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Grace Mugabe swindled
FORMER First Lady Grace Mugabe was swindled of US$42 000 by her accountant, Jabulani Cornerstone Dumbura who worked at her Highfield Farm in Norton.Dumbura was yesterday arraigned before Harar...Published: 27 May 2022 at 06:47hrs | 554 | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe's accountant up for fraud
An accountant at former First Lady Grace Mugabe's Foundation has appeared in court on allegations of defrauding her of US$42 636.Jabulani Cornerstone Dumbura (37), who also manages Mugabe's Hi...Published: 27 May 2022 at 06:38hrs | 118 | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere accused of being arrogant and disrespectful to Mnangagwa
Zanu-PF has shut its doors on exiled former minister Saviour Kasukuwere, accusing him of being arrogant and disrespectful to party leader President Emmerson Mnangagwa.Kasukuwere fled the count...Published: 26 May 2022 at 06:29hrs | 4127 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF leadership snubs hero Maunganidze's burial
President of the Chiefs' Council Chief Fortune Charumbira has breathed fire after Zanu-PF Masvingo provincial leadership snubbed the burial of late top civil servant Dr Sylvester Maunganidze at the la...Published: 21 May 2022 at 18:35hrs | 1572 | by Staff reporter
Chinotimba apologises to Mnangagwa
UNDERFIRE loudmouth Buhera South Member of Parliament Joseph Chinotimba has reportedly apologised to President Emmerson Mnangagwa over a leaked video in which he was heard attacking him for allegedly ...Published: 20 May 2022 at 06:34hrs | 13490 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's empire is collapsing like a castle built on sand
What you need to know:‘Gucci Grace' will, however, still live comfortably for the rest of her life even if the businesses that her husband left her collapse, as post-coup law ensures that sh...Published: 13 May 2022 at 19:14hrs | 3015 | by Staff reporter
Why Mnangagwa has turned to Angel, Java and Makandiwa?
With less than a year and two months before Zimbabwe holds its highly anticipated 2023 Presidential elections, President Mnangagwa has of late turned for support from self-styled Prophets and Papa's i...Published: 27 Apr 2022 at 14:38hrs | 3490 | by Knowledge Hakata - Political Analyst
Zanu-PF faces 2023 polls defeat under Mnangagwa
Zanu-PF is facing the risk of losing the 2023 elections if it fails to reform and deploy a new candidate to replace President Emmerson Mnangagwa whose popularity in and out of the party is waning, a f...Published: 15 Apr 2022 at 19:22hrs | 2751 | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe frets over son's unholy alliances
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe's widow, Grace, is fretting over her son Robert Jnr's newfound acquaintances who have nudged him into embracing his father's "tormentors" in Zanu-PF, amid fears he is being exp...Published: 08 Apr 2022 at 09:23hrs | 2926 | by Staff reporter
Ex-UZ boss trial moved to June
THE trial of former University of Zimbabwe (UZ) vice-chancellor Levy Nyagura on charges of corruptly issuing former First Lady Grace Mugabe a doctorate was yesterday postponed to June 24.Nyagu...Published: 02 Apr 2022 at 07:02hrs | 178 | by Staff reporter
By-elections: The morning after
ZANU-PF's Wednesday St Mary's rally was a turning point in several ways. Of course, the most obvious marker were the numbers that attended, something even the blind could see and feel.I cannot...Published: 26 Mar 2022 at 06:14hrs | 383 | by @Jamwanda2
Mnangagwa loses key allies as Kasukuwere plots comeback
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has lost the support of some of his key allies including Local Government minister July Moyo who have stood with him throughout his political rise but are now being sideli...Published: 19 Mar 2022 at 07:23hrs | 11239 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's children stand their ground
CHILDREN of the late Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe have maintained that the traditional leaders who ordered the exhumation of their father's remains have no legal right to do so.This emerge...Published: 18 Mar 2022 at 05:41hrs | 4770 | by Staf reporter
Mugabe exhumation case struck off roll
THE High Court has removed from the roll a case where former First Lady Grace Mugabe is challenging an order to exhume the remains of her late husband former President Robert Mugabe for reburial at th...Published: 17 Mar 2022 at 06:53hrs | 2974 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa agents hunt for Jonathan Moyo
From fierce clashes in the Zanu-PF politburo meetings after a bitter political fallout over a hotly contested leadership succession during the late former president Robert Mugabe's rule to resorting t...Published: 12 Mar 2022 at 19:22hrs | 6996 | by Staff reporter
US sanctions on Zimbabwe serving no purpose
THE United States and European Union have extended sanctions against Zimbabwe by another year amid calls by various stakeholders for a relook at the embargo, which analysts say is no longer serving it...Published: 11 Mar 2022 at 19:54hrs | 673 | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe gets lucrative Zimsec deal
THE Zimbabwe Schools Examinations Council (Zimsec) is hiring former First Lady Grace Mugabe's elite private school to accommodate examiners marking Ordinary and Advanced Level examinations in a deal s...Published: 08 Mar 2022 at 05:49hrs | 5514 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe opposition urges EU to remove all sanctions
