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Cabinet puts state firms up for sale
CABINET on Tuesday resolved to finalise the privatisation of perennial loss-making parastatals and state-owned enterprises by year-end after Finance minister Mthuli Ncube reported that it had become u...Published: 25 Sep 2020 at 07:54hrs | 959 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa implored to unite Zanu-PF
ONE of the founders of Zanu-PF and former Cabinet minister, Rugare Gumbo has reiterated that it is in the best interest of Zimbabwe, President Emmerson Mnangagwa and the ruling party for unity to prev...Published: 23 Sep 2020 at 22:28hrs | 1869 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF's future looks bleak, says Rugare Gumbo
Liberation stalwart Rugare Gumbo says that Zanu-PF's future is bleak without national harmony as he renewed his calls for dialogue both within and outside Zanu-PF. Gumbo said President Mnangag...Published: 23 Sep 2020 at 07:43hrs | 8856 | by Sports reporter
Matabeleland hospitals management accused of abusing local drawn staff
HOSPITAL across Matabeleland region who have management from Mashonaland are reportedly to be rocked by serious tribalism and nepotism with the management being accused of abusing most local drawn mem...Published: 18 Sep 2020 at 14:06hrs | 1770 | by Stephen Jakes
Woman scalds husband with cooking oil
A Redcliff man is lucky to be alive after his wife scalded him with cooking oil following a misunderstanding over gumboots. Mr Benny Chamunorwa (30) of Simbi Park in Redcliff was attacked by h...Published: 16 Sep 2020 at 06:18hrs | 744 | by Staff reporter
Joshua Nkomo's dislike and disdain for Emmerson Mnangagwa
"Nikita ngicela limkhiphe lumfana akalunganga" these are the words uttered by the legendary Zapu and Zipra commander in chief in 1962.He was referring ...Published: 13 Sep 2020 at 09:24hrs | 11807 | by Posiwe Ncube
Mnangagwa clears air on land, SA envoys
Taxpayers' funds will not be used to compensate white former commercial farmers for improvements made on farms, but the money will be sourced externally, President Mnangagwa has said.The Presi...Published: 13 Sep 2020 at 07:02hrs | 668 | by Staff reporter
Temba Mliswa a rumbling tinpot
Temba Mliswa is a political turncoat and ruble rousing attention seeker. September 2014 Temba Mliswa supported Joyce Mujuru and labelled Jonathan Moyo and others as gay gangsters who worked for the CI...Published: 12 Sep 2020 at 06:05hrs | 3285 | by Richard Mthwakazi
Zanu-PF in a countrywide tour to clarify land compensation agreement
The ruling Zanu-PF party has embarked on a countrywide tour to clarify the correct position regarding the land issue.Following the signing of the Global Compensation Agreement on the 29th of J...Published: 07 Sep 2020 at 14:46hrs | 280 | by Staff reporter
Man locks 'cheating' wife in deep freezer
A KWEKWE man got himself into trouble after he forced his wife into a deep freezer filled with water before locking it for some time as punishment for allegedly cheating on him.Lyton Kanda of ...Published: 03 Sep 2020 at 18:43hrs | 3507 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF decides on expelled Mugabe allies' readmission pleas
MIDLANDS based former government ministers and allies to late ex-President Robert Mugabe will know their Zanu-PF membership status when the party's provincial executive meets this week to examine thei...Published: 03 Sep 2020 at 06:08hrs | 2005 | by Staff reporter
'Zanu-PF VIPs sabotaging Mnangagwa'
FORMER Cabinet minister and liberation struggle stalwart, Rugare Gumbo, fears that President Emmerson Mnangagwa is being sabotaged by his senior Zanu-PF colleagues as he toils to fix the country's myr...Published: 31 Aug 2020 at 11:54hrs | 11902 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF's future on the line
Zanu-PF national political commissar Victor Matemadanda has warned that the future of the party is on the line if its bigwigs do not stop their destructive politicking. Addressing Zanu-P...Published: 31 Aug 2020 at 11:53hrs | 3905 | by Staff reporter
'If Zanu PF has failed, vote them out' insist opposition - ballocks, not when they can rig elections
"The (November 2017) coup has been over taken by events and there has been an election in between, the disputed results notwithstanding. It is what it is and now we must focus on getting Zimbabweans t...Published: 18 Aug 2020 at 12:09hrs | 1199 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
US piles more misery on Mnangagwa
INTERNATIONAL pressure continues to pile on President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government to respect human rights, with the United States embassy in Harare also raising concern over the matter yesterday....Published: 17 Aug 2020 at 21:38hrs | 19151 | by Staff reporter
APA tells Zimbabweans to wait for 2023
