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Muddy affair at Zanu-PF conference
HEAVY rains that are pounding Goromonzi have threatened to make the Zanu-PF 18th people's conference a muddy affair.The grounds where the conference will be held are waterlogged and muddy, for...Published: 12 Dec 2019 at 20:02hrs | 914 | by Staff reporter
MDC agree to local mediator, no reforms will be implemented - pointless, fix everything but not seized engine
"Behind-the-scenes and indirect 'talks about the talks' appear to be gathering pace with Chamisa now saying that he will accept mediation by "neutral" locals," reported Dailynews."MDC spokespe...Published: 10 Dec 2019 at 16:53hrs | 1527 | by Wilbert Mukori
US Embassy, MDC to establish think-tank?
The United States Embassy and Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) are reported to be in cahoots in establishing a think-tank organisation intended at masterminding strategies to outwit ZANU PF, come ...Published: 08 Dec 2019 at 14:20hrs | 1655 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa plots final push
THE opposition MDC is ganging up with citizens, civic society, churches and labour to launch a spirited campaign to remove President Emmerson Mnangagwa from power through an initiative they say will b...Published: 03 Dec 2019 at 07:44hrs | 3456 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo's book launch announced
Professor Jonathan Moyo's book Excelgate will be launched on 12 December at the SAPEST Trust offices. The book was done by Moyo, a political science professor, in collaboration with publisher ...Published: 03 Dec 2019 at 07:23hrs | 2842 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mandaza improves Masiyiwa's pay offer to doctors - foolishness, will not end health crisis
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season ...Published: 01 Dec 2019 at 21:38hrs | 13178 | by Nomusa Garikai
Doctors strike: 'It is time to show leadership, people are dying'
The government is still struggling to find a solution to one of the major health crises in Zimbabwe's history, three months after junior doctors went on strike demanding better pay.Sapes Trust...Published: 01 Dec 2019 at 06:10hrs | 799 | by Staff reporter
Parliament walkouts: MPs must serve the national interest
ZANU-PF legislators' decision to boycott the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Public Accounts (PAC) sitting where Sakunda Holdings was expected to give oral evidence regarding how the US$3 billion...Published: 22 Nov 2019 at 18:12hrs | 983 | by Nyasha Chingono
We are stuck in a (Zanu PF and MDC) 'man-made crisis' - they cannot be man-made solution too
"For months now, we have been asking our African brothers and sisters to look into the man-made governance crisis in Zimbabwe and help us restore the dignity of citizens," said MDC President, Nelson C...Published: 20 Nov 2019 at 07:47hrs | 761 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Mnangagwa's Cabinet reshuffle fails to impress
PRESDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's cabinet reshuffle last Friday, where he retained tired and incompetent ministers, including those tainted by corruption allegations, and assigned supposedly fresh minds t...Published: 15 Nov 2019 at 06:18hrs | 261 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's Cabinet reshuffle raises eyebrows
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's Friday Cabinet reshuffle has raised questions about the ruling party's intentions on the Unity Accord and pacifying Matabeleland, analysts have said.Mnangagwa re...Published: 10 Nov 2019 at 08:56hrs | 3081 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt has all but trashed re-engagement drive
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration has effectively abandoned its international re-engagement agenda as evidenced by public confrontations with the European Union (EU) and United States, rem...Published: 08 Nov 2019 at 05:21hrs | 717 | by Staff reporter
US, Zimbabwe rift widens
Foreign Affairs minister Sibusiso Moyo's threat to expel United States ambassador to Zimbabwe Brian Nichols following a row over sanctions has put the country's efforts to re-engage Washington in jeop...Published: 03 Nov 2019 at 06:56hrs | 6731 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa top ally in trouble
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has been dealt yet another blow with US President Donald Trump on Friday adding his close ally, State Security minister Owen Ncube, to the sanctions list.Ncube who...Published: 29 Oct 2019 at 10:37hrs | 2611 | by Staff reporter
MDC @20: The journey continues
TWENTY years after it was formed amid high hopes, the opposition MDC's pathway to power remains hazy amid concerns it lacks the gravitas to mount a formidable challenge to dislodge Zanu-PF from power....Published: 27 Sep 2019 at 07:41hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
ZACC avoids graft-accused Mnangagwa crony
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) has turned a blind eye on alleged corruption involving Sakunda Holdings, a company run by Kuda Tagwirei, President Emmerson Mnangagwa's reported close al...Published: 27 Sep 2019 at 07:14hrs | 519 | by newzimbabwe
Mugabe's legacy now source of competing narratives, polemics
FOLLOWING the death of former president Robert Mugabe in Singapore, competing and contradicting narratives around his divisive legacy have emerged, reflective of the enigmatic and complex personality ...Published: 21 Sep 2019 at 07:31hrs | 572 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's troubled legacy
This name evokes emotions of anger, hatred, regret and revulsion to many. Yet it is also a name that draws a lot of admiration, satisfaction, pride and gratitude to others.In death, just like ...Published: 20 Sep 2019 at 18:16hrs | 340 | by Staff reporter
Is grieving Grace behind Mugabe funeral plans drama?
