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Unregistered schools put on notice
The Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education has issued a stern warning to unregistered educational institutions operating in Bikita district, informing them that they will not be allowed to operat...Published: 17 hrs ago | 72 | by Staff reporter
Disaster as rains destroy over 25 schools in Masvingo
Heavy rains that swept across Masvingo province in recent weeks have caused widespread damage, with 25 schools in the region either having their classrooms or teachers' houses destroyed. The destructi...Published: 23 Nov 2024 at 14:02hrs | 919 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga says Zimbabwe is on unstoppable march to prosperity
Zimbabwe is on an unstoppable march to prosperity under the leadership of President Mnangagwa and not even desperate shenanigans by some of the country's opposition political parties will slow down th...Published: 12 Aug 2023 at 07:48hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa crafts crude strategy to stay in power
IN December 2014, the late Zanu-PF Women's League national secretary Shuvai Mahofa collapsed after spending two hours singing and dancing in support of the then First Lady Grace Mugabe. Mahofa...Published: 20 Nov 2022 at 15:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa crafts crude strategy to stay in power, revels in adulation
IN December 2014, the late Zanu-PF Women's League national secretary Shuvai Mahofa collapsed after spending two hours singing and dancing in support of the then First Lady Grace Mugabe. Mahofa...Published: 23 Oct 2022 at 09:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gutu South community rejects Zanu-PF since 2006
VILLAGERS in ward 27 of Gutu South have defied the common myth in Zimbabwe's politics which says Zanu-PF is dominant in rural areas by voting for an opposition councillor since the year 2006 despite b...Published: 03 May 2022 at 16:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZANU PF bigwigs hiding behind a finger
Whilst it has been the norm that political parties hold internal elections periodically in a bid to rejuvenate structures and remain up to date, the current and pending ZANU PF district and provincial...Published: 15 Sep 2021 at 08:41hrs | 1 | by Paul Ndou
When Magufuli spoke from the grave
There once lived a woman in Masvingo who was called Shuvai Ben Mahofa.Known for her unapologetic straight-talk and indefatigable industry, she had long morphed into an Iron Lady before activism on...Published: 15 Aug 2021 at 08:30hrs | | by Bishop L
Zacc investigates Chadzamira over land
FOLLOWING a story carried by The NewsHawks in January exposing the corrupt distribution of sugarcane plots by senior government officials in Chiredzi, the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) ha...Published: 06 Mar 2021 at 08:06hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF bigwig in poisoning scare
Zanu-PF commissar Victor Matemadanda is recuperating after he fell seriously ill amid suspicious that he was poisoned at a ruling party event a week ago.Matemadanda was taken ill after attendi...Published: 22 Nov 2020 at 05:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Go home Nero! The demons are with you
We are told sister Piri, as Prisca Mupfumira was known in her close circles, is demanding too much luxury behind bars. Yes, she has not yet been convicted, but it could be her insatiable quest for swa...Published: 17 Aug 2019 at 07:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Lest we forget: Women of the struggle
Tomorrow, Zimbabwe celebrates National Heroes Day, an important day on the national calendar to honour the gallant sons and daughters of the soil who made extraordinary sacrifices to liberate the coun...Published: 11 Aug 2019 at 07:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe's top ally dies
A former member of the G-40 faction, Veronica Makonese has died. Makonese was also one of former First Lady Grace Mugabe's top allies. The former Zanu PF Masvingo Provincial Women's Le...Published: 05 Aug 2019 at 19:13hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
ZANU PF factions revealed
The Zimbabwe African Nationalists Union (Patriotic Front) ZANU PF is an interesting political and liberation movement which is currently the reigning and undisputed champion of Zimbabwean politics...Published: 12 Jul 2019 at 10:10hrs | | by Nicholas Ncube
'Unequal marriage triggered Mugabe’s fall'
ZANU-PF national chair Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri has chided elderly male politicians who targeted ambitious young women for marriage and warned that they risked having their political careers derailed....Published: 05 Dec 2018 at 05:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe students revel in Talent Factory
NORBERT Mapfoche and Rutendo Mahofa, Zimbabwe's representatives at the inaugural MultiChoice Talent Factory (MTF) Academy, have said they are enjoying every second of their time in training.Sp...Published: 04 Nov 2018 at 08:43hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Notorious Masendeke nabbed for murder
EDWARD Masendeke, who has been on the run since 2013 in connection with a murder case committed at a bar in Mbizo in Kwekwe has been arrested.Masendeke (40) was arrested by police detectives a...Published: 30 Sep 2018 at 07:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chadzamira rubbishes reports of Hungwe tiff
