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Mnangagwa's minister threatens the opposition
MASVINGO North Zanu-PF legislator Davies Marapira has declared that beneficiaries of the land reform programme should not support opposition parties and those supporting the opposition will be evicted...Published: 24 May 2022 at 07:28hrs | 2516 | by Staff reporter
Govt intensifies blitz on striking teachers
HUNDREDS of teachers are set to appear before disciplinary hearings this week for failing to report for duty when schools opened for the first term this year.This follows other punishments met...Published: 24 May 2022 at 07:23hrs | 426 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe: Class IN itself versus Class FOR itself
US goose versus NED ganderTHERE is always more to write about than there is space to publish. Last week I had to drop two key matters, to allow myself to address in extenso what I sought to ra...Published: 21 May 2022 at 17:53hrs | 50 | by Staff reporter
Full-blown Zimbabwe teachers strike looms
GOVERNMENT has courted the ire of teachers after it reportedly deducted huge amounts from salaries of educators who went on strike when schools reopened last year.NewsDay understands that some...Published: 19 May 2022 at 06:39hrs | 1201 | by Staff reporter
Time to protect people from their churches
VERY little is known about one of the worst religion-related mass murders and tragedies that occurred in Uganda in 2000 in which 700 Ugandans died. More is known about the 1978 Jonestown massacre in G...Published: 07 May 2022 at 06:20hrs | 384 | by Miriam Tose Majome
High Court scraps Mthuli Ncube's 2020 taxes on fuel
The High Court has refused to endorse a new carbon tax on fuel and the redemption levy of the National Oil Company of Zimbabwe imposed two years ago on the grounds that these could not be levied by ex...Published: 04 May 2022 at 06:59hrs | 621 | by Staff reporter
The fog has cleared in Zimbabwe, writes Nelson Chamisa
AT the beginning of last year, I wrote an article in which I promised that "the fog will soon clear".The article was at a time when the movement was facing adverse circumstances. It was a mess...Published: 13 Apr 2022 at 06:41hrs | 1504 | by Nelson Chamisa
Nothing wrong with Mpofu's declaration that Zanu-PF will rule forever
It is not surprising that political parties and pressure groups who are funded by the West have angrily reacted to Zanu-PF secretary for administration Obert Mpofu's declaration that the ruling party ...Published: 08 Apr 2022 at 06:42hrs | 130 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Mnangagwa has perfected art of repression
THE birth of Zimbabwe and many other African States came as a result of violent confrontations.Negotiations such as the Lancaster House Conference took place after violent confrontations betwe...Published: 30 Mar 2022 at 07:23hrs | 281 | by Mukunda Chitova
End of the road for Tsvangirai's MDC
D-DAY has arrived for the MDC brand, with the electorate expected to decide its fate, as analysts say the iconic party associated with the firebrand Morgan Tsvangirai may disappear into oblivion if it...Published: 27 Mar 2022 at 07:38hrs | 5249 | by Staff reporter
UN wildlife protection agency 'violates' its own trade regulating rules
The United Nations international wild trade regulating agency, CITES, continues to go through a dark passage from which it will likely emerge as the destroyer, rather than the saviour, of the world's ...Published: 23 Mar 2022 at 09:22hrs | 1198 | by Emmanuel Koro
Zimbabwe health workers threaten mass resignation over proposed law
HEALTH practitioners have rejected the Health Services Amendment Bill which they say seeks to punish them for exercising their labour rights and have threatened mass resignations if it is passed into ...Published: 21 Mar 2022 at 06:38hrs | 915 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa a predator of press freedom
When Nelson Chamisa formed a new political party which he christened the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC), many people had expectations that there would be a paradigm shift from the MDC, where the ...Published: 11 Mar 2022 at 05:39hrs | 512 | by Tafara Shumba
More needs to be done to achieve gender equality
INTERNATIONAL Women's Day (IWD), celebrated annually on March 8 offers an opportunity to reflect on progress made with regards to gender equality, call for change and celebrate acts ...Published: 10 Mar 2022 at 06:11hrs | 60 | by Veritas
Suspended mayor wants charges dropped
SUSPENDED Harare Mayor Jacob Mafume yesterday applied for the dropping of charges in which he allegedly ordered the city council director of Housing and Community Services to allocate residential stan...Published: 23 Feb 2022 at 05:40hrs | 96 | by Staff reporter
Misa blasts internet slowdown during Chamisa's rally
THE Media Institute of Southern Africa (Misa-Zimbabwe) has blasted the internet slowdown on Sunday at a time when the main opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) led by Nelson Chamisa was hold...Published: 22 Feb 2022 at 05:39hrs | 433 | by Staff reporter
Misa advocates for low data tariffs
MEDIA Institute of Southern Africa (Misa) Zimbabwe has joined civic groups in a campaign for low data tariffs to enable citizens enjoy cheap internet services.Misa legal and information commun...Published: 11 Feb 2022 at 05:46hrs | 143 | by Staff reporter
CCC 'improving system' by participating in rigged elections – so wasted GNU chance to end dictatorship 'to improve' it!
