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The retrogressive nature of Zimbabwe's power politics: 2008-2018
This article seeks to highlight the bad side of power politics drawing examples from two major political parties namely the Zimbabwe African National Union for Patriotic Front (Zanu PF) and the Moveme...Published: 4 hrs ago | 387 | by Tatenda freeman Murenjekwa
Mnangagwa, Chamisa under immense pressure to dialogue
President Emmerson Mnangagwa and opposition leader Nelson Chamisa have come under immense pressure to dialogue Zimbabwe's way out of the economic meltdown with analysts saying that was the only soluti...Published: 16 hrs ago | 2595 | by Staff reporter
Ex-Zanu PF MP hounded by 2008 attempted murder case
Shielded from prosecution for over 10 years now, former Zanu PF legislator for Magunje, Francis Ndambakuwa (52), is finally going to stand trial for attempting to kill two MDC members ahead of the inf...Published: 20 hrs ago | 1455 | by Staff reporter
World Youth Day for Democracy: Youth and Politics
Sipho Ndlovu 53 Portland Crescent, Greenford, UB6 9EX London United Kingdom Mobile number +447400566013 Dear Editor World Youth Day for Democracy: Youth and Pol...Published: 22 hrs ago | 155 | by Sipho Ndlovu
MDC renews push for diaspora vote
MDC secretary for elections Jacob Mafume has said the party will use all legal channels to make sure that people in the diaspora vote in 2023.Mafume told the Daily News that his party will app...Published: 18 Oct 2019 at 05:31hrs | 176 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's PR offensive a futile exercise
GOVERNMENT'S decision to hire four international public relations firms in its bid to spruce up its battered image globally is pointless unless the Harare administration implements substantive politic...Published: 18 Oct 2019 at 05:27hrs | 108 | by Staff reporter
Enjoy donor money but vote Zanu-PF, says Minister
Mutare: People in rural areas should gladly enjoy financial donations by international aid agencies in the form of relief projects but should go on to vote Zanu-PF during election time, Minister of St...Published: 18 Oct 2019 at 04:20hrs | 214 | by Staff reporter
Gems coach sacked for complaining about unpaid allowances
SENIOR netball team coach Lloyd Makunde has been sacked ahead of the Africa Netball Cup that gets underway in South Africa today. The Zimbabwe Netball Association (Zina) executive led by Letic...Published: 18 Oct 2019 at 04:02hrs | 49 | by Staff reporter
A peek into Chamisa's urban nightmare
The opposition party, the MDC, cut its teeth in elections in 2000. Since then, it has been winning almost the same local authority and National Assembly seats, mainly in urban areas. Despite b...Published: 18 Oct 2019 at 03:52hrs | 58 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Zanu-PF DCCs to set up other structures
Recently elected Zanu-PF District Coordinating Committees (DCCs) members for Harare should start setting up lower structures in preparation for the election of the provincial executive, Zanu-PF Secret...Published: 18 Oct 2019 at 03:50hrs | 36 | by Staff reporter
Who is behind the spate of activist abductions in Zimbabwe?
Since the beginning of the year, some 50 people, mainly government detractors, have been abducted and tortured in Zimbabwe, but it is not easy to say who could be behind these heinous crimes.T...Published: 17 Oct 2019 at 20:51hrs | 221 | by Cyril Zenda
Tsvangirai and Chamisa plotted the death of thousand Zimbabweans
Zimbabwe has suffered from unrelenting onslaught from Europe and America. The onslaught is done in the form of sanctions which has brought zimbabwe to its knees. Zimbabwe has struggled for seventeen&n...Published: 17 Oct 2019 at 22:14hrs | 126 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
'Only a Zanu PF and MDC GNU will move country forward' - fixation of panicked housefly
Zimbabwe's worsening economic situation has some Zimbabweans in such a panic they have a fixation with the idea of a Zanu PF and MDC GNU as the solution they cannot listen to reason. "It's hig...Published: 17 Oct 2019 at 11:58hrs | 22 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Critical day for Chamisa, MDC
The Supreme Court is today expected to either affirm or reject opposition leader Nelson Chamisa's stewardship of the MDC. This follows an appeal against High Court judge Edith Mushore's ruling...Published: 17 Oct 2019 at 09:08hrs | 22 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa itches for clash with Mnangagwa
Opposition MDC party leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday said the country was drawing to a "tipping point" as shortages of key commodities persist, while the collapse of the local currency and rising infl...Published: 17 Oct 2019 at 09:03hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa talks: Chamisa digs in
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa has insisted on the engagement of an international facilitator before he could be part of any talks with President Emmerson Mnangagwa.Zimbabwe is keen to remedy a fas...Published: 17 Oct 2019 at 08:58hrs | 5 | by newzimbabwe
Curb corruption in the police force now
The recent case involving 11 police constables from different police stations who were arrested in Borrowdale while trying to extort money from a businessman they accused of illegally dealing in forei...Published: 17 Oct 2019 at 08:48hrs | 4 | by Beaven Dhliwayo
Mnangagwa to implement Motlanthe Commission recommendations
