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Time CCC show its cards
THE election tide is past and now we can see who was swimming naked.So much was promised during the election season and the period to deliver starts here and now.President Emmerson Mna...Published: 30 Sep 2023 at 07:52hrs | 1 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Mohadi's reappointment met with dismay
The reappointment of Kembo Mohadi as vice president of Zimbabwe has been met with dismay by many observers, who say it is a sign that President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration is not serious about...Published: 09 Sep 2023 at 12:29hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Chamisa is a visionary!' How is that possible when he is blinded by greed
"We have had a troubled past in our nation. We have been through many trials," admitted David Coltart, at the launch of CCC's 100 page 2023 Election Manifesto."But our nation should not be loo...Published: 11 Aug 2023 at 16:17hrs | 5 | by Wilbert Mukori
Chamisa's MP says power can be transferred peacefully
Mutasa Central legislator Trevor Saruwaka (Citizens Coalition for Change, CCC) has said his stepping down from contesting the seat in this year's polls is meant to prove to President Emmerson Mnangagw...Published: 07 Apr 2023 at 09:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa recycles deadwood
Some forgotten Zanu-PF stalwarts had their political careers resurrected at the ruling party's just ended congress after spending years in the cold following the creation of a council of elders and ap...Published: 30 Oct 2022 at 06:57hrs | 1 | by Staff rporter
Mnangagwa recycles 'deadwood'
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has announced new key appointments in his office and Cabinet, amid concern former top bureaucrats were bouncing back.Amongst those returning to serve in influentia...Published: 14 Oct 2022 at 05:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's ultra-runner Hawgood shines in US
ZIMBABWE'S trail running phenom Emily Hawgood finished fifth at the Western States 100 mile (160km) Endurance Run in Auburn, California, United States, at the weekend to enhance her status as one of t...Published: 28 Jun 2022 at 07:12hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
'CCC cannot work with Mwonzora and Khupe, snakes' - who amongst CCC did not sell out on reforms, cast first stone
"We have a situation where a snake sneaked into the house, swallowed all the kids and when we attempted to kill it, we did not finish it off … And now we want it to be part of the family. No. You ca...Published: 04 Apr 2022 at 16:10hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
'Puppets will never rule Zimbabwe'
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has said the door is open for former opposition officials who defected to the ruling Zanu-PF party to rise through the ranks just like all other members.Addressing thousand...Published: 14 Feb 2022 at 05:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Robin Vela slaps Finance ministry director with US$2 million lawsuit
FORMER NSSA board chairperson Robin Vela is demanding US$2 million from a Finance ministry director, Memory Mukondomi, who this week implicated him in the ongoing Priscah Mupfumira corruption case....Published: 22 Nov 2021 at 05:55hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
An overdue apology from Jonathan Moyo
FORMER Cabinet minister and Zanu-PF arch-propagandist, Jonathan Moyo, currently living in exile, was chief-architect of some of the most draconian and oppressive laws in the country. He has now decide...Published: 24 Sep 2021 at 09:23hrs | | by Cedric Steele
Ramaphosa's grip on state security machinery targets 2022 re-election
PRESIDENT Cyril Ramaphosa's announcement of sweeping changes to the Cabinet last week may have appeared radical but did little to dispel the notion that he is paralysed by a commitment to protracted c...Published: 08 Aug 2021 at 16:08hrs | 1 | by Cyril Madlala
ZAPU Europe set for elective AGM
This Saturday, 13/03/21, Zapu Europe will be hosting a virtual elective AGM. This an exciting time for the Europe Chapter as it is now time for a smooth handover-takeover moment. The smooth running of...Published: 10 Mar 2021 at 12:26hrs | 1 | by Mlindelwa
Mnangagwa: A chip off the old block
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is following the footsteps of his mentor, the late former president Robert Mugabe in recycling deadwood in cabinet positions, as a key strategy to consolidate his powerbas...Published: 12 Feb 2021 at 15:44hrs | | by Richard Muponde
Mnangagwa Cabinet appointees don't inspire hope
WE note with concern that President Emmerson Mnangagwa seems to be replicating his predecessor, the late former President Robert Mugabe's style of recycling deadwood, particularly his pick for the For...Published: 10 Feb 2021 at 06:17hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans fume as fraud-accused Shava is appointed Foreign Minister
ZIMBABWEANS have been left fuming following President Emmerson Mnangagwa's shock Monday appointment of Frederick Shava as the new Foreign Minister.Shava replaces the late Sibusiso Moyo who suc...Published: 09 Feb 2021 at 06:57hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Ziyambi Ziyambi hospitalised, battling for his life in the ICU
Minister of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affair, Ziyambi Ziyambi is currently battling for his life in the ICU of a Harare hospital amid a Covid-19 explosion that has paralysed President Emmerson ...Published: 24 Jan 2021 at 12:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
President E.D engage your political nemesis
ContextIn 1999, the then MDC leader and former Prime Minister of Zimbabwe, Dr Morgan Richard Tsvangirai, whilst he was addressing more than 20 000 supporters in Rufaro stadium, called for the ...Published: 12 Jan 2021 at 21:24hrs | | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
President Mnangagwa 'Develop a Strategic Thinking Approach'
During Mugabe's era, you would easily recite cabinet Ministers without reading from any script, alas today, I can only remember maybe less than five Ministers unless you visit their offices. What is t...Published: 26 Dec 2020 at 15:43hrs | | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
President E.D, you need Strategic Thinkers around you!
