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'Mnangagwa is not a magician' says ZANU PF MP
ZANU PF Member of Parliament for Gokwe-Nembudziya Mayor Justice Wadyajena says President Emmerson Mnangagwa is not a magician and must be allowed more time to fix the economic challenges facing the co...Published: 11 hrs ago | 4727 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chamisa appeals, as High Court throws out congress challenge
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday finally appealed against a High Court judgment which nullified his leadership of the opposition party ahead of the elective congress which starts in Gweru today. Th...Published: 16 hrs ago | 1026 | by Staff reporter
High Court refuses to stop Chamisa's congress
The MDC can now breath a sigh of relief after Justice Edith Mushore refused to grant an interdict stopping the elective Congress which starts on Friday, May 24.This was revealed by the party's...Published: 23 May 2019 at 20:35hrs | 4294 | by Staff reporter
Bid to stop Chamisa's congress
ANOTHER MDC official from Gokwe has filed an urgent chamber application to stop party leader Nelson Chamisa from holding an elective congress that is due to start tomorrow in Gweru.Maureen Taw...Published: 23 May 2019 at 19:23hrs | 1397 | by Staff reporter
Patrick Zhuwawo mocks Mnangagwa's government
Former cabinet minister Patrick Zhuwawo has posted a meme of former President Robert Mugabe on Twitter laughing at President Emmerson Mnangagwa's new dispensation.Zhuwawo was commenting on a p...Published: 23 May 2019 at 10:18hrs | 8060 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'Nothing can stop Chamisa's MDC congress'
A number of analysts believe that it is within the MDC Alliance’s rights to continue with its elective congress because the ruling by the High Court applies to the MDC-T and not the Alliance. This H...Published: 20 May 2019 at 16:28hrs | 2715 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa urges followers not to panic over court ruling
The disputed Movement for Democratic Change leader, Nelson Chamisa, has asked his supporters not to panic over a High Court judgment revoking his leadership of the party....Published: 20 May 2019 at 08:11hrs | 2620 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC burns in Chiwundura
The MDC Chiwundura district leadership wrangle is raging on following protests from lower structures against the leaders elected through consensus by ward chairpersons last week.Ahead of the p...Published: 17 May 2019 at 17:25hrs | 1696 | by Staff reporter
'Cattle herder', denies fighting Chamisa
MDC member Elias Mashavira of Gokwe, the man behind a recent High Court ruling that invalidated Nelson Chamisa's presidency, says he was not against Chamisa being MDC leader but the dangerous preceden...Published: 16 May 2019 at 07:19hrs | 18469 | by Staff reporter
Khupe want Chamisa talks
The succession battle following founding MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai's death in February 2018 took an intriguing turn last week after the High Court ruled that Nelson Chamisa is not the party's legit...Published: 12 May 2019 at 23:23hrs | 5264 | by Staff reporter
Khupe goes after Chamisa?
MDC-T president Dr Thokozani Khupe says last week's High Court ruling, which nullified the ascendency of her bitter rival, Mr Nelson Chamisa to the helm of the party, rightfully placed her back in cha...Published: 12 May 2019 at 06:51hrs | 4284 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa allies sharpening their knives against Mwonzora
Nelson Chamisa's allies are sharpening their knives against MDC Secretary General Douglas Mwonzora whom they link with the High Court ruling that nullified Chamisa's appointment.Reports on Thu...Published: 10 May 2019 at 14:14hrs | 2204 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa sharpening swords against Mudzuri, Mwonzora
LAWYERS for the opposition MDC spent the better part of yesterday studying High Court Judge Justice Edith Mushore's ruling nullifying Nelson Chamisa's leadership of the party in order to give advice o...Published: 10 May 2019 at 14:04hrs | 3658 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC not going back on congress
THE High Court yesterday nullified Nelson Chamisa's MDC presidency and ordered the party to organise an extra-ordinary congress to choose a new leader within a month, but the youthful opposition polit...Published: 09 May 2019 at 18:54hrs | 1855 | by STaff reporter
Chamisa, an illegitimate opposition leader
In politics, legitimacy is the right and acceptance of an authority, usually by a governing law or a regime and it requires one to be certified in accordance with accepted standards of that political ...Published: 09 May 2019 at 15:23hrs | 2333 | by Peacemaker Zano
Latest on Douglas Mwonzora
MDC Secretary General Douglas Mwonzora is not in hiding an MDC senior official has said. The Harare based official who spoke on position of anonymity told this publication the MDC MP has been going on...Published: 09 May 2019 at 15:18hrs | 21868 | by Mandla Ndlovu
5 miners die in mine collapse