Government is in the process of implementing recommendations made by the Motlanthe Commission after the August 1, 2018 violence that left six people dead and will prosecute those responsible when inve...Published: 17 Oct 2019 at 08:42hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF endorses DCC polls
THE Zanu-PF Politburo has endorsed newly-elected Harare District Coordinating Committee (DCC) executive members as part of a restructuring exercise to strengthen the party ahead of 2023 national elect...Published: 17 Oct 2019 at 08:41hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
ZANU PF to fire Prisca Mupfumira
President Ememerson Mnangagwa is reportedly initiating a move to fire embattled former Minister of Tourism Prisca Mupfumira from her Politiburo post due to the web of corruption allegations that...Published: 16 Oct 2019 at 17:55hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF suspends Harare, Bulawayo restructuring
Daily NewsZanu-PF has suspended its restructuring of Harare and Bulawayo provinces despite completing the setting up of District Coordinating Committees (DCCs) in the capital city. Las...Published: 16 Oct 2019 at 16:19hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
MDC dismisses report on talks and meeting at Zanu PF Headquarters
The MDC would like to put it on record that it has not been involved in any meeting with Zanu PF either formal, ad-hoc or informal.As the party that won the 2018 election, the MDC is committed...Published: 16 Oct 2019 at 14:14hrs | 4133 | by Chalton Hwende
The MDC's chequered stewardship of our urban areas
The MDC's chequered stewardship of our urban areasNobleman RunyangaThe opposition party, the MDC cut its teeth into elections in 2000. Since then it has been winning almost the same lo...Published: 16 Oct 2019 at 11:55hrs | 992 | by Nobleman Runyanga
A historical lesson for Kembo Mohadi. #1987 Unity Accord and its demise in 2009.
Whilst the Zimbabwean economy dovetails under mismanagement by ZANU PF government, while millions are at the verge of starvation, while there seems to be no reprieve in sight for the cash, crisis, ene...Published: 16 Oct 2019 at 09:27hrs | 9612 | by Iphithule Maphosa
Mnangagwa must swallow his pride and allow Zimbabwe to work again
Fellow esteemed leaders, fellow Zimbabweans, ladies and gentlemen, friends and relatives, brothers and sisters. Zimbabwe is burning and the centre cannot hold.Our leadership must b...Published: 16 Oct 2019 at 08:16hrs | 3204 | by Leonard Koni
Chamisa MDC orders Bulawayo mayor to reinstate Kambarami
THE opposition MDC has ordered Bulawayo mayor Solomon Mguni to re-instate his expelled deputy Tinashe Kambarami, despite a High Court ruling that the latter's election was a nullity.Kambarami ...Published: 16 Oct 2019 at 07:29hrs | 563 | by Staff reporter
'Zinara chair Madanha harasses staff'
A SENIOR Harare regional magistrate yesterday issued a court order for the State to investigate the person who wrote a Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) Press statement defending the alle...Published: 16 Oct 2019 at 07:28hrs | 142 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa's govt lacks political will to address humanitarian crisis'
The Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum has accused President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government of lacking political will to address the ongoing humanitarian crisis and human rights violations, mainly perpe...Published: 16 Oct 2019 at 07:26hrs | 150 | by Staff reporter
UK think tank says Zanu-PF poised for victory in 2023
A United Kingdom based think tank, Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), a member of The Economist Group has predicted a comfortable win for Zanu-PF in the 2023 harmonised elections. In its repor...Published: 16 Oct 2019 at 07:21hrs | 343 | by Staff reporter
Hundreds attend Bulawayo Amazing Voices auditions
AUDITIONS for the Zimbabwe leg of the Old Mutual Amazing Voices singing competition kicked off in Bulawayo at the Large City Hall yesterday with hundreds flocking the venue to try their luck. ...Published: 16 Oct 2019 at 07:14hrs | 87 | by Staff reporter
Anxiety grips Zanu-PF provincial structures
ANXIETY has gripped Zanu-PF provincial structures ahead of the impending District Coordinating Committee (DCC) elections whose dates are yet to be advised. The Zanu-PF Politburo recently decid...Published: 16 Oct 2019 at 07:13hrs | 736 | by Staff reporter
Govt dismisses warped NGO report
Government yesterday fired a salvo on the local NGO report questioning the independence of the Judiciary and described it as "tired and old rhetoric" that should be smoked for its inequity. Ju...Published: 16 Oct 2019 at 07:12hrs | 66 | by Staff reporter
'Common sense must prevail, need GNU' argue Mzembi - 'less of him we'd have a better land'
Albert Einstein, one of the greatest physicist and innovative thinker to ever walk the earth, explained that psychologically, our beliefs and axioms rest upon our experiences. There exists, however, n...Published: 16 Oct 2019 at 05:59hrs | 463 | by Wilbert Mukori
Chamisa and Mnangagwa must first tame vanity
FUNERALS in our culture are an opportunity to vent one's deep-seated opinions and emotions on topical issues, be they personal, family or national, while enjoying the same privileges and protection ak...Published: 15 Oct 2019 at 18:41hrs | 1317 | by Walter Mzembi
Zimbabweans bused to vote for Frelimo in Mozambique?
