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We are in this together: A Response to Israel Dube's article
As a proud African, it pains me to read Israel Dube's article on Bulawayo24 promoting racism and tribalism. It is unfortunate that such divis...Published: 07 Jun 2023 at 13:53hrs | 551 | by Kumbirai Thierry Nhamo
Zanu-PF poll disputes turn nasty
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's orders to Zanu-PF supporters to close ranks after divisive primary elections are being defied with evidence mounting of widening divisions over the ruling party's electi...Published: 28 May 2023 at 08:10hrs | 226 | by Staff reporter
WhatsApp gag order divides Zanu-PF
RULING Zanu-PF's security chief, Lovemore Matuke this week rebuffed reports that he has directed party organs to disband WhatsApp groups, which officials have claimed were dividing the party, but prov...Published: 26 May 2023 at 06:42hrs | 2113 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF bans WhatsApp groups
Zanu-PF Mashonaland West province has with immediate effect, ordered closure of WhatsApp groups linked to the political party.A notice issued by Zanu-PF province's Information Department secre...Published: 20 May 2023 at 19:16hrs | 200 | by Staff reporter
African Devt Bank proposes ‘fast track' compensation for Zimbabwe white ex-farmers
The African Development Bank (AFDB) has developed financial instruments to "fast track and front load" $3.5 billion in compensation to white farmers whose land was taken from them by Zimbabwe's govern...Published: 15 May 2023 at 19:05hrs | 119 | by Staff reporter
Do not give the devil a foothold
It is a known phenomenon that cracks and fissures in relations and interactions allow negative energies to disrupt positivity and well-being of those around us. Absence of amicability in all w...Published: 15 May 2023 at 15:21hrs | 303 | by TT Murisa. Chinehasha
'WhatsApp groups dividing Zanu-PF'
FORMER State Security minister Owen Ncube has pleaded with Zanu-PF members to disband divisive social media groups which he says are fanning factionalism in the Midlands province.Ncube was sac...Published: 04 May 2023 at 06:11hrs | 707 | by Staff reporter
Mthwakazi says it's not divisive
The Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) has angrily reacted to claims that it was causing divisions in Matabeleland.Citizens Coalition for Change Bulawayo spokesperson Felix Mafa-Sibanda was quoted...Published: 16 Apr 2023 at 08:38hrs | 439 | by Staff reporter
Temba Mliswa wants polls parked in favour of transitional authority
Norton legislator Temba Mliswa says Zimbabwe should shelve elections for now in place of a transitional authority that would superintend over the country's affairs in the interim.To achieve th...Published: 13 Apr 2023 at 08:15hrs | 1463 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa implores parents to administer corporal punishment
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has implored parents and guardians to administer corporal punishment to discipline their children and challenged churches and other social institutions to join in the fight against...Published: 20 Mar 2023 at 07:37hrs | 257 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF abusing power of incumbency
THE election season has officially begun. President Emmerson Mnangagwa has in the week deliberately given his party, Zanu-PF, inside information on the August elections instead of gazetting such infor...Published: 11 Mar 2023 at 06:37hrs | 294 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
The mountain is high
Back in 1926, America witnessed the clash of two African-African American giants — then they were called Negroes — over the notion of Negro Art.Was Negro Art a separate creative tradition ...Published: 11 Mar 2023 at 06:35hrs | 250 | by @Jamwanda2
Chamisa ready to step down from CCC leadership?
Nelson Chamisa, leader of the opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC), has said he is ready to step down from the party's leadership if members decide so.He was answering to journalists...Published: 10 Mar 2023 at 05:30hrs | 4595 | by Staff reporter
CCC activist attacks fellow party member
POLICE are investigating a case of intra-party political violence in the city of Masvingo where a CCC activist attacked and left his fellow party member for dead owing to deepening factionalism in the...Published: 21 Feb 2023 at 05:50hrs | 228 | by Staff reporter
Intolerance behind polarisation in Zimbabwe
AS Zimbabwe heads for crucial harmonised later this year, there has been an unsurprising increase in calls for unity among the country's citizenry.This is in response to the highly toxic natur...Published: 20 Feb 2023 at 05:31hrs | 186 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Tsvangirai remembered five years on
February 14, 2023 marked five years since late Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader Morgan Tsvangirai succumbed to colon cancer.He was 65.Tsvangirai left the main opposition MDC...Published: 19 Feb 2023 at 17:36hrs | 152 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe is NOT a democracy and Zanu PF is rigging 2023 - the reality we must accept and act accordingly
Zimbabweans love to talk about democracy but most of us have no clue what they are talking about. None! "Democracy is the government of the people, for the people and by the people!" said Abra...Published: 14 Feb 2023 at 07:05hrs | 2178 | by Wilbert Mukori
CIO spooks on the prowl
A LEAKED Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) report on the dire situation at privately-owned publishing house Alpha Media Holdings (AMH) exposes the rot at the company, accentuated by spooky manoe...Published: 22 Jan 2023 at 13:19hrs | 2313 | by Staff reporter
CIO spooks on the prowl at Trevor Ncube's AMH?