Newly-appointed Masvingo Provincial Affairs Minister Ezra Chadzamira has rubbished reports of a tiff between him and his predecessor, Senator Josaya Hungwe, whom he described as the "father figure" in...Published: 24 Sep 2018 at 09:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
War vets, IDBZ headed for showdown
THE Infrastructure Development Bank of Zimbabwe (IDBZ) is headed for a showdown with war veterans, resettled on the periphery of Masvingo, after the institution was offered 100 hectares of their land ...Published: 13 Jun 2018 at 09:09hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Zvobgo Jnr fails o fill daddy's shoes
LIKE father, like son, so it's said.But for the late national hero and charismatic Zanu-PF politician, Eddison Mudadirwa Zvobgo and his eldest surviving son, Eddison Jnr, this old dictum does ...Published: 11 May 2018 at 07:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Of Zanu-PF perennial losers
Persistence, perseverance, patience, they say, are the hallmarks of success. Not so for many Zanu-PF parliamentary aspirants, who have tried their luck several times with no success after being beaten...Published: 04 May 2018 at 07:43hrs | 1 | by Staff rpeorter
Mutsvangwa crashes in Zanu-PF primaries?
SEVERAL Zanu-PF bigwigs, mostly politburo members and Cabinet ministers, were left in shock yesterday after they lost in the just-ended party primary elections, a development likely to end their polit...Published: 02 May 2018 at 08:00hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mahofa daughter eyes late mother's Parly seat
FUNGAI Masendeke, the daughter of the late Masvingo Provincial Affairs minister and Gutu Senator Shuvai Mahofa, has thrown her hat into the ring to contest in the Zanu-PF primary elections in a bid to...Published: 24 Apr 2018 at 07:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Race for Zanu-PF ticket hots up
Zanu-PF members interested in contesting in the May 5 primary elections have begun submitting their curricula vitae (CVS) across the country ahead of today's deadline. By last night, some members were...Published: 05 Apr 2018 at 06:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF bigwigs fight over for their lives
Several Zanu-PF heavyweights who include Cabinet ministers could fall by the wayside in the party's forthcoming blood and thunder primary elections, with the youth league cranking up the heat on senio...Published: 25 Mar 2018 at 12:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
It's dog eat dog in Zanu-PF
Unsanctioned primary poll campaigns by parliamentary hopefuls are becoming the order of the day in the ruling Zanu-PF, prompting the leadership into issuing a stern warning against premature canvassin...Published: 02 Mar 2018 at 15:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF to recall G40 left overs from Parliament
The Zanu-PF provincial leadership in Masvingo wants four MPs to be recalled from Parliament while Mashonaland East has recommended 13 senior officials to be redeployed for being foot soldiers of the G...Published: 03 Jan 2018 at 09:49hrs | | by Staff Reporter
How Grace crushed Robert Mugabe
HARARE - History will record that it was a previously under-estimated woman, Grace "Dr Stop It" Mugabe, who succeeded in spectacular fashion to achieve what hardened male gladiators who include opposi...Published: 31 Dec 2017 at 20:53hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Intense jostling for top Zanu-PF posts
Jostling for posts has reached fever pitch ahead of Zanu-PF's extraordinary congress next week with the resurgent liberation war fighters going all out to reclaim positions that had fallen to former p...Published: 09 Dec 2017 at 18:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa ally says Mugabe remains his hero
One of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's surprise picks in a Cabinet unveiled last week was Terrence Mukupe, a former banker.Mukupe, now the deputy Finance and Economic Development minister was c...Published: 03 Dec 2017 at 08:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mutsvangwa takes over from Undenge
ZANU-PF Women's League has appointed Monica Mutsvangwa as its new secretary for administration contrary to reports made yesterday by The Chronicle, that she had been appointed as the national secretar...Published: 30 Nov 2017 at 05:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mutsvangwa dynasty position itself
THE Zanu-PF Women's League has appointed Monica Mutsvangwa as its new national secretary for Women Affairs, following the expulsion of Mrs Grace Mugabe last week.The national Women's League se...Published: 29 Nov 2017 at 05:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mutsvangwa replaces Mugabe
Zanu-PF Women's League has appointed Monica Mutsvangwa as its new national secretary following the expulsion of Mrs Grace Mugabe last week. Women's League national secretary for information an...Published: 29 Nov 2017 at 05:05hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe 'was prepared to kill for women's league post'
Ex-Zanu-PF party women's boss Oppah Muchinguri has spilt the beans, saying she feared being killed after she was pressured by a lot of people to give up the powerful women's league position to former ...Published: 28 Nov 2017 at 10:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Grace Mugabe used me'
