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Govt engages children, spouses of national heroes on title deeds
In a landmark move aimed at resolving long-standing issues around land ownership, the Government has initiated dialogue with children and spouses of national liberation heroes to transition them from ...Published: 29 May 2025 at 13:25hrs | 357 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF gears for referendum
ZANU-PF is preparing to amend the Constitution and mobilize its members to resoundingly vote in favor of the amendment in a referendum to extend President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s term until 2030, Justi...Published: 20 Jan 2025 at 10:53hrs | 658 | by Staff reporter
Divisions rock Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF
The Zanu-PF party has openly acknowledged severe internal divisions that are undermining its stability and effectiveness. During a recent address to party members in Manicaland, Zanu-PF National Polit...Published: 05 Aug 2024 at 07:30hrs | 2661 | by Staff reporter
President Mohadi mourns hero Mabuya
ACTING President Kembo Mohadi has joined President Mnangagwa and the nation at large in mourning Colonel (Retired) Kenny Ridzai Mabuya, who will be buried at the National Heroes Acre on Wednesday....Published: 29 Jan 2024 at 05:48hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Mary Mliswa targets rivals in purging spree
THE infighting within Zanu-PF Mashonaland West is raging on, with an elaborate plot to suspend, and consequently remove, Zvimba district coordinating committee (DCC) chairman Bywell Mbiri sparking ren...Published: 23 Jan 2022 at 08:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Violence Rocks New Zanu-PF Mashonaland West PCC
VIOLENCE dominated the new Zanu-PF provincial joint council of the main wing, women's and youth leagues' inaugural meeting held in Chinhoyi Saturday.The meeting was meant to officially hand ov...Published: 10 Jan 2022 at 06:04hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa endorses 'rigged' Zanu-PF elections
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday endorsed the disputed results of his Zanu-PF party's provincial elections and urged members to accept the outcome.He also rallied all party members to wo...Published: 06 Jan 2022 at 19:09hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Politburo endorses poll results
THE Politburo yesterday endorsed provincial chairpersons who emerged victorious following polls held last week.Those endorsed are now substantive provincial chairpersons in their respective pr...Published: 06 Jan 2022 at 19:00hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Temba Mliswa mocks Zanu-PF 'bigwigs'
NORTON legislator Temba Mliswa (Independent) has mocked former Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation chief executive Happison Muchechetere, who lost the Mashonaland West ZANU PF provincial chairmanship el...Published: 06 Jan 2022 at 08:12hrs | 11 | by Staff Reporter
Zanu-PF meets over controversial provincial polls
Zanu-PF's Politburo will meet this week to confirm winners and address any complaints from the party's provincial elections held last week.The ruling party's national political commissar, Mike...Published: 02 Jan 2022 at 09:09hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF to disqualify the violent and the cheats
THE rampant rigging and violence that characterised Zanu-PF's provincial elections held on Tuesday has been admitted to at the party's highest level, with national political commissar Mike Bimha sayin...Published: 01 Jan 2022 at 13:58hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Jabulani Sibanda bounces back as Zanu-PF provincial leaders announced
Zanu-PF yesterday announced 10 provincial chairpersons who emerged victorious following successful polls held this week with new office bearers being elected in seven provinces.Minister of Sta...Published: 01 Jan 2022 at 13:53hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF awaits party poll results
Zanu-PF provincial election results started trickling into the party's National Command Centre in Harare yesterday afternoon with more results expected this morning.There were expectations of ...Published: 30 Dec 2021 at 07:51hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Fireworks expected as Zanu-PF slides into provincial elections
THE ruling Zanu-PF party is preparing for provincial party elections with candidates backed by politburo members seeking to solidify their control of grassroots structures clashing in the internal pol...Published: 24 Dec 2021 at 16:42hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Ex-ZBC boss in race for top Zanu-PF post
MASHONALAND West Provincial Affairs minister Mary Mliswa-Chikoka and Deputy Information minister Kindness Paradza are among the five candidates that submitted their curriculum vitaes (CVs) to contest ...Published: 19 Dec 2021 at 07:08hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Muchechetere still a ZBC employee, says Supreme Court
FORMER Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) chief executive Happison Muchechetere remains an employee after the Supreme Court overturned his expulsion from the State broadcaster six years ago....Published: 13 Nov 2021 at 05:58hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF elections mayhem exposes deadly infighting
POLITICAL temperature is boiling up in Zanu-PF's Mashonaland West province after acting chair Abiel Mujeri at the weekend barred provincial members from Zvimba, Chegutu, Makonde and Kadoma from presid...Published: 25 Oct 2021 at 06:28hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Vingirai's bid to evict farmers flops