A LEAKED Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) report on the dire situation at privately-owned publishing house Alpha Media Holdings (AMH) exposes the rot at the company, accentuated by spooky manoe...Published: 21 Jan 2023 at 09:42hrs | 4170 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe in 2023: There is great disorder, chaos under the heavens
GEORGE Orwell wrote so much and so well that one day it became cause for a whole essay to explain to himself and the world why he wrote as such.In the essay of 1946, Why I Write, Orwell recoun...Published: 17 Jan 2023 at 05:49hrs | 1134 | by Dr William Jethro Mpofu
Mnangagwa must act on despicable behaviour by supporters
SOMETIME last week, a group of Zanu-PF supporters was captured in a sickening video calling for the death of Citizens Coalition for Change leader, Nelson Chamisa and threatening anyone who would mourn...Published: 28 Dec 2022 at 20:58hrs | 702 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa says no unity without true dialogue
CIVIC society and opposition political parties yesterday decried Zimbabwe's highly-polarised society which they say have rendered Unity Day irrelevant.Zimbabwe yesterday celebrated the 35th an...Published: 25 Dec 2022 at 14:13hrs | 159 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt rejigs US$3.5bn compensation to farmers
ZIMBABWE'S cash-strapped Treasury has proposed a staggered payout plan to settle the US$3.5 billion compensation to white ex-commercial farmers who lost vast tracts of land when the government embarke...Published: 29 Nov 2022 at 18:00hrs | 363 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's personalization of government programs divisive and counter-productive
So, now there is a 'Miners for ED' group!Another, in a long line of shady organizations that have mushroomed over the recent past – a...Published: 20 Nov 2022 at 16:06hrs | 1536 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
'Teachers for ED' project raises 2023 rigging fears
THE recent launch of the ‘Teachers for ED' project by President Emmerson Mnangagwa has raised fears of rigging of next year's general elections as the same educators who have endorsed him will be am...Published: 22 Oct 2022 at 19:34hrs | 890 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga, Teachers-4-ED endorse Mnangagwa for 2023
EDUCATORS under the auspices of teachers for economic development (ED) jostled and scrambled one after the other, throwing their weight behind President Emmerson Mnangagwa as their preferred candidate...Published: 20 Oct 2022 at 06:03hrs | 1105 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa says he is ready to support teachers
THE Government is ever ready to support teachers through programmes and activities that capacitate them on both national and international levels, platforms from which they can unleash their full pote...Published: 20 Oct 2022 at 05:56hrs | 168 | by Staff reporter
Mashonalanders and Mnangagwa takes over Gukurahundi genocide resolution
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has launched a manual on the Gukurahundi community engagement processes by chiefs including a report on their consultative meetings as the Second Republic takes a bold step towards...Published: 18 Oct 2022 at 05:56hrs | 274 | by Staff reporter
'Mashonaland politicians using Gukurahundi atrocities for mileage'
PRESIDENT EMMERSON Mnangagwa has accused unnamed political parties of weaponising the Gukurahundi atrocities in a bid to get political mileage.He was speaking at the launch of the Gukurahundi ...Published: 17 Oct 2022 at 20:22hrs | 695 | by Staff reporter
Mutsvangwa wants all political parties to get fair coverage
MEDIA houses should provide equal coverage to all political parties in line with the Second Republic's mantra of leaving no one behind, Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services Minister, Monic...Published: 10 Oct 2022 at 18:21hrs | 443 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa denounces vote buying
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has denounced violence and vote buying as his ruling Zanu-PF party gears up for its central committee elections this weekend.Central Committee elections are a prec...Published: 06 Oct 2022 at 06:08hrs | 1320 | by Staff reporter
'No room for chicanery in Zanu-PF,' says Mnangagwa
AHEAD of Zanu-PF Central Committee elections this weekend, President Mnangagwa has said there is no room for chicanery, name dropping, violence, or imposition of candidates in the ruling party....Published: 06 Oct 2022 at 06:00hrs | 334 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa sends Mohadi to funeral of Japan's Abe
Shamed former vice president Kembo Mohadi represented Zimbabwe at Tuesday's funeral of ex-Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, ZimLive has learnt.Mohadi, who resigned in March 2020 after being ...Published: 28 Sep 2022 at 19:57hrs | 2243 | by Staff reporter
Wadyajena the untouchable ZANU PF maverick
Gokwe-Nembudziya legislator, Justice Mayor Wadyajena has been a long standing divisive and problematic child of the ruling party ZANU PF and he seems to be an untouchable maverick within the party....Published: 27 Sep 2022 at 16:16hrs | 994 | by John Mutengambiri
