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Motsepe's company faces R3.4 billion lawsuit
Patrice Motsepe's investment company, African Rainbow Capital (ARC), is now in a legal battle worth R3.4 billion with a US-based firm, Pula Group. The dispute started when Pula Group, led by a former ...Published: 12 Aug 2025 at 15:48hrs | 549 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa spokesman dismissal rumours gain traction
Unconfirmed reports indicate that President Emmerson Mnangagwa has dismissed his spokesperson, George Charamba, who also serves as Deputy Chief Secretary responsible for Presidential Communications....Published: 05 Jan 2025 at 08:12hrs | 4810 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe is of 'strategic importance to the United States'
THE United States plans to come to the party and challenge China's strong influence in Zimbabwe by developing a roadmap to help transform the country into a regional growth hub.An analysis car...Published: 08 Jan 2024 at 05:35hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Zimbabwe labelled as the least friendly American African country
US presidential hopeful and Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley has labelled Zimbabwe as the least friendly American, you know, African country you've got.Haley is an American politi...Published: 04 Mar 2023 at 09:53hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's attempts to internationalise Sikhala case flops
CCC interim spokesperson, Gift "Ostallos" Siziba and a retinue of other opposition members and other detractors were in the United States for the 77th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) that ran f...Published: 06 Oct 2022 at 06:00hrs | 1 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Chamisa's CCC moots paramilitary group with foreign help
THE opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) is contemplating setting up a paramilitary wing within its party's ranks ahead of the 2023 harmonised general elections in the name of "defending the...Published: 17 Jun 2022 at 08:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Chin'ono part of multi-million dollar plot to remove Zanu-PF' - Report
FORMER MDC parliamentarian Mr Tongai Matutu has sensationally claimed that US$10 million was released by the American Embassy to fund digital activists like Hopewell Chin'ono, the State media reported...Published: 11 Apr 2022 at 06:30hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Violence mars Zanu-PF polls
Zimbabwe, US in fresh diplomatic rowA FRESH diplomatic row is brewing between President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government and the United States embassy in Harare over allegations that Joe Biden's ad...Published: 27 Sep 2021 at 06:19hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF's corrupt election funding exposed
THE ruling Zanu-PF mortgaged the country's natural resources in lieu of US$100 million in financial support ahead of the country's 2013 general elections, a new report by a local watchdog has shown....Published: 31 Jul 2021 at 17:54hrs | 32 | by Staff reporter
'WikiLeaks mole' Satuku dies
RETIRED army major general Fidelis Satuku has died, 10 years after he was forced out of the security sector for allegedly badmouthing then Zimbabwe Defence Forces commander Constanti no Chiwenga at a ...Published: 21 Jul 2021 at 08:11hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Why it is wrong to draw parallels between Trump and Mugabe
On November 6, after a speech by Donald Trump in which he baselessly claimed the 2020US presidential election was fraudulent, ABC journalist Leigh Sales criticised what she saw as an outgoing ...Published: 27 Nov 2020 at 08:47hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe trends in US elections for wrong reasons
THE confirmation of Joe Biden as the 46th President of the United States of America on the evening of November 7 put paid to the anxiety that gripped the world in what almost appeared to be a tumultuo...Published: 09 Nov 2020 at 20:46hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe urged to speed up reform process
The United State-based International Republican Institute (IRI) and the National Democratic Institute (NDI) have called on the government of Zimbabwe to speed up the processes of advancing security an...Published: 27 Jul 2019 at 16:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
US foreign policy prefers Kenya
Kenya is "one of our key friends in Africa - nay, in the world," said a confident, pleased United States (US) assistant secretary of State for African Affairs, Tibor P Nagy, at a May 9 briefing in Was...Published: 29 May 2019 at 08:03hrs | 5 | by Pearl Matibe
Zimbabwe branding:- Lipstick on a pig
Former Tourism Minister Walter Mzembi used to be keen on what he called 'rebranding' Zimbabwe. He could see that the country's image abroad had been tainted by Mugabe's misrule and thought cosmetic pu...Published: 10 Mar 2019 at 21:52hrs | 2 | by ZimVigil
Mnangagwa splurges US$1,5m on anti-sanctions project
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's cashstrapped government will spend over US$1,5 million over three years after hiring a lobbyist linked to the United States President Donald Trump in a bid to have sanct...Published: 08 Mar 2019 at 10:29hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Trump punishes Mnangagwa over Zimbabwe coup
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa, who has been pushing for re-engagement and better relations with the United States, seems to be faltering in his bid after the western country extended sanctions against ...Published: 06 Mar 2019 at 12:43hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa hoped to tap into the hugely popular Operation Restore Legacy
One false argument which is peddled by the opposition and foreign interests mostly is that nothing has changed in Zimbabwe since November 2017 when the popular Operation Restore Legacy happened. ...Published: 06 Feb 2019 at 07:57hrs | 1 | by George Charamba
Massive blow to Mnangagwa's Commonwealth return lobby
