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Teachers unions' plot exposed
TEACHERS' unions and other civil society organisations have been roped in to push the Western-funded regime change agenda in the country with handsome perks being given to the unions' leadership....Published: 2 mins ago | 1 | by Staff reporter
Patriotic Act will leave ZANU PF supporters out of the definition
The recently tabled patriotic bill in the Zimbabwe parliament will expose that ZANU PF supporters, surrogates and appendages are not patriotic.You cannot have a whole party that claims to have...Published: 10 hrs ago | 453 | by Phosiwe Ncube
Forus party launches manifesto
NEWLY-FORMED Freedom of Rights Under Sovereign (Forus) party on Saturday launched its manifesto in Harare, with its leader Manyara Irene Muyenziwa (44) claiming her outfit was ready to contest the ele...Published: 24 hrs ago | 678 | by Staff reporter
Population growth in Africa a concern to Europe?
EXACTLY 150 years ago, Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck became the Chancellor of the Germany Empire. He masterminded the unification of Germany in 1871 and served as its first Chancellor until 1890, i...Published: 24 hrs ago | 493 | by Tapiwa Gomo
Britain overstepping its bounds on Zimbabwe
It boggles the mind why the British government seems not to understand that Zimbabwe ceased to be a colony of the Crown over four decades ago.How else should one explain the British's continuo...Published: 29 Nov 2021 at 05:28hrs | 388 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa suffers yet another diplomatic blow
THE United States government has poured cold water on President Emmerson Mnangagwa's claim that he held a crucial meeting with President Joe Biden last month to discuss ways of removing sanctions agai...Published: 26 Nov 2021 at 19:38hrs | 4957 | by Staff Reporter
If Simon khaya-Moyo was a hero he would have agreed to be buried at the 'heroes acre'
I wish Welshman Mabhena was alive, while I also was to be happy if Ndabaningi Sithole could have been still around.Without any doubt these two liberation stalwarts declared during their life t...Published: 25 Nov 2021 at 19:27hrs | 4468 | by Phosiwe Ncube
Zimbabwe Republic Police must abide by the constitution
The armed police were at it again on Friday when they pounced on MDC-Alliance activists who were gathered at Vova shopping centre in Nkayi, Matabeleland North province waiting to meet their party lead...Published: 23 Nov 2021 at 22:21hrs | 1713 | by Leonard Koni
'Zimbabwe coup a harvest of empty promises'
WHEN Solomon Muzanenhamo (39) trudged from Highfield high-density suburb to central Harare with a Zimbabwean flag draped around his neck in November 2017, 15 kilometres became like a stroll down his s...Published: 22 Nov 2021 at 06:16hrs | 784 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa for Life President, says Chiwenga
VICE-PRESIDENT Constantino Chiwenga has unwittingly exposed the ruling Zanu-PF party's plans to use its parliamentary majority to railroad constitutional amendments and declare its leader Emmerson Mna...Published: 22 Nov 2021 at 06:13hrs | 468 | by Staff reporter
'Stop criminalising human rights defenders'
HUMAN rights defenders have been under siege in the Sadc region amid calls for governments to respect the law, democracy and rights.The Southern Africa Human Rights Defenders Network (SAHRDN) ...Published: 22 Nov 2021 at 06:12hrs | 94 | by Staff reporter
Is South Africa ready for a white president?
SOMETIME in October this year, there was a leaked audio purportedly recorded in 2019 at Johannesburg's OR Tambo International Airport in which the Democratic Alliance (DA) federal council chair Helen ...Published: 22 Nov 2021 at 06:10hrs | 674 | by Tapiwa Gomo
Go well my friend, Cde SK
COMRADE Simon Khaya Moyo is no more. He has joined the pantheon of Zimbabwe's finest patriots throughout the ages. Of recent note are fellow heroines and heroes of Chimurenga II who sacrificed to bury...Published: 21 Nov 2021 at 09:12hrs | 1896 | by Amb Chris Mutsvangwa
Zimbabwe is a prima facie failed state and incapable of self-governing - will we finally take the cure
"Blacks are incapable of self-governing!" was the standard justification for continued white colonial rule. Not many things said and done by the white supremacists got under my skin half as deep as th...Published: 21 Nov 2021 at 08:35hrs | 871 | by Wilbert Mukori
Zimbabwe a destination of choice in investments, says Mnangagwa
ZIMBABWE is a destination of choice in terms of investments with the country going up the ladder in the list of destinations with sound ease of doing business policies that will propel it to become an...Published: 21 Nov 2021 at 08:22hrs | 251 | by Staff Reporter
Outcry over anti 'regime change' NGOs Bill
THE recently-gazetted Private Voluntary Organisation (PVO) Amendment Bill violates the Constitution, legal think-tanks said yesterday, adding that it failed to explain why government wanted to revamp ...Published: 16 Nov 2021 at 05:44hrs | 1262 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance's fake victimhood, internal ructions and sanctions
Over the years, the MDC Alliance (MDC-A) faction has perfected the art of creating stunts to attract the West's attention in the vain and ill-placed hope of besmirching President Mnangagwa and to wrin...Published: 15 Nov 2021 at 05:21hrs | 192 | by Nobleman Runyanga
'Be wary of politicking NGOs'
President Mnangagwa has called on the rural folk to be on the look-out against some non-governmental organisations (NGOs) that set base in communities with ulterior motives which have no benefit for t...Published: 15 Nov 2021 at 05:21hrs | 100 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa is a hard sell for Zimbabwe
