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Zimbabwe urbanites and the politics of the West
The country is nearing the conclusion of the election period, with the appointment of Cabinet ministers, deputies, Mayors, and council chairpersons being among the final steps in the process. This ele...Published: 24 Sep 2023 at 09:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF busses thousand to Cowdry park rally
UNPRECEDENTED scenes were witnessed yesterday as thousands of people from all walks of life swarmed an open space near Mkhithika Primary School in Cowdray Park suburb, Bulawayo where President Mnangag...Published: 03 Aug 2023 at 06:44hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF grassroots reject 2023 candidates
A protest vote is looming in President Emmerson Mnangagwa's backyard in Midlands where Zanu-PF grassroots are rejecting recently elected party candidates in more than 10 constituencies.Insider...Published: 21 May 2023 at 08:14hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean politics in generational transition
It seems there is a growth in the number of younger candidates being nominated to represent the parties in the upcoming polls.ONE of the most stubborn facts is that the old die, and the new are bo...Published: 07 May 2023 at 19:24hrs | 2 | by Ntando Dumani
Zanu-PF primaries 'spell chaos'
A RUSHED ruling Zanu-PF party internal poll set for tomorrow could trigger waves of discontentment in the former liberation movement, insiders warned this week.They said the short notice to ho...Published: 17 Mar 2023 at 18:16hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa did not rape me, says ex-Zanu-PF minister
FORMER Environment and Tourism deputy minister Annastancia Ndlovu, who is now a full-time employee at Zanu-PF headquarters in the party's directorate, has strongly denied reports that she was se...Published: 30 Jul 2022 at 19:15hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Former Minister Makhosini Hlongwane talks tough
Former Minister of Sport, Recreation, Arts and Culture Makhosini Masumpa Matiwane Hlongwane has weighed in on the controversial opening of the United States Africa Command office in Zambia. In...Published: 29 Apr 2022 at 13:48hrs | 5 | by Mandla Ndlovu
When it gets cold outside Zanu-PF
Last week various social media platforms and some online publications were awash with the news of a meeting in South Africa between former Zanu-PF members namely G40 kingpin, Saviour Kasukuwere, expel...Published: 27 Jan 2022 at 04:37hrs | 1 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Zanu-PF's 2017 post-coup minutes made public
IN the aftermath of the High Court application by Zanu-PF member Sybeth Musengezi challenging President Emmerson Mnangagwa's legitimacy, minutes of the central committee meeting held on 19 November 20...Published: 30 Oct 2021 at 15:05hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF 'strong' and ready for 2023 elections, claims Mohadi
FORMER Vice President Kembo Mohadi says the ruling Zanu-PF as a ‘listening' party has emerged ‘strong' and is now ready for the 2023 national elections.Mohadi, who is now fully in control ...Published: 01 Aug 2021 at 16:09hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF a militarised graveyard, says Jonathan Moyo
FORMER Information Minister Jonathan Moyo says Zanu-PF has become a military outfit working against the interests of the majority of the country's citizens.Commenting on the readmission of for...Published: 16 Jul 2021 at 09:32hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
G40s Jonathan Moyo, Kasukuwere, Zhuwao don't exist, says Zanu-PF
Zanu-PF has ruled out any prospects of readmitting vanquished G40 faction kingpins Jonathan Moyo, Saviour Kasukuwere, Ignatius Chombo, and Patrick Zhuwao as it considers them to be non-existent....Published: 15 Jul 2021 at 09:46hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Fay Chung, Makhosini Hlongwane bounces back
Zanu-PF has readmitted some former members who had been expelled and suspended for deviating from the ethos of the revolutionary party. Notable figures who have bounced back are former Zanu-PF...Published: 15 Jul 2021 at 09:13hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Kudzi Chipanga readmitted back into Zanu-PF
Former Zanu-PF youth leader Kudzai Chipanga has been readmitted into the party following 2017 expulsion. Others readmitted include Tapiwa Matangaidze, Fay Chung, Makhosini Hlongwane and Chirat...Published: 14 Jul 2021 at 16:49hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF recommends admission of G40 movers
The Zanu-PF Midlands Provincial Coordinating Committee (PCC) has recommended the readmission of all former G40 cabals in the province, party provincial chair Daniel Mackenzie Ncube has said.He...Published: 12 Jul 2021 at 16:09hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF still to decide on forgiving Mugabe ministers
ZANU-PF says it is yet to make a concrete decision on whether or not to readmit into the party, expelled Midlands-based government ministers, who were aligned to the vanquished G40 faction.Add...Published: 03 Jun 2021 at 18:09hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF closing ranks with G40s
Zanu-PF is re-admitting without conditions and burying the hatchet with all its members who were turfed out of the party on accusations of belonging to the former liberation movement's Generation 40 (...Published: 22 Apr 2021 at 20:51hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga loses party grip, close allies sink
BELEAGUERED Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga made spirited but futile efforts to save his allies from the Zanu-PF political guillotine during Wednesday's tense politburo meeting in which a titanic ...Published: 23 Oct 2020 at 08:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF decides on expelled Mugabe allies' readmission pleas
MIDLANDS based former government ministers and allies to late ex-President Robert Mugabe will know their Zanu-PF membership status when the party's provincial executive meets this week to examine thei...Published: 03 Sep 2020 at 06:08hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
List of Zimbabwean celebrities who became politicians
Sports and Showbiz fraternities has become a springboard for most celebrities who later became politicians either due to their own desires or by being asked by different audiences to participate in po...Published: 22 Apr 2019 at 17:33hrs | 3 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chief Ngungumbane blocked the building of a school in his area?
