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WATCH: PLO Lumumba calls for a GNU in Zimbabwe
Pan African activist Professor Patrick Loch Otieno Lumumba has called upon the SADC and African Union to step in and intervene in the Zimbabwe human rights abuse crisis that has hogged limelight globa...Published: 1 hr ago | 803 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mthwakazi embarks on land audit exercise
Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) has embarked on a land and mine audit in Matabeleland and Midland provinces to unearth what it says is unfair distribution of the resources at the expense of deserving l...Published: 3 hrs ago | 271 | by Staff reporter
GNU best way out of Zimbabwe crisis
UNITED Kingdom-based lawyer and blogger Alex Magaisa last month published a list of beneficiaries of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) farm mechanisation programme, that included cabinet ministers, Z...Published: 11 hrs ago | 1597 | by Staff reporter
Region turns heat on Mnangagwa
SOUTH African President Cyril Ramaphosa has voiced his concern over the deteriorating situation in Zimbabwe that has seen a spike in State-sponsored abductions, arrests and torture of opposition activ...Published: 11 hrs ago | 4501 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, Zanu-PF's shamelessness know no bounds
IT cannot get any worse than this, 40 years after independence, the Zanu-PF government wants to expurgate political parties in what is clearly a push towards a one-party State.On Wednesday, th...Published: 11 hrs ago | 402 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: South Africa's ANC takes Mnangagwa head on over human rights abuses
South African liberation Movement the African National Congress has dispatched Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa to confront ZANU PF leader and Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa over the alleged...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 13:25hrs | 6397 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'Detractors, rogues will not stop us,' says Mnangagwa
My Fellow Zimbabweans, The world is in crisis. Borders have been closed, trade has ceased and businesses negatively impacted by the deadly Covid-19 pandemic. The virus breaches borders, and kn...Published: 05 Aug 2020 at 08:10hrs | 433 | by ED Mnangagwa
Masvingo dumps colonial streets names
Masvingo City Council has completed renaming key streets in the ancient city after the country's living and departed heroes of the struggle against colonial rule that culminated with the attainment of...Published: 05 Aug 2020 at 08:07hrs | 678 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF claims to respect constitutional provisions
THE Global Compensation Agreement (GCA) on payment of improvements on land acquired under the land reform redistribution programme is a milestone and a significant phase in the trajectory of the natio...Published: 05 Aug 2020 at 08:05hrs | 293 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's Rhodesian-style terror tactics condemned
The Zimbabwe Communist Party has condemned President Emmerson Mnangagwa way of dealing with activists and journalists in the country labeling it a Rhodesian terror tactic style. The General Se...Published: 04 Aug 2020 at 15:35hrs | 2113 | by Mandla Ndlovu
What happened to Zimbabwe - how could a principled Chimurenga/Umvukela produce such an uncaring rogue and brutal regime?
Last night (2 August 2020), I did something I had ceased doing in quite a long time - watched something on the state broadcaster, ZBC (Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation), other than the news and some ...Published: 03 Aug 2020 at 14:47hrs | 1406 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Covid 19 deaths and infection figures sparks a lot of fear: ICAC
A non-governmental organisation - International Coalition Against Coronavirus (ICAC) South African Chapter leader Chanda Chose has said the inflated figures around the Coivi...Published: 03 Aug 2020 at 11:49hrs | 1765 | by Stephen Jakes
Mnangagwa mustn't politic, but engage health workers
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's weekend call on striking health workers to return to their workstations as their grievances are "being looked into" doesn't sound genuine given government's lackadaisica...Published: 03 Aug 2020 at 07:59hrs | 684 | by Staff reporter
July 31 widens Mnangagwa, Chiwenga rift
The rift between President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his deputy Constantino Chiwenga that was exposed by the July 31 protests against the deteriorating economic and political situation in the country is ...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 09:44hrs | 11486 | by Staff reporter
Decaying infrastructure drags Zimbabwe to Stone Age
ZIMBABWE is lagging behind other regional countries in infrastructural development and would require huge investment to build robust infrastructure and catch up with continental leaders, a new report ...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 09:17hrs | 224 | by Staff reporter
Abductions rock region
THE MDC Alliance claims unknown men abducted eight of their Matabeleland South members last week as cases of enforced disappearances climb.The incidents came a week after an MDC Alliance membe...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 09:16hrs | 558 | by Staff reporter
Exiled Zipra ex-combatants slam Shiri
FORMER Zipra cadres yesterday said they were still bitter with the late Agriculture minister Perrance Shiri because he commandeered the North Korea-trained 5th Brigade military unit that committed atr...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 09:01hrs | 742 | by Staff reporter
Colonel Mugwisi buried
Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) director of public relations, Colonel Overson Mugwisi, was a hardworker and remained loyal to the liberation war before and after independence, Minister of State for Hara...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 08:53hrs | 555 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe election system free and fair and adopted by the world.
