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Teachers' movement slams 13 unions for inaction
The Zimbabwe Teachers Remuneration Struggle Movement (ZTRS) has launched a scathing attack on 13 registered teacher unions, accusing them of failing to effectively advocate for improved salaries and w...Published: 02 Jul 2025 at 12:06hrs | 213 | by Staff reporter
'Generals for sale' and the cracks in Zimbabwe's military
Blessed Geza's recent broadcast, in which he dramatically declared there are "generals for sale," may have sounded like another bitter outburst from a disillusioned war veteran. But beneath the bravad...Published: 13 May 2025 at 16:43hrs | 1495 | by Silambe Over
Fierce battle within Zanu-PF
A heated internal contest is unfolding within Zanu-PF as five candidates prepare to battle it out in the party's upcoming primary elections to fill the vacant Gutu East parliamentary seat, following t...Published: 05 Apr 2025 at 08:39hrs | 1795 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's political tensions set to explode
Zimbabwe's already volatile political climate is on the brink of further turmoil this week as ruling Zanu-PF Members of Parliament (MPs) prepare to table and push through a controversial motion that s...Published: 11 Feb 2025 at 08:18hrs | 6001 | by Staff reporter
Mavetera under fire for leading Chiwenga diss song
ICT Minister Tatenda Mavetera is facing a firestorm of criticism after leading a controversial song that appeared to target Acting President General Constantino Chiwenga at the National Heroes Acre in...Published: 29 Jan 2025 at 08:52hrs | 2962 | by Staff reporter
Even Chinamasa knows ED can't be trusted
In the tumultuous world of Zimbabwean politics, trust is a rare commodity. Nowhere is this more evident than in the ongoing discourse within ZANU-PF about extending President Emmerson Mnangagw...Published: 29 Oct 2024 at 21:43hrs | 1859 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mahere set to challenge Chamisa for the Citizens Coalition for Change Presidency
The political arena in Zimbabwe is currently ablaze with anticipation and speculation as the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) approaches its highly awaited elective conference scheduled for the end...Published: 12 Nov 2023 at 11:41hrs | 12 | by Nicholas Ncube
Mthuli Ncube weaponising foreign trade to fight local firms
ZIMBABWE'S rulers think that it is within their rights to destroy their economy and turn to neighbours for stop gap solutions.This weird belief was passed from the late strongman, Robert Mugab...Published: 20 May 2023 at 19:58hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe authorities must release opposition MPs
THE continued arbitrary detention of opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) vice-chairperson and Members of Parliament Job Sikhala (Zengeza West) and Godfrey Sithole (Chitungwiza North) is rev...Published: 22 Sep 2022 at 06:03hrs | 1 | by SeeD
We must prepare for the coming 'war'
From tomorrow until Wednesday, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) will be mourning Patrice Lumumba - the country's first democratically elected prime minister - who was slain 61 years ago in the g...Published: 26 Jun 2022 at 08:08hrs | 1 | by Bishop Lazi
Zanu-PF bigwigs, securocrats line children up for Youth league posts
FOLLOWING speculation that the late former president Robert Mugabe's son, Robert Jnr, is set to contest for a position in the highly influential Zany PF youth league, party heavyweights and service ch...Published: 07 Apr 2022 at 06:42hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
A golden gift from the political gods
If next year's watershed elections needed any divination, then the just-ended by-elections were the divine bones cast by a bone-thrower to provide a reading of the future.Well, they are a gold...Published: 27 Mar 2022 at 07:27hrs | 1 | by Bishop Lazi
Chamisa: When the Goliath Complex Afflicts
My early days in primary school were dominated by the story of Goliath, the giant of Philistine.Goliath's name was onomatopoeic; this sonorous name heavily suggested physical hugeness afflicte...Published: 19 Mar 2022 at 06:38hrs | 3 | by @Jamwanda2 on Saturday
A political accident waiting to happen
Communities are glued and bound together by more than blood.They share a common past, history, heritage, values, norms and aspirations.The commonality bred by sharing similar languages...Published: 23 Jan 2022 at 07:58hrs | 11 | by Bishop Laz
Zimbabwe teachers refuse to return to work
AN acute shortage of sanitiser, PPE and clean water is putting pupils and school staff at risk of Covid-19, say unions.Teachers in Zimbabwe are refusing to return to work after the resumption ...Published: 05 Oct 2020 at 16:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe and abductions
Since the beginning of the year, some people, mainly government detractors, and opposition members have claimed to have been abducted and tortured in Zimbabwe, but it is not easy to say who could be b...Published: 31 Aug 2020 at 09:46hrs | 1 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Zanu-PF youth league leader, Togarepi targeted again
THE ruling Zanu-PF party's youth league could be thrown into fresh turmoil after it emerged there was a push for someone under 35 to lead the structure, NewZimbabwe.com reported.The demand cou...Published: 14 Mar 2019 at 07:53hrs | | by newzimbabwe
Chamisa fears MDC Alliance split
Ahead of the MDC Alliance's 5th congress, the party's president Nelson Chamisa has sensationally claimed that Zanu-PF is working around the clock to ensure that the country's biggest opposition moveme...Published: 10 Mar 2019 at 13:52hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa rescues Mwonzora
MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday said he does not want to lead a divided party as he moved to heal the rift threatening to tear apart the country's leading opposition party ahead of its cr...Published: 10 Mar 2019 at 09:14hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Give peace a chance
The immediate past government of Robert Mugabe assembled a National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) mandated to investigate and make recommendations on past injustices in Zimbabwe. The need...Published: 08 Nov 2018 at 10:35hrs | 1 | by Chigumbu Warikandwa
'Queen Bee' captured war vet planning to oust Mutsvangwa
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's staunchest backers - the war veterans - are now divided over State capture allegations that have sucked in oil tycoon, Kudakwashe Tagwirei.While the chairperson ...Published: 02 Nov 2018 at 15:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC plans to embarrass Mnangagwa today
Opposition legislators are planning to humiliate President Emmerson Mnangagwa when he presents SONA in Parliament today, as the Nelson Chamisa led MDC Alliance continues to refuse to accept his July 3...Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 07:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to be heckled by Chamisa's MPs?
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa faces the prospect of being heckled by opposition members of the National Assembly when he opens the Ninth Parliament today, a sign that the country remains deeply polaris...Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 07:07hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's likely trajectory
THE most significant political fact about Zimbabwe today is that it is mired in a complex and turbulent multi-dimensional transition of which the just-ended elections were a part. The bitterly contest...Published: 01 Sep 2018 at 13:48hrs | 2 | by Eldred V Masunungure
Mnangagawa's office denies any hand in bomb attack
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's office yesterday denied stage-managing a bomb blast in the second capital as a pretext to hunt down and silence political opponents linked to the country's sulking forme...Published: 25 Jun 2018 at 14:02hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Voters shut out ex-army bosses
The majority of ex-security officials who participated in the just-ended Zanu-PF primary elections were rejected by voters, an indication that the former soldiers are finding it tough to ease into civ...Published: 05 May 2018 at 14:17hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's NPF faces implosion
The National Patriotic Front (NPF), a fledgling political party that is described by some political commentators as a collection of ragged and spent politicians, is understood to be tottering on the b...Published: 09 Apr 2018 at 07:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's Zezuru tribalism
THE irresponsible ethnic characterization of the political battles ahead of the next general election should be rejected by all right-thinking Zimbabweans. The idea that Robert Mugabe's NPF will get a...Published: 09 Mar 2018 at 09:44hrs | 33 | by Hopewell Chin'ono
Blow for Mnangagwa
The glue that had appeared to bind Zanu-PF after it got rid of "criminals" around toppled despot Robert Mugabe seem to be peeling off at critical stages when President Emmerson Mnangagwa is about to t...Published: 05 Mar 2018 at 13:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Blow for Mnangaga as former military chief breaks ranks
The glue that had appeared to bind Zanu-PF after it got rid of 'criminals' around toppled despot Robert Mugabe seem to be peeling off a critical stages when President Emmerson Mnangagwa is about to te...Published: 05 Mar 2018 at 06:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi: What Apology?
Whilst the issue of Gukurahundi remains emotive and certainly one that has built political careers either by design or default for some, the approach according to which a lid will finally shut it once...Published: 26 Feb 2018 at 10:50hrs | 2 | by Robert Sigauke, Political Analyst, Johannesburg
Mnangagwa among 10 African leaders at WEF
President Emmerson Mnangagwa is one of the 10 African Heads of State and Government that have been invited to the prestigious World Economic Forum's 48th Annual Meeting which will take place next week...Published: 17 Jan 2018 at 06:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dealing with Zimbabwe's fault lines
Recent army action in Zimbabwe, whatever name one chooses to call it, has no doubt awakened and reinvigorated the nation in a way no other event has in a very long time.There is no doubt that ...Published: 20 Nov 2017 at 10:26hrs | | by Lawrence Fengu
Khupe out in the cold, as Tsvangirai assembles the band
With some opposition parties having signed an alliance deal, MDC-T finds itself in a familiar, but unenviable position, where some party members are openly challenging their leader, Morgan Tsvangirai....Published: 31 Aug 2017 at 08:46hrs | | by Nqaba Matshazi
The time for compromise and accommodation in South Africa is over
Many years ago we were discussing our future National Anthem in the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the ANC. On invitation from President Mandela, Professor Mzilikazi Khumalo's proposed renderin...Published: 27 Apr 2017 at 11:34hrs | 1 | by Carl Niehaus
Malema facing fresh revolt over control of money within EFF
EFF leader Julius Malema is facing a fresh revolt within his party over the management of party finances....Published: 26 Mar 2017 at 11:50hrs | | by TimesLive
Women allegedly raped by UN peacekeepers in Haiti speak out
In Haiti By Force: UN Sex Abuse, Fault Lines speaks to Haitian women who say they were raped by UN peacekeepers there. Some of them were under-age at the time; some of them are now single mothers as a...Published: 21 Mar 2017 at 10:00hrs | 28 | by Kevin Kriedemann & Joy Sapieka
Children to pay the price for Trump's 'Muslim ban'?
