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Zimbabwe concerned over foreign hand in Geza protests
Security forces are fully prepared to handle any disturbances, and the Government remains resolutely committed to ensuring national stability, the Minister of State for National Security, Lovemore Mat...Published: 31 Mar 2025 at 08:58hrs | 3164 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF wields axe on young MPs
A faction in Zanu-PF pushing for President Emmerson Mnangagwa to have a third term has come out guns blazing pushing for the ouster of young party parliamentarians whom they accuse of sabotaging the 2...Published: 03 Aug 2024 at 15:54hrs | 1684 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube divorced from reality
On November 30, 2023, in the bustling halls of the new Parliament building in Mt Hampden, Finance, Economic Development and Investment Promotion minister Mthuli Ncube , a proud holder of a diplomatic ...Published: 20 Dec 2023 at 06:12hrs | 11 | by Harriet Chikandiwa
Zanu-PF MP advocates three-tier passport fee system
Gutu South legislator Togarepi Pupurai has proposed a three-tier system for passport fees in Zimbabwe to cater to different social classes.His proposal includes providing passports for free to...Published: 15 Dec 2023 at 14:21hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga says Zimbabwe is on unstoppable march to prosperity
Zimbabwe is on an unstoppable march to prosperity under the leadership of President Mnangagwa and not even desperate shenanigans by some of the country's opposition political parties will slow down th...Published: 12 Aug 2023 at 07:48hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Police fail to hold Zanu-PF bigwigs accountable
POLICE in Manicaland and Gutu are shying away from arresting Mutare Central Zanu-PF candidate Esau Mupfumi and Zanu-PF parliamentary chief whip Pupurai Togarepi over incidents of violence against Citi...Published: 01 Aug 2023 at 21:15hrs | 20 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF sets 600 000 votes target in Masvingo
The ruling Zanu-PF has set a target to garner over 600 000 votes for President Mnangagwa in Masvingo in next month's harmonised elections, it aims for a clean sweep in the province.This develo...Published: 25 Jul 2023 at 06:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
CCC petitions Zec over Gutu Zanu-PF violence
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has been petitioned by the opposition Citizens' Coalition for Change leadership in Gutu over reports of an orgy of violence orchestrated in the district by Pres...Published: 23 Jul 2023 at 16:10hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Criminals around Mnangagwa are not useful'
AN army of independent legislators will rise to claim positions in Zimbabwe's National Assembly after next month's polls and dramatically shifting the political landscape, according to independent leg...Published: 21 Jul 2023 at 07:00hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Teachers sleep in the bush after threats from Zanu-PF
Teachers at Guni Secondary School in Gutu South were on Wednesday last week forced to sleep in bushes after receiving death threats from a Zanu-PF ward chairperson.The threats rattled the teac...Published: 10 Jun 2023 at 18:06hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF Primaries: Remaining candidates announced
Zanu-PF has announced the final list of candidates who will represent the party in the forthcoming harmonised elections with 205 candidates cleared, and only five remaining to allow for reruns....Published: 06 Apr 2023 at 06:38hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa close ally's Gutu South constituency retained
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has retained Gutu South constituency represented in the National Assembly by President Emmerson Mnangagwa's ally Pupurai Togarepi which it had previously collap...Published: 27 Feb 2023 at 07:39hrs | 42 | by Staff reporter
Temba Mliswa blasts parly ad hoc committee
OUTSPOKEN independent Norton legislator Temba Mliswa this week attacked the composition of the Parliament ad hoc committee analysing the preliminary delimitation exercise report cautioning on possible...Published: 20 Jan 2023 at 22:28hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Collapse of Gutu South constituency challenged
THE parliamentary ad hoc committee tasked with analysing the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission's draft delimitation report has challenged the collapse of Gutu South constituency currently represented by t...Published: 17 Jan 2023 at 14:32hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF factional wars fueled by Zec
ZIMBABWE Electoral Commission's controversial preliminary delimitation report has created serious divisions in Zanu-PF as one faction believes that there are manoeuvres to sideline its members, it has...Published: 15 Jan 2023 at 11:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa crafts crude strategy to stay in power
IN December 2014, the late Zanu-PF Women's League national secretary Shuvai Mahofa collapsed after spending two hours singing and dancing in support of the then First Lady Grace Mugabe. Mahofa...Published: 20 Nov 2022 at 15:41hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa crafts crude strategy to stay in power, revels in adulation
