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5 'O' Levels requirement for councillors rocks Zanu-PF
Zanu-PF is battling fierce strife within its Women's League following exclusion of long-serving and supposedly deserving female cadres, who were disqualified from nomination as Proportional Representa...Published: 22 hrs ago | 1023 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa orders ouster of Peter Mataruse?
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) president, Nelson Chamisa has reportedly ordered that internal processes to choose a parliamentary candidate for Chinhoyi constituency be redone.The nomination ...Published: 26 May 2023 at 16:26hrs | 763 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa, Mwonzora supporters fight over office space
VIOLENT clashes over disputed office premises in Chinhoyi have left Citizens' Coalition for Change (CCC) and Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) members nursing injuries.Pandemonium broke out...Published: 03 May 2023 at 21:58hrs | 414 | by Staff reporter
Ziyambi rival withdraws from poll re-run
JUSTICE and Parliamentary Affairs minister Ziyambi Ziyambi is likely to represent Zanu-PF in Zvimba West after his rival pulled out from a scheduled primary election re-run.A re-run was schedu...Published: 12 Apr 2023 at 08:08hrs | 804 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF okays Mupfumira poll candidacy despite her claims of insanity
Axed Public Service Minister Prisca Mupfumira, who once evaded trial over US$95 million pension fund embezzlement citing insanity, has been certified fit to run for a seat in Zimbabwe's parliament by ...Published: 08 Apr 2023 at 17:45hrs | 1634 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF Primaries: Remaining candidates announced
Zanu-PF has announced the final list of candidates who will represent the party in the forthcoming harmonised elections with 205 candidates cleared, and only five remaining to allow for reruns....Published: 06 Apr 2023 at 06:38hrs | 522 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF bigwigs leak wounds
ATTEMPTS to settle for "safe constituencies" have backfired on several Zanu-PF party primary election candidates who contested away from their original areas.Under the Zanu-PF party constituti...Published: 03 Apr 2023 at 06:33hrs | 1802 | by Staff reporter
Ziyambi, more Zanu-PF heavyweights fall in party primaries
Justice Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi has suffered defeat in weekend Zanu-PF primary elections, becoming one of the high profile casualties in the just ended ruling party internal polls.A fervent l...Published: 29 Mar 2023 at 06:59hrs | 3057 | by Staff reporter
Massive turnout in Zanu-PF primaries
VOTERS yesterday turned out in huge numbers, as Zanu-PF held its primary elections in eight provinces across the country, prompting the party leadership to extend voting to today in some areas....Published: 26 Mar 2023 at 10:00hrs | 414 | by Staff reporter
It's election time in Zanu-PF today
IT is all systems go for the Zanu-PF primary elections that will take place today in all provinces except Masvingo and Midlands in a contest to choose candidates to stand on the ruling party ticket in...Published: 24 Mar 2023 at 23:08hrs | 567 | by Staff reporter
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 | 429 | by Staff reporter
8 Zimbabweans on Interpol Red Notice
EIGHT Zimbabweans, including a Makonde woman wanted for kidnapping three minors in separate incidents, have been placed on the International Criminal Police Organisation (Interpol)'s most wanted list....Published: 05 Mar 2023 at 06:18hrs | 570 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt assures journalists of safety
Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services deputy minister Kindness Paradza says the government is committed to ensure that journalists operate in a friendly environment and condemned emerging d...Published: 29 Jan 2023 at 08:17hrs | 489 | by Staff Reporter
Zanu-PF bigwigs tame divisions
Zanu-PF bigwigs in Mashonaland West province are fighting to tame deep-seated divisions caused by the party's restructuring exercise including the recent Central Committee elections.Divisions ...Published: 03 Dec 2022 at 09:11hrs | 634 | by Staff reporter
'ZEC to fix voter 'mis-posting' in delimitation aftermath'
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) says it will correct anomalies whereby some voters, by virtue of residential addresses, are categorised as belonging to wrong local council wards.Common...Published: 19 Nov 2022 at 06:35hrs | 249 | by Staff reporter
Mohadi tours Mash West to whip traditional leaders
Zanu-PF vice president and second secretary, Kembo Mohadi, is set on a marathon tour of Mashonaland West province where he is expected to whip traditional leaders into ensuring their subjects vote for...Published: 09 Nov 2022 at 05:18hrs | 1237 | by Staff reporter
South African in Zimbabwean court for fraud
A South African, Peter Coetzee, alias Van Tonder Vikus, alias Johannes Jacobus Conelius Naude, yesterday appeared before Harare magistrate Mr Taurai Manuwere facing charges of duping two gold miners o...Published: 25 Oct 2022 at 06:01hrs | 257 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF old guard retain CC posts
