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Zanu-PF Political Commissar announces massive restructuring process
Recently appointed Zanu-PF Political Commissar Munyaradzi Machacha has announced a significant restructuring of the party, reportedly aimed at purging members opposed to President Emmerson Mnangagwa's...Published: 31 May 2024 at 21:25hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
China supports total sanctions removal on Zimbabwe
China stands ready to support Zimbabwe for the total removal of Western sanctions, the defence of its sovereignty and the pursuit of strategic security interests, visiting Chinese Communist Party (CCP...Published: 20 Mar 2024 at 06:30hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe student heads for US
AFTER conquering China at the Asian nation-sponsored 7th Belt and Road Teenage Maker Camp, a Peterhouse student this time heads for the United States (US).Tayamika Mandiwanzira, a lower-six st...Published: 08 Mar 2024 at 05:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
NetOne is now a danger to life and security!
I am one of those who have been faithful subscribers to Zimbabwe's second largest mobile network operator (MNO) NetOne.Over the years, I have become endeared to the state-owned entity, in spit...Published: 02 Jan 2024 at 17:54hrs | 11 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zanu-PF gets lion's share of Parly committees
Zanu-PF has secured control over 15 of the 22 parliamentary portfolio committees, with former ministers assuming leadership positions in many of these committees.For instance, former Informati...Published: 14 Oct 2023 at 07:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa keeps nation guessing on Cabinet reshuffle
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has kept Zimbabwe guessing on his next Cabinet amid reports of spirited lobbying among some of the Zanu-PF members who won parliamentary seats in last month's polls....Published: 11 Sep 2023 at 06:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
8 MPs miss swearing-in ceremony
Eight Members of Parliament who were not sworn in yesterday in Harare have accused the Clerk of Parliament of sending out short notices.The newly-elected MPs were sworn in at the new parliamen...Published: 08 Sep 2023 at 19:55hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Supa Mandiwanzira set an example of a new political culture
Zanu-PF Nyanga South MP Supa Mandiwanzira's move to embrace his main opposition CCC rival in the 23 August parliamentary election and post photos together to show peace and tranquility during campaign...Published: 26 Jul 2023 at 19:36hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Nomination Courts expose Zimbabwe's opposition parties
THE Nomination Courts that sat across the country on Wednesday have exposed sharp contrasts in the organisational capacities between the ruling ZANU-PF party and one of its opponents CCC ahead of elec...Published: 23 Jun 2023 at 06:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga, Mnangagwa entangled in massive chrome scandal
COMPANIES linked to President Emmerson Mnangagwa and Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga received US$3 million from South African chrome miner Zunaid Moti following a US$120 million deal signed betwee...Published: 28 Apr 2023 at 20:19hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Drug lord in Zanu-PF primary election contest
VIOLENCE mongers, drug lords, and shoddy characters were disqualified from standing for the ruling party in the forthcoming elections as Zanu-PF maintains high ethical standards with rerun polls set t...Published: 04 Apr 2023 at 06:30hrs | 10 | by Mbuso Ndlovu
Changing political face in Manicaland
Zanu-PF Manicaland province has dumped its old guard and other party heavyweights after they were thumped in primary elections held last week, with 17 out 22 sitting legislators falling by the wayside...Published: 01 Apr 2023 at 07:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF Politburo meets over primary election results
Zanu-PF will hold an Ordinary Session of the Politburo in Harare today to take stock of the just ended primary elections held last weekend.Confirming the development last night, party spokespe...Published: 30 Mar 2023 at 06:33hrs | 1 | 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
'Mugabe did not actively push for his family's primitive accumulation of wealth'
THE late president Robert Mugabe stopped his son-in-law Simba Chikore and daughter Bona from joining the scramble to take over the country's third-largest mobile network operator, Telecel Zimbabwe....Published: 13 Mar 2023 at 08:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Huge outcry over CCC led city vehicle clamping fine
While the outcry over Harare City Parking's fines continues to grow and a Government investigation has opened, a motorist is trying to get the High Court to rule that Harare City Council has no legal ...Published: 10 Mar 2023 at 05:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's wife lands top post in Zanu-PF Politburo
THE Politburo that was appointed by President Mnangagwa on Friday blends the old guard and youth and also catapults women to influential positions in the party.This new team that will steer th...Published: 26 Dec 2022 at 18:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube makes Zanu-PF politburo