FIVE illegal miners died when a tunnel at Nugget Gold Mine in Matobo, Matabeleland South province collapsed while about 15 Amakorokoza were underground. The incident happened on Monday w...Published: 08 May 2019 at 09:13hrs | 1043 | by Staff Reporter
MDC bigwigs fight for survival
THE stage has been set for a bruising fight in the Nelson Chamisa-led MDC as almost all candidates nominated for top positions in the party's standing committee have accepted and are now reaching into...Published: 04 May 2019 at 20:20hrs | 604 | by Staff reporter
MDC district congress re-run in false start
The MDC district congress re-run for Gokwe-Kabuyuni failed to take off in the political hotbed district on Thursday.A re-run was ordered after complaints were raised that Costin Muguti, who wo...Published: 04 May 2019 at 08:06hrs | 1213 | by Sytaff reporter
48-hour water cuts are back in Bulawayo
Reporters THE Bulawayo City Council has with immediate effect re-introduced a 48-hour water shedding schedule in all suburbs amid revelations the city is among areas that will be hit by severe water s...Published: 03 May 2019 at 06:38hrs | 690 | by Staff reporter
MDC Midlands to re-run district congress
MDC Midlands province has been ordered by the party's national organising committee to re-run district congresses where the electoral process was marred by irregularities.Takavafira Zhou, the ...Published: 01 May 2019 at 09:00hrs | 679 | by Staff reporter
Gweru to decommission Gwenoro Dam
Gweru City Council has announced plans to decommission its major supplier, Gwenhoro Dam, by October as the water source is left with only six months' supplies, a senior council official has said....Published: 01 May 2019 at 08:50hrs | 480 | by Staff reporter
Mawarire; Wadyajena clash over Auxilia Mnangagwa
National Patriotic Front Spokesperson Jealousy Mawarire and Gokwe-Nembudziya Member of Parliament Mayor Justice Wadyajena have clashed over the exhibition stand erected by the First Lady Auxilia Mnang...Published: 29 Apr 2019 at 09:49hrs | 9372 | by Mandla Ndlovu
CPU warns of Cyclone Kenneth, landfall
The Civil Protection Unit (CPU) has issued a warning of a tropical storm that is developing into a cyclone named Cyclone Kenneth, which is projected to make a landfall in Tanzania, Mozambique, Malawi ...Published: 25 Apr 2019 at 06:45hrs | 1830 | by Staff reporter
Security guard axes colleague, flees
Police in Mashonaland Central province have launched a manhunt for a security guard, who fled after allegedly struck his colleague with an axe at Glenbroke Farm, Concession on Tuesday last week....Published: 24 Apr 2019 at 07:22hrs | 690 | by Staff reporter
'Corruption and cronyism worrying Mnangagwa' ZANU PF MP says
ZANU PF Member of Parliament for Gokwe-Nembudziya Justice Mayor Wadyajena says President Emmerson Mnangagwa is troubled that the majority problems in the country emanate from corruption and cronyism....Published: 22 Apr 2019 at 16:02hrs | 2456 | by Mandla Ndlovu
MDC Structures keep the dream alive, the Jewel of Africa returns
Julius Mwalimu Kambarage Nyerere referred to Zimbabwe as the jewel of Africa that needed heart and soul to protect it. Decades of independence later, Zanu-PF has changed that view. Zimbabwe has been c...Published: 20 Apr 2019 at 10:05hrs | 1692 | by Jacob Mafume
Man impregnates two married neighbours
A married man from Mangwere Village under Chief Nembudziya in Gokwe left villagers perplexed after he impregnated two of his married neighbours.The illicit relationships came out when 30-year-...Published: 19 Apr 2019 at 07:50hrs | 13818 | by Staff reporter
Renewed bid to stop MDC's elective congress
Gokwe-based Elias Mashavire, represented by lawyer Ashel Mutungura, launched a renewed bid to stop MDC's elective congress and force the party to first deal with an extra-ordinary congress, which they...Published: 18 Apr 2019 at 17:46hrs | 901 | by Staff reporter
'No one will stop our congress' says Chamisa
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa says their congress which is scheduled for May is unstoppable because it is a product politics and not court processes. Chamisa was speaking after the High Court on W...Published: 18 Apr 2019 at 13:28hrs | 4178 | by Mandla Ndlovu
In memory of Zimbabwe's Independence
On 18th April 1980, Zimbabweans celebrated their Independence both from Britain and from the Ian settler state. The celebration was rather muted because it was the little headmaster, Robert Mugabe, wh...Published: 18 Apr 2019 at 11:46hrs | 1013 | by Ngqabutho Mabhena
Chamisa wins as High Court dismisses bid to stop congress
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa heaved a sigh of relief yesterday after the High Court dismissed an urgent chamber application by a Gokwe-based man who had sought to stop the party congress slated for...Published: 18 Apr 2019 at 07:21hrs | 4803 | by Staff reporter
ZANU PF MP fingers criminals in price increase
Gokwe-Nembudziya Member of Parliament Mayor Justice Wadyajena says the increase in prices of basic commodities is engineered by business criminals whose benefit thrives when the masses suffer. ...Published: 17 Apr 2019 at 19:01hrs | 6282 | by Mandla Ndlovu
In politics, there is no free lunch
