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Charamba loyalists targeted in fresh round of purges at The Herald
The Herald's acting editor Tichaona Zindoga has rung the changes at the Zimpapers title, controversially deploying three senior journalists to provincial offices in a purge targeting loyalists of Pres...Published: 11 May 2019 at 15:46hrs | 1 | by ZimLive
Jonathan Moyo lawsuit crumbles
Former Higher and Tertiary Education, Science and Technology Development Minister Professor Jonathan Moyo's $9 million defamation lawsuit against Zimbabwe Newspapers (1980) and its journalists crumble...Published: 16 Feb 2019 at 20:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga saga gets Herald Editor suspended
The factional fights in ZANU PF have claimed the scalp of Herald Editor Joram Nyathi who was accused of undermining the President by covering his return from the recent EuroAsia trip on page 2....Published: 23 Jan 2019 at 07:09hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimpapers editorial change scam exposed
The fight for the control of the Ministry of Information, Publicity and Broadcasting services has claimed the scalps of veteran journalists Caesar Zvayi and Mabasa Sasa.A source in the ministr...Published: 18 Dec 2018 at 12:15hrs | 3 | by Collen Ncube
Caesar Zvayi removed as Editor in a major editorial shake-up at Zimpapers
The Zimpapers Group has announced senior editorial changes at the Group's Digital and Publishing Division, with immediate effect. Joram Nyathi has been appointed Editor of the Herald, while Vi...Published: 18 Dec 2018 at 05:54hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Lumumba saga: A 3rd ZANU PF faction emerges
Factional politics in ZANU PF have taken an ugly twist with reports that a new faction led by embattled War Veterans Leader Chris Mutsvangwa has emerged. Mutsvangwa wants to push General Constan...Published: 06 Nov 2018 at 14:25hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
President Mnangagwa man of his Word
A wise man is the one who distinguish jokes from sensitive issues and a loving friend maybe a friend for life. While the country is recovering from bootlicking and backbiting mainly orchestrated by fo...Published: 26 Dec 2017 at 09:42hrs | 4 | by Prof Luke Mbune Chakaza
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
Kaukonde's $5 million litigation against Zimpapers commences
FORMER Zanu-PF Mashonaland East provincial chairperson Ray Kaukonde's $5 million defamation lawsuit against Zimbabwe Newspapers (Zimpapers) is set to commence between July 5 and 7 this year after lawy...Published: 13 Jun 2017 at 06:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe rotten to the core
Figures are important, particularly for Zimbabwe where they simply don’t add up. Let’s start with Mugabe’s trip to the Mexican resort of Cancun less than a week after he returned from seeing his...Published: 29 May 2017 at 07:20hrs | | by zimvigil
Kasukuwere demands $500,000 from Dinha
LOCAL Government minister Saviour Kasukuwere has again dragged his fellow Zanu PF party mate, Mashonaland Central Provincial Affairs minister Martin Dinha, to court, claiming $500 000 as defamation da...Published: 12 May 2017 at 06:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere slaps Dinha with $1 million lawsuit
Besieged Zanu-PF political commissar, Saviour Kasukuwere has filed a $1 million defamation lawsuit against Mashonaland Central Provincial Affairs minister Martin Dinha and journalists from the State m...Published: 04 May 2017 at 06:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
General Chiwenga threatens war vets
The majority of war veterans have nothing to do with this nonsense that we are now getting daily in our media.The ones who are now championing themselves as the war veterans are members of an ...Published: 02 May 2017 at 06:40hrs | 15 | by Gen Constantino Guveya Dominic Nyikadzino Chiwenga
Zimpapers geared to fight Jonathan Moyo
The Zimbabwe Newspapers (Zimpapers) group, its editors and reporters have filed opposing papers challenging Higher Education minister Jonathan Moyo's $9 million defamation lawsuit.Moyo's c...Published: 21 Feb 2017 at 06:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimpapers to defend Jonathan Moyo's $9 million lawsuit
Zimbabwe Newspapers (1980) Limited claims that it will not be silenced and will defend a $9 million defamation lawsuit filed against the media house at the High Court by Higher and Tertiary Educat...Published: 15 Feb 2017 at 06:02hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo sues Zimpapers journalists
