Search / Kanu
Zimbabwean Bishop denies Nigeria arrest and deportation claims
Bishop Eben Kanukayi Nhiwatiwa of the United Methodist Church (UMC) denied recent reports that he was arrested in Nigeria. He explained that, instead, he was being protected by Nigerian authorities fr...Published: 28 Aug 2024 at 15:37hrs | 872 | by Staff reporter
ANC of Ramaphosa: Obliterating, political cleansing of left leaning socialists
South Africa is witnessing a significant shift in its political landscape after the African National Congress (ANC), under President Cyril Ramaphosa, lost its majority in Parliament. This development ...Published: 23 Jul 2024 at 07:18hrs | 232 | by Marshall Ndlela
Honouring Africa's top football talents
In my opinion, no continent has produced the range of footballing talent that Africa has, especially over the last 20 years. If you remember watching football back in the mid-noughties, Africa...Published: 18 Jun 2024 at 14:26hrs | 86 | by Sports Reporter
Zanu PF official arrested for forgery and fraud
A former Zanu PF councillor and unsuccessful parliamentary candidate has been apprehended for fraud, accused of forging land ownership documents in an attempt to claim mining rights at a farm near Gwe...Published: 18 May 2024 at 13:04hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF to capitalise on CCC multiple candidates?
Zanu-PF is expected to win in perceived opposition strongholds and consolidate its dominance after the CCC fielded two or three candidates in constituencies and wards in areas where it has traditional...Published: 03 Jul 2023 at 07:04hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
2 court applications to remove Saviour Kasukuwere from ballot
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) on Friday published the final list of candidates to take part in general elections on August 23, even as legal challenges continue to the presence of some candi...Published: 01 Jul 2023 at 09:28hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
History of election mischief: From mlolongo system to vote buying
Once upon a time, each candidate at the General Election was assigned his own ballot box. It is the ballot papers inside your box that determined the poll outcome.The ballot box was only ident...Published: 20 Jun 2023 at 08:16hrs | | by John Kamau
Commonwealth has appalling human rights record
This written article by Professor Jonathan Moyo, then an academic at the University of Zimbabwe, was published by the Financial Gazette on 10 October 1991, a few days...Published: 04 Feb 2023 at 20:07hrs | | by Jonathan Moyo
Headmaster swindles exam fees
A headmaster at Usavi Primary School, Ward 22 Buhera Central Constituency is being accused of swindling US$315 meant for grade seven examination fees.The headmaster Samson Magirigide confirmed...Published: 30 Jan 2023 at 20:39hrs | | by Zebedi Mupuranga/Simbarashe Sithole
Time to protect people from their churches
VERY little is known about one of the worst religion-related mass murders and tragedies that occurred in Uganda in 2000 in which 700 Ugandans died. More is known about the 1978 Jonestown massacre in G...Published: 07 May 2022 at 06:20hrs | | by Miriam Tose Majome
Mine workers tortured by mine security
A MAN from Happy Value mine out of Bulawayo and his colleague were tortured for two hours by a local security company guard who forced them to bite the gu...Published: 29 Mar 2022 at 07:03hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
632 arrested as Zimbabwe - South Africa tighten border security
Zimbabwe and South Africa have tightened security along the Limpopo border to thwart illegal activities, especially smuggling and the irregular movement of people between the two countries, with over ...Published: 04 Jan 2022 at 05:55hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa spooked by spectre of youth revolution'
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's spokesperson George Charamba last week accused award-winning journalist Hopewell Chin'ono (HC), who is also a stern critic of the government of sour grapes after his bid...Published: 28 Aug 2021 at 21:32hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Woman (65) killed in fight
A Harare man allegedly smashed a 65-year-old woman with a brick on the head several times, resulting in her death after she tried to restrain him from assaulting his girlfriend. Nicholas Matar...Published: 04 Jan 2021 at 23:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man kills 65-year-old over lover
A Harare man allegedly smashed a 65-year-old woman with a brick on the head several times resulting in her death after she tried to restrain him from assaulting his girlfriend. Nicholas Matari...Published: 31 Dec 2020 at 10:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF councillor brutalises rival's minor son
