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'70% of Zimbabweans have no access to clean water'
ABOUT 70,3% of Zimbabweans have no access to clean water, prompting such development partners as ActionAid to drill solar-powered boreholes in some parts of the country, government has revealed....Published: 08 Dec 2022 at 05:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Huge send-off for gukurahundi linked Brig Gen Mabenge
GOVERNMENT officials, services chiefs, Zanu-PF supporters and church congregants yesterday thronged the revered National Heroes Acre to pay their last respects to Brigadier General (Rtd) Benjamin Mabe...Published: 04 Aug 2022 at 06:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa says Zimbabwe will win economic war
ZIMBABWE will attain a prosperous future and overcome the economic challenges being engineered by its detractors bent on making the economy "scream" through asymmetrical warfare targeting ordinary cit...Published: 04 Aug 2022 at 06:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Brig Gen (Rtd) Mabenge met apartheid to discuss how to deal with MK and ZPRA forces
According to declassified South African Military Intelligence documents the Late Brigadier General (Rtd) Benjamin Mabenge was part of the Zim commanders who met apartheid South Africa commanders in 19...Published: 04 Aug 2022 at 06:34hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa did not consult on Mabenge hero status'
CONFERMENT of national heroes status on the late Retired Brigadier General Benjamin Mabenge by President Emmerson Mnangagwa was a given as the struggle veteran was " a real soldier in the pedigree of ...Published: 03 Aug 2022 at 06:48hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa mourns Brig-Gen Mabenge
President Mnangagwa has described national hero Brigadier-General Benjamin Mabenge (Retired) as an intelligent and principled cadre who never deviated from the cause of the revolution from the time of...Published: 03 Aug 2022 at 06:41hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Unknown soldiers declared a national hero
Brigadier General Benjamin Mabenge (Retired) has died. He died in Harare in the morning today, and has since been declared a national hero. Brig-Gen Mabenge, whose Chimurenga name was ...Published: 01 Aug 2022 at 19:06hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe political parties attend Workers Day commemorations
Zimbabwean workers yesterday joined the rest of the world in commemorating Workers' Day, with the Government calling for unity while expressing its commitment to improving the welfare of workers throu...Published: 02 May 2022 at 07:53hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa urged to domesticate elections charter
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration has been urged to move a step further and domesticate the African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance (ACDEG) to guarantee free and fair electi...Published: 25 Mar 2022 at 06:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Rights groups' fret over political violence
HUMAN rights groups have expressed concern over escalating cases of politically-motivated violence, as well as denial of food aid to villagers aligned to opposition parties ahead of the March 26 by-el...Published: 09 Mar 2022 at 07:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Speaker laments voter apathy
SPEAKER of the National Assembly Jacob Mudenda yesterday decried voter apathy, saying legislators should look deeply into the issue to find out why only 35% of the voting population actually participa...Published: 15 Sep 2020 at 06:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
US role in MDC demonstrations unmasked
DETAILS of how the United States of America Ambassador to Zimbabwe Brian Nichols actively encouraged senior MDC officials to press on with Friday's demonstrations by assuring them that Washington "wou...Published: 18 Aug 2019 at 09:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Sikhala accuses Chamisa of cowardice
Details of how the United States of America Ambassador to Zimbabwe Brian Nichols actively encouraged senior MDC officials to press on with Friday's demonstrations by assuring them that Washington "wou...Published: 18 Aug 2019 at 09:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
USA role in MDC demonstrations exposed
DETAILS of how the United States of America Ambassador to Zimbabwe Brian Nichols actively encouraged senior MDC officials to press on with Friday's demonstrations by assuring them that Washington "wou...Published: 18 Aug 2019 at 08:47hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Civic society plots to smear Zimbabwe at Sadc
A plan by opposition-linked and foreign-sponsored civil society organisations from Zimbabwe to smear the country at the Sadc Summit in Tanzania tomorrow has been unearthed after the activists travelle...Published: 15 Aug 2019 at 23:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe domesticating AU charter on good governance'
FOREIGN Affairs minister Sibusiso Moyo has said Zimbabwe is in the process of aligning its foreign policy to the African Union (AU) Agenda 2063 dubbed The Africa We Want and has since ratified AU char...Published: 27 Jul 2019 at 16:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Define your struggle, activist tells youths
ACTION Aid Zimbabwe director Joy Mabenge has challenged youths to shape their revolution if they want to change the country's political and economic environment.Speaking on the formation and c...Published: 26 Nov 2018 at 06:11hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Is Tendai Biti HIV+?