SINCE the disputed 2018 elections, Zimbabwe has been undergoing difficult circumstances characterised widespread poverty, unemployment, hyperinflation, fuel and drug shortages and the COVID-19 crisis ...Published: 17 Aug 2020 at 07:33hrs | 1092 | by Staff reporter
Jubilation as court frees 7 accused of plotting to remove Mnangagwa
There was jubilation in the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights ranks after a Harare court ended the prosecution of 7 activists who were accused of plotting to remove President Emmerson Mnangagwa. ...Published: 12 Aug 2020 at 11:31hrs | 14862 | by Mandla Ndlovu
How Mnangagwa squandered his goodwill
President Emmerson Mnangagwa addresses ZANU-PF supporters on his return from brief exile in South Africa last NovemberIN the euphoria of Robert Mugabe's fall, Zimbabweans would have done anyth...Published: 08 Aug 2020 at 20:27hrs | 3679 | by newZWire
Renewed push for reforms
NATIONAL Convergence Platform (NCP), a group of churches, civil society organisations, diaspora networks and businesses are pushing for political reforms to be implemented by President Emmerson Mnanga...Published: 08 Aug 2020 at 19:36hrs | 662 | by Staff reporter
Calls for Chinamasa's arrest get louder
HUMAN rights lawyer Agency Gumbo has filed for the arrest of Zanu-PF acting spokesperson Patrick Chinamasa for allegedly inciting ruling party youths to violently crush last Friday's protests....Published: 04 Aug 2020 at 08:23hrs | 6113 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance pushes for Chinamasa arrest
The MDC Alliance has laid a formal criminal complaint against Zanu-PF acting spokesperson for allegedly inciting violence. MDC Alliance youth secretary Agency Gumbo and spokesperson Fadzayi Ma...Published: 03 Aug 2020 at 21:43hrs | 6233 | by Staff reporter
Mum migrates leaving three fatherless children alone with no food
FIFTEEN-year-old Josphat Chibaya (15) dreams of being a soldier and aims at protecting his country in times of trouble, his younger sister Emma (13) wants to ensure we have a healthy nation as she wan...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 08:17hrs | 2929 | by Staff Reporter
Noic, Sakunda sucked in US$17m loan scandal
EXPLOSIVE details show that the state-owned National Oil and Infrastructure Company (Noic) was advanced by Sakunda Holdings US$17,5 million of a US$22,75 million loan agreement to buy out Lonmin's 50%...Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 08:00hrs | 3887 | by Staff reporter
'Take Zanu-PF's threats seriously'
AS POLITICAL tensions in the country continue to rise ahead of Friday's planned protests, analysts have warned the organisers of the demonstrations to take Zanu-PF's warnings about the mass actions se...Published: 29 Jul 2020 at 17:13hrs | 1720 | by Staff reporter
In defence of the July 31, 2020 protests
IN life there is only one constant; that is change. But for Zimbabweans of different generations from that of Father Zimbabwe, through to the born "frees" and the millenniums the common constant is th...Published: 29 Jul 2020 at 13:06hrs | 513 | by Danmore Sithole
MDC Alliance shows police the middle finger...vows to defy ZRP directives
MDC Alliance has written a letter to Zimbabwe Republic Police Spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi informing him that its members will not be reporting to the police after an advert was cir...Published: 28 Jul 2020 at 12:12hrs | 5145 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Exposure of corruption by Dr Alex Magaisa justifies Mthwakazi restoration
Mthwakazi Republic Party MRP which happens to be my party of choice has once again been vindicated by Dr Alex T Magaisa's list of corrupt elites and the Political Exposed Persons "PEPs" as he calls th...Published: 20 Jul 2020 at 18:23hrs | 3352 | by Mbonisi Solomon Gumbo
LIST: 14 COVID-19 positive returnees escape from Beitbridge quarantine centre
14 Covid-19 positive returnees escaped from Beitbridge Covid-19 quarantine centre, bringing the total to 223 of those who have escaped so far from compulsory quarantine for returning residents, with p...Published: 11 Jul 2020 at 18:49hrs | 2993 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe has always had a democracy deficit
DEMOCRACY is an embodiment of governance in which supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodic free ...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 07:16hrs | 642 | by Jonathan Chando
Readmission of former colleagues divides Zanu-PF
Discord has reportedly rocked Zanu-PF over the readmission of former colleagues who were ejected from the party post the November 2017 coup that removed the late former President robert Mugabe from bo...Published: 08 Jul 2020 at 18:31hrs | 3536 | by Staff reporter
Nehanda's bones not yet risen - as she didn't die for White Rhodesia to be replaced by Black Rhodesia!