Despite the negative publicity Zimbabwe receives from only the west its electoral system has actually been adopted by so many countries and this model is now used worldwide. The concept of election ob...Published: 01 Aug 2020 at 21:23hrs | 3228 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Mnangagwa begs health workers
Health workers should put the nation first in the fight to contain Covid-19, President Mnangagwa said yesterday when assuring them that Government was attending to their grievances. In a movin...Published: 01 Aug 2020 at 07:53hrs | 6793 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Chiwenga tells of his thieving days with Perrance Shiri
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa, his two deputies and several cabinet ministers and senior government officials visited the Harare home of the late lands and agriculture minister Air Chief Marshal (Rtd) ...Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 18:47hrs | 15081 | by Staff reporter
FULL TEXT: General Sibusiso Moyo showers rare praises on Perrance Shiri
On behalf of the Deputy Minister, Dr David Musabayana, the Permanent Secretary, Ambassador James Manzou, the entire Ministry staff - including all Zimbabwean Ambassadors and diplomats serving abroad -...Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 12:54hrs | 4697 | by Sibusiso Busi Moyo
'Mnangagwa urinates on the graves of Zimbabwe's heroes' Malema says
South African opposition party, Economic Freedom Fighters, have accused President Emmerson Mnangagwa of undermining the war of liberation that was waged by Zimbabweans through signing a deal to compen...Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 11:31hrs | 7132 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Perence Shiri the Zimbabwean own hero
Perrence Shiri was known best as Zimbabwean Air Chief Marshal. He was a Military officer Zimbabwe had ever had. Perrence Shiri was born in Gweru on the 11th January 1955. He was born as Bigboy Samson ...Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 08:58hrs | 2755 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Zesa workers rally behind Gata
ZIMBABWE Electricity Supply Authority (Zesa) Holdings employees have taken sides with the parastatal's embattled executive chairperson, Sydney Gata, who is being investigated for corruption.Ga...Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 07:57hrs | 1914 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa vows to put down protests
AHEAD of tomorrow's planned mass demonstrations, President Emmerson Mnangagwa has warned that security forces will deal robustly with all unsanctioned protests, the Daily News reports.This com...Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 07:33hrs | 267 | by Staff reporter
Shiri died in his car while trying to get help
LANDS, Agriculture, Water and Rural Resettlement minister Perrance Shiri, pictured, died in the wee hours of yesterday, days after his driver succumbed to the lethal coronavirus that is fast getting o...Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 07:31hrs | 820 | by Staff reporter
3 in court over illegal gathering
THREE people yesterday appeared in court facing allegations of staging an illegal demonstration at Boka Auction Floors in Harare demanding the release of fellow Hopewell Chin'ono and Jacob Ngarivhume ...Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 07:28hrs | 421 | by Staff reporter
Death of Gukurahundi commander splits Zimbabwe into two
We note with sadness that while we in Matabeleland remember, and painfully reflect on Perrence Shiri savagery and barbarism during Matabeleland genocide, Shona people are, without remorse or restraint...Published: 30 Jul 2020 at 14:33hrs | 7808 | by Israel Dube
'Gukurahundi victims celebrate the death of Perrance Shiri'
Victims of the Gukurahundi genocide that took place in the 1980s are celebrating the death of former 5th Brigade Commander Perrance Shiri, Ibhetshu lika Zulu Secretary-General Mbuso Fuzwayo has said. ...Published: 30 Jul 2020 at 11:50hrs | 1884 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa says 'opposition parties are terrorists'
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has described MDC Alliance and all opposition political parties backing the Friday demonstrations as terrorists seeking to subvert the Constitution and usurp power illegal...Published: 30 Jul 2020 at 09:05hrs | 860 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa warns against demos
President Mnangagwa yesterday warned that the security forces "will be vigilant and on high alert" to deal with any attempts to destabilise the constitutionally-elected Government or create a public h...Published: 30 Jul 2020 at 08:53hrs | 1078 | by Staff reporter
'Security forces ready to deal with demos'
President Mnangagwa yesterday warned that security forces "will be vigilant and on high alert" to deal with any attempts to destabilise the constitutionally-elected Government or create a public healt...Published: 30 Jul 2020 at 08:50hrs | 238 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF Politburo Member found in possession of #31July protest fliers
A SENIOR Zanu-PF official and Politburo member, Cleveria Chizema was Wednesday suspended from the party with immediate effect after she was found in possession of fliers and placards for the planned J...Published: 30 Jul 2020 at 08:48hrs | 905 | by newzimbabwe
Perrence Shiri's cause of death takes a new twist
Perrance Shiri, the former army general blamed for the deaths of thousands of minority Ndebele people in post-independence war massacres has died aged 65.Initial reports alleged that Shiri had...Published: 29 Jul 2020 at 17:55hrs | 8646 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa mourns Minister Shiri
President Mnangagwa has expressed deep sadness over the death of Lands, Agriculture, Water and Rural Resettlement Minister Air Chief Marshal Perrance Shiri.Minister Shiri died early this...Published: 29 Jul 2020 at 17:13hrs | 782 | by Staff reporter
Nehanda statue erection challenged
A HARARE man wants the High Court to stop the erection of the statue of Zimbabwe's late heroine, Mbuya Nehanda, in the capital, arguing the government had bypassed traditional rites by not engaging he...Published: 29 Jul 2020 at 17:07hrs | 1790 | by Staff reporter
Perrance Shiri untimely death - evoking my traumatic childhood memories of witnessing Gukurahundi genocide
When I woke up this morning, there were two main things on my mind: to check if there was still Internet connectivity, as there had been widespread rumours last evening of an impending plan by the Zim...Published: 29 Jul 2020 at 15:09hrs | 1340 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
The mighty Air-Marshall assassinated by the global army: quick and easy- yave nyama yekugocha!!!
