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Gukurahundi genocide brigade was deployed on this day 41 years ago
Today in history: On this day 41 years ago and three years after Zimbabwe gained independence from Britain, the Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA)'s Fifth Brigade was deployed in Matabeleland North on 2...Published: 20 Jan 2024 at 16:40hrs | 55 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's billion-dollar petroleum pipeline project on course
PROCUREMENT of equipment that will be used in the construction of Zimbabwe's second petroleum pipeline project valued at over US$1 billion is on course, the deal maker of the lucrative project told th...Published: 03 Dec 2023 at 11:46hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Even Mnangagwa wants 'whites' to develop Zimbabwe!
A few days ago, I had a very interesting debate with a ZANU PF sympathizer - who was adamant that Zimbabwe was going in the right direction under President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa.He based...Published: 25 Jul 2023 at 21:50hrs | 8 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe: Chekhov's middle age monks
From a writer, critic, traveller, doctorI am reading selected letters of Anton Chekhov, the Russian writer, critic, traveller and medical doctor.The letters span a big chunk of his lif...Published: 17 Jun 2023 at 08:03hrs | 3 | by @Jamwanda2 On Saturday
Even colonialism opened up investment - what Zimbabweans want are improved livelihoods!
As Zimbabwe heads towards this year's harmonized elections, the Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa regime is frantically trying to parade its supposed 'successes' over the past five years.Of note, ar...Published: 23 Apr 2023 at 08:05hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Fearless editor who first exposed the Gukurahundi killings
While there were a few local Zimbabwean journalists writing for periodicals and foreign correspondents like Peter Godwin for the Sunday Times (UK) and some filing for...Published: 04 Feb 2023 at 20:11hrs | 10 | by Stephen Bates
Zimbabwe: Class IN itself versus Class FOR itself
US goose versus NED ganderTHERE is always more to write about than there is space to publish. Last week I had to drop two key matters, to allow myself to address in extenso what I sought to ra...Published: 21 May 2022 at 17:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's allies continue minting it
FEASIBILITY studies of the shady US$1.3 billion petroleum pipeline project, whose cost has quickened from US$850 million to US$1.3 billion and will ultimately surge to US$4 billion, are nearing comple...Published: 30 Jan 2022 at 17:00hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Controversial pipeline deal to balloon to US$4 billion
FRESH details on the controversial US$1.3 billion new pipeline project, whose implementation is being spearheaded by President Emmerson Mnangagwa's political and business cronies, have emerged showing...Published: 21 Aug 2021 at 13:07hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa associates behind the US$1.3 billion mega deal
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's political and business cronies, including his new associate Eddie Cross, are behind the new US$1.3 billion megabucks petroleum products pipeline project – whose cost h...Published: 14 Aug 2021 at 18:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Journalist Gwakuba Ndlovu burial set for today before Zanu-PF hero status
VETERAN journalist and war veteran Saul Gwakuba Ndlovu will be buried today at Lady Stanley Cemetery in Bulawayo, his family has said. Gwakuba Ndlovu died last Friday at the United Bulawayo Ho...Published: 22 Jul 2021 at 07:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mine in Mashurugwi deal to end violence
DURATION Gold, proprietors of infamous Gaika Mine in Kwekwe have gone into a win-win partnership with artisanal miners at part of their Athens Mine in Mvuma in a bid to permanently end bloody battles ...Published: 15 Dec 2020 at 07:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
The political economy of corruption
As a cancer inherent in varying degrees of intensity across the globe, corruption is an integral part of the political economy of world capitalism.So, the capitals of the western world lie at ...Published: 25 Oct 2020 at 08:24hrs | 1 | by Ibbo Mandaza
Does Brother Mthuli Ncube live in Zimbabwe?
