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Zanu-PF mourns Prof Mararike
Zanu-PF has mourned Professor Claude Mararike, describing him as an astute Pan-African thinker who devoted intellectual labour to the betterment of Zimbabwe.Prof Mararike, who was a senior Soc...Published: 19 Jun 2022 at 10:04hrs | 18 | by Staff reporter
Professor Mararike dies
Veteran academic and social commentator Professor Claude Mararike has died. He was 82. His daughter, Ms Vivian Mararike, confirmed the death of the Prof who was University of Zimbabwe ...Published: 17 Jun 2022 at 08:19hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
The tragic price of forgetting: Pre-independent Zimbabwe questions still need answers
Zimbabwe is beset by a serious crisis of governance. Infact the same questions we wanted solutions for pre-independence still remain unanswered.We are still in a crisis.This crisis has...Published: 18 Apr 2022 at 12:46hrs | 8 | by Taruberekera Masara
Mahoso finally leaves ZMC
Zimbabwe Media Commission chief executive, Dr Tafataona Mahoso, will leave the organisation on retirement at the end of next month.ZMC chairperson, Professor Ruby Magosvongwe, this week confir...Published: 25 Feb 2022 at 05:43hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Family fights over Mpepereki's estate
A FIGHT over the estate of the late Zanu-PF apologist and soil scientist Isheunesu Mpepereki pitting his surviving spouse and a daughter from his first marriage spilled into the High Court yesterday....Published: 28 Jan 2022 at 06:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Fierce battle erupts over new media law
THE Zimbabwe Media Commission (ZMC) has come out guns blazing as it accuses professional bodies of trying to usurp its constitutional duties through the proposed Media Practitioners Bill.Corre...Published: 26 Sep 2021 at 10:44hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Saul Gwakuba Ndlovu declared national hero posthumously
THE Zanu-PF Politburo yesterday posthumously declared the late Cdes Rabelani Choeni, Saul Gwakuba Ndlovu, Elliot Ngwabi, Professor George Kahari and Professor Sheunesu Mpepereki as national heroes. Pr...Published: 21 Sep 2021 at 06:10hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
ABC of knowing Mbudziyadhura munyaya dzematongerwo enyika
Not many zealous seemingly political Zimbabweans know @daddyhope, better called Mbudziyadhura. Let me measure for you the depth of his political convictions and what sets him hissing. I will do so fro...Published: 22 Aug 2021 at 19:38hrs | | by Jamwanda
Pressure group takes ministry to ZMC
MATABELELAND Institute for Human Rights (MIHR) has written to the Zimbabwe Media Commission (ZMC) complaining about the Environment and Tourism ministry's failure to release the national environmental...Published: 03 Aug 2021 at 07:21hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Professor Sheunesu Mupepereki dies of COVID-19
Renowned academic, Professor Sheunesu Mupepereki has died. A professor, and senior academic at the University of Zimbabwe, Mupeper...Published: 10 Jul 2021 at 15:47hrs | | by Shelton Muchena
Chiwenga and the decolonisation of the field of political science
WHILE the repository of African political philosophy is awash with contributions from intellectual doyens like Marcus Garvey, Senghor Toure, Walter Rodney, Archie Mafeje, Ali Mazrui, Thabo Mbeki, Asan...Published: 20 Dec 2020 at 06:42hrs | 3 | by Richard Runyararo Mahomva
Chiwenga triggers important political science debate
Black Epistemologies and the Non-Writing PoliticianWhile the repository of African political philosophy is awash with contributions from intellectual doyens like Marcus Garvey, Senghor Toure, Walter R...Published: 19 Dec 2020 at 05:41hrs | 1 | by Richard Mahomva
Damnatio memoriae and Robert Gabriel Mugabe National Youth Day?
In the recent past few years, it had become a norm in February to see pomp and extravagance in Zimbabwe's state and independent media with preparations towards and celebrations on the birthday of "com...Published: 21 Feb 2019 at 21:18hrs | | by Brian Maregedze
Tafataona Mahoso: A man of many hats
Rupise: Poetry of Love, Separation and Reunion 1977-2017; By Tafataona Mahoso; Mutare, Samwasika Heritage Products.136 PagesISBN: 978-1-7706-070-9 (Paperback)INDEED Tafataona M...Published: 17 Feb 2019 at 16:09hrs | 19 | by Staff writer
Journalist's 'death' another hoax
Elizabeth Zimunda, the woman identified as a veteran journalist who was allegedly killed by security forces in Chitungwiza during last month's violent protests organised by MDC-Alliance and its associ...Published: 15 Feb 2019 at 08:32hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Strive Masiyiwa is not a Zimbabwean Intellectual Prostitutes: Jonathan Moyo is!
