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Drama as Nyaradzo and Harare hospital fight over Coronavirus corpse
Senior journalist Brezhnev Malaba has reported that there was drama in Harare when officials from Nyaradzo Funeral Services had an altercation with Sally Mugabe hospital workers over a suspected Coron...Published: 41 mins ago | 481 | by Mandla Ndlovu
WATCH: Matemadanda says Chamisa is violent like Mugabe.
A shocking video of ZANU PF Political Commissar Victor Matemadanda comparing MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa with the late President Robert Mugabe has surfaced on the internet. The vide...Published: 9 hrs ago | 4496 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chiwenga rushed to China again
VICE-PRESIDENT Constantino Chiwenga was last week airlifted to China amid reports his troubling health had deteriorated, it has emerged. The former army commander flew out of the country on a ...Published: 11 hrs ago | 11936 | by Staff reporter
What's happening in the MDC?
THE opposition MDC party has always commanded public attention since it burst onto the scene two decades ago. Led by Morgan Tsvangirai, who given his labour background and humble persona, gave the imp...Published: 11 hrs ago | 3160 | by Staff reporter
'July 31 demo is not about graft'
THE government has said it is convinced that far from being an anti-corruption demonstration, the planned July 31 protests are meant to remove the government of President Emmerson Mnangagwa from power...Published: 23 hrs ago | 3451 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police officer's boot breaks the internet
An image of an old and torn police boot has gone viral on the internet causing social media users to respond with mixed reactions.Some social media users felt pity for the uniformed force...Published: 14 Jul 2020 at 17:13hrs | 14813 | by Staff reporter
Ex-diplomat dies in squalor
FORMER Zimbabwean deputy ambassador to Tanzania in the 1980s, Stanley Chabvepi, died last week and was buried over the weekend at his rural home in Mufuka village under Chief Marozva in Bikita. ...Published: 14 Jul 2020 at 08:45hrs | 3230 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo nurses stage another joint demonstration
NURSES from the United Bulawayo Hospitals, Ingutsheni Mental Health Hospital and Mpilo Central Hospital staged a joint demonstration yesterday over government's reluctance to pay their salaries in Uni...Published: 14 Jul 2020 at 08:43hrs | 2848 | by Staff reporter
Political power, leadership and language in Zimbabwe
Besides being a tool for communication, language has many other functions in all societies. However in countries where there are several or many languages, such languages are often ranked in order of ...Published: 14 Jul 2020 at 07:56hrs | 876 | by Moses Mzila Ndlovu
Hospital chief executives fired
Chief executives of five major Government hospitals have been "relieved of their duties" by the Health Services Board as part of what is described as a "restructuring exercise" within the Ministry of ...Published: 13 Jul 2020 at 08:10hrs | 2103 | by Staff reporter
'We will deal with you,' Mnangagwa threatens
IN AN ominous warning, President Emmerson Mnangagwa says the government will deal ruthlessly with opposition parties, civil society organisations and foreign missions that are allegedly bent on destab...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 11:19hrs | 12659 | by Staff reporter
Biti roasts 'cruel' Mnangagwa
MDC Alliance vice president and ex-finance minister Tendai Biti says government's controversial closure of the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE) has vindicated critics' claims President Emmerson Mnangagwa...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 11:13hrs | 5744 | by newzimbabwe
Panicky Mnangagwa spoils security forces
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is pampering security forces to forestall an uprising amid growing discontent over the deteriorating economic situation in the country, analysts have said.Mnangagw...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 11:12hrs | 11172 | by Staff reporter
Harare's major hospitals record Covid-19 cases
TWO of Harare's major hospitals have recorded Covid-19 cases among their staff as the country's caseload rises sharply amid an increase in the number of deaths.As of Friday, Zimbabwe had recor...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 11:08hrs | 1293 | by Staff reporter
Chihuri must explain wealth, PG insists
Former police boss Augustine Chihuri must not be allowed to use his feud with President Emmerson Mnangagwa to evade justice, prosecutor-general (PG) Kumbirai Hodzi has argued.Hodzi was respond...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 11:06hrs | 979 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe was better under Mugabe,' says Hopewell Chin'ono