Mwonzora's MDC recalls Chamisa's divisive Bulawayo councillor
BULAWAYO City Council Ward 3 Councillor and former deputy mayor, Tinashe Kambarami has been recalled from the local authority by the Douglas Mwonzora-led Movement for Democratic Change (MDC).L...Published: 15 Sep 2022 at 21:31hrs | 1069 | by Staff reporter
MDC-T plots recalling returnee divisive councillor
BULAWAYO Mayor Solomon Mguni and councillor Mlandu Ncube have reportedly roped in MDC-T in a bid to block Tinashe Kambarami from assuming the city's deputy mayorship following his recent reinstatement...Published: 14 Sep 2022 at 19:15hrs | 1042 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF aspiring candidates warned against unsanctioned campaigns
Zanu-PF has warned aspiring candidates eyeing the party nomination in next year's national harmonised elections for Parliament local councils against being involved in unsanctioned campaigns which are...Published: 07 Sep 2022 at 06:39hrs | 119 | by Staff reporter
South Africa plans to end most special permits for foreigners
South Africa plans to end most special permits for foreigners as it revamps its immigration policies to manage an influx of economic migrants.The government announced that a special dispensati...Published: 26 Aug 2022 at 20:48hrs | 937 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa warns divisive elements
AHEAD of the War Veterans League elective conference next month, President Mnangagwa has called for democratic contestation and acceptance of results, saying divisive tendencies have no place in the r...Published: 25 Aug 2022 at 06:33hrs | 104 | by Staff reporter
This & that with Mal'phosa: The endangered species
I have a feeling the Ndebele language is endangered - and we, the custodians of the language by right of being senior citizens - are not helping the situation in any way. How would you feel if you wer...Published: 22 Aug 2022 at 11:04hrs | 458 | by Clerk Ndlovu
Mayor fighting political wars, claims divisive Kambarami
CONFUSION reigns supreme in the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) following a recent High Court judgement that ordered the reinstatement of former deputy mayor, Mr Tinashe Kambarami amid revelations that to...Published: 21 Aug 2022 at 08:44hrs | 391 | by Staff reporter
UN doubts Zimbabwe Peace Commission's capacity to resolve Gukurahundi
THE UNITED Nations Human Rights Commission (UNHRC) has poked holes into the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC), questioning its ability to resolve the long-standing and highly emotive...Published: 20 Aug 2022 at 07:17hrs | 584 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo City officials 'block' reinstatement of divisive ex-deputy mayor
BULAWAYO City Council is reportedly disregarding a High Court order to reinstate former Bulawayo deputy mayor, Tinashe Kambarami.The matter is shrouded in uncertainty following reports that co...Published: 17 Aug 2022 at 06:44hrs | 1587 | by Staff reporter
Teachers for ED union formed
GOVERNMENT has approved a new teachers' union with the moniker "Teachers for ED (Economic Development)", NewsDay has learnt.A circular dated June 22, 2022 written by the secretary of Primary a...Published: 11 Aug 2022 at 06:43hrs | 885 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe a friend to all, an enemy to none'
Address by the President of the Republic 0f Zimbabwe His Excellency, ED Mnangagwa at the 42nd Heroes Day Commemorations. It is my singular honour and privilege to be addressing you all, at thi...Published: 09 Aug 2022 at 08:16hrs | 145 | by ED Mnangagwa
Mnangagwa's govt to mortgage platinum royalties to pay off farmers
ZIMBABWE will mortgage platinum mining royalties to pay US$3.5 billion in compensation to white farmers whose land was expropriated by the government, moving a step closer to resolving Robert Mugabe's...Published: 07 Aug 2022 at 18:50hrs | 414 | by Staff reporter
Mabhikwa orders re-instatement of divisive Kambarami
The Bulawayo High Court has ordered the reinstatement of former Bulawayo deputy mayor and Ward 3 councillor Tinashe Kambarami .Justice Martin Makonese delivered the ruling Thursday.Bac...Published: 04 Aug 2022 at 22:33hrs | 1439 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa says call for structures a non-issue
THE opposition Citizens' Coalition for Change (CCC) is set to contest the 2023 elections without permanent structures despite shrill clamours by some critics, with party leader Nelson Chamisa saying s...Published: 25 Jul 2022 at 08:00hrs | 3912 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe total shutdown looms
Zimbabwe's public service sector faces total shutdown this week over a salary deadlock as government maintains it cannot afford to meet their pay demands.Civil servants are demanding to be pai...Published: 17 Jul 2022 at 09:12hrs | 943 | by Staff reporter
ZANU PF hunts for rebellious elements within the party
ZANU PF is allegedly hunting for and seeking mischievous elements who are circulating a rebellious petition aimed at undermining the authority of the party's President and First Secretary Emmerson Mna...Published: 11 Jul 2022 at 10:53hrs | 3315 | by Mandla Ndlovu
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