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Once, rather vote for monkeys just to be rid of Zanu PF; now monkeys rather than imploding CCC
"A FORMER AFRICAN LEADER URGES MNANGAGWA TO STEP DOWN" screamed the headlines by Correspondent in WINDHOEK NAMIBIA circulating in social media."Several former Heads Of States and Government wh...Published: 26 Feb 2024 at 21:49hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Reunification sought by Tsvangirai 5 months before he died now in tatters
The implosion of CCC in Nelson Chamisa's hands is telling not only because it puts paid to Morgan Tsvangirai's widely publicised [see attached videos] last-ditch efforts - just five months before his ...Published: 19 Feb 2024 at 12:48hrs | 2 | by Jonathan Moyo
Jacob Mafume's mayoral victory exposes infighting in Chamisa's camp
WE close the year with a circus at Town House in Harare, where Jacob Mafume last week bounced back as Harare mayor.He was elected as the capital city's third mayor in just four months and this...Published: 27 Dec 2023 at 17:28hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Hands off King Lobengula, he was not a Zimbabwean!
Unformed, ignorant and reckless Zimbabwe satirists, journalists, whatever they call themselves, should be advised that His Majesty, King Lobengula of Matabeleland was not a Zimbabwean. Ingqungqulu Ema...Published: 24 Dec 2023 at 09:46hrs | 15 | by Israel Dube
Zimbabwe's main opposition implodes, handing Zanu-PF full control
Just over a month after disputed general elections in Zimbabwe, the main opposition party, Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC), appears to be imploding as a renegade outfit starts recalling parliament...Published: 10 Oct 2023 at 18:30hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa and the death of Gukurahundi as a campaign trump card
DEVELOPMENT milestones achieved in the short stint of the Second Republic in the Matabeleland region have busted the opposition's political ideological bubble that was hollow of tangibles but inflated...Published: 23 Jul 2023 at 08:31hrs | 1 | by Vincent Gono
Mnangagwa's cost-of-living nightmare terribly deepens
NINE weeks before Zimbabwe's general elections, President Emmerson Mnangagwa faces a moment of truth as the imploding economy plunges the country into its third hyperinflation in 15 years amid rising ...Published: 18 Jun 2023 at 15:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's CCC bars former Bosso chairman
THE Nelson Chamisa-led Citizens Coalition for Change preferred candidates for the Bulawayo mayoral and deputy mayoral positions, former Education Minister David Coltart and Dumisani Nkomo suffered los...Published: 11 Jun 2023 at 21:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Polad a tool to sanitise Mnangagwa legitimacy
FORMATION of the Political Actors Dialogue (Polad) in 2019 was primarily meant to give President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration a veneer of legitimacy after narrowly winning the disputed 2018 gen...Published: 12 Feb 2023 at 07:27hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnanaggwa haunted by 2017 coup skeletons
NEW information emerging from Zanu-PF corridors indicates that the current factional fights in the ruling party are emanating from a 2017 power-sharing deal gone sour, NewsDay has gathered.Pre...Published: 18 Jul 2022 at 19:27hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's ailing govt splurges millions on ministers
GOVERNMENT will soon splurge millions of United States (US) dollars to buy luxury homes for Cabinet ministers and their deputies at a time President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration is ...Published: 01 Jul 2022 at 19:45hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa blames Mnangagwa
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is being haunted by the 2018 legitimacy crisis that has seen the economy imploding and plunging the country into chaos, opposition Citizens' Coalition for Change leader Ne...Published: 13 May 2022 at 19:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa urges Zimbabwean pupils to learn and manufacture guns
UTTERANCES by President Emmerson Mnangagwa encouraging students to learn to manufacture guns and bombs have been widely criticised.The averements were captured on camera by state broadcaster, ...Published: 12 May 2022 at 06:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Lifting lid on Gukurahundi exposes opposition's ideological bankruptcy
ICONIC Pan-African philosopher Mwalimu Julius Nyerere once opined that those that are politically and intellectually bankrupt turn to ethnicity and religion as their major tool for mobilisation....Published: 17 Mar 2022 at 05:43hrs | 1 | by Vincent Gono
WATCH: SA govt sets up massive roadblocks, catches undocumented Zimbabweans
The South African Department of Home Affairs, SAPS and SADF have reportedly set up a massive roadblock between Hammanskraal and Kranshop in preparation for mass deportation of undocumented Zimbab...Published: 02 Jan 2022 at 16:44hrs | 17 | by Staff Reporter
SA permit holders mount fresh appeal
LAWYERS representing about 180 000 Zimbabwean special exemption permit (ZEP) holders in South Africa yesterday said they were planning to mount a fresh appeal to protect their clients' rights followin...Published: 24 Dec 2021 at 16:42hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF imploding now?
