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Councillor found with stolen copper cables
MOVEMENT for Democratic Change (MDC) ‘s councillor for Chipinge rural's Ward 2, Agrippah Mayanga has been arrested by the Chipinge Criminal Investigation Department after he was found in possession ...Published: 8 hrs ago | 598 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe: African Development Bank Executive Directors conduct consultative mission, tour project sites
HARARE - A seven-member delegation of Executive Directors of the African Development Bank (www.AfDB.org) visited Zimbabwe on a week-long fact-finding mission where they held meetings with a number of ...Published: 10 hrs ago | 223 | by APO
Chiwenga not Presidential material but key in Mnangagwa's removal - Jonathan Moyo
Former Zanu-PF spin doctor Professor Jonathan Moyo say Vice President Constantino Chiwenga's "terrible temperament" disqualifies him for the country's presidency but the former army general could play...Published: 10 hrs ago | 2932 | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa told to step down by military chiefs, claims Jonathan Moyo
Zimbabwe's military commanders have told President Emmerson Mnangagwa to step down or risk another coup which is simmering within the army's middle ranks, former Cabinet minister Jonathan Moyo claims ...Published: 11 hrs ago | 3454 | by Staff reporter
'Lift sanctions to end mass poverty' insist AU - povo poor but not stupid, know Blue Roof opulence is mother of poverty
There are many reasons why Africa has remained the dark continent, forever doomed to blunder from one crisis to the next. Africa was at business-end of the slave trade, millions of Africans we...Published: 14 hrs ago | 444 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Jonathan Moyo speaks on Chiwenga, Mnangagwa, Cartels and own future
Former cabinet minister, Jonathan Moyo (JM), speaks to Spotlight Zimbabwe Editor, Itai Mushekwe (IM).Professor Jonathan Moyo, thank you for giving us your time, to attend to this your first ev...Published: 14 hrs ago | 8040 | by Staff reporter
'Heavy police presence shows Zimbabwe regime is panicking'
POLICE have increased their presence in and out of Harare in apparent readiness to quash attempts by restless opposition supporters and workers in the wake of threats of massive protests to pressure P...Published: 16 hrs ago | 3541 | by Staff reporter
'Chamisa is more radical,' says Sikhala
MDC vice chairperson Job Sikhala has described party president Nelson Chamisa as a more radical person than himself amid pressure from critics and activists agitating for a confrontational approach wi...Published: 16 hrs ago | 2731 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC divided over strategy to confront Zanu-PF
THE Nelson Chamisa-led opposition party, MDC, is in turmoil over a better strategy to implement in order to confront the ruling Zanu-PF party as the economy continues to tank.This comes as squ...Published: 16 hrs ago | 459 | by Staff reporter
Calls to punish roller meal cartels soar
A cross-section of Zimbabweans has urged authorities to deal ruthlessly with those abusing taxpayers' money and depriving the market of subsidised commodities through hoarding or diversion to the blac...Published: 17 hrs ago | 289 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa says committed to reforms
Zimbabwe is committed to implementing political, economic and legislative reforms as part of efforts to escalate sustainable socio-economic development initiatives, President Emmerson Mnangagwa has sa...Published: 25 Feb 2020 at 20:52hrs | 901 | by Staff reporter
de Klerk's statement on Apartheid leaves South Africans divided
Many South Africans are still reeling and soaking up to former South African President, Frederik Willem de Klerk's statement on Apartheid.A couple of days ago in an interview with SABC News th...Published: 25 Feb 2020 at 08:19hrs | 575 | by Daniel Itai Johannesburg, South Africa
Mbeki's return lifts Zimbabwe hopes
The imminent return to Harare of former South African president Thabo Mbeki, to continue with his mediation efforts in the local impasse has lifted the hopes of many Zimbabweans who see dialogue as th...Published: 25 Feb 2020 at 07:16hrs | 7851 | by Staff reporter
UK 'disagrees' with easing of Zimbabwe sanctions
Britain has given its clearest signal that it intends to pursue a different course from the European Union over sanctions on Zimbabwe after voicing its disagreement with a decision last week to suspen...Published: 24 Feb 2020 at 18:21hrs | 2237 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe among worst food-insecure countries
ZIMBABWE is facing its worst food crisis in years, after being ranked the fourth worst food insecure country in the world.The head of delegation of the European Union, which is helping to feed...Published: 24 Feb 2020 at 10:11hrs | 365 | by Staff reporter
'Mugabe must be turning in his grave'
Zimbabwe Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF Zimbabwe) are proud to remember the legacy of former President of Zimbabwe Robert Gabriel Mugabe notably on the pan African ideas he espoused and promoted....Published: 24 Feb 2020 at 08:50hrs | 1863 | by Rudairo Dickson Mapuranga
Zimbabwean family hopes to be granted US asylum after long wait
The Dzawo family has built their life in Burlington since fleeing government persecution in Zimbabwe in 2012. On March 4, a judge will decide whether to grant or deny them asylum status.It's b...Published: 24 Feb 2020 at 08:39hrs | 813 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa regime cannot silence me,' says Sikhala
Masvingo High Court judge, Justice Garainesu Mawadze, recently acquitted MDC vice chairperson Job Sikhala of treason charges after he allegedly called for the overthrowing of President Emmerson Mnanga...Published: 24 Feb 2020 at 07:22hrs | 1090 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa, Mnangagwa talks on brink of collapse
Talks between President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government and the opposition Movement for Democratic Change have broken down, pitching Zimbabwe further into political disarray.MDC leader Nelson ...Published: 24 Feb 2020 at 07:13hrs | 2047 | by Staff reporter
'No one has monopoly of ideas' said Mnangagwa - he has monopoly to rig and rule!
