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Illegal lithium exports undermine Zimbabwe's mineral wealth
In 2023, Peter, a truck driver, approached a border checkpoint between Zimbabwe and Mozambique carrying a sealed container he believed held chrome, a mineral listed on the shipment paperwork. Having t...Published: 10 Jul 2025 at 09:00hrs | 236 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo uninspired by Zanu-PF 'love-fest'
ZANU-PF leaders, functionaries, and activists are set to begin arriving in Bulawayo today for the party's 21st National People's Conference, which kicks off tomorrow at the ZITF grounds and runs until...Published: 22 Oct 2024 at 08:02hrs | 447 | by Staff reporter
'Ndema Ngwenya foretold present political, cultural, language crisis'
Describing Mthandazo Ndema Ngwenya simply as a novelist would be an understatement, as his intellectual work, political activism, and academic contributions foretold many of the political, cultural, a...Published: 19 Oct 2024 at 12:10hrs | 342 | by Staff reporter
The politics of Zimbabwe's land reform: winners and losers
The political debates about the rights and wrongs of Zimbabwe's land reform continue to occupy many.The tired, old obsession about how the land was taken and the associated focus on so-called ...Published: 31 Mar 2024 at 16:34hrs | 3 | by Ian Scoones
Ministry stalls BCC recruitments
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) is seriously understaffed and efforts to recruit professionals to fill vacant posts have hit a brick wall as the Local Government ministry has ignored the local authority's...Published: 06 Dec 2023 at 19:01hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
REVEALED: How Chamisa begged VP Chiwenga to talk to Mnangagwa on his behalf
The leader of the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) and presidential candidate, Nelson Chamisa, made an attempt to engage Vice President Constantino Chiwenga in a meeting with President Emmerson...Published: 16 Oct 2023 at 16:36hrs | 10 | by Nkululeko Nkomo
'Zimbabwe's Chapter 12 institutions not independent'
Public researchers have asserted that so-called independent institutions, including the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) and other constitutional Chapter 12 entities, lack genuine independence and ...Published: 14 Sep 2023 at 11:04hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
'Tough laws stall Zapu campaigns'
ZAPU'S Nkulumane constituency candidate Andrew Ndlovu claims his campaigns were being crippled by the country's tough laws against foreign funding of political parties.Ndlovu said the law was ...Published: 18 Aug 2023 at 06:56hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
51% voters willing to be bribed in Zimbabwe
A RECENT study by a local think-tank, Public Policy and Research Institute of Zimbabwe (PPRIZ) shows that 51% of citizens are willing to be bribed to influence who they vote for.As the country...Published: 14 Aug 2023 at 06:29hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
77% of Zimbabwean voters want change - survey
AT LEAST 77% of registered voters in Zimbabwe want change of government, according to a latest survey by a local research institute.A recent survey commissioned by the Public Policy and Resear...Published: 09 Aug 2023 at 08:08hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
'Parties must adhere to Zec code of conduct'
POLITICAL leaders and civil society activists have been urged to play a leading role in fostering peace and denouncing violence ahead of next month's general elections.The call was made on Fri...Published: 25 Jul 2023 at 06:45hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa a crude tribalist'
Deputy Prime Minister (DPM) in the 2009-13 Government of National Unity (GNU), Arthur Mutambara, has sensationally claimed that the late former President Robert Mugabe was a sophisticated tribalist wh...Published: 06 Jun 2023 at 06:54hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Zanu-PF chefs have title deeds for grabbed farms'
FORMER Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara has sensationally claimed that all top Zanu-PF chefs have acquired title deeds to the farms they grabbed from white former farmers at the height of the la...Published: 05 Jun 2023 at 06:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Uproar over Mnangagwa's US$54m jet
ZIMBABWEANS have angrily reacted to reports that President Emmerson Mnangagwa has acquired a US$54 million presidential jet — a Dassault Falcon 7X , at a time the majority of the population is wallo...Published: 01 May 2023 at 08:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube 'snubs' Gukurahundi programmes
HUMAN rights activists in Bulawayo have expressed concern over the failure by Finance minister Mthuli Ncube to fund Gukurahundi national healing programmes.This is despite the launching of a G...Published: 06 Dec 2022 at 05:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Beyond Beijing's 'gift' to Zimbabwe
On November 23, 2022, the President of Zimbabwe, Emmerson Mnangagwa gave the state of the nation address at the new iconographic parliament building that was designed, funded, built and "donated" by C...Published: 04 Dec 2022 at 08:12hrs | 2 | by Gorden Moyo
UBH cancels 21 inflated tenders