Yesterday, the 7th July 2020, I took time to watch the usual post-Cabinet media briefing, beamed live on state television - whereby, several government ministers update the nation on their deliberatio...Published: 08 Jul 2020 at 15:51hrs | 817 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
'We must unite and work {loot & kill} together' Zanu PF welcome Mutasa – remember ides of March, Christpower Maisiri
"Nyati (Cde Didymus Mutasa) has re-joined the party and since his return, it has been our wish to meet him officially as Makoni leadership and work together going forward," announce Zanu PF national s...Published: 05 Jul 2020 at 07:34hrs | 5156 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Mnangagwa told to engage rivals
RETURNING Zanu-PF liberation stalwart, Rugare Gumbo, pictured, has implored President Emmerson Mnangagwa to join hands with the opposition and other social formations to end the country's deepening po...Published: 29 Jun 2020 at 18:50hrs | 3489 | by Staff reporter
Gumbo tells Mnangagwa to engage rivals
Returning Zanu-PF member Rugare Gumbo says that President Emmerson Mnangagwa need to join hands with the opposition and other social formations to end the country's deepening political and economic cr...Published: 29 Jun 2020 at 08:02hrs | 10812 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe mobile operators called to further national interests
The Zimbabwean government has been commended for its firm stance in fighting illegal dealings connected with the foreign currency black market to restore mobile money platforms to their original purpo...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 20:05hrs | 1184 | by Staff reporter
Rugare 'Gamatox' Gumbo bounces back into Zanu-PF
THE only surviving member of the Dare Rechimurenga, Rugare Gumbo is on his way to bounce back into the revolutionary party, Zanu-PF.Announcing the comeback, Zanu-PF Acting National Spokesperso...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 17:54hrs | 2543 | by Staff reporter
The three pendulums of Zimbabwean politics
The names Mugabe, Mujuru and Mnangagwa have hogged the headlines of Zimbabwean politics for over a century collectively. The three have nothing to show for the hectares of space that their names have ...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 09:58hrs | 2785 | by Joseph 'Slovo' Mupokosera
'Bulawayo Council guilty of Luveve water crisis'
Since the outbreak of the waterborne disease in Luveve Old and New that has so far claimed 12 lives, while over a thousand have been hospitalized, Bulawayo City Council management have been busy with ...Published: 25 Jun 2020 at 06:59hrs | 1205 | by Mbonisi Gumbo
Zanu-PF wants to highlight new dispensation successes
ZANU-PF is set to launch the hashtag #edfirst ahead of the 2023 elections aimed at highlighting the successes of the new dispensation. Addressing a Zanu-PF Midlands provincial meeting in Gokwe...Published: 25 Jun 2020 at 06:56hrs | 1012 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF to launch #EDFirst
ZANU-PF is set to launch the hashtag #edfirst ahead of the 2023 elections aimed at highlighting the successes of the new dispensation.Addressing a Zanu-PF Midlands provincial meeting in Gokwe ...Published: 24 Jun 2020 at 17:24hrs | 979 | by Staff reporter
Victoria Falls city fathers, residents face off
A Vic Falls forest along Kazungula Border Post Road which has been targeted by residents for indiscriminate cutting down of treesVICTORIA Falls authorities and residents have faced off over th...Published: 23 Jun 2020 at 08:03hrs | 920 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's sons fight for control of RBZ forex?
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's sons Emmerson jr and Collins are fighting for the control of foreign currency at the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Professor Jonathan Moyo has alleged. In a tweet on ...Published: 18 Jun 2020 at 17:00hrs | 11825 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Smuggled chicks intercepted, destroyed
POLICE here have intercepted two men smuggling a consignment of 19 600 day-old chicks across the Limpopo River from South Africa into Zimbabwe. The pair was arrested on Tuesday evening near Pa...Published: 18 Jun 2020 at 07:40hrs | 1341 | by Staff reporter
MDC is a failed project for Matebeleland people, its time to move on
The Movement for Democratic Change "MDC was largely embraced by majority of Matabeleland people at it's formation in 1999 as an alternative to the tribalistic ZANU PF party which they never supp...Published: 14 Jun 2020 at 09:48hrs | 482 | by Mbonisi Solomon Gumbo
Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF plunged into corruption storm
ZANU-PF has once again been plunged into a corruption storm after expelled Chivi South legislator Killer Zivhu accused a senior party leader (name supplied) of demanding a US$1,5 million cash induceme...Published: 12 Jun 2020 at 08:02hrs | 1402 | by Staff reporter
Gift Banda's endless saga spills into FIFA corridors
THE endless saga related to the suspension of ZIFA vice-president, Gift Banda, who clocked 509 in football wilderness yesterday, has now spilled into the FIFA corridors. The world football gov...Published: 11 Jun 2020 at 07:36hrs | 325 | by Staff reporter
ZANU PF's Davies Muhambi turns against Mnangagwa?
ZANU PF official and chairman of the Small to Medium Millers Association, has turned against the current set of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government implemented subsidy program....Published: 10 Jun 2020 at 16:25hrs | 3977 | by Mandla Ndlovu
MDC Alliance activists trial in false start
THE trial of MDC Alliance Midlands youth chairperson Sekai Marashe and three party activists from Kwekwe, accused of holding an illegal demonstration against President Emmerson Mnangagwa, failed to ta...Published: 10 Jun 2020 at 07:59hrs | 583 | by Staff reporter
Gift Banda calls for Zifa audit
YESTERDAY marked exactly 507 days since the Zifa executive committee suspended its vice-president Gift Banda over a litany of charges, chiefly allegedly usurping their powers by unilaterally making se...Published: 10 Jun 2020 at 07:42hrs | 153 | by Staff reporter
Illegal panners 'destroy' Boterekwa Road
A SECTION of the famous Boterekwa Road in Shurugwi caved in on Friday after illegal gold panners allegedly dug a series of tunnels under it over the years. The damage threatens motorists trave...Published: 09 Jun 2020 at 07:53hrs | 489 | by Staff reporter
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