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Mnangagwa to contend with Zanu-PF factions jostling for power
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's final term is likely to be marred by intense jostling for power in Zanu-PF as warring factions jostle to position themselves for the control of the ruling party and the ...Published: 03 Sep 2023 at 21:24hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF Primaries: Remaining candidates announced
Zanu-PF has announced the final list of candidates who will represent the party in the forthcoming harmonised elections with 205 candidates cleared, and only five remaining to allow for reruns....Published: 06 Apr 2023 at 06:38hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa seeks legacy after outfoxing internal rivals
President Emmerson Mnangagwa emerged the ultimate winner after the 7th Zanu-PF congress riding over challenges, some perceived, with structures overwhelmingly endorsing him to lead the party for the n...Published: 14 Nov 2022 at 05:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa recycles deadwood
Some forgotten Zanu-PF stalwarts had their political careers resurrected at the ruling party's just ended congress after spending years in the cold following the creation of a council of elders and ap...Published: 30 Oct 2022 at 06:57hrs | 2 | by Staff rporter
Resurrection of G40 rocks Zanu-PF
Around 2016, serious ructions opened up in the ruling Zanu-PF then led by veteran Machiavellian politician Robert Mugabe with two factions wrestling to control the party in the event that Mugabe disen...Published: 24 Oct 2022 at 18:34hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF old guard retain CC posts
THE ruling Zanu-PF party retained its old guard in the recently held central committee (CC) elections with a few young guns making it into the party's highest decision-making body.The party's ...Published: 17 Oct 2022 at 06:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa ring-fences Zanu-PF allies
SEVERAL Zanu-PF bigwigs - among them politburo members Christopher Mutsvangwa, Ziyambi Ziyambi, Obert Mpofu and Kenneth Musanhi - sailed through the central committee uncontested at the we...Published: 11 Oct 2022 at 06:09hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF elections marred by violence
VIOLENCE and ugly scenes reportedly marred the just-ended Zanu-PF central committee (CC) elections as bigwigs locked horns over positions in the party's highest decision-making body.Reports an...Published: 10 Oct 2022 at 06:11hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's wife contest Zanu-PF central committee polls
First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa is set to contest Zanu-PF's weekend Central Committee elections after submitting her curriculum Vitae at the party's offices in Kwekwe.The ruling party is set to ...Published: 09 Oct 2022 at 07:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF stalwarts and ex-ministers troop back
Zanu-PF stalwarts and ex-ministers in the current administration and late former President Robert Mugabe's government are plotting a political comeback after they were cleared by the politburo to cont...Published: 08 Oct 2022 at 21:06hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
The magic innovation CCC needs to kick out Zanu
Innovation is a preserve for the young as the old do not know anything different from what they grew up doing. Chamisa's CCC should understand that the other word for Innovation is "Brainchild"....Published: 16 Feb 2022 at 12:44hrs | 10 | by Ryton Dzimiri
Chris Mutsvangwa panics...Temba Mliswa to drop files
ZANU PF Spokesperson Ambassador Christopher Mutsvangwa is reportedly panicking over the meeting between Norton Member of Parliament Temba Mliswa and exiled former ZANU PF Political Commissar Saviour K...Published: 21 Jan 2022 at 13:04hrs | 11 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zanu-PF escalates its 2023 campaign
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is scheduled to launch a fine-tuned new indigenisation and empowerment policy in Bulawayo today, as Zanu-PF escalates its campaigns for the 2023 national elections. ...Published: 01 May 2021 at 20:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF closing ranks with G40s
Zanu-PF is re-admitting without conditions and burying the hatchet with all its members who were turfed out of the party on accusations of belonging to the former liberation movement's Generation 40 (...Published: 22 Apr 2021 at 20:51hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF ministers are polygamists, they love women
Former Minister of Higher and Tertiary Education Professor Jonathan Moyo has revealed that most Zanu-PF ministers love women so much that they are polygamists and have numerous small houses.An...Published: 18 Jan 2021 at 21:42hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo fights 'false' rape allegations by modelling agency boss
Former cabinet minister Jonathan Moyo on Monday pushed back against "false and outrageous" allegations that he raped a former model and beauty pageant organiser over a decade ago.State media r...Published: 18 Jan 2021 at 17:53hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF decides on expelled Mugabe allies' readmission pleas
MIDLANDS based former government ministers and allies to late ex-President Robert Mugabe will know their Zanu-PF membership status when the party's provincial executive meets this week to examine thei...Published: 03 Sep 2020 at 06:08hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
The global and technological effect
An extract from a book titled 'The next Zimbabwe'The twenty first century has brought about the idea of globalization were interconnectivity is the new...Published: 05 Apr 2019 at 11:26hrs | 12 | by Terence Simbi
Share ownership trust funds abused: Mavima
MIDLANDS Provincial Affairs minister Larry Mavima has castigated community share ownership trusts (CSOT) in the province over "improper" use of funds, which he said were not benefiting communities....Published: 27 Mar 2019 at 07:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bad omen for Mnangagwa
As State-controlled media journalists, who lost in Zanu-PF primary elections retracted to their newsrooms, ethical quandaries they face constitute material for my future article.In view of the...Published: 09 May 2018 at 07:11hrs | | by Cyprian Ndawana
Mutsvangwa crashes in Zanu-PF primaries?
