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Police shoot car's wheels to stop smuggler
BEITBRIDGE police on Saturday shot at a suspected smuggler who bolted into the night, abandoning a latest model Land Rover Discovery believed to have been illegally brought into the country.Th...Published: 33 mins ago | 99 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa panics over Paul Siwela TV interview
According to information from MLO's Central Intelligence Bureau ie CIB, Cde Paul Siwela' s hard hitting interview with Newzroom Afrika has sent shockwaves down the spine of Zimbabwe President Emmerson...Published: 2 hrs ago | 1849 | by Israel Dube
Woman dies from abortion
A married woman from Hwange died in hospital from excessive bleeding after she allegedly aborted a 10-week old pregnancy at her matrimonial home, police confirmed. Police were told that Beauty...Published: 3 hrs ago | 390 | by Staff reporter
Zapu retiring its old guard
THE opposition Zapu has resolved to retire its entire old guard from top leadership positions to allow for the party's renewal and rebranding exercise following a string of election losses since its r...Published: 11 hrs ago | 295 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Mugabe minister exposes British involvement in Gukurahundi
Former Deputy Minister of Information has fingered the government as being complicit in the Gukurahundi genocide that wiped out 20 00 of ZAPU supporters during the first decade of Independence. ...Published: 16 Sep 2019 at 07:24hrs | 8318 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Schweppes US$60m new Beitbridge plantation
SCHWEPPES Zimbabwe Limited is set to establish a 4 000 hectare citrus plantation in Beitbridge with an estimated value of US$60 million in a development set to increase production and exports. ...Published: 16 Sep 2019 at 06:43hrs | 1038 | by Staff reporter
Village containerised information centres, bridging digital gap
Devolution is one of President Mnangagwa's flagship policy. This policy is centred on bringing services and development as close as to the point of need as possible.The point of need in this c...Published: 16 Sep 2019 at 06:40hrs | 79 | by Nick Mangwana
Mnangagwa congratulates Chamisa's MDC
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has congratulated the Nelson Chamisa led MDC for attaining 20 years of its existence as a political party in Zimbabwe. MDC was formed in September 1999 with the la...Published: 15 Sep 2019 at 12:05hrs | 16462 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'Mugabe was unrepentant'
THE Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (Zpra) Veterans' Association has described former president Robert Mugabe as unrepentant after he died without addressing the Gukurahundi massacres.Mug...Published: 15 Sep 2019 at 08:00hrs | 807 | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi victims react to Mugabe death
ANY mention of the late president Robert Mugabe still invokes a deep sense of resentment from many a villager in Maphisa, Matabeleland South, who are haunted by the army massacres, infamously known as...Published: 15 Sep 2019 at 07:56hrs | 922 | by Staff reporter
The installation of the Lozwi King at Emawabeni
FROM a high up vantage point along the highway leading from Bulawayo to Beitbridge one's attention is drawn to an expansive area down below that is covered by white tents. From here you see lots of pr...Published: 15 Sep 2019 at 07:53hrs | 950 | by Pathisa Nyathi
Xenophobia in Zimbabwe: Zanu-PF and Mugabe
Ever since it was founded, Zanu-PF has persistently propagated a criminal mindset that the people of Matebeleland are foreigners to this country. Its blind membership including Minister Mutodi is ...Published: 14 Sep 2019 at 20:37hrs | 2440 | by Moses Mzila Ndlovu
Man killed trying to stop a fight
A 25-YEAR-OLD man from Inyathi died on the spot after he was stabbed on the neck with an okapi knife while trying to stop a fight, police confirmed. Acting Matabeleland North provincial police...Published: 14 Sep 2019 at 08:15hrs | 795 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe to be remembered for land reform, says Masuku
THE late former President Robert Mugabe will be remembered for the bold and historic land reform programme which he undertook to empower the people of Zimbabwe, Zanu-PF deputy national secretary for t...Published: 14 Sep 2019 at 08:09hrs | 213 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's pictures
AS the country continues to celebrate the life of the late former President Robert Mugabe, The Chronicle went to its archives to get some pictures taken by its photojournalists over the years....Published: 13 Sep 2019 at 23:23hrs | 9300 | by Staff reporter
Let's be fair to Mugabe deeply flawed as he was
The death of Robert Mugabe, the only Executive Prime Minister and only Executive President that Zimbabwe had known since independence in 1980 until 2017 - all of 37 years - has shown that he was not a...Published: 13 Sep 2019 at 21:41hrs | 1280 | by Conway Tutani
Mugabe death ignites an inferno of debates, discussions
DEPOSED late former President Robert Mugabe is currently the most talked about individual among Zimbabweans. Ever since his death last week, tongues never took leave from wagging. His death was bound ...Published: 13 Sep 2019 at 21:38hrs | 237 | by Cyprian Muketiwa Ndawana
Mugabe is giving Mnangagwa a headache even in death
Even in death, former Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe remains an Achilles' heel for his successor Emmerson Mnangagwa's legitimacy.Since 1977, Mnangagwa has been on Mugabe's side - first as ...Published: 13 Sep 2019 at 14:46hrs | 3249 | by Staff reporter
Open Letter to the soul of R.G. Mugabe (currently in the purgatory)
Dear Comrade RG, I know that you are currently in the purgatory while waiting for your verdict from the almighty. There is no doubt that you are in great fear and shivering. Your chances of go...Published: 13 Sep 2019 at 11:58hrs | 3433 | by Don Chigumba
Mugabe: A liberator turned oppressor
ROBERT Mugabe, who led Zimbabwe for almost four decades, died aged 95, leaving behind an indelible stain on his country's human rights record.His early years as leader of Zimbabwe, following t...Published: 13 Sep 2019 at 07:47hrs | 255 | by Amnesty International
Mugabe's selected quotable quotes
"Surely this is now time to beat our swords into ploughshares, so we can attend to the problems of developing our economy and our society." — Mugabe at Independence in 1980.***"Let's str...Published: 13 Sep 2019 at 07:37hrs | 1186 | by Staff reporter
Tracing Mugabe's troubled legacy
This name evokes emotions of anger, hatred, regret and revulsion to many. Yet it is also a name that draws a lot of admiration, satisfaction, pride and gratitude to others.In death, just like ...Published: 13 Sep 2019 at 07:36hrs | 474 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans have never been as confused as they are today: Mugabe: Hero or villain?
