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Businessman arrested in ritual killing saga
A businessman from Muzarabani, Josiah Hungwe (68), has been arrested for allegedly orchestrating a plot to kill a five-year-old boy for ritual purposes. The victim, Takunda Charumbuka, a pupil at Rose...Published: 23 Nov 2024 at 12:52hrs | 675 | by Staff reporter
Businessman fingered in kidnapping juvenile for ritual purposes
In a shocking incident, a Muzarabani businessman is being accused of sending a villager to kidnap and kill a juvenile for ritual purposes in Mashonaland Central province.The businessman Josiah...Published: 23 Nov 2024 at 12:45hrs | 319 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Mupfumira being victimised for supporting Mnangagwa's succession bid
Former Public Service Minister Prisca Mupfumira has written to Prosecutor General Loice Matanda-Moyo claiming that her arrest over corruption allegations was triggered by her loyalty to President Emme...Published: 07 Feb 2024 at 18:34hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa meets Council of Elders
President Mnangagwa, who is also the Zanu PF First Secretary, yesterday held an inaugural meeting with the ruling party's Council of Elders where he emphasised that the recently constituted organ, has...Published: 11 May 2023 at 05:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF working on primary elections roadmap
Zanu-PF is working on a primary election roadmap as the party intensifies preparations for the 2023 harmonised elections.This comes as the party last week successfully held its 7th National Pe...Published: 04 Nov 2022 at 05:26hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa protecting corrupt cronies
SENATORS on Wednesday rapped the government for its lax approach towards combating corruption, while accusing President Emmerson Mnangagwa of protecting corrupt officials.This came out during ...Published: 16 May 2022 at 06:25hrs | | by Linda Tsungirirai Masarira
Zanu-PF introduces performance scorecards for MPs
Zanu-PF will introduce score cards for its National Assembly members to monitor and assess their performance both in how active they are in Parliament as well as in their constituencies.Zanu-P...Published: 12 Mar 2022 at 07:34hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa gives wife key Politburo position
Zanu-PF first secretary, President Emmerson Mnangagwa has appointed his wife, Auxillia into the politburo in a surprise reshuffle of the powerful organ.She is the new Zanu-PF secretary for Env...Published: 02 Dec 2021 at 06:45hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF excludes ex-Zapu members in new Politburo
ZANU-PF First Secretary President Mnangagwa yesterday reshuffled Politburo members with Christopher Mutsvangwa being appointed as the party's Secretary for Information and First Lady Auxillia Mn...Published: 02 Dec 2021 at 05:31hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF Politburo members reshuffled
Zanu-PF First Secretary President Mnangagwa yesterday reshuffled Politburo members, with Christopher Mutsvangwa being appointed as the party's Secretary for Information and First Lady Amai Auxil...Published: 02 Dec 2021 at 05:27hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, Chiwenga in fierce battle to control Masvingo provinces
"Ladies and gentlemen the situation in our country has reached another level…," said the late army General Sibusiso Moyo while addressing the nation during the November 2017 sanitized coup whi...Published: 19 Sep 2021 at 18:14hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
The lessons from Zambia
I have just celebrated my 77th birthday and have settled on two proud new titles. I have now added a new title to my repertoire. I was given the title of mukoma at the Manica Post. Governor Josiah Hun...Published: 05 Sep 2021 at 07:03hrs | 2 | by Kenneth Mufuka
War vets mourn veteran nationalist Mudzi
Liberation war fighters yesterday mourned Mukudzei Mudzi (94)who died on Saturday, describing him as a militant patriot committed to the freedom of the country. This comes as Masvingo Province...Published: 18 Jan 2021 at 05:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
It's time for people to take the struggle
The sun does not go down twice in a day. The current political , economic and social settings in Zimbabwe are in dire straits and leave a lot to be desired.The country is stuck in between two ...Published: 29 Dec 2020 at 14:38hrs | 4 | by Leonard Koni
Zanu-PF members boycott DCC elections
SOME Zanu-PF members yesterday boycotted voting in the party's district coordinating committee elections after names of their preferred candidates were removed from ballot papers under controversial c...Published: 06 Dec 2020 at 08:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF safeguards DCC polls
ZANU-PF has come up with a raft of measures to ensure that this coming weekend's district co-ordinating committee (DCC) polls will not descend into chaos.Speaking in Harare on Friday, at a par...Published: 29 Nov 2020 at 16:00hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
ZANU PF factions revealed
The Zimbabwe African Nationalists Union (Patriotic Front) ZANU PF is an interesting political and liberation movement which is currently the reigning and undisputed champion of Zimbabwean politics...Published: 12 Jul 2019 at 10:10hrs | 4 | by Nicholas Ncube