"Chamisa has accused the government of rigging elections and still insists he won the 2018 presidential elections," reported Bulawayo24."He however, called on supporters to exercise their righ...Published: 10 Feb 2022 at 13:10hrs | 1029 | by Wilbert Mukori
Mnangagwa's oligarchs: The heirs of Cecil Rhodes
As Zimbabwe's economy has spiralled down, with one million economic refugees in South Africa alone and ordinary people facing shortages of food, fuel, medicine and shelter, there is a class of people ...Published: 08 Feb 2022 at 18:29hrs | 2032 | by Phillip van Niekerk and a Zim-based Research Team
The rise and fall of the MDC: Winners, losers and neutrals
AS Zimbabwe approaches crucial by-elections in March, which will test the strength of main contestants while determining the authentic opposition, there is no denying that the MDC, which has posed the...Published: 08 Feb 2022 at 18:21hrs | 1567 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's party rocked by internal revolt
SUPPORTERS of Mpumelelo Moyo, one of the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) candidates for Bulawayo's Ward 26 Municipal by-election, Saturday staged a demonstration against the alleged imposition of ...Published: 06 Feb 2022 at 07:01hrs | 7704 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's supporters picket over imposition of candidates
THE Nelson Chamisa-led Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) is already embroiled in discord ahead of the upcoming by-elections with party supporters on Friday staging a demonstration in Bulawayo's Ward...Published: 06 Feb 2022 at 06:55hrs | 748 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: Mwonzora expels Thokozani Khupe from Parliament
MDC Alliance leader Douglas Mwonzora has recalled MDC-T leader Thokozani Khupe from parliament. This was revealed by Khupe during a press conference held on Wednesday...Published: 02 Feb 2022 at 09:41hrs | 10048 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Ndebele scoffs at suspension
SEASONED football administrator Kennedy Ndebele has scoffed at his suspension by suspended Zifa board members, saying he is unmoved by "feeble" things.The iced Zifa board dished out suspension...Published: 01 Feb 2022 at 05:28hrs | 420 | by Staff reporter
Electoral reforms must dominate political discourse in 2022
AS we bask on the cusp of a new year, Zimbabweans appear to have gone agog about the pending by-elections and what many deem to be the watershed plebiscite of 2023.And yet for some of us, high...Published: 18 Jan 2022 at 05:32hrs | 171 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
'Zimbabwe's operation restore legacy was a lie'
FIREBRAND MDC Alliance activist Makomborero Haruziviishe says the so-called Operation Restore Legacy of November 2017, which led to the fall of late former president Robert Mugabe was a lie which will...Published: 15 Jan 2022 at 18:21hrs | 1604 | by Staff reporter
'Snub March 26 by-elections'
LITTLE-KNOWN opposition Zimbabwe Socio-Economic Democrats party (ZSD) yesterday called on all political parties to boycott the March by-elections saying they were poorly planned and costly.The...Published: 15 Jan 2022 at 00:16hrs | 512 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's human rights record under spotlight
GOVERNMENT has failed to implement recommendations of the second cycle of the Universal Periodic Report, amid deteriorating human rights as well as closure of civic space in the country, rights groups...Published: 14 Jan 2022 at 05:20hrs | 203 | by Staff reporter
Zondo's stunt backfires as his credibility is questioned
Acting Chief Justice Raymond Zondo's press briefing to ‘address' tourism minister Lindiwe Sisulu's opinion piece has backfired and opened him to questions regarding his credibility.Various s...Published: 12 Jan 2022 at 23:38hrs | 3853 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF 'rejects' land top posts
ON this summer day, two years ago, Nyarai Tsvuura cut a lone figure at a Provincial Coordinating Committee (PCC) meeting in Marondera during Zanu-PF gatherings.She was the provincial women's l...Published: 09 Jan 2022 at 06:07hrs | 3381 | by Staff reporter
2022 should be the year of the people's power in Zimbabwe!
Knowledge is power - so the adage goes! Indeed, he who holds knowledge wields tremendous power.It is good to accumulate knowledge on such things as mathematics, engineering, medicine, ...Published: 03 Jan 2022 at 11:49hrs | 699 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
How NGOs scandalously manage to assume power in UN agency Cites
THE managing director of the USA-based Ivory Education Institute Godfrey Harris, revealed his analysis of how non-governmental organisations (NGOs) achieved overwhelming influence within the UN intern...Published: 28 Dec 2021 at 07:22hrs | 330 | by Emmanuel Koro
Zimbabwe regime knows fully well its 'regime change' narrative is a whole load of bull!
