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Zimbabwe's Uhuru celebrations now a stale ritual
GOOD day President Emmerson Mnangagwa,Your Excellency, in my estimation, it was inevitable for the 43rd independence anniversary to be devoid of ceremony. As I see it, even the hosting of the ...Published: 19 Apr 2023 at 18:56hrs | 2 | by Cyprian M Ndawana
Zanu-PF intensifies voter registration
Zanu-PF has intensified the voter mobilisation drive, with Mashonaland West Province's Chegutu district yesterday getting a major boost after taking delivery of an additional 51 bicycles for use....Published: 13 Feb 2023 at 05:16hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Fresh Zimbabwe farm invasions loom
RULING Zanu-PF members have formed a shadowy group dubbed "Land for Economic Development (ED)" to fast-track parcelling out of "unutilised" land to party youths ahead of next year's crunch polls....Published: 12 Dec 2022 at 18:39hrs | 19 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa, Biti and CCC manifestly lack patriotism
While the yellow fever may have gripped the nation, and the youth seems to be captured in the idealistic bankruptcy, the CCC remains the most unpatriotic outfit which uses the current economic stress ...Published: 28 Mar 2022 at 06:45hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Mwazha church grabbers in court for contempt
THE African Apostolic Church (Vapostori veAfrica) led by archbishop Paul Mwazha has dragged its members to the High Court, accusing them of illegally taking over leadership of the church in defiance o...Published: 05 Nov 2021 at 06:49hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
NUST lecturer in aggressive new push to grab Esidakeni Farm
A National University of Technology (NUST) lecturer on Thursday night attempted a forcible takeover of a disputed farm which is currently the subject of a court battle.Dumisani Madzivanyati an...Published: 08 Aug 2021 at 07:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Sydney Malunga's son farm shut down...CIO boss fingered
Dumisani Madzivanyati the alleged ZANU PF functionary and runner of the dreaded Central Intelligence Organisation boss Gatsha Mazithulela has reportedly shut down operations at a farm owned by t...Published: 06 Aug 2021 at 12:11hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zanu-PF official caught in fierce storm over land
A ZANU-PF official in Shangani, Matabeleland South, is allegedly usurping the authority of traditional leaders and the Lands ministry by illegally selling state land to unsuspecting people.In ...Published: 13 Dec 2020 at 08:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF 'regrabbing' Professor Jonathan Moyo's Farm(s)
President ED Mnangagwa shocked the entire globe last week when he threatened to reclaim 16 farms (that were grabbed in the name of land reform) by the family of the former President RG Mugabe. Within ...Published: 22 Jun 2019 at 11:13hrs | | by Don Chigumba
Zimbabwe opposition and lost opportunities
Election 2018 was largely considered a landmark event for the different meanings and opportunities that were attached to it, particularly for the new faces in the presidential race, Emmerson Mnangagwa...Published: 29 Apr 2019 at 06:48hrs | 1 | by Reason Wafawarova
Revolution is the great teacher
Those living in luxury from the exploitation and suffering of others have traditionally always been opposed to emancipation struggles; they continue to be opposed to such struggles by the people today...Published: 22 Apr 2019 at 08:33hrs | 5 | by Reason Wafawarova
A time to impose sanctions on America!
America has imposed a new set of sanctions that must run for the next 12 months against Zimbabwe. This is not new. America has been doing this for the past 18 years since Zimbabwe took the bold but lo...Published: 06 Mar 2019 at 14:47hrs | | by Chigumbu Warikandwa
MDC-Alliance rejects captured Constitutional Court ruling
The MDC notes with grave concern and rejects today's evidently captured decision of the Constitutional Court to endorse a patently sham election and to entrench an illegitimate regime that used brazen...Published: 24 Aug 2018 at 19:59hrs | | by MDC Communications
We are boycotting the elections: Chigumba concede
Enough is enough! We won't be fooled by the current fake democracy any longer! This electoral system is fundamentally undemocratic and a fraud. We have a choice and a right to withhold our vot...Published: 23 Jul 2018 at 07:54hrs | 2 | by Themba Mthethwa
Zimbabwe judges, generals and post-coup dynamics
Soon after the toppling of former president Robert Mugabe in November last year in a coup and the ascendancy of President Emmerson Mnangagwa, High Court judge Charles Hungwe immediately ruled that the...Published: 20 Jul 2018 at 14:50hrs | | by Andrew Kunambura
The immediate aim of the Nov 2017 coup leaders, Mnangagwa & Chiwenga is to put on the garment of legitimacy.