ZIMBABWEANS have never been as confused as they are today, following the death of Robert Mugabe, who was labelled a dictator. They are of two minds: is Mugabe a hero or a villain or is he both? They n...Published: 13 Sep 2019 at 07:35hrs | 227 | by Zanda Shumba
Mugabe swallowed by Frankenstein monster
ONE of the country's greatest orators - and demagogue too - former president Robert Mugabe, was controversial in life and now in death. Although he was ideologically difficult to pin down given his co...Published: 13 Sep 2019 at 07:33hrs | 1576 | by Gumisai Nyoni
Ndebele nation panic over Mambo King installation
The recent installation of a new leader of the Mambo dynasty has riled some Ndebele traditional leaders who have viewed the event as an attempt to cause divisions among the Ndebele nation.This...Published: 13 Sep 2019 at 06:55hrs | 3540 | by Staff reporter
'Mugabe ignored advice on Gukurahundi'
THE late former President Robert Mugabe rejected concerted calls from liberation war commanders to avoid Gukurahundi massacres and fought hard to stifle Ndebele leadership, former Zanu-PF stalwart Rug...Published: 12 Sep 2019 at 21:48hrs | 1915 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe: A peerless, malevolent fearmonger
AS a young lad, my late grandmother would occasionally ship me to her rural home in Nkayi, where, for the first time, I came face to face with the late former President Robert Mugabe's handiwork....Published: 12 Sep 2019 at 21:01hrs | 199 | by Nqaba Matshazi
Mnangagwa throws Ndebeles under the bus
Cde Paul Siwela told Thabo Mdluli of Newzroom Afrika that Shona- Ndebele animosity is exacerbated by the insensitivity of calling Robert Mugabe a hero as he questioned the standard used to give Mugabe...Published: 12 Sep 2019 at 08:07hrs | 9830 | by Israel Dube
Paul Siwela resurfaces on TV - calls for Matabeleland breakaway
Dressed immaculately in a dark suit, white shirt and red tie, Cde Paul Siwela exuded energy and renewed confidence. Those who watched his interview on DStv channel 405, Newzroom Africa, on Saturday ev...Published: 11 Sep 2019 at 11:59hrs | 3030 | by Israel Dube
'Lack of IDs a human right violation'
THE Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission (ZHRC) has expressed concern over the high number of people without proper documentation, particularly national identity (IDs) cards and birth certificates, saying...Published: 11 Sep 2019 at 07:35hrs | 159 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's supporters demand military training, guns
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa should consider recruiting youth for military training if he is entertaining any thought to taking power in Zimbabwe, the party's supporters in Matabeleland North have said....Published: 11 Sep 2019 at 07:10hrs | 1798 | by newzimbabwe
Mike Moyo installed as Lozwi king Mambo
THE Lozwi people on Saturday celebrated the Mambo Dynasty day at Mawabeni in Matabeleland South province.The colourful event, held at the Godonga homestead, was attended by chiefs drawn from a...Published: 10 Sep 2019 at 21:50hrs | 1006 | by Staff reporter
Twice, Mugabe could have saved Zimbabwe
IT is a ubiquitous moral principle that cuts across most of Africa that people should not speak ill of the departed. Zimbabwe has an idiom to this effect and so do many other African nations. The prin...Published: 10 Sep 2019 at 21:48hrs | 935 | by Learnmore Zuze
How UK failed to dislodge Robert Mugabe
BRITAIN'S 40-year effort to find a way to either influence or dislodge Robert Mugabe is one of the country's great post-war foreign policy failures. It is a story spanning six UK prime ministe...Published: 09 Sep 2019 at 13:10hrs | 3124 | by Patrick Wintour
RMS Vehicle pushing tribalism
It has come to my attention that there is a spirited effort by a Mr Chifamba and a Mutakaya and previously "Taruvinga who have since retired, to eliminate all Ndebele people from work at RMS. The case...Published: 09 Sep 2019 at 11:00hrs | 1549 | by Mbonisi Gumbo
Harare Wellness Festival a huge success
The recently held Harare Wellness Festival organised by Consolidated Africa Services with the aim of highlighting the negative effects of drug and alcohol misuse and developing positive mental wellbei...Published: 09 Sep 2019 at 09:35hrs | 645 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Robert Mugabe: A product of a vicious system