My fellow Zimbabweans, we are well and truly stuck! Nothing encapsulates Zimbabwe's economic decline and helplessness more than what happened to our agricultural sector. We live in the day a...Published: 24 Feb 2020 at 07:11hrs | 366 | by Wilbert Mukori
Chamisa's tactics fail to work
RIDING the wave of popular anger has not worked out for Nelson Chamisa as it did for the late Morgan Tsvangirai. That is probably because Tsvangirai was popular first before surfing the great ...Published: 24 Feb 2020 at 06:32hrs | 396 | by Lawson Mabhena
Mnangagwa's bid to keep ‘captured' judges
NATIONAL Patriotic Front (NPF) spokesperson Jealousy Mawarire says President Emmerson Mnangagwa was sponsoring a constitutional amendment Bill aimed at granting him powers to appoint local judges so a...Published: 24 Feb 2020 at 06:27hrs | 313 | by newzimbabwe
Open letter to Dr Thokozani Khupe
Dear Dr KhupeGreetings and complements of the new year, hoping that all is well with you.I'm a concerned Christian and founding ordinary member of the Movement for Democratic Change, a...Published: 24 Feb 2020 at 06:16hrs | 407 | by Allan Wenyika
MDC position on the proposed constitutional amendments
The Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) is deeply concerned with the various constitutional amendments that were recently proposed by the Zanu PF regime....Published: 23 Feb 2020 at 21:07hrs | 843 | by Kucaca Phulu
Mnangagwa cracks the whip
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government has come under fire from the opposition and human rights activists following a wave of arrests of people who allegedly took part in protests last week....Published: 23 Feb 2020 at 08:40hrs | 6011 | by Staff reporter
Why Mnangagwa's constitutional amendments are raising dust
Pressure is mounting on President Emmerson Mnangagwa to abandon plans to amend the constitution with civil society groups plotting campaigns to derail the process.The government last year gaze...Published: 23 Feb 2020 at 08:36hrs | 573 | by Everson Mushava
'Will not rest until Zanu PF is extinguished' - shadow boxing, failed to implement even one reform in 20 years
As much as Zanu PF thugs would want to believe they will rule Zimbabwe until "donkeys have horns" the reality is that change is coming. The best they have...Published: 23 Feb 2020 at 07:58hrs | 327 | by Nomusa Garikai
2018 elections not rigged?
The Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday put to rest speculations that 2018 elections were rigged as he confirmed to journalists that his party doesn't have many suppor...Published: 22 Feb 2020 at 18:54hrs | 3181 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa appeals to Chamisa
AMID rising political temperatures and a worsening economic crisis, President Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday appealed to opposition leader Nelson Chamisa, as well as the business community, to join him ...Published: 22 Feb 2020 at 16:50hrs | 12819 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police launch blitz on protesters
THE Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) arrested 34 suspects on Thursday night as part of a crackdown on MDC youths who participated in a flash demonstration in Harare on Wednesday.According to the...Published: 22 Feb 2020 at 16:48hrs | 599 | by Staff reporter
Judges get better with age, says JSC
THE Judicial Service Commission (JSC) has rallied behind government's proposed Constitutional Amendment Bill, especially on sections to do with extension of judges' tenure after reaching retirement ag...Published: 22 Feb 2020 at 16:31hrs | 105 | by Staff reporter
Judges get better with age, says JSC
THE Judicial Service Commission (JSC) has rallied behind government's proposed Constitutional Amendment Bill, especially on sections to do with extension of judges' tenure after reaching retirement ag...Published: 22 Feb 2020 at 16:31hrs | 71 | by Staff reporter
'Zanu PF hegemonic grip on power depends on poverty and violence' - without reforms, never be broken
Last week, former Zanu PF Minister Walter Mzembi promised to spill the beans of how Zanu PF has been rigging elections. Those who know Mzembi is but a man of little substance, an intellectual midget m...Published: 22 Feb 2020 at 08:43hrs | 707 | by Nomusa Garikai
Russians to build US$1,5 billion fuel pipeline in Zimbabwe
ZIMBABWE has roped in the Russian government to fund the construction of a second fuel pipeline worth US$1,5 billion, in a deal that will see three other ...Published: 21 Feb 2020 at 07:04hrs | 13073 | by Paul Ndou
Morgan Tsvangirai Street for Mutare
Mutare City Council has resolved to rename Second Street in the Central Business District (CBD) to Morgan Richard Tsvangirai, the former MDC leader who died of colon cancer on February 14, 2018....Published: 21 Feb 2020 at 06:11hrs | 937 | by Staff reporter
Simbisa targets 15 new outlets
ZIMBABWE's largest fast-food chain, Simbisa Brands Limited (Simbisa) is targeting to open 15 new outlets across the country this year, at an estimated cost of US$3 million, managing director Warren Me...Published: 21 Feb 2020 at 05:51hrs | 328 | by Staff reporter
Of the late Morgan Tsvangirayi and Daniel arap Moi, where are they?
