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Zimbabwe War veterans denounce Zanu-PF interference
The Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (ZPRA) war veterans association has urged Zanu-PF and government officials to refrain from interfering with the preparations for the upcoming Zimbabwe National...Published: 01 Sep 2024 at 10:27hrs | 966 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa buried a hero who was forgotten while he lived
Makhethi Ndebele, better known as Jack Mpofu, was a towering figure in Zimbabwe's liberation struggle.He passed away on July 27, 2024, at his home in Cowdray Park, Bulawayo, at the age of 82. ...Published: 06 Aug 2024 at 10:42hrs | 2375 | by Staff reporter
Court clears ZAPU official of contempt of court charges
Andrew Ndlovu, the ZAPU National Secretary for Security and Internal Affairs, who had been facing contempt of court charges after his arrest in April of this year in connection with a property dispute...Published: 27 Oct 2023 at 19:31hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Another disappointing result for Highlanders
Bulawayo Chiefs FC 0-0 Highlanders FCHighlanders endured another disappointing outcome, extending their winless streak to six games as they settled for a goalless draw. Despite having better chanc...Published: 23 Oct 2023 at 06:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mutsvangwa appointed leader of ex-combatants’ who fired him
Christopher Mutsvangwa, who was previously removed from his position as Chairman of the Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association (ZNLWVA) earlier this year, has now been appointed as a Ca...Published: 11 Sep 2023 at 21:51hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Communist Party elections observer report for 2023 elections
OBSERVATIONS ON THE 2023 GENERAL ELECTIONGeneralFirstly, as Communists, we do not confuse democracy with voting.The word ‘democracy' is derived from Greek and means ‘rule by the pe...Published: 04 Sep 2023 at 06:34hrs | 1 | by Central Committee of the Zimbabwe Communist Party
Bussed Zanu-PF supporters excites Mnangagwa
President Emerson Mnangagwa praised Mashonaland East province on Saturday for mobilising the largest gathering, so far, of ruling Zanu-PF supporters for his presidential election rally at Mutawatawa i...Published: 06 Aug 2023 at 18:02hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Did war vets collapse Zimdollar?
I HEAR many Zimbabweans suggesting that Zimbabwe was driven to bankruptcy and the crash of the dollar by paying war veterans in 1997.However, this perception is wrong because Zimbabwe printed ...Published: 03 Jun 2023 at 08:19hrs | | by Rutendo Matinyarare
Mutsvangwa ousted
Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association (ZNLWVA) members have unseated Christopher Mutsvangwa from the group's helm accusing him of unprofessionalism and failure to improve their livelih...Published: 27 Apr 2023 at 06:34hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo Chiefs lift maiden Chibuku Super Cup
Herentals 0 - 1 Bulawayo ChiefsIT was a game of wits and fine margins.Both were at play with Bulawayo Chiefs emerging the victors in this entertaining Chibuku Super Cup final which attract...Published: 21 Nov 2022 at 04:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
All set for Zanu-PF war vets league district polls
All is set for the district elections of the Zanu-PF War Veterans League being held today across the country, with only Masvingo Province postponing their polls until tomorrow.Zanu-PF National...Published: 13 Aug 2022 at 07:22hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Real' Zimbabwe heroes struggling to survive
AS the country celebrates Heroes Day Monday, former Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (ZIPRA) instructor, Grace Ethel Noko remains one of the unsung liberation struggle heroines despite having play...Published: 08 Aug 2022 at 05:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dembare moves to second
Dynamos 2 - 0 Bulawayo CityDYNAMOS maintained pressure on log leaders FC Platinum with a comfortable win over Bulawayo Chiefs at the National Sports Stadium in Harare yesterday, even though ...Published: 01 Aug 2022 at 06:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa sought Magaisa's support after coup?