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday announced a 55-member politburo for his Zanu-PF party, with his wife, Auxillia being reappointed as party secretary for environment and tourism.Auxillia ...Published: 25 Dec 2022 at 14:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa drafts in G40 members in 'new' Zanu-PF politburo
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has appointed Generation 40 (G40) members into the Zanu-PF politburo while keeping the usual tired horses close to him in an apparent political balancing act that betrays ...Published: 25 Dec 2022 at 14:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
New ZANU PF Politburo announced, Mnangagwa promotes wife
President Emmerson Mnangagwa promotes his wife to a ministerial post In Zanu PF while announcing the new politburo. Mnangagwa has announced a full line-up of Politburo members, whose work...Published: 23 Dec 2022 at 14:14hrs | 1 | by Tarisai Mudahondo
Resurrection of G40 rocks Zanu-PF
Around 2016, serious ructions opened up in the ruling Zanu-PF then led by veteran Machiavellian politician Robert Mugabe with two factions wrestling to control the party in the event that Mugabe disen...Published: 24 Oct 2022 at 18:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Telecel set for corporate rescue
Telecel Zimbabwe, the smallest of the three mobile phone operators in the country, is set to be placed under corporate rescue, a form of bankruptcy protection, due to serious financial distress....Published: 11 Oct 2022 at 06:03hrs | | 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 | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF stalwarts and ex-ministers troop back
Zanu-PF stalwarts and ex-ministers in the current administration and late former President Robert Mugabe's government are plotting a political comeback after they were cleared by the politburo to cont...Published: 08 Oct 2022 at 21:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
No date yet for Zanu-PF central committee polls
THE ruling Zanu-PF party is yet to announce dates for its central committee polls amid allegations of vote-buying among candidates.Party national political commissar Mike Bimha, however, told ...Published: 04 Oct 2022 at 06:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tension ahead of Zanu-PF's central committee elections
Factional fights have erupted in the ruling Zanu-PF party ahead of elections for central committee members slated for this weekend.The central committee is the principal and highest decision-m...Published: 19 Sep 2022 at 06:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Jailed former labour minister launches freedom bid
FORMER Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare minister Petronella Kagonye (pictured), who was slapped with a 36-month jail term in June this year for corruption, has appealed for bail pending appea...Published: 17 Sep 2022 at 19:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Anthony Mandiwanza finally retires
LONG-SERVING Dairibord Holdings chief executive officer, Mr Anthony Mandiwanza, is retiring after serving the company for 34 years, 24 of them at the helm.In a statement on Wednesday, Da...Published: 20 Jul 2022 at 18:19hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Ex-Minister Kagonye jailed 16 months
Former Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare Minister Petronella Kagonye has been sentenced to 16 months imprisonment by Harare magistrate Vongai Muchuchuti.This follows her conviction on ...Published: 09 Jun 2022 at 16:30hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Kagonye remanded in custody
THE State has called for a custodial sentence against convicted former Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare Minister Petronella Kagonye when the court sentences her today.Kagonye was yest...Published: 09 Jun 2022 at 06:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ex-minister refutes graft allegations
FORMER Public Service minister Petronella Kagonye yesterday appeared in court denying criminal abuse of office charges being levelled against her.In her defence, she said the allegations were ...Published: 20 Apr 2022 at 08:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's minister has case to answer
A HARARE magistrate yesterday said former Labour minister Petronella Kagonye has a case to answer on fraud charges after dismissing her application for discharge at the close of the State case....Published: 31 Mar 2022 at 08:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Zanu-PF bigwigs on firing line'
Zanu-PF Manicaland chairperson Mike Madiro yesterday warned that a number of party members were on the firing line as President Emmerson Mnangagwa desperately moves to assert his control of the party ...Published: 19 Jan 2022 at 05:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Guvamombe acquitted over Kasukuwere, Mandiwanzira industrial attachment
Former Chief Magistrate Mishrod Guvamombe has had corruption charges quashed in one of two cases he is facing, relating to the granting of industrial attachment to former minister Saviour Kasukuwere a...Published: 12 Dec 2021 at 19:47hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