OPPOSITION parties have called for the total lifting of sanctions on Zimbabwe as the country has made tremendous progress in implementing economic and political reforms.In a statement, opposit...Published: 25 Feb 2022 at 07:07hrs | 552 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa makes headway in re-engagement crusade
THE removal of three Zimbabweans from the European Union (EU) sanctions signals the positive strides that the country has made under President Mnangagwa's reengagement policy.Commenting on the...Published: 23 Feb 2022 at 05:42hrs | 221 | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe makes rare public appearance
Grace Mugabe made a rare public appearance on Monday for the burial of her political ally Sarah Mahoka.The 56-year-old widow of former President Robert Mugabe dressed all black as she joined m...Published: 22 Feb 2022 at 07:16hrs | 2907 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF betrays Mahoka denying hero status, says Mliswa
OUTSPOKEN former Mashonaland West Zanu-PF chairman, Temba Mliswa says the late Hurungwe East legislator, Sarah Mahoka, deserved interment at the Mashonaland West Provincial Heroes Acre for her sterlin...Published: 22 Feb 2022 at 05:43hrs | 1935 | by Staff reporter
EU maintains Zimbabwe sanctions, lifts sanctions on Chiwenga, Grace Mugabe
THE European Union (EU) yesterday decried the failure by the Zimbabwean government to improve its human rights record, but lifted long suspended sanctions on two top officials and former First Lady Gr...Published: 22 Feb 2022 at 05:41hrs | 2013 | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe ally Sarah Mahoka dies in car crash
Former Hurungwe East MP Sarah Mahoka has been killed in a car crash, friends said on Thursday.Mahoka, who was in her 50s, died on admission at Karoi Hospital after a vehicle she was travelling...Published: 19 Feb 2022 at 18:42hrs | 2082 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF factions sharpen knives as December congress beckons
ALTHOUGH President Emmerson Mnangagwa seems to have contained his ambitious deputy Constantino Chiwenga, there is growing concern in Zanu-PF that the former military general may challenge for the part...Published: 19 Feb 2022 at 18:36hrs | 254 | by Staff reporter
The magic innovation CCC needs to kick out Zanu
Innovation is a preserve for the young as the old do not know anything different from what they grew up doing. Chamisa's CCC should understand that the other word for Innovation is "Brainchild"....Published: 16 Feb 2022 at 12:44hrs | 1356 | by Ryton Dzimiri
Zanu-PF factions sharpen knives as December congress beckons
ALTHOUGH President Emmerson Mnangagwa seems to have contained his ambitious deputy Constantino Chiwenga, there is growing concern in Zanu-PF that the former military general may challenge for the part...Published: 13 Feb 2022 at 20:47hrs | 972 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's oligarchs: The heirs of Cecil Rhodes
As Zimbabwe's economy has spiralled down, with one million economic refugees in South Africa alone and ordinary people facing shortages of food, fuel, medicine and shelter, there is a class of people ...Published: 08 Feb 2022 at 18:29hrs | 2036 | by Phillip van Niekerk and a Zim-based Research Team
When it gets cold outside Zanu-PF
Last week various social media platforms and some online publications were awash with the news of a meeting in South Africa between former Zanu-PF members namely G40 kingpin, Saviour Kasukuwere, expel...Published: 27 Jan 2022 at 04:37hrs | 848 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Kasukuwere dares Mnangagwa
Exiled former cabinet minister Saviour Kasukuwere last week declared himself a thorn in the flesh of Zanu-PF and dared President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his government to arrest him.Kasukuwere ...Published: 23 Jan 2022 at 08:05hrs | 4906 | by Staff reporter
Temba Mliswa showers praises on Jabulani Sibanda
Norton Member of Parliament Temba Mliswa has heaped praises on ZANU PF Bulawayo Province Chairperson elect Jabulani Sibanda calling him a workhorse who will revive the party in the province. W...Published: 03 Jan 2022 at 19:17hrs | 3207 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa seeks to pacify G40 cabal with Robert Mugabe awards
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration has announced plans to honour the late former strongman Robert Mugabe by launching an award in his name.However, the decision has been described b...Published: 03 Jan 2022 at 06:02hrs | 3049 | by Staff reporter
Govt launches Robert Mugabe awards
GOVERNMENT has announced plans to honour the late former President Robert Mugabe by launching an award in his name.Mugabe died a bitter man in September 2019 in Singapore where he was receivin...Published: 03 Jan 2022 at 05:58hrs | 1646 | by Staff reporter
Disputed elections bad for Zimbabwe, says Clerics
Zanu-PF-ALIGNED clerics yesterday described disputed elections as bad and divisive, but stoked controversy by saying the State House should not be occupied by unpatriotic politicians, in reference to ...Published: 28 Dec 2021 at 07:18hrs | 546 | by Staff reporter
Makamba disqualified from Zanu-PF Chairmanship race