Cultural Activist Nothiwani Dlodlo says Chief Ngungumbane working with some political leaders in Mberengwa blocked the construction of Ngungumbane satellite Secondary school in 2012.Dlodlo sai...Published: 05 Apr 2019 at 10:46hrs | 10 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zanu-PF recovers 15 vehicles from expelled members
Zanu-PF says it has recovered 15 party vehicles from expelled members and has enlisted the service of police to recover 13 more. The ruling party in November last year, expelled G40 kingpins a...Published: 19 Dec 2018 at 06:09hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Revealed: Full List of Mugabe's preferred President and Cabinet
A former officer in the dreaded Central Intelligence Organisation has revealed to us the full list of Mugabe's preferred President and Cabinet who were supposed to take over power after the 2018 elect...Published: 14 Nov 2018 at 19:27hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa fingered in $1million Potraz fraud
Exiled former G40 Kingpin Professor Jonathan Moyo has alleged that President Emmerson Mnangagwa instructed disgraced former Minister of ICT Supa Mandiwanzira to transfer $1million to Zimbabwe Football...Published: 14 Nov 2018 at 10:45hrs | 2 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Illegal $1m Potraz loan to Zifa under scrutiny
FORMER Cabinet ministers Makhosini Hlongwane (Sport) and Supa Mandiwanzira (ICT) are both set to be summoned to appear before Parliament, where they will be quizzed over loans that were advanced to th...Published: 14 Nov 2018 at 05:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mzembi, Hlongwane reach out to Mnangagwa
Former Cabinet ministers Walter Mzembi and Makhosini Hlongwane have joined the bandwagon of praise singers who are falling over each other to curry favour with President Emmerson Mnangagwa after he wa...Published: 29 Aug 2018 at 07:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mahoka blasts Zanu PF extravagance
HURUNGWE East National Patriotic Front (NPF) National Assembly candidate, Sarah Mahoka yesterday blasted Zanu PF's extravagance, saying they were purchasing expensive campaign material at a time the c...Published: 03 Jul 2018 at 07:06hrs | 1 | by Staff repoorter
Didymus Mutasa seeks to rejoin Zanu-PF
Former Zanu-PF Secretary for Administration Mr Didymus Mutasa, who was expelled in 2015 over misconduct, is seeking readmission.Mr Mutasa reportedly wrote to Zanu-PF pledging to work with the ...Published: 06 Jun 2018 at 07:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe must get in good books with Mnangagwa for his own interest
Worried religious groups are apparently stepping up their efforts to bring together President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his sulking predecessor Robert Mugabe, pictured, in a bid to break the heightening ...Published: 09 Apr 2018 at 15:31hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa avoiding the real corruption
Once upon a time, the new administration of President Emmerson Mnangagwa mounted what it called an anti-corruption blitz. That was immediately after wresting power from Robert Mugabe through a soft co...Published: 08 Apr 2018 at 09:34hrs | | by Tawanda Majoni
Mnangagwa, Mugabe due for a face-to-face meeting
President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his predecessor, Robert Mugabe, are laying the ground for talks to thaw frosty relations between them, the Daily News reported.The first face-to-face meeting b...Published: 30 Mar 2018 at 15:21hrs | 1 | 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 | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe will not vote for Mnangagwa
Former President Robert Mugabe has hinted he will not vote for Zanu-PF if President Emmerson Mnangagwa ignores his offer for dialogue to resolve their dispute that arose during the veteran politician'...Published: 18 Mar 2018 at 09:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
It was a coup d'etat, no doubt
My People, Finally the truth is out. I have said it before and I will say it again. Muri makwara! You are cowards!Since November you have been coming up with foolish attempts to try and saniti...Published: 18 Mar 2018 at 08:56hrs | 8 | by Dr Stop It
Moyo disowns G40 cabal
FORMER Bulawayo Provincial Affairs Minister Mrs Eunice Nomthandazo Moyo, who was expelled from Zanu-PF last year, has distanced herself from the G40-linked political outfit, the National Patriotic Fro...Published: 14 Mar 2018 at 11:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Push for Mnangagwa, Mugabe dialogue
Some apostolic churches converging under the banner of the Zimbabwe Amalgamated Churches Council (Zacc) are trying to bring together President Emmerson Mnangagwa and the country's former leader, Rober...Published: 12 Mar 2018 at 11:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe, Mnangagwa in secret talks
