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Mnangagwa to build Mugabe, Joshua Nkomo statues
As the rationale and raison d'etre for the November 2017 military coup continues to collapse, with their masks falling irretrievably amid a loss of legitimacy and credibility, Zimbabwean Preside...Published: 11 Jul 2023 at 23:25hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa meets Council of Elders
President Mnangagwa, who is also the Zanu PF First Secretary, yesterday held an inaugural meeting with the ruling party's Council of Elders where he emphasised that the recently constituted organ, has...Published: 11 May 2023 at 05:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Temba Mliswa blasts parly ad hoc committee
OUTSPOKEN independent Norton legislator Temba Mliswa this week attacked the composition of the Parliament ad hoc committee analysing the preliminary delimitation exercise report cautioning on possible...Published: 20 Jan 2023 at 22:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Preliminary Delimitation Report tabled before Parliament
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) preliminary delimitation report has been tabled in the National Assembly following its presentation to President Emmerson Mnangagwa electoral body's c...Published: 06 Jan 2023 at 18:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube makes Zanu-PF politburo
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday announced a 55-member politburo for his Zanu-PF party, with his wife, Auxillia being reappointed as party secretary for environment and tourism.Auxillia ...Published: 25 Dec 2022 at 14:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Time Africa solved its own problems'
HEALTH and Child Care deputy minister John Mangwiro has urged African countries to resolve their own problems, particularly tackling HIV/Aids and other diseases.Mangwiro made the remarks at th...Published: 18 Nov 2022 at 05:14hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa ring-fences Zanu-PF allies
SEVERAL Zanu-PF bigwigs - among them politburo members Christopher Mutsvangwa, Ziyambi Ziyambi, Obert Mpofu and Kenneth Musanhi - sailed through the central committee uncontested at the we...Published: 11 Oct 2022 at 06:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF elections marred by violence
VIOLENCE and ugly scenes reportedly marred the just-ended Zanu-PF central committee (CC) elections as bigwigs locked horns over positions in the party's highest decision-making body.Reports an...Published: 10 Oct 2022 at 06:11hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF bigwigs fall by the wayside in chaotic elections
As results started trickling in last night, some Zanu-PF bigwigs including former Health minister David Parirenyatwa, politburo member Tendai Chirau and ex-wife of ruling party deputy president Kembo ...Published: 09 Oct 2022 at 07:57hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe must deploy border guards as extremism fears mount - report
WHILE Zimbabwe currently enjoys relative peace and harmony, the state should immediately deploy border guards at ports of entry and strengthen terrorism laws amid concern that the outbreak of the viol...Published: 05 Oct 2022 at 06:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Internal Zanu-PF violence unsettles youth leader
RECENT political violence that rocked the ruling Zanu-PF party elections to choose Masvingo provincial youth chairperson has unsettled the party's youth league boss John Paradza.The post was l...Published: 10 Aug 2022 at 06:34hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'3 million eligible Zimbabwean voters unregistered'
ELECTORAL watchdog, the Election Resource Centre says Zimbabwe's total eligible voters should hover around eight million, meaning that nearly three million people are not interested to vote.A ...Published: 13 Jul 2022 at 07:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF to dissolve Marondera cell structures
THE Zanu-PF leadership in Mashonaland East province is considering to dissolve its cell structures ahead of next year's elections claiming they were not representative enough.Addressing a prov...Published: 21 Jun 2022 at 06:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Students in Matebeleland struggle to pass exams
MATOBO residents have blamed the poor pass rate in the district on low budgetary support to schools in the area.They made the remarks at a Parliamentary Portfolio Committee meeting on budget, ...Published: 04 Jun 2022 at 19:55hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Ruvheneko Parirenyatwa pregnant from donated sperm?
Former radio and TV star Ruvheneko Parirenyatwa is expecting her first baby at 33 - with a sperm donor.Parirenyatwa said she took the unconventional route to motherhood after getting alarming ...Published: 08 Mar 2022 at 08:24hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF sets poll supervising teams
Zanu-PF has put in place teams that will supervise its upcoming provincial elections, while the criteria requiring youths to have served at least four years at district level has been waived for youth...Published: 24 Dec 2021 at 07:24hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PFs provinces endorse President Mnangagwa for 2023
Zanu-PF provinces have endorsed President Mnangagwa as the ruling party's sole presidential candidate for the 2023 harmonised elections, stressing that his desire to uplift the lives of Zimbabweans ha...Published: 19 Sep 2021 at 08:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mutodi set to leave Mashonaland East?
