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Opposition parties, CSOs are seeing shadows in elections
As the August 23 2023 harmonised elections day draws near, there has been some shivers emanating from some opposition political parties and their funders as reality now is clear that they are facing d...Published: 17 Aug 2023 at 06:48hrs | 7 | by Mukachana Hanyani
Man steals pain killer tablets worth US$3 000
A 23-year-old Harare man has appeared in court on allegations of teaming up with his two accomplices to defraud a drug supplier of pain killer tablets worth US$3000.Simbarashe Kaminga was faci...Published: 19 Apr 2023 at 18:08hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
African opposition leaders should learn to lose with grace
Elections for either presidential or parliamentary positions will birth two people – a loser and winner, so it is important that political parties and their leaders always bear this in mind the mome...Published: 15 Sep 2022 at 05:50hrs | | by Mukachana Hanyani
Council officials in birth records scam
Officials at Harare City Council clinics are allegedly demanding kickbacks ranging between US$5 and US$10 to issue out birth records for newly born children, preventing from accessing the critical doc...Published: 01 Mar 2022 at 05:28hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Why is West silent on South Africa violence?
In August 2018, just after Zimbabwe's general elections, the country witnessed some demonstrations that were staged by opposition activists who had lost patience in waiting for the presidential electi...Published: 15 Jul 2021 at 09:19hrs | | by Mukachana Hanyani
Soldiers to remain in Harare until 'situation over'
Zimbabwean authorities say the military will remain in the capital until "this situation is over", a reference to opposition protests over alleged manipulation of Monday's election results.Hom...Published: 02 Aug 2018 at 11:25hrs | | by AP
Zanu-PF Matebeleland North to launch poll campaign
THE Zanu-PF Matebeleland North provincial leadership has called a Provincial Coordinating Committee (PCC) meeting to introduce the party's winning candidates to members and also launch the election ca...Published: 10 May 2018 at 07:01hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Court petitioned to fire Terrence Mukupe
An urgent chamber application has been filed in the High Court seeking to have deputy Finance and Economic Development minister Terence Mukupe relieved of his duties following accusations that he assa...Published: 28 Apr 2018 at 14:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa security beefed up
The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) Guruve district has put a strong force ahead of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's visit to Siyalima Farm in Guruve South tomorrow.An insider told Bulawayo24.co...Published: 06 Feb 2018 at 17:53hrs | | by Staff Reporter
'Thieving vendors' denied bail
Four vendors who were arrested during Operation Restore Order after looting 48 cellphones were denied bail when they appeared in court yesterday.David Mazibiye, 41, Tinashe Mbofana, 24, Maxwel...Published: 18 Oct 2017 at 12:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Zanu-PF is a mammoth party'
President Mugabe's address at the Zanu-PF Youth League National Assembly at the ruling party's headquarters in Harare yesterday.Thank you, thanks, thanks for your having invited me and Mai to ...Published: 08 Oct 2017 at 04:20hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
$60,000 seized from cash dealers in police blitz
THREE Chinese nationals and 19 illegal money changers have been arrested in Harare since the gazetting of regulations criminalising cash vending with police recovering $55 000 worth of bond notes, US$...Published: 05 Oct 2017 at 06:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
22 illegal money-changers jailed
THREE Chinese nationals and 19 illegal money-changers have been arrested in Harare since the gazetting of regulations criminalising cash vending, with police recovering $55 000 worth of bond notes, US...Published: 05 Oct 2017 at 06:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Lovebirds up for kidnapping, murder
Two lovers have been arrested on charges of kidnapping and murdering a Grade One pupil at Porta Primary School in Norton.Casper Garande (41) and Dephine Chaitwa (42) appeared before Ha...Published: 22 Apr 2017 at 10:50hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
UN reforms: President Mugabe on a right track
"The UN is a body that encompasses the countries of the world. For him (President Mugabe) to say that he wants to form a splinter organisation, it shows that he is not normal," said Obert Gutu the MDC...Published: 28 Sep 2016 at 13:19hrs | 1 | by Mukachana Hanyani
New imports rules: panacea to employment creation
The move taken by government through the Ministry of Industry and Commerce in introducing some new imports rules meant to ban importation of some basic commodities thereby promoting the local industry...Published: 22 Jun 2016 at 14:07hrs | | by Mukachana Hanyani
Fighting corruption needs combined effort from everyone
