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Chiwenga advised to sieze total Zimbabwe power
No nonsense vice president, Rtd General Constantino Chiwenga, might be forced to sieze total Zimbabwe power at all costs amid reported growing suspicion by his personal military advisor and confidant,...Published: 21 Sep 2018 at 07:14hrs | 37605 | by Itai Mushekwe/ Mary-Kate Kahari
US, Australia endorse tourism brand Zimbabwe
AUSTRALIAN and United States' consuls met tour operators in Hwange and Victoria Falls to reaffirm their countries' renewed support for Zimbabwe as a safe destination. The US leads the arrivals...Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 06:39hrs | 438 | by Staff reporter
What does investment look like on the ground in Zimbabwe?
LAST week I was at the African Studies Association of the UK (ASA) conference in Birmingham. I was co-hosting, with my colleague Jeremy Lind (whose earlier blog this one draws from), a fantastic strea...Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 06:31hrs | 355 | by Ian Scoones
MDC mayors have to satisfy national standards- Zvidzai
MDC Alliance senior official Sesel Zvidzai has said MDC mayors have to satisfy two sets of standards. He said the national standard that requires only one to be a councillor to qualify for ele...Published: 11 Sep 2018 at 08:22hrs | 1296 | by Stephen Jakes
Why the party is always supreme
Political parties are constructed in order to conquer and exercise political power. The political party does the conquering but the Government does the exercising of the power. Therefore, the question...Published: 11 Sep 2018 at 06:34hrs | 230 | by Nick Mangwana
Bosso claim braging rights
Highlanders 3-0 Dynamos HIGHLANDERS fans finally found something to smile about after their team ended a three-match winless streak by thrashing traditional rivals Dynamos in a rescheduled Match D...Published: 10 Sep 2018 at 06:40hrs | 1205 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe's future is bright,' says Mnangagwa
The future is bright after the 2018 elections renewed the confidence of global powerhouses like China and the European Union in Zimbabwe, with the international community ready to assist the socio-eco...Published: 09 Sep 2018 at 08:08hrs | 273 | by Staff reporter
SA restaurant chain to expand footprint in Zimbabwe
SOUTH AFRICAN fast-food giant Barcelos will invest $1,5 million and open an additional four outlets in Zimbabwe over the next 12 months, according to an official.After opening a 100-seat resta...Published: 07 Sep 2018 at 07:13hrs | 1285 | by Staff reporter
3 'prophets' jailed for stocktheft
Three self-proclaimed "prophets" here have been jailed for an effective nine years each, after they stole a beast worth $500 and slaughtered it to feed their congregants. The trio - Matarirano...Published: 03 Sep 2018 at 06:11hrs | 266 | by Staff reporter
Jockeying for Mnangagwa Cabinet posts gets nasty
Jockeying for Cabinet posts is turning nasty, with some of those eyeing positions in President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration resorting to a vicious propaganda campaign to undermine other contend...Published: 01 Sep 2018 at 21:14hrs | 3824 | by Staff reporter
Simba Makoni, Nkosana Moyo emerged from defeat far, far better than Chamisa
I HOPE Chamisa's simmering and smarting hordes are now settled, after what by now should be a long enough cooling period. He is himself showing signs of recovering from zealous political Pentecostalis...Published: 01 Sep 2018 at 09:03hrs | 1417 | by Igomombe
Sadc petitioned to re-establish tribaunal
THE Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition (CiCZ) is petitioning Sadc seeking the re-establishment of the Sadc Tribunal to deal with what it describes as the country's legitimacy crisis.CiCZ said the Ju...Published: 29 Aug 2018 at 06:55hrs | 320 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF's bid to amend Constitution faces hurdles
ZANU-PF's bid to amend the Constitution is likely to face hurdles because it does not have a two thirds majority in the Senate, which would have allowed the party to ride roughshod over the opposition...Published: 23 Aug 2018 at 13:05hrs | 3802 | by Staff reporter
Churches urge peace, justice
THE Zimbabwe Council of Churches (ZCC) has called on Christians to pray for justice and peace as the country's apex court began sitting yesterday to decide on a petition by the MDC Alliance, challengi...Published: 23 Aug 2018 at 06:44hrs | 189 | by Staff reporter
War veteran Matemadanda off side
War veterans are the vanguard of the liberation struggle and must be tolerate of divergent views in a democratic country.Secretary General of the Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Asso...Published: 22 Aug 2018 at 10:34hrs | 2146 | by Leonard Koni
ZIDERA extension is unacceptable
The ushering in of the new dispensation on 24 November 2017, gave hope to the people of Zimbabwe as they hoped to see a paradigm shift from the old dispensation of Robert Mugabe. President Emmerson Mn...Published: 21 Aug 2018 at 12:15hrs | 1242 | by Elijah Chihota
Losing Zanu-PF candidate parcels out CFI land
Listed agro group CFI Holdings Limited (CFI)'s Harare South property has been seized by a Zanu-PF apparatchik who is parcelling out the land illegally at $30 for 300 square metres.CFI Holding ...Published: 21 Aug 2018 at 12:10hrs | 844 | by Staff reporter
'Reduce presidential aspirants age limit to 30'
THE Southern African People's Solidarity Network (Sapsn) has said the presidential aspirants' age limit in the southern region should be 30 years to accommodate youths.In its 2018 Sadc People ...Published: 21 Aug 2018 at 06:50hrs | 675 | by Staff reporter
US sanctions on Zimbabwe - truths, history and lies