ZIMBABWE'S bid to rejoin the Commonwealth suffered a major blow this week after a British parliamentary caucus resolved to throw out the country's application for readmission into the club of largely ...Published: 25 Jan 2019 at 14:17hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe health minister a medical impostor
HEALTH minister Obadiah Moyo is neither a qualified medical doctor nor a fellow of various international elite societies as stated on his curriculum vitae posted by Chitungwiza Central Hospital (CCH),...Published: 12 Oct 2018 at 07:38hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance failed to bring amendments to electoral law
The MDC Alliance and civil society failed to bring to Parliament any proposed amendments to the electoral law despite endless calls for reforms every time they faced elections, Speaker of the National...Published: 06 Sep 2018 at 06:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC-T slept on duty, says Mudenda
The opposition and civic society failed to bring to Parliament any proposed amendments to the electoral law despite endless calls for reforms every time they faced elections, Speaker of the National A...Published: 06 Sep 2018 at 06:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Demystifying the MDC Alliance Constitutional petition
As I promised, Zimbabwe here is my critic of the Constitutional petition filed by the MDC Alliance. Everything starts and falls on the founding affidavit. Before going into the substance of his applic...Published: 11 Aug 2018 at 20:14hrs | 4 | by Lloyd Msipa
Chiwenga's from guns to politics story
Dressed in camouflage, a black beret and with his epaulettes all over his attire, the then commander of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) Constantino Chiwenga was stern, stiff and looked stressed on a...Published: 04 Jun 2018 at 14:47hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Will Zanu PF rig the elections? May be yes/no/what if/but! replied 'indecisive' Biti
Former US Ambassador to Zimbabwe, Chris Dell, characterised the late MDC leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, in a leaked cable to Washington as "a flawed and indecisive character." Time has proven the ambassad...Published: 20 Apr 2018 at 19:11hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
Zimbabweans are too patient, 37 years was enough to lose patience with Mugabe - Ambassador Wharton
Former United State of America Ambassador to Zimbabwe Bruce Wharton‏ has said Zimbabweans have been so patient to allow mis-governance to continue for 37 years at a time when the country spend over ...Published: 17 Nov 2017 at 05:40hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
'Mugabe has two months to live as prostate cancer takes toll'
The dramatic dismissal of Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa from the presidium may have been prompted by President Mugabe's mounting health issues amid unconfirmed reports he has two months to live....Published: 10 Nov 2017 at 06:55hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Mugabe puts himself under unnecessary strain
President Robert Mugabe (93), the oldest living head of state in the world, has travelled over 300 hours, covering almost 180 000km and gobbling millions of taxpayers' money this year.Besides ...Published: 22 Oct 2017 at 13:53hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai, 'albatross around our neck', is dragging nation into flawed elections, the abyss
Throughout the GNU, SADC leaders reminded Morgan Tsvangirai and his MDC friends to implement the democratic reforms designed to stop Zanu PF rigging future elections."Follow the Global Politic...Published: 01 Sep 2017 at 16:45hrs | 2 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
'Death to moribund struggle politics,' argue Musewe - right now, death to opposition greed we want
In this life timing is everything! I grew up in the rural areas and it was there I learnt timing is everything and I remember my hardest lesson as if it was yesterday.The family had worked har...Published: 31 May 2017 at 16:34hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Mugabe supports Donald Trump's nationalistic views
THE United States government seems unwilling to engage in discussions over President Robert Mugabe's comments on Donald Trump's nationalistic views that the Zimbabwean leader has welcomed....Published: 25 Feb 2017 at 09:15hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
A Prophet is not without honour, except in his own country
Ghanaian President John Dramani Mahama was to confer on the Zimbabwean leader a Millennium Life Time Achievement award for his role in Zimbabwe's liberation struggle from British colonial rule had the...Published: 19 Aug 2016 at 18:31hrs | 4 | by Tafara Shumba
Mujuru unconvincing
I braved the chilly weather to listen to Mai Joice Mujuru of Zimbabwe People First (ZPF) on Saturday afternoon at her maiden Harare rally. I belong to no existing political affiliation and mine wa...Published: 29 Jun 2016 at 15:40hrs | 1 | by Tapiwa Maware
Mujuru under fire for 'Mugabe is a living spirit' comment
leader of newly-formed Zimbabwe People First (ZPF) Dr Joice Mujuru came under fire yesterday for denigrating President Mugabe, with political analysts saying her utterances were tantamount to attackin...Published: 07 Mar 2016 at 05:29hrs | 1 | by Felex Share
Zimbabwe: Dealing with America
OUR long history - before, during and after colonisation, and since Independence - presents an image of America that is ambiguous, an America appears, disappears, appears and disappears from our radar...Published: 20 Feb 2016 at 17:44hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
US appoints new ambassador to Zimbabwe
United States president Barack Obama has appointed Harry Thomas Jnr as Washington's new ambassador to Zimbabwe to succeed Bruce Wharton, who left the country in August. Ambassador Thomas, an A...Published: 11 Dec 2015 at 05:23hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Joyce Mujuru is nothing without President Mugabe!
