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Zimbabwe opposition on deathbed
A former Cabinet minister has condemned the Zimbabwean government and the ruling Zanu-PF party for their hostile stance towards opposition parties, labeling it a sign of immaturity and cowardice rathe...Published: 01 Nov 2024 at 06:36hrs | 717 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa's ANC has not learnt from history
In 2018, ANC chose Cyril Ramaphosa as President because they believed that white capital liked him and thus he would attract western investment into the country. However, things did not quite go accor...Published: 14 Jun 2024 at 13:23hrs | 24 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa regime doing the work of US sanctions in Zimbabwe!
My own views on this sanctions issue have always been that we needed to prove these measures were the cause of our suffering. I have never denied that there have been targeted sanctions impose...Published: 06 Mar 2024 at 23:01hrs | 5 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Suspected donkey thief tortured to death
CLOSE to 20 residents of Dumba village near Beitbridge allegedly kidnapped and tortured to death a fellow villager accused of stealing a neighbour's donkey.A police report indicated that Austin Siband...Published: 22 Jan 2024 at 12:43hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Heath Streak's family asks for privacy
THE family of former Zimbabwe cricket team captain and coach Heath Streak's has appealed for privacy after confirming that he is receiving treatment in South Africa after being diagnosed with stage-fo...Published: 15 May 2023 at 19:12hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Good news is we have a digital currency but allow us to trade our minerals
From primary school to high school we are told the importance of minerals but are ordinary Zimbabweans gaining anything from their Zimbabwe's minerals.The only currency that is stable is the mineral v...Published: 24 Apr 2023 at 07:34hrs | 1 | by Engineer Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi
Al Jazeera exposé: Mnangagwa should step down for enabling corruption
A CROSS-SECTION of Zimbabweans say they feel gutted after watching the first of a four-part Al Jazeera exposé on money-laundering and gold smuggling activities implicating President Emmerson Mnangagw...Published: 25 Mar 2023 at 08:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Deathbed confession leads to arrest of suspect
A suspected cattle thief from Somnene Plot in Plumtree, Matabeleland South province, was arrested in a dramatic fashion after his accomplice made a stunning confession on his deathbed. Before he died,...Published: 27 Aug 2022 at 06:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga dismisses surgery claims
VICE PRESIDENT Constantino Chiwenga Friday dismissed claims that he was yesterday admitted at the Trauma Centre Borrowdale private hospital for a surgery to correct some discomfort in his stomach....Published: 12 Aug 2022 at 20:33hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Anger will not solve Zimbabwe's plight
ANGER doesn't solve anything. It builds nothing, but it can destroy everything," wrote one African-American lawyer and politician, Lawrence Douglas Wilder.As Zimbabwe battles to navigate a tre...Published: 14 Jul 2022 at 07:34hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Joshua Nkomo fought for black empowerment'
AS Zimbabwe marks the 23rd anniversary of the death of Vice-President Dr Joshua Mqabuko Nyongolo Nkomo, Zanu-PF Second Secretary Kembo Mohadi has urged the nation to cherish the values of unity, freed...Published: 01 Jul 2022 at 07:20hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Joshua Nkomo's legacy lives on'
TODAY marks 23 years since the late veteran nationalist and Vice President, Dr Joshua Mqabuko Nyongolo Nkomo died, and the nation still cherishes his lifetime legacy of selfless sacrifice, peace, unit...Published: 01 Jul 2022 at 07:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe has gone to the dogs
AS a retired former police officer, my heart bleeds when I see the living conditions of serving police officers deteriorating each day.To be precise, I left the Zimbabwe Republic Police ...Published: 02 May 2022 at 08:02hrs | 1 | by Leonard Koni
End of the road for Tsvangirai's MDC
D-DAY has arrived for the MDC brand, with the electorate expected to decide its fate, as analysts say the iconic party associated with the firebrand Morgan Tsvangirai may disappear into oblivion if it...Published: 27 Mar 2022 at 07:38hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
SRC determined to kill Zimbabwe football
THE Sports and Recreation Commission are confident they will be able to cleanse the rot in Zimbabwean football with or without the input of CAF and FIFA with the authorities hoping to rejoin FIFA befo...Published: 01 Mar 2022 at 05:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
The rise and fall of the MDC: Winners, losers and neutrals
AS Zimbabwe approaches crucial by-elections in March, which will test the strength of main contestants while determining the authentic opposition, there is no denying that the MDC, which has posed the...Published: 08 Feb 2022 at 18:21hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Tuku's unreleased music stolen