Former Deputy Infomation Minister and Goromonzi West legislator Energy Mutodi is reportedly planning to leave his Mashonaland East base in favour of another Constituency in Masvingo, a reliable source...Published: 19 Aug 2021 at 15:16hrs | 1 | by Nicholas Ncube
Ruvheneko, Kasukuwere's daughter divorce hubbies
PROMINENT TV and radio personality, Ruvheneko Elsie Mafara (nee Parirenyatwa) has gone separate ways with her husband of seven years, Tendai Basil Mafara.In a related case, exiled former minis...Published: 21 Apr 2021 at 07:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Parirenyatwa trial deferred again over magistrate illness
The trial of former health minister David Parirenyatwa failed to resume on Monday when the presiding magistrate did not turn up.Court officials said magistrate Elijah Makomo was indisposed owi...Published: 09 Mar 2021 at 10:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF heavyweights bounce back
ZANU-PF senior party members who have been lying low in the second republic under President Emerson Mnangagwa have bounced back to reclaim their political clout within the party structures.Bus...Published: 05 Mar 2021 at 17:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF concludes DCCs probe
Zanu-PF has completed the process of investigating concerns raised by some members in connection with District Co-ordinating Committee (DCC) elections conducted in November last year. A team l...Published: 02 Mar 2021 at 06:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Social media and the spread of fake news in Zimbabwe
IT is not often uncommon that a new phenomenon dramatically rises up with so much clout and influence that it breaks and reshapes established African norms and beliefs.Africans are traditionally a...Published: 15 Feb 2021 at 18:12hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Covid-19 fears force politburo postponement
ZANU-PF was yesterday forced to postpone its scheduled meeting of the politburo amid fears that attending party bigwigs would be infected with Covid-19 as no measures had been put in place to protect ...Published: 12 Feb 2021 at 15:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF bigwigs retreat to farms as Covid-19 bites
SEVERAL government and Zanu-PF bigwigs have retreated to their farms and villages as the Covid-19 pandemic bares its teeth with four Cabinet ministers having died so far and President Emmerson Mnangag...Published: 23 Jan 2021 at 22:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Pannic as COVID-19 hits Zanu-PF HQ
PANIC has gripped the ruling Zanu-PF party after two senior party officials on Sunday tested positive for COVID-19 with confirmed cases likely to go up as results of mass tests done recently continue ...Published: 08 Dec 2020 at 06:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Shortage of ballot boxes hits Zanu-PF DCC elections
ZANU-PF will this Saturday hold its crucial District Coordinating Committee (DCC) elections, but the governing party has failed to avail ballot boxes and has urged aspiring district chairpersons to so...Published: 05 Dec 2020 at 06:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Parirenyatwa's trial deferred
The trial of former Health and Child Care Minister David Parirenyatwa on charges of abuse of public office was postponed yet again yesterday, this time to December 18, because of the continued absence...Published: 01 Dec 2020 at 06:49hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
DCCs to strengthen Zanu-PF?
First Secretary and President of Zanu-PF, Emmerson Mnangagwa has said District Coordinating Committee (DCC) structures are meant to strengthen the party's coordinating systems and provide a useful veh...Published: 26 Nov 2020 at 07:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Murder unites MDC Alliance, Zanu-PF
THE gruesome murder of a seven-year-old Murewa boy, Tapiwa Makore last month, has united the otherwise bitterly antagonistic parties ZanuPF and the MDC Alliance despite the father of the deceased bein...Published: 13 Oct 2020 at 06:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's Zanu PF wary of G40 resurgence
ZANU PF has once again had to rope in the party's security department to deal with the unabating ructions in the former liberation movement, which are threatening elections to choose members of its re...Published: 25 Sep 2020 at 19:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF DCC hopefuls submit CVs
ZANU-PF members have been called upon to take the process of electing District Coordinating Committee (DCC) members seriously and ensure that they choose people who will further push the party to pros...Published: 20 Sep 2020 at 08:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF threatens ministers
ANU-PF politburo member Patrick Chinamasa yesterday said the Cabinet must answer to the ruling party, and threatened they would fire ministers that do not file reports with the secretariat, igniting a...Published: 07 Sep 2020 at 06:43hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Former minister court case postponed
THE trial of former Health Minister David Parirenyatwa was postponed yesterday after the State indicated that the Prosecutor-General was still "considering the matter". Prosecutor Mr Brian Vit...Published: 20 Aug 2019 at 09:00hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Mupfumira's world crumbles further
The Zanu-PF Mashonaland West province yesterday recalled incarcerated former Tourism minister Priscah Mupfumira from Parliament and central committee.Speaking at the provincial co-ordinating c...Published: 12 Aug 2019 at 07:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
The fight against graft: How far is Mnangagwa willing to go?
