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'Mnangagwa in constitutional violation over security minister'
President Emmerson Mnangagwa is facing criticism for allegedly violating the Constitution by failing to appoint a Minister of Intelligence, a key position mandated by Zimbabwe's supreme law. The accus...Published: 18 Nov 2024 at 15:05hrs | 461 | by Staff reporter
A trail of Mnangagwa's illegalities
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has yielded to pressure and revoked the appointment of Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) commander General Valerio Sibanda as an ex-officio member of the Zanu-PF politburo....Published: 25 Nov 2023 at 08:07hrs | 5 | 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 | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF primaries show a 'generational shift'
SITTING Zanu-PF legislators paid the price for "ditching" their constituencies as they went on to lose primary elections held a fortnight ago.Zanu-PF this week announced successful candidates ...Published: 08 Apr 2023 at 08:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
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
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 | 1 | by Staff reporter
Even ZANU PF supporters now thoroughly disgruntled with ruling establishment!
Now that the ruling ZANU PF primary elections for parliamentary and ward candidates have come and gone, what lessons can the nation draw?Of course, there can never be only one thing to be read...Published: 28 Mar 2023 at 11:15hrs | 116 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zanu-PF primaries preliminary results out
RESULTS for the Zanu-PF primary elections are still trickling in, with a mixed bag of young Turks and the old guard sailing through.The results are however, still subject to confirmation by th...Published: 28 Mar 2023 at 08:02hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Senior Zanu-PF members fall in Primaries
So far 22 Senior Zanu-PF members have fallen in party primary elections held over the weekend... Dexter NdunaMary MliswaPhilip ChiyangwaJoseph Chinotimba&nbs...Published: 27 Mar 2023 at 09:26hrs | | 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
Protest vote is anti-development, says Mutsvangwa
Voters must now be politically mature and shun the culture of the protest vote during elections, as this is self-defeating and counter developmental, a senior Zanu-PF official has said.Address...Published: 10 Nov 2022 at 04:55hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe is rising again, says Mnangagwa
Zimbabwe is a giant that is now awake and ready to take its pride of place among the fast-developing countries, regardless of the sanctions imposed by the West, President Mnangagwa has said.Ad...Published: 02 Oct 2022 at 08:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Red flag over Mnangagwa ally's mining operations
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's ally Scott Sakupwanya's company Better Brands (Private) Limited's operations at Redwing Mine in Penhalonga is under the spotlight amid concerns over gold leakages and po...Published: 10 Aug 2022 at 08:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa targeting African churches
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is reportedly leaving no stone unturned as he targets churches with African roots as part of his wider presidential re-election campaign ahead of the 2023 elections....Published: 10 Aug 2022 at 06:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans commemorates Heroes Day
Zimbabweans from across the political divide, joined by Ministers, mayors and senior service officers, converged at venues across the country to commemorate Heroes Day and salute the fallen and living...Published: 09 Aug 2022 at 08:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa talks tough on illegal mining
THE Government will not tolerate timber poaching, illegal mining, settlements in plantations, and deforestation as that will impede the rural industrialisation agenda being driven by the Second Republ...Published: 23 Jul 2022 at 07:25hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe independence, freedom not for sale'
ZIMBABWE'S independence, freedom, democracy, sovereignty, patriotism, dignity and heritage are not for sale, President Mnangagwa has said.Addressing thousands of ruling Zanu-PF party supporter...Published: 23 Jul 2022 at 07:25hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa wants Zimbabweans to promote peace
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has rallied the nation to cherish peace and unite to develop the country.He said Zimbabweans need to take a leaf from the unity shown by the Johanne Marange Apostolic Churc...Published: 17 Jul 2022 at 09:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa in secret visit to Marange
President Emmerson Mnangagwa paid a private visit to the late Emmerson Mnangagwa family on Saturday, for the first time following the death of the apostolic sect leader last month.Mnangagwa la...Published: 09 May 2022 at 07:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Taguta laid to rest
THOUSANDS of Johane Marange Apostolic Church members converged at their Mafararikwa shrine to pay their last respects to High Priest St Noah Taguta Momberume who was buried here in Bocha yesterday. ...Published: 21 Apr 2022 at 11:30hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Johanne Marange leader burial today
JOHANNE Marange Apostolic Church leader Noah Taguta Momberume will be buried today, three days after congregants were said to be camping in Manicaland's Marange communal lands anxiously awaiting his r...Published: 20 Apr 2022 at 08:08hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa mourns Taguta
President Mnangagwa yesterday accorded Johane Marange Apostolic Church leader, High Priest Noah Taguta Momberume a State-assisted funeral.The President said Mutumwa Taguta transformed the sect...Published: 20 Apr 2022 at 08:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Johane Marange leader dies
The leader of Johane Marange Apostolic Church, High Priest St Noah Taguta Momberume has died. He died yesterday afternoon and believed to be in his gos. Minister of State for Manicaland Provincial Aff...Published: 18 Apr 2022 at 10:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimra boss says corruption will collapse the Zimbabwe economy
ZIMBABWE Revenue Authority (Zimra) acting Commissioner-General Regina Chinamasa yesterday said corruption was threatening to collapse the comatose economy, adding that the tax authority had the politi...Published: 18 Mar 2022 at 05:37hrs | | by Staf reporter
Protest vote won't help Zimbabwe
THE culture of casting a protest vote during elections will not get Zimbabwe anywhere, as the Government pushes ahead with development fixing roads, building dams and completing a raft of projects sta...Published: 05 Mar 2022 at 08:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Accident scene a black spot