The coup junta led by interim President Mnangagwa and interim vice President Chiwenga seized power from dethroned former president Mugabe insisting that it was a necessary evil to deal with the crimin...Published: 20 Jul 2018 at 06:47hrs | | by Themba Mthethwa
War vets ordered off Tongaat fields
Government has ordered a group of suspected war veterans, who illegally occupied sugarcane plots owned by Tongaat Hulett Zimbabwe, to immediately vacate the land or face the full wrath of the law. The...Published: 28 May 2018 at 07:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa 'protégée' torments Makonde farmer
A SUSPECTED Makonde illegal miner is allegedly abusing President Emerson Mnangagwa's name to torment a resettled farmer, who now has endured illegal gold mining metres from his house.Gibson Li...Published: 24 Mar 2018 at 10:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's nephew guns for Mnangagwa faction
First lady Grace Mugabe on July 30 raised the stakes in Zanu-PF's ugly fight between factions to succeed her 93-year-old husband when she took aim at a faction linked to Vice-President Emmerson Mnanga...Published: 06 Aug 2017 at 13:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Armed men now occupy my farm' - evicted white Zimbabwe farmer
A white Zimbabwean commercial maize and tobacco farmer, Robert Smart, 70, who was evicted from his property by authorities last week has told ...Published: 30 Jun 2017 at 08:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Time to cut Kasukuwere loose'
As the unrelenting pressure being exerted on under-fire Zanu-PF national political commissar Saviour Kasukuwere (pictured) continues to mount, angry war veterans say it is time he is "cut loose" to sa...Published: 26 May 2017 at 14:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF land grabbers face jail term
ZANU-PF youths in Manicaland will face legal action if they proceed with their planned move to illegally grab pieces of council land in Mutare, mayor Tatenda Nhamarare has said.Last week, Zanu...Published: 07 Mar 2017 at 07:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
VP Mnangagwa interview makes troubling reading- Moyo
Higher and Tertiary Education Minister Jonathan Moyo has said the piece that features an interview with Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa was making a troubling reading on many fronts and was terri...Published: 04 Jan 2017 at 05:39hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Let us unite and fight in one corner
MLO condemns in all strongest terms the eviction without compensation, unlawful arrest and mistreatment of the affected poor villagers of Kezi by greedy land looters from Mashonaland to make way f...Published: 26 Sep 2016 at 12:19hrs | 1 | by Israel Dube
New urban land grabbers warned
The Minister of Local Government, Public Works and National Housing Saviour Kasukuwere has warned individuals and groups involved in a new wave of urban land grab to stop the illegal activities forthw...Published: 24 Jun 2016 at 20:11hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe liberation process is a work in progress
War vets have no bigger or smaller stakes than any other Zimbabweans if their sacrifice was genuinely reflective of national interest. Issue nee...Published: 25 Mar 2016 at 07:34hrs | | by Andrew M Manyevere
Cabinet decision on companies exposes international reengagement
Cabinet on Tuesday the 22rd of March 2016, after a record 13 hour meeting, took a drastic decision to close all foreign companies that would not have complied with the Indigenization and Economic Empo...Published: 24 Mar 2016 at 14:23hrs | | by Willias Madzimure - PDP Secretary for International Relations
Mugabe endorsement of Zhuwao vindicates PDP
President Robert Mugabe's endorsement of his nephew and Minister of Indigenisation Patrick Zhuwao's controversial and meaningless directive to close all foreign companies which have not complied with ...Published: 24 Mar 2016 at 11:18hrs | | by Vince Musewe - PDP Finance and Economic Affairs Secretary
PDP condemns government’s threat to close foreign companies
The Tendai Biti led party, People's Democratic Party (PDP), has condemned what it called shocking and reckless announcement by Patrick Zhuwao, the youth, indigenisation and economic empowerment ...Published: 21 Mar 2016 at 13:01hrs | | by Thobekile Zhou
