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'Bigwigs causing mayhem in Zanu-PF'
ZANU-PF stalwart and ex-secretary for administration, Didymus Mutasa, says very senior party officials are behind the dog-eat dog mayhem ravaging the former liberation movement ahead of its divisive d...Published: 24 hrs ago | 4494 | by Staff reporter
US claims that sanctions don't affect Zimbabwe economy
THE United States of America (US), the United Kingdom and the European Union (EU) remain adamant that President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration has not done enough to have sanctions imposed on the...Published: 24 hrs ago | 1196 | by Staff reporter
US, UK, EU, lie about Zimbabwe sanctions
The United States, European Union and United Kingdom vigorously pushed back on charges by President Emmerson Mnangagwa that sanctions are behind the economic collapse and the general poverty in the co...Published: 25 Oct 2020 at 08:29hrs | 3231 | by Staff reporter
Khupe, Mwonzora, Mudzuri, Komichi fight for MDC-T Presidency
ENGINEER Elias Mudzuri says he will contest the post of president of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T) led by Thokozani Khupe, which is expected to hold an extraordinary congress i...Published: 25 Oct 2020 at 07:42hrs | 2471 | by Staff reporter
Bishops pray against sanctions
SANCTIONS imposed on Zimbabwe by Western nations were not an attack on Harare alone, but an assault on Africa as a whole, hence the need to collectively call for their unconditional removal, Zion Chri...Published: 25 Oct 2020 at 07:39hrs | 241 | by Staff reporter
Female Judge fighting a merciless Zanu PF regime: worse than that of Ian Douglas Smith!
Justice Erica Ndewere is alone, fighting the evil regime of Mnangagwa's Zanu, worse than that of Smith's UDI. There is not a single women's organisation fighting on her side to give her emotional assi...Published: 24 Oct 2020 at 23:24hrs | 2956 | by Nomazulu Thata
'Zimbabwe needs sanctions lifted to develop'
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has called on the world to rally behind SADC's quest to have illegal sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe by the West removed to enable the country to realise its full potential. ...Published: 24 Oct 2020 at 07:52hrs | 91 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, Chiwenga divided over Zanu-PF DCCs
SHARP divisions have emerged in the Zanu-PF presidium, pitting President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his deputy, Constantino Chiwenga, over the remaining District Coordinating Committees (DCC) elections....Published: 24 Oct 2020 at 07:52hrs | 1570 | by Staff reporter
Mudzuri says to challenge Khupe for MDC-T presidency
Former MDC-T vice president Elias Mudzuri will challenge interim leader Thokozani Khupe for the presidency, he announced on Friday.The party has been rocked by leadership disputes which spille...Published: 23 Oct 2020 at 17:14hrs | 4167 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa sweats over Harare structures turmoil
THE Nelson Chamisa led MDC Alliance leadership in Harare province is sweating over the turmoil that has engulfed party structures in the capital with accusations and counter-accusations of defections ...Published: 23 Oct 2020 at 17:13hrs | 4120 | by Staff reporter
Securocrats scale up surveillance
THE State security establishment is reportedly planning to track and attack perceived opponents of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's regime, with local and foreign based journalists, ex-security officers...Published: 23 Oct 2020 at 08:39hrs | 2709 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF blames everything on sanctions
The sanctions which were imposed by the British, the Americans and European countries on Zimbabwe were as a result of human rights abuses and the land which was taken from the white farmers.I ...Published: 23 Oct 2020 at 08:29hrs | 288 | by Leonard Koni
Zanu-PF primaries worsen party wars
ZANU-PF has failed to announce the results of its elections to choose the party's parliamentary and council candidates for Harare, amid claims that the polls were riddled with bribery and rampant chea...Published: 21 Oct 2020 at 22:19hrs | 1277 | by Staff reporter
Investigator nails CID boss
AN INVESTIGATOR in the case involving Stephen Kuwaza, 42, the officer-in-charge of police Theft From Car department - arrested for allegedly interfering with a witness in the probe against suspended C...Published: 21 Oct 2020 at 22:17hrs | 2833 | by Staff reporter
Zimdollar remains solid against Trump's dollar
For the second week running, the Zimbabwe dollar was virtually unchanged against the US dollar at the weekly auction, shifting just one two hundreth of one percent to $81,3499 from last week's $81,345...Published: 21 Oct 2020 at 21:44hrs | 321 | by Staff reporter
Top cop took residential stand as bribe to drop probe
A senior police officer faced bribery allegations on Wednesday as he was released on Z$10,000 bail by a Harare magistrate.Chief Superintendent Joseph Josphat Mutipforo allegedly received a bri...Published: 21 Oct 2020 at 21:41hrs | 369 | by Staff reporter
After 40 years, still failing to hold free and fair elections: 'to find the strait gate and narrow way'
The root cause of Zimbabwe's economic and political crisis is the country's failure to hold free, fair and credible elections. For 40 years the nation has beeb stuck with corrupt, incompetent and tyra...Published: 21 Oct 2020 at 07:32hrs | 873 | by Wilbert Mukori
Khupe party implodes
INFIGHTING and political gamesmanship have ripped apart interim MDC-T leader Thokozani Khupe's party ahead of its planned extraordinary congress to choose a substantive successor for the opposition's ...Published: 20 Oct 2020 at 06:27hrs | 12266 | by Staff reporter
Lifestyle audit for council officials
THE Government is set to conduct lifestyle audits for Harare City Council officials, amid indications that some of them might have amassed wealth through the sale of State land, Harare Provincial Deve...Published: 19 Oct 2020 at 23:53hrs | 701 | by Staff reporter
US$5,6m COVID-19 tender scandal
THE probe on Health deputy minister John Mangwiro over an alleged US$5,6 million COVID-19 tender scam has become a proxy for the factional fights ravaging the ruling Zanu-PF party, with dog fights ove...Published: 19 Oct 2020 at 06:23hrs | 919 | by Staff reporter
Tribalism at its best: Khuphe a leader sent from hell! My reply!
