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Zimbabwe genocide survivors demand justice as hearings commence
It is now close to four decades since the end of Gukurahundi massacres in Matabeleland and Midlands, but survivors and their relatives are still to find closure as the government continues to dither o...Published: 15 Jan 2024 at 05:23hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Communist Party elections observer report for 2023 elections
OBSERVATIONS ON THE 2023 GENERAL ELECTIONGeneralFirstly, as Communists, we do not confuse democracy with voting.The word ‘democracy' is derived from Greek and means ‘rule by the pe...Published: 04 Sep 2023 at 06:34hrs | 1 | by Central Committee of the Zimbabwe Communist Party
Zida approved 4 PPPs in Q2
THE Zimbabwe Investment and Development Agency (Zida) approved four public-private partnerships (PPPs) in the second quarter of this year, with a combined value of more than US$186 million.The...Published: 17 Jul 2023 at 06:58hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt creates aviation firm
The government has engaged the Abu Dhabi-based advisory firm Knighthood Global Limited (Knighthood) to develop a bankable feasibility study (BSF) for the creation of the Zimbabwe Aviation Group....Published: 16 Jul 2023 at 09:18hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Mr. President, it's great to be loved by the Brits, isn't it!
I can not help finding it thoroughly amusing how the ZANU PF regime is always so excited over the supposedly 'warming relationship' between Harare and London.We witnessed this with the embarra...Published: 08 May 2023 at 15:41hrs | 2 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
The Coming BRICS Summit: The ending of US worldwide domination
The Coming BRICS Summit: The ending of US worldwide dominationAn African PerspectivePart 1South Africa will host the 15th BRICS Summit from 22nd-24th August 2023, with the theme;...Published: 13 Apr 2023 at 18:50hrs | 5 | by Ian Beddowes
War vets should be vanguards of Zimbabwe's independence
Our war veterans should be at the forefront of condemning the institutionalised plunder of our vast national resources by a small ruling eliteONE of the greatest tragedies to befall post-colon...Published: 13 Feb 2023 at 05:20hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwean political party will not mourn Queen Elizabeth II
LINDA Masarira led fringe political party Labour Economist and Afrikan Democrats (LEAD) say it does not feel compelled to mourn the death of British monarch Queen Elizabeth II over what it described a...Published: 09 Sep 2022 at 19:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa drools over COP26
WHILE President Emmerson Mnangagwa is relishing his forthcoming visit to the United Kingdom for COP26 - the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference - the Zimbabwean leader will soon fly into Gla...Published: 31 Oct 2021 at 08:44hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Robert Gabriel Mugabe: The killer of our dreams
THIS week marks the second anniversary of the death of Robert Gabriel Mugabe, the first prime minister of an independent Zimbabwe, on April 18, 1980.While we acknowledge the fact that there ar...Published: 12 Sep 2021 at 08:59hrs | 10 | by Kenneth Mufuka
Mugabe was nearly conferred with top honorary cricket membership
A DECISION by the UK Foreign Office to offer the now late President Robert Mugabe an honorary membership of the MCC (Marylebone Cricket Club) during his visit to that country in 1994 was shot down by ...Published: 04 Jan 2021 at 07:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Air Zimbabwe gets fresh hope for international flights
STRUGGLING flag carrier Air Zimbabwe (AirZim) might regain its wings to fly internationally after a Netherlands-based company, Knighthood Capital (Knighthood), recently tabled an offer to partner the ...Published: 19 Jul 2019 at 07:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Leadership is not about titles but it is inborn'
Naturally, the Britons have a great affinity for honours. This is due to various reasons. Some were hereditarily bestowed with titles such as knighthood, Lordship and were compelled to add a suffix af...Published: 25 Mar 2019 at 21:34hrs | | by Felix Magalela Mafa Sibanda
Mugabe turns 95, 9 things you didn't know about him
Robert Mugabe is turning 95 and his birthday has been declared a holiday in Zimbabwe. The holiday was mooted by the ruling ZANU-PF youth league to honor their then icon, whose birthday had since the 1...Published: 20 Feb 2019 at 23:19hrs | | by BBC
Why is Zimbabwe in this situation, God of Zimbabwe where are you?
