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Why Mnangagwa fired Mutsvangwa
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa fired his outspoken political ally Christopher Mutsvangwa as Minister of Veterans of the Liberation Struggle Affairs with immediate effect for various reasons, but the tri...Published: 05 Feb 2024 at 18:34hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Mutsvangwa's lifetime of sackings
ZIMBABWE'S political cauldron bubbled over this weekend with the abrupt firing of Christopher Mutsvangwa as the Veterans of the Liberation Struggle Affairs minister by President Emmerson Mnangagwa....Published: 05 Feb 2024 at 04:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mutapa looting machine
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is full of surprises.He wants to be seen to be doing something and, in many instances, creates new offices that in reality are as clear as mud.Mutapa Inves...Published: 23 Sep 2023 at 21:34hrs | | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Corruption Czar wants to be Zimbabwe President
I am dismayed with the talk of Kasukuwere being even discussed as a potential Presidential contender in the August 2023 Zimbabwean elections. What disturbs me more is talk from even organizations like...Published: 14 Jun 2023 at 16:00hrs | | by Sam Wezhira
Zimbabwean gold dealer calls Chiwenga a dunderhead
In snippets that have been shown to journalists and Anti-Corruption experts by Al-Jazeera, Zimbabwean Gold dealer Ewan Macmillan talks about how they smuggle Gold using private planes with the conniva...Published: 04 Mar 2023 at 09:31hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's Govt frets over graft exposé
GOVERNMENT is fretting ahead of the premiere of a documentary on corruption by international news channel Al Jazeera tomorrow that could have ramifications ahead of general elections later this year....Published: 02 Mar 2023 at 05:49hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
The poor are on their own in Zimbabwe
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa was all smiles as he officially opened the privately-developed Aspindale apartments in Harare. His infrastructure programme - housing for all - seemed to be all in order y...Published: 20 Feb 2023 at 05:30hrs | 1 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Zanu-PF czar warns 4ED outfits
Zanu-PF Political Commissar Mike Bimha has warned 4ED affiliates to stop presenting members already in the party as new supporters "recruiting" by them.This is the second time Bimha has layed ...Published: 25 Jan 2023 at 10:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Biden sends Indian to threaten India over Russian sanctions
A US national security official – who played a leading role in crafting US economic measures against Russia over its military assault on Ukraine – will travel to India to discuss New Delhi's respo...Published: 30 Mar 2022 at 12:01hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Govt needs to stabilise bread and butter prices
THE looming increase in bread price will pile pressure on the country's citizens already battling a wildly inflationary environment aided by poor monetary policies by Treasury.To say that the ...Published: 12 Oct 2021 at 06:00hrs | 8 | by Eddie Cross
Zimbabwean linked US hip-ho artists MF Doom dies
MF Doom, one of US hip-hop's most distinctive and respected MCs and producers, has died aged 49.His wife Jasmine posted on his Instagram account:"The ...Published: 02 Jan 2021 at 08:29hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Powerful political enemies out to finish Magaya
Prophetic Healing and Deliverance Ministries found and preacher Walter Magaya is a household name in Zimbabwe. Magaya commands crowds that would make any politician jealous and envious of the pr...Published: 29 Aug 2019 at 14:35hrs | | by Nicholas Ncube
Mthuli's mortal fight with the Hydra
If you ask the Bishop what will distinguish E D's Presidency, he will tell you that it is his fierce decisiveness, keen pragmatism and a commendable ability to swiftly change and adjust as the situati...Published: 30 Jun 2019 at 09:01hrs | 2 | by Bishop Lazi
Dabengwa: Zimbabwe's intelligence Czar
On the night of August 15, 2011, I attended the launch of Wilfred Mhanda's (nom de guerre Dzinashe Machingura) memoir, Dzino: Memories of a Freedom Fighter in Harare. Mhanda was an important figure in...Published: 29 May 2019 at 08:00hrs | | by Blessing Miles-Tendi
HIV cure found!
The cure for HIV has been invented and medically certified, the President of the United States of America Donald Trump has revealed.In a celebratory tone on Tuesday Trump said, "HIV Is Cured I...Published: 05 Mar 2019 at 14:05hrs | 9 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Is Zimbabwe the next Venezuela?