The death of former President Robert Mugabe at a hospital in Singapore on Thursday September 6, 2019 rang memory bells about the hush-hush, but spirited conversations that Zanu-PF comrades used to hav...Published: 09 Sep 2019 at 08:14hrs | 1200 | by Jonathan N. Moyo
Mugabe left many unresolved issues, says Zipra veterans
THE Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army Veterans Association (Zipra VA) has said former President Robert Mugabe (pictured), who died on Friday last week, has left behind a number of unresolved issues...Published: 09 Sep 2019 at 07:46hrs | 620 | by Staff reporter
45 passengers cheat death
FORTY-FIVE passengers narrowly cheated death after a bus they were travelling in rolled back and fell on its side at Simangani River Bridge outside Hwange. Witnesses said the bus hit the side ...Published: 09 Sep 2019 at 07:33hrs | 726 | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai's son wins Glen View South by election
FORMER Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's son Vincent won the right to represent Glen View South in the National Assembly after beating Zanu-PF candidate Offard Muchuwe by close to 2000 votes in Satur...Published: 09 Sep 2019 at 07:32hrs | 1755 | by newzimbabwe
Zanu-PF romps to victory in Mangwe by-election
ZANU-PF cantered to victory in the Mangwe Constituency by-election held on Saturday, solidifying its stronghold position in Matabeleland South province. The by-election triumph comes as the ru...Published: 09 Sep 2019 at 07:31hrs | 273 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF chairs pay Mugabe tribute
ZANU-PF provincial chairpersons have described the death of former President Robert Mugabe as a loss of a unifier, saying the country's history cannot be written correctly without his immense contribu...Published: 09 Sep 2019 at 07:22hrs | 172 | by Staff reporter
Mthwakazi Restoration Movement on Mugabe death - 'Let the people seethe'
There goes a man who has the answers for the gukurahundi genocide. Some say that he was a giant, yes he was- a giant of human slaughter, a man who never respected civil liberties. A man who deformed o...Published: 08 Sep 2019 at 22:18hrs | 1458 | by Magugu Benard
Mugabe's legacy remains alive and it must be defeated
Robert Mugabe's legacy is complex and contested. He wasn't only the tyrant and the despot, nor only the freedom fighter and the educator. But he wanted power and all costs, and the legacy he leaves be...Published: 08 Sep 2019 at 13:20hrs | 565 | by Doug Coltart
UK downplayed gukurahundi genocide to guard its interests, study claims
British officials repeatedly downplayed the massacre of thousands of innocent civilians by Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe in the 1980s to protect the UK's interests in southern Africa and their relationshi...Published: 08 Sep 2019 at 13:15hrs | 1223 | by The Guardian
PHOTO: Meet the first Ndebele 'President' of Zimbabwe
Zimbabwean often skips some major events and characters. One such person who has remained unknown to the majority of Zimbabweans is the President of the short-lived Zimbabwe-Rhodesia. History dedicate...Published: 08 Sep 2019 at 09:03hrs | 14849 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Don't repeat Mugabe's mistakes
The late Robert Mugabe leaves behind a very complicated legacy.Mugabe, who died at a Singapore hospital in the early hours of September 6, is being eulogised by some as an icon of the liberati...Published: 08 Sep 2019 at 08:48hrs | 351 | by Editorial - The Standard
Why chiefs are breaking ranks with Zanu-PF
The late Robert Mugabe's nearly four decades in power became possible because of a tight grip on the rural electorate where traditional leaders were a vital cog in mobilising votes for the ruling part...Published: 08 Sep 2019 at 08:48hrs | 654 | by Silas Nkala
Names and naming: More about the defensive barrier surrounding Inyathi (Emhlangeni)
TODAY we seek to complete the regiments/settlements that constituted the defensive barrier, isiphika, around the capital town of Inyathi, also known as Emhlangeni. As we shall see later, K...Published: 08 Sep 2019 at 08:33hrs | 132 | by Pathisa Nyathi
Zimbabwe says goodbye to last of formidable Mugabe, Muzenda, Nkomo combination
FOR soccer lovers, the combined talent of Lionel Messi, Luis Suarez and Neymar which became known MSN saw the trio terrorising defences across Europe.Working together in perfect harmony, the a...Published: 08 Sep 2019 at 08:31hrs | 98 | by Gabriel Masvora
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