Chiwenga chases Schroeder's record - The Lord of RingsZIMBABWEAN Vice-President retired General Constantino Chiwenga seems to be chasing former German chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's record in seri...Published: 13 Jun 2022 at 17:47hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Human rights group petition Mnangagwa over Mary Chiwenga case
Human Rights activists under the Restoration of Human Rights (ROHR) Zimbabwe, in the United Kingdom have petitioned President Emmerson Mnangagwa to ...Published: 25 Apr 2022 at 06:55hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Mubaiwa family laments as Chiwenga wife's health deteriorates
THE family of Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga's estranged wife Marry Mubaiwa say they are in agony as the health of the former top model deteriorates at a time she is being denied her passport to ...Published: 02 Apr 2022 at 07:27hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga's ex-wife faces amputation
VICE-PRESIDENT Constantino Chiwenga's estranged wife Marry Mubaiwa has been admitted at a private hospital in Harare where her hand could be amputated as her condition had worsened.This was re...Published: 30 Mar 2022 at 07:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Govt should prioritise war veterans' welfare
ZIMBABWEANS will, in a few weeks' time, be celebrating 42 years of independence attained through the sacrifices of fellow countrymen in a protracted war of liberation where thousands died on the battl...Published: 29 Mar 2022 at 11:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Pomp and fanfare as Chief Negomo is installed
THOUSANDS of people yesterday attended the installation of Mr Paradzai Kutyauripo as the 13th substantive Chief Negomo of Mazowe District, Mashonaland Central Province at a glittering ceremony attende...Published: 13 Mar 2022 at 08:00hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF toilets ‘invaders' released without charge
TWO Zanu-PF officials, who were arrested in Mbare, Harare, after they forcibly took over council toilets and started charging members of the public were yesterday released by the National Prosecuting ...Published: 12 Jan 2022 at 04:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Illegal use of mercury in mining sector continues
EFFORTS by Zimbabwe to reduce and where possible eliminate the use of mercury particularly in the mining sector in line with the Minamata Convention continue to be a huge challenge. President ...Published: 19 Nov 2021 at 09:53hrs | 8 | by Staff Reporter
Bulawayo Chiefs open season with controversial victory
Bulawayo Chiefs 1 - 0 TriangleTRIANGLE coach Taurai Mangwiro called his players off the pitch in the 89th minute, to calm them, as they charged at referee Prince Mathumo for denying them a p...Published: 08 Nov 2021 at 05:23hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Give to Caesar what belongs to Caesar
IT IS quite unfortunate that the land reform was politicised. Land resettlement was one of the main reasons for the liberation struggle. The idea was that everyone gets access to land, despite their r...Published: 05 Nov 2021 at 16:17hrs | 8 | by Kudakwashe Gwabanayi
Highlanders one foot in
Highlanders 1 1 Bulawayo CityBULAWAYO Chiefs put up a brave performance to hold Highlanders in a tense Group 2 Chibuku Super Cup tie at Barbourfields Stadium yesterday.Highlanders moved to...Published: 01 Oct 2021 at 07:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Number of war vets needing limbs declines
THE number of ex-combatants needing artificial limbs for injuries sustained during the armed liberation struggle has been falling over the years, the Defence and War Veterans ministry has revealed....Published: 12 Sep 2021 at 08:48hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
G40, MDC Alliance exposed in war vets' arrests
THE chairperson of the Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association (ZNLWVA) Chris Mutsvangwa yesterday poured cold water on the latest attempts to divide war veterans by some G40 elements an...Published: 28 Aug 2021 at 05:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Judiciary being corroded by political expediency
DEAR President Emmerson Mnangagwa,Your Excellency, societal harmony is under threat as the Judiciary, which essentially should be independent from interference, is being corroded by political ...Published: 09 Jun 2021 at 07:17hrs | | by Cyprian Muketiwa Ndawana
Hodzi challenges Chin'ono's acquittal
PROSECUTOR General (PG) Kumbirai Hodzi has filed an application with the High Court challenging the decision by Justice Jesta Charehwa to acquit freelance journalist Hopewell Chin'ono in a case he was...Published: 11 May 2021 at 16:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Executive failing corruption fight
ROSA Parks is not just a name in the United States. She is a torchbearer when it comes to civil rights movements. Parks one day decided not to give her seat to a white person in a public bus. ...Published: 27 Mar 2021 at 09:27hrs | | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Another funeral for Chamisa as his secretary for security and defence dies
The MDC Alliance Secretary for Security and Defence former Police Assistant Commissioner Emmanuel Chimwanda has died. Chimwanda reportedly succumbed to an undisclosed illness in Harare last ni...Published: 02 Jan 2021 at 14:44hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
A Christmas covered in tears
WHILE most Zimbabweans celebrated the birth of Jesus Christ on Christmas Day, going through the annual festive rituals, Mitchell Hunzvi (30) was reflecting and reminiscing over what has been a dreadfu...Published: 27 Dec 2020 at 07:00hrs | | by Emmanuel Kafe and Harmony Agere
When God uncovers mortal men
