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Mnangagwa's 2030 plot faces fierce Zanu-PF resistance
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's loud campaign for support to hang on to power beyond 2028 when his final term ends has drawn fierce resistance from a Zanu-PF faction loyal to his deputy Constantino Chi...Published: 12 Jun 2024 at 07:54hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF youth leader suspended over ED 2030
AS political manoeuvres to extend President Emmerson Mnangagwa's term beyond 2028 through the backdoor gathers momentum, a Zanu-PF youth leader, opposed to the move, has been suspended for resistance ...Published: 20 May 2024 at 16:51hrs | 206 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF youth member in fuel scam
Zanu-PF youth member, Danmore Mambondiyani, allegedly duped a Harare company fuel worth thousands of dollars.Mambondiyani appeared before Harare magistrate Ruth Moyo facing charges of theft of...Published: 21 Mar 2023 at 19:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Die cast in Zanu-PF primaries
THE stage has been set in what promises to be a tough contest in the much-awaited Zanu-PF primary elections to choose the candidates that will represent the ruling party in the forthcoming harmonised ...Published: 17 Mar 2023 at 07:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Low to middle-income housing project takes off from Bulawayo
BULAWAYO yesterday witnessed the official launch of a US$11 million housing project that will result in the construction of thousands of low-cost housing units in selected parts of the country with th...Published: 18 Jun 2022 at 07:26hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
CCC secretary general granted $40,000 bail
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) Manicaland province secretary general Godfrey Mubatsa, who is facing charges of violating the Maintenance of Peace and Order Act (MOPA), was Monday granted ZW$40 00...Published: 25 May 2022 at 06:42hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
CCC secretary general arrested
CITIZENS Coalition for Change secretary general for Manicaland was Sunday arrested for addressing a political gathering in Doradombo at Mambondiyani mountain.Godfrey Mubatsa, was reportedly pi...Published: 23 May 2022 at 06:44hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF Conference exposes Mnangagwa, Chiwenga rift
The rivalry between President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his deputy Constantino Chiwenga came to the fore at the just ended Zanu-PF youth conference where the party avoided elections for the league's seco...Published: 09 May 2022 at 07:17hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Showdown looms at Zanu-PF youth conference
DAGGERS have been drawn ahead of the Zanu-PF national youth congress slated for tomorrow in Harare amid allegations of vote-buying and jostling for leadership positions.Over 2 000 delegates fr...Published: 03 May 2022 at 06:50hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF youth conference fuels Mnangagwa, Chiwenga feud
THE Zanu-PF national youth conference slated for next month has reportedly renewed rivalry between factions aligned to President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his deputy, Constantino Chiwenga.The two...Published: 12 Apr 2022 at 06:33hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF calls for truce
WARRING Zanu-PF factions have been urged to bury the hatchet and stop dropping names of party bigwigs during campaigns.The call was made by party secretary for commissariat Mike Bimha in a sta...Published: 10 Jan 2022 at 06:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF supporters threaten to vote for Chamisa in 2023
ANGRY Zanu-PF supporters in Manicaland province have threatened to vote for opposition leader Nelson Chamisa in the 2023 elections as a way to vent their anger over rigged internal party elections....Published: 04 Jan 2022 at 06:01hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Porusingazi chickens out of Zanu-PF Manicaland PCC race
CHIPINGE South MP Enock Porusingazi (Zanu-PF) has pleaded for unity in Manicaland province as party members jostle for positions ahead of provincial coordinating committee (PCC) elections slated for e...Published: 09 Nov 2021 at 05:38hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF wants Chamisa Biti charged with treason over sanctions
THE Zanu-PF Manicaland youth league chapter says opposition leader Nelson Chamisa and his deputy Tendai Biti must face treason charges for lobbying sanctions against Zimbabwe.The calls were ma...Published: 26 Oct 2021 at 06:43hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF tense as factional intrigue overshadows upcoming conference
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa will preside over a potentially heated Zanu-PF conference in Bindura next week amid bruising infighting in the Midlands and Masvingo, with the party leader expected to cra...Published: 23 Oct 2021 at 23:53hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF burns ahead of conference
BATTLES to control Zanu-PF structures raged across Zimbabwe this week, with the party's leadership struggling to complete the setting up of district structures ahead of the national conference slated ...Published: 22 Oct 2021 at 19:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF youths deny taking part in Chamisa's 'assassination attempt'
Manicaland provincial Zanu-PF youths have distanced themselves from the alleged assassination attempt on MDC Alliance President Nelson Chamisa in Mutare Tuesday afternoon adding it was a stage-managed...Published: 21 Oct 2021 at 22:52hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa attacked again?
MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa was yesterday blocked again by some Zanu-PF youths and security details at Troutbeck turn-off in Nyanga when he was on his way to Ruwangwe, a day after a suspected a...Published: 21 Oct 2021 at 06:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa admits to party chaos
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday admitted that his party was in shambles and threatened to descend heavily on party members locked in bloody power struggles.Addressing an extraordinary s...Published: 21 Oct 2021 at 06:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Police inaction worrying
POLICE inaction on the recent attack of opposition MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa is not only worrying, but points to an uneven political playing field that could turn bloody ahead of the 2023 ele...Published: 21 Oct 2021 at 06:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa fakes 'assassination' attempt?
THE MDC Alliance yesterday claimed party leader Nelson Chamisa's convoy was intercepted by heavily suspected armed Zanu-PF youths who fired gunshots, hitting a rear window on the opposition leader's v...Published: 20 Oct 2021 at 07:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF fundraises for national conference
THE ruling Zanu-PF party is rallying its members and stakeholders to provide financial resources and other items towards its forthcoming annual conference slated for this month in Mashonaland Central....Published: 15 Oct 2021 at 06:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF frets over internal chaos
Zanu-PF yesterday conceded that jostling for positions in the district elections has caused chaos in the party, and threatened to act on the "rogue" elements who it said were fanning divisions....Published: 14 Oct 2021 at 06:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF violence forces politburo to descend on Manicaland
Zanu-PF politburo members yesterday descended on Manicaland province to douse factional fights which have seen party members demonstrate against provincial chairperson Mike Madiro since Sunday....Published: 13 Oct 2021 at 06:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF Manicaland fights: 20 arrested
POLICE yesterday arrested 20 Zanu-PF supporters in Manicaland province following intraparty violence.National police spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi said: "The Zimbabwe Republi...Published: 12 Oct 2021 at 06:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Violence rocks Zanu-PF Manicaland indaba
CHAOS rocked a Zanu-PF provincial co-ordinating committee (PCC) meeting yesterday after scores of demonstrators, who were calling for the ouster of Manicaland provincial chairman Mike Madiro, were tea...Published: 11 Oct 2021 at 06:02hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF youths besiege flea market
Zanu-PF has been accused of interfering in Mutare City Council operations after the ruling party youths forcibly allocated themselves vending stalls at Chidzere flea market in the city last Thursday....Published: 06 Oct 2021 at 05:50hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Matsikenyere lays into Madiro
ANGRY Zanu-PF supporters, who were camped at the party headquarters in Mutare baying for Manicaland provincial chairperson Mike Madiro's blood were yesterday restrained by Manicaland Provincial Affair...Published: 29 Sep 2021 at 06:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bloodbath in Zanu-PF
Zanu-PF yesterday threatened to come down hard on the warring party factions after fights disrupted internal district elections at the weekend and yesterday.The ruling party was last week forc...Published: 28 Sep 2021 at 06:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
4 eye Zanu-PF Manicaland provincial chairmanship
Zanu-PF Makoni district on Sunday endorsed the candidature of its district co-ordinating committee (DCC) chairperson Albert Nyakuedzwa to contest for the Manicaland provincial chairmanship ahead of th...Published: 04 Aug 2021 at 06:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Police block Zanu-PF youth demo, 20 arrested