Masvingo Rural Ward 30 Zanu-PF Councillor Sungano Matakanure is in trouble with the law after she allegedly brutalised her 2018 primary election rival's nine-year-old son.The councillor is sai...Published: 27 Jul 2019 at 17:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zvirekwi to get a prosthetic hand
CAPS United captain Hardlife Zvirekwi is set to get a prosthetic hand after emerging as one of the candidates to benefit from Nashua Zimbabwe's ambitious 3D prosthetic hand printing trial, which is un...Published: 10 Feb 2019 at 06:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Lessons from Kenya (Part 1)
RARE is a country that seamlessly blends modern and vibrant cities with unspoilt white sandy beaches against the backdrop of the planet's biggest natural wildlife park, the Masai Mara (Serengeti). End...Published: 11 Aug 2018 at 10:13hrs | | by Miriam T Majome
Peter Ndlovu left out
LEGENDARY Zimbabwean footballer Peter Ndlovu might have blazed a trail as the first African player to feature in the English Premiership, but his brilliance for modest club Coventry City have failed t...Published: 10 Mar 2018 at 09:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu PF dead
The #2018Resistance welcomes the new political kid on the block, the New Patriotic Front (NPF). As the NPF becomes the newest member of the ranks of pro-democracy formations in Zimbabwe, a numbe...Published: 06 Feb 2018 at 14:12hrs | | by Patrick Zhuwao
Zhuwawo inadvertently exposes Mugabe's tyranny and incompetence
One thing that I have learnt since my childhood is never to openly boast about my immature escapades, as I can never know the potential humiliation such behaviour would cause me several years later, w...Published: 04 Feb 2018 at 16:03hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
'Kenya needs reforms to move forward,' insists Odinga - of course, he is right
Announcing yesterday, Odinga who managed a historic High Court victory which reverses this year's election results that gave his opponent Uhuru Kenyatta a win, stuck to his word as he announced he wil...Published: 24 Oct 2017 at 17:49hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
Emirates FA Cup wins hearts of Zimbabwe soccer fans
HARARE - Soccer fans have had a week to remember when the Emirates FA Cup came to Harare, along with soccer legend Nwankwo Kanu.The trophy, which arrived at Harare International Airport on Sat...Published: 16 Oct 2017 at 13:38hrs | | by Agencies
Emirates FA Cup heading to Zimbabwe
HARARE - The Emirates FA Cup will touch down in Harare this week (October 14), giving football fans the chance to see the iconic trophy for themselves as well a...Published: 12 Oct 2017 at 09:56hrs | | by Agencies
Cop cleared for shooting colleague
THE High Court has quashed the sentence of a Bulawayo female cop who was sentenced to 18 months in jail for shooting and injuring her colleague after she accidentally discharged a service firearm at H...Published: 20 Jul 2017 at 06:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Egoistic MDC-T killing the coalition
NERA, CODE and now Zinera are clear signs of hunger for unity or vacuum that exist within the opposition fraternity. The plethora of opposition parties whose chances of winning presidential elections ...Published: 07 Jul 2017 at 09:41hrs | | by Mj Mbele
Zimbabwe reaches its kairos moment
AFTER being in power for 39 years, the Kenya African National Union (Kanu) was defeated in the 2002 elections after opposition parties formed the National Rainbow Coalition (Narc), an electoral pact t...Published: 28 Apr 2017 at 17:29hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Peter Ndlovu, Mwaruwari reunited
ZIMBABWE's football legends Peter Ndlovu and Benjani Mwaruwari are among a host of former African football icons who are expected to grace two all-star charity matches organised by the Kanu Heart ...Published: 09 Apr 2017 at 08:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Peter Ndlovu on Afcon heartbreak list
FORMER Warriors' skipper Peter Ndlovu has been named among the best African stars to have never won the Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon).According to a list published by South African footbal...Published: 06 Feb 2017 at 05:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mliswa ready to offer advice to candidates contesting Zanu-PF
Norton MP, Temba Mliswa said he was ready to offer advice to three candidates contesting against Zanu-PF in the Chimanimani West by-election scheduled for November 26.Mliswa, who is revelling ...Published: 16 Nov 2016 at 05:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Who will lead the grand coalition?