Zimbabweans have been made to believe that the scourge of sanctions imposed in the country by the western countries more than a decade ago were behind the demise of the Zimbabwean economy yet corrupti...Published: 08 Jun 2016 at 09:57hrs | | by Mukachana Hanyani
Patient kills nurse
NURSE Livhuwani Thanyani was just a few minutes away from knocking off work when she was brutally murdered by a patient.Daily Sun reported that the 52-year-old was allegedly killed by a patien...Published: 18 Apr 2016 at 12:23hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Hungry baboon attacks, strangles man
A 33-YEAR-OLD Chipinge man will count himself lucky to be alive after being strangled by a baboon he was chasing away while guarding a maize field last Saturday.Manica Post reported that witne...Published: 15 Apr 2016 at 07:04hrs | | by Luthando Mapepa
Grannies smearing condom lubricants on their knees to cure athraitis
Elderly women in South Africa are reported to be smearing the condom lubricants on their knees after they were misled to believe it heals arthritis.Condom lubricant soothes arthritic joints - ...Published: 04 Sep 2015 at 09:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF for eternity as opposition political parties crumple
It all started with the MDC split of 2005 when top officials of the then powerful labour backed opposition political party was in disagreement over the participation in the senatorial elections. Membe...Published: 12 Jun 2015 at 12:28hrs | | by Mukachana Hanyani
Time for Africa to stand on its own
As the continent continues to celebrate the Africa Day which came about some fifty-two (52) years ago, on 25 May 1963 when some independent African States gathered in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to form the...Published: 29 May 2015 at 16:04hrs | 1 | by Mukachana Hanyani
Zanu-PF victory dispels voter apathy claims
The 27 March 2015, by-elections that were held in Chirumanzu-Zibagwe and Mount Darwin West constituencies showed the world that Zanu-PF is still in control in the country's political affairs. Zanu-PF'...Published: 02 Apr 2015 at 10:35hrs | | by Mukachana Hanyani
Let us learn to tolerate other people's religions
The Zimbabwean constitution clearly calls for the freedom of association; hence, everyone has a prerogative and priviledge to choose which church to worship in without hesitation and fear of victimiza...Published: 28 Jan 2015 at 09:11hrs | | by Mukachana Hanyani
No threat to Mugabe's AU and Sadc reign
The so-called political analysts tend to think that their views are so impeccable to the extent that they can sway the public opinion into believing their misguided perceptive. It is these myopic an...Published: 21 Jan 2015 at 06:50hrs | | by Mukachana Hanyani
Unity in Zanu-PF would be good for Zim-Asset implementation
The 2018 harmonized elections are fast drawing near and time is also fast fading away for Zanu-PF and government to fully implement the Zimbabwe Agenda for Sustainable Socio-Economic Transformation (Z...Published: 14 Jan 2015 at 20:44hrs | | by John Mukumbo
Susan's death spelt doom for Morgan Tsvangirai
THE leader of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T), Morgan Tsvangirai's personal compass lost its true north following the death of his wife in 2009. Although it has taken a while to confi...Published: 17 Jul 2014 at 12:33hrs | | by Maggie Mzumara
Pull him down concept by parastatals not progressive
Recent developments in the country where high ranking officials in government and parastatals have chosen to go to the press to blast each other as if channels of negotiation have been closed are a ca...Published: 03 Jul 2014 at 12:46hrs | | by Mukachana Hanyani
Assets declarations by bigwigs would curb corruption
The move by government to come up with the National Code of Conduct, which requires that all top executives in public offices and parastatals should declare their assets and outline how they got t...Published: 07 Jun 2014 at 12:53hrs | | by Mukachana Hanyani
Africa rescue our daughters from Boko Haram
It is now more than a month since the Boko Haram extremist group kidnapped more than two hundred (200) girls at a school in Nigeria and African leaders have failed to take any action meant to resc...Published: 16 May 2014 at 11:06hrs | | by Mukachana Hanyani
Zim-Asset funding: China should be applauded
It is with great hope and appreciation that finally the government's economic blue print, the Zimbabwe Agenda for Sustainable Socio-Economic Transformation ( Zim-Asset) has finally been promised t...Published: 09 May 2014 at 08:00hrs | | by Mukachana Hanyani
Applaud President Mugabe for destroying factionalism
As the succession debate nicodemously continues in ZANU PF, although there is no vacancy and no need for people to discuss about that in ZANU PF, President Robert Mugabe, recently chipped in, cate...Published: 15 Apr 2014 at 10:29hrs | | by Mukachana Hanyani
Sex starved mum infects son (16) with STI
A 40 year-old Chiredzi woman is in trouble with the law after she allegedly infected her 16 year-old mentally ill stepson with a sexually transmitted disease.Respina Mukanduri has since been a...Published: 13 Apr 2014 at 10:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Prostitute kills client