I am sharing this for the benefit of those who do not have a complete background of where Jonathan Moyo is coming from. Zimbabwe's ZANU-PF brothel is brimming with intellectual prostitute...Published: 08 Jan 2019 at 17:38hrs | | by Dr. George B. Ayyittey
Police warn against any attempt to undermine national security
THE police will vigorously defend any attempt to undermine national security in the election period as it called on Zimbabweans to heed President Emmerson Mnangagwa's peace calls during the period....Published: 11 May 2018 at 07:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa 'doesn't have a team fit for purpose yet'
When President Emmerson Mnangagwa came into office after his former boss, Robert Mugabe, had been forced to resign following a military intervention, he could have done anything that he wanted to do a...Published: 20 Mar 2018 at 10:27hrs | 2 | by Hopewell Chin'ono
Why Mnangagwa dispensation keeps old problems
WHEN President Emmerson Mnangagwa came into office after his former boss Robert Mugabe had been forced to resign following a military intervention, he could have done anything that he wanted and still...Published: 19 Mar 2018 at 14:55hrs | 2 | by Hopewell Chin'ono
I will be back in my job, Cdes!
MY Comrades, I still cannot believe that you did what you did to me! I still cannot believe that you betrayed me the way you all did.This week I woke up to tell my wife that I had had a nightm...Published: 30 Nov 2017 at 15:53hrs | 1 | by CZ
Kwese row spills into High Court
GOVERNMENT is using underhand means to force exiled telecommunications magnate Strive Masiyiwa's Econet Media-owned Kwese TV into a partnership with either Zimbabwe Newspapers (Zimpapers) or Zimbabwe ...Published: 31 Aug 2017 at 07:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
11 lawyers deregistered
The Law Society of Zimbabwe (LSZ) has deregistered 11 lawyers who were convicted of theft of trust property and other malpractices.Besides those deregistered, more than eight others have p...Published: 21 Jul 2016 at 15:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mtukudzi to entertain million-man marchers
With two days to go before commemorations of the 53rd Africa Day celebrations, preparations for the One Million-Man March which will run concurrently with the Africa Day celebrations are at an advance...Published: 23 May 2016 at 21:01hrs | 29 | by Staff reporter
Turning to Afrocentric paradigm of conceptualising the 'nation'
As I sat to write this piece my mind was taken back to the academic wars that raged in the lecture rooms of my political science class. There were controversial modules which fuelled these gross debat...Published: 15 May 2016 at 07:53hrs | 2 | by Richard Runyararo Mahomva
Mugabe's apologist Vimbai Chivaura dies
Zanu-PF apologist and University of Zimbabwe lecturer Vimbai Gukwe Chivaura, has died.Chivaura died Tuesday morning at Avenues clinic in Harare.Chivaura was popular for his ZBC TV prog...Published: 24 Nov 2015 at 09:38hrs | | by Thobekile Zhou
Media can't do PR for Zanu-PF
In my more than two decades in academia and as a politician, I have heard again and again the often repeated assertion that the bond of any professional and ethical media practitioner is the maxim, "F...Published: 04 Nov 2015 at 19:46hrs | | by Welshman Ncube
Jonathan Moyo, Mahoso in G40 dust-up
Higher Education minister, Jonathan Moyo, savaged the CE of the Zimbabwe Media Commission, Tafataona Mahoso, over an opinion piece that the later penned on Friday in The Patriot. In his op...Published: 02 Nov 2015 at 05:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZILHR fights for jailed journalist
The Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) has embarked into a fight to assist the journalist jailed for operating an unlicenced newspaper.ZLHR communications officer Kumbirai Mafundasai...Published: 28 Jun 2015 at 11:03hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Nigerian 'journalists' slammed for heckling Mugabe
Zimbabweans have roundly condemned the conduct of fringe "journalists" from an unregulated on-line gutter website calling itself Sahara News who harassed President Mugabe as he attended the inaugurati...Published: 02 Jun 2015 at 07:13hrs | 1 | by Lovemore Mataire and Felex Share
MDC-T blast Jonathan Moyo over ZBC insolvency remarks
The MDC-T organising secretary Abednico Bhebhe has lambasted Information Media and Broadcasting Minister Jonathan Moyo over his claims that the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) is insolvent so ...Published: 25 May 2015 at 09:29hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Grace Mugabe shames 'media liars'
A fit and strong First Lady Grace Mugabe attended Wednesday's Zanu-PF Politburo meeting shaming "media liars" speculating on her health to an extent of creating and circulating partly obscure images o...Published: 04 Apr 2015 at 08:02hrs | | by Nduduzo Tshuma
Why was Trevor Ncube refused a radio licence?