The controversy swirling around the burial of Zimbabwe's founding leader, Robert Mugabe, centers on his widow, Grace, who has remained dramatically cloaked behind a heavy black veil as she succeeded i...Published: 14 Sep 2019 at 21:56hrs | 5735 | by AP
Mugabe is giving Mnangagwa a headache even in death
Even in death, former Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe remains an Achilles' heel for his successor Emmerson Mnangagwa's legitimacy.Since 1977, Mnangagwa has been on Mugabe's side - first as ...Published: 13 Sep 2019 at 13:46hrs | 3255 | by Staff reporter
Superstition hits Mugabe family
Former President Robert Mugabe's chaotic funeral arrangements have been further blighted by a seemingly excessive adherence to supernatural beliefs with his family refusing to let his casket out of th...Published: 13 Sep 2019 at 06:54hrs | 4930 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe, Tsvangirai died miles away from Zimbabwe's dilapidated death traps
THE death of former president Robert Mugabe - some 8 260 kilometres away from home in far-flung Singapore - is a terrible indictment on his legacy and the state of the country's healthcare institution...Published: 13 Sep 2019 at 06:39hrs | 498 | by Staff reporter
Tracing Mugabe's troubled legacy
This name evokes emotions of anger, hatred, regret and revulsion to many. Yet it is also a name that draws a lot of admiration, satisfaction, pride and gratitude to others.In death, just like ...Published: 13 Sep 2019 at 06:36hrs | 461 | by Staff reporter
Grace will never leave Mugabe's casket until his remains have been interred
A row over Robert Mugabe's final burial site escalated on Thursday, a day after the former president's body was returned to Zimbabwe from Singapore where he died on September 6.A statement by ...Published: 12 Sep 2019 at 20:12hrs | 1604 | by ZimLive
Mugabe nephew warns Mnangagwa
Robert Mugabe's nephew and former Cabinet minister Patrick Zhuwao on Tuesday made a dramatic intervention in the row over where the former Zimbabwe president should be laid to rest, warning that those...Published: 11 Sep 2019 at 21:45hrs | 11006 | by ZimLive
Mugabe burial mystery deepens
FORMER President Robert Mugabe's burial has reportedly been postponed indefinitely as haggling over his burial place rages on, amid fresh developments that chiefs from his Gushungo clan want him burie...Published: 11 Sep 2019 at 06:43hrs | 10188 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe burial 'postponed'
Former President Robert Mugabe's burial slated for Sunday has been postponed, family sources told ZimLive on Tuesday.A funeral service to be attended by foreign dignitaries will, however, stil...Published: 10 Sep 2019 at 18:30hrs | 4337 | by ZimLive
Mugabe's nephew pained by the loss
Robert Mugabe, the former guerrilla hero turned despot who ruled Zimbabwe for 37 years until the military forced him out, has died aged 95.First heralded as a liberator who rid the former Brit...Published: 07 Sep 2019 at 20:10hrs | 1163 | by AFP
Poll ghost haunts Mnangagwa
A NEW case study done by exiled former cabinet minister Jonathan Moyo, a political science professor, in collaboration with publisher Ibbo Mandaza, under his Southern African Political Economy Trust (...Published: 30 Aug 2019 at 08:38hrs | 9257 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's re-engagement goes off the rails
LAST week's damning statement by the United States, European Union and other members of the international community on the human rights situation in Zimbabwe after opposition protests scheduled for Au...Published: 30 Aug 2019 at 08:37hrs | 3742 | by Staff reporter
'As long as Ramaphosa plays big brother to ED, I'm staying put' - see speck in his eye but not log in yours
"As long as Ramaphosa plays big brother to an illegal president (Emmerson Mnangagwa) then we (Zimbabweans in SA) are staying put and not going anywhere," twittered Kudakwashe KadenheThere is n...Published: 29 Aug 2019 at 14:30hrs | 2672 | by Nomusa Garikai
Jonathan Moyo's Exclegate 'expose how ED rigged elections' - rubbish, don't learn tango from fiddler crab
"A NEW case study done by exiled former cabinet minister Jonathan Moyo, a political science professor, in collaboration with publisher Ibbo Mandaza, under his Southern African Political Economy Trust ...Published: 27 Aug 2019 at 15:22hrs | 7440 | by Wilbert Mukori
Lupane East by-election and the need for political reforms
ZIMBABWE staged three by-elections in Matabeleland North last weekend, an opposition stronghold since the formation of the MDC in 1999, but all three were won by Zanu-PF, bringing under the spotlight ...Published: 10 Aug 2019 at 11:48hrs | 998 | by Staff reporter
One year on: What has changed for Zimbabwe?
