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Zimbabwe smashes T20 World record
Zimbabwe's cricket team, the Chevrons, shattered the record for the highest-ever T20 international score after racking up a monumental 344-4 against Gambia during the ICC Men's T20 World Cup Sub-Regio...Published: 23 Oct 2024 at 15:55hrs | 3546 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to open another conference
Today, President Mnangagwa is set to preside over the 20th edition of the International Inter-Ministerial Conference on South-South and Triangular Co-operation in Population and Development, which wil...Published: 09 Oct 2023 at 06:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Meet Kemo Bojang: Africa's rising star
Gambian Youthful politician Kemo Bojang was recently recognised as one of the top 100 influential young persons of Africa. Kemo Bojang has over ten years of experience in advocating for youth ...Published: 09 Feb 2023 at 09:12hrs | 3 | by Khumbu Malinga
Gambians prove capabilities of youthful leadership
Young people are driving development in West Africa and demonstrating capacity to lead and transform entire regions and cities.Youthful Mayor Talib Ahmed Bensouda of Kanifing Municipality is t...Published: 30 Sep 2022 at 10:01hrs | 3 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Nelson Chamisa and Douglas Mwonzora - Water and Oil Don't mix
Advocate Nelson Chamisa and Douglas Mwonzora like water and oil do not mix. Not surprising then that the sly attempts to foist Mwonzora on the masses, are failing.As we head to 2023 elections,...Published: 27 May 2022 at 07:42hrs | | by Grace Kwinjeh
Caf fines Aubameyang for exposing it
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang has been fined $10 000 for social media posts that tarnished the "honour and image" of the Confederation of African Football after his Gabon team spent the night on an airpor...Published: 10 Dec 2020 at 06:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dozens of laws should be repealed in Gambia
The Commonwealth has said dozens of discriminatory gender laws should be repealed or revised in The Gambia to guarantee equal rights for women and girls within the legal framework.A report - p...Published: 22 Sep 2020 at 16:40hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Gambia artist partners with Bulawayo's hip hop artist
Gambian Artist AC Cham from Kombo East in Gambia will be collaborating with Lunatic Sway a Bulawayo hip hop artist who is signed under Alicious Muzik.The music project was brokered by Sibusiso...Published: 12 Sep 2020 at 11:34hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'Mozambique, Zimbabwe power deal done'
Mozambique is ready to assist Zimbabwe with increased supplies of electricity from Cahora Bassa, the President has said. He was speaking on the sidelines of the 12th Extraordinary Summit on the Contin...Published: 09 Jul 2019 at 07:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe is not the worst country on earth!
At the beginning of this new weekly column, more of which is going to come in the next months and years Inshallah, let me make this humble appeal to the authorities on behalf of the suffering resident...Published: 06 Mar 2019 at 06:26hrs | 7 | by Baffour Ankomah
Zimbabwe's ingenious intelligence services and a liability Head of State
That shocking erroneous diagnosis grossly lacking real intelligence! Deliberate or otherwise! The inability to see and act on that daily shimmering hot potato pot since the first of August 2018! ...Published: 04 Feb 2019 at 14:36hrs | | by Reginald Thabani Gola
Is Mnangagwa going the Yahya Jammeh-way?
As 30 July poll beckons, the atmosphere flares up as parties crisscross the lengths and breadths of the country soliciting votes from a poverty-ridden electorate. All candidates mete out plans to revi...Published: 18 Jul 2018 at 15:43hrs | | by Benny Gudo
Zimbabwe's July 30 elections: Will the will of the people slay Goliath?
A few weeks ago, a colleague, who was not registered to vote, told me he thought voting was a pointless exercise. He strongly believed that the new administrators would not relinquish power if they lo...Published: 31 May 2018 at 07:21hrs | | by Nqaba Matshazi
Rigging will trounce Democracy come July 2018
International Community will endorse EDM's rigging shenanigans as it did in Kenya. With the head of state making a lot of noise promising to hold free, ...Published: 18 Apr 2018 at 07:17hrs | | by Knowledge Hakata
Chamisa on cusp of Barrowian history?
The Gambia is a small river country, named after the river which cuts through its heart, the smallest country on mainland Africa, which is entirely surrounded by Senegal on one side and the coastline ...Published: 25 Mar 2018 at 10:14hrs | | by OP ED BY VIVID GWEDE
WATCH: Why are there so many pythons in Harare?
Snake expert Ben Vermeulen of Harare-based Reptile Rescue says he has been called in to remove nine pythons since January, and that python sightings are now much more frequent.Watch below, a s...Published: 16 Mar 2018 at 09:24hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Will MDC rule if they are voted in?