THE United Bulawayo Hospitals (UBH) has cancelled 21 out of 34 tenders flighted this year to ensure that the Government is not fleeced, but gets value for money after some of the suppliers had highly ...Published: 20 Oct 2022 at 05:57hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Muchinguri under fire over army company operations
DEFENCE minister Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri was on Wednesday cornered by independent Norton MP Temba Mliswa over the opaque investments and business dealings of army-owned company Rusununguko Nkululeko ...Published: 20 Aug 2022 at 17:06hrs | 73 | by Staff reporter
Illegal miners threaten railway tracks
SMALL-scale chrome miners have invaded Mapanzure area in Zvishavane, Midlands Province, where they are conducting illegal mining activities along the Gweru-Zvishavane railway line, amid growing fears ...Published: 10 Aug 2022 at 06:31hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo praises Obert Mpofu...slams Coltart
Professor Jonathan Moyo has praised ZANU PF Secretary for Administration Obert Mpofu for getting Zimbabwe approved in the Kimberly Process Certification Scheme (KPSC). Moyo made the remarks in...Published: 08 Jun 2022 at 13:31hrs | 11 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa, Chamisa in secretive GNU talks
SECRETIVE coalition talks are underway between Zanu-PF leader, President Emmerson Mnangagwa, and Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) front man Nelson Chamisa with the aim of forming a seven-year gover...Published: 15 Apr 2022 at 09:05hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa govt's fake mega-deals raised false hopes
IN the run-up to the 30 July 2018 elections, President Emmerson Mnangagwa repeatedly claimed that Zimbabwe had attracted investment commitments amounting to over US$16 billion since he took over power...Published: 18 Sep 2021 at 19:38hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
IMF approves SDR for Zimbabwe, Biti will not be happy
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has approved a new general allocation of Special Drawing Rights (SDR) equivalent to US$650 billion, the largest in the IMF's history, in an effort to boost global...Published: 04 Aug 2021 at 06:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Give AG power to prosecute, enforce accountability,' says Moyo
FORMER State Enterprises and Parastatals minister Gorden Moyo has called on Zimbabwe to change its statutes and ensure that the country's Auditor-General's Office is bestowed with prosecuting powers t...Published: 27 Jul 2021 at 07:13hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Amend recall legislation, say lawyers
LEGAL experts have called for the amendment of section 129(1) (k) of the Constitution, saying recalls of legislators and councillors were an anathema to democracy.Under the section, legislator...Published: 15 Apr 2021 at 07:26hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Biti cries fraud over parliament recall
MDC Alliance co-vice-president Tendai Biti says his purported recall, together with several other MPs, at the behest of a "political nonentity" Benjamin Rukanda, who once belonged to his breakaway Peo...Published: 23 Mar 2021 at 08:13hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
'Biti must not be expelled from Parliament'
Zanu-PF is determined to establish a one-party state similar to the Chinese model, former People's Democratic Party (PDP) secretary-general Gorden Moyo said on Thursday.Moyo spoke a day after ...Published: 19 Mar 2021 at 09:31hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Stray hippo gunned down
Officials from the Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority have gunned down a stray hippo in Zvishavane rural after it claimed the life of one villager.Runde Rural District chief exec...Published: 16 Feb 2021 at 17:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Create independent COVID-19 fund'
GOVERNMENT should create an independent COVID-19 fund to cater for the pandemic expenditures, former State Enterprises and Parastatals minister Gorden Moyo has said.Speaking during a virtual Z...Published: 05 Feb 2021 at 06:44hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'RBZ keeps black market guessing over $50 note'
ZIMBABWE'S markets are struggling to work out the full impact of a Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) move to inject a $50 note, which it sees as vital for stemming a dire liquidity crunch, according to r...Published: 22 Jan 2021 at 06:42hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
MDC infighting timeline 2014 - 2020
AS the drama of recalls of MPs and councillors continues to unravel within the strife-torn opposition MDC, we trace the roots of the crisis back to May 2014 when the party was deeply divided before an...Published: 19 Dec 2020 at 16:40hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
New twist to Zesa bigwigs' case
THE lawyer representing former Zesa chief executive officer Joshua Chifamba last week cornered the investigation officer Energy Mundandishe into making concessions which are likely to affect the State...Published: 18 Jun 2019 at 07:57hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
How 'baby-dumping' Joice Mujuru played out
The first quarter of 2014 revealed that the main opposition party, the MDC-T, was in a similar state of disarray.It first came to the surface when MDC-T deputy treasurer and former cabinet min...Published: 10 Mar 2019 at 09:10hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Ndebeles will never rule Zimbabwe'
