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Of human rights demands and regime change
Chapter 4 of Zimbabwe's Constitution adopted in 2013 outlines various rights which are supposed to be enjoyed by Zimbabwean citizens as they go about their business. A few bad apples among us are busy...Published: 11 hrs ago | 631 | by Elijah Chihota
Churches lose confidence in Mnangagwa economic policies
The Zimbabwe Heads of Christian Denominations (ZHOCD) yesterday said they have lost confidence in the current economic reforms being implemented by President Emmerson Mnangagwa administration amid a d...Published: 16 hrs ago | 1188 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's son-in-law acquitted
The late former President Robert Mugabe's son-in-law Simba Chikore has been acquitted at the Harare Magistrate's Court after a High Court judge threw away the lower court's verdict to dismiss his appl...Published: 19 hrs ago | 1505 | by Staff reporter
Health workers down tools over abducted colleague
The Health Apex Council yesterday said its members were downing tools starting today until the Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors' Association (ZHDA) acting president Peter Magombeyi, who was abducted by suspe...Published: 19 hrs ago | 549 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to deliver SONA
President Mnangagwa will deliver the State of the Nation Address on October 1, the same day he will officially open the Second Session of the Ninth Parliament, Clerk of Parliament Mr Kennedy Chokuda h...Published: 19 hrs ago | 884 | by Staff reporter
Uncle Sam ups black ops in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe's politics is sick. It is sickening. It is self-defeating. It is toxic. Of late there has been a worrying dangerous trend of Zimbabweans staging abductions and kidnappings, all aimed at false...Published: 19 hrs ago | 195 | by Philemon Mutedzi
Mbeki honour Mugabe at SA memorial
THE African National Congress (ANC) yesterday held a memorial service for former President Robert Mugabe in KwaZulu-Natal and described him as an African statesman who played a key role in the liberat...Published: 19 hrs ago | 139 | by Staff reporter
Abductions aimed to tarnish Mnangagwa govt image
FOREIGN AFFAIRS minister Sibusiso Moyo says ongoing abductions on government critics were well calculated to coincide with impending visits by high profile officials from world bodies or international...Published: 19 hrs ago | 176 | by newzimbabwe
Arrested 'Zimbabwean' millionaire swaps jail for a swanky Maserati in SA
Flamboyant Mpumalanga businessman Sam "Mshengu" Chabalala has whisked away in a Maserati after being granted a R200,000 bail in the Witbank magistrate's court yesterday.Chabalala, who was arre...Published: 17 Sep 2019 at 15:59hrs | 33226 | by Staff reporter
'Dr Magombeyi's 'abduction' the work of a third force'
GOVERNMENT on Tuesday said the abduction of Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors' Association (ZHDA) acting president Dr Peter Magombeyi could be the work of a third force out to tarnish the country's human righ...Published: 17 Sep 2019 at 15:53hrs | 2240 | by Staff reporter
Kings and Mambos must be careful
In English they say "let lying dogs lie", in Ndebele there is a saying that goes "lala lulaza sikwengule."Have we been sleeping in the stupidity slumber that we haven't seen all this coming, some men ...Published: 17 Sep 2019 at 12:50hrs | 2063 | by Presia Ngulube
Abductions choreographed ahead of Mnangagwa's UNGA meeting
Deputy Chief Secretary to the President and Cabinet in charge of Presidential Communications Mr George Charamba said the recent alleged abductions were choreographed ahead of the President's United Na...Published: 17 Sep 2019 at 11:07hrs | 2074 | by Staff reporter
Doctors paralyse Zimbabwe hospitals
ZIMBABWE's public health delivery system ground to a halt yesterday as doctors countrywide downed tools, with the Harare-based medical professionals marching to President Emmerson Mnangagwa's Munhumut...Published: 17 Sep 2019 at 11:00hrs | 1091 | by Staff reporter
Sibusiso Moyo's statement on the abduction of Dr Peter Magombeyi
Minister of Foreign Affairs General Sibusiso Busi Moyo says the abduction of Dr Peter Magombeyi is a plot that is aimed at tarnishing the image of the country by some individuals who do not want the P...Published: 17 Sep 2019 at 10:14hrs | 3433 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa panics over Paul Siwela TV interview
According to information from MLO's Central Intelligence Bureau ie CIB, Cde Paul Siwela' s hard hitting interview with Newzroom Afrika has sent shockwaves down the spine of Zimbabwe President Emmerson...Published: 17 Sep 2019 at 09:15hrs | 4269 | by Israel Dube
Mnangagwa's ex-aide denied bail again
A HARARE magistrate yesterday dismissed former State Residencies director Douglas Tapfuma's bail application, saying there were no changed circumstances when he approached the lower court for the seco...Published: 17 Sep 2019 at 08:37hrs | 650 | by Staff reporter
Lawyers bemoan dearth of human rights in ZImbabwe