THE place where four staff members from the Office of the President and Cabinet (OPC) perished while two others sustained injuries in an accident, which occurred on the 38km peg along the Nyanga-Ruwan...Published: 25 Feb 2022 at 05:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mutare residents petition minister over Chinese quarry miner
MUTARE residents and civic groups yesterday petitioned Manicaland Provincial Affairs minister Nokuthula Matsikenyere to intervene and stop Chinese quarry mining operations on the "sacred" Dangamvura M...Published: 16 Feb 2022 at 05:35hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Sect leader pledges million votes for Mnangagwa
AN apostolic sect leader in Mutare has pledged to mobilise one million votes for President Emmerson Mnangagwa ahead of next year's polls .Andby Makururu, the leader of the Johanne the Fifth of...Published: 15 Feb 2022 at 05:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's donated computers lying idle 12 years later
AT LEAST 100 computers donated by the late deposed president, Robert Mugabe, to Arda Transau secondary school in 2010 are still lying idle due to lack of electricity at the institution, NewZimbabwe.co...Published: 12 Jan 2022 at 23:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chinomona savages Matsikenyere
THE deadly Zanu-PF divisions were on free show in Mutare Friday when women's league boss Mabel Chinomona publicly savaged Manicaland Provincial Affairs minister Nokuthula Matsikenyere for snubbing her...Published: 05 Dec 2021 at 06:19hrs | 7 | 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 | 6 | by Staff reporter
Children of war vets endorse Mnangagwa
THE children of war veterans have endorsed President Mnangagwa's candidature in the 2023 harmonised elections.Working under the banner Children of Zimbabwe Liberation War Veterans Association ...Published: 04 Oct 2021 at 05:49hrs | | 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
Zanu-PF youths summon govt officials
Zanu-PF youths in Mashonaland East province on Wednesday summoned government workers, district development co-ordinators and ministers, and ordered them to support their activities.The tense m...Published: 11 Jun 2021 at 07:26hrs | | 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
Govt applauds manufacturers' resilience
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday applauded the country's manufacturing sector for being resilient despite the natural disasters, COVID-19 and economic challenges faced by the country.He ...Published: 20 May 2021 at 06:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa deploys Chiwenga to spearhead special mission
President Mnangagwa has deployed Vice President Dr Constantino Chiwenga to spearhead the monitoring and implementation of strategic projects that are expected to have a telling effect on the economy a...Published: 12 May 2021 at 06:36hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Residents threaten rates boycott
RUSAPE residents have vowed to boycott paying new council rates after the local authority "unilaterally" hiked tariffs by almost 500%.The residents yesterday said they would continue paying ol...Published: 05 Mar 2021 at 06:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF minister pledges to work with MDC councillors
NEWLY-APPOINTED Manicaland Provincial Affairs minister Nokuthula Matsikenyere has pledged to work with Mutare City councillors despite their political party differences.Matsikenyere, who is al...Published: 04 Mar 2021 at 06:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Collapsing Zimbabwe infrastructure reflects national decay
YESTERDAY, we carried on our front page a picture of Mwaradzi Bridge in Headlands along the MayoChikore Road in Manicaland province which was swept away by rains at the weekend.The Standard, h...Published: 02 Mar 2021 at 06:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zec clears way for fraud-accused Shava swearing-in
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) yesterday gazetted the nomination of Dr Frederick Shava and Dorothy Mabika to replace the late Dr Sibusiso Moyo and Dr Ellen Gwaradzimba respectively as Senator...Published: 27 Feb 2021 at 07:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Newly appointed ministers take oath of office
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has sworn in four new ministers at State House.The four include a cabinet minister, a provincial affairs minister and two deputy ministers.Honourable Felix...Published: 15 Feb 2021 at 18:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Four new ministers sworn in
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has sworn in four new ministers at State House.The four include a cabinet minister, a provincial affairs minister and two deputy ministers.Honourable Felix...Published: 15 Feb 2021 at 16:20hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa: A chip off the old block
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is following the footsteps of his mentor, the late former president Robert Mugabe in recycling deadwood in cabinet positions, as a key strategy to consolidate his powerbas...Published: 12 Feb 2021 at 15:44hrs | | by Richard Muponde
Zapu accuses Mnangagwa of nepotism in Ministers' appointments
ZAPU has accused President Emmerson Mnangagwa of practicing nepotism in the appointment of Cabinet ministers.Commenting on Monday's controversial appointment of Zimbabwe's Ambassador to the Un...Published: 10 Feb 2021 at 06:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa Cabinet appointees don't inspire hope
WE note with concern that President Emmerson Mnangagwa seems to be replicating his predecessor, the late former President Robert Mugabe's style of recycling deadwood, particularly his pick for the For...Published: 10 Feb 2021 at 06:17hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Willowgate scandal-accused takes on Zimbabwe's foreign affairs assignment
President Emmerson Mnangagwa announced new Cabinet appointments on Monday, filling in positions at the transport and foreign affairs ministries following the Covid-19 deaths of Joel Biggie Matiza and ...Published: 08 Feb 2021 at 20:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa makes Ministerial appointments
President Mnangagwa has appointed Zimbabwe's ambassador to the UN Dr Frederick Shava as the new Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Trade while Chikomba Central legislator Felix Mhona takes ...Published: 08 Feb 2021 at 19:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Army foils Zanu-PF bigwigs attempts to muscle into Cyclone Idai aid
MEMBERS of the Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) ordered Zanu-PF bigwigs not to interfere with the distribution of food aid in Cyclone Idai-hit Chimanimani on Sunday to avoid the politicisation of relief e...Published: 28 Mar 2019 at 12:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
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