IN 2016, the late President Robert Mugabe reacted angrily to details contained in a document titled, Blue Ocean — Taking Back Zanu-PF, and labelled war veterans backing his successor Emmerson Mnanga...Published: 16 Dec 2021 at 23:31hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa resorts to Mugabe tactics
A panicky president Emmerson Mnangagwa has resorted to bussing supporters to impromptu rallies as a way of creating a picture of political popularity and to intimidate internal rivals within Zanu-PF t...Published: 07 Nov 2021 at 07:55hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Name, shame exercise divides Zanu-PF
GOVERNMENT's name and shame operation targeting companies and individuals accused of fuelling the galloping foreign currency parallel exchange rate has triggered fierce fights within Zanu-PF, with som...Published: 09 Oct 2021 at 07:33hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's contested legacy far from settled
TWO years after the death of former president Robert Mugabe, there remains no consensus regarding his legacy, with conflicting perceptions of the liberator-turned-despot dominating debate whenever his...Published: 18 Sep 2021 at 19:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Matemadanda fired for 'verbal diarrhoea decimating MDC A' - demand now is for credible opposition
"Zanu PF has relieved Victor Matemadanda from the political commissar post over incompetence and his verbal diarrhoea remarks on the decimation of the opposition MDC Alliance," reported Bulawayo24....Published: 27 Mar 2021 at 06:43hrs | 1 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Who gains from the public shaming of Kembo Mohadi?
ZIMBABWE'S second Vice-President Kembo Mohadi was caught in a kompromat trap. Recordings of phone calls full of lurid sexual banter, thanks to intercepts that were almost certainly the work of a State...Published: 16 Mar 2021 at 06:29hrs | | by N Nyoni
MDC-A imploding
The occurrences within the MDC-A have left people wondering if Nelson Chamisa has finally met up with Karma and is being beaten up with what he dug up. In Shona we have a proverb that says "akarumwa n...Published: 05 Mar 2021 at 08:21hrs | | by Prosperity Mzila
Chivayo sister, wife in social media row
CONTROVERSIAL businessman, Wicknell Chivayo's family is imploding with his wife, Sonja Madzikanda accusing her late mother-in-law of bewitching the couple's ‘autistic' infant son.This was re...Published: 04 Mar 2021 at 06:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Zanu-PF to blame for COVID-19 deaths'
MDC ALLIANCE vice-president Tendai Biti has accused President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government of deliberately imprisoning opponents and critics in COVID-19-infested jails as a way of exterminating the...Published: 22 Jan 2021 at 06:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe has voluntarily become the 10th province of South Africa
After protracted and emotional denials by Zanupf leaders that Zimbabwe is a country in crisis, masses of Zimbabweans that were stuck at Beitbridge border post a few weeks ago exposed Zimbabwe not only...Published: 21 Jan 2021 at 13:34hrs | 1 | by Israel Dube
Biti claims Mnangagwa want to exterminate rivals through COVID-19
MDC ALLIANCE vice president Tendai Biti has accused the Emmerson Mnangagwa led government of deliberately imprisoning opponents and critics in Covid-19 infested jails to try and exterminate them throu...Published: 21 Jan 2021 at 06:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
How to kill a country
Nearly forty years ago Ian Smith, the Prime Minister of Rhodesia, became the first and only white colonial ruler to break away from the British Crown. He had tired of London's nagging about the subjug...Published: 13 Jan 2021 at 16:49hrs | 3 | by Samantha Power
Thugs in Zanu PF soiling the good name of the party
In this time of DCC elections, a lot of hero-worshipping and name dropping within the party is rife. Many people are abusing the name of the president in order to gain momentum. Some in provinces are ...Published: 12 Nov 2020 at 13:04hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
'Zanu PF has mastered art of rigging can't be removed with ballot' - rubbish, above all else, they are mortals
Albert Einstein defined insanity as "doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result." He was right! What he should have said too, is how easy it is to fall into this tra...Published: 19 Oct 2020 at 08:10hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Chamisa's MDC is imploding
Zimbabwe's main opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change Alliance (MDC-A), is imploding as the country's ruling Zanu-PF conspires with a tiny MDC splinter group, the Movement for Democrati...Published: 04 Oct 2020 at 17:21hrs | 1 | by Peter Fabricius
Zanu-PF loses out on goodwill over its stark denialist attitude
UTTERANCES by Zanu-PF acting spokesperson Patrick Chinamasa (pictured) that neighbouring South Africa's ruling party, the African National Congress (ANC), has no mandate to intervene in Zimbabwe's mul...Published: 18 Sep 2020 at 07:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe striking terribly hard in death
LAST week marked the first anniversary of the death of Robert Gabriel Mugabe, independent Zimbabwe's first president. Arguably one of the world's most shrewd and controversial politicians, the "larger...Published: 11 Sep 2020 at 07:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe, UK firm partnership to boost local capital markets