THE Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) has expressed concern over the continued violation of citizens' rights in the country.In a statement to mark International Day of Democracy which w...Published: 17 Sep 2019 at 08:34hrs | 304 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's ex-top aide sweats for bail
Former principal director of State Residences in the Office of the President and Cabinet, Douglas Tapfuma's bid for freedom hit a brick wall yesterday after Harare Provincial magistrate Mr Hosea Mujay...Published: 17 Sep 2019 at 08:26hrs | 169 | by Staff reporter
No to Mugabe mausoleum
The Zimbabwe Campaign for Good Governance (ZCGG) would like to express its displeasure and dismay over the proposal to build a MAUSOLEUM for Robert Mugabe at the National Heroes Acre. The Symb...Published: 17 Sep 2019 at 01:14hrs | 3149 | by Morgan Changamire
The scourge of stage-managed abductions
In the middle of the busy national schedule of the body viewing and funeral service for the former President, the late Robert Mugabe over the weekend word filtered over the social media that Zimbabwe ...Published: 16 Sep 2019 at 16:39hrs | 2720 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Zanu-PF owns Blue Roof, Bona Mugabe's residence
ZANU-PF has title to former President Robert Mugabe's houses - the imposing Blue Roof mansion in Borrowdale and a Mount Pleasant property occupied by his daughter, Bona, details have emerged. ...Published: 16 Sep 2019 at 07:09hrs | 9975 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF regularises Blue Roof title deeds
ZANU-PF has title to the late former President Robert Mugabe's houses namely the imposing Blue Roof mansion in Borrowdale and a Mount Pleasant house occupied by his daughter, Bona. President M...Published: 16 Sep 2019 at 06:48hrs | 1237 | by Staff reporter
Village containerised information centres, bridging digital gap
Devolution is one of President Mnangagwa's flagship policy. This policy is centred on bringing services and development as close as to the point of need as possible.The point of need in this c...Published: 16 Sep 2019 at 06:40hrs | 90 | by Nick Mangwana
Mnangagwa to open 2nd Parly session
President Mnangagwa will officially open the Second Session of the Ninth Parliament on October 1 and layout the legislative agenda. The opening of the Second Session marks the end of the First...Published: 16 Sep 2019 at 06:38hrs | 162 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa offers no apology for the coup on Mugabe
Robert Mugabe died a "sad man", his nephew told a state funeral service attended by two dozen current and retired foreign leaders in Harare on Saturday.Walter Chidakwa fought back tears as he ...Published: 15 Sep 2019 at 08:02hrs | 8846 | by ZimLive
Mugabe: The socio-genesis, posterity of Pan-Africanism
My heart agonisingly aches in sullenness for Robert Gabriel Mugabe's demise. While weeping can only endure for a while, Mugabe's passing on offers a solid premise to recollect and curate the mortality...Published: 15 Sep 2019 at 07:53hrs | 111 | by Richard Runyararo Mahomva
Grace Mugabe praised
The country's success is inevitable owing to the rich and endearing legacy of "solid education", the land reform programme and economic empowerment initiatives laid by Robert Mugabe, President Emmerso...Published: 15 Sep 2019 at 07:47hrs | 2161 | by Staff reporter
South Africans need a history lesson
JULIUS Malema, leader of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), has tried telling his countrymen that the borders they are so fond of were imposed by racist imperialists.He has also told them th...Published: 15 Sep 2019 at 07:45hrs | 374 | by Mtandazo Dube
'The West is upset about Zimbabwean land'
Let us start by saying that Robert Mugabe is a Zimbabwean giant, Robert Mugabe is an African giant.From 1960 to 2017 - 57 years - he was at the front-end of African politics, front-end of Zimb...Published: 15 Sep 2019 at 07:45hrs | 422 | by Prof Arthur Mutambara
A too-comfortable end for Mugabe
"Peace has come to Zimbabwe/Third World's right on the one/Now's the time for celebration/ ‘Cause we've only just begun." So sings Stevie Wonder in Master Blaster, his 1980 hit single. And he wasn't...Published: 15 Sep 2019 at 07:43hrs | 296 | by Jason L Riley
G40's ahistorical narrative
It was a comic spectacle to watch some G40 elements coming out of hibernation, mouth-frothing like demented confused fools gushing vitriol that former President Mugabe was forced to die in exile. Noth...Published: 15 Sep 2019 at 07:43hrs | 305 | by Ranga Mataire
Crafty Bob is not just history but our history
No matter how intelligent we might be, sometimes it is difficult to wrap our heads around some things; they are simply inscrutable.I am sure many people have heard the name Saint Augustine, wh...Published: 15 Sep 2019 at 07:43hrs | 95 | by Bishop Lazi
Zimbabwe's success inevitable, says Mnangagwa
The country's success is inevitable owing to the rich and enduring legacy of "solid education", the land reform programme and economic empowerment initiatives laid by Robert Mugabe, President Emmerson...Published: 15 Sep 2019 at 07:16hrs | 274 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa dumping Mugabe's black empowerment drive'