OUSTED Zanu-PF national secretary for administration, Mrs Letina Munamato Undenge, says she was used by outgoing First Lady, Mrs Grace Mugabe to further a factional agenda.She also acknowledge...Published: 24 Nov 2017 at 10:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, wife denied Gushungo ice-cream
THE stand-off between President Robert Mugabe and Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa over alleged food poisoning, took a new twist on Saturday when the under-fire Vice-President and his wife, Auxilia, ...Published: 06 Nov 2017 at 05:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe, Grace bury Mnangagwa
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe yesterday told Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa to leave Zanu-PF, accusing his long-time deputy of plotting against him in the clearest sign yet that the veteran politician's ...Published: 05 Nov 2017 at 08:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa under probe on 39 counts of fraud; Mugabe to stand trial on 20 000 murder charges
The ideology ZANU PF is a proponent of a conservative socialist ideology, Pan Africanist and anti- imperialist western values, doctrines and democracies. Pu...Published: 03 Nov 2017 at 05:38hrs | 2 | by Themba Mthethwa
Mnangagwa fights back
Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa's strongholds - Midlands and Masvingo provinces - convened emergency meetings yesterday and annulled the suspensions of its top provincial executives by Zanu-PF polit...Published: 31 Oct 2017 at 06:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
It's sink or swim for Mnangagwa
Political analysts say the recent suspensions of key Zanu-PF officials aligned to embattled Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa leave the Midlands godfather with the option of either fighting back or si...Published: 30 Oct 2017 at 12:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF officials in looting spree
Zanu-PF is closing the net on party officials who are in the habit of fleecing citizens and the corporate world in the name of raising funds for the governing party, the Daily News can report....Published: 29 Oct 2017 at 07:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa feels the heat, Mugabe party suspends his four top allies
ZANU PF yesterday wielded the axe and suspended Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa's four top allies in Masvingo and Midlands provinces, amid speculation that the purge was meant to weaken him in his p...Published: 28 Oct 2017 at 07:08hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Masvingo says no to new minister
Newly-appointed Masvingo Provincial Affairs minister Paul Chimedza is struggling to assert his authority in the former Victoria province because Zanu-PF heavyweights in the faction-ridden region are r...Published: 26 Oct 2017 at 06:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Grace Mugabe VP a wish list,' says Zanu-PF's Mangwana
Zanu-PF deputy secretary for Legal Affairs, Paul Mangwana, has dismissed growing calls by the party's influential youth league to have a woman replace one of the country's two vice presidents, as a wi...Published: 24 Oct 2017 at 07:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai courts Mnangagwa
MORGAN Tsvangirai's MDC-T and former Vice-President Joice Mujuru's National People's Party (NPP) have extended an olive branch to President Robert Mugabe's under-fire deputy, Emmerson Mnangagwa, to jo...Published: 18 Oct 2017 at 06:28hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mutasa warns Mugabe, brawling aides
As Zanu-PF's succession wars reach a deadly climax, former State Security minister, Didymus Mutasa - who was for decades one of President Robert Mugabe's closest confidants - has warned that things "c...Published: 17 Oct 2017 at 13:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's ferocious fightback shows that Zanu-PF wars far from over
The ferocious fightback in last Wednesday's explosive Zanu-PF politburo meeting by under-fire Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his backers shows that the former liberation movement's deadly succe...Published: 15 Oct 2017 at 18:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
I'm not G40, says Mugabe's new Masvingo point man
Former Health and Child Care minister Paul Chimedza was one of the new faces in the Cabinet line-up announced by President Robert Mugabe last week.Chimedza was one of several ministers and dep...Published: 15 Oct 2017 at 12:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's Zanu-PF splits
Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa says President Robert Mugabe has no reason to ever fear a coup against him - blaming Higher Education minister Jonathan Moyo for raising false alarms in his alleged d...Published: 14 Oct 2017 at 15:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa speaks on Majonga saga
Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa has broken his silence on the damaging claims that he forced legendary broadcaster Godfrey Majonga to jump from a high-rise apartment in Harare 30 years ago, after he...Published: 13 Oct 2017 at 13:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
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