If there has been any term uttered (or, more preferably, regurgitated) by the Zimbabwe regime, more than any other (especially over the past twenty years), it has undoubtedly been, 'regime change' - p...Published: 13 Dec 2021 at 08:16hrs | 615 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
19 UBH nurses test positive to COVID-19
NINETEEN nurses, who work in the same ward at the United Bulawayo Hospital (UBH), tested positive for COVID-19 after admitting several patients infected by the virus.Bulawayo provincial medica...Published: 12 Dec 2021 at 19:23hrs | 29 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's mustn't greenwash his govt's crimes
SINCE becoming President in November 2017, President Emmerson Mnangagwa repeatedly paid lip service to calls for democratic reform, did little to further human rights and democratic freedoms in the co...Published: 03 Dec 2021 at 05:30hrs | 24 | by Tafi Mhaka
Gwanda introduces paid parking
GWANDA Municipality has re-introduced paid parking in the town's CBD.In a notice Gwanda Town Clerk, Ms Priscillah Nkala said each vehicle will be charged US$1/ R15 or $100 an hour."Not...Published: 02 Dec 2021 at 15:50hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
The Hypocrisy Of Mnangagwa
SINCE becoming the president of Zimbabwe in November 2017, despite repeatedly paying lip service to calls for democratic reform, Emmerson Mnangagwa did little to further human rights and democratic fr...Published: 02 Dec 2021 at 06:44hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's supporter suffers trauma after Zanu-PF violence
THE Alliance member, who was recently attacked at his homestead during the opposition party's leader Nelson Chamisa's tour of Mashonaland West Province, is suffering from severe post-traumatic stress ...Published: 22 Nov 2021 at 05:56hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
SC hears Malaba judgment appeal
The Supreme Court is today expected to hear the appeal against the urgent High Court judgment over the extension of Chief Justice Luke Malaba's service by another five years.Justice, Legal and...Published: 16 Nov 2021 at 05:40hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Corruption a human rights violation, says Zacc
ZIMBABWE Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) chairperson Loice Matanda-Moyo has described graft as one of the major human rights violations in the country.Addressing various stakeholders during ...Published: 05 Nov 2021 at 06:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Battling Anxiety? Here are some expert-approved tips to overcome it
Describing anxiety is extremely difficult as everyone may suffer from it in a different way. It is normal for us to feel anxious from time to time, but when anxiety starts to affect our daily life, th...Published: 01 Nov 2021 at 12:39hrs | 17 | by Staff Writer
Chamisa's MDC gives nod to SADC for calling out Zanu-PF on reforms
Zimbabwe's main opposition MDC Alliance on Tuesday said regional bloc SADC had struck the right tone when it called for the lifting of personal sanctions on Zimbabwean officials, while also leaning on...Published: 30 Oct 2021 at 15:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Teachers' union bids to stop ZCTU elective congress unless it is allowed vote
A teachers' union has gone to court to stop the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade of Unions' (ZCTU) elective conference starting on Wednesday, unless its members are allowed vote.The Amalgamated Rura...Published: 26 Oct 2021 at 06:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa linked ZCTU rocked by power struggles
POWER struggles have threatened to divide the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Union (ZCTU) ahead of its elective congress set for next week, with some affiliates claiming that they have been deliberately d...Published: 22 Oct 2021 at 06:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC needs to grow up if it wants to be electable
It is difficult to understand the MDC-A's continuous pressure to have the financial sanctions against Zimbabwe maintained, and what looks like a willingness to manufacture evidence of Government wrong...Published: 21 Oct 2021 at 06:19hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Supreme Court settles Mwazha church dispute
ARCHBISHOP Paul Mamvura Mwazha remains at the helm of the African Apostolic Church (VaApostora veAfrica), which he founded, after the Supreme Court yesterday confirmed a High Court decision nullifying...Published: 15 Oct 2021 at 06:19hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Judges set wrong precedent by hearing own case
CONSTITUTIONAL Court judges who overturned a High Court ruling that Chief Justice Luke Malaba's continued stay in office beyond 70 years was illegal despite being cited have set a wrong precedent by b...Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:19hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Ngadziore still detained at Harare Central police
MDC Alliance Harare Provincial Youth Secretary, Tatenda Johanes Karichi who is a tax Driver and Chrispen Bvirwa are still detained at Harare Central police station for Unlawful gathering.The t...Published: 01 Oct 2021 at 20:20hrs | 6 | by Fanuel Chinowaita
'Regime change' NGOs face heavy penalties
PRIVATE Voluntary Organisations (PVOs) that fund political parties or election candidates will face criminal charges under proposed changes to the law regulating the operation of non-governmental orga...Published: 26 Sep 2021 at 19:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Concourt clears Chief Justice Malaba
Chief Justice Luke Malaba will now serve in line with the Constitution until his 75th birthday in May 2026 after the Constitutional Court yesterday overturned a High Court order and confirmed that all...Published: 23 Sep 2021 at 06:15hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
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