ZIMBABWE'S capital markets, which have been confining investors to limited options as chronic challenges buffeting the imploding economy ate into companies' earnings, has received a new lease of life ...Published: 23 Jun 2019 at 17:28hrs | 20 | by Staff Reporter
Crackdown a crude violation of rights
The scathing bail ruling by a High Court judge condemning the police over their shoddy investigations into the alleged plot to unseat President Emmerson Mnangagwa must lead the country's law enforceme...Published: 09 Jun 2019 at 09:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa must urgently act on worsening economic crisis
THE political and socio-economic crises in Zimbabwe is slowly edging towards the tipping point as espoused by the Registrar-General (RG) Office's failure to issue passports and standard national ID ca...Published: 29 Apr 2019 at 07:10hrs | | by Editorial - Newsday
Calls for salary, wage adjustments intensify
The Institute of People Management of Zimbabwe (IMPZ) has called for an upward review on the taxable wage threshold from RTGS$350 to cushion workers from the rising cost of living.In the 2019 ...Published: 15 Apr 2019 at 06:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe inflation rate surges to 59,4% in February
ZIMBABWE'S year-on-year inflation for February 2019 as measured by the all-items consumer price index (CPI)grew by 2,49 percentage points to 59,39% driven by food and non-alcoholic beverages, the Zimb...Published: 17 Mar 2019 at 08:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa under pressure to fire incompetent ministers
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is under pressure from senior Zanu-PF officials to reshuffle cabinet, which has failed to turn around the imploding economy, the Zimbabwe Independent understands.M...Published: 22 Feb 2019 at 09:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's utterances have Mugabe's yesteryear echoes
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's recent utterances that government would take unspecified action on lawyers providing free legal advice and doctors voluntarily attending to victims of last month's viole...Published: 22 Feb 2019 at 09:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
The ball is firmly in Mnangagwa's court
The ball is now firmly in President Emmerson Mnangagwa's court to ensure that his mooted dialogue with opposition leader Nelson Chamisa and other key stakeholders kicks off soon, and in earnest - with...Published: 25 Jan 2019 at 00:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa, Mnangagwa talks offer last chance for Zimbabwe
The ball is now firmly in President Mnangagwa's court to ensure that his mooted dialogue with opposition leader Nelson Chamisa and other stakeholders kicks off soon, and in earnest - with - out allowi...Published: 24 Jan 2019 at 08:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa spends US$25m on luxury jet
ANALYSTS yesterday ridiculed President Emmerson Mnangagwa's five-nation tour of Eurasia at a time the country was imploding due to severe economic difficulties, as well as his penchant for luxury as h...Published: 15 Jan 2019 at 06:39hrs | | by Staff Reporter
War veterans threaten businesses against price hikes
War veterans have threatened to "deal" with business people who are they alleged were making massive profits through "unjustifiable" increase of prices.This comes after President Emmerson Mnan...Published: 14 Jan 2019 at 15:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa, Mnangagwa dialogue - MDC Alliance affiliates desperate
The National Reclamation Assembly (NRA), an affiliate organisation of the MDC Alliance, has also piled pressure on the main political actors in the country to immediately consider dialogue to save the...Published: 12 Jan 2019 at 17:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe approaching point of no return
Long-suffering Zimbabweans should brace themselves for more price hikes and shortages of basic goods, after stressed companies said yesterday that they were left with an average of about 10 days' wort...Published: 12 Jan 2019 at 17:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Govt holds fuel crisis meeting
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's under-fire government yesterday held an emergency meeting over the country's worsening fuel crisis.The debilitating fuel shortages have now resulted in desperate...Published: 10 Jan 2019 at 08:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Motlanthe proposed GNU will NOT 'move Zimbabwe forward' - stop trading bronze for gold
"PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is in a catch-22 situation over whether to implement recommendations of the Motlanthe commission of inquiry into the August 1 post-election violence, which urged him to e...Published: 02 Jan 2019 at 15:34hrs | 1 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
'Sanctions on Zanu PF will remain' says Canada - pressure on ED to step down is mounting
President Mnangagwa rigged the recent elections and is therefore illegitimate. It is now four months since the rigged elections and if he thought he was going to get away with it; he was wrong. ...Published: 30 Nov 2018 at 21:55hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
Chamisa pushes for talks with Mnangagwa
As Zimbabwe's economy continues to deteriorate, opposition leader Nelson Chamisa cranked up the political heat on President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his ruling Zanu-PF yesterday - calling for the immedi...Published: 30 Nov 2018 at 11:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
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