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Chamisa, Mnangagwa trade barbs
Opposition leader Nelson Chamisa has blasted President Emmerson Mnangagwa saying he is the chief culprit in causing violence against innocent Zimbabweans. Mnangagwa blamed the opposition for t...Published: 19 Feb 2019 at 08:34hrs | 1913 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa more brutal than Mugabe at his worst, says Chamisa
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa on Monday said President Emmerson Mnangagwa is "more rabid than Robert Mugabe at his worst."Chamisa spoke outside the Harare Magistrates Court where the MDC's Harare ...Published: 18 Feb 2019 at 18:19hrs | 4469 | by ZimLive
'Chamisa will never rule Zimbabwe' says Mutodi
Deputy Minister of Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services Energy Mutodi says MDC leader Nelson Chamisa is a puppet that will never rule Zimbabwe.Mutodi was agreeing with MDC-T Vice P...Published: 13 Feb 2019 at 13:17hrs | 8184 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Opposition, West respect Zimbabweans' vote
On 30 July 2018, Zimbabweans went to the polls looking for their best foot forward. While the other 22 Presidential aspirants laid bare their intentions during electioneering, the incumbent and ultima...Published: 07 Feb 2019 at 10:11hrs | 3825 | by Mapozho Saruchera
Mnangagwa drowning 'slowly but surely'
The New Dispensation which has become the New Desperation, has totally failed in all its election mantras and promises that it had promised to the general public at large. Those in the political circl...Published: 04 Feb 2019 at 21:31hrs | 6478 | by Knowledge Hakata
Maimane a misguided and delusional politician
This week, the country woke up to the news that the South African opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) leader, Mmusi Maimane intended to take President Emmerson Mnangagwa to the International Criminal ...Published: 30 Jan 2019 at 13:37hrs | 1233 | by Elijah Chihota
Mr Listening President, you are not hearing the people you lead
WE always suspected there would be some kind of pay-off in the larger scheme of things, when Zimbabweans in their thousands thronged the streets in major cities to show their displeasure with the Robe...Published: 29 Jan 2019 at 08:31hrs | 844 | by Editorial - newsday
Chamisa's desperation leads to political miscalculation
When former President Robert Mugabe resigned, there was an overpowering excitement from across the political divide. For once, Zimbabweans appeared to be united.The opposition, particularly th...Published: 28 Jan 2019 at 16:50hrs | 6105 | by Tafara Shumba
Zanu-PF & the proposed national dialogue is a valid arrest of a people's revolution
When EDfee arrived in Zimbabwe after a tamultous week of revolting by the peoples of the so called zimbabwe, he immediately shifted the mindset of the gulliable and politically feeble minds. He announ...Published: 25 Jan 2019 at 14:36hrs | 678 | by C.K.Nyoni
'Mnangagwa's call for dialogue was a trap'
When Mnangagwa arrived in Zimbabwe after a tumultuous week of revolting by the peoples of the so called Zimbabwe, he immediately shifted the mindset of the gullible and politically feeble minds. He an...Published: 24 Jan 2019 at 20:33hrs | 4048 | by Crispen Khalipha Nyoni
Desperation sometimes leads to desperate decisions
When former President Robert Mugabe resigned, there was an overpowering excitement from across the political divide. For once, Zimbabweans appeared to be united. The opposition, particularly t...Published: 24 Jan 2019 at 13:57hrs | 3153 | by Tafara Shumba
Mnangagwa faces a new wave of unrest as civil servants to strike on Friday
Zimbabwe faces a new wave of unrest as the group representing government workers announced on Wednesday that civil servants across the country will go on strike after salary negotiations failed....Published: 23 Jan 2019 at 16:11hrs | 11807 | by AP
Zupco buses invade Bulawayo routes
THE Government has introduced Zupco buses to ply routes between the Bulawayo Central Business District and the city's residential suburbs as it seeks to provide affordable transport to commuters. ...Published: 22 Jan 2019 at 23:22hrs | 9645 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to be impeached?