IN December 2014, the late Zanu-PF Women's League national secretary Shuvai Mahofa collapsed after spending two hours singing and dancing in support of the then First Lady Grace Mugabe. Mahofa...Published: 23 Oct 2022 at 09:20hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Security guards assault suspected thief to death
Police in Masvingo City recently arrested three security guards from Etland Milling Company for allegedly fatally assaulting a man who had broken into a warehouse at their workplace on Tuesday around ...Published: 08 Jul 2022 at 07:31hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt under attack over banks lending ban
LEGISLATORS have called on government to respect the Constitution and stop behaving hike a monarchy where leaders rule by decree. This follows the recent government directive on banks to stop lending ...Published: 16 May 2022 at 06:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gutu South community rejects Zanu-PF since 2006
VILLAGERS in ward 27 of Gutu South have defied the common myth in Zimbabwe's politics which says Zanu-PF is dominant in rural areas by voting for an opposition councillor since the year 2006 despite b...Published: 03 May 2022 at 16:03hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF MPs defend US$1.6bn Command Agric looting
Zanu-PF members of Parliament are defending the looting of US$1.6 billion under the Command Agriculture programme and are plotting to crucify vocal individuals, mainly from the opposition, they accuse...Published: 19 Mar 2022 at 07:22hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Britain must compensate Zimbabwe for colonial rule losses'
GUTU South MP Pupurai Togarepi (Zanu-PF) has suggested that Zimbabwe must demand compensation for losses incurred while the country was under British rule.Togarepi said this last Thursday whil...Published: 01 Mar 2022 at 05:41hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mangwana orders village heads to pledge votes to Zanu-PF
Zanu-PF National Secretary for Legal Affairs Paul Mangwana recently told village heads in Chingwizi to pledge the number of votes each will bring to Zanu-PF on the March 26 by-election.Mangwan...Published: 26 Feb 2022 at 18:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Zanu-PF MPs blocking from opening nostro accounts'
BUHERA South MP, Joseph Chinotimba says he and some other Zanu-PF officials were struggling to find a bank that could allow them to open nostro accounts due to sanctions imposed on them by the United ...Published: 18 Apr 2021 at 08:55hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's proposed Patriotic Bill: Whither Zimbabwe at 41?
ACCORDING to the permanent secretary in the Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs ministry Virginia Mabhiza, as quoted in The Sunday Mail on October 4 2020, her ministry drafted principles of a "Pa...Published: 16 Apr 2021 at 07:42hrs | 8 | by Jonathan N Moyo
Police, Zanu-PF syndicates in new illegal gold panning
ZANU-PF and police syndicates have taken over mining at the gold-rich Wondedzo Hill in Masvingo North, 23 kilometres from Zimbabwe's oldest town, after sealing it off and clearing thousands of miners ...Published: 06 Feb 2021 at 16:20hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa bid to build school, hospital hits brick wall
Gutu Rural District Council led by its chairman, Nicholas Zambara has flatly refused Nelson Chamisa the MDC A president the chance to build a boarding school and a hospital in his home area in Ward 23...Published: 28 Nov 2020 at 17:42hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Rushwaya was allocated ministerial car, claims Mzembi
EXILED former cabinet minister Walter Mzembi has made astounding claims incarcerated Zimbabwe Miners Federation (ZMF) president Henrietta Rushwaya was allocated a ministerial vehicle by Chief Secretar...Published: 01 Nov 2020 at 08:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's MPs fume over UK meddling
ZANU-PF MPs have expressed concern over the United Kingdom (UK) criticism of Zimbabwe, saying the country's former colonial master was not an oasis of democratic practice, the Daily News reports....Published: 01 Nov 2020 at 08:20hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Speaker of parly cracks whip on Mthuli
SPEAKER of the National Assembly Jacob Mudenda yesterday blasted Finance minister Mthuli Ncube for failing to table the 2021 national budget strategy paper before Parliament for condonation.Mu...Published: 21 Oct 2020 at 08:36hrs | 3 | by Staff Reporter
Zanu-PF chief whip hails Chamisa's MPs
ZANU-PF chief whip Pupurai Togarepi has hailed opposition MDC MPs and their ruling party counterparts for discarding divisive politics to engage in constructive debates in the National Assembly....Published: 10 Oct 2020 at 20:54hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF MP wants law to punish 'terrorists' calling for Zimbabwe sanctions
CONTROVERSIAL Zanu-PF youth league secretary Pupurai Togarepi has called on parliament to craft a law that would make it possible for anyone calling for sanctions against the country to be prosecuted....Published: 29 Aug 2019 at 07:47hrs | | by newzimbabwe
Pupurai Togarepi invests CDF in clinic
Gutu South Member of Parliament (MP) Pupurai Togarepi is investing part of the $50 000 Constituency Development Fund (CDF) allocated to him by parliament to resume work on a clinic project in Ward 28 ...Published: 17 Aug 2019 at 11:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Another Zimbabwe coup looms?