SEVERAL Zanu-PF bigwigs, mostly politburo members and Cabinet ministers, were left in shock yesterday after they lost in the just-ended party primary elections, a development likely to end their polit...Published: 02 May 2018 at 08:00hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF: The re-birth and the re-opening
THERE is a certain refreshing aura around names on the official list of candidates contesting today's Zanu-PF primary elections ahead of national elections scheduled for July this year.Some of...Published: 29 Apr 2018 at 08:54hrs | 3 | by Staff Reporter
G40 linked candidates rejected
Aspiring candidates, most of them who were linked to the G40 cabal in the Midlands province, will not be representing the revolutionary party in this year's harmonised election after their CVs were re...Published: 23 Apr 2018 at 06:59hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF candidates list
THE ruling Zanu-PF yesterday released the full list of its candidates who have been given the green light to battle it out in the primary elections, with some party bigwigs and businessmen from Bulawa...Published: 22 Apr 2018 at 10:10hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF 'flooded' with CVs
Zanu-PF has been overwhelmed by aspiring candidates who intend to contest in the May 5 primary elections, the party's provincial leaders have said.All provinces are expected to meet this w...Published: 07 Apr 2018 at 10:48hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Zanu-PF to decide fate of suspended members
Zanu-PF Midlands province will tomorrow decide the fate of suspended party members who have submitted their curricula vitae ahead of the May 5 primary elections.The ruling party's National Dis...Published: 06 Apr 2018 at 07:13hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Race for Zanu-PF ticket hots up
Zanu-PF members interested in contesting in the May 5 primary elections have begun submitting their curricula vitae (CVS) across the country ahead of today's deadline. By last night, some members were...Published: 05 Apr 2018 at 06:55hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Suspended G40 allies barred from holding office
Zanu-PF Midlands province has recommended that six senior party members suspended over alleged misconduct, chief among them their involvement in the G40 machinations and creating parallel structures w...Published: 19 Mar 2018 at 06:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF manifesto, elections direction by this week
ZANU-PF will this week finalise its party manifesto for the 2018 harmonised elections, National Secretary for Transport and Welfare, July Moyo has said.Addressing party members at the Zanu-PF ...Published: 18 Mar 2018 at 08:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF exonerates three former ministers
THREE former Cabinet Ministers, some who were alleged to be G40 foot soldiers in the Midlands Province have survived the chop after the Zanu-PF Politburo decided to exonerate and reintegrate them into...Published: 11 Mar 2018 at 09:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
G40 ministers appear before party
THREE former ministers, who were alleged to be G40 foot soldiers in the Midlands Province have appeared before a disciplinary committee.Former Ministers Francis Nhema, Chiratidzo Mabuwa and Fr...Published: 18 Feb 2018 at 22:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiyangwa not going to allow the divorce
Harare businessman Philip Chiyangwa has not been served with summons of the divorce to his wife Elizabeth, he indicated yesterday.The media yesterday published Chiyangwa's divorce but fumed th...Published: 15 Jan 2018 at 16:01hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai remains a key figure in economic revival and national healing
For those who attended ED's inauguration you can easily tell that Tsvangirai can really pull a big crowd, you can also tell that the stadium was full to its capacity because of Tsvangirai and his supp...Published: 28 Nov 2017 at 10:25hrs | | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
Mnangagwa's faction was to suffer another setback
THE military takeover of President Robert Mugabe's government by the Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) in the early hours of Wednesday morning is the culmination of prolonged intense factional battles tri...Published: 17 Nov 2017 at 10:32hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Joshua Nkomo foundation to host war veterans
THE Joshua Nkomo Foundation (JNF) is expected to host veterans of the liberation struggle tomorrow, as part of the initiative to commemorate the late vice president Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo.The ev...Published: 18 Oct 2017 at 13:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tsholotsho Declaration of November 2004: the untold story