TODAY marks exactly three years to the day legendary music icon and national hero Dr Oliver "Tuku" Mtukudzi breathed his last. The revered and highly decorated musician died at the age of 66, and had ...Published: 23 Jan 2022 at 07:58hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Some Zimbabwe coup troopers die without enjoying benefits of their sweat
SEVERAL key players in the 2017 coup that toppled the late former President Robert Mugabe and elevated President Emmerson Mnangagwa to the helm have died in the past four years without fully realising...Published: 22 Nov 2021 at 06:15hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Address motives behind Mugabe exhumation
THE case by the now late Chief Zvimba to have the remains of the late former President Robert Mugabe exhumed from his rural graveyard in Kutama village in Zvimba and be interred at the National Heroes...Published: 28 Sep 2021 at 06:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's remains could still be exhumed
THE government is pressing ahead with the construction of a mausoleum for the late former president Robert Mugabe, an indication that his remains could still be exhumed.Close Mugabe family mem...Published: 08 Aug 2021 at 07:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tribalism, regionalism cited in conferment of Zimbabwe National hero status
NATIONAL Assembly members Wednesday gave Home Affairs Minister Kazembe Kazembe a torrid time asking him to explain the criteria used by the government in determining who befits the national hero statu...Published: 30 Jul 2021 at 07:49hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Upsurge in ritual killings in Zim unsurprising - what are we to expect from country governed by leadership embroiled in murderou
There is a very popular adage - "a fish rots from the head" - and, as such, what characterizes any nation is shaped by its leadership. It is as simply as that!This is akin to a family....Published: 14 May 2021 at 13:30hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Fresh war erupts over Mugabe remains
A fresh war has erupted over the burial of the late president Robert Mugabe with a Zvimba villager dragging the erstwhile strongman's widow Grace to a traditional court over the matter.M...Published: 02 May 2021 at 08:52hrs | 4 | by Simbarashe Sithole in Dotito
US$100 000 cash goes missing from businessman's estate
The US$100 000 and R250 000 in cash recovered on late Plumtree businessman Ondrej Gombar's deathbed was recorded in an inventory filed with the Master of High Court, but has reportedly disappeared und...Published: 11 Dec 2020 at 05:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
I miss Smith's Rhodesia
SINCE the attainment of our independence in 1980, the people of Zimbabwe have never tasted true freedom under the ruling Zanu-PF elite.The late former Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith's regi...Published: 12 Sep 2020 at 07:39hrs | | by Concerned
Mugabe, a year on
Angry and defeated! This is exactly how I feel one year since Robert Mugabe passed on. Angry because the country he left in a mess has gone completely bad and inhabitable in many respe...Published: 06 Sep 2020 at 20:04hrs | | by Josiah Mucharowana in Pretoria
MDC leadership battle escalates dramatically
FORMER Constitutional and Parliamentary Affairs minister Eric Matinenga advised the MDC leadership to ensure contestations for power which ensued following the death of founding party president Morgan...Published: 10 May 2019 at 14:08hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Knives out for Selmor Mtukudzi
Even with the spirit of Easter in the air, it seems there is no let-up in the acrimony within the late music superstar and national hero Dr Oliver Mtukudzi's family.Selmor Mtukudzi, daughter t...Published: 21 Apr 2019 at 08:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF distances self from MDC infighting
THE ruling Zanu-PF party has no hand in the internal fights within the opposition MDC Alliance and suggestions that the revolutionary party is involved in the latter's factional bickering is not only ...Published: 04 Mar 2019 at 07:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF not interested in MDC-Alliance implosion
Zanu-PF says it has no business in the MDC Alliance, which is facing an internal political inferno threatening to consume the opposition party.Speaking in Harare today, Zanu-PF Secretary for I...Published: 03 Mar 2019 at 18:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga laughs off deathbed claims
Vice President Constantino Chiwenga was today in cabinet undertaking his daily routine, putting to bed malicious and mischievous social media claims that he was on his deathbed in a South African hosp...Published: 06 Feb 2019 at 12:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC congress dates released
MDC spokesperson Jacob Mafume has dismissed reports by some sections of the media that the MDC Congress has been slated for July 2019."It was realised that delaying the congress to October was...Published: 11 Jan 2019 at 15:03hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
MDC factional tensions reaches boiling point
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa has relented to pressure from some of his senior lieutenants to bring forward the party's long-awaited congress from October to June this year as factional tensions in the co...Published: 11 Jan 2019 at 09:59hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mutsvangwa clarifies position on POSA, AIPPA
