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'MDC squabbles benefitting Zanu-PF'
FORMER Speaker of Parliament and MDC national chairperson Lovemore Moyo was at some point a powerful figure in the main opposition party. He later threw in the towel and decided to form his own politi...Published: 6 hrs ago | 386 | by Staff reporter
Petition puts Parly Speaker Mudenda under international spotlight
SPEAKER of the National Assembly Jacob Mudenda (pictured)'s "questionable decisions and actions" have come under scrutiny on the international arena following a petition by a Zimbabwean man to have hi...Published: 29 May 2020 at 08:18hrs | 1561 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa appoints 0 from Matebeleland?
Nelson Chamisa, leader of the opposition MDC Alliance has made several appointments this Thursday with Dr Felix Magalela Mafa-Sibanda as the only notable person with questionable Matebeleland roo...Published: 28 May 2020 at 20:54hrs | 9229 | by Staff reporter
Not yet Uhuru for Africa: Africa Day message from ZAPU
Africa Day has come and gone on May 25 2020, just like any of the previous years. A day that was set aside by mother Africa herself for commemorations, recognition and appreciation of our African iden...Published: 26 May 2020 at 09:41hrs | 456 | by Iphithule Thembani kaMaphosa
Chamisa lashes African leaders
OPPOSITION MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday called on African leaders to stop silencing citizens and undermining human rights and democracy as the continent commemorated Africa Day....Published: 26 May 2020 at 07:41hrs | 1692 | by Staff reporter
'Abduction of MDC ladies was fake' General Sibusiso Moyo says
Minister of Foreign Affairs General Sibusiso Moyo says the abduction of MDC female officials was a stage-managed theatrical display meant to tarnish the image of the government. Moyo issued a ...Published: 25 May 2020 at 19:07hrs | 7398 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Lovemore Moyo warns brawling MDC officials
THE former Speaker of Parliament and MDC national chairperson, Lovemore Moyo, has warned brawling MDC officials that they risked losing their relevance unless they urgently heal their rift.Spe...Published: 24 May 2020 at 16:49hrs | 8874 | by Staff reporter
Dr Joshua Nkomo and the Calamity of Honesty
Very few people in the history of mankind and Zimbabwe will match Dr Joshua M.Nkomo's selflessness and tolerance, commitment to equality and love of Zimbabwe. He was a man whose eyes refused to se...Published: 18 May 2020 at 09:48hrs | 2568 | by Mqondobanzi Nduna Magonya
Joshua Nkomo's symbolism in Matabeleland's search for true freedom
BackgroundIt all began with Sipho Malunga's speech which was virtually delivered in honour of the late revered Zimbabwe nationalist, Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo, on the occasion of his annual Memorial Le...Published: 17 May 2020 at 09:40hrs | 780 | by George M Mkhwanazi
Fighting for nothing, living for anything
Blessed are those who will intently read Bishop Lazi's sermon today and take it to heart for they will be able to see the future.You see, politics is not a beauty pageant: You cannot just catw...Published: 17 May 2020 at 09:17hrs | 140 | by Bishop Lazarus
Joshua Nkomo's symbolism in Matabeleland's search for true freedom
It all began with Sipho Malunga's speech which was virtually delivered in honour of the late revered Zimbabwe nationalist, Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo, on the occasion of his annual Memorial Lecture Series o...Published: 16 May 2020 at 14:12hrs | 1201 | by George M Mkhwanazi
Zimbabwe's politics, priorities (I)
A NEW Zimbabwe is struggling to be born. Up till now, Zimbabwe has still been living with the visions of the 1950s and 1960s, tempered by the visions of the liberation struggle of the mid-1960s and 19...Published: 15 May 2020 at 08:17hrs | 391 | by Fay Chung
Settle your US$ debt in US$, say Zimbabwe court
THE High Court yesterday ruled that the monetary changes made by the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe on October 1, 2018, including the conversion of the US dollar account balances into RTGS and the Finance m...Published: 15 May 2020 at 07:46hrs | 1232 | by Staff reporter
High Court judge reverses RBZ currency conversion
The High Court has declared unconstitutional a Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe exchange control directive converting sums in accounts originally designated in US dollars into accounts designated in Zimbabwe ...Published: 15 May 2020 at 06:58hrs | 1586 | by Staff reporter
Dr Energy Mutodi insults his minister by mistake
Dr Energy Mutodi fired live animations to his minister Monica Mutsvangwa claiming that it is friendly fires. Such behavior is unwise,unpolitically placed,unministerial, behavior. While spitting his ve...Published: 14 May 2020 at 21:24hrs | 6402 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
MDC Vice President Lynette Karenyi-Kore joins Thokozani Khupe?