As U.S. President Donald Trump's revised travel ban takes effect, an upcoming Fault Lines documentary on Al Jazeera highlights the consequences of a blanket policy that closes America's doors to those...Published: 14 Mar 2017 at 10:46hrs | | by Kevin Kriedemann & Joy Sapieka
Job Sikhala - Why Mthwakazi Wants out of Zimbabwe.
Dear Job Sikhala: Why Mthwakazi Wants out of Zimbabwe.Mr Sikhala before I answer your seemingly respectful and genuine questions there are a few things I wish to point out to you, I do not kno...Published: 17 Dec 2016 at 20:23hrs | | by Thulani Nkala
War vets step up Mugabe onslaught
WAR veterans have accused President Robert Mugabe of using a faction in Zanu-PF to remove one of his deputies from office using the same tactics he employed against former vice-president Joice Muj...Published: 11 Dec 2016 at 09:06hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Family of man who died from CIA torture speaks out for the first time
US Senate's 'Torture Report' documented 119 victims of CIA torture Al Jazeera speaks to the former secret prisoners, including the family of a man who died from his torture in CIA cus...Published: 19 Sep 2016 at 15:37hrs | 2 | by Kevin Kriedemann & Joy Sapieka
'#Tajamuka, #ThisFlag good for Zanu-PF'
Violet: This coalescing of opposition forces. Do you think there is a struggle for transformation there or it is a scramble for power? You have seen all these opposition political parties jo...Published: 05 Sep 2016 at 10:20hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
LISTEN: 'Zimbabweans are again unwittingly being sent into a choreographed 2018 electoral dance'
Pundits warn: Zimbabwe has a bleeding economy and only has 6 months if the country does not get any international bailout package. Violet Gonda's guest on the Hot Seat programme is eminent commentator...Published: 05 Sep 2016 at 09:48hrs | 2 | by Violet Gonda
The case of a National Transitional Authority
Waiting for GodotWananchi, the motherland continues to heave and suffocate under the weight of a sterile oligarchy, exhausted and indeed frail nationalism, downright statism, indifference and ...Published: 15 Aug 2016 at 16:37hrs | 1 | by Tendai Biti
Zimbabwe: The French connection
Well, like I indicated last week, the pilferage of the uumph of civil servants demonstrations by some externally glamorised fringe political upstarts last week was bound be exposed in the failed lockd...Published: 16 Jul 2016 at 07:50hrs | 2 | by Nathaniel Manheru
G40 discounts Mphoko in Mugabe succession race
Informed Zanu-PF insiders say Grace Mugabe and her allies, branded as the Generation 40 (G40) group, are pulling out all the stops to block Mnangagwa and at some point considered Vice-President Phelek...Published: 27 Nov 2015 at 07:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
An open letter to Joice Mujuru: People First or Mujuru First
I AM writing this letter to you following your recent statement in your capacity as the presumed leader of People First, announcing that since your last statement of early June 2015, you had been hard...Published: 17 Sep 2015 at 17:44hrs | | by Mutumwa Mawere
Ncube admits to 'fleeing from the political crime scene' of rigged elections but not to being the criminal!
"Fortunately, for us as the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), we not only participated in constructing Zimbabwe's national constitution but also our value systems and operational ethos fall squar...Published: 10 Apr 2015 at 16:27hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Critique of MDC-T worldview by Mutumwa Mawere
ON THURSDAY, 7 January 2015, former Prime Minister, Mr. Morgan Tsvangirai, held a press conference at which he is reported to have said that he his party, the MDC-T, will be initiating a national con...Published: 14 Jan 2015 at 06:47hrs | | by Mutumwa Mawere
Fresh row over Gukurahundi killings
State media columnist Nathaniel Manheru widely understood to be President Robert Mugabe's spokesperson George Charamba - has ignited a fresh storm over Gukurahundi, claiming controversially that s...Published: 05 Jan 2015 at 08:30hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
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