In September 2017 Zimbabwe experienced a coup within a coup. Coup d'etat is a French word to mean that strike on the state. A coup detat is usually an unconstitutional means of changing the status cor...Published: 27 Feb 2018 at 18:48hrs | 6 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Gukurahundi: Walking in the deathly shadows of Kigali and Banjul
Should the architects of the Gukurahundi atrocities committed in Matabeleland and Midlands face legal action in an independent court of law convened in Zimbabwe, Africa or abroad? On May 30, 2016, His...Published: 20 Feb 2018 at 15:19hrs | 1 | by Tafi Mhaka
The folly of MDC's mission of shame
The latest excursion to the West by the MDC, donning the new coat of "Alliance", is nothing more than the opposition returning to its treacherous roots. The MDC, with the help of the United States (US...Published: 15 Dec 2017 at 05:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's Smart Coup: China and Iran are key suspects
Zimbabwe's smart coup was engineered and conceived by Chinese and Iranian allies of both former Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa and Commander of ZDF, Constantine Chiwenga well before the army seized...Published: 17 Nov 2017 at 18:33hrs | 16 | by Agencies
PDZ hails Sadc intervention
The Progressive Democrats Zimbabwe President Barbra Nyagomo has hailed the Sadc intervantion on Zimbabwe political situation as the military seek to force President Robert Mugabe to step down and allo...Published: 16 Nov 2017 at 16:12hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Wishing Tsvangirai a speedy recovery, Cdes
Dear Cabinet and Politburo membersCOMRADES, I am really worried for Morgan … I am praying hard for the brother to get well soon because, no matter our differences, he still remains a brother...Published: 23 Sep 2017 at 21:03hrs | | by CZ
This is Zimbabwe, We should back Strive Masiyiwa
Children of Nehanda Charwe Nyakasikana and King Lobengula Khumalo can you hear the new Zimbabwe echo from rock to rock and shrub to shrub in the wet and weathered hills and ridges and slippery slopes ...Published: 29 Aug 2017 at 07:49hrs | | by Tafi Mhaka
Without reforms, no fair election
The Movement of Democratic Party won the 2008 election, but Zanu Pf government simply refused to transfer power, and having withheld election results for more than a month without an explanation to th...Published: 25 Jul 2017 at 07:57hrs | | by Zanda Shumba
SADC must do to Mugabe what ECOWAS did to Yahya Jammeh
In a haze of nostalgia, social media was awash with people saying that it was a grave mistake that the electorate let go of a thorough politician like Thabo Mbeki only to be governed by the incumbent ...Published: 16 Jul 2017 at 14:47hrs | | by Rita T.M. Kufandarerwa
MDC-T youths threaten mass protests on Wednesday
OPPOSITION MDC-T youths have threatened mass protests on Wednesday to force the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) to reform the electoral roadmap and increase voter registration centres, particularl...Published: 10 Jul 2017 at 06:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Mugabe is the Vice Chancellor of African dictators'
Africa has been captured by vicious dictators who hindered progress, violated rights of citizens, some maimed and killed fellow countrymen of which President Mugabe is the Pope of this bunch, People's...Published: 26 May 2017 at 10:16hrs | | by PDP Communications
This nonsense about Mthwakazi is just that - flatulent nonsense
ONE quote which high school history pupils in this country spout out with remarkable ease is one attributed to Otto von Bismarck, the German aristocrat and leader who is credited with the unification ...Published: 14 May 2017 at 14:50hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
Hakainde Hichilema arrest barbaric
The PDP condemns the recent arrest of United Party for National Development Hakainde Hichilema who has charged with treason for allegedly obstructing the motorcade of President Edgar Lungu; we view th...Published: 19 Apr 2017 at 11:59hrs | | by Willias Madzimure
Lungu now using repressive state apparatus like Mugabe
The PDP condemns the recent arrest of United Party for National Development Hakainde Hichilema who has charged with treason for allegedly obstructing the motorcade of President Edgar Lungu; we...Published: 19 Apr 2017 at 10:38hrs | | by Willias Madzimure
Zimbabwean philathropists and educationist Tsitsi Masiyiwa, received the New African Woman Award in Education
DAKAR, Senegal - The fearless Gambian human rights activist won New African Woman magazine's Woman of the Year Award (http://NAW-Forum.com) at the their Award ceremony that took place in Dakar last ni...Published: 13 Apr 2017 at 18:56hrs | | by APO
In Zimbabwe Elections Will Never Be a Tool to Change Government for As Long As Zanu Is in Power
Introduction: Who Really Is Zanu? A political organization that timely took an opportunity to talk right language at the right time on the need to fight...Published: 31 Mar 2017 at 00:13hrs | 10 | by Andrew Manyevere
Failure to establish a Grand coalition will be catastrophic for Zimbabwe
Coalitions have been known to win elections against some of the most brutal dictatorships in the world from the likes of Augusto Pinochet of Chile to the recent ousting of the Gambian dictator, Yahya ...Published: 28 Mar 2017 at 08:57hrs | 1 | by Kingstone Jambawo
SADC must act on the Zimbabwean crisis
The People's Democratic Party urges SADC to act on the concerns of the Zimbabwean people instead of adopting the current passive by-standing approach.A crisis has been brewing in Zimbabwe for ...Published: 27 Mar 2017 at 11:17hrs | | by Jacob Mafume
Around claims of a dying Zanu-PF
One question many of my readers pose and even criticise me for is taking contrary thoughts too seriously. I fully understand where my readers are coming from. We have become a virtual community of opi...Published: 19 Mar 2017 at 07:23hrs | 2 | by Nathaniel Manheru
Malema urges African leaders to tell Mugabe to go
South Africa's Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader, Julius Malema has urged the Southern African Development Community (SADC) leaders to gather courage and tell President Robert Mugabe to say h...Published: 08 Mar 2017 at 08:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Who am I to pick my own successor, Cdes?