PROMINENT journalist Hopewell Chin'ono says Zimbabwe needs political reforms to end the multifaceted crisis facing the country.Chin'ono (HP), who has become a target of Zanu-PF attacks for exp...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 11:02hrs | 2038 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe gold mines lure investor despite economic ruin
ZIMBABWE'S biggest gold mines are being snapped up by Mauritius-based Sotic International Ltd as the price of bullion soars to the highest in more than eight years.Landela Mining Ventures Ltd,...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 10:42hrs | 242 | by Staff reporter
ZiNA seeks army, police, judiciary protection during July 31 protests
The new pressure group called Zimbabwe National Anthem has petitioned the state institutions which include the army, the police and the judiciary to protect citizens from the power-hungry political le...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 09:04hrs | 1209 | by Stephen Jakes
July 31st protests
This is in response to the article by Dr Masimba Mavaza with regards to the upcoming July 31st national demonstrations. People who have long benefitted from the Zanu pf gravy train and its insti...Published: 11 Jul 2020 at 18:47hrs | 7030 | by Lungisani Ndlovu
Protest at your own risk, says Zanu-PF
THE ruling Zanu-PF party yesterday said it would deal harshly with the planned protests against President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government on July 31, evoking memories of killings by the army of civili...Published: 11 Jul 2020 at 08:14hrs | 9312 | by Staff reporter
Old and homeless abroad
HUNCHED back pensioners hobble between laden supermarket trollies clutching baskets with a few meagre provisions three or four tomatoes, an onion or two for the usual potato broth for three nights' su...Published: 11 Jul 2020 at 08:09hrs | 1447 | by Miriam Tose Majome
'Running mate clause must ensure VP is elected'
GWERU Urban MP Brian Dube (MDC Alliance) says the running mate clause in the current Constitution must be amended to ensure the President is barred from selecting deputies. Speaking during the...Published: 11 Jul 2020 at 08:09hrs | 794 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's Covid-19 death toll jumps to 13
Zimbabwe is moving fast towards confirming its 1 000th Covid-19 patient, with the total reaching 942 yesterday after 41 more positive tests on Thursday and 16 yesterday. The death toll rose to...Published: 11 Jul 2020 at 08:01hrs | 796 | by Staff reporter
Pan-Africanism and Anti-Imperialism should never be abused to justify corruption, tyranny, and brutality against one's own citiz
In all my 47 years of existence on this planet Earth, there has always been one thing that has always thoroughly vexed my intellect - as I have greatly struggled to fathom how something that appears s...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 15:42hrs | 976 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zanu-PF bigwigs linked to July 31 mass demos
IN A surprising development, expelled former Zanu-PF youth leader Godfrey Tsenengamu, pictured, has sensationally claimed that some ruling party bigwigs are involved in the organisation of the planned...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 15:30hrs | 9630 | by Staff reporter
3 more die of COVID-19 in Zimbabwe
Three more people have died of Covid 19 bringing the cumulative number of deaths in Zimbabwe to 12 as confirmed cases have risen to 926 after 41 new cases were recorded yesterday.Two deaths we...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 15:27hrs | 2749 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe has always had a democracy deficit
DEMOCRACY is an embodiment of governance in which supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodic free ...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 07:16hrs | 484 | by Jonathan Chando
Mnangagwa's promises fast losing steam
IN the run-up to the 2018 polls, President Emmerson Mnangagwa made a plethora of promises which have not been fulfilled and he seems to have lost steam before his tenure has come to an end.On ...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 07:00hrs | 1790 | by Stephen Fari
Jonathan Moyo instigating mass uprising in Zimbabwe?
Zimbabwe's ruling Zanu-PF party on Monday accused exiled former minister Jonathan Moyo of agitating for "mass uprising" in the country and called for his extradition from Kenya.Zanu-PF secreta...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 06:58hrs | 3698 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans should refuse to be abused, and used as sacrificial lambs for a self-serving ruling elite opportunist clique
Whenever any government resorts to habitually and incessantly using the 'national interests' tag, then a wise nation should immediately know that their leaders have reached record lows in their parasi...Published: 09 Jul 2020 at 15:32hrs | 836 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
G40 Kingpins engage Umkhonto WeSizwe to negotiate readmission to ZANU PF?