Mnangagwa now more paranoic and desperate
A REGIME failing to provide its citizens with basic necessities is unsurprisingly afraid of itself and those who differ with its lopsided policies.The arrest of four civil society activists th...Published: 24 May 2019 at 07:40hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
UK supports Mnangagwa's economic, political reforms
Constitutional reforms, land policy and currency issues came under the spotlight when United Kingdom (UK) Ambassador to Zimbabwe, Melanie Robinson paid a courtesy call on the Zanu PF Secretary for Adm...Published: 08 May 2019 at 19:08hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
'Zimbabwe's famous prophets should have foreseen Cyclone Idai'
Chief's Council president Fortune Charumbira has mocked local prophets for failing to predict the devastating Cyclone Idai which, according to the International Organisation for Migration, claimed ove...Published: 29 Mar 2019 at 06:17hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Diamonds to contribute $1bn a year
Government yesterday commissioned the Airborne Mineral Exploration project in Chivi and Mwenezi districts in Masvingo Province to establish the extent of diamond deposit in the area. It is believed th...Published: 26 Mar 2019 at 06:17hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
5 300 houses destroyed
A TOTAL of 5 300 houses were destroyed leaving 511 people homeless in Masvingo Province when Cyclone Idai hit the province.Five people died in the process in Bikita while Mutimurefu Prison in ...Published: 25 Mar 2019 at 19:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF refers Chiredzi councillors matter back to Masvingo
THE Zanu-PF national disciplinary committee has referred the case involving two Chiredzi West councillors, who voted for an opposition council chair back to the Masvingo provincial committee after it ...Published: 05 Feb 2019 at 06:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Teen attempts to steal MP's vehicle
A HARARE teenager was arrested yesterday while trying to steal Member of Parliament Killer Zivhu's car using Senator Josiah Hungwe's name.The 18-year-old - Kingsolom Mlambo - communicated to t...Published: 04 Feb 2019 at 15:01hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Energy Mutodi in South Korea...meets Korean cult leadership
Deputy Minister of Information and Media and Broadcasting Services Energy Mutodi arrived in South Korea on Wednesday where he was welcomed by the Korean cult's Unification Movement secretary-gen...Published: 05 Dec 2018 at 15:43hrs | 11 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa considers declaring November 21 Peace Day
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has said Government is considering declaring November 21 as the day of national peace. He said this at the Peace and Family Festival that was held on Wednesday at the Nati...Published: 26 Nov 2018 at 06:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa preaches peace, unity
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has urged the nation to continue maintaining peace and unity for development.He said this in a speech read on his behalf by Senator Josiah Hungwe at the National Sports Sta...Published: 22 Nov 2018 at 16:14hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Christians snub 'peace festival' graced by Korean ‘cult' leader
APOSTOLIC Christian Council of Zimbabwe (ACCZ) president, Bishop Johannes Ndanga was Wednesday left fuming at his Christian colleagues, accusing them of stopping their followers from attending the lau...Published: 22 Nov 2018 at 07:13hrs | 4 | by newzimbabwe
Mnangagwa snubs Korean cult leader?
President Emmerson Mnangagwa snubbed the much publicised peace festival organised for the Korean cult leader Hak Ja Han Moon at the National Sports Stadium on Wednesday.His speech was re...Published: 21 Nov 2018 at 18:36hrs | 3 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chamisa, Motlanthe face off
THE commission of inquiry probing the post election violence on August 1 in which the army killed six civilians is reportedly headed for a clash with opposition MDC leader Nelson Chamisa after refusin...Published: 21 Nov 2018 at 05:39hrs | | by Stafff reporter
Jonathan Moyo's Gukurahundi massacre beef with Mnangagwa is over
Exiled former Higher Education Minister Jonathan Moyo says he was never close to Emmerson Mnangagwa and the claim that his was a myth which exposes the lack of fact-checking in the Zimbabwean media an...Published: 14 Nov 2018 at 07:51hrs | 3 | by insiderzim.com
Zanu-PF costs balloon
Zanu-PF's salary bill has increased substantially after a decision was made to accommodate bigwigs left out of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's lean Cabinet as full time party employees.Mnangagw...Published: 07 Nov 2018 at 11:04hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa ally's nephew handed over to police by Land Commission
Goddard Dunira, a land developer and a nephew of former Minister of State for Masvingo, Josiah Hungwe frothed, spluttered and contradicted himself as he tried to explain how his lifestyle dramatically...Published: 03 Nov 2018 at 16:20hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF chefs ordered to don party regalia