Hope is the expectation, against all rational considerations, that desires will be fulfilled miraculously.When the "new dispensation" was introduced in Zimbabwe, we hoped against past experien...Published: 18 Aug 2019 at 09:51hrs | | by Kennet Mufuka
The Grand plan, gukurahundi, the Unity Accord 1987 - A program of invasion
This is a follow up of my Press Release released on 3rd July 2019. The focus today is Gukurahundi; its origins, meaning, and its role in the unprecedented influx of the Shona community in every part o...Published: 12 Jul 2019 at 10:14hrs | | by King Mzilikazi II
'Mugabe, Mnangagwa fight started in 1984' USA files reveal
The fallout between former President Robert Mugabe and President Emmerson Mnangagwa started during the height of Gukurahundi atrocities, an American declassified cable has revealed.The cable s...Published: 11 Mar 2019 at 09:43hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Prof Makhurane hero declaration 'another first'
THE awarding of a national hero status to Professor Phinias Mogorosi Makhurane by the ruling party, the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (Zanu-PF) on 5 November, 2018 was a very apt and...Published: 09 Dec 2018 at 07:03hrs | | by Saul Gwakuba Ndlovu
Tagwirei drives wedge between Mnangagwa, allies
Businessman Kuda Tagwirei, has triggered off fresh fissures within Zanu-PF and government, with the Sakunda Holdings founder wittingly or unwittingly driving a wedge between President Emmerson Mnangag...Published: 31 Oct 2018 at 13:30hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Metallon CEO steps down
Metallon Corporation CEO Kenneth Mekani, has stepped down to pursue personal business interests. Mekani, who has been at the helm of Zimbabwe's largest gold producer since 2015 leaves the post in Sept...Published: 29 Jul 2018 at 09:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa charms global investors?
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa last Thursday met several high profile business people in Zurich, Switzerland, and took the opportunity to apprise them of Zimbabwe's compelling business and investment story....Published: 30 Jan 2018 at 05:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa pledges to meet investor expectations
President Mnangagwa says his Government will do everything possible to assist investors keen on starting businesses in Zimbabwe and has urged those interested to take the first mover advantage to expl...Published: 27 Jan 2018 at 10:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
British policy towards Zimbabwe during Gukurahundi massacre: licence to kill
In January 1983 Robert Mugabe's government launched a massive security clampdown in Matabeleland. It was led by a North Korean-trained, almost exclusively chiShona-speaking army unit known as the Fift...Published: 18 Sep 2017 at 18:35hrs | | by Hazel Cameron, University of St Andrews
SA not innocent of the demise of Zimbabwe
Former Radio Zimbabwe presenter Eric Knight has said South Africa is not innocent of the demise of Zimbabwe following its fraudulent mediation ahead of the 2008 global political agreement."Sou...Published: 28 Jul 2017 at 07:04hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Jonathan Moyo according to the Gukurahundi mastermind
Nyaya yaanotaura kuti akaenda ku Liberation Centre after he left Mgagao; the fact is Zanu ne Zanla leadership dzanga dzasungwa neZambian government following the death ya VaChitepo.Mind you, d...Published: 09 Jul 2017 at 07:23hrs | | by Air Marshall Perrance Shiri
Britain's vested interests in the newly independent Zimbabwe
THIS is the third in a series of articles of a detailed research paper by British academic Hazel Cameron on the state-sponsored killings of civilians by Zimbabwean security forces between 1982 and 198...Published: 19 May 2017 at 07:57hrs | 1 | by Hazel Cameron ,British academic
UK 'turned blind eye' to Gukurahundi killings, Mnangagwa 'fully aware': Study claims
New research has claimed that UK officials apparently downplayed the massacre of up to 20,000 dissidents by Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe in the 1980s to protect the UK’s interests.According to ...Published: 16 May 2017 at 22:49hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Britain has bloody hands in Zimbabwe
Donald Trelford exposed Robert Mugabe's murderous methods 25 years ago, but couldn't persuade Whitehall to intervene ------- The baby was already dead, but the crowd weren't to know t...Published: 05 Jan 2016 at 14:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Up close with James Makamba