I vividly recall Mugabe's last two gigantic rallies in 2017 where politicians fell over each other to bootlick the despot. The former ZANU PF youth leader Kudzai Chipanga openly told the gathering tha...Published: 25 Oct 2020 at 07:40hrs | | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF deploys social media warriors
Jittery about the increasingly influential role of social media in the formation of public opinion, the ruling Zanu-PF party plans to deploy activists in every district to counter online narratives th...Published: 07 Sep 2020 at 21:56hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe civil service top heavy, bloated
GOVERNMENT admitted yesterday that it was bloated, had a top-heavy structure, with some key departments manned by second-class professionals owing to poor salaries and conditions of service.Th...Published: 22 Aug 2019 at 07:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Austerity measures: Is Zimbabwe drinking poisoned chalice?
On September 7, 2018, Mthuli Ncube was appointed as Zimbabwe's Finance minister. Being a technocrat he is, his appointment brought a breath of fresh air. At least, Zanu-PF was breaking with its past o...Published: 20 Aug 2019 at 15:18hrs | 1 | by Cliff Chiduku
Mkwananzi, Frey in nasty fall out
There is a serious fall out between Occupy Africa Unity Square founding member, Dirk Frey and Tajamuka's Promise Mkwananzi over the failed 1 July 2019 shutdown.Frey has labelled Mkwananzi an o...Published: 03 Jul 2019 at 19:33hrs | | by ViewFromMatopos
Zimbabwe needs a new team to work with Mnangagwa
Cabinet shake-up is the only practical way to strengthen economy:President ED should aim to strengthen Zimbabwe's economy with a thorough reshuffle, highlighting changes in economics-related m...Published: 01 Jul 2019 at 18:53hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
ED wants POLAD, Chamisa TA, Mliswa GNR to legitimise ED - a gimmick, ED is NOT competent to select nor lead
Chaos and confusion is when one says this, the second says that and the third says something else which is neither this nor that and all three are talking nonsense! It is bad enough when it is the ord...Published: 17 Jun 2019 at 19:08hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
MDC congress failed to transform the party - Chamisa plus 3 Amigos are back blundering from pillar to post
Zimbabwe is in this economic and political mess because the country has had the great misfortune of having some of the most corrupt, incompetent and utterly useless politicians in human history. Havin...Published: 28 May 2019 at 09:38hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
MDC-A will still be corrupt and incompetent after congress - it is undemocratic and thus incapable self-renewal
In 2016 Professor Jonathan Moyo, then Zanu PF Minister and chief strategist and propagandist, said "Zanu PF will never reform itself out of office!" It was one of those rare moments in the spin-doctor...Published: 06 May 2019 at 13:33hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Chamisa, Mwonzora quid pro quo kills dead hope of MDC getting rid of deadwood and renewal
"I came here to say this on my own. I, Douglas Mwonzora, have agreed with President Chamisa that at the congress the President will be Chamisa," announced Mwonzora."We also agreed that I will ...Published: 15 Apr 2019 at 20:10hrs | 1 | by Wilbert Mukori
Zanu-PF now a graveyard, says Jonathan Moyo
Self-exiled former cabinet minister and now prominent government critic, Professor Jonathan Moyo has described his former political home as 'a political graveyard whose regrouping agenda lacks transfo...Published: 10 Apr 2019 at 15:24hrs | | by Ndou Paul
Recycled bad politicians as the last resort of saving Zimbabwe?
Zimbabwe is full of talented and equally good citizens who if coopted into politics can turn around the fortunes of our country. Unfortunately for our beloved motherland we seem to be cased. We have a...Published: 21 Mar 2019 at 19:04hrs | 1 | by Henry Madiro
Zimbabwean President surrounded by vultures masquerading as patriots
There has been serious abuse of political power and government by individuals who are surrounding the president. People have worked their way to the top in order to oil their pockets and mouths. ...Published: 21 Jan 2019 at 17:56hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
SADC want Chamisa to lead new GNU - idiotic and dangerous fixation with recycling same deadwood
"A reliable source in the MDC standing committee who spoke to us on condition of anonymity revealed to us that the meeting between Ramaphosa and Chamisa was one of the series of meetings that have bee...Published: 15 Jan 2019 at 20:13hrs | 4 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Strive Masiyiwa is not a Zimbabwean Intellectual Prostitutes: Jonathan Moyo is!