THE MOVEMENT for Democratic Change led by the former Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has questioned the wisdom of refusing the Trevor Ncube-owned Alpha Media Holdings a radio licence.Ncub...Published: 05 Mar 2015 at 16:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC-T calls for disbandment of BAZ over radio licensing scandal
THE MOVEMENT for Democratic Change led by the former Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has called for the disbandment of the Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe with immediate effect.The MDC-T c...Published: 05 Mar 2015 at 16:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe should immediately be disbanded
Section 61 of the Constitution of Zimbabwe provides for freedom of expression and freedom of the media. Indeed, these two forms of freedom are an integral component of fundamental human rights as clea...Published: 05 Mar 2015 at 16:19hrs | | by Obert Chaurura Gutu
MISA Zimbabwe condemns new radio licence allocation as partisan
The Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe (BAZ) has granted radio licences to eight companies but the Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA Zimbabwe) has dismissed the move as an entrenchment of the s...Published: 04 Mar 2015 at 12:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Qhubani Moyo's Skyz Metro FM wins Bulawayo radio licence race
SKYZ Metro FM has become the first commercial radio station in Bulawayo after the Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe (BAZ) issued the station with a licence, Chronicle reported.The station...Published: 04 Mar 2015 at 06:35hrs | 1 | by Temba Dube
8 Zanu-PF linked radio stations get licences
Five local companies have been issued with a total of eight commercial radio broadcasting service licences.In a statement, the board chairman of the Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe (BAZ) Dr...Published: 03 Mar 2015 at 21:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tafataona Mahoso on Media Watch - Video
Tafataona P. Mahoso dubbed 'the Media Hangman' was the controversial and vitriolic chairman of the Media and Information Commission, an organ that was created by Jonathan Moyo to control the media in...Published: 16 Dec 2014 at 12:41hrs | | by online
Daily News in trouble over 'Bloodbath in ZANU-PF'
The state media on Thursday reported that the ruling party, Zanu-PF, has approached the Zimbabwe Media Commission (ZMC) and the Voluntary Media Council of Zimbabwe to register a complaint against t...Published: 27 Nov 2014 at 06:08hrs | | by Staff Reporter
ZBC attacks national constitution
The Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) is running a series of programme completely discrediting the new Zimbabwean Constitution signed into law in May last year by President Robert Mugabe....Published: 03 Oct 2014 at 18:36hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
'Trevor Ncube's Skyz FM driven by profit not development'
CARRYSLOT (Pvt) Ltd, trading as Skyz FM and fronted by Media mogul Trevor Ncube is driven by profit and not the cultural development side of the concept, the Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe said du...Published: 03 Sep 2014 at 14:58hrs | | by Hangoyapalala waTjibundule
Cont Mhlanga comes under attack at BAZ public hearing
THERE were fireworks at the Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe (BAZ) first public hearing as Skyz Metro FM and Skies FM - two of the three radio stations vying for the sole Bulawayo commercial rad...Published: 03 Sep 2014 at 04:12hrs | | by Patrick Chitumba
Ezra Tshisa Sibanda's Skiez FM displays poor show
Skies Radio (Pvt) Ltd, trading as Skies FM and fronted by Ezra Tshisa Sibanda has displayed a jumbled presentation late this afternoon as the bidders tried frantically to convince the radi...Published: 02 Sep 2014 at 16:33hrs | | by Hangoyapalala waTjibundule
Radio licence race heats up
....as Byo community rallies behind Amakhosi's Skyz Metro FM HUNDREDS of people from Bulawayo thronged Rainbow Hotel in the morning today to suppor...Published: 02 Sep 2014 at 12:07hrs | | by Hangoyapalala waTjibundule
'New Zimbabwe' by 2018
The year is 2018 and the spotlight is on a small country in Southern Africa called Zimbabwe. It is exactly 38 years since the republic of Zimbabwe was established after more than 90 years of Briti...Published: 01 Sep 2014 at 15:41hrs | | by Obert Gutu
New TV channels after digitilisation
BROADCASTING Authority of Zimbabwe (Baz) chairman Dr Tafataona Mahoso has said the country will only start inviting applications for television licences after the country has successfully migrated fro...Published: 23 Aug 2014 at 17:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Are we geared to prevent Ebola from invading Zimbabwe?
...as the Ebola vector spreads like veld fire in West Africa As the war against diseases across the globe rages on, human kind seem to be losing th...Published: 14 Aug 2014 at 14:43hrs | | by Vegetables Chigumira
Bring back the Zimdollar
Section 317(c) of our constitution states that there should be a central bank whose purpose is, inter alia, "to protect the currency of Zimbabwe in the interest of balanced and sustainable economic gr...Published: 25 May 2014 at 19:32hrs | | by Clemence Machadu
'Tsvangirai is mad' - Ncube's MDC
This afternoon the newly elected youth chairperson of the Professor Welshman Ncube led MDC Youth Mhlonitshwa Shephard Dube, addressing party youths in Njube district in Bulawayo, came out guns bla...Published: 06 Apr 2014 at 19:51hrs | | by Bhekimpilo Sibanda
Four arrested for armed robbery, rape appear in court
FOUR Bulawayo men who allegedly went on a robbery spree by offering people transport before stealing their belongings were on Friday locked up in remand prison pending trial set for October 3....Published: 24 Sep 2013 at 04:00hrs | | by Staff Reporter
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