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Zimbabwe agrees extradition deal with Rwanda
ZIMBABWE and Rwanda last week signed an agreement that will help expedite "two specific criminal cases" as Kigali seeks the extradition of individuals suspected of involvement in the country's 1994 ge...Published: 08 Aug 2022 at 05:51hrs | 1684 | by Staff reporter
Ex Zanu-PF youth boss Lewis Matutu bounces back
FORMER Zanu-PF deputy youth secretary, Lewis Matutu, who was stopped in his daring anti-corruption fight against President Emmerson Mnangagwa's benefactor Kudakwashe Tagwirei, has resurfaced, this tim...Published: 08 Aug 2022 at 05:51hrs | 4448 | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere, wife issued with warrant of arrest
FORMER Local Government minister Savior Kasukuwere's younger brother Stanley and his wife Martha Batsirai Bakare were yesterday issued with warrants of arrest after failing to appear in court to...Published: 31 May 2022 at 06:33hrs | 3679 | by Staff reporter
Surely, there is no honour among thieves
NO honour among thieves is a universal truth, a biblical saying that has found resonance globally to denote the actions of robbers who usually double-cross each other, never mind the perils involved i...Published: 18 May 2022 at 06:19hrs | 555 | by Fungi Kwaramba
Outcry over insurance service gaps
THE Insurance Council for Zimbabwe (ICZ) was inundated with widespread complaints from the public over lack of transparency by insurers.This was highlighted at the recently held Zimbabwe Inter...Published: 13 May 2022 at 19:10hrs | 90 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF's Matutu elbowed out of mine
FORMER Zanu-PF youth leader Lewis Matutu has been elbowed out of the late business tycoon John Bredenkamp's gold-rich Thetford Estate in Mazowe, the Zimbabwe Independent has established.This c...Published: 13 May 2022 at 19:10hrs | 195 | by Staff reporter
87-year-old man goes missing
Police in Matabeleland South province are appealing for information that may lead to the location of an 87-year-old man from Filabusi who went missing on March 2.Matabeleland South provincial ...Published: 10 May 2022 at 17:34hrs | 993 | by Staff reporter
'I was paid US$75 000 by Americans to assault Chief Serima' Former MDC-T Minister says
Former MDC-T Deputy Minister of Youth Tongai Matutu has alleged that he was paid US$75 000 to assault one Chief Serima in 2010 by the United States of America Embassy in a bid to project Zimbabwe as a...Published: 05 May 2022 at 15:48hrs | 3035 | by Mandla Ndlovu
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 | 1330 | by Staff reporter
ZANU PF bigwigs jostle to control Youth League ahead of Conference
ZANU PF bigwigs are reportedly engaged in efforts to control the outcomes of the Provincial youth and women wings conference elections. A Midlands ZANU PF Youth League source that spoke ...Published: 26 Apr 2022 at 15:12hrs | 1054 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Factionalism rocks CCC in Masvingo
Factionalism has rocked Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) party with an alleged faction claiming that party president Nelson Chamisa recently dissolved the provincial executive during his last visit...Published: 16 Apr 2022 at 19:17hrs | 589 | by Staff reporter
'Blessing Chebundo now politically useless' Mliswa says
Norton Member of Parliament Temba Mliswa says the former MDC members who defected to ZANU PF failed to assist the party in winning the March 2022 by-elections and were now useless.Said Mliswa,...Published: 13 Apr 2022 at 11:56hrs | 4801 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zanu-PF goes after unpatriotic Zimbabweans
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's ruling Zanu-PF party purportedly plans to fast-track a controversial law that would punish citizens deemed "unpatriotic".The National Assembly last week adopted ...Published: 13 Apr 2022 at 06:43hrs | 1451 | by Staff reporter
'Chin'ono part of multi-million dollar plot to remove Zanu-PF' - Report
FORMER MDC parliamentarian Mr Tongai Matutu has sensationally claimed that US$10 million was released by the American Embassy to fund digital activists like Hopewell Chin'ono, the State media reported...Published: 11 Apr 2022 at 06:30hrs | 3410 | by Staff reporter
Matutu promises to tear CCC in Masvingo
Former Masvingo urban Member of Parliament Tongai Matutu who defected to Zanu-PF after a fall out with then MDC Alliance party after he was disqualified from contesting the provincial chairmanship pos...Published: 15 Mar 2022 at 17:03hrs | 1853 | by Staff reporter
'MDC grossly erred on sanctions'
BLESSING Chebundo has seen more than his contemporaries in politics.After starting off as a trade unionist when Zimbabwe gained Independence, then being a founding member of the opposition Mov...Published: 13 Mar 2022 at 08:03hrs | 176 | by Staff reporter
CAPS United hammer hapless WhaWha
CAPS United 6 - 0 WhaWhaAFTER a rocky start to the season, CAPS United finally remembered how to win, in emphatic fashion, when they put hapless WhaWha to the sword in this Castle Lager Premiershi...Published: 07 Mar 2022 at 05:30hrs | 154 | by Staff reporter