THIS is a continuation of an article we published last week in which the former Information minister reveals details of Zanu-PF's power struggle which culminated in the so-called Tsholotsho Declaratio...Published: 16 Oct 2017 at 09:36hrs | 341 | by Jonathan Moyo
War vets invade bigwig's farm
War veterans have invaded a farm owned by former Regional Integration and International Cooperation deputy minister Reuben Marumahoko claiming that it is too big for him.The farm, 10km east of...Published: 08 Oct 2017 at 15:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe no country for 'nice men'
In 2000, after the ruling Zanu-PF party had been shocked by the opposition at elections, it went through some soul searching.Just five years earlier, Zanu-PF had won 118 of the 120 seats on of...Published: 14 Jul 2017 at 07:05hrs | 2 | by The Source
Zimbabwe army general abandoned family, move in with 'mistress'
One of the country's decorated liberation war icons, retired Air Vice Marshal Henry Muchena, is entangled in an acrimonious divorce with his wife of 31 years, who is claiming in court papers that the ...Published: 12 Jul 2017 at 13:12hrs | 48 | by Staff reporter
Diamond companies fooled Mugabe
President Robert Mugabe has publicly admitted that he was fooled after being paraded holding up a $1,5 million dummy cheque by Chiadzwa diamond mining companies at the behest of then Indigenisation mi...Published: 19 Jun 2017 at 13:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Fake Francis Nhema Facebook scam exposed
A FACEBOOK scam using the identity of former Cabinet Minister Francis Nhema has been exposed after trying to swindle a number of people offering them funding and investment opportunities in Zimbabwe....Published: 28 May 2017 at 09:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Leave a good name, there is life beyond politics
I've good advice for young people, and those who have stayed long in politics. This is very serious and if you take up this information you can have a good name were ever you go in life. Most politici...Published: 23 Apr 2017 at 16:21hrs | | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
Quicksand sinking & mirages: Inside Zanu PFs long history of infighting
A long read on Zanu Pfs 54 years of bitter infighting, betrayal and power games. There is no iota of doubt that...Published: 03 Apr 2017 at 15:40hrs | | by Maynard Manyowa
Fresh turmoil hits Zanu-PF
Zanu-PF factions are squabbling over a proposal from five provinces to re-admit members who were expelled from the party as well as rescinding the suspensions of those cadres who were sidelined from p...Published: 01 Dec 2016 at 05:44hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe orders Zanu PF bigwigs to stop fighting in public
HARARE - President Robert Mugabe has ordered Zanu PF members to stop fighting in public, ordering them to use the right channels.Addressing the media yesterday after the politburo meeting, Zan...Published: 10 Nov 2016 at 14:05hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Mugabe cautions Zanu-PF members
PRESIDENT Mugabe yesterday called on Zanu-PF members to solve their differences through the appropriate organs of the party and not private and social media.The Zanu-PF First Secretary als...Published: 10 Nov 2016 at 04:57hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe lifts sanctions on Shamu, Nhema, Bhuka
The Zanu PF Politburo has lifted the suspension of Webster Shamu, Cde Francis Nhema and Cde Flora Bhuka.This came out following today's Politburo meeting held at the ruling party's headqua...Published: 10 Nov 2016 at 04:34hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Buka, Nhema back in Zanu-PF
THE Zanu-PF Politburo and the National Disciplinary Committee have lifted suspensions on former Ministers Francis Nhema and Flora Buka after the province successfully lobbied for their clemency....Published: 16 Oct 2016 at 08:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Why Zimbabwe Is a Failed State
Given the deafening noise from Mashonaland in the Zimbabwe media about Jonathan Moyo's corruption case, one can be forgiven for thinking that it is the first corruption case in Zimbabwe. H...Published: 14 Oct 2016 at 06:59hrs | | by Israel Dube
Fresh crisis hits Zanu-PF
THERE is growing acrimony between Zanu-PF cadres whose suspensions were lifted by the party's National Appeals Committee (NAC) and those who assumed their positions in the wake of a ruthless purge...Published: 26 Aug 2016 at 07:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
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