History teaches that things may get worse in both countries before they get better.This weekend's news that protesters were gunned down at Venezuela's border while pro-regime thugs burned truc...Published: 27 Feb 2019 at 08:13hrs | | by John Fund I nationalreview.com
The primacy of regime survival: State Fragility and Economic Destruction in Zimbabwe
The Zimbabwe crisis has been analysed from varying stand points among researchers. State fragility as analytical and conceptual framework is deployed by the duo of Mark Simpson and Tony Hawkins (2018)...Published: 03 Jan 2019 at 07:52hrs | 1 | by Brian Maregedze
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 | | by Itai Mushekwe
Zimbabwe Elections 2018: An unfolding novelty
In this election analysis, highly-respected University of Zimbabwe's political science senior lecturer, Professor Eldred Masunungure, looks at the two main contenders- the ruling Zanu-PF and the oppos...Published: 25 May 2018 at 17:21hrs | | by Southern Times
Zanu manifesto a botched attempt at party renewal
Under "normal" circumstances, one would have expected the programme line-up for Zanu-PF's manifesto launch to feature a cameo appearance by its long-serving former first secretary, Robert Mugabe....Published: 12 May 2018 at 13:42hrs | 1 | by Enocent Nemuramba
Vice presidents appointment delay creates crisis
HARARE - President Emmerson Mnangagwa acted unconstitutionally by flying to South Africa yesterday on an official visit before appointing his deputies, law experts have said, warning that if anything ...Published: 22 Dec 2017 at 14:34hrs | | by Staff Report
Zimbabwe can be as prosperous as Singapore, say Gono - not with 'EDNomics' in a pariah State
We all welcome praise but not from every quarter because praise from certain quarters is but a curse. Here is a typical example of praise from the wrong quarter."President Emmerson Mnangagwa's...Published: 03 Dec 2017 at 23:37hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
EXCLUSIVE: Mugabe to step down before 2018 elections
President Robert Mugabe, is reportedly planning to announce his shock departure from power before the watershed 2018 presidential and parliamentary elections, as the ruling Zanu PF strongman is now be...Published: 27 Oct 2017 at 06:22hrs | | by Itai Mushekwe, Nancy Mabaya, Mary-Kate Kahari and Malvin Motsi
The Robert Mugabe poverty formula rooted in the Zanu-PF of Zimbabwe
The country of Zimbabwe has to take stock of behaviours displayed by Zanu Pf leadership: Neither in Mao Tse Tung China nor the Czar of the Soviet Union did party members and/or leadership have uniform...Published: 25 Sep 2017 at 18:48hrs | | by Andrew M Manyevere
Mugabe living in cloud cuckoo-land
President Robert Mugabe (93) in his election manifesto ahead of the 2013 general elections, promised to create 2,2 million jobs under an ambitious programme known as the Zimbabwe Agenda for Sustainabl...Published: 07 May 2017 at 22:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Pseudo-Reformists: When Beasts of England Roar
A cryptic but interesting response to my piece last week came from one "yowe" who advised me to read George Orwell's classic, Animal Farm. I can only surmise that "yowe" is unaware that literature, En...Published: 11 Mar 2017 at 07:05hrs | 1 | by Nathaniel Manheru
Chamisa now MDC-T policy czar
Nelson Chamisa Kuwadzana East MP has become the biggest beneficiary of MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai's sharing of power among his triumvirate of deputies in the expanded party presidium necessita...Published: 05 Oct 2016 at 08:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bishop takes a swipe at the corrupt political leadership in Zimbabwe
Enough is enough says Bishop, Tudor Bismark. The leader of New Life Covenant Church was speaking to congregates at his church when he took a swipe at the corrupt political leadership in Zimbabwe....Published: 16 May 2016 at 21:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Obert Gutu was forced to apologise to Zanu-PF and Jonathan Moyo
MDC-T spokesman Obert Gutu was forced to apologise yesterday after appearing to refer to Zanu-PF politicians as "baboons". Zanu-PF spokesman Simon Khaya Moyo blasted Gutu, describing him as "p...Published: 19 Jan 2016 at 05:33hrs | | by Pamela Shumba
When Mutasa falls in love with justice
It will be a good day when Didymus Mutasa finally finds love for the rule of law and starts believing in justice. Sadly, like always, this usually happens when the concerned politician is running out ...Published: 08 Feb 2015 at 10:05hrs | | by Prosper Maguchu