Following the publication of a story yesterday titled "AIPPA, POSA on deathbed", Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services Minister Monica Mutsvangwa has clarified as follows: Furth...Published: 22 Dec 2018 at 18:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa badly wants a deal with Mnangagwa
FROM the time Nelson Chamisa entered mainstream politics as the youth chairman for the then newly formed MDC in 1999, his ambitions were quite evident. At the time all he was armed with was political ...Published: 27 Nov 2018 at 06:19hrs | | by Reason Wafawarova
'You all miss Mugabe after your-PFee'
My People,I perfectly understand the fact that all of you are feeling guilty about your premature celebrations following the military ouster of Gushungo around this time last year.In f...Published: 11 Nov 2018 at 13:36hrs | | by Dr Stop It
Odds against Chamisa
Voltaire had seen right when he said 'God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh', hence, every Zimbabwean must loosen up and pay particular attention to Zimbabwe's God given...Published: 31 Oct 2018 at 07:23hrs | | by Caitlin Kamba
Chamisa calls Mudzuri to order
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa called his deputy Elias Mudzuri to order during the party's national standing committee meeting held at the party headquarters in Harare recently for engaging in perceived ac...Published: 12 Oct 2018 at 18:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Nelson Chamisa is a dictator unfit to lead the Integrated MDC
Word on the street and in the opposition circles is that the MDC-Alliance is going to re-integrating and morph into one political party, reverting to something resembling the original 1999 MDC project...Published: 25 Sep 2018 at 07:11hrs | | by Gangemukange
Eddie Cross crossed to ZANU PF long back or can be a victim of mental neurosis
Since October 2017 when Eddie Cross declared that he was a victim of prostate cancer, his political and economic analysis has not been consistent. Today Eddie Cross is in ZANU PF, tomorrow in MDC Alli...Published: 06 Aug 2018 at 18:20hrs | | by Don Chigumba
Junta: Last kicks of a dying horse
Looking back at the removal of Robert Mugabe in November last year one can rightly conclude that was the demise of Zanu pf. Mugabe was Zanu pf and Zanu pf was Mugabe, the man was idolized like some de...Published: 29 Jul 2018 at 21:15hrs | | by AT Kadada
'My granny groomed me to be witchcraft guru'
A 19-YEAR-OLD woman was caught undressed at a fellow villager's homestead in Ngundu, Masvingo province, on a mission to "finish off" a woman on her deathbed.Patricia Mlambo was trapped by a lo...Published: 06 Jul 2018 at 06:57hrs | | by Staff rpeorter
Chamisa's 'dirty machinations' exposed
Movement for Democratic Change's deputy youth leader, Shakespeare Mukoyi, has reportedly revealed the "dirty machinations" that were used "to propel the party's new leadership following the death of i...Published: 29 May 2018 at 09:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Khupe to subpoena Chamisa's youth militia commander
THE Dr Thokozani Khupe-led MDC-T is planning to subpoena the commander of the so-called Vanguard youth militia, Mr Shakespeare Mukoyi, from the rival Mr Nelson Chamisa camp, to tell the court of the g...Published: 29 May 2018 at 07:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chaos, threats mar MDC-T polls
The MDC's weekend primary elections descended into chaos, with violence, death threats and allegations of bribery marring the opposition's internal polls in some constituencies as its supporters voted...Published: 28 May 2018 at 09:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC-T militia commander spill the beans
MDC-T national deputy youth leader and self-confessed commander of the party's militia - the Vanguard, Shakespeare Mukoyi, has spilled the beans on the dirty machinations applied by his group to prop ...Published: 28 May 2018 at 07:20hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Mugabe responsible for Gukurahundi, says Matemadanda
FORMER President Mr Robert Mugabe was solely responsible for the post-independence civil disturbances commonly known as Gukurahundi and his properties should be seized and sold to compensate victims o...Published: 27 May 2018 at 10:15hrs | | by Staff rpeorter
'Zimbabwe journalists are open for business'
MDC-T vice President Thokozani Khupe said 'Zimbabwean journalists are open for business' after an attempt to smear her emerged.The smear campaign in a poorly done article from the Sunday Times...Published: 12 Mar 2018 at 16:17hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Smear campaign against Khupe emerges
An attempt to smear MDC-T vice President Thokozani Khupe has emerged with the culprits bent on scuppering Khupe's ascendancy to MDC-T Presidency.The smear campaign in poorly done article from ...Published: 12 Mar 2018 at 07:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Charlton Hwende hurt by stupidity
MDC-T deputy Thokozani Khupe told party deputy treasurer Charlton Hwende that he is being hurt by stupidity. Hwende was celebrating an 'expose' which has come to light that it is a smear campa...Published: 11 Mar 2018 at 19:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
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