Sanctions are normally described as International relations: Punitive or restrictive measures taken, usually by several countries in concert, to pressure a country to change its certain policies. Econ...Published: 19 Jan 2019 at 10:09hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Dabengwa denied UK visa
The leader of Zapu, Dumiso Dabengwa, has been reportedly denied a visa to travel to the UK.Dabengwa was invited by St Andrews University to speak at Conference on Gukurahundi.Allegatio...Published: 11 May 2018 at 13:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa knows that Western countries are more interested in business than democracy
When new Zimbabwean president Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa ursuped power from then leader Robert Gabriel Mugabe, in a military coup, in November last year, he knew fully well that there would not be an...Published: 13 Apr 2018 at 07:51hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Matabeleland Genocide (1980-1987 And Beyond) - Zanu-PF's agenda in the region pt2
The first article on Zanupf's agenda in The Region showed how it has continuously used tribalism to endlessly segregate, discriminate, deprive, oppress, marginalise, relegate to second/third class the...Published: 14 Feb 2018 at 05:44hrs | | by Moses Mzila Ndlovu
With Mugabe out, why England should resume tours to Zimbabwe
With former President Robert Mugabe out of office, Jonathan Liew argues the time for "acceptable non-compliance" is over and England should resume tours of Zimbabwe.In her statement reacting t...Published: 24 Dec 2017 at 07:24hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Those who enter power by the gun, will exit by the gun
As the old adage goes, 'history repeats itself', and so it is with the current political situation being witnessed in Zimbabwe, as the military has once again been instrumental in the installation - a...Published: 29 Nov 2017 at 10:31hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zambian Army to invade Zimbabwe to help Mugabe; Lungu, keep your nose out of Zimbabwe affairs
"SADC will negotiate the way forward with Mugabe as head of state, and have also stated that the army goes back to the barracks. Meanwhile, Zambia's President Edgar Lungu is reported in the local medi...Published: 16 Nov 2017 at 18:43hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
WHO crushes Mugabe's ego
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has rescinded an honour it had bestowed on President Robert Mugabe last Thursday in the wake of a deafening global outcry from affiliate organisations and stakehold...Published: 23 Oct 2017 at 07:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's band of loyalists dwindles
"OUTDATED, self-centred and power-hungry ruler."These are the unlikely yet hard-hitting words used by former Zanu-PF youth leader Godfrey Tsenengamu to describe President Robert Mugabe last ye...Published: 20 Feb 2017 at 16:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Boris Johnson compares Trump to Mugabe
Donald Trump is no worse than ageing Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe, Britain's foreign secretary Boris Johnson has suggested, ...Published: 31 Jan 2017 at 10:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
VP Mnangagwa interview makes troubling reading- Moyo
Higher and Tertiary Education Minister Jonathan Moyo has said the piece that features an interview with Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa was making a troubling reading on many fronts and was terri...Published: 04 Jan 2017 at 05:39hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Zimbabwe: 2017 the Year of the Monster
It was a stern Emmerson Mnangagwa, the Minister of State Security, who looked at Ken Flower in the eye told him that Robert Mugabe, "the Prime Minister wishes you to know that the Commissioner of Poli...Published: 30 Dec 2016 at 16:08hrs | 1 | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
Queen Elizabeth II congratulates Zimbabweans
Britain's Queen Elizabeth yesterday wished Zimbabwe a happy independence and wished her former colony best wishes in the coming year.The 90-year-old British monarch sent the message to the peo...Published: 19 Apr 2016 at 12:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
What Britain owes Zimbabwe
I HAVE written several articles that have addressed Zimbabwean human rights and rule of law, as well as South African foreign policy. I now turn my attention to Zimbabwean legal constitutional history...Published: 22 Jun 2015 at 20:40hrs | | by Ken Sibanda
Dare's Africa Day Message
My fellow Zimbabweans, today we join the rest of the African family both on the African continent and in the diaspora in a celebration of the ideal of African unity which our visionary Pan- African le...Published: 25 May 2015 at 07:57hrs | | by Benny Mukusha
CIO officers urged Zapu to hide arms that sparked Gukurahundi massacres
A senior member of Zapu has accused Britain of helping to spark the Gukurahundi massacres to destabilise the new black government in the early 1980s.He said white members of the Central Intell...Published: 26 Feb 2015 at 12:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Mugabe's fall symbolic of economic collapse'
ZIMBABWEANS appear agreed that more than anything else President Robert Mugabe's dramatic fall at the Harare International Airport last week shows it is high time Africa's oldest leader calls it quits...Published: 13 Feb 2015 at 14:50hrs | | by Elias Mambo
Tuku to be honoured in London tribute dinner