Its difficult to decide what to make of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's latest bid to tackle graft: Is it tokenism or the real deal? Is it a case of bolting the door after the horse has bolted or maybe...Published: 01 Aug 2019 at 21:59hrs | 1 | by NewsDay - Editorial
Latest on Obert Mpofu arrest story
Reports that ZANU PF Secretary for Administration Dr Obert Moses Mpofu has been picked up by officers from the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission are not true the party has said. Social Media...Published: 29 Jul 2019 at 13:15hrs | 3 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'No freedom after expression in Africa'
A PRELIMINARY report on the implementation of the African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance (ACDEG), has revealed gaps in implementing the African Union charter on human rights such as fr...Published: 22 Jul 2019 at 08:23hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Break-in at Ministry of Health
There was a break-in at the Ministry of Health and Child Care headquarters offices in Harare at the weekend with the perpetrators allegedly gaining entry using the fire-escape routes before ransacking...Published: 10 Jun 2019 at 06:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Parirenyatwa sued over $13k power debt
Former Health and Child Care minister David Parirenyatwa has been taken to the High Court by the Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC), which is seeking an order to compel...Published: 01 Jun 2019 at 22:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
State impeaches star witness in the Parirenyatwa case
FORMER Natpharm board chairman and one of the state's star witnesses in former minister David Parirenyatwa's abuse of office case was yesterday impeached after the court ruled that he was hostile....Published: 15 May 2019 at 09:59hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Why Mnangagwa's anti-corruption crusade is fast-losing steam
The Judicial Service Commission (JSC) launched the special anti-corruption courts with fanfare slightly more than a year ago, but a cocktail of challenges is retarding the prosecution of graft-accused...Published: 28 Apr 2019 at 08:27hrs | | by Charles Laiton
Zanu-PF, war vets in fresh row
TENSION between Zanu PF and war veterans continue to simmer after former freedom fighters stormed out of the Independence Day celebrations in Bindura last Thursday after their leader was blocked from ...Published: 23 Apr 2019 at 07:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
State moves to impeach witness for siding with Parirenyatwa
The State yesterday moved to declare its witness, George Washaya, as hostile for siding with former Health minister David Parirenyatwa in his decision to relieve NatPharm managing director Flora Sifek...Published: 18 Apr 2019 at 07:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Witness exonerates David Parirenyatwa
Former Health and Child Care Minister David Parirenyatwa brought new ways of tendering medicine and there was a positive response from the board because procurement of medicine and distribution was be...Published: 13 Apr 2019 at 13:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Parirenyatwa accuses presiding magistrate of twisting facts
Former Health minister David Parirenyatwa yesterday unsuccessfully filed an application to have his matter referred to the High Court for a review.Parirenyatwa was also seeking an order to res...Published: 12 Apr 2019 at 06:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Parirenyatwa and Harare hospital CEOs fired
The Minister of Health and Childcare Dr Obadiah Moyo is reported to have fired the CEOs of Harare Hospital, Dr Nyasha Masuka and Parirenyatwa Hospital, Thomas Zigora.The pair were report...Published: 05 Apr 2019 at 20:05hrs | 16 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zanu-PF leaders to have mandatory ideological training
ZANU-PF will no longer tolerate leaders who use money and bribery to get leadership positions as everyone must pass through the Herbert Chitepo School of Ideology, the party's National Commissar, Enge...Published: 03 Apr 2019 at 08:24hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF in vote buying ahead of by-election
Zanu-PF is being accused of vote buying ahead of the Cowdray park local government by-election slated for tomorrow. This was after Vice President Kembo Mohadi donated 60 tonnes of maize and 30 ton...Published: 29 Mar 2019 at 06:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Fierce battle for Bulawayo council seat
THE battle for the Cowdray Park ward 28 council seat has reached fever pitch with parties contesting in the by-election leaving nothing to chance.The by-election has been set for this coming S...Published: 27 Mar 2019 at 15:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
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