They see everything is wrong and going wrong because of Thokozani Khuphe. But who ignited the whole shenanigans going on in the MDC opposition parties? Indeed tribalism is embedded, it is entranced in...Published: 18 Oct 2020 at 15:10hrs | 5747 | by Nomazulu Thata
Separation of Matabeleland from Zimbabwe will end in bloodshed and tears
"Zimbabwe is a liberated country. It did not come through democracy, there was no vote to say Zimbabwe now wants to become independent. It was fought for." This is word of mouth by Patrick Chinamasa, ...Published: 18 Oct 2020 at 09:05hrs | 6641 | by Israel Dube
Khupe allies in Kwekwe gear up for congress
MDC-T has reconstituted its 2014 structures in Kwekwe and is geared for the party's extra-ordinary congress slated for November 30.Speaking to this publication Friday, MDC-T 2014 Midlands Nort...Published: 17 Oct 2020 at 16:25hrs | 1125 | by Staff reporter
Biti wants teachers to be paid US$520 salaries
Former Finance minister Tendai Biti (Harare East MP MDC Alliance) said government should pay teachers the US$520 salaries they used to get before the re-introduction of the Zimbabwe dollar.Gov...Published: 15 Oct 2020 at 07:27hrs | 4469 | by Staff reporter
Civil servants laugh off salary hike
CIVIL SERVANTS yesterday reacted angrily to government's pronouncement that the US$75 monthly COVID-19 allowance would now be enjoined to their salaries and accused the Public Service Commission (PSC)...Published: 15 Oct 2020 at 06:50hrs | 5956 | by Staff reporter
'Mgodoyi' is Jonathan Moyo's predicate he used to express disgust!
It is one of Professor Moyo's terms to express anything disgusting him.Umgodoyi is an overly thin malnourished dog whose mouth unendingly oozies slummy saliva, a sign of obvious illness relate...Published: 15 Oct 2020 at 06:39hrs | 1896 | by Nomazulu Thata
Chiri to audit Covid-19 donations
Auditor-General Mrs Mildred Chiri is taking stock of all donations and resources directed towards Covid-19. Mrs Chiri has ordered all Government departments to furnish her with details and she i...Published: 14 Oct 2020 at 06:28hrs | 258 | by Staff reorter
Doctors were very foolish to bow to Chiwenga demands - without PPE, still susceptible covid-19 military or civilian
Zimbabwe is facing a serious economic crisis brought about by 40 years of gross mismanagement and rampant corruption. The economy has all but collapsed forcing unemployment rate to soar to nauseating ...Published: 13 Oct 2020 at 22:51hrs | 1540 | by Nomusa Garikai
Zanu-PF factionalism bad for Zimbabwe?
OF late we have been running stories on the re-emergence of factional fighting in Zanu-PF ahead of the re-introduced district coordinating committees (DCCs) elections.The countdown to the poll...Published: 13 Oct 2020 at 18:50hrs | 254 | by Staff reporter
Violence, chaos rock Zanu-PF primaries
VIOLENCE and chaos rocked Zanu-PF primary elections in Harare over the weekend as the ruling party was forced to postpone the Kuwadzana East polls amid allegations of electoral malpractices.Th...Published: 13 Oct 2020 at 18:49hrs | 408 | by Staff reporter
'General Chiwenga defeated us' Doctor says
A Zimbabwean doctor has confessed that they were defeated by the Vice President in charge of the Ministry of Health and were forced to apologise for engaging in a long strike that crippled the health ...Published: 13 Oct 2020 at 11:51hrs | 17298 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa's false claim exposed
ON October 7, The Herald reported that President Emmerson Mnangagwa said the World Health Organisation (WHO) had raked Zimbabwe "among countries that instituted better mitigatory measures against the ...Published: 13 Oct 2020 at 06:51hrs | 2771 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga lifts suspension of student doctors
The suspension of the University of Zimbabwe master's degree programmes in medicine and obstetrics and gynaecology have been lifted following a lengthy engagement between the contrite doctors and Heal...Published: 13 Oct 2020 at 06:46hrs | 2506 | by Staff reporter
US Ambassador to Harare lays re-engagement cards on the table
WORLD superpower, the United States of America, stands accused of interfering in Zimbabwe's internal political affairs by President Emmerson Mnangagwa, his government and the ruling Zanu-PF party....Published: 12 Oct 2020 at 19:51hrs | 3456 | by Staff reporter
Demagogues are abandoning democratic values and high ground to defend recalled sell-out MPs
Democracy is the greatest gift the Greeks gave to mankind. "Government of the people, by the people, for the people," as US President Abraham Lincoln defined democracy in his famous Gettysburg speech ...Published: 12 Oct 2020 at 08:07hrs | 1691 | by Wilbert Mukori
Mthuli Ncube; just like Gideon Gono will be unemployable when he absconds