James Makamba is an entrepreneur with a diverse portfolio of interests covering telecommunications, broadcasting, retail, mining and consultancy and even a stint as a mayor!. He came to promin...Published: 07 Sep 2015 at 12:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
I feel vindicated, says Mugabe
PRESIDENT Mugabe turned 91-years-old on the 21st of February, and had his birthday celebrations in Victoria Falls over the weekend. As per tradition, the President granted an interview to ZBCtv Curren...Published: 03 Mar 2015 at 06:29hrs | 1 | by Chris Chivinge
Mutumwa Mawere rejects Mnangagwa
I APPRECIATE the interest expressed by your readers about my relationship with Emmerson Mnangagwa and its alleged implications on my business success.I think that if my businesses had failed t...Published: 12 Dec 2014 at 09:20hrs | | by Mutumwa Mawere
The Freedom House Report Needs Sober Reflection (2012)
August 26, 2012To: The Prime Minister of the Republic of Zimbabwe, Hon Morgan TsvangiraiCc: ...Published: 25 Sep 2014 at 09:40hrs | | by Zimbabwe Unemployed People's Association (ZUPA)
The British engineered Gukurahundi Massacres
I understand how people hate Robert Mugabe but, to publish this report as a factual report is a horrible crime against the people of Zimbabwe. I can only assume you were neither witnesses to the t...Published: 26 Apr 2014 at 06:52hrs | 1 | by Brian Sherif
'Zim must not expect any economic miracles, I'm not Makandiwa'
Finance Minister Patrick Chinamasa warned Zimbabweans not to expect any economic miracles as he is not UFIC founder, Prophet Emmanuel Makandiwa.Speaking at the ZIA investment awards last nigh...Published: 28 Nov 2013 at 13:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Independent or private media is a fallacy,' says Prof J Moyo
THE following is the full text of a public lecture delivered at the National University of Science and Technology by Professor Jonathan Moyo, the Minister of Information, Media and Broadcasting Servi...Published: 26 Nov 2013 at 15:01hrs | | by Prof Jonathan Moyo
Joice Mujuru's long, tough political journey
"Politics is addictive," says 58-year-old Joice Mujuru, and laughs loudly.She would know, as she has been on the frontline of Zimbabwe's rough politics since she was a teenager when she ran ...Published: 21 Nov 2013 at 16:11hrs | | by Independent Foreign Service
All politicians are ugly
When you really want to stoke the furnace of misanthropy, the thought-ages to visit are the Augustans and the Romantics. But that is to reckon time by way of literary movements, something decidedly es...Published: 02 Nov 2013 at 07:18hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
David Whitehead collapses
THE collapsed David Whitehead could be thrown into liquidation due to insolvency, denting the hopes of more than 3 000 employees who were expecting to return to work.The provisional judicial m...Published: 20 Mar 2013 at 05:08hrs | | by Business Reporter
Nathaniel Manheru and The White African
Local and international analysts are agreed that there is more than meets the eye to the European Union's decision to remove from the sanctions list some of President Mugabe's most ruthless supporters...Published: 24 Jul 2012 at 11:15hrs | | by Lammiel Mangwanani
The paradox of the 'white African' - when white is black and white
"I move that the House take note that tomorrow (Thursday) I will move a motion to nationalise and prescribe all Marange diamond fields."...Published: 22 Jul 2012 at 10:44hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
Tsvangirai, Mutambara: If it ain't broken, fix it; if it's broken praise it
The one thing I have always rued about being Zimbabwean is this our propensity to ensure our total compliance with the Sabbath, total compliance with the ten commandments. Zimbabweans would rather th...Published: 25 Feb 2012 at 05:55hrs | 1 | by Nathaniel Manheru
Zimbabwe corporate restructuring spree on the way – Imara
A spate of corporate restructurings is on the cards in Zimbabwe, predicts Imara, the pan-African financial services group with a strong operational base in the southern African nation. Gr...Published: 17 Feb 2012 at 10:08hrs | | by Ndou Paul
GPA is not a legitimate or democratic entity: Mugabe
President Robert Mugabe says it is worrying that there are some in the inclusive government who no longer want to alight from this 'chariot' despite the expiry of the Global Political Agreement (GPA...Published: 08 Dec 2011 at 18:33hrs | | by Mafu Sithabile
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