YESTERDAY, we ran a story on how at least 3 000 families under Chief Misheck Njelele in Gokwe were left homeless after being evicted from their illegal settlements in Chemagora, Sikombela, Bhadha and ...Published: 17 Apr 2019 at 07:10hrs | 547 | by Editorial - Newsday
'I am not a CIO operative,' says Tundiya
SHEPHERD Tundiya, the man described as a con-artist by four legislators that appeared before the Parliamentary Privileges Committee last week facing allegations of soliciting for a $400 000 bribe from...Published: 16 Apr 2019 at 18:38hrs | 2989 | by Staff reporter
Goddard unmasks con-artist Tundiya
BULAWAYO businessman James Goddard, who had interests in coal mining in Hwange, last week narrated before Parliament how a con-artist and businessman Shepherd Tundiya tricked him into believing that h...Published: 16 Apr 2019 at 06:58hrs | 2655 | by Staff reporter
Chief Njelele's subjects evicted by armed soldiers and police
AT least 3 000 families in Chemagora, Sikombela, Bhadha and Sibusiso, under Chief Njelele in Gokwe were left homeless after being evicted from their settlements by armed soldiers and police.Th...Published: 16 Apr 2019 at 06:55hrs | 943 | by Staff reporter
Chief Njelele in court over 'illicit' land deals
A Gokwe traditional leader last week appeared before the courts for his alleged hand in an illicit land deal that took place in 2011. Chief Misheck Njelele (59) allegedly divided a farm in Che...Published: 15 Apr 2019 at 06:39hrs | 623 | by Staff reporter
Plot to derail Chamisa
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa's bid to succeed the party's founding leader Morgan Tsvangirai is in jeopardy after a rival camp approached the High Court seeking to stop theforthcoming congress, citing...Published: 14 Apr 2019 at 10:13hrs | 3071 | by Staff reporter
Another Gatsheni bus crashes
THREE people were injured while 18 others escaped unhurt when a wheel came off a Plumtree-bound bus while it was in motion, police confirmed. The second accident involving a Gatsheni Express bus withi...Published: 12 Apr 2019 at 06:41hrs | 802 | by Staff reporter
Gweru crash victims named, death toll rises to 11
The death toll in the kombi and bus crash that occurred about 25 kilometres outside Gweru on Wednesday evening has risen to 11 after one more person died at Gweru Provincial Hospital yesterday. ...Published: 12 Apr 2019 at 06:37hrs | 750 | by Staff reporter
GMAZ seeks removal of Wadyajena from agric parly committee
The Grain Millers Association of Zimbabwe (GMAZ) is headed for a showdown with the chairperson of the Parliamentary Portfolio on Lands, Agriculture, Water, Climate and Rural Resettlement Honourable Ju...Published: 11 Apr 2019 at 18:58hrs | 997 | by Staff reporter
3 injured in freak bus accident in Plumtree
A PLUMTREE-BOUND Gatsheni Express bus veered off the road on Tuesday and plunged into a dry riverbed after missing a narrow bridge in Bulilima district, Matabeleland North province.Three of th...Published: 11 Apr 2019 at 07:21hrs | 1174 | by Staff reporter
New twist to Hwange bribery saga
THE $400 000 Hwange Colliery bribery saga took a new twist during parliamentary inquiries yesterday after it emerged that Shepherd Tundiya, the linkman between the four MPs implicated in the alleged s...Published: 11 Apr 2019 at 07:15hrs | 1229 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa named in Hwange scam
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa, Vice-President Kembo Mohadi and Justice minister Ziyambi Ziyambi were yesterday named in the ongoing Hwange Colliery saga inquiry being conducted by the Parliamentary Pri...Published: 10 Apr 2019 at 13:48hrs | 2660 | by Staff reporter
Goddard exonerates Mliswa, Ndebele, incriminates Zanu-PF MP
The parliamentary hearing into bribery allegations against four members of the National Assembly started yesterday with the complainant, Mr James Ross Goddard, exonerating Messrs Temba Mliswa and Anel...Published: 10 Apr 2019 at 06:38hrs | 2562 | by Staff reporter
Lawyers derail Parliament committee hearing
ORAL evidence of the Parliamentary Privileges Committee set up to look into a matter involving four legislators affiliated to the Mines Committee who allegedly demanded a $400 000 bribe from businessm...Published: 09 Apr 2019 at 15:23hrs | 649 | by Staff reporter
Highlanders fan dies, 5 others injured in car crash
A HIGHLANDERS Football Club supporter coming from watching the Bosso and Caps United match at Barbourfields Stadium died on the spot while five other people were injured after the vehicles they were t...Published: 09 Apr 2019 at 07:26hrs | 581 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala ordered to step aside in Mliswa Parly probe
Zengeza West legislator and lawyer Mr Job Sikhala was yesterday barred from representing two parliamentarians facing allegations of demanding a $400 000 bribe from a local businessman after the commit...Published: 09 Apr 2019 at 07:18hrs | 343 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF thug convicted for brutal assault at mine
A Kadoma businessman captured assaulting Pedzisai Mangisi of Chief Nemangwe area in Gokwe South for stealing from him in a 45 second video that went viral, has been convicted of assault. Litte...Published: 08 Apr 2019 at 06:36hrs | 630 | by Staff reporter
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