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3 armed robbers jailed 21 years
THREE Mberengwa men have been sentenced to a combined 21 years in jail for robbing a man at gunpoint.Alford Namusimundo, Macdonald Moyo and Nkosilathi Jabangwe pleaded guilty to the offence wh...Published: 28 Mar 2023 at 06:49hrs | 397 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF breaks tradition on primaries?
ZIMBABWE's ruling Zanu-PF party has allowed former opposition members to contest in this week's internal polls, as President Emmerson Mnangagwa breaks with tradition, the Zimbabwe Independent can repo...Published: 24 Mar 2023 at 06:29hrs | 1041 | by Staff reporter
Ex-opposition officials cleared to contest in Zanu-PF primaries
THE much anticipated Zanu-PF primary elections that were postponed last week will now be held this Saturday with an array of candidates including those who were once in the opposition set to contest....Published: 24 Mar 2023 at 06:22hrs | 134 | by Staff reporter
Dog eat dog in Zanu-PF primaries
It will be a dog eat dog scenario in Zanu-PF primary elections initially set for Saturday (March 18) but have been postponed to a later date, with big wigs and some completely new faces set to clash i...Published: 18 Mar 2023 at 08:32hrs | 1940 | by Staff reporter
Chiroto vows to expose Chamisa
Mutare-Former Harare Mayor and President of Urban Council Association in Zimbabwe who is among a host of Zanu-PF returnees has declared that he will expose all strategies and inside information that b...Published: 04 Mar 2023 at 08:18hrs | 2907 | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai's son denies Zanu-PF links
GLEN View South legislator Vincent Tsvangirai (MDC-T) says he was not a Zanu-PF member and would never join the ruling party as it would be betrayal of his father, the late founding leader of the oppo...Published: 16 Feb 2023 at 04:55hrs | 837 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa welcomes Morgan Tsvangirai's brother to Zanu-PF
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa, Saturday said Zanu-PF structures should prepare themselves for an influx of former opposition supporters after receiving hundreds in Harare.In the hundreds was fo...