Calls for calm and warnings against voter intimidation marked a closely watched election day in Mozambique on Tuesday that is crucial in consolidating a wary peace in the southern African nation of ne...Published: 15 Oct 2019 at 18:41hrs | 894 | by AP
Peace through jazz music - The trumpet is a 'cool' instrument to unite people
Each year, on 30 April, music lovers around the world celebrate International Jazz Day to "honour jazz and its enduring legacy, as well as its power to bring people together," says Audrey Azoulay, the...Published: 15 Oct 2019 at 18:26hrs | 2759 | by Frank Kuwonu
MDC official warns Chamisa over tribalism
I write this opinion piece in my personal capacity. I am a very disgruntled member of MDC residing in Bulawayo. I write this opinion having followed the MDC Congress process right from day one of bran...Published: 15 Oct 2019 at 16:40hrs | 1655 | by Nicholas Moyo Godlwayo
Zimbabweans secretly vote in Mozambique elections?
MDC Deputy Spokesperson Luke Tamborinyoka has alleged that some Zimbabweans secretly voted in the Mozambique elections held on Tuesday.Said Tomborinyoka, "We have it on good authority that the...Published: 15 Oct 2019 at 14:31hrs | 2158 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zhuwao rallies young people to take over
Late President Robert Mugabe's grandson Jason has urged young people in Africa to take active role in African politics and retire the elderly who are currently at the helm of different political insti...Published: 15 Oct 2019 at 08:46hrs | 882 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa, govt running scared, says Chamisa
Opposition leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday accused authorities of running scared and working to destabilise the MDC - after hundreds of police cordoned off the party's national headquarters in Harare....Published: 15 Oct 2019 at 07:03hrs | 517 | by Staff reporter
Matebeleland civic groups threaten to disrupt nurses' training
A GROUPING of civic groups, under the banner Matebeleland Collective (MC), has threatened to disrupt nurse training lessons at Mpilo and United Bulawayo Hospitals (UBH) to force government to address ...Published: 15 Oct 2019 at 06:53hrs | 100 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo snubs Zec's voter registration exercise
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has lamented at the poor turnout in its voter registration exercise in Bulawayo, and warned that the city risked losing some constituencies in the next delimita...Published: 15 Oct 2019 at 06:51hrs | 252 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean crisis gone above politics
IT began with the ouster of the late former President Robert Mugabe, who many identified as a liberator-turned despot. At the height of his rule, and in the twilight of his reign, a common factor endu...Published: 15 Oct 2019 at 06:48hrs | 549 | by Learnmore Zuze
Chamisa's MDC Midlands mend cracks
MDC Midlands says it is busy mending cracks that emerged ahead of the 2018 harmonised elections within its structures in Shurugwi South district which saw the opposition party losing the parliamentary...Published: 15 Oct 2019 at 06:47hrs | 212 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF to train 60,000 members by 2023
THE Zanu-PF Herbert Chitepo Ideological College is targeting to train at least 60 000 members in Bulawayo within the next four years, a senior official has said. Speaking during a meeting at t...Published: 15 Oct 2019 at 06:46hrs | 149 | by Staff reporter
Reform agenda on course, says Mthuli Ncube
Government has made considerable progress in implementing reforms under the Transitional Stabilisation Programme (TSP), especially on the alignment of laws, currency reforms and infrastructure develop...Published: 15 Oct 2019 at 06:32hrs | 148 | by Staff reporter
Open letter to Emmerson Mnangagwa
14 October 2019Petition to The Ministry of Health and Child Welfare.Cc: Ministry of Health, Matebeleland North Province.Cc: CEO Tsholotsho HospitalCc: St Lukes Hospital....Published: 14 Oct 2019 at 16:55hrs | 1910 | by Mqondisi Moyo
Mzembi says unity in Zimbabwe will fix the economy
As the Zimbabwe crisis worsens former long-serving Tourism Minister and candidate in the last UNWTO Secretary-General elections, Dr. Walter Mzembi breaks his silence to weigh in with a prescription on...Published: 14 Oct 2019 at 16:36hrs | 1600 | by Staff reporter
'You are a sell-outs!' - discredited opposition undermine ED's legitimacy
Up to now, many Zimbabweans have not fully appreciated the negative role the country's opposition politicians have played in our struggle to end the Zanu PF dictatorship. It is pleasing to note that m...Published: 14 Oct 2019 at 16:33hrs | 1050 | by Wilbert Mukori
Ian Khama endorses opposition ahead of October 23 poll
Botswana's influential former president Ian Khama on Sunday threw his weight behind the opposition, a fierce critic of his when he was leader, in a bid to oust his handpicked successor in the country'...Published: 14 Oct 2019 at 14:40hrs | 1619 | by AFP
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