The Minister of Higher and Tertiary Education, Science and Technology Development, Professor Jonathan Moyo has slapped four editors and three reporters from various publications falling under the ...Published: 24 Nov 2016 at 19:39hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere sues Zimpapers for $7 million
LOCAL government minister Saviour Kasukuwere is demanding $7 million in defamation damages from the government-controlled Zimpapers media group as matters appear to come to a head in the ruling Zanu P...Published: 08 Nov 2016 at 12:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo demands $4 million from Zim papers
Higher Education minister Jonathan Moyo has filed a $4 million lawsuit against Zimbabwe Newspapers (Zimpapers), accusing the Sunday Mail and Sunday News of defaming him in an article about an alle...Published: 26 Oct 2016 at 07:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
We are on the right track, says Gen Chiwenga
This week we publish the final instalment of Zimbabwe Defence Forces Commander, General Constantino Guveya Dominic Nyikadzino Chiwenga's, interview with The Sunday Mail Editor Mabasa Sasa and Repo...Published: 21 Aug 2016 at 08:55hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Gen Chiwenga gives an overview of the challenges of rebellion
The Sunday Mail Editor Mabasa Sasa and Reporter Tinashe Farawo spoke to Zimbabwe Defence Forces Commander, General Constantino Guveya Dominic Nyikadzino Chiwenga about he joined the liberation str...Published: 14 Aug 2016 at 13:12hrs | 7 | by Mabasa Sasa and Tinashe Farawo
Sunday Mail trio's application for discharge dismissed
Sunday Mail editor Mabasa Sasa, investigations editor Brian Chitemba and reporter Tinashe Farawo's application for discharge was dismissed yesterday.They were placed to their defence and magis...Published: 08 Jul 2016 at 06:45hrs | | by Fungai Lupande
Mnangagwa faction takes on Grace Mugabe head-on
The Zanu-PF faction rallying behind embattled Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa's mooted presidential aspirations is said to be taking on powerful First Lady Grace Mugabe and her allies head-on ag...Published: 22 May 2016 at 17:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chihuri wants cyanide poaching cop named
Commissioner-General of Police Dr Augustine Chihuri yesterday sent chief police spokesperson Senior Assistant Commissioner Charity Charamba, who is testifying in a case against The Sunday Mail editor ...Published: 07 May 2016 at 20:13hrs | | by Fungai Lupande
Charamba, Mushowe undoes Jonathan Moyo's work
After a brief ceasefire ushered by former Media, Information and Broadcasting Services minister Jonathan Moyo following his return to the ministry in 2013, the Zanu-PF strategist's successor Chris Mus...Published: 10 Jan 2016 at 06:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zim media under siege- Welshman Ncune
The MDC leader Professor Welshman Ncube have lamented that the Zimbabwean media has again fallen under siege following the arrest of the NewsDay deputy Editor Nqaba Matshazi and the reporter Xolisani ...Published: 08 Jan 2016 at 05:45hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
ZLHR bemoans escalation of journalists' harassment by police
The Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights on Thursday lamented the continued harassment and arrest of journalists by the police following the arrest of a freelance journalist Andrison Manyere for violatin...Published: 14 Nov 2015 at 08:27hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Government urged to stop harassing journalists
Harare Residents Trust has urged the government of Zimbabwe to stop harassing journalists in the course of their duty.In a Facebook post the trust said the arrest of journalists by the police ...Published: 07 Nov 2015 at 08:04hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
MDC condemns the intimidation of journalists
The MDC has condemned the continued assault on the media in an endeavour to suppress the freedom of the press by the state apparatus.MDC spokesperson Kurauone Chiwayi in a statement said the r...Published: 06 Nov 2015 at 06:35hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Bail for Sunday Mail editor granted
A Zimbabwean court has granted bail to three journalists accused of slander after they allegedly implicated an unnamed top police officer and other officials in the fatal cyanide poisonings of mor...Published: 04 Nov 2015 at 20:04hrs | | by AP
The arrests of the Sunday Mail journalists not welcome
The arrest of the Sunday Mail Editor Mabasa Sasa and his two journalists by the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) officers has shown that the ZRP has turned out to be untouchable. The fact that the Sunda...Published: 04 Nov 2015 at 15:54hrs | | by Shanisani Matilaya
Shut Journalists to Shut Development!