THE Zanu-PF Politburo has disqualified tycoon James Makamba from contesting the party's Mashonaland Central provincial chairman post after security chiefs gave a damning verdict on his candidature, de...Published: 22 Dec 2021 at 04:43hrs | 620 | by Staff reporter
Makamba candidature worries security chiefs
THE country's security chiefs are sweating over the possibility of tycoon James Makamba becoming Mashonaland Central provincial chairman for Zanu-PF after he reportedly submitted his CV for the positi...Published: 20 Dec 2021 at 19:12hrs | 2096 | by Staff reporter
Mystery deaths deepen in Zimbabwe
DEATH is never easy and, whenever it strikes, the grief it causes is traumatic for family and friends who would have lost a loved one.This encounter with mortality always leaves the surviving ...Published: 04 Dec 2021 at 18:49hrs | 99 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans' own political myopia and desperation underpin their continued suffering
This morning I was planning to write an article imploring our veterans of the liberation struggle to revert to their 1960s and 1970s unrelenting resolve - anchored by unquestionable patriotism and uns...Published: 24 Nov 2021 at 16:04hrs | 2 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe's 2017 coup coalition collapses
THE fact that Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga is contemplating challenging President Emmerson Mnangagwa for the Zanu-PF presidency at the party's elective congress next year, while factions loyal ...Published: 22 Nov 2021 at 06:17hrs | 39 | by Staff reporter
Booze, partying for Mnangagwa, Zanu-PF in Glasgow
TROLLEYS of high-end whisky were bought in Glasgow, Scotland by Zanu-PF supporters based in the United Kingdom (UK) as they celebrated the arrival of President Emmerson Mnangagwa Sunday.The UK...Published: 01 Nov 2021 at 07:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
G40 ghost haunts warring Zanu-PF
Zanu-PF yesterday said the term G40 was being abused in the party's factional fights and restructuring exercise with losers resorting to accusing victors of being aligned to the grou...Published: 31 Oct 2021 at 07:14hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF's 2017 post-coup minutes made public
IN the aftermath of the High Court application by Zanu-PF member Sybeth Musengezi challenging President Emmerson Mnangagwa's legitimacy, minutes of the central committee meeting held on 19 November 20...Published: 30 Oct 2021 at 15:05hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Fugitive R10m fraudster nabbed, faces extradition
CORDIAL relations between Zimbabwe and South Africa have led to the arrest of a fugitive who swindled a South African company of over R10 million, jumped bail and later sneaked into Zimbabwe where he ...Published: 30 Oct 2021 at 12:51hrs | 6 | by Staff Reporter
Minister defies court orders hires police for protection
Minister of state and provincial affairs for Mashonaland Central province Monica Mavhunga reportedly defied a High Court order which barred her from occupying Rosemary Chidhakwa's farm in Mazowe....Published: 28 Oct 2021 at 18:57hrs | 105 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Mnangagwa's ignorance on economics: Mthuli Ncube his best Boss ever
Even Mnangagwa's law degree is questioned by many. If Mnangagwa had a slender idea how the economy works, they would never launder money to Chinese banks in billions of dollars. He would know that kis...Published: 15 Oct 2021 at 18:45hrs | 9 | by Nomazulu Thata
Zimbabwe slips into election mode
Zimbabwe is in perpetual election mode because of disputed poll outcomes, analysts have said, as political parties start to run visible campaigns ahead of the 2023 contest.Both the ruling Zanu...Published: 10 Oct 2021 at 06:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe tells of 'intense mental torture'
Robert Mugabe's widow says her family has been subjected to "intense mental torture" over attempts to exhume and rebury the late former president against the family's wishes.Grace Mugabe, 56, ...Published: 05 Oct 2021 at 06:46hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Grace approaches High Court over Mugabe exhumation
FORMER First Lady Grace Mugabe yesterday filed a High Court application seeking to challenge an order by a Chinhoyi magistrate to exhume the remains of her late husband, former President Robert Mugabe...Published: 05 Oct 2021 at 06:43hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Mugabe's bitter, vengeful spirit decimating foes'
THE late former president Robert Mugabe's family claims his spirit is causing the death of his tribesmen who are at the forefront of the exhumation of his remains.Mugabe's body was buried at h...Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:22hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa and dodgy Zanu-PF characters
WHEN Zanu-PF activist Marx Mupungu filed a Constitutional Court (ConCourt) application in June seeking to quash the High Court judgment by the three brave judges who had barred Chief Justice Malaba fr...Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:21hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe burial saga in bizarre twist
Former president Robert Mugabe's family says his spirit is fighting back after "mysterious" deaths and illnesses hit families of some traditional leaders that were pushing for the exhumation of the la...Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
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