The true length of a frog is known on the day it dies. Such has been wisdom since time immemorial. Juxtaposing that with the recent deaths of Genius 'Ginimbi' Kadunungure and Lazarus '...Published: 10 Nov 2020 at 12:51hrs | | by Josiah Mucharowana in Pretoria
Zanu-PF blames everything on sanctions
The sanctions which were imposed by the British, the Americans and European countries on Zimbabwe were as a result of human rights abuses and the land which was taken from the white farmers.I ...Published: 23 Oct 2020 at 08:29hrs | | by Leonard Koni
Mnangagwa appointed chief barred from Chivero Chieftainship
HIGH Court judge, Justice Siyabona Musithu has barred Cornelius Chivesani Chengera from assuming Chivero chieftainship.This follows a successful application by one Tendai Chitinhe who is invol...Published: 28 Sep 2020 at 10:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Stock thief fatally assaulted
Four Mwenezi men allegedly teamed up and fatally assaulted a suspected stock thief last week. Simon Matongo (18), Morerest Chivasa (21),Tinashe Machesa (20) and Richardo Moyo (18) from Peter P...Published: 28 Sep 2020 at 06:44hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
How Zanu-PF came into existence
The born-free generation, born after Zimbabwe gained its independence in 1980, has grown up knowing a political system run by the Zanu PF party.Unbeknown to many people, the ruling party, is a...Published: 26 Sep 2020 at 19:17hrs | 2 | by Irvine Sibhona
UMD supports fair, just land reform programme
The Zimbabwean masses have been unequivocally sold out and abandoned by the Zanu-PF government in their quest to be legitimate owners of pieces of land in their motherland. The announcement to...Published: 13 Sep 2020 at 07:18hrs | | by Lovemore Moyo, UMD president
Mnangagwa's former aide appeals for bail
JAILED former President Emmerson Mnangagwa's top aide Douglas Tapfuma yesterday applied for bail pending appeal against conviction and a six-year prison term for criminal abuse of office.Tapfu...Published: 11 Sep 2020 at 17:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Who Owns England?
Who Owns England? The question sounds oblique, when one considers the country's documented long history of "civilisation". One would think that, by now, this question should have long been settled. Ye...Published: 01 Sep 2019 at 14:33hrs | | by Ranga Mataire
Wrong to blame Zimbabwe crisis on war veterans
I have always been a fan of Zimbabwe Independent. It has an excellent record of providing the nation with sound and truthful analyses of the economic situation in Zimbabwe.The last edition of ...Published: 19 Aug 2019 at 11:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa fires Giles Mutsekwa
MDC President Nelson Chamisa has appointed former police Senior Assistant Commissioner Emmanuel Chimwanda as party secretary for defence in his new National Executive Council announced Wednesday....Published: 21 Jun 2019 at 07:50hrs | | by newzimbabwe.com
In memory of Zimbabwe's Independence
On 18th April 1980, Zimbabweans celebrated their Independence both from Britain and from the Ian settler state. The celebration was rather muted because it was the little headmaster, Robert Mugabe, wh...Published: 18 Apr 2019 at 11:46hrs | | by Ngqabutho Mabhena
False start in ZCTU court case
The case involving Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions leadership failed to kick off again yesterday after they applied for further postponement before a Harare magistrate.ZCTU president Peter G...Published: 09 Jan 2019 at 15:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
War vets demand $13.5 billion
As part of the resolutions passed at the just-ended Zanu-PF conference in Esigodini last week, it was agreed that members of the Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association (ZNLWVA) be rewar...Published: 19 Dec 2018 at 07:19hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
War vets storm Mnangagwa office
A GROUP of 20 former freedom fighters calling themselves the War Veterans Welfare Committee yesterday stormed President Emmerson Mnangagwa's Munhumutapa office to hand over a 10-page petition demandin...Published: 19 Dec 2018 at 06:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chenjerai Hunzvi's wife dies
THE widow of national hero Chenjerai Hunzvi, Jenny Hunzi, passed away on Friday and has been declared a provincial heroine.She will be buried at the Mashonaland East Provincial Heroes Acre on ...Published: 16 Dec 2018 at 10:38hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Which way Prof. Ncube?
Somebody observed rather poignantly ,that every cobbler , house wife ,vendor and taxi driver in Zimbabwe is a spontaneous master of economic phenomena , aerodynamics ,football formations and medicine!...Published: 25 Nov 2018 at 07:50hrs | 1 | by Zifiso Masiye
A timeline of how Zimbabwe lost its currency
Today, November 14, marks the 21st anniversary of "Black Friday", the day the Zimbabwe dollar crashed in 1997.We track the Zimdollar's collapse from that fateful November day, and the many des...Published: 14 Nov 2018 at 15:10hrs | 4 | by newZwire with The Source
Zimbabwe Struggle, The Delayed Revolution: an Autobiography
The need to account for multiple narratives in the history of the liberation struggle compelled Andrew Ndlovu's autobiography to proffer his narrative from the front. The book serves to demonstrate th...Published: 01 Nov 2018 at 12:29hrs | 18 | by Brian Maregedze
ZCTU honours 2006 torture victims
THE Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) has honoured its members who were brutally tortured by police on September 13 2006 after spearheading countrywide protests against social injustices by for...Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 07:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
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