When former President Robert Mugabe was forced out of office by a military intervention in November 2017, the accusations were that he was surrounded by criminals.In the process of targeting t...Published: 25 May 2019 at 15:34hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chegutu residents take to the streets
CHEGUTU residents will tomorrow take to the streets and demonstrate against acute water shortages that have persisted in the Mashonaland West Province town since 2008. Combined Chegutu Residen...Published: 23 Apr 2019 at 09:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF youth league leader, Togarepi targeted again
THE ruling Zanu-PF party's youth league could be thrown into fresh turmoil after it emerged there was a push for someone under 35 to lead the structure, NewZimbabwe.com reported.The demand cou...Published: 14 Mar 2019 at 07:53hrs | | by newzimbabwe
Chimedza's bid to rejoin Zanu-PF flops
Zanu-PF has turned down an application by former Minister of State for Masvingo Provincial Affairs and Gutu South legislator Dr Paul Chimedza to rejoin the party following his expulsion in December 20...Published: 06 Feb 2019 at 08:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF youth-wing exonerates Gomwe
The Zanu-PF youthwing has exonerated Godwin Gomwe, who has been named as one of the participants in last week's violent protests, and distanced the party's youth members from the violence.The ...Published: 26 Jan 2019 at 17:30hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Jail corrupt people without trial'
ZANU-PF Masvingo provincial chairperson and resident minister Ezra Chadzamira said people accused of corruption should go straight to jail without trial.Speaking during the party's victory cel...Published: 05 Dec 2018 at 05:52hrs | | by Staf reporter
'Mangudya deserves our support'
Zimbabweans must support the country's recently announced monetary policy measures because they are "meant to preserve people's savings at banks", a youth empowerment activist has said.This al...Published: 19 Oct 2018 at 12:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF youths gun for forex dealers
Zanu-PF youths have declared war on illegal traders and ruling party bigwigs suspected of being behind the country's thriving foreign currency black market.Their warning comes as bond notes co...Published: 07 Oct 2018 at 12:53hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Mugabe death' pastor to resume church services
CONTROVERSIAL cleric Pastor Patrick Mugadza is set to resume his church services, a year since abandoning the pulpit while claiming then President Robert Mugabe was using state agents to terrorise his...Published: 24 Sep 2018 at 11:01hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF to raise minimum age for presidential aspirants
ZANU-PF is mulling using its super majority in Parliament to effect a raft of constitutional amendments, including raising the minimum age for presidential aspirants from the current 40 years to 55, t...Published: 16 Aug 2018 at 14:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Pupurai Togarepi survives in Gutu South
The Zanu-PF national youth league boss Pupurai Togarepi has emerged victorious in Gutu South after garnering 7 938 votes against the MDC Alliance's 6 052.A total of six candidates raced to rep...Published: 06 Aug 2018 at 12:15hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF still in the lead, wins 110 seats out of 153 announced
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) has announced a further 50 National Assembly results, bringing the total so far to 153.Of the 153 Zanu PF has won 110 seats while the MDC Alliance got 4...Published: 01 Aug 2018 at 06:27hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Gutu South yearns for capable leadership, says Togarepi
The people of Gutu South yearn for capable representation and leadership that can initiate and sustain development, something they are bound to have come July 30, Zanu-PF Gutu South parliamentary cand...Published: 21 Jul 2018 at 12:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Inside Chamisa's backyard
AS a little boy in the rural Chiwara area of Gutu, south of Zimbabwe, Nelson Chamisa probably never dreamt of leading a major political party, the MDC-T, let alone be among the favourites to win the c...Published: 04 Jul 2018 at 07:32hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa's ally Togarepi intimidates rivals'
ZANU-PF youth league leader and Gutu South National Assembly aspiring candidate, Pupurai Togarepi stands accused of intimidating and threatening villagers in the constituency whom he suspects of not s...Published: 04 Jul 2018 at 07:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa ally leaves IPEC
Insurance and Pension Commission head of prudential services Pupurai Togarepi has left the organisation to pursue a career in politics.The Zanu PF national youth chairperson, who has vast know...Published: 28 Jun 2018 at 09:55hrs | | by Staff rpeorter
Zvobgo Jnr fails o fill daddy's shoes
LIKE father, like son, so it's said.But for the late national hero and charismatic Zanu-PF politician, Eddison Mudadirwa Zvobgo and his eldest surviving son, Eddison Jnr, this old dictum does ...Published: 11 May 2018 at 07:39hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
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