capable of infe...Published: 09 Aug 2023 at 08:07hrs | 76 | by Erick Matotoba
Zimbabwe poised to be fifth largest lithium producer
Zimbabwe is poised to be the world's fifth largest primary producer of lithium by 2025 taking advantage of the several massive investments worth almost a combined $1 billion injected in the past two y...Published: 08 Aug 2023 at 06:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Fight against cross-border crimes intensifies
SOUTH Africa's Department of Transport and Community Safety in collaboration with other key stakeholders in Zimbabwe and other neighbouring countries is rolling out an operation to promote road safety...Published: 07 Aug 2023 at 06:40hrs | 48 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's DRC ambassador dies suddenly
Johannes Tomana, Zimbabwe's ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Congo, died on Sunday aged 55.The former Prosecutor General was visiting his rural home in Honde Valley when he fell sick s...Published: 06 Aug 2023 at 17:46hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere takes poll fight to Sadc
EXILED former Cabinet minister Saviour Kasukuwere says he has appealed to the Southern African Development Community (Sadc) to rescue his presidential bid after he was disqualified by the High and Sup...Published: 02 Aug 2023 at 07:02hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean multimillionaire changing lives in the UK
AS the elections in Zimbabwe approach, I am speaking with one of the millions from that country in greener pastures far from home.Despite the enduring difficulties of her homeland, Guernsey-ba...Published: 31 Jul 2023 at 06:51hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa says he stands in solidarity with Putin over Ukraine war
Zimbabwe stands in solidarity with Russia as it wages war on Ukraine, President Emmerson Mnangagwa said in a meeting with Russian leader Vladimir Putin on Friday.In comments that will anger we...Published: 28 Jul 2023 at 21:12hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa threatens poll boycott?
Zanu-PF spokesperson Ambassador Christopher Mutsvangwa has said the ruling party is unfazed by reported threats by the opposition CCC leader Mr Nelson Chamisa to boycott the forthcoming harmonised ele...Published: 28 Jul 2023 at 06:48hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
U.S. sanctions take center stage in Zimbabwe elections
When Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe's long-time despot, lost power in a 2017 military coup, many Zimbabweans took to the streets, celebrating what they hoped would be the beginning of a new chapter.M...Published: 27 Jul 2023 at 06:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's US$700k splurge on Chinese private jet for Russia trip
President Emmerson Mnangagwa hired a private jet from China to fly him to Russia on Tuesday at an estimated cost of nearly US$700,000.Mnangagwa, attending the Russia-Africa summit in St Peters...Published: 26 Jul 2023 at 19:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Parties must adhere to Zec code of conduct'
POLITICAL leaders and civil society activists have been urged to play a leading role in fostering peace and denouncing violence ahead of next month's general elections.The call was made on Fri...Published: 25 Jul 2023 at 06:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
NRZ gets US$115m loan to procure new locomotives, wagons
A NEW era is beckoning for the National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ), which is expected to tap into a US$115 million line of credit negotiated by the Government towards procurement of new locomotives an...Published: 25 Jul 2023 at 06:39hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe sugar estates to be sold to Tanzania's Kagera Sugar
South Africa's Tongaat Hulett is to sell its sugar estates, including those in Zimbabwe, to Kagera Sugar, one of East Africa's largest sugar producers.This is part of a plan to rescue Tongaat ...Published: 21 Jul 2023 at 18:23hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Soldier forges prescriptions, claims $23 quadrillion
A MEMBER of the Zimbabwe National Army allegedly falsified documents to claim $23,160 quadrillion during the hyper-inflationary era for injuries sustained during the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)...Published: 21 Jul 2023 at 06:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
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