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa announced on Sunday that he will return home and skip the World Economic Forum in Switzerland after a week of turmoil in which activists have said at least a dozen people ...Published: 21 Jan 2019 at 08:50hrs | 4631 | by newzimbabwe.com
Zimbabwean family robbed by Mnangagwa's govt
Before the family of Kelvin Tinashe Choto knew he had been killed last week, social media in the country was circulating a photo of his battered body lying on the reception counter of a local police s...Published: 21 Jan 2019 at 08:46hrs | 1179 | by AFP
Mnangagwa skips Davos, returns to get Zimbabwe calm, stable and working again
Zimbabwe's president he will return home and skip the World Economic Forum after a week of turmoil in which activists have said at least a dozen people have been killed in a government crackdown....Published: 20 Jan 2019 at 21:38hrs | 10274 | by AFP
Residents walk to town for groceries
SCORES of desperate residents were on Wednesday and yesterday forced to walk into town to buy groceries as some shops in their respective residential suburbs were vandalised by hooligans. Some...Published: 19 Jan 2019 at 11:19hrs | 325 | by Staff reporter
Khaya Moyo rejects ZimInd story
Zanu-PF secretary for Information and Publicity Simon Khaya Moyo has dismissed a story in yesterday's edition of the Zimbabwe Independent which insinuated that he said the ruling party was prepared to...Published: 19 Jan 2019 at 11:11hrs | 895 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's wife broke the ice, not the strike - doctors
Zimbabwe government hospital doctors have been on strike for the past 36 days, plunging the public health sector into deep crisis, which has led to the near-collapse of the health delivery system. But...Published: 13 Jan 2019 at 07:56hrs | 209 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa is between the rock and a hard place
President Emmerson Mnangagwa is between the proverbial rock and a hard place as he battles to mitigate the country's worsening economic rot — with his impending business trip to Eastern Europe drawi...Published: 11 Jan 2019 at 19:14hrs | 8568 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to have its own currency in 12 months
Zimbabwe should brace itself for its own currency within the next 12 months the Minister of Finance and Economic Development Mthuli Ncube said.He was speaking at a Town Hall meeting with organ...Published: 11 Jan 2019 at 18:44hrs | 4229 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Anxious Mnangagwa looking East
President Emmerson Mnangagwa is between the proverbial rock and a hard place as he battles to mitigate the country's worsening economic rot — with his impending business trip to Eastern Europe drawi...Published: 10 Jan 2019 at 08:15hrs | 516 | by Staff reporter
Les Propheties: A peep into the year ahead
FRENCH apothecary and astrologer Michel de Nostredame, commonly referred to as Nostradamus, is best known for his book Les Propheties, a collection of 942 poetic quatrains claiming to predict future e...Published: 06 Jan 2019 at 10:06hrs | 184 | by Staff reporter
Strive Masiyiwa struggles to stomach criticism
In what started as a routine interview with continental business television channel CNBC Africa, Strive Masiyiwa, Econet founder and Executive Chairman describes the political changes being witnessed ...Published: 02 Jan 2019 at 08:46hrs | 8413 | by Willliam Muchayi
Best economic models that Zimbabwe government can adopt
Apparently we have the following challenges in our mainstream economy - Production levels are very low ( imports exceeding exports therefore balance of payments affected-&nbs...Published: 19 Dec 2018 at 22:17hrs | 2243 | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
Zanu PF turns to spirit mediums
ZANU PF has resolved to honour the ancestral spirits and seek their direction in correcting "wrongs" perpetrated after the country's independence in 1980.This is according to the superstitious...Published: 19 Dec 2018 at 16:59hrs | 6471 | by newzimbabwe
Zanu-PF bigwig evicts 18 families
Anna Kwavakona held one of her one-year-old twin babies in her arms while her other children clutched to her dress as she stood in front of a tent shelter perched by the roadside on the outskirts of B...Published: 16 Dec 2018 at 17:01hrs | 5426 | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere trial postponed again
THE trial of former Local Government minister Saviour Kasukuwere, who is facing criminal abuse of office charges after allocating land to former First Lady Grace Mugabe's sister Shuvai Gumbochuma, was...Published: 13 Dec 2018 at 06:10hrs | 434 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe is open for abuse and foreign interference
THE fact that Zimbabwe is open for business does not mean that the country is open for abuse and foreign interference and this should be understood loud and clear by the MDC and its handlers who now s...Published: 12 Dec 2018 at 05:19hrs | 1926 | by Pupurai Togarepi
Is Zimbabwe ebuilding or establishing a new economy?
THE struggle to figure a way forward continues. The fire-fighting approach is the order of the day. Despite the various economic policy directions by the government, there is lack of clarity on where ...Published: 10 Dec 2018 at 06:05hrs | 825 | by Tapiwa Gomo
MDC speaks on Mudzuri ouster
The Movement for Democratic Change has opened up on the letter that was circulating on social media on Thursday alleging that MDC standing committee has fired its Vice President Engineer Elias Mudzuri...Published: 06 Dec 2018 at 19:49hrs | 7117 | by Mandla Ndlovu
MDC lacking strategic thinking
Utterances attributed to MDC Alliance Spokesperson, Jacob Mafume, that Zimbabwe had become a security threat to the SADC region and that the party would embark on a diplomatic offensive to mobilise su...Published: 06 Dec 2018 at 12:29hrs | 1237 | by Bevan Musoko
Zimbabwe's white farmers 'getting poorer, sicker' as they await govt compensation
WHITE farmers in Zimbabwe, who were evicted from their properties years ago, have been experiencing a drop in food production, and their hope to get government financial help to compensate any losses ...Published: 06 Dec 2018 at 06:03hrs | 1517 | by newsweek
Mnangagwa blocks Mthuli Ncube from hiring MDC-T kingpin
In yet another controversy that has engulfed problems-prone Finance minister Mthuli Ncube, President Emmerson Mnangagwa has blocked him from appointing economist and former opposition kingpin - Eddie ...Published: 03 Dec 2018 at 09:49hrs | 15302 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube blocked from appointing Eddie Cross
In yet another controversy that has engulfed problems-prone Finance minister Mthuli Ncube, President Emmerson Mnangagwa has blocked him from appointing economist and former opposition kingpin - Eddie ...Published: 03 Dec 2018 at 07:07hrs | 3360 | by Staff reporter
What next for Nelson Chamisa?