FOR weeks on end, Zimbabweans were told that President Emmerson Mnangagwa's trip to Glasgow, Scotland, would be a major breakthrough of historic proportions.It would be the first time a leader...Published: 13 Nov 2021 at 17:46hrs | 1635 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's re-engagement propaganda hollow, falls flat
WHILE President Emmerson Mnangagwa returned home last week blowing his own trumpet about his purported diplomatic victory at the United Nations climate change summit in Glasgow, the reality that he ma...Published: 13 Nov 2021 at 17:46hrs | 811 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa ratifies African charter on democracy
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa this week signed the Instrument of Ratification of the African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance. Veritas, a lawyer body with an interest in lega...Published: 13 Nov 2021 at 17:39hrs | 268 | by Staff reporter
What Zimbabwean leaders can learn from FW de Klerk's legacy
WHEN the late former Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe met the last apartheid South African leader Frederik Willem de Klerk, who died of cancer-related complications at 85 this week, in Gaborone, Bot...Published: 13 Nov 2021 at 17:38hrs | 399 | by Staff reporter
Zidera and sanctions simplified
THE United States Congress passed the Zimbabwe Democracy and Economic Recovery Act (Zidera) in 2001. The Act has been subsequently revised, with the most recent amendment being in 2019. It is a very s...Published: 13 Nov 2021 at 07:39hrs | 1286 | by Miriam Tose Majome
The slow death of key liberation movements in Southern Africa
SOUTH Africa's governing party, the African National Congress (ANC) - the continent's oldest liberation movement - has for the first time since the 1994 democratic elections - dropped below 50% in loc...Published: 13 Nov 2021 at 05:59hrs | 1659 | by Staff reporter
Mutsvangwa wants Zanu-PF to win more seats in 2023
The Zanu-PF Harare provincial leadership has been challenged to intensify mobilisation strategies to win more seats in the 2023 harmonised elections, the party's Deputy Secretary for Information and P...Published: 13 Nov 2021 at 05:55hrs | 165 | by Staff reporter
Govt, NGOs showdown looms
A FIERCE battle between government and civil society is looming over the recently gazetted Private Voluntary Organisation (PVOs) Amendment Bill, with pro-democracy groups slamming the government for a...Published: 13 Nov 2021 at 05:54hrs | 136 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF desperate to engage Zambia leader
THE ruling Zanu-PF party yesterday said it was making frantic efforts to engage Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema over social media rants targeted at President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government by th...Published: 12 Nov 2021 at 05:37hrs | 6269 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF denies paying people top attend gatherings
Zanu-PF has dismissed allegations that is it paying people to attend its gatherings.Its acting spokesperson Mike Bimha told journalists during a press in Harare Thursday it has enough supporte...Published: 12 Nov 2021 at 05:30hrs | 150 | by Staff reporter
FW de Klerk dies at 85
FW de Klerk, the former president of South Africa and the last white person to lead the country, has died at the age of 85.Mr de Klerk, who was also a key figure in the nation's transition to ...Published: 11 Nov 2021 at 11:31hrs | 2289 | by Staff Reporter
Bill set to scuttle MDC Alliance election plans
THE recently gazetted Private Voluntary Organisation Amendment Bill has sent the Western-funded MDC-Alliance into panic mode and is set to scuttle the United States' plans to bankroll the opposition a...Published: 10 Nov 2021 at 05:32hrs | 834 | by Staff reporter
5 pieces of evidence that show why Mnangagwa's trip to the UK was a complete disaster
Over a week after the beginning of the COP26 Climate change summit, all Zimbabweans will have come to the conclusion that Mnangagwa's trip to Scotland did not achieve what he wanted it to do. In fact,...Published: 09 Nov 2021 at 19:40hrs | 1536 | by Dudzai Mukondorongwe
ZANU PF court challenge vs MDC court challenge
There is an interesting case between the 2018 MDC court case and this ZANU PF case that is in front of the courts right now, while these cases look similar in the eyes of many there are major differen...Published: 09 Nov 2021 at 19:37hrs | 1274 | by Kumbirai Stein Chivhuna
Mnangagwa's govt running scared: CSOs
CIVIL society organisations (CSOs) yesterday said government's move to introduce the Private Voluntary Organisations (PVOs) Amendment Bill was motivated by the desire to clamp down on human rights def...Published: 09 Nov 2021 at 05:39hrs | 2814 | by Staff reporter
US 'snubs' Zimbabwe for democracy summit
ZIMBABWE is one of the countries that has not been invited to the United States democracy summit next month, with observers saying the snub confirmed the frosty relations between the two countries des...Published: 09 Nov 2021 at 05:39hrs | 1852 | by Staff reporter
Breakthrough as Zimbabwe pastors meet Anglican leader over sanctions
A delegation of Zimbabwean clerics organized as the Zimbabwe churches' sanctions relief initiative (ZICSRI) on Monday held a meeting with Anglican's global leader met the Archbishop of Canterbury, Jus...Published: 08 Nov 2021 at 19:54hrs | 1984 | by Mandla Ndlovu
It is now the abused State security vs Chamisa
OPPOSITION MDC Alliance Nelson Chamisa's political wave, summarised under his rallying code #NgaapindeHakeMukoma, has left Zanu-PF mesmerised, confused and doing embarrassing things by conscripting th...Published: 08 Nov 2021 at 05:25hrs | 975 | by Isaac Mupinyuri
There is need to audit works of NGOs
CIVIL society has been an almost purely Western concept. It is historically tied to the political emancipation of citizens from former feudalistic ties, monarchies, and the state during the eighteenth...Published: 07 Nov 2021 at 07:11hrs | 98 | by Teddy Ncube
Zimbabwe, UK in diplomatic breakthrough?