A new regime of US sanctions has just been signed into law, opening a fresh front in the increasingly polarised political debate in Zimbabwe.Critics say they hurt the economy, while supporters...Published: 20 Aug 2018 at 19:01hrs | 5647 | by newsZWire
Churches pray for Con-Court impartiality
The Evangelical Fellowship of Zimbabwe (EFZ) has urged churches to pray for Constitutional Court (Con-Court) judges who are handling MDC Alliance president Nelson Chamisa's case to be impartial....Published: 19 Aug 2018 at 15:42hrs | 478 | by Staff reporter
Councillors deny links with Gift Banda
AS the MDC Alliance continues to debate on who the next Bulawayo mayor and deputy will be, three of the councillors who have been linked to former Deputy Mayor, Gift Banda, have distanced themselves f...Published: 19 Aug 2018 at 07:31hrs | 714 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa hung out to dry as Presidential aspirants decline to support his challenge
MDC Alliance leader Mr Nelson Chamisa has been left to fight a lone battle after a majority of presidential candidates that contested in this year's elections declined to file papers at the Constituti...Published: 19 Aug 2018 at 06:31hrs | 1063 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa is not a factor in parliament, which is good
Since there are so many impious hands on Zimbabwe's internal affairs, so many hands challenging its sovereignty, I thought my opening paragraphs should address those meddlesome, self-righteous foreign...Published: 18 Aug 2018 at 07:53hrs | 376 | by Igomombe
Zanu-PF to raise minimum age for presidential aspirants
ZANU-PF is mulling using its super majority in Parliament to effect a raft of constitutional amendments, including raising the minimum age for presidential aspirants from the current 40 years to 55, t...Published: 16 Aug 2018 at 14:38hrs | 3770 | by Staff reporter
Big blow for Chamisa
Zanu-PF is mulling using its majority in Parliament to effect a raft of constitutional amendments, including raising the minimum age for presidential aspirants from the current 40 year to 55.I...Published: 16 Aug 2018 at 12:55hrs | 13711 | by Staff reporter
Massive reshuffle of senior cops in Zimbabwe
The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP)has reshuffled at least 700 senior officers from ranks between superintendent and senior assistant commissioner as part of an ongoing restructuring exercise. Of the 7...Published: 16 Aug 2018 at 06:08hrs | 607 | by Staff reporter
105 km Walk for Freedom 2018 - it's Loser take all in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe Human Rights Organisation (ZHRO) members walked 105 km from Brighton to London to highlight the violence and election chaos in Zimbabwe. "Our 'Walk for Freedom' is not just a slogan, ...Published: 12 Aug 2018 at 13:14hrs | 2233 | by Kingstone Jambawo
The anxious 14 days for Zimbabwe
As the Constitutional Court Judges begin sifting through the piles of papers of affidavits, evidence and counter affidavits and counter evidence, they surely feel the weight of the hope the na...Published: 12 Aug 2018 at 06:46hrs | 2163 | by Nicholas Mlamuli Ndebele
Ian Khama, Ramaphosa, Masisi coming for Mnangagwa inauguration
Sadc chairman and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa and his Botswana counterpart, Mr Mokgweetsi Masisi , have confirmed their attendance at President-elect Mnangagwa's inauguration set for Sunda...Published: 10 Aug 2018 at 07:36hrs | 735 | by Staff reporter
Western countries have supported Mugabe's tyranny - not surprising to be behind Mnangagwa!
Over the past two decades, the world could have been hoodwinked by Western governments' imposition of targetted sanctions on then Zimbabwean president Robert Gabriel Mugabe's tyrannical regime, on the...Published: 09 Aug 2018 at 08:56hrs | 1319 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mr Chamisa, it's game over!
IT'S game over, and this writer cannot agree more with the thinker who says, "Good management is what creates results." The same with Paul Hawken's flip-side when he says, "Good management is the art ...Published: 07 Aug 2018 at 07:09hrs | 1849 | by Tendai H. Manzvanzvike
Vimbayi Tsvangirai: A chip off the old block
Her voice, her looks and all mannerism are just Morgan Richard Tsvangirai's.Vimbai Tsvangirai-JavaHer giggles that echo away and now her direct involvement in politics makes 35-year-old Vimbay...Published: 06 Aug 2018 at 07:19hrs | 3290 | by Staff reporter
A false new dawn for Zimbabwe
The afternoon after Zimbabwe's historic Monday July 30 elections, I was trying to assuage the fears of Jason Burke, the correspondent for the London newspaper, the Guardian, that chaos and violence wo...Published: 03 Aug 2018 at 10:59hrs | 1841 | by David B. Moore
Mukupe concedes defeat to Biti
CLERIC Evan Mawarire, Zanu-PF Harare East House of Assembly candidate Terrence Mukupe and Norton parliamentary aspirant Mr Temba Mliswa are among candidates who flouted the Electoral Act by pre-emptin...Published: 01 Aug 2018 at 07:07hrs | 728 | by Staff reporter
Meet Zimbabwe's youngest presidential aspirant
THE young man questioned power and authority from a tender age. He was conscious of his rights, yet he was not rebellious. He understood and used freedom of expression even during his high school days...Published: 30 Jul 2018 at 07:12hrs | 826 | by Admire Jamu-Mlambo
For Mnangagwa, it's not over until it's over
TODAY'S harmonised elections are a highpoint in judging Operation Restore Legacy. The watershed elections that have created so much interest in Zimbabwe, the region and beyond will see President Mnang...Published: 30 Jul 2018 at 06:54hrs | 310 | by Tendai Manzvanzike
Grace instructed Mugabe to repeat that he supports Chamisa?