Former Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Dr Gono told Trevor Ncube that he has a gym in his home hence he has lost so much weight. But it appears he is melting away before our eyes, we still have to stick to h...Published: 12 Oct 2020 at 07:16hrs | 6608 | by Nomazulu Thata
Disaster preparedness intensifies ahead of rains
Government has started reserving some of the Covid-19 donations for contingent disaster management plans as the country approaches the rainy season, which might displace some families, an official has...Published: 12 Oct 2020 at 06:08hrs | 201 | by Staff reporter
Citizens are collateral damage in sanctions matrix
SEVENTY TWO-year-old Sihle Jani* wriggles and whimpers in pain in a dim-lit kitchen hut where a cloud of smoke belches out in no particular order through the grass thatch giving evidence of life at a ...Published: 11 Oct 2020 at 10:29hrs | 95 | by Vincent Gono
'Zimbabwe set to bust sanctions, prosper'
Zimbabwe has started the build-up to this year's edition of the Anti-Sanctions Day on October 25, ratified by SADC to intensify the lobby on lifting of sanctions imposed by the United States and other...Published: 11 Oct 2020 at 10:03hrs | 242 | by Staff reporter
Let's not be a nation of whiners
THE objective of Vision 2030, to create an upper middle-income economy in 10 years or less, cannot be attained if Zimbabweans do not rally under a common national goal.Zimbabwe's abundant land...Published: 11 Oct 2020 at 10:03hrs | 64 | by Allen Choruma
Few delegates for Zanu-PF conference
THE number of delegates to the Zanu-PF annual national people's conference set to be held in Mashonaland Central province in December would be scaled down in line with COVID-19 guidelines, a party off...Published: 10 Oct 2020 at 07:29hrs | 1771 | by Staff reporter
RBZ boss survives hellish Covid-19 experience
Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Deputy Governor Dr Kuphukile Mlambo views himself as a lucky and blessed man after surviving what he described as a hellish and nasty Covid-19 ordeal. Dr Mlambo had to...Published: 10 Oct 2020 at 07:24hrs | 755 | by Staff reporter
Prophets in spiritual showdown
AN epic spiritual showdown is looming between two of Bulawayo's famous prophets - Madzibaba Emmanuel Mutumwa and Mduduzi Dube popularly known as Black Elisha with the former challenging the latter to ...Published: 09 Oct 2020 at 21:32hrs | 1558 | by Staff reporter
Idle pupils turn to sex orgies, drugs
Some of the pictures making rounds on social media of students kissing or standing next to each other in sexually suggestive positions at school. The authenticity of the images could not be immediatel...Published: 09 Oct 2020 at 10:01hrs | 3320 | by Staff reporter
'Every anointed will fight resistance (Zanu PF) and betrayal (Khupe)' said Chamisa - 'Memento mori!'
Chamisa's arrogance knows no bounds!"Every chosen person under assignment will fight these seven battles; accusation, frustration, criticism, rejection, disappointment, resistance and rebellio...Published: 08 Oct 2020 at 21:59hrs | 3664 | by Wilbert Mukori
Zanu-PF heavyweights fight over DCC elections
Zanu-PF bigwigs are imposing candidates ahead of the District Coordinating Committee (DCC) elections amid revelations of infighting in the governing party.The DCCs are making a comeback, eight...Published: 08 Oct 2020 at 19:23hrs | 1718 | by Staff reporter
Ibutho leNqama: Open letter to Mnangagwa
The President of Zimbabwe, Ibutho leNqama received with shock and dismay the remarks made by the Republic of Zimbabwe President, Mnanangwa when addressing the Zanu PF provincial committee in t...Published: 08 Oct 2020 at 11:29hrs | 3726 | by Junior Ngwenya
Teachers respond to 'threats of war' by George Charamba
The Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (ARTUZ) have issued a statement noting the threats by the Presidential Spokesperson George Charamba that the behavior of teachers was similar to a decl...Published: 08 Oct 2020 at 08:37hrs | 7507 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Shangaan leaders dare govt on evictions
DISGRUNTLED Shangaan community leaders in Chiredzi have challenged government to a duel if it insists on moving them from their ancestral land.Over 1 538 families in Chiredzi South and East ar...Published: 07 Oct 2020 at 07:02hrs | 832 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa salutes citizens, corporates
President Mnangagwa has expressed gratitude to Zimbabweans and those in the Diaspora for collaborating in the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic, which has seen the country being ranked among countri...Published: 07 Oct 2020 at 06:49hrs | 262 | by Staff reporter
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