DIPLOMATIC relations between the United Kingdom and Zimbabwe have been escalated to the highest political level, breaking a two-decade long impasse in a major breakthrough for Harare's re-engagement d...Published: 07 Nov 2021 at 07:08hrs | 177 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's cocktail encounters and futility of summit diplomacy
ZIMBABWEAN President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his publicists climbed Mount Everest celebrating inevitable chats with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and happenstance exchanges at a cocktail with Un...Published: 06 Nov 2021 at 17:56hrs | 727 | by Staff reporter
'Harsh cyber laws a human rights violation'
CIVIL society organisations (CSOs) have accused the ruling Zanu-PF party of pushing for enactment of harsh cyber laws to hide its human rights violations and consolidate power.Crisis in Zimbab...Published: 06 Nov 2021 at 06:37hrs | 339 | by Staff reporter
The legality of the MDC-T
MUCH has been said about Nelson Chamisa still using the name MDC in rallying his supporters. Just on Monday there was a letter penned by one O Gutu. Gutu was saying Chamisa and Zimbabwe Electoral comm...Published: 06 Nov 2021 at 06:36hrs | 805 | by Allan Mbire
NGOs warn Mnangagwa's govt
THE rights of social media users in Zimbabwe are set to be violated if the government goes ahead with its plans to snoop on what citizens send and receive, particularly on the WhatsApp platform....Published: 06 Nov 2021 at 06:22hrs | 874 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe - UK relations thawing?
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday said relations between Zimbabwe and Britain were thawing as evidenced by his three meetings with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson this week.He said he used hi...Published: 06 Nov 2021 at 06:22hrs | 653 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa boasts of UK royalty meetings
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday bragged that he had made a major breakthrough in his re-engagement efforts with leaders of hostile Western nations, some of which have imposed sanctions on Zimba...Published: 05 Nov 2021 at 06:50hrs | 1898 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa weaponising Covid-19'
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa and the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) are ‘weaponising' the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic containment measures to conveniently perpetuate the delay in holding parliame...Published: 04 Nov 2021 at 06:12hrs | 257 | by Staff reporter
Concern over Zec, Health ministry discord
AN independent election watchdog has said the discord between the Health ministry and Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) over pending by-elections is clear confirmation of confusion on who is in char...Published: 03 Nov 2021 at 05:25hrs | 528 | by Staff reporter
'Votes are won by ideas, not intimidation' tweeted USA - how naive and infuriatingly so too
"We are very concerned about reports of rising political violence in multiple provinces," the United States embassy in Harare said in a tweeted statement."As Zimbabwe prepares for the 2023 ele...Published: 02 Nov 2021 at 13:34hrs | 668 | by Nomusa Garikai
More anti-sanctions marches staged in UK
Zimbabweans based in the United Kingdom have been staging marches in solidarity with President Mnangagwa, and demanding the unconditional removal of illegal sanctions imposed on the country by the Wes...Published: 02 Nov 2021 at 05:33hrs | 457 | by Staff reporter
Media reforms a key to free & fair elections
Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation beamed live coverage of the 19th ZANU PF National Annual People's Conference from Bindura last week.The virtual conference which was broadcasted live across t...Published: 01 Nov 2021 at 14:35hrs | 515 | by Leonard Koni
Nothing new from tired Zanu-PF
Zanu-PF's annual conference is underway in Bindura and, predictably, the former liberation party is not proffering any fresh ideas to extricate Zimbabwe from the quicksand of corruption-induced povert...Published: 31 Oct 2021 at 08:44hrs | 841 | by Staff reporter
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