HEAVILY-ARMED police in Mutare on Tuesday blocked and arrested over 20 Zanu-PF youth after they demonstrated against the city council for resisting their move to invade Sakubva vegetable and flea mark...Published: 03 Jun 2021 at 07:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF youths besiege Sakubva flea market
Zanu-PF youths in Mutare yesterday besieged the Sakubva flea market where they took over vegetable market stalls claiming the COVID-19-induced lockdown had impoverished them.The youths were be...Published: 01 Jun 2021 at 08:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Young petroleum mogul enters Zanu PF DCC race
YOUNG petroleum mogul Danmore Mambondiyani has entered the race for a post in the ruling Zanu PF party's fiercely contested district coordination committees which the party had shelved for years over ...Published: 03 Oct 2020 at 13:59hrs | 2 | by Bernard Chiketo
Mystery cow baffles chief
A FAMILY in Dora Dombo just outside Mutare is experiencing hell-on-earth after one of its cows suddenly began 'talking' in a weird case that has since been attributed to witchcraft.The hard-to...Published: 22 Jun 2018 at 06:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
A Smooth Take Off for the Zimbabwe Achievers Awards USA Edition - Full List of Nominees
The Zimbabwe Achievers Awards USA Edition 2016, got off to a seamless start at the Nominee Announcement launch held in Dallas, Texas USA on Friday 23rd September. With the 2016 Edition of the ZAA Sout...Published: 28 Sep 2016 at 22:08hrs | | by Arts Correspondent - Dallas, Texas
Mugabe promotes 37 army officers
President Mugabe has promoted 37 Zimbabwe National Army field officers to the rank of lieutenant-colonel.They were all promoted in line with Section 15 (1) B of the Defence Act, Chapter 11:02 ...Published: 09 Mar 2016 at 05:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
As food crisis persists, Zimbabwe's dilemma escalates; to eat or not to eat GMOs
Eighty-year-old Gogo Mutimba from Chitora about 50 kilometres south of the border city of Mutare in Zimbabwe stares blankly at the clear October blistering afternoon sun.With a frown she r...Published: 04 Nov 2015 at 07:34hrs | | by Andrew Mambondiyani
Mbada Diamonds Cup - a case of skewed priorities
I was one of the many readers who used to follow Robson Sharuko's writings in the Herald until he was he tainted by the Asiagate scandal. Guilty or not guilty, I now rarely follow what he writes unt...Published: 28 Oct 2013 at 07:22hrs | | by Andrew Mambondiyani
'Media hangman' bounces back!, as Mugabe announces new cabinet
The long wait is over as President Robert Mugabe announced a 26 member cabinet on Tuesday 11 September, 2013.While such cabinet announcements should have brought joy and celebrations, Presi...Published: 11 Sep 2013 at 13:29hrs | | by Andrew Mambondiyani
The other side of Zimbabwe's high inflation
On September 30 2010, I was part of thousands of people who attended the 20th First Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony at Sanders Theatre at Harvard University in USA.The Ig Nobel Prizes are awarded for...Published: 28 Aug 2013 at 06:11hrs | | by Andrew Mambondiyani
If (when) Mugabe loses the election to Tsvangirai
By 7 PM on July 31 2013 the people of Zimbabwe would have decided who must rule this rich nation for the next five years.And as I am writing some of my political friends have already stocked ...Published: 30 Jul 2013 at 06:07hrs | | by Andrew Mambondiyani
Mugabe's rallies- what a tired campaign!
For the past weeks I have been religiously following the campaign trails by different political parties in Zimbabwe as the July 31 watershed harmonised election campaigns enter the homestretch....Published: 26 Jul 2013 at 05:55hrs | | by Andrew Mambondiyani
Man fatally assaults drinking mate
A beer brawl ended tragically for a reveller who was fatally assaulted by a drinking mate at a local joint early this month.Blessing Mambondiyani (25) appeared before Mutare magistrate Charle...Published: 15 Apr 2013 at 05:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
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