COALITIONS have dominated Kenya's political landscape where alliances between parties have played a significant role in defining the course of events and election outcomes in the east African nation f...Published: 26 Aug 2016 at 07:50hrs | | by Jacob Rukweza
Public utterances destroy Zanu-PF's integrity
The use and abuse of public fora such as media and rallies is working against the fabric of the revolutionary party Zanu-PF. President Mugabe has and continues to abhor the malicious, frivolous and li...Published: 09 Aug 2016 at 08:51hrs | | by Cornelius Takawira
Mujuru a potential game-changer
FORMER vice-president Joice Mujuru, who this week launched a new party, Zimbabwe People First (ZPF), to challenge her mentor-turned-adversary President Robert Mugabe could turn out to be a game-change...Published: 04 Mar 2016 at 08:18hrs | | by Dumisani Muleya
Zim opposition: defragment or lose relevance
Coalition or convergence has become as much of a mantra in the opposition circles as sanctions and regime change are in the crumbling ZANU PF. True, obsolescence of ZANU PF is now a matter of when not...Published: 25 Feb 2016 at 07:26hrs | 1 | by Moses Chamboko
ZANU PF should heed the President's call for unity
The address to the nation by President Robert Gabriel Mugabe on Friday 19 February 2016 calling for the factionalists in the ruling party ZANU PF to "Shut up", needs all peace loving Zimbabweans to he...Published: 20 Feb 2016 at 11:23hrs | | by John Mukumbo
Zanu-PF should guard against the emergency of ZP-FP
Recent reports by both the private and public media indicating that the People First project led by the former Vice President Dr Joyce Mujuru has registered with the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC...Published: 17 Feb 2016 at 13:08hrs | | by John Mukumbo
Dead man returns home after two years of his burial
A 60-year-old man from Kanyaa village in Kitui, Kenya, returned home only to find that his family had already "buried" him, reports say.Julius Mbiti Kitheka left his home 30 years ago to look ...Published: 02 Feb 2016 at 13:52hrs | | by Staff Reporter
The epicentre of Zimbabwe's devaluation lies in Zanu-PF and Zanu-PF alone
On April 18 2016, Zimbabwe will celebrate 36 years of independence.This will represent 36 years of Zanu-PF's hegemony over Zimbabwe under the same leader, Robert Mugabe. In these 36 year...Published: 17 Jan 2016 at 09:28hrs | | by Tendai Biti
Okocha, Kanu to play against Zimbabwe legends
The Zimbabwe Football Legends Association in partnership with Ica Sports Consultancy are set to lure yesteryear African greats for a fundraising gala to be hosted in Zvishavane and Harare next m...Published: 12 Jan 2016 at 13:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
If PF manages to split Zanu-PF, it will win
A political commentator Ngqabutho Mabhena has said if the former Vice President Joice Mujuru led People First political project manages to split the ruling Zanu-PF, it will win the 2018 elections but ...Published: 12 Jan 2016 at 06:12hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Cop render colleague disabled by accidental discharging gun on her
A POLICE officer based at Hillside Police Station who was shot by a colleague at work has been left with a permanent disability as her hand was left deformed and she moves with a slight limp.&...Published: 05 Oct 2015 at 09:58hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Cop shoots colleague
A POLICE officer based at Hillside Police Station appeared in court yesterday charged with shooting her colleague after she accidentally discharged a firearm inside the charge office.The court...Published: 14 Aug 2015 at 07:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
List of 89 suspended Zanu-PF officials
ZANU-PF has suspended 87 members from holding any leadership positions within the party for two years, while two others were handed three-year suspensions after the Politburo upheld the recommendation...Published: 29 May 2015 at 06:57hrs | | by Farirai Machivenyika and Nyemudzai Kakore
10 Zanu-PF bigwigs face boot
The Zanu-PF Masvingo provincial leadership has recommended the expulsion of 10 party bigwigs as well as the suspension of other members who were accused of aligning themselves to the Joice Mujuru ...Published: 19 Apr 2015 at 20:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe must go
Some members of the Mujuru camp have been accused of plotting to get rid of President Robert Mugabe - by hook or by crook. But calls for the aged leader to go are not...Published: 03 Dec 2014 at 12:30hrs | | by Moyo
Bhasikiti re-called
The Zanu-PF Masvingo Provincial Executive has recalled the election of Kudakwashe Bhasikiti and Lovemore Mutandwa into the Central Committee following allegations of abuse of office, facti...Published: 30 Nov 2014 at 17:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Sikhala's plot with Mujuru's allies caught on tape
On November 14, MDC-T member Mr Job Sikhala met emissaries from Vice President Mujuru's faction at an undisclosed location in Harare to discuss the formation of a coalition to topple President Mugabe....Published: 23 Nov 2014 at 09:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe in a fix over succession
AGAINST a backdrop of unprecedented infighting around President Robert Mugabe's succession conflict, senior Zanu-PF leaders feel the time has come for the issue to be resolved at congress in December...Published: 07 Nov 2014 at 19:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man soils himself in court
A Gweru man who had his theft charges dropped by a local magistrate expressed his relief in the most unusual manner when he soiled his pants.The man, Innocent Nemaruru, 40, stunned the who...Published: 13 Sep 2014 at 13:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
United Methodist Church set for 117th anniversary
The United Methodist Church (UMC) in Zimbabwe will this August celebrate its 117 years of existence in an event that is expected to attract thousands of people at the National Sports Stadium in Harare...Published: 29 Jun 2014 at 15:28hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Load More Stories