A PROSTITUTE from Zvishavane allegedly connived with a boyfriend and fatally struck a rival suitor while a fellow tenant was charged with trying to help the pair conceal the crime.Melinda Musw...Published: 09 Apr 2014 at 06:26hrs | | by Walter Mswazie
Mangoma good enough to replace Tsvangirai as MDC-T President
A close analysis of what is happening in the MDC-T shows a party sinking into a political dustbin as Morgan Tsvangirai, its current leader, clings onto power.Tsvangirai, who has perfecte...Published: 07 Apr 2014 at 15:38hrs | | by Mukachana Hanyani
Zimbabwe should take a leaf from China on corruption
The story in the Newsday of March 31, 2014, indicating that the Chinese authorities have seized assets worth at least fourteen and half billion (14, 5 Billion) from more than three hundred (300) ...Published: 02 Apr 2014 at 16:47hrs | | by Mukachana Hanyani
Crimean case, a carbon copy of Kosovo
While the United States of America (USA) and the European Union (EU) connived to impose sanctions on Russian authorities for accepting the March 16, 2014, Crimean referendum results that led to th...Published: 26 Mar 2014 at 12:03hrs | | by Mukachana Hanyani
Tsvangirai alienates himself from democracy
Elton Mangoma, the MDC-T Deputy Treasurer-General's suspension by the MDC-T National Executive Council over alleged insubordination on Friday 7 March 2014, just confirms that the MDC-T in genera...Published: 11 Mar 2014 at 14:38hrs | | by Mukachana Hanyani
Africa should strongly support Uganda's stance on homosexuality
When God created a man, he later realised that he also needed to create a woman so that she becomes a man`s comforter, hence, the two would become a husband and a wife. God did not create a man t...Published: 06 Mar 2014 at 09:27hrs | | by Mukachana Hanyani
The USA and the EU full of crocodile tears
The July 31, 2013 harmonized elections came with ZANU PF condemning to the political dustbin the western-sponsored MDC-T party as the revolutionary party clearly got more than two thirds in parlia...Published: 18 Feb 2014 at 09:00hrs | | by Mukachana Hanyani
The Media should expose corruption even in the private sector
The media, which has taken a major role in exposing corruption in the parastatals, should be applauded for the job well done. However the media seem to have concentrated more on exposing corruptio...Published: 12 Feb 2014 at 13:32hrs | | by Mukachana Hanyani
Mugabe, Tsvangirai GNU is now history
The talk by the MDC-T party leadership, that for the country to recover economically, there is a need for Zanu-PF to negotiate with the MDC-T so that another government of national unity (GNU) is for...Published: 07 Feb 2014 at 10:04hrs | | by Mukachana Hanyani
Being white cannot make you European, President Ian Khama
It is surprising to find out that President Seretse Khama Ian Khama, the President of Botswana, has failed to appreciate that his white skin pigmentation would never change him to being a European...Published: 28 Jan 2014 at 13:45hrs | 1 | by Mukachana Hanyani
Government shames prophets of doom on salaries
The recent awarding of salary increment to civil servants by government has proved beyond doubt that the ZANU PF-led government has got the people at heart. It has shamed detractors and demonstrat...Published: 24 Jan 2014 at 11:30hrs | | by Mukachana Hanyani
MDC-T should denounce Makuvise, Zwambila
THE move by ambassadors Jacqueline Zwambila and Hebson Makuvise, who for the past four years represented Zimbabwe in Australia and Germany respectively, to seek asylum status in the respective c...Published: 12 Jan 2014 at 06:56hrs | | by Mukachana Hanyani
Private media grossly misleading about the on-goings in Zanu-PF
The decision by the Zanu-PF politburo to endorse the provincial elections in Manicaland, Midlands and Mashonaland Central should be applauded.While the private media feasted a lot on such elec...Published: 01 Dec 2013 at 08:14hrs | | by Mukachana Hanyani
Sangoma uses mbanje to cure HIV
A 31-year-old man from New Mabvuku has been sent to jail for eight months after being found in possession of over a kilogramme of mbanje (dagga) which he claimed to use to cure HIV.Dickson Muv...Published: 15 Apr 2013 at 11:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bretton Woods institutions should not be monopolized
While Western countries are preaching democracy as a panacea to healing global conflicts in politics but they are not adhering to what they preach. Since the time the World Bank and the International ...Published: 08 Nov 2012 at 11:00hrs | | by Mukachana Hanyani
Botswana should be applauded
When the Inclusive Government came into existence in 2009, countries in the SADC region and the world over pledged to help the ailing Zimbabwean economy to retain its original state before the inf...Published: 06 Sep 2012 at 08:45hrs | | by Mukachana Hanyani
Draft constitution is gender insensitive
EDITOR- The draft constitution in its present state is rendering women as second class citizens at the time when women organizations are calling for equal rights in all social interactions with men....Published: 23 Aug 2012 at 06:18hrs | | by Mukachana Hanyani---Harare.
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