On Thursday, Nelson Chamisa led Zimbabwe's opposition MDC-Alliance in a demonstration in central Harare. The demonstration, ostensibly protesting the current economic environment, was billed to be the...Published: 01 Dec 2018 at 08:07hrs | 959 | by Tichaona Zindoga
MDC shut down Harare?
Zimbabweans largely ignored the demonstration called by the MDC-Alliance yesterday, and continued with their business as usual, while all shops were open in Harare's Central Business District. ...Published: 30 Nov 2018 at 09:57hrs | 2342 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe left with less than a week of fuel supplies
POOR planning by the Zimbabwe government has resulted in the country facing dwindling fuel supplies.For the past two weeks there have been long, winding queues countrywide. The most affected a...Published: 28 Nov 2018 at 23:03hrs | 7472 | by Times Live
Chamisa's dirty linen exposed
THE MDC Alliance leadership wishes to get into Government through the back door and progressive Zimbabweans should refuse to be used by politicians pushing selfish agendas, political analysts said yes...Published: 28 Nov 2018 at 22:12hrs | 1771 | by Staff reporter
Black Friday craze hits Zimbabwe
THOUSANDS of Zimbabweans thronged the Beitbridge Border Post on Thursday and Friday last week en-route to South Africa for the traditional Black Friday shopping craze that swept across that country....Published: 27 Nov 2018 at 06:09hrs | 2034 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa hangs on the balance
If there is anyone who is going to learn the hard way the consequence of improperly arranging words, it has to be MDC leader, Nelson Chamisa, as he riles ever listening to the demons which misled him ...Published: 26 Nov 2018 at 07:32hrs | 5811 | by Caitlin Kamba
Kunaka's Zanu-PF died last November
WHO does Jim Kunaka think he is fooling and for how long? For those who do not know who he is, Kunaka, was the leader of the infamous Chipangano, a gangster group based in Mbare that caused untold suf...Published: 22 Nov 2018 at 05:47hrs | 2240 | by Tendai H. Manzvanzvike
Desperation takes over Zanu PF
The MDC would like inform the public and the media that statements attributed to party leaders who are said to be involved in fights are false.For the avoidance of doubt, Vice President Prof W...Published: 20 Nov 2018 at 16:24hrs | 2460 | by Jacob Mafume
18 November 2017 - the day of Zimbabwe's delusional politics!
I have just been reading some testimonies from some of the people who partook in the 18 November 2017 mass protests against Robert Gabriel Mugabe's 37 year long tyranny - and the tremendous hopes that...Published: 18 Nov 2018 at 13:32hrs | 2510 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
President Mnangagwa is a Ndebele?
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has close links to the Ndebele people of Sibanda and Moyo surname, National Patriotic Front Spokesman Jealousy Mawarire has alleged.Writing on microblogging site T...Published: 17 Nov 2018 at 13:04hrs | 15637 | by Mandla Ndlovu
A 'Operation restore citizen-power' only path to Zimbabwe's prosperity
As Zimbabwe commemorates last year's military intervention that led to the removal of long-time president Robert Gabriel Mugabe, and replaced by his then recently expelled deputy Emmerson Dambudzo Mna...Published: 14 Nov 2018 at 08:56hrs | 1030 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zifa circus: New details emerge
FRESH details have emerged on how Zifa president Philip Chiyangwa allegedly used dirty tricks to try and ring fence his position from being contested in the December 1 board elections, with disqualifi...Published: 10 Nov 2018 at 11:05hrs | 1151 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa's globetrotting is an indication of desperation'
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's globetrotting is an indication of desperation, the opposition MDC has said.This comes as Mnangagwa this week travelled to Conakry, Guinea for a two-day State vis...Published: 08 Nov 2018 at 17:14hrs | 2387 | by Staff reporter
Oil gaffe exposes Mnangagwa govt gullibility
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government is entangled in yet another embarrassing gaffe and spin around Invictus Energy ‘oil find', which has exposed the authorities' gullibility and desperation fo...Published: 08 Nov 2018 at 06:58hrs | 3455 | by Staff reporter
A dismissal that changed the course of Zimbabwe's history
The band played on. Feverishly. Madly. Deafening sounds and wet, clammy bodies gyrating against each other in lustful, prodigal passions. Zimbabwe was enthralled by a mad political spectacle. It was t...Published: 07 Nov 2018 at 05:57hrs | 4713 | by Tichaona Zindoga
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