Senior journalist Zenzele Ndebele has reported that information reaching him indicates that top MDC leaders have dumped the faction led Nelson Chamisa and joined the smaller faction led by Thokozani K...Published: 13 May 2020 at 18:19hrs | 5874 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Escalated onslaught on ZAPU and Joshua Nkomo legacies
ZAPU notes the escalated attack on the legacy of both its founding president and liberation struggle with totally new and nonsensical narratives coming out forty years after the war and twenty one yea...Published: 13 May 2020 at 07:05hrs | 937 | by Iphithule Maphosa
GBV cases soar during lockdown
It's been over a month since the southern African country initiated a nationwide lockdown which has seen many being locked indoors.Although, the country's government has argued that the lockdown i...Published: 11 May 2020 at 16:34hrs | 409 | by Daniel Itai in Harare Zimbabwe
COVID-19: Urgent Need for African Governments to Upgrade the Health Systems
Amid multifold theories and disinformation spreading around the COVID-19 in Africa, it is important for African governments to consider strengthening the existing health systems and infrastructures, a...Published: 11 May 2020 at 16:24hrs | 152 | by Kester Kenn Klomegah
Former ZPRA commander forms new party
Renowned journalist and former Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) reporter for The Outpost Mxolisi Ncube has joined hands with former ZIPRA Commander Andrew Nyathi to form a new political party named the ...Published: 10 May 2020 at 15:02hrs | 4819 | by Michael Mdladla Ndiweni
Should men and boys be included in menstruation discourses?
While menstruation is a natural biological process and a symbol of pride for humanity, it is often regarded as dirty and surrounded by stigmas and taboos that only exist to violate the rights and free...Published: 09 May 2020 at 16:22hrs | 1477 | by Clemence Machadu
The lost industrial glory of the city of Bulawayo
AFRICAN nationalism demands that the history of British colonialism must be condemned at every opportunity and I must be counted among those who lose no opportunity to condemn this phenomenal episode ...Published: 01 May 2020 at 07:53hrs | 860 | by Jonathan Maphenduka
Zanu-PF hails workers
Zimbabwe African National Union Patriotic Front (ZANU PF) has joined workers in Zimbabwe and beyond in celebrating the International Workers' Day, today. The revolutionary party said the day i...Published: 01 May 2020 at 07:49hrs | 78 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa is 'illegitimate' says Zanu-PF chairman |
THE recent Supreme Court "Corona judgement" has inadvertently opened opportunities for as Zanu-PF district chairman to be the ‘Mashavira' of the ruling party as he plots to approach the courts to ch...Published: 28 Apr 2020 at 19:47hrs | 9332 | by Staff reporter
Constitutional ramifications of Khupe-Chamisa judgement
What implications arise from the Supreme Court judgment on Thokozani Khupe's or Nelson Chamisa's presidential legitimacy in the MDC-T? Essentially, we must maintain and strengthen the concept of socia...Published: 26 Apr 2020 at 12:31hrs | 2761 | by Sharon Hofisi
Social distancing a mere formality for Mbare flats
ZIMBABWE does not have time.The government has to do many things in the shortest possible time - before the effects of the rampaging Covid-19 epidemic become insurmountable.From setting up...Published: 24 Apr 2020 at 08:53hrs | 390 | by Staff reporter
The missing factor in Zimbabwe's 'cut and paste' response to Covid-19
The Covid-19 pandemic's impact continues to alter lives, livelihoods and futures. The number of confirmed cases and fatalities continues to rise. In Africa, 24 600 cases of Covid-19 have been ...Published: 24 Apr 2020 at 08:42hrs | 360 | by Brian Kagoro
Before his downfall, a man's heart is proud, but Humility comes before Honour - The MDC Supreme Court Judgment
It's been 3 weeks and the Supreme Court judgment on the MDC case has come and gone, but questions remain in people's minds. Was the judgment just and fair, given the material facts and evidence presen...Published: 23 Apr 2020 at 14:23hrs | 2965 | by Jonathan Chando
COVID-19 lockdown: Coercing the poor, coddling the rich?