MP calls for local industry support
NYANGA South legislator Supa Mandiwanzira (Zanu-PF) has urged government to support local industries to ensure job creation and grow the foreign currency revenue base.Mandiwanzira made the rem...Published: 13 Nov 2021 at 05:58hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Supa Mandiwanzira resorts to bootlicking Mnangagwa
FORMER ICT minister and Nyanga South legislator Supa Mandiwanzira, who has fallen out of favour with the Zanu-PF hierarchy, was in overdrive Tuesday as he heaped praises on President Emmerson Mnangagw...Published: 10 Nov 2021 at 05:33hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Mandiwanzira lashes out at 'malicious' Kangai
FORMER Information and Communication Technology minister Supa Mandiwanzira yesterday accused ex-NetOne chief executive officer Reward Kangai of maliciously attempting to drag him into the parastatal's...Published: 22 Oct 2021 at 06:32hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Ex-NetOne boss nails down Mandiwanzira
FORMER NetOne chief executive officer Reward Kangai has implored Prosecutor-General Kumbirai Hodzi to expedite prosecution of the US$4 million corruption scandal in the parastatal which involved forme...Published: 06 Oct 2021 at 05:48hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
5 arrested with 12 diamonds after tip-off
FIVE people have been arrested in Mutare after they were found in possession of 12 diamonds weighing 75 carats.The value of the diamonds is yet to be ascertained as investigations continue....Published: 06 Oct 2021 at 05:44hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Hodzi seeks to reopen Supa Mandiwanzira corruption case
PROSECUTOR General (PG) Kumbirai Hodzi has approached the High Court seeking to reopen former ICT minister, Supa Mandiwanzira's corruption case which he was cleared of last year.Hodzi filed an...Published: 29 Sep 2021 at 07:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Factionalism rocks Zanu-PF Nyanga district
Zanu-PF central committee member Moses Gutu has been accused of fuelling factional fights in Nyanga district as the race for the 2023 elections gets heated up.But Gutu yesterday denied the all...Published: 06 Jul 2021 at 10:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
AAG revived Passion Java lands top post
On the 15th of July 2019, I wrote an article calling on Dr Phillip Chiyangwa to revive the Affirmative Action Group AAG.On the 23rd of April 2021, AAG is back with a bang and a refreshing line...Published: 23 Apr 2021 at 18:15hrs | | by Nicholas Ncube
Ex-minister Kagonye back in court
Investigations into the case of former Minister of Labour and Social Welfare Petronella Kagonye, who is facing six counts of fraud, theft and criminal abuse of office charges, is expected to be comple...Published: 31 Mar 2021 at 06:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Telecel seeks fresh capital for expansion
Telecel Zimbabwe, the country's smallest mobile telecoms firm, intends to raise fresh capital as it looks to finance expansion of its network, chairman Selby Hwacha said. For many years, shareholding ...Published: 22 Mar 2021 at 06:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Guards break into gold miner's home, steal passport
TWO private security guards have been arrested after they allegedly broke into gold miner and clergyman, Mathias Madziwanzira's Ruwa home at the weekend, where they stole goods valued at $670 565, a p...Published: 12 Mar 2021 at 06:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe blocked son-in-law, daughter and nephew over attempts to take over Telecel
WHILE the late former president Robert Mugabe's regime was corrupt and incompetent it allowed ministers, top civil servants and its business cronies to loot public resources Mugabe himself was very st...Published: 06 Mar 2021 at 08:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF internal battles escalate
The November 2017 Operation Restore Legacy changed the top echelon of political power in the country. Many business persons, politicians and politically exposed persons sponsored and supported the pro...Published: 26 Feb 2021 at 14:24hrs | | by Anonymous Writer
Mandiwanzira confronts TIZ with $1m defamation suit over article
FORMER ICT minister and serving legislator Supa Mandiwanzira is demanding damages amounting to $1 million from Transparency International Zimbabwe (TIZ) over what he terms defamatory content against h...Published: 19 Feb 2021 at 06:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mandiwanzira to sue South African publication, Maverick Citizen over false report
FORMER Information Communication Technology minister Supa Mandiwanzira, who is also Nyanga South MP, has threatened to sue South African publication, Maverick Citizen, over its article where it allege...Published: 17 Feb 2021 at 06:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mandiwanzira taking Maverick to the cleaners over dodgy report?
Former Cabinet Minister Supa Mandiwanzira is taking legal action against a South African publication, the Daily Maverick over a discredited report which claims that Zimbabwe is captured by cartels....Published: 16 Feb 2021 at 21:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
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