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Matinyarare's 'Innscor has destroyed the taste of Zim food' comments cause consternation
If Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE)-listed food giant Innscor was hoping to avoid press scrutiny, it could hardly have chosen a more self-destructive path than seeking a gag order against journalist Rute...Published: 04 Mar 2024 at 21:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's third-term bid up in smoke as army moves in
WHILE Zanu-PF is gradually inching towards a two-thirds parliamentary majority through a by-elections opened by CCC's Interim Secretary General Sengezo Tshabangu's recalls, the army has made strategic...Published: 22 Dec 2023 at 09:39hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Soldiers voted against Mnangagwa?
PRESIDENT-ELECT Emmerson Mnangagwa lost at a polling station set up for soldiers from Pondoroza Barracks in Redcliff, Midlands province, during last week's elections, in a development that has laid ba...Published: 04 Sep 2023 at 21:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Faz, military tension is likely to rise
TENSION between Zanu-PF's restive group Forever Associate Zimbabwe (Faz) and the military is likely to rise after if Zanu-PF and President Emmerson Mnangagwa forms the next government after Wednesday'...Published: 28 Aug 2023 at 21:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Karangas crush Zezuru-Korekore Alliance again
To Zezurus, politics of tribalism has become the Frankenstein's monster that destroys its own creator. Unless Zezurus find allies outside their small Zezuru- Korekore clan, it may take many years if n...Published: 19 Aug 2023 at 17:17hrs | 31 | by Israel Dube
CIO versus Zimbabwe military
TENSIONS are mounting within state security structures and government, as well as Zanu-PF, over the role being played by the shadowy Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO)-run Forever Associates Zimb...Published: 09 Jul 2023 at 14:26hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Will the FAZ deliver or backfire for Mnangagwa
In a bid to avoid having the army being used to sabotage him in the upcoming elections, President Emmerson Mnangagwa, more of a securocrat than a politician, has resorted to CIO, but this has created ...Published: 12 Jun 2023 at 08:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Faz election project fuels tension within security forces
TENSIONS are mounting within state security structures and government, as well as Zanu-PF, over the role being played by the shadowy Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO)-run Forever Associates Zimb...Published: 12 Jun 2023 at 06:46hrs | 20 | by Staff reporter
CIO takes over running of Zimbabwe elections from the military
ZIMBABWE'S Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) has secretly taken over the running of national elections — designed to manipulate the process in favour of the incumbent President Emmerson Mnanga...Published: 08 May 2023 at 19:10hrs | 42 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa: Hoping for tricks of providence
A belch from a priest has greater valueFor a shiny trinket / Give not away your country / The foreigner is a trafficker / To mind him is no bargain / If you were skilled and artful / You'd sta...Published: 25 Feb 2023 at 06:49hrs | | by Jamwanda
Mudha still using state security aides
FORMER State Security minister Owen "Mudha" Ncube (pictured), who was last month fired by President Emmerson Mnangagwa for allegedly fanning division and Zanu-PF factionalism in the Midlands province ...Published: 05 Feb 2022 at 19:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Owen 'Mudha' Ncube overplayed his hand
BY the time fired State Security minister Owen "Mudha" Ncube was removed from office, he had become a Frankenstein monster for President Emmerson Mnangagwa, as he was now causing havoc in his home pro...Published: 15 Jan 2022 at 15:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa and dodgy Zanu-PF characters
WHEN Zanu-PF activist Marx Mupungu filed a Constitutional Court (ConCourt) application in June seeking to quash the High Court judgment by the three brave judges who had barred Chief Justice Malaba fr...Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Douglas Mwonzora has lost his political campus
Zanu PF political elite's Frankenstein monster was hatched after years of incubation.All what is happening today started manifesting long back, during the time when former late Army General Vi...Published: 06 Oct 2020 at 13:22hrs | | by Leonard Koni
An abiding tortoise of White House goons
Politics, as an existential science, can be characteristically hot, heavy and heady.In its very extreme form, politics can be similar to religious fundamentalism, where it becomes a matter of ...Published: 02 Jun 2019 at 08:18hrs | | by Bishop Lazi
Chamisa blasts Mnangagwa
Opposition leader Nelson Chamisa has blasted President Emmerson Mnangagwa saying he is the chief culprit in causing violence against innocent Zimbabweans.While addressing Zanu-PF supporters in...Published: 19 Feb 2019 at 13:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Current economic chaos to define future'
As Zimbabwe hurtles towards into the New Year, the majority of the country's population is bruised economically, socially and politically. The "Daily News on Sunday's Assistant Editor Maxwell ...Published: 06 Jan 2019 at 17:55hrs | 1 | by Maxwell Sibanda