THE ruling Zanu-PF party retained its old guard in the recently held central committee (CC) elections with a few young guns making it into the party's highest decision-making body.The party's ...Published: 17 Oct 2022 at 06:11hrs | 1650 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF elections marred by violence
VIOLENCE and ugly scenes reportedly marred the just-ended Zanu-PF central committee (CC) elections as bigwigs locked horns over positions in the party's highest decision-making body.Reports an...Published: 10 Oct 2022 at 06:11hrs | 1434 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF bigwigs fall by the wayside in chaotic elections
As results started trickling in last night, some Zanu-PF bigwigs including former Health minister David Parirenyatwa, politburo member Tendai Chirau and ex-wife of ruling party deputy president Kembo ...Published: 09 Oct 2022 at 07:57hrs | 2483 | by Staff reporter
Fraud-accused socialite cleared to contest Zanu-PF elections
Zanu-PF has given the nod to socialite Mike Chimombe's candidature to stand in the weekend elections for the ruling party's Central Committee (CC).The polls are being fiercely contested amid a...Published: 06 Oct 2022 at 06:08hrs | 2260 | by Staff reporter
CCC 'thank you' rally in Chinhoyi given green light
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) has secured police clearance for a rally scheduled for Chinhoyi this Sunday to celebrate the party's emphatic victories in recent by elections, where the party won ...Published: 09 Sep 2022 at 06:08hrs | 1000 | by Staff reporter
Foreigners loot Zimbabwe's emeralds
WELL-CONNECTED foreign syndicates are looting Zimbabwe's emeralds using local proxies and taking advantage of corrupt systems to plunder and smuggle various other types of little-known precious stones...Published: 07 Aug 2022 at 18:50hrs | 989 | by Staff reporter
Mushikashika robberies increase
Five sets of passengers accepting lifts from what they thought were mushikashika lost cash and phones on Friday and Saturday last week in Harare, while a man who offered three men a lift last week los...Published: 31 May 2022 at 06:26hrs | 429 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF activist jailed 12 years
NOTORIOUS Zanu-PF member and businessman, Mike Mhangura, has been sentenced to 12 years imprisonment for raping a Chinhoyi woman last December.He will, however, spend an effective nine years i...Published: 19 May 2022 at 06:42hrs | 2684 | by Staff reporter
Mutsvangwa dreams of a stable Zimdollar
Zimbabwe's economy continues to grow despite illegal sanctions imposed on the country by the West and the nation is now being rallied to support President Mnangagwa's vision of stabilising the local c...Published: 17 May 2022 at 06:32hrs | 310 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's ministers openly clash over Zanu-PF positions
A MESSY public spat has erupted between two government ministers, Mary Mliswa-Chikoka and Kindness Paradza over the ongoing Zanu-PF restructuring exercise.Mliswa-Chikoka is being accused of ab...Published: 05 May 2022 at 07:14hrs | 2924 | by Staff reporter
Mliswa's preferred candidate trounced in Zanu-PF youth election
AS factionalism ravages Zanu-PF, NewZimbabwe.com has it on good authority provincial affairs minister Mary Mliswa-Chikoka's preferred Kadoma-Chegutu candidate in the provincial youth league elections ...Published: 27 Apr 2022 at 14:30hrs | 1659 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF youths trade blows during elections
THERE was pandemonium during Zanu PF Mashonaland West youth league elections in Chinhoyi as party youths traded blows and threatened to kill each on Sunday.The elections, which had to be aband...Published: 26 Apr 2022 at 08:36hrs | 925 | by Staff reporter
20 buses drive to Mnangagwa's event empty
Zanu-PF Mashonaland West leaders are at loggerheads after 20 Zupco buses commandeered to ferry party supporters to Kadoma for President Emmerson Mnangagwa's event ended up driving to the venue virtual...Published: 18 Apr 2022 at 10:35hrs | 3847 | by Staff reporter
Chombo's trial deferred
THE fraud trial involving former Minister, Ignatius Chombo, in which he is being accused of duping the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe of $14 billion, has been deferred to June pending the finalisation of a ...Published: 08 Apr 2022 at 10:13hrs | 269 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF bigwigs, securocrats line children up for Youth league posts
FOLLOWING speculation that the late former president Robert Mugabe's son, Robert Jnr, is set to contest for a position in the highly influential Zany PF youth league, party heavyweights and service ch...Published: 07 Apr 2022 at 06:42hrs | 2637 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF members told to mobilise voters to register
Zanu-PF supporters who are yet to register as voters have been urged to take advantage of the ongoing mobile voter registration drive.Speaking in Mhangura yesterday, the ruling party's Makonde...Published: 06 Feb 2022 at 06:47hrs | 46 | by Staff reporter
Zacc targets 250 State entities, departments