VETERAN banker Nicholas Vingirai's bid to evict farmers settled at a farm in Banket has hit a snag after the High Court ordered him to vacate the farm and stop interfering with the farmers' activities...Published: 05 Oct 2021 at 06:29hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Zanla deploys in Matabeleland South
DURING the armed struggle some parts of Matabeleland South Province and its neighbour, the Midlands were shared operational areas by Zanla and Zipra guerrillas. Some of the shared areas were Mberengwa...Published: 26 Sep 2021 at 19:38hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Muchechetere wades into Zanu-PF DCC violence saga
NEWLY-CONSTITUTED Zanu-PF Veterans of the Liberation Struggle League (ZVLSL) Mashonaland West provincial chairperson, Happison Muchechetere has waded into the factional fights that have engulfed the p...Published: 18 May 2021 at 06:41hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Matonga in new Zanu-PF war vets wing
FORMER Information deputy minister, Bright Matonga, who was 11 years old at independence 1980, has been appointed into the Mashonaland West chapter of the newly constituted Zanu-PF Veterans of the Lib...Published: 20 Apr 2021 at 07:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Reuben Barwe wins Zanu-PF election
Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) chief correspondent Reuben Barwe has been elected unopposed as secretary for information and publicity in the Zanu-PF District Coordinating Committee (DCC) elec...Published: 12 Dec 2020 at 07:05hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF emerges biggest winner in major scandal
THE ruling Zanu-PF, which thrives on a chokehold grip on airwaves to win elections by hook or crook, has emerged as the biggest winner in the controversial awarding of six new free-to-air licences to ...Published: 29 Nov 2020 at 19:28hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
'The path had to be set for Mugabe'
Last week, Farai Tafirenyika claimed there were Zipra cadres eliminated by Zanla combatants at the front during the ZIPA era. Levi Mukarati continues to seek answers on events surrounding the ...Published: 25 Aug 2019 at 08:41hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Rugare Gumbo snubs Mnangagwa & Zanu-PF
FORMER Cabinet minister and liberation struggle icon, Rugare Gumbo, has flatly refused to accept President Emmerson Mnangagwa's invitation to re-join Zanu-PF - insisting that it was beneath him to re-...Published: 21 Apr 2019 at 16:32hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
ZBC takes 5 ex-bosses to court over $6m prejudice
The Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) has dragged its four ex-senior executives and former board chairperson Cuthbert Dube to court for allegedly illegally benefitting themselves from $6 million...Published: 13 Feb 2019 at 08:46hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Fired ZBC bosses appeal to High Court
Two former Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) executives, who were fired in 2015, have petitioned the High Court seeking an order to compel the State broadcaster to provide them with critical doc...Published: 26 Oct 2018 at 07:06hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
3 ex-ZBC bosses to lose properties
THreE former Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) top executives are set to lose their upmarket Harare properties which the national broadcaster claims were fraudulently acquired through bank loans...Published: 17 May 2018 at 07:15hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Muchechetere fraud trial to commence
Ex-Zimbabwe Broadcasting Holdings chief executive Happison Muchechetere will now stand trial on charges of contravening the Procurement Act over the irregular purchase of an outside broadcasting (OB) ...Published: 04 Apr 2018 at 14:29hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Undenge docket complete
The trial of former Energy and Power Development Minister Samuel Undenge, accused of prejudicing Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC) of $12 650, has been set for April 24.Undenge yesterday appeared b...Published: 04 Apr 2018 at 08:46hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Formation of Patriotic Front
DUE to circumstances beyond our control, over the last three publications we were not able to publish this column. However, the brutally frank, Comrade Chrispen Tapfuma Mataire (born February 24, 1945...Published: 26 Nov 2017 at 08:26hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
ZBC rot exposed
The rot at Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) has been exposed in a court application in which the national broadcaster's board is seeking nullification of hefty pay rises effected by the company...Published: 01 Nov 2017 at 13:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Muchechetere ordered to release farm equipment
FORMER Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) chief executive officer Happison Muchechetere has been ordered to allow a Banket white farmer to remove his equipment from his former farm.Former...Published: 20 Oct 2017 at 06:54hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Muchechetere confiscates white farmer's property
Former Zimbabwe Broadcasting Holdings' (ZBH) chief executive officer Happison Muchechetere has been dragged to the High Court by a white farmer, who accuses him of confiscating his farm equipmen...Published: 19 Oct 2017 at 14:01hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Quicksand sinking & mirages: Inside Zanu PFs long history of infighting
A long read on Zanu Pfs 54 years of bitter infighting, betrayal and power games. There is no iota of doubt that...Published: 03 Apr 2017 at 15:40hrs | | by Maynard Manyowa
Aah looters continue !!!