A year ago, with Zimbabwe's longtime ruler Robert Mugabe out of the picture, the troubled southern African country seemed to have taken a turn for the better.Mugabe's successor and the incumbent, ...Published: 03 Aug 2019 at 09:50hrs | 278 | by Al-Jezeera News
'MDC went into GNU with no plan, sat and ate' - amused and irritated SADC in equal measure
"Chamisa: We went into GNU with no plan, sat and ate!" screamed the headlines in New Zimbabwe.Every SADC leader involved in the Zimbabwe political crisis during the 2008 to 2013 GNU was amused...Published: 14 Jul 2019 at 22:41hrs | 2617 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Mudenda calls for new GNU - last was soft-landing for Zanu PF, not this time
Zanu PF Speaker of parliament, Jacob Mudenda, calls for the formation of a new GNU."We enjoyed serenity of politics during the GNU. That spirit must come back. It must come back."I pray to...Published: 18 Jun 2019 at 07:33hrs | 6679 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Mnangagwa now mirror of Mugabe's patronage system
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's recent appointments of High Court Judge Justice Loice Matanda-Moyo to lead the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) and Gerald Mlotshwa to the Sports and Recreatio...Published: 07 Jun 2019 at 07:51hrs | 1983 | by Staff reporter
Dumiso Dabengwa: An epitome of courage, endurance and integrity
HE used to call me at random and odd times; almost always late at night. The last time he did was at 11pm several weeks ago. He wanted to tell me he was in South Africa and was not well. This was the ...Published: 01 Jun 2019 at 15:55hrs | 1863 | by Siphosami Malunga
New MDC leadership must self-introspect
NOW that the MDC elective congress has been conducted, resolving the party's leadership dispute in the process, the party should now focus on playing a critical role towards resolving Zimbabwe's intra...Published: 31 May 2019 at 08:08hrs | 1447 | by Staff reporter
Why the govt's call for national unity will fail
CALLS for national unity have been commonplace in the past two decades, but have taken on a new urgency since November 2017.However, since November 2017, and the coup, these calls are increasi...Published: 10 May 2019 at 14:08hrs | 492 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe opposition and lost opportunities
Election 2018 was largely considered a landmark event for the different meanings and opportunities that were attached to it, particularly for the new faces in the presidential race, Emmerson Mnangagwa...Published: 29 Apr 2019 at 06:48hrs | 363 | by Reason Wafawarova
Intra-party hostilities sink Chamisa's MDC at polls
THE defeat of the MDC Alliance in last weekend's Ward 28 council by-election in Cowdray Park, Bulawayo, to Zanu-PF is symptomatic of the problems bedeviling the country's biggest opposition party, whi...Published: 05 Apr 2019 at 10:02hrs | 1404 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's security providing security cover and guard for Obasanjo
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's government has said it secretly arranged security details for visiting former Nigerian President Olesugun Obasanjo who was in the country for the launch of a book he co-...Published: 02 Apr 2019 at 13:34hrs | 5521 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa placed Obasanjo under surveillance during Zimbabwe visit
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's government has said it secretly arranged security details for visiting former Nigerian President Olesugun Obasanjo who was in the country for the launch of a book he...Published: 02 Apr 2019 at 08:22hrs | 16556 | by Staff reporter
Obasanjo learns the hard way in Zimbabwe
FORMER Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo - who supported Zimbabwe's liberation struggle in the late 1970s when he was a military ruler - learnt it the hard way that democracy is not yet working in ...Published: 29 Mar 2019 at 12:10hrs | 2875 | by Dumisani Muleya
Did Britain back Mnangagwa?
Nyathi said that in the meeting, Laing "sounded to be really forcing a line that Mnangagwa is the person to work with, and she wanted our opinions around that".Zanu-PF's opponents have alleged...Published: 29 Mar 2019 at 12:08hrs | 2157 | by Rahul Nagvekar
A dying (public) intellectualism in Zimbabwe
THE late Masipula Sithole taught me (and many others) how to perceive and think about our country, Zimbabwe's politics.Not only formally via the university lecture room, but also more signific...Published: 23 Mar 2019 at 05:54hrs | 1634 | by Takura Zhangazha
Piece-meal austerity without reforms a wild goose chase
AUSTERITY measures introduced by Finance minister Mthuli Ncube under the Transitional Stabilisation Programme (TSP) will have a devastating effect on the economy and is at variance with Zanu-PF's elec...Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 07:02hrs | 1626 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa in pole position as MDC Alliance congress beckons
The MDC Alliance will elect new leaders at congress in May - a process which will make or break the country's biggest opposition party. While the nomination process has not yet started, party leader N...Published: 18 Mar 2019 at 09:45hrs | 2003 | by Staff reporter
Harare should not expect bailout from Ramaphosa
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa arrives in the country today to co-chair the Bi-National Commission (BNC) with President Emmerson Mnangagwa whose administration is desperate for a cash injecti...Published: 11 Mar 2019 at 15:02hrs | 1956 | by Staff reporter
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