Mutasa on the cross
Former Presidential Affairs minister and ex-Zanu-PF secretary for administration, Didymus Mutasa, needs to come to terms with the "fact that he is no longer party chief", the ruling party's new infor...Published: 20 Jan 2015 at 17:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mujuru's plans to challenge Mugabe in 2018 rattles Zanu-PF
FORMER Vice President Dr Joice Mujuru's plans to launch a political party to challenge President Mugabe on the back of blaming him for the prevailing economic challenges is the height of hypocrisy...Published: 19 Jan 2015 at 06:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Robert Mugabe faces court challenge
President Robert Mugabe and his new Zanu-PF leadership that came out of the party's December congress is set to be hauled before the courts to explain the contentious chain of events that culmina...Published: 14 Jan 2015 at 06:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Robert Mugabe: An African Head of State and the State of an African Head
The political personality and historical project of Robert Mugabe is bound to arrest the attention of thinkers and writers for a long time to come. The Zimbabwean President has attracted extreme r...Published: 19 Dec 2014 at 10:27hrs | 2 | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
Mujuru's moment of truth has arrived
President Robert Mugabe will today chair his party's penultimate politburo meeting that could make-or-break the political career of his second in command, Vice-President Joice Mujuru.Mujuru, p...Published: 22 Nov 2014 at 16:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Confusion rocks Zanu-PF
As factional fights continue to rock the ruling Zanu-PF party, confusion reigned over the status of Mashonaland West provincial chairperson Temba Mliswa, allegedly fired by the party's politburo last ...Published: 28 Oct 2014 at 06:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai, Chamisa fall out
The relationship between former Prime Minister and MDC-T leader, Morgan Tsvangirai and party organising secretary, Nelson Chamisa reportedly broke down at the weekend after a finger pointing incid...Published: 14 Oct 2014 at 11:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai takes MDC-T fight to UK
Opposition leader and MDC-T president Morgan Tsvangirai will, this week, take the acrimonious fight for control of the opposition party to Britain.Tsvangirai is expected to address renowned B...Published: 22 Jul 2014 at 08:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Late Washington Malianga gets state assisted funeral
Former Zanu information czar and founding member, Washington Malianga who died in Harare this week will get a state assisted funeral, party spokesperson Rugare Gumbo said yesterday.In an inter...Published: 25 Jun 2014 at 09:17hrs | | by Staff Reporter
'Gono, Zimbabwe's next President'
FORMER Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) advisor to then Governor Gideon Gono, Munyaradzi Kereke Wednesday made sensational accusations that the ex-central bank boss had claimed that he will be the next...Published: 09 Jan 2014 at 07:38hrs | | by Staff Reporter
When the dollarisation cure poisons
THE past three instalments have seen this column deal with sample thoughts on Zimbabwe, our country. Of course the underlying issue is a Lenin-like question: What is to be done. As you notice, I avoid...Published: 24 Nov 2013 at 12:46hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
ZIMBABWE: To Yuan or Not to Yuan, That is the Question
BULAWAYO (IPS) - From downtown shops that stock cheap clothing and shoes that fall apart after one wear, to mining concessions in platinum, gold and diamonds - the Chinese finger is now in virtu...Published: 05 Feb 2012 at 11:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Russia's rise: Putin's peculiar partners, 'SA defending thugs like Mugabe'
For all his innovative repression at home, Russian "czar" Vladimir Putin's most remarkable achievement may be getting an influential group of emerging powers to adopt Moscow's amoral worldview....Published: 30 Sep 2011 at 04:00hrs | | by Benny Avni
Obama: US winning war in Afghanistan
BAGRAM AIR BASE: President Barack Obama has paid a surprise visit to Afghanistan and assured cheering US troops they are winning the war against the Taleban ...Published: 05 Dec 2010 at 00:12hrs | | by Middle East Correspondent
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