At Havard School of Law there is a very interesting Latin inscription which reads: "sub homine sed sub deo et lege, which when translated into English simply mean, "It is not by men but by God and the...Published: 27 Mar 2017 at 15:46hrs | 3 | by Garikai Mafirakureva
Mnangagwa may be down but definitely not out
Despite the frenzied speculation within President Robert Mugabe's warring Zanu-PF that Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa's mooted presidential aspirations are now dead in the water, former ruling ...Published: 26 Feb 2017 at 17:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Muchechetere's woes continue to mount
Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation's (ZBC) former chief executive officer, Happison Muchechetere's woes continue to mount after a local financial institution, CBZ Bank filed a $482 916,35 lawsuit a...Published: 23 Jan 2017 at 05:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
For every bad move that Johanna makes, they have a very good explanation
Education and common sense are more often than not compatible, but one is extremely compromised by the deficiency of the other. The similarity in temperament of the two is barely discerned in the mode...Published: 16 Dec 2016 at 11:42hrs | 1 | by Garikai Mafirakureva
They wanted to finish us off
As the fall-out between President Robert Mugabe on one hand, and many war veterans and liberation stalwarts on the other, continues to escalate, further stunning claims have emerged regarding Zanu-PF'...Published: 21 Oct 2016 at 08:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ex-ZBC boss to stand trial on August 2
Former Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation chief executive Happison Muchechetere will stand trial on August 2, after the court last week quashed his second attempt to seek relief at the Constitutional C...Published: 25 Jul 2016 at 06:55hrs | | by Fungai Lupande
No golden handshake for Happison Muchechetere
Former Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) chief executive Happison Muchechetere's bid to pocket more than $2,4 million as outstanding salaries and benefits following his unceremonious departure f...Published: 18 Apr 2016 at 07:12hrs | | by Fidelis Munyoro
Mujuru can't deodorise tainted record
In February 2014, the nation was shocked to hear the then Vice President of the republic rail against the media for publishing stories which exposed corruption in various parastatals.In fact, ...Published: 04 Mar 2016 at 06:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
'I feel sorry for Mugabe'
President Robert Mugabe recently described former Zanu-PF spokesperson Rugare Gumbo (RG) as a traitor.The Daily News caught up with the former Dare Rechimurenga supremo to discuss this and&nbs...Published: 07 Jan 2016 at 19:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's daily Friday the 13th
IT is but a coincidence that on a day, which I want to highlight the destructive nature of endemic and pervasive corruption in our country Zimbabwe, it is the metaphorical Friday the Thirteenth....Published: 13 Nov 2015 at 20:34hrs | 2 | by Welshman Ncube
Prominent Zimbabweans sink in debt
As the economic climate in Zimbabwe gets more unforgiving, a number of prominent citizens are failing to service their debts, resulting in many of them losing their assets.Last week, the Sheri...Published: 01 Nov 2015 at 16:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's Office tightens screws on bigwigs
The Office of the President and Cabinet will monitor board members and senior executives at parastatals and State enterprises, and will examine their assets and business interests to ensur...Published: 13 Sep 2015 at 00:37hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Herald, ZBC retrench hundreds of employees
With Zimbabwe's economy in the doldrums and showing no prospects of recovering any time soon, State media organisations - the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) and Zimpapers, the publishers of T...Published: 08 Aug 2015 at 14:31hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
ZBC top four fired
The Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) has fired former chief executive officer Happison Muchechetere and former General Manager (Finance) Elliot Kasu.The corporation has also dismissed o...Published: 07 Aug 2015 at 14:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Lifestyle audits for Zimbabwe's bigwigs
Board members and senior managers at parastatals and State-owned enterprises will be subjected to periodic lifestyle audits and those found with suspiciously burgeoning asset bases will be investigate...Published: 24 May 2015 at 10:36hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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