Former G40 Kingpins Saviour Kasukuwere, Walter Mzembi and Patrick Zhuwao are reported to have sought the assistance of South Africa's Umkhonto we Sizwe Veterans Association (MKVA) to negotiate w...Published: 09 Jul 2020 at 10:48hrs | 6081 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa to pay £3bn land grab compensation
WENTY years after a violent takeover of white-owned commercial farms by the Zanu-PF regime led by the late former President Robert Mugabe, the new administration led by his former deputy Emmerson Mnan...Published: 09 Jul 2020 at 07:19hrs | 1453 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe sowed seeds of violence
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa and his Zanu-PF party preach peace during the day, but when night comes, they practise something entirely different.The ruling party, all its members and the secur...Published: 08 Jul 2020 at 18:33hrs | 2863 | by Worried
Readmission of former colleagues divides Zanu-PF
Discord has reportedly rocked Zanu-PF over the readmission of former colleagues who were ejected from the party post the November 2017 coup that removed the late former President robert Mugabe from bo...Published: 08 Jul 2020 at 18:31hrs | 3528 | by Staff reporter
Kwekwe seeks legal advice on Tsvangirai Street
KWEKWE councillors, who early this year passed a resolution to name a street after the late MDC founding icon Morgan Tsvangirai, have started seeking legal advice before implementing the decision to a...Published: 08 Jul 2020 at 18:01hrs | 385 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF frets over planned protests
ZANU-PF says the planned July 31 protests presented a threat to its hegemony and accused the opposition MDC Alliance of leading an "unholy alliance" to remove President Emmerson Mnangagwa unconstituti...Published: 08 Jul 2020 at 18:00hrs | 882 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Zimbabwe nurses sing while in police handcuffs
A video of nurses singing while being led to a police station on Monday has surfaced on the internet. The nurses who were arrested at Sally Mugabe hospital where singing the song Senzenina/Tatadzei wh...Published: 07 Jul 2020 at 18:55hrs | 5046 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnagnagwa loyalists facing purges from Zanu-PF
FRESH fissures are emerging in the ruling Zanu-PF party with cadres seen as loyal to President Emmerson Mnangagwa under the Team Lacoste banner facing purges amid reports of a plot to reform the party...Published: 07 Jul 2020 at 18:07hrs | 5200 | by Staff reporter
Matter of Fact
ON Saturday, July 4, we ran a story headlined NetOne board member arrested, charged and released in one day. In the story we stated: Rangarirai Mavhunga is accused of having presented before t...Published: 07 Jul 2020 at 18:07hrs | 405 | by Editor
Zanu-PF MP hijacks community clinic project?
A group of Izimnyama villagers in Bulilima district who are now based in the United Kingdom are up in arms with Zanu-PF Bulilima West Member of Parliament Dingumuzi Phuti for allegedly hijacking their...Published: 07 Jul 2020 at 17:19hrs | 4178 | by Staff reporter
The greatest threat to Zimbabwe's peace and security are not foreign entities, or their 'stooges', but it's ZANU PF itself!
Reading the media in Zimbabwe, even since the November 2017 military coup d'etat - which toppled long-time tyrant Robert Gabriel Mugabe, replacing him with his decades-long right-hand man and protégÃ...Published: 07 Jul 2020 at 14:46hrs | 2049 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
'There are no 2023 elections without reforms' said Chamisa - same s***t different elections
Same s***t different day! That really sums up beautifully what Nelson Chamisa's E-Rally was about!"We want political reforms and these reforms must have people's consultation. We want credible...Published: 07 Jul 2020 at 09:06hrs | 3009 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
'Mnangagwa fails to honour promises'
ZIMBABWE is currently going through political and economic crises that have caused untold suffering to citizens. At the same time, factionalism appears to be devouring both the ruling Zanu-PF and oppo...Published: 06 Jul 2020 at 18:00hrs | 5759 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC should rebrand, says Kay
Kay has suggested that the opposition party should rebrand and start afresh as it has since lost its glitter because of infighting which has led to several splits.In an interview with NewsDay ...Published: 06 Jul 2020 at 13:10hrs | 4352 | by Staff reporter
Who is in control of Zimbabwe's crashing economy?
LAST month, in an unprecedented Press conference, military generals said they didn't plan to topple President Emmerson Mnangagwa. Yet weeks later, security leaders sidelined his administration to forc...Published: 06 Jul 2020 at 13:08hrs | 2798 | by Bloomberg
WATCH: Nurses and doctors arrested in Harare
Police in Harare have arrested 12 nurses and an unknown number of doctors at Sally Mugabe hospital.According to the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights, the arrested are charged with contr...Published: 06 Jul 2020 at 13:01hrs | 7343 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Perence Shiri gives ZPRA property to ZANU PF
Minister of Lands, Agriculture, Water, and Rural Resettlement Hon. Air Chief Marshal P. Shiri (Rtd) has instructed ARDA's Acting Chairman J. Makado to transfer Nijo Estate comprising eight (8) propert...Published: 06 Jul 2020 at 11:46hrs | 6053 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Riot police deployed to deal with nurses and doctors in Harare
The government has deployed members of the riot police to deal with doctors and nurses who were planning to engage in a peaceful demonstration at Sally Mugabe hospital. ...Published: 06 Jul 2020 at 10:03hrs | 6877 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'No bailout until implement reforms' says Paris Club - we're paying dearly for double Dutch
Zimbabwe is in this serious economic mess and political paralysis; having Zanu PF on the one hand and an equally corrupt, incompetent and utterly useless opposition on the other; because, for 40 years...Published: 06 Jul 2020 at 06:57hrs | 2585 | by Wilbert Mukori
Mohadi blames colonisers for not teaching Zimbabweans how to run economy
Vice President, Kembo Mohadi, has blamed the country's former colonial ruler of not teaching native Zimbabweans to run the economy as the southern African nation battles a prolonged economic downturn....Published: 05 Jul 2020 at 20:32hrs | 4662 | by Staff reporter
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