Knives have been drawn out against deputy Finance minister Terrence Mukupe after he made remarks live on radio that exposed the stigmatisation that still runs deep in the officialdom towards people li...Published: 26 May 2018 at 18:38hrs | 5 | by Staff rpeorter
Mnangagwa's travel divides opinion
OPINION was starkly divided yesterday over President Emmerson Mnangagwa's jet-setting, which has made him a visitor in his own country. Mnangagwa has been aggressive in his external engagements, both ...Published: 03 Apr 2018 at 14:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
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 | | by Prof Luke Mbune Chakaza
Afrobarometer report timely warning
ZIMBABWE'S opposition parties, which are in the process of forming a grand coalition to mount a united challenge against President Robert Mugabe and his Zanu-PF party in the 2018 elections, cannot aff...Published: 19 May 2017 at 15:50hrs | | by Cyril Zenda
Mugabe told, 'Presidency is not chieftaincy'
President Robert Mugabe's recent declaration that he won't groom a successor is yet another indication that he wants to be Zimbabwe's leader for life, analysts said.They said the nonagenar...Published: 22 Feb 2017 at 06:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF wars reach a climax
Zanu-PF insiders say last week's dramatic turn of events which saw disaffected war veterans burying the hatchet with powerful First Lady Grace Mugabe and cranking up the heat on under siege minist...Published: 20 Nov 2016 at 13:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's cattle donation to AU riles critics
President Robert Mugabe has come under withering attack for donating 300 cattle to the African Union (AU) to help it become less dependent on outside donors, instead of coming to the aid of Zimbabwean...Published: 29 Feb 2016 at 10:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mujuru resurfaces
Rugare Gumbo spokesperson for the original Zanu-PF that uses the slogan People First Rugare Gumbo yesterday said that after months of dithering and not showing her hand publicly, Joice Mujuru for...Published: 23 Jul 2015 at 16:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mujuru Vs Mugabe
With President Robert Mugabe's warring Zanu-PF having officially split into two bitterly opposed formations, it is becoming more and more likely that former Vice President Joice Mujuru will be among t...Published: 25 Apr 2015 at 15:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Calls for Parliament to audit RBZ
The Zimbabwe Coalition on Debt and Development (Zimcodd) has called for the setting-up of a Public Debt Commission to conduct an official public debt audit before any debt relief mechanism can be con...Published: 13 Feb 2015 at 05:43hrs | | by Business Reporter
Mnangagwa finally arrives
After years of struggle and suffering some debilitating defeats, Justice minister Emmerson Mnangagwa was finally appointed Zanu-PF's first Vice President yesterday, a position that sets him up to suc...Published: 11 Dec 2014 at 14:50hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
10 Bulawayo groups dump Crisis Coalition
CRISIS in Zimbabwe Coalition (CiCZ) yesterday suffered a major blow after 10 organisations from Bulawayo pulled out of the umbrella body, citing centralisation of power and decision making....Published: 17 Oct 2014 at 14:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Call for Sadc to financially assist Zimbabwe
The Sadc People's Summit kicked off at the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair Grounds in Bulawayo yesterday amid calls for the regional bloc to assist Zimbabwe with funds to weather the economic ch...Published: 16 Aug 2014 at 15:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Botswana-based Zimbabweans want to remain
A Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition delegation has found that Zimbabweans who are living in Botswana believe that they are better off living in that country.A seven member delegation was dispatched...Published: 22 Jul 2014 at 20:47hrs | | by Mthulisi Mathuthu
DA warns of 'ZANU-fication' of ANC
South Africa's main political opposition has warned against what it calls the 'ZANU-fication' of the ANC government, saying Jacob Zuma's party is increasingly reflecting the values of Robert Muga...Published: 16 Apr 2014 at 20:06hrs | | by Alex Bell
Mugabe AU-Africa summit boycott raises uproar
OPPOSITION parties and civic society groups yesterday reacted angrily to President Robert Mugabe's decision to boycott this week's European Union/Africa summit in Brussels, Belgium, saying it was wron...Published: 31 Mar 2014 at 10:45hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Prof Jonathan Moyo accused of coup plot
FORMER ZBC board member, retired Brigadier-General Benjamin Mabenge says Information minister Jonathan Moyo is using the anti-corruption campaign and salaries scandal revelations to create condit...Published: 15 Feb 2014 at 13:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe appoints commissioners
President Mugabe has appointed commissioners to the Defence Forces Service Commission, Police Service Commission and the Prison and Correctional Service Commission in terms of the new Constitution....Published: 05 Dec 2013 at 04:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
US to discuss Zimbabwe sanctions
WASHINGTON DC - The United States House Foreign Affairs Committee is Thursday expected to discuss U.S and Zimbabwe relations following the disputed July 31 general election.According to a stat...Published: 11 Sep 2013 at 19:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Robert Mugabe rebrands, rises from the ashes
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe goes to the forthcoming elections with a spruced up image, after over four years of leading a fractious coalition government, analysts have said.After the 2008 bloody e...Published: 10 Mar 2013 at 14:26hrs | | by Patrice Makova
Malema's criticism of Zuma rubbished
EXPELED ANC youth league leader, Julius Malema's recent criticism of South African President Jacob Zuma's mediation in Zimbabwe is a case of sour grapes and an attempt to maintain political relevance...Published: 02 Jul 2012 at 04:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe fails to ratify AU Convention on Democracy, Elections and Governance
Zimbabwe's failure to ratify the African Union (AU) Convention on Democracy, Elections and Governance betrays its intentions on good governance especially in the face of elections, legal experts and p...Published: 07 Feb 2012 at 11:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Discussing Zimbabwe, without Zimbabwe
EARLY this month, the US government's House Foreign Affairs Committee's Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, and Human Rights in Washington DC organised a hearing under the theme "Beyond the Reign ...Published: 09 Dec 2011 at 05:57hrs | | by Obi Egbuna
Zimbabwe Broadcasting Holdings board to be dissolved
Zimbabwe inclusive government negotiators have agreed on a wide range of media reforms, which will see the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Holdings (ZBH) board being dissolved and a new one being appointed amo...Published: 27 Apr 2011 at 07:06hrs | 1 | by Ndou Paul
Zuma set to be South Africa's youngest billionaires!
At 28, President Jacob Zuma's businessman son Duduzane Zuma is set to become one of SA's youngest billionaires ...Published: 28 Feb 2011 at 09:13hrs | 1 | by Byo24News
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