Legendary musician and Zimbabwe's foremost cultural ambassador, Oliver Mtukudzi, is to be honoured at a star-studded dinner to be held at a top London hotel on Saturday 29 November. Organi...Published: 25 Aug 2014 at 19:24hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Mugabe's legacy of poverty and despair
On 17 April 1980, President Robert Mugabe addressed a euphoric crowd in the soon-to-be-independent Zimbabwe.In the aftermath of a long and brutal liberation struggle against white minority ru...Published: 25 Apr 2014 at 08:11hrs | | by Jeffrey Smith
Robert Mugabe Fast Facts
Here's a look at the life of Robert Mugabe.Personal:Birth date: February 21, 1924...Published: 17 Feb 2014 at 11:03hrs | | by CNN Library
Mugabe's AU elections a significant diplomatic victory
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe's election last week as first deputy chair of the African Union (AU) may well be a significant diplomatic victory for his Zanu-PF government after many years of isolation due t...Published: 07 Feb 2014 at 06:34hrs | | by Herbert Moyo
Mugabe claims to be 'very British'
Despite having been stripped of his knighthood by Britain, Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe told the multitude of people who attended his sister's burial that he was "very British."Mugabe ...Published: 22 Jan 2014 at 10:57hrs | | by Ndou Paul
Things the World didn't know about Robert Mugabe
Adapted from Africainsider Robert Mugabe, 89, is undoubtedly a controversial figure, but many are familiar only with the details of his most public life. Both his childhood and adult life ar...Published: 22 Jan 2014 at 08:32hrs | | by Africainsider
'Mugabe is a self serving tyrant'
The comment in Sunday mail 15-21 Dec on page 7 gave an entirely different topic to its content. It started off with singing praises to the tyrant Mugabe. The praises are out of place. Mugabe has actua...Published: 20 Dec 2013 at 10:19hrs | | by Zanda Shumba
Mugabe wants Queen Elizabeth to help on sanctions
President Mugabe wants the Queen to help get sanctions against his government lifted - and if she refuses, will strip British businesses of their assets in Zimbabwe.Mugabe's covert campa...Published: 30 Sep 2013 at 15:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Lessons from Oliver Mtukudzi
LAST weekend I went fishing with my former schoolmate Million and after toiling the whole day we caught nothing. I was very discouraged and I openly told Million that I will not go back to the dam unt...Published: 22 May 2013 at 03:40hrs | | by Ben Chiganze
Pope Francis can restrain Robert Mugabe
If anybody can do anything to restrain Robert Mugabe, it is Pope Francis.That is why we should welcome the unofficial entry of Africa's greatest human rights abuser into Italy this week, to at...Published: 23 Mar 2013 at 16:47hrs | | by IOL
Let the 2013 Real Change Winner be Democracy …and If its Zanu-PF so let it be!
Considering the unfolding events in the Zimbabwean political scene today, it would appear history constantly repeats itself. But then again, as it pans out, Zimbabweans, a so called 'educated' lot ar...Published: 13 Mar 2013 at 10:34hrs | | by Tshepo Mabalane Mabalane
When Tsvangirai becomes a Mandela
The beauty about running a muscular column is that oftentimes you sting your opponents into an ungainly self-display. My bad friend Muckraker did just that this week. Stung by my exposÃÂ...Published: 28 Jul 2012 at 05:09hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
Britain and EU preparing to lift sanction on Mugabe
Britain and the EU are preparing to lift sanctions on Robert Mugabe and his closest henchmen in an effort to persuade the Zimbabwean President into holding free and fair elections. A review of...Published: 12 Jul 2012 at 06:02hrs | 1 | by Daily Telegraph I Damien McElroy, Peta Thornycroft
Former RBS banker joins Mugabe's league stripped of knighthood
Former Royal Bank of Scotland boss Fred Goodwin has had his knighthood removed like the Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, the Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, Anthony Blunt, the keeper of the Q...Published: 01 Feb 2012 at 10:23hrs | | by Ndou Paul
Head of Apple's design team knighted
Los Angeles - Fans of the clean, inviting look of the iPhone, iPad and other blockbuster Apple products are legion, and that includes Queen Elizabeth II.The British monarch has awarded a knig...Published: 01 Jan 2012 at 14:27hrs | | by Moyo Roy
Students Storms the British Embassy. burns the British flag
TEHRAN, Iran — Dozens of hard-line Iranian students stormed the British Embassy in Tehran Tuesday, bringing down the Union Jack flag and throwing documents from windows in scenes rem...Published: 30 Nov 2011 at 04:52hrs | | by AP
Mupostori, The ZANU PF Councilor
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Africa needs to be there for Zimbabwe as Zimbabwe has been there for Africa
On 10 July 2005 in Durban, South Africa a Declaration was made in tribute to the Organization of African Unity on the occasion of the launching of the African Union. The declaration reads ...Published: 28 Jul 2011 at 12:01hrs | 1 | by Dambudzo Mapuranga
Look East Policy: just what the doctor ordered!
A lot of debate has been going on concerning China's vast investments in Africa and other developing countries, with some skeptics arguing that China has come to re-colonize the resource-rich contine...Published: 21 Jun 2011 at 10:40hrs | | by Walter Chari
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