From the perspective of reducing the negative public health effects of the coronavirus, national lockdowns will almost certainly - if adhered to - reduce the number of coronavirus transmissions while ...Published: 21 Apr 2020 at 22:21hrs | 903 | by Seán Muller
Constitutionalism not populism will take Zimbabwe forward
From the outset, let me make it abundantly clear that I am neither a member of Zanu-PF nor of any permutation of the MDC. If I say anything that you may not like, it is not because I belong to the oth...Published: 21 Apr 2020 at 07:54hrs | 421 | by Moses Chamboko
Another Zimbabwean nurse dies of COVID-19 in the UK
The United Kingdom's National Health Service (NHS) has put out a tribute for Mr Khulisani Nkala who died after contracting Coronavirus in the United Kingdom.It reads as following:A tri...Published: 20 Apr 2020 at 18:51hrs | 7306 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's 4 decades of independence and the Agrarian reform law
Land reform formally began in 2002 under the disguise of taking back our land from white farmers and distribute it to the poor and landless Zimbabweans. The major beneficiaries weren't the general pop...Published: 20 Apr 2020 at 09:15hrs | 183 | by Bigboy Sibanda
Ventilators for Europeans, soap for Africans?
How many times a day do we hear that coronavirus is "the great leveller", infecting world leaders and bus drivers alike? Should we be finding it reassuring that a deadly virus is the thread that unite...Published: 19 Apr 2020 at 12:59hrs | 1773 | by Christopher Stokes
Covid-19 exposes, heightens inequalities
Not so long ago, just before lockdown, a man reported to human resources at his workplace that he was not coming to work because he was experiencing flu and malaria-like symptoms. Because he had not b...Published: 19 Apr 2020 at 08:34hrs | 324 | by Gloria Ndoro Mkombachoto
Zimbabwe @40: Transcending the pitfalls of national consciousness
When Ghana attained her freedom from colonial bondage, Dr Kwame Nkrumah noted that: "The independence of Ghana is meaningless unless it is linked up with the total liberation of Africa."True t...Published: 19 Apr 2020 at 07:51hrs | 86 | by Richard Runyararo Mahomva
Zimbabwe@ 40: Re-Centering African nationalism to Posterity
Yesterday Zimbabweans from all walks of life celebrated the country's 40th anniversary of self-rule against centuries of colonial domination.In his address, President Emmerson Mnangagwa emphasised...Published: 19 Apr 2020 at 07:50hrs | 98 | by Obert Mpofu
Zimbabwe@40: Still standing . . . going strong
APRIL 18 marks Zimbabwe's Independence Day.We commemorate this auspicious national occasion heroically fighting Covid-19, a global pandemic that has claimed and is still claiming thousands of ...Published: 19 Apr 2020 at 07:46hrs | 104 | by Ambassador Chris Mutsvangwa
Mnangagwa declares 'Decade of Action'
ZIMBABWEANS should prime themselves for a transformative and rapid economic recovery programme anchored on Government-led support and innovativeness, President Mnangagwa has said.Delivering a ...Published: 19 Apr 2020 at 07:37hrs | 113 | by Staff reporter
FULL TEXT: Chamisa's Independence day speech
Happy Independence Day fellow Zimbabweans, wherever you are and whatever your political affiliation or station in life. As I wish you happy Uhuru Day, I know and I understand that...Published: 18 Apr 2020 at 15:52hrs | 2866 | by Nelson Chamisa
COVID-19 pandemic will lead to social revolutions
The most misleading cliche about the coronavirus is that it treats us all the same. It doesn't, neither medically nor economically, socially or psychologically. In particular, Covid-19 exacerbates pre...Published: 18 Apr 2020 at 14:30hrs | 876 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe @ 40