I am sharing this for the benefit of those who do not have a complete background of where Jonathan Moyo is coming from. Zimbabwe's ZANU-PF brothel is brimming with intellectual prostitute...Published: 08 Jan 2019 at 17:38hrs | | by Dr. George B. Ayyittey
Mnangagwa spoils his Cabinet with top-of-the-range Land Rover Discovery vehicles
With the majority of the citizenry getting poorer by the day owing to the biting economic crisis, the cash-strapped government of President Emmerson Mnangagwa has splurged over $2 million on top-of-th...Published: 09 Dec 2018 at 14:32hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa doing things differently from Mugabe
Much to the chagrin of the opposition dictatorship, Nkosana Moyo predicted, well before the elections, that a President Emmerson Mnangagwa would do things, (not necessarily well), but certainly differ...Published: 11 Nov 2018 at 12:55hrs | 1 | by Zifiso Masiye
One year after Zimbabwe soft coup
When Zimbabwe's army took power in a bloodless coup exactly one year ago, it promised to bring happiness back by ending social and economic suffering.The military said the coup was needed to "...Published: 07 Nov 2018 at 15:03hrs | | by Tendai Kamhungira
'I will get rid of ghost workers' Mnangagwa promised, again - who stopped you, it has been a year
I have never pegged myself as a cynic but in today's Zimbabwe it is impossible not to be cynical when the whole nation is poisoned with cynicism and intrigue!"Government is fully aware of the ...Published: 29 Oct 2018 at 13:51hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
'ED punishing nation for rejecting him' - nonsense, ED has failed to rig economic recovery
Chamisa is incapable of making a rational argument. "He (Chamisa) said President Emmerson Mnangagwa is punishing the nation for not voting for him on July 30," reported the Daily News....Published: 25 Oct 2018 at 07:16hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
ZAPU used as a cash cow
Many people have left the party forced by ditactorship of its leader that were bought by Barbara Nyagomo to hand the Vice President post to her. When she realised how unpopular she was within ZAPU ran...Published: 26 Sep 2018 at 18:21hrs | | by Godknows Khumalo, Zapu member - Kwekwe Province
'West must support ED and no regime change for 20 years' argued Mutsvairo - so why bother
"IF Western governments are sincere about political reforms in Zimbabwe, then they have to support President Emmerson Mnangagwa's new government," wrote Bruce Mutsvairo."There are no two ways ...Published: 21 Sep 2018 at 07:19hrs | 9 | by Nomusa Garikai
Mnangagwa fortifies his political power
President Emmerson Mnangagwa moved to consolidate his power yesterday when he appointed his longtime confidante and loyalist Owen "Mudha" Ncube as the country's new State Security minister.He ...Published: 20 Sep 2018 at 13:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
'What can deadwood cabinet advise dream team?' ask ZCTU - no ask; what will we do if it fails, yet again?
"The reshuffle of cabinet actually promoted all those deemed 'excess baggage' by certain sections of the media. The big boys whom the majority called dead wood were actually reassigned to full time jo...Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 14:24hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Hefty perks for Obert Mpofu and other fired old gurad
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has thrown a lifeline to his fellow comrades-in-arms whom he dropped from his Cabinet more than a week ago by giving them plum jobs at the Zanu-PF headquarters, complete w...Published: 16 Sep 2018 at 13:37hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa has changed Zanu-PF into a fresh new-look organisation
Political analysts say President Emmerson Mnangagwa's new Cabinet - in which he dumped both friends and foes alike on Friday last week - demonstrates that he is determined to reset the government's co...Published: 12 Sep 2018 at 20:01hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's new Cabinet: A patronage, merit alchemy?
ZIMBABWEAN President Emmerson Mnangagwa, following a disputed narrow victory in July which had to be validated by the Constitutional Court in August, appointed a new Cabinet on Friday, September 7....Published: 11 Sep 2018 at 13:38hrs | 5 | by Washington Katema
MDC Alliance has serious internal problems - Ruhanya
Political commentator Dr Pedzisai Ruhanya has said MDC Alliance seem to be having serious internal problems which might have led to its loss of elections in Masvingo."Now, listen MDC Alliance ...Published: 11 Sep 2018 at 07:47hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Mnangagwa's new Cabinet raises Zimbabwe hopes
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's new Cabinet has raised fresh hopes among long-suffering Zimbabweans that his administration could finally end the misery and despondency that characterised life under fo...Published: 09 Sep 2018 at 17:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Hope as Mnangagwa swings axe
Cabinet appointments anywhere in the world are by their nature highly-contested and emotive affairs - because virtually all politicians think they are Cabinet material, while ordinary citizens harbour...Published: 09 Sep 2018 at 17:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
All eyes on Mnangagwa's Cabinet
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's new Cabinet has been well-received after his bold decision to bring in technocrats who are not necessarily politicians and the more to drop deadwood.Zimbabweans ...Published: 09 Sep 2018 at 08:51hrs | | by Editorial - The Standard
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