The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) wants all Auditor General reports implemented in full for 250 departments, parastatals and other public entities to enhance public finance management sys...Published: 04 Feb 2022 at 05:32hrs | 182 | by Staff reporter
8 Zimbabweans on Interpol wanted list
EIGHT Zimbabweans, including a Bulawayo woman who is charged for fraud and corruption, are currently on the International Criminal Police Organisation (Interpol) most wanted list for allegedly committ...Published: 02 Feb 2022 at 05:26hrs | 4024 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora's MDC fails to field some candidates
THE MDC Alliance led by Douglas Mwonzora was dumped by some prospective contestants in the last minute at the Nomination Court on Wednesday in Chinhoyi, Mashonaland West, resulting in the party fieldi...Published: 28 Jan 2022 at 21:22hrs | 2134 | by Staff reporter
Mary Mliswa targets rivals in purging spree
THE infighting within Zanu-PF Mashonaland West is raging on, with an elaborate plot to suspend, and consequently remove, Zvimba district coordinating committee (DCC) chairman Bywell Mbiri sparking ren...Published: 23 Jan 2022 at 08:04hrs | 1690 | by Staff reporter
'Boko Haram' wins Zanu-PF primary election
THERE were wide celebrations Friday night after Zanu-PF official, Ruth ‘Boko Haram' Chikukwa won the right to represent the ruling party in the Chinhoyi Ward 2 upcoming council by-elections....Published: 22 Jan 2022 at 05:26hrs | 4950 | by Staff reporter
Violence Rocks New Zanu-PF Mashonaland West PCC
VIOLENCE dominated the new Zanu-PF provincial joint council of the main wing, women's and youth leagues' inaugural meeting held in Chinhoyi Saturday.The meeting was meant to officially hand ov...Published: 10 Jan 2022 at 06:04hrs | 2425 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa endorses 'rigged' Zanu-PF elections
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday endorsed the disputed results of his Zanu-PF party's provincial elections and urged members to accept the outcome.He also rallied all party members to wo...Published: 06 Jan 2022 at 19:09hrs | 1054 | by Staff reporter
Zaac seeks prosecution powers
The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) wants to be given prosecution powers to take cases it is investigating to court in order to speed up the process.Zacc argues that speeding up the...Published: 29 Dec 2021 at 05:21hrs | 222 | by Staff reporter
Fireworks expected as Zanu-PF slides into provincial elections
THE ruling Zanu-PF party is preparing for provincial party elections with candidates backed by politburo members seeking to solidify their control of grassroots structures clashing in the internal pol...Published: 24 Dec 2021 at 16:42hrs | 710 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF youths stage demo against Paradza
AS the political temperatures reach the boiling point ahead of impending Zanu-PF provincial elections in Mashonaland West, party youths at the weekend staged a demonstration against Information deputy...Published: 21 Dec 2021 at 06:17hrs | 699 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF frets over infighting
Zanu-PF bigwigs are expected to meet today for a politburo meeting amid reports of worsening infighting that has rocked the party's restructuring exercise and protests against senior leaders.P...Published: 21 Dec 2021 at 06:16hrs | 265 | by Staff reporter
Devolution funds doubled in 2022 Budget
FINANCE and Economic Development Minister Professor Mthuli Ncube last week doubled the financial allocation towards the devolution programme as the Government moves with renewed speed and vigour to fa...Published: 28 Nov 2021 at 07:47hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Man jailed 15 years for raping biological daughter (12)
A Harare man was today jailed for 15 years for raping his biological 12-year-old daughter in a maize field in Highfield, Harare. The man, whose name has been withheld to protect the identity o...Published: 24 Nov 2021 at 10:43hrs | 22 | by Staff Reporter
Zanu-PF dispels factionalism rumours
Zanu-PF Politburo member Lieutenant-General Engelbert Rugeje (Retired) has rubbished claims of factionalism in the ruling party that are being peddled on social media.Addressing journalists in...Published: 16 Nov 2021 at 05:40hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Woman loses freedom bid in $35m fraud case
THE woman who allegedly duped a local businessman of $35 million in a botched mining chemicals deal sometime last year, yesterday lost her freedom bid after the court dismissed her application for exc...Published: 16 Nov 2021 at 05:38hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
CID launches manhunt for suspect
Police have roped in the International Police Organisations (Interpol) with a view to track down one of Zimbabwe's most wanted armed robbery suspects, Conwell Junior Kasambarare (26), believed to be p...Published: 08 Nov 2021 at 05:23hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Robbers escape after police shootout
A gang of armed robbery suspects is believed to have sped off with gunshot wounds in Bulawayo following a shootout with police, as a crack team was set up to track down one of Zimbabwe's most wanted a...Published: 04 Nov 2021 at 06:13hrs | 18 | by Staff reporter
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