EXILED former Indigenisation Minister Saviour Kasukuwere has accused President Emmerson Mnangagwa of attempts to reverse the gains of black empowerment which were introduced by late former President R...Published: 14 Sep 2019 at 14:57hrs | 3271 | by newzimbabwe
Mugabe's death, an omission of justice
It is with profound grief and sadness to learn that RG. Mugabe, the first prime minister and indeed the first executive president of the independent Zimbabwe passed away in Singapore on Friday t...Published: 14 Sep 2019 at 12:56hrs | 255 | by Andrea Sibanda -MLF SG
General Sibusiso Moyo extends begging bowl
Foreign Affairs and International Trade Minister General Sibusiso Moyo has begged the International Community to assist in the nursing of Zimbabwe from its current problems to a becoming a better coun...Published: 14 Sep 2019 at 09:29hrs | 3054 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mugabe coup announcer pleads for international support to spur reforms
Zimbabwe is serious about pursuing political and economic reforms and deserves international support, foreign minister Sibusiso Moyo said on Friday.President Emmerson Mnangagwa promised a diff...Published: 14 Sep 2019 at 08:39hrs | 714 | by Reuters
Preserve rather than bury RGM's good
In the play Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare, unarguably Britain's greatest playwright, pens lines that must serve as humankind's guidelines while still in this carnal world. In his eulogy a...Published: 14 Sep 2019 at 08:07hrs | 167 | by Stephen Mpofu
Mugabe's pictures
AS the country continues to celebrate the life of the late former President Robert Mugabe, The Chronicle went to its archives to get some pictures taken by its photojournalists over the years....Published: 13 Sep 2019 at 23:23hrs | 9373 | by Staff reporter
Police need riot control training: ZPP
THE Zimbabwe Peace Project (ZPP) has called on government to implement recommendations of the Commission of Inquiry into the August 1, 2018 politically-motivated violence by ensuring police officers a...Published: 13 Sep 2019 at 21:44hrs | 569 | by Staff reporter
Why Mugabe is a martyr
ONE cannot fully capture the greatness of pan-Africanist and liberator the late former President Robert Mugabe without celebrating his role in the Land Reform Programme.His mantra: "Land is th...Published: 13 Sep 2019 at 21:23hrs | 602 | by Patience Rusare
Stampede to check if Mugabe is really dead
THOUSANDS of people yesterday stampeded to view the body of the late former President Robert Mugabe at Rufaro Stadium, where he took his first oath as the country's founding Prime Minister at midnight...Published: 13 Sep 2019 at 14:06hrs | 2330 | by staff reporter
Open Letter to the soul of R.G. Mugabe (currently in the purgatory)
Dear Comrade RG, I know that you are currently in the purgatory while waiting for your verdict from the almighty. There is no doubt that you are in great fear and shivering. Your chances of go...Published: 13 Sep 2019 at 11:58hrs | 3511 | by Don Chigumba
The emptiness of an ending
A DAY dawned with an early call.Mugabe was dead. And then, nothing. Nothing at all in my heart and mind.Just a gaping, blank canvas, waiting for a clear script to form out of the moras...Published: 13 Sep 2019 at 07:47hrs | 782 | by Amanda Hammar
Tracing Mugabe's troubled legacy
This name evokes emotions of anger, hatred, regret and revulsion to many. Yet it is also a name that draws a lot of admiration, satisfaction, pride and gratitude to others.In death, just like ...Published: 13 Sep 2019 at 07:36hrs | 474 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe swallowed by Frankenstein monster
ONE of the country's greatest orators - and demagogue too - former president Robert Mugabe, was controversial in life and now in death. Although he was ideologically difficult to pin down given his co...Published: 13 Sep 2019 at 07:33hrs | 1583 | by Gumisai Nyoni
Malema takes aim at Mnangagwa but says Mugabe overstayed in power
South African opposition leader Julius Malema on Thursday pleaded with Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa to allow Robert Mugabe's exiled loyalists to bury him, telling him: "You can't be worse t...Published: 13 Sep 2019 at 06:55hrs | 2260 | by ZimLive
Mnangagwa tried to armtwist family into Mugabe Harare burial
EXILED former cabinet minister and nephew to former President Robert Mugabe, Patrick Zhuwao has accused the Emmerson Mnangagwa led government of attempts to twist the Mugabe family's arms into disresp...Published: 13 Sep 2019 at 06:54hrs | 698 | by newzimbabwe
Malema in Mnangagwa plea to allow G40 to bury Mugabe
SOUTH Africa's opposition Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader, Julius Malema says President Emmerson Mnangagwa should allow expelled senior Zanu-PF members who are in self-imposed exile to return t...Published: 13 Sep 2019 at 06:49hrs | 1363 | by newzimbabwe
'Mugabe died in exile!' - Rubbish, Singapore was dictator's haunt and very costly one to the nation
The sheer arrogance, contemptuous disregard for the truth and heartless indifference to the suffering of the masses by the Zanu-PF thugs has never seize to amaze me. Never!Zimbabwe's former dictat...Published: 12 Sep 2019 at 22:10hrs | 547 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
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