The legacy that Joyce Mujuru enjoys today was earned while riding on President Robert Gabriel Mugabe's back. She literally swung on the liberation icon's coat tails. Without this legacy Mujuru is noth...Published: 22 Sep 2015 at 14:37hrs | | by Suitable Kajau
'Mujuru met US diplomats to plot against Mugabe'
Zanu-PF national commissar Saviour Kasukuwere told party supporters that ousted Vice-President Joice Mujuru's waterloo was holding unsanctioned meetings with United States diplomats at her private res...Published: 19 Sep 2015 at 10:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Mugabe is President for life'
Zanu-PF national commissar Saviour Kasukuwere has declared that it is taboo for any official in the ruling party to dream of taking over power from President Robert Mugabe, as long as he is alive....Published: 19 Sep 2015 at 10:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
When tiring becomes a sin
It is that time again when the parrots of regime change chant of alleged signs that point to President Mugabe as not fit to discharge his duties. This time around, all hell broke loose when ...Published: 24 Mar 2015 at 12:32hrs | 2 | by Caitlin Kamba
Mugabe's Statesmanship embarrasses the West
President Robert Mugabe is a pronounced and decorated statesman who is propelled by a bedrock of principles which are built on a foundation of firm, unchanging, fundamental truths that form the very...Published: 03 Feb 2015 at 12:16hrs | 1 | by Suitable Kajau
How Mujuru fell out with Mugabe
President Mugabe has for nearly a decade been aware of a growing plot by senior Zanu-PF officials to push him out by hook and by crook and elevate Vice-President Joice Mujuru, but has bided his time b...Published: 23 Nov 2014 at 09:04hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe has always been aware of plot
PRESIDENT Mugabe has for nearly a decade been aware of a growing plot by senior Zanu-PF officials to push him out by hook or crook and elevate Vice-President Joice Mujuru, but has bided his time befor...Published: 23 Nov 2014 at 08:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Is Grace Mugabe about to be the world's first female dictator?
Grace Mugabe has been called many things since the moment when, barely out of her teens, she caught the eye of the president of Zimbabwe as she tapped away in his typing pool. This article ...Published: 16 Nov 2014 at 22:00hrs | 1 | by Ian Birrell for The Mail on Sunday
Mnangagwa 'bullies' Mugabe to satisfy his desires
JUSTICE Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa "grabbed President Robert Mugabe by the lapels" during a heated argument in 2008, according to a leaked United States embassy communications.In an Octob...Published: 06 Nov 2014 at 11:37hrs | | by Staff Reporter
'Mugabe failed to work out his succession plan'
President Robert Mugabe's failure to work out a clear succession plan in Zanu PF is to blame for the factionalism tearing the party, analysts have said.Zanu PF has been gripped by infighting ...Published: 02 Nov 2014 at 09:45hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Joice Mujuru to be fired
COLOGNE/VANCOUVER/HARARE - Vice President, Joice Mujuru, is now just staying in office for the purpose of cosmetic peace and unity in Zanu PF, before the party...Published: 27 Oct 2014 at 06:29hrs | 1 | by Itai Mushekwe/ Nancy Mabaya/ Mary-Kate Kahari
Mujuru plot to topple Mugabe exposed
AMERICAN Embassy officials have been trying to get Members of Parliament to pass a vote of no confidence in President Mugabe, the state media reported on Sunday. ...Published: 26 Oct 2014 at 10:13hrs | | by Staff Reporter
'Mujuru's US ties behind fallout with Mugabe'
VICE-PRESIDENT Joice Mujuru's close ties with the West were some of the reasons behind her fallout with President Robert Mugabe, it has emerged.Highly-placed sources in Mugabe's office yesterd...Published: 24 Oct 2014 at 12:41hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Opposition parties rallies behind Joice Mujuru
FUNCTIONARIES from opposition parties whose formation the First Lady Dr Grace Mugabe traced to the house of Vice President Joice Mujuru have sprung to the VP's defence with gushing tributes which ana...Published: 21 Oct 2014 at 06:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
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