Now that I have your attention may I say that Im very disappointed with some Ndebele fools who have been flooding my inbox with insults saying that I am a sponsored Zanu PF thug.I will underst...Published: 06 Nov 2018 at 11:45hrs | 5 | by Rabson Mwenda
Motlanthe Commission flies into Gukurahundi storm
THE Kgalema Motlanthe led Commission of Inquiry into the ill-fated August 1 post-election demonstrations is certain to fly into a Gukurahundi storm this Friday as it takes its public hearings into the...Published: 26 Oct 2018 at 12:24hrs | 1 | by NewZimbabwe.Com
'Zimbabwe should look beyond US'
FORMER State Enterprises and Parastatals Minister Dr Gorden Moyo says the Government should not read much into the sanctions imposed on it by the United States of America but seek various ways of revi...Published: 09 Sep 2018 at 08:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Saboteurs behind price increases
PRICE increases that were reported in the country last week were being fuelled by political and economic speculators who were aiming at scuttling the acceptance of President Mnangagwa's new Cabinet, a...Published: 09 Sep 2018 at 08:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mujuru's coalition maps way forward
THE People's Rainbow Coalition (PRC) is reportedly meeting to map the forward or merge into one political party following its poor showing in the July 30 harmonised elections, but indications are that...Published: 29 Aug 2018 at 06:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance performed well in the Zim Elections
A political commentator Dr Geneva Sibanda has said MDC Alliance performed very very well considering that they wer competing with a state oiled machinery using state funds and personnel to boost their...Published: 05 Aug 2018 at 09:20hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Mujuru tells candidates to fund their campaigns
People's Rainbow Coalition (PRC) presidential candidate Joice Mujuru has ordered her council and parliamentary candidates to fund their own campaigns ahead of next weeks' elections.In correspo...Published: 27 Jul 2018 at 08:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Poll surveys dubious, say Mujuru coalition
People's Rainbow Coalition (PRC) has dismissed the recent poll surveys which have literally thrown them out of the election race, in the process concluding it to be a two-horse race pitting the MDC Al...Published: 20 Jun 2018 at 15:48hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mujuru frets over lack of media coverage
People's Rainbow Coalition (PRC) has expressed disappointment over unfair coverage from both the public and private media in a development the grouping said violates statutes of the Electoral Law whic...Published: 19 Jun 2018 at 15:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mujuru says, 'victory is certain'
PEOPLE'S Rainbow Coalition (PRC) presidential candidate, Joice Mujuru, yesterday said she was ready to break new records of becoming the country's first female president after winning next month's pre...Published: 18 Jun 2018 at 07:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mujuru releases names of some of her candidates
THE People's Rainbow Coalition (PRC) led by Dr Joice Mujuru has completed candidates' selection in five of the country's 10 provinces with the process expected to be concluded on Friday.PRC is...Published: 06 Jun 2018 at 07:08hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mujuru launches election manifesto
The People's Rainbow Coalition (PRC) yesterday launched its 2018 election manifesto at Dotito business centre in Mashonaland Central province.All five political parties under the PRC banner na...Published: 20 May 2018 at 19:35hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Matibenga endorses Mujuru
LUCIA Matibenga, leader of the breakaway faction of the People's Democratic Party (PDP), recently opened up on how she was hounded out of the MDC-T led by the late Morgan Tsvangirai.Matibenga ...Published: 07 May 2018 at 07:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tshinga Dube, former PA square off in Makokoba
MAKOKOBA legislator Tshinga Dube (Zanu-PF) will face a stiff challenge from his former personal assistant Nothiwani Dlodlo who is contesting the primaries to gain a ticket to represent the party in th...Published: 27 Apr 2018 at 20:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mujuru rolls out umbrella campaigns
THE People's Rainbow Coalition (PRC) led by former Vice-President Joice Mujuru has launched its campaign for the 2018 elections and was working on fielding 210 candidates and 1 958 councillors....Published: 21 Apr 2018 at 11:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mujuru's PRC promises economic boom in first 100 days in power
The People's Rainbow Coalition (PRC) led by Joice Mujuru has said if elected into power, the country will experience rapid economic boom which is based on its 10 pledges.PRC secretary-general ...Published: 22 Mar 2018 at 06:02hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mujuru meets Sadc election advisory team
People's Rainbow Coalition (PRC) principals last week led a high-powered delegation to meet the Southern Africa Development Community Election Advisory Committee (SEAC).According to PRC inform...Published: 20 Mar 2018 at 06:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
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