The recent arrest and detention of the Sunday Mail Editor, Mabasa Sasa and his two journalists, over a story in which Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) top cop was implicated in the poaching of elephants...Published: 04 Nov 2015 at 13:29hrs | | by Suitable Kajau
Zimbabwe government 'intimidating' media
Human rights group Amnesty International has strongly criticised the arrest of three journalists in Zimbabwe, calling it a "shocking attempt to intimidate the press".Amnesty's comments on ...Published: 04 Nov 2015 at 09:47hrs | | by Al Jazeera
Herald editor arrested
Herald Assistant News Editor Takunda Maodza was last night nabbed by detectives for allegedly demanding a bribe from a cash rich Levy family in Harare. The arrest was effected while Maodz...Published: 04 Nov 2015 at 05:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Police slammed for journalists arrest
The arrest of two Sunday Mail reporters and an editor has been widely condemned as a gross violation of basic constitutional rights.The Zimbabwe Union of Journalists (ZUJ) and other legal thin...Published: 03 Nov 2015 at 19:16hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Police Demands for Journalists to Reveal Sources Unconstitutional
Demands by the Police that The Sunday Mail journalists arrested on November 2 should reveal their sources is a blatant violation of the Constitution, Zimbabwe Union of Journalists, ZUJ, Secretary Gene...Published: 03 Nov 2015 at 14:19hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Sunday Mail peddled 'falsehoods' as journalist condemn police actions
THE Zimbabwe National Editors Forum (Zinef), Acting Chairperson Njabulo Ncube has condemned in the strongest terms the arbitrary arrest of Sunday Mail editor Mabasa Sasa, investigating editor Brian Ch...Published: 03 Nov 2015 at 11:42hrs | 1 | by Thobekile Zhou
Sunday Mail editor, reporters arrested after expose
In a rare development, Sunday Mail editor Mabasa Sasa, investigations editor Brian Chitemba and reporter Tinashe Farawo were on Monday arrested over reports that a syndicate comprising police of...Published: 03 Nov 2015 at 05:13hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
'Gamatox' accused sues The Herald, Sunday Mail
Former Zanu-PF legislator Mr David Butau has filed a $300 000 lawsuit against The Herald and The Sunday Mail over articles published last year and this year linking him with the plot to oust President...Published: 18 Sep 2015 at 06:13hrs | | by Fidelis Munyoro
Sunday Mail new editor under-fire
NEWLY appointed Sunday Mail editor Mabasa Sasa has come under attack from David Coltart over a headline tilted "we killed whites like flies".The story was run this past Sunday.Coltart...Published: 04 Aug 2015 at 14:15hrs | | by Thobekile Zhou
'Baba Jukwa' booted out
The fate of Sunday Mail editor Edmund Kudzayi has now been sealed after he was officially booted out from his position and replaced by Mabasa Sasa, the man who has been acting editor since June 2014....Published: 04 Aug 2015 at 13:30hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'The Robert Mugabe I know'
I first heard about Mugabe around 1962 when he was in the National Democratic Party. I didn't get to meet him though; I just heard about him.I had been expelled from Hodgson Technical College ...Published: 23 Feb 2015 at 12:27hrs | | by Mnangagwa interview
How Mugabe survived Chimoio assassination, Mphoko narrates
I first met President Mugabe when he visited Bulawayo soon after his return from Ghana. We received him at Stanley Square.He was well-received, with everybody carrying him on their shoulders. ...Published: 15 Feb 2015 at 12:02hrs | 6 | by Phelekezela Mphoko
American soldiers singing at Gono's farm
APOLOGIES for going AWOL for the past two editions of the only readable Sunday paper. You see, I could quote several Bible verses on the necessity of resting but I don't want to hypnotise you dear rea...Published: 15 Feb 2015 at 11:57hrs | | by Bishop Lazarus
Kaukonde sues Zimpapers over sex scandal allegations
ZANU-PF's former provincial chairperson for Mashonaland East, Ray Kaukonde, has filed a $5 million defamation lawsuit against the Zimbabwe Newspapers Group (Zimpapers) over a series of newspaper artic...Published: 24 Jan 2015 at 09:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
50 most influential young Zimbabweans or Hararians?
THE ZIMBABWE RESEARCH INSTITUTE has released the final list of 50 most influential young Zimbabweans.The institute says their auditors had to do a due digilence on each candidate to check for...Published: 15 Dec 2014 at 20:10hrs | 20 | by Staff reporter
Baba Jukwa suspect back at the Sunday Mail
STAFF at the Sunday Mail say they are feeling insecure and living in fear after their suspended editor Edmund Kudzayi, whom the state suspects is the shadowy Facebook character and blogger widely kno...Published: 11 Jul 2014 at 13:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Sunday Mail web admin picked up in connection with Baba Jukwa
Sunday Mail web administrator Robin Chaibva was yesterday briefly picked up by police for questioning in connection with the Baba Jukwa investigations.Chaibva becomes the second Zimpapers empl...Published: 29 Jun 2014 at 14:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
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