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has ordered Zanu-PF bigwigs who are employed at the party headquarters to wear party regalia when on official duty.He told the Zanu-PF central committee meeting on...Published: 27 Oct 2018 at 14:42hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa bangs door in Chamisa's face
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has spoken for the first time on opposition leader Nelson Chamisa's push for a transitional government, saying any form of a power-sharing arrangement was not on his agend...Published: 26 Oct 2018 at 22:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt notorious for over spending - senator Mwonzora
MDC Alliance senator and secretary general Douglas Mwonzora has said Zimbabwean government of Zanu PF is notorious for over spending year in year out. Speaking in parliament Mwonzora said...Published: 17 Oct 2018 at 06:39hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Jabulani Sibanda, Didymus Mutasa re-admitted into Zanu-PF
Zanu-PF has readmitted its former secretary for administration Didymus Mutasa and former chairperson of the Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans' Association Jabulani Sibanda following the duo's ...Published: 05 Oct 2018 at 06:34hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Retired Hungwe boycotts Chadzamira party
While former ministers of state throughout the country's 10 provinces were busy in the last week making official handover –takeovers with their successors, Josiah Hungwe of Masvingo was peculiar by ...Published: 22 Sep 2018 at 10:22hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa has changed Zanu-PF into a fresh new-look organisation
Political analysts say President Emmerson Mnangagwa's new Cabinet - in which he dumped both friends and foes alike on Friday last week - demonstrates that he is determined to reset the government's co...Published: 12 Sep 2018 at 20:01hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Hope as Mnangagwa swings axe
Cabinet appointments anywhere in the world are by their nature highly-contested and emotive affairs - because virtually all politicians think they are Cabinet material, while ordinary citizens harbour...Published: 09 Sep 2018 at 17:15hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
17 ministers left out of Mnangagwa cabinet
The following are no longer ministers in President Mnangagwa's new cabinet:Patrick Chinamasa - (Minister of Finance and Economic Development)...Published: 07 Sep 2018 at 16:46hrs | 18 | by Stephen Jakes
Village heads picket Mnangagwa ally's office
THE dispute over the appointment and proposed installation of Chief Bere yesterday took another twist after clansmen Chief Zimuto and Chief Charumbira picketed the Provincial Affairs minister Josiah H...Published: 29 Aug 2018 at 06:57hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
General Valerio Sibanda issued statement under duress, says Mutsekwa
Zimbabwe Defence Forces commander General Phillip Valerio Sibanda acted out of his professional reputation in blaming MDC Alliance supporters for the fatal shooting of at least six unarmed civilians d...Published: 18 Aug 2018 at 14:03hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa could even 'shoot' to retain power utterances haunt Hungwe
Masvingo Provincial Affairs minister Josiah Hungwe has backtracked on his suggestion in May that President Emmerson Mnangagwa could even "shoot" to retain power saying he never uttered those words....Published: 07 Aug 2018 at 13:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's choice of successor secures senatorial seat
Among some top political leaders who have kept their political careers alive through entry into the senate are Masvingo provincial affairs minister Josiah Hungwe while ex-president Mugabe's choice of ...Published: 04 Aug 2018 at 12:15hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Not My President - I am an Urbanite
Our hearts bleed with those who were slain by the trigger-happy military on Wednesday. What is more flabbergasting is the lack of sensitivity by those responsible of arming the soldiers with live bull...Published: 04 Aug 2018 at 06:51hrs | | by Dr Gus Manatsa
Mugabe party holds Mnangagwa accountable for the deaths of civilians
The National Patriotic Front (NPF) has issued a press statement condemning the deployment of the army and the murder of unarmed civilians.NPF holds Mnangagwa responsible for the deaths of civi...Published: 03 Aug 2018 at 08:49hrs | 2 | by Mafu Sithabile
Zimbabwe army appears torn between the old and new order
The top leadership of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) appears torn between the old and new order after they dodged a crucial press briefing convened in Harare on Wednesday to allay fears that the ar...Published: 06 Jul 2018 at 15:51hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Free, fair election in Zimbabwe a mirage'
Chances of Zimbabwe holding a free, fair, credible and undisputed election on July 30 are slim considering Zanu-PF officials' recent assertions that the army will not allow MDC Alliance leader Nelson ...Published: 01 Jul 2018 at 17:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa commissions $1,5bn project
HWANGE The expansion of Hwange Thermal Power Station under a $1,5 billion facility is now set to begin in earnest after President Mnangagwa officiated at the groundbreaking ceremony for the project he...Published: 28 Jun 2018 at 06:50hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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