A Nation off the radar: #ZanuPFMustFall
The nauseating and stomach-churning duplicity is that when it comes to Robert Mugabe and Zanu-PF what is good for the goose is not high-quality for the gander - is always tellingly displayed by the tw...Published: 05 Nov 2015 at 10:15hrs | | by Tapiwa Diamond Chadya
War veterans barred from demonstrating
ANTI-riot police yesterday barred Matabeleland South war veterans from demonstrating against Umzingwane District Administrator, Bekithemba Ndlovu and Zanu-PF district coordinator, Sidojiwe Sigola whom...Published: 05 Feb 2015 at 06:52hrs | | by Oswell Moyo
'Mugabe knew his enemies very well'
Zanu-PF has witnessed unprecedented drama leading to the Zanu-PF 6th National People's Conference that has seen allegations of treason leveled against Vice President...Published: 07 Dec 2014 at 21:19hrs | | by Shingirai Huni
Zanu-PF land grabbers slow down
Defiant Zanu-PF youths have slowed down their fight to illegally grab land in the outskirts of the city. The youths riding under the name Youth in Farming Organisation in Zimbabwe have for...Published: 07 Oct 2014 at 07:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
The people are looking for honest leaders and freedom fighters
Zimbabweans United for Democracy (ZUNDE) welcomes the inundation we have experienced so far due to the volume of inquiries and requests for membership we have received. I am happy to discuss who w...Published: 06 Oct 2014 at 06:14hrs | | by Farai Mbira President, ZUNDE
Zanu-PF invades Dabengwa's farm
SCORES of militant Zanu-PF supporters have invaded Zapu leader Dumiso Dabengwa's Rudy Farm in Nyamandlovu, Matabeleland North claiming he is underutilising it..The Zanu-PF supporters from vari...Published: 07 Aug 2014 at 06:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Involve disabled people in decision making'
Harare - People with disabilities often get sidelined in decision making and suffer discrimination within their families and communities that there live in, it has emerged.This came to lig...Published: 18 Jun 2014 at 11:07hrs | | by Portia Sigauke
Zimbabwe property grabbers face imprisonment
Relatives who grab properties of deceased people under the guise of cultural norms face up to two years imprisonment according to the law.According to Section 10 of the Deceased Person's Famil...Published: 14 Jan 2014 at 19:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Court drops charges against Mugabe input grabbers
Theft charges against seven Movement for Democratic Change members, arrested in Ward 3, Kazozo in Nyanga North, on Monday after forcefully grabbing farming inputs when a councillor in the area had...Published: 20 Nov 2013 at 17:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Cops heavily descend on land grabbers in Harare
POLICE in Harare yesterday descended heavily and dispersed hundreds of suspected Zanu PF land grabbers who had allocated themselves unserviced residential and commercial stands in the city's high-...Published: 14 Sep 2013 at 06:03hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Tendai Biti lashes out at Zanu-PF mine grabbers
MDC-T secretary-general and Finance minister Tendai Biti has lashed out at top Zanu-PF politicians who have reportedly grabbed mines and other companies saying their actions negatively affected econo...Published: 15 Mar 2013 at 05:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
MPs who owe Zesa should be barred from parliament - MDC MP
An uproar erupted in Parliament yesterday following suggestions by Bikita West MP Heya Shoko that MPs who owed Zesa thousands of dollars in unpaid bills should be barred from Parliament. Shok...Published: 23 Mar 2012 at 13:45hrs | | by Ndou Paul
US plot to discredit Zim security sector, claims state media
On Sunday the state controlled newspaper 'The Sunday Mail' reported that the US Embassy in Harare through its new military attaché, Lieutenant-Colonel Ronald Miller, is allegedly planning to c...Published: 14 Aug 2011 at 05:57hrs | | by Ndou Paul
We have a fresh list of land grabbers: Zimbabwe newspaper
The MDC-T aligned Daily News say it is in possession of a fresh list of who has grabbed what farms in the country which shows that land grabbers now own five million hectares of Zimbabweâ€...Published: 24 Apr 2011 at 08:16hrs | | by Ndou Paul
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