He lies cold in his mortuary air-tight bag, tight not to continue to spread the lethal virus he succumbed to. We delight at the thought that even people who appear to be immortal are indeed mortal and...Published: 29 Jul 2020 at 15:06hrs | 5772 | by Nomazulu Thata
Mugabe coup plotter dies
Zimbabwe agriculture minister who was a key figure when Robert Mugabe was ousted via a 'bloodless' coup dies aged 65Zimbabwe's Agriculture Minister Perence Shiri has died, according to an anno...Published: 29 Jul 2020 at 13:39hrs | 1347 | by Staff reporter
Perrance Shiri's death: A double loss to Gukurahundi victims
The Matabeleland All-Stakeholders People's Convention (known as Phutheho) has described the passing away of former 5TH Brigade Commander Perrance as a double loss to victims of the Gukurahundi Genocid...Published: 29 Jul 2020 at 13:33hrs | 1457 | by Mandla Ndlovu
In defence of the July 31, 2020 protests
IN life there is only one constant; that is change. But for Zimbabweans of different generations from that of Father Zimbabwe, through to the born "frees" and the millenniums the common constant is th...Published: 29 Jul 2020 at 13:06hrs | 508 | by Danmore Sithole
Zimbabwe heroes, ZDF holidays to be held online
THERE will be no public gatherings during the Heroes Day and Zimbabwe Defence Forces Day holidays and commemorations will be held online to curb the spread of Covid-19. The country is set to c...Published: 29 Jul 2020 at 09:16hrs | 116 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: Gukurahundi Commander Perrance Shiri dies
Former Commander of the notorious Fifth Brigade, Retrired Air Marshall Perrance Shiri has died. Shiri was admitted to a private hospital on Tuesday battling with Coronavirus symptoms. ...Published: 29 Jul 2020 at 06:45hrs | 8399 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'Mthuli Ncube cannot revive the economy within a few years'
Zanu-PF Politburo member, Tshinga Dube, has said Finance and Economic Development Minister, Professor Mthuli Ncube, cannot revive Zimbabwe's economy, which has been mismanaged for 40 years in just a f...Published: 28 Jul 2020 at 17:47hrs | 2814 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's regime should not insult Zimbabweans' intelligence
On 25 July 2020, I penned an article to the effect that, most of us who are bravery and nrelentingly standing up, and speaking up (in the process, placing our own lives in grave danger, but for a very...Published: 28 Jul 2020 at 11:21hrs | 2162 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Chamisa aligned activist 'abducted' over July 31
BULAWAYO MDC Alliance youth activist Takunda Madzana was on Sunday night allegedly abducted by suspected State security agents who went on to quiz him on the planned July 31 protests.Governmen...Published: 28 Jul 2020 at 09:33hrs | 1137 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo reveals ZANU PF's source of funding
The ruling ZANU PF is being bankrolled by public funds through the state owned enterprises, Professor Jonathan Moyo has revealed. Moyo, who was speaking to journalist Zenzele Ndebele, sa...Published: 28 Jul 2020 at 09:23hrs | 10748 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zanu-PF warns against plot to overthrow government
THE ZANU-PF Midlands Province Youth League has condemned the MDC-Alliance's plot to cause mass national chaos through planned violent nationwide demonstrations on July 31 as a wider plan to overthrow ...Published: 27 Jul 2020 at 20:16hrs | 2375 | by Staff reporter
Saved from the bad boys by bad boys
On Thursday 23 July prominent lawyer Alex Magaisa had an expose on the farm mechanisation scandal of 2007 of farm equipment that was meant to benefit the then newly resettled farmers in the government...Published: 27 Jul 2020 at 20:04hrs | 1414 | by Sandra Bvungidzire
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