Internal polls expose Zanu-PF
Zanu-PF faithful have unwittingly disclosed that they were given fake national identity (ID) cards to cheat in the party's internal elections, a revelation that renders credence to opposition claims o...Published: 28 Dec 2021 at 07:19hrs | 716 | by Staff reporter
Botswana investors launch battle to reclaim gold mine
FOUR Botswana nationals have appealed to President Emmerson Mnangagwa, Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc), the Foreign Affairs ministry and other state organs in a bid to claim part of a gold ...Published: 04 Dec 2021 at 18:48hrs | 30 | by Staff reporter
Dembare falls to Triangle
Triangle 1 - 0 DynamosDYNAMOS coach, Tonderai Ndiraya, felt the Glamour Boys did not have enough in their tank as they fell to defeat in this Castle Lager Premiership match at Gibbo yesterday....Published: 29 Nov 2021 at 05:30hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Pupils' lawyers give police ultimatum over alleged brutality
Lawyers representing the Gokomere High School pupils who were arrested on November 7 have given police a seven-day ultimatum to release names of officers involved in alleged brutality of some of the s...Published: 13 Nov 2021 at 17:37hrs | 36 | by Staff reporter
Tsenengamu confesses to violent crimes he committed in Zanu-PF
NEWLY formed Front for Economic Emancipation in Zimbabwe (FEEZ) party national coordinator Godfrey Tsenengamu broke down Saturday, as he confessed violent crimes he committed during the time he led ru...Published: 07 Nov 2021 at 07:15hrs | 19 | by Staff reporter
Name, shame exercise divides Zanu-PF
GOVERNMENT's name and shame operation targeting companies and individuals accused of fuelling the galloping foreign currency parallel exchange rate has triggered fierce fights within Zanu-PF, with som...Published: 09 Oct 2021 at 07:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
NPF member defects to Zanu-PF
National Patriotic Front (NPF) parliamentary candidate for Mhangura constituency in the 2018 elections, Mr Peter Kadambe has defected to the ruling Zanu-PF party, becoming the latest of many people to...Published: 27 Sep 2021 at 06:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF bigwigs question Mnangagwa's legitimacy
ZIMBABWEAN President Emmerson Mnangagwa, struggling to consolidate and maintain power at the volatile helm amid renewed internal Zanu-PF infighting and disintegration of the coalition which drove his ...Published: 24 Sep 2021 at 18:57hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
'Zanu-PF captured by a minority cartel and foreigners'
Former Zanu-PF youth leader, Godfrey Tsenengamu says the ruling party ‘is no longer revolutionary', adding that it has been captured by a minority cartel and foreigners.The seemingly disgrun...Published: 06 Sep 2021 at 19:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa thanks Mnangagwa
OPPOSITION MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa says his arch-rival, President Emmerson Mnangagwa, has done a perfect hatchet job by removing "bad apples" in the opposition party.The outspoken p...Published: 18 Aug 2021 at 06:58hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora labels Jonathan Moyo as yesterday politician
MDC-T President Douglas Mwonzora has mocked former Zanu-PF chief propagandist Professor Jonathan Moyo saying he was far from being clever as a political strategist.Mwonzora, whose party has a ...Published: 13 Aug 2021 at 19:06hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Obert Mpofu: Mnangagwa's most reliable lieutenant
President Emmerson Mnangagwa deployed Dr. Obert Mpofu to serve at party Headquarters on a full-time basis. This deployment was similar to the Robert Mugabe deployment of Didymus Mutasa one of ZANU PF'...Published: 09 Aug 2021 at 14:32hrs | 6 | by Nicholas Ncube
Civil servants belong to Zanu-PF, says Minister
Deputy Minister of Finance and Economic Development Clemence Chiduwa recently declared that all government workers belonged to the ruling Zanu-PF party and they are under obligation to support the par...Published: 05 Jun 2021 at 09:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
5 die in ambulance crash
A KAROI District Hospital ambulance driver, nurse and two patients died on the spot while another passenger died later after an ambulance they were travelling in collided with a truck along the Harare...Published: 04 Jun 2021 at 07:17hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Driver, nurse, patients die in ambulance accident
A Karoi District Hospital ambulance driver, an escort nurse and two patients died after the ambulance they were travelling in collided with a two-tonne truck that was travelling to Kariba at the 196-k...Published: 03 Jun 2021 at 18:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Chamisa is delusional,' claims former MDC heavies
Former MDC Alliance members who recently defected to the ruling Zanu-PF party last week took turns to attack their former leader Nelson Chamisa whom they accused of being ignorant and delusional, Tell...Published: 11 May 2021 at 09:04hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
'I never left Zanu-PF'