Vigilante groups must be disbanded
Elections are the hallmark of representative democracy, allowing the people's regular input in choices about leaders and policy. Yet, they are also competitive processes, unleashing conflict and tensi...Published: 29 May 2018 at 17:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa has created a monster
There is a well-known piece of fiction by English novelist Mary Shelley, where the main protagonist Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist creates a grotesque creature or monstor in an unorthodox scie...Published: 28 May 2018 at 08:25hrs | 1 | by Faith Hope
Sir Mnangagwa, nothing has changed
I have no iota of doubt that most of my readers have, by now, gone through Emmerson Mnangagwa's OP-ED (read lies) published by The New York Times on March 11, 2018. This treatise is a direct response ...Published: 14 Mar 2018 at 05:34hrs | | by Mutsa Murenje
No sir, nothing has changed
I have no iota of doubt that most of my readers have, by now, gone through Emmerson Mnangagwa's OP-ED (read lies) published by The New York Times on March 11, 2018. This treatise is a direct response ...Published: 13 Mar 2018 at 10:14hrs | | by Mutsa Murenje
Zimbabwe's 'new dispensation' has no room for bootlickers and sycophants
I could not help but be flabbergasted and disgusted by the manner in which some sections of our society, especially the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC), seem intent on continuing the 'legacy' ...Published: 01 Dec 2017 at 06:33hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
The Army is Mugabe's Frankenstein
Contrary to Grace's reckless coup speak, the involvement of the army in ZANU PF affairs is an agreement that was reached when Grace was only 10 years old. Then Mugabe took on to the airwaves in 1976 f...Published: 08 Oct 2017 at 05:26hrs | | by Sam Wezhira
The creation of Zimbabwe's Frankenstein
It is a fact that the white ex-Rhodesians made Robert Mugabe. They created an environment that enabled bright kids like him to have a chance of a decent education. He received a government scholarship...Published: 24 May 2017 at 11:23hrs | | by Tendai Mazenge
'Zanu-PF is a mafia organisation'
Despite the fact that Zanu-PF is seemingly at its weakest - as factional and succession wars rage on - the MDC is fearful that the ruling party will be vicious come 2018 elections.Speaking...Published: 12 Feb 2017 at 11:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF declares a de facto state of emergency
The beleaguered and faction - ridden Zanu-PF regime has since gone completely rogue. On Saturday, September 17, 2016, the collapsing regime, fronted by Robert Mugabe, proved to the entire world, b...Published: 18 Sep 2016 at 14:46hrs | | by Obert Chaurura Gutu
Mawarire: Devil's advocate comes to Washington
On Thursday August 18, 2016 the US-based think tank the Atlantic Council whose headquarters is in Washington DC hosted Zimbabwean Pastor Evan Mawarire who is the face and spokesperson for #ThisFlag mo...Published: 19 Aug 2016 at 06:14hrs | | by Obi Egbuna Jnr Simunye
Embattled Mnangagwa tasting own bitter medicine
HARARE - With embattled Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa remaining under the cosh in the warring post-congress Zanu PF, insiders and analysts alike say the Midlands godfather is getting a taste...Published: 28 Dec 2015 at 18:44hrs | | by Staff Reportyer
Mujuru was using Rugare Gumbo and Didymus Mutasa
It must be a very difficult period for America, Obama especially. There is no rhyme, no reason, to the workings of the world that America has made.Everything looks Frankensteinian, all proving...Published: 05 Apr 2015 at 17:59hrs | 2 | by Nathaniel Manheru
Robert Mugabe has unleashed a Frankenstein
Robert Mugabe has unleashed a Frankenstein which he will not be able to control!He is behaving like a man riding on the back of a hungry tiger!These were startling but very serious war...Published: 18 Oct 2014 at 07:01hrs | | by Staff writer
Robert Mugabe riding hungry tiger
Robert Mugabe has unleashed a Frankenstein which he will not be able to control!He is behaving like a man riding on the back of a hungry tiger!These were startling but very serious...Published: 14 Oct 2014 at 16:13hrs | | by Staff writer
'Zimbabwe needs people with Mandela's traits,' says Biti
MDC-T secretary general and former Finance minister Tendai Biti has been evading the media since orchestrating a boardroom coup that 'suspended' party president Morgan Tsvangirai in late April. Zim Ma...Published: 16 May 2014 at 12:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Herbert Wants To Come Home'
UK-based Zimbabwean author Masimba Musodza has launched a serialised first edition of a new horror novel, Herbert Wants To Come Home. This is the story of the Mutsepe family who gather in August to co...Published: 28 Oct 2013 at 04:57hrs | 1 | by Masimba Musodza
Mugabe urges the 'little Bishop' to resign
President Mugabe took a swipe at South Africa's Nobel peace laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu for supporting homosexuality which he says is against African customs. Mugabe and Tutu have always been at...Published: 27 Jul 2013 at 16:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
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