Why do I pause the aforementioned question? What has it to do with the reader, those who are still mourning the death of their loved ones and probably cherishing some good moments they had with them? ...Published: 20 Feb 2020 at 16:52hrs | 1566 | by Amen Mpofu
Zim government resorts to old examination fees
Zimbabwe's Primary and Secondary Education minister Cain Mathema, has rescinded the recently announced 2020 examination fees. Mathema said new examination fees will be announced after further ...Published: 20 Feb 2020 at 16:45hrs | 916 | by Daniel Itai
Zimbabwe losing US$400m to oil pipeline cartels
ZIMBABWE is losing US$400 million annually in potential oil revenue due to Sakunda Holdings' untenable monopoly over the Beira-Harare fuel pipeline, it has emerged.Sources in government and th...Published: 20 Feb 2020 at 13:33hrs | 1781 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa threaten 'radical approach' to force ED into NTA - same GNU s***t different name
"They will arrest and kill some of us, but no gun is more powerful than a conscious mind. Some people are saying why don't you focus on 2023. That is foolishness. Foolishness is doing the same thing w...Published: 20 Feb 2020 at 13:28hrs | 652 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Mnangagwa told to demilitarise State institutions
OPPOSITION United Democratic Alliance (UDA) president Daniel Shumba has said Zimbabwe's biggest elephant in the room was the militarisation of State institutions and that any political reforms that wi...Published: 20 Feb 2020 at 13:25hrs | 281 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe teacher fears for life, as suspected state agents threaten him
A Zimbabwe teacher, based in the country's fifth largest city of Kwekwe, is now living in fear after allegedly receiving threats on his life from suspected state agents, veterans of the liberation str...Published: 20 Feb 2020 at 13:14hrs | 516 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe's tragic failure of leadership can be reversed
In 2008 Nelson Mandela said there was a "tragic failure of leadership" in Zimbabwe. His words have never been truer than they are today. There is evidence of failure everywhere you look.In Mar...Published: 20 Feb 2020 at 05:58hrs | 2478 | by Nelson Chamisa
Chamisa refuses to be associated with Tagwirei
The main opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader Nelson Chamisa has rejected as untrue, claims that fuel tycoon and Sakunda Holdings boss Kudakwashe Tagwirei bought him a car, adding th...Published: 20 Feb 2020 at 05:50hrs | 4558 | by Staff reporter
Grace Kwinjeh quits MDC
The main opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) representative to the European Union (EU), Grace Kwinjeh, has resigned from her post to focus on her studies in South America.Nehanda R...Published: 20 Feb 2020 at 05:48hrs | 2847 | by Staff reporter
US threatens South Africa over land reform
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has warned that the South African government's plan to expropriate land without compensation will be "disastrous" for the economy and the nation.Mr Pompeo mad...Published: 19 Feb 2020 at 17:46hrs | 2829 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Sikhala lashes Tamborinyoka for protecting Mnangagwa
THE acquittal of MDC deputy chairperson Job Sikhala of treason charges last week has exposed the rift between radicals and soft-liners within the opposition party.Sikhala was arrested in July ...Published: 19 Feb 2020 at 07:13hrs | 5812 | by Staff reporter
'Maize being smuggled to DRC from Zimbabwe'
LOCAL small-scale millers yesterday sensationally accused large milling companies of collecting subsidised maize from the Grain Marketing Board and smuggling it to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR...Published: 19 Feb 2020 at 06:49hrs | 1287 | by Staff reporter
De Klerk, Mnangagwa in same WhatsApp group
FORMER apartheid South Africa leader Willem de Klerk torched a storm last week when he said apartheid was not a crime against humanity.De Klerk made the remarks in television interviews to mar...Published: 19 Feb 2020 at 06:38hrs | 1539 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Millers 'smuggle' maize out of the country
SMALL and medium scale millers yesterday accused bigger industry players of abusing the Government maize subsidy scheme by smuggling the commodity out of the country. Late last year, the Gover...Published: 19 Feb 2020 at 06:34hrs | 314 | by Staff reporter
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