Masvingo businessman Pascal Mudzikisi who contested as an independent candidate against Minister Davis Marapira for the Masvingo North parliamentary seat in the 2018 general election, has now rejoined...Published: 08 May 2021 at 19:17hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Matutu, Bredenkamp's son in turf war over mining grant
AN investment vehicle fronted by former Zanu-PF youth leader Lewis Matutu is locked in a turf war with Gavin Bredenkamp after it was allocated a 450 hectares mining grant on the latter's Thetford Esta...Published: 07 May 2021 at 06:36hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Beitbridge-Harare road rehab gets rave reviews
President Mnangagwa has been roundly praised as a pragmatic and visionary leader owing to an array of achievements scored by the Second Republic, including the ongoing rehabilitation of the Harare-Bei...Published: 04 May 2021 at 06:15hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's former ally graduates from Zanu-PF's School of Ideology
FORMER senior MDC Alliance official Lillian Timveos, who in February defected to Zanu-PF, has graduated from the ruling party's Herbert Chitepo School of Ideology.Speaking after her graduation...Published: 28 Apr 2021 at 07:34hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Strict conditions to rejoin Zanu-PF's gravy train
THOSE who want to rejoin Zanu-PF are expected to follow the cardinal rules, the party's Secretary for Administration Dr Obert Mpofu has said. The statement comes after a number of MDC members ...Published: 27 Apr 2021 at 08:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance wounds self-inflicted, says analysts
LIKE a deck of jacks, the MDC-Alliance is crumbling, triggering a mass exodus of distressed and disillusioned former officials who are joining Zanu-PF in droves. At the centre of the collapse ...Published: 14 Apr 2021 at 06:21hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF urges members to welcome defectors
Zanu-PF structures have been exhorted to embrace senior opposition members who are seeing the light and defecting to join the ruling party which is angling to garner more than 5 million votes and reso...Published: 23 Mar 2021 at 06:11hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa slams allies joining Zanu-PF
MDC ALLIANCE leader Nelson Chamisa says former opposition allies who have ditched the party to join the rival Zanu-PF were pursuing personal interests at the expense of the masses.The past few...Published: 20 Mar 2021 at 07:26hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
'Zanu-PF not there to help Chamisa'
Zanu-PF has advised MDC Alliance president Nelson Chamisa, that if he is tired of participating in civil political engagements, he must quit politics instead of resorting to venting his frustrations o...Published: 13 Mar 2021 at 06:56hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
'Chamisa faces mass defections'
Zanu-PF has made sensationally claims that the majority of high-ranking officials in the MDC Alliance-led by Nelson Chamisa are set to defect the biggest opposition and join the ruling party by the en...Published: 01 Mar 2021 at 05:12hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC is doomed, says Chebundo
ONE OF the prominent founding members of the MDC and former legislator, Blessing Chebundo, says the country's opposition is going downhill due to tribalism, senseless infighting and a hatred for new i...Published: 28 Feb 2021 at 16:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's silence is strategic, says Jonathan Moyo
FORMER Zanu-PF Politburo member and Information Minister, Jonathan Moyo has described as strategic, the continued silence maintained by MDC Alliance President Nelson Chamisa despite facing determined ...Published: 28 Feb 2021 at 09:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Chamisa's MDC now a Twitter party'
THE infighting and strategic missteps wracking the MDC Alliance are once again coming to a head, with a worried insider telling the Daily News yesterday that the coalition was becoming "a Twitter part...Published: 27 Feb 2021 at 19:07hrs | 2 | 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
Chiwenga in court over Ngomahuru
Vice President and Minister of Health and Child Care, Constantine Chiwenga has been dragged to court over a water crisis at Ngomahuru Psychiatric Hospital in Masvingo that has forced 200 inmates to ta...Published: 18 Feb 2021 at 11:31hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa frets over social media
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has ordered disgruntled party members to stop taking out their anger over the just ended district co-ordinating committee (DCC) elections to the media.Zanu-PF held...Published: 17 Dec 2020 at 07:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Law Society of Zimbabwe de-registers three lawyers
THREE Harare lawyers have been struck off the roll of legal practitioners for failure to disclose their past criminal convictions involving corruption and fraud, the Law Society of Zimbabwe has said....Published: 15 Dec 2020 at 08:01hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
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