A deal has been put on the table to end the bickering between President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his predecessor, Robert Mugabe, as the ruling Zanu-PF party races against time to end internal discord be...Published: 10 Mar 2018 at 14:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF Politburo shuts door on Jonathan Moyo and G40 cabal
THE Zanu-PF Politburo has ruled that its former members who were expelled for links with the G40 cabal will have to seek re-admission in 2023.The Politburo met yesterday in Harare.Zanu...Published: 08 Mar 2018 at 05:40hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Ex-Zanu-PF MPs distance selves from NPF
SEVERAL Zanu-PF legislators yesterday distanced themselves from the newly formed New Patriotic Front launched by members of the G40 cabal whose leader Retired Brigadier-General Ambrose Mutinhiri met f...Published: 06 Mar 2018 at 05:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
We are not part of NPF - Mzembi
A source close to the embattled G40 former Minister of Tourism, Walter Mzembi has dismissed claims that Mzembi is part of the New Patriotic Front (NPF) outfit."Contrary to the report by the st...Published: 05 Mar 2018 at 09:30hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Brigadier-General Ambrose Mutinhiri 'anointed' G40 party leader
Former Mashonaland East Minister of State Brigadier-General Ambrose Mutinhiri (Retired) has been reportedly "anointed" by former President Robert Mugabe and former First Lady Grace Mugabe as the leade...Published: 05 Mar 2018 at 05:41hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Who poisoned Tsvangirai?
MDC members have begun putting pressure on the G40 faction to leak details on who it is who allegedly poisoned their leader Morgan Tsvangirai.Party members claim that Tsvangirai currently batt...Published: 09 Feb 2018 at 14:57hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Churches won't repeat Grace Mugabe's 'Super Sunday' madness
Last weekend, President Mnangagwa addressed thousands of Zion Christian Church faithful at the giant National Sports Stadium in Harare. His message was one of peace, love and unity - giving the Church...Published: 08 Feb 2018 at 06:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chipanga apologises to Mnangagwa, seeks re-admission into Zanu-PF
Former Zanu-PF Youth League leader Kudzanai Chipanga has apologised for his links to the G40 cabal and wrote to First Secretary and President, Emmerson Mnangagwa seeking re-admission into the revoluti...Published: 06 Feb 2018 at 00:30hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
G40s form New Patriotic Front party
Members of the G40 faction who were expelled from Zanu-PF are reportedly regrouping and expected to launch a political outfit, New Patriotic Front (NPF), which is expected to contest in this year gene...Published: 03 Feb 2018 at 08:50hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mzembi 'to remain loyal to Zanu-PF despite expulsion'
FORMER Foreign Affairs Minister Dr Walter Mzembi has accepted his expulsion from Zanu-PF and subsequent ejection from Parliament.However, he pledged to remain loyal to the revolutionary party ...Published: 22 Jan 2018 at 05:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's administration rapped over selective application of law against G40
MDC official Discent Collins Bajila has rapped President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration over what he called selective application of the law, which has seen most of the members of the G40 which c...Published: 21 Jan 2018 at 09:26hrs | 2 | by Stephen Jakes
Mnangagwa targets ex-ministers' properties
THE Ministry of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs intends to conclude at least 20 high-profile corruption and economic crime cases within 100 days and those convicted will have their "illegally...Published: 19 Jan 2018 at 17:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
11 Zanu-PF MPs expelled
Parliament yesterday expelled eleven Zanu-PF legislators after the ruling party notified the august House that they no longer represented the interests of the revolutionary party.This brings t...Published: 19 Jan 2018 at 05:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Andrew Langa arrested, hospitalised
The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) has arrested former Sport, Arts and Culture Minister Andrew Langa (pictured) on allegations of corruption stemming from the 2014 African Union Youth Game...Published: 12 Jan 2018 at 05:51hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
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