Dear Cabinet and Politburo members COMRADES, for a very long time, I have been asked when I would start grooming my successor.I remember at one time being tempted to compromise on...Published: 23 Feb 2017 at 10:13hrs | | by CZ
Call for UN action on Zimbabwe
With Zimbabwe now in the dangerous pre-election stage, the Vigil is submitting a petition to the UN Secretary General calling for action to avert violence and ensure a level playing field.The ...Published: 12 Feb 2017 at 20:29hrs | | by Zimbabwe Vigil
Mugabe and Mnangagwa should be arrested in Matopo for Gukurahundi
As Zimbabwean dictator prepares to celebrate his 93rd birthday in Matopo - most of his life having been spent in a murderous career - the people in Matebeleland, who were directly affected by his butc...Published: 09 Feb 2017 at 09:09hrs | | by Kudakwashe Marangwanda
Dog that killed Gambian president's son put down
BANJUL - A dog that killed a young son of the Gambian president Adama Barrow has undergone a fatal injection, according to the veterinary unit of the country's Ministry of Agriculture.Seven-ye...Published: 03 Feb 2017 at 06:35hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Tendai Biti insists on coalition
Former Finance minister in the government of national unity Tendai Biti, who now leads the People's Democratic Party (PDP), has insisted that a coalition of opposition political parties ahead of n...Published: 30 Jan 2017 at 16:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Adopt Gambian, Kenyan style of resistance against Zanu-PF'
PEOPLE's Democratic Party leader, Tendai Biti has challenged fellow opposition leaders to adopt the Gambian and Kenyan style of resistance against the Zanu-PF regime and demand media and electoral...Published: 30 Jan 2017 at 05:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Smooth power transfer, nightmare for Zim- Mutodi
The Controversial Zanu PF youth member Energy Mutodi has said the smooth power transfer ideology is a serious nightmare for Zimbabwe amid concerns that Zanu PF would not allow any party which wins ele...Published: 27 Jan 2017 at 05:20hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Malema is right!
Watching news on ZTV yesterday (24/1/17) I saw ZANU PF leaders lambasting the leader of the Economic Freedom Fighters Julius Malema for suggesting that Mugabe must step down and hand over the leadersh...Published: 25 Jan 2017 at 12:17hrs | | by Nkosilathi Emmanuel Moyo Snr
Sadc must use Ecowas way to tackle Mugabe
Following Ecowas' sustained pressure that has forced Gambia's former authoritarian leader Yahya Jammeh into exile in Equatorial Guinea after his crushing poll defeat, analysts and opposition parties s...Published: 24 Jan 2017 at 06:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZUNDE challenges SADC to learn from The Gambia
An official statement by Zimbabweans United for Democracy published under the authority of Justice Benjamin Paradza, Exiled Judge of the High Court of Zimbabwe and President of ZUNDE.There...Published: 22 Jan 2017 at 14:57hrs | | by May. Chamboko
This and that with Mal'phosa - Yes No, maybe
Hey boys, how does it feel to have a girl say 'Yes' now and then 'No' after a day or two or after week? Remember how devastating it was or it is? I can think of three of my friends abazi hilelayo beca...Published: 22 Jan 2017 at 11:10hrs | 1 | by Clerk ndlovu
Zimbabweans look to the Gambia with envy
"We need an Ecowas in southern Africa!"According to ...Published: 21 Jan 2017 at 21:18hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai & Co now appreciate rule of law, Cdes
Dear Cabinet and Politburo membersCOMRADES, I am happy that the courts have started showing in a practical way that there is rule of law in this country. I was very pleased that three of Morga...Published: 15 Dec 2016 at 05:40hrs | | by CZ
Will Mugabe ever wish opposition well?- analyst
A political commentator Tinashe Rudhumbu has questioned if President Robert Mugabe in his life time will ever wish the opposition political parties well considering the escalating retribut...Published: 04 Dec 2016 at 11:44hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
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