The G40 cabal yesterday dragged out an out of sorts Robert Mugabe to address a press conference at his Blue Roof residence in Harare in a bid to shore up the MDC Alliance's chances in today's harmonis...Published: 30 Jul 2018 at 06:50hrs | 682 | by Staff reporter
Goodbye history, hello tomorrow!
Yesterday, former president Robert Mugabe convened a press conference at his Blue Roof mansion in Harare's leafy Borrowdale surburb. In many respects the press conference was fascinating - but at the ...Published: 30 Jul 2018 at 06:47hrs | 181 | by Tichaona Zindoga
Chamisa or Mnangagwa: It's the economy stupid
TOMORROW, standing in the small voting booth, with pen in hand, looking down at the 23 names of presidential aspirants on the ballot paper, there's little doubt the voter will be making a crucial deci...Published: 29 Jul 2018 at 10:25hrs | 226 | by Tartira Zwinoira
Bulawayo independent candidates form group
INDEPENDENT candidates in Bulawayo have formed a group which goes by the name Independents Bulawayo Forum (IBF) to canvas for support ahead of the harmonised elections.A member of the grouping...Published: 29 Jul 2018 at 10:17hrs | 204 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe decides
Zimbabwe goes to the polls tomorrow morning, with polling stations opening at 7am and scheduled to close 12 hours later, at 7pm.For all accounts and purposes, this will be a record-breaking el...Published: 29 Jul 2018 at 09:53hrs | 96 | by Staff reporter
Let's protect our progress
On Monday 30 July Zimbabweans will head to the polls to choose their next government, with millions of voters desperate for a functioning economy. International election observers have been invited to...Published: 29 Jul 2018 at 08:30hrs | 169 | by Dr M Mavaza and Paul Mugari
Iranian military commander warns Trump
ANKARA - An Iranian military commander said yesterday that Donald Trump should address any threats against Tehran directly to him, and mocked the US president as using the language of "night clubs and...Published: 27 Jul 2018 at 07:24hrs | 656 | by AP
The dirty truth about OIL
What does "oil" make you think of? Do "invasions" and "emissions" top your list? Why have leaders thought it worth spilling so much blood for the sake of this pungent mud? And why has it been so hard ...Published: 26 Jul 2018 at 10:13hrs | 2587 | by Erick Matotoba
Zimbabwe GNU idea dead in the water
Despite the latest survey suggesting a possible dead heat in next week's crunch polls, any hopes of Zimbabwe stitching together another government of national unity (GNU) are dead in the water - with ...Published: 25 Jul 2018 at 18:08hrs | 2237 | by Staff reporter
Campaign in a civilised manner, says Zimbabwe 'coup' announcer
Zimbabweans should never use the July 30 harmonised elections to undermine the country's economic interests, as parties should campaign in a civilised manner, Zanu-PF Politburo member Sibusiso Busi Mo...Published: 25 Jul 2018 at 07:13hrs | 505 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's Alliance at crossroads
The MDC Alliance is between a hard place and a rock as it holds a crucial meeting with the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) over key demands it wants addressed before Monday's national harmonised e...Published: 24 Jul 2018 at 14:06hrs | 1531 | by Staff reporter
EU provides $20m facility to fight gender imbalance
THE European Union (EU) has set up a $20 million facility to fight all forms of gender-based abuse and violence.EU Ambassador to Zimbabwe Philippe van Damme confirmed the development last week...Published: 23 Jul 2018 at 06:57hrs | 143 | by Staff reporter
Campaign billboards a waste, says Nkosana Moyo
Alliance for the People's Agenda (APA) presidential candidate Nkosana Moyo has lampooned his rivals, accusing them of wasting large sums of money on campaign billboards instead of using the resources ...Published: 23 Jul 2018 at 06:54hrs | 345 | by Staff reporter
Dembare fall to Ngezi
Dynamos 0-1 Ngezi PlatinumNgezi Platinum Stars registered their first ever win in Harare against Dynamos following a 1-0 victory at Rufaro Stadium on Sunday afternoon.Madamburo also comple...Published: 22 Jul 2018 at 16:52hrs | 1847 | by Staff reporter
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