Time is the only undisputed variable in life for with each minute that is consumed history is made. When a nation celebrates its birth as we do today,an an opportunity exists to pause an...Published: 18 Apr 2020 at 07:49hrs | 125 | by Taruberekera Masara
Zimbabwe celebrates Independence Day under lockdown regulations
Zimbabwe celebrates 40 years of independence today and for the first time there are no gatherings to mark the anniversary due to the national lockdown enforced to curb the spread of Covid-19 pandemic....Published: 18 Apr 2020 at 07:48hrs | 111 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora's full statement on the MDC Supreme Court ruling
On the 31st of March, 2020, the Supreme Court of Zimbabwe delivered two judgements concerning the Movement for Democratic Change. One judgement related to the challenge lodged by the party on the lega...Published: 16 Apr 2020 at 18:55hrs | 5344 | by Douglas Togaraseyi Mwonzora
'We did not complain when our nationals where mistreated in Zim so you need to shut up when yours suffer,' China tells Zimbabwe
In a very ironical turn around Chinese are blaming foreigners for bringing Corona virus in China . In December 2019 Corona Virus reared it's ugly head in Wuhan. It ravaged the city killing ...Published: 16 Apr 2020 at 07:11hrs | 2403 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Zimbabwe govt sued over lack of accessible information on Covid-19
THREE organisations representing people who are visually impaired and Deaf have sued government and the state-run Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) demanding to be provided with information on c...Published: 15 Apr 2020 at 15:23hrs | 1094 | by Stephen Jakes
COVID-19 highlights painful political truth about health inequality
HEALTH inequality was a major concern of 20th century social democrats in countries ranging from Britain to Sweden.During the current coronavirus crisis, it has once again become one of the mo...Published: 14 Apr 2020 at 07:48hrs | 457 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa appoints special AU envoys, including his sidekick, to secure economic support for Africa
The Chairperson of the African Union, President of the Republic of South Africa His Excellency Cyril Ramaphosa has appointed Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Dr Donald Kaberuka, Mr Tidjane Thiam and Mr Trevor ...Published: 12 Apr 2020 at 15:18hrs | 1477 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Is Mthwakazi Democratic Alliance a force to restore the much needed Mthwakazi Restoration?
As a citizen of Zimbabwe I find it worthy noting to submit my input on matters surrounding the restoration of Mthwakazi as an envisaged sovereign state. It is without doubt that almost all people belo...Published: 12 Apr 2020 at 11:00hrs | 842 | by Nomalazulu Dlodlo
ZAPU you are offside! Obert Mpofu has a right to speak
Zimbabwe celebrates 40 years of independence. This year's celebrations were meant to be special as they were set to be held in Bulawayo for the first time in the history of Zimbabwe.This was s...Published: 10 Apr 2020 at 14:57hrs | 2225 | by Nicholas Ncube
Tribally motivated Zimbabwe govt fails to avail Covid-19 equipment in Matabeleland
The ink is not yet dry on our article where we wrote calling the Shona supremacist government of Zimbabwe to put aside tribal hate and marginalisation and distribute covid19 resources equally in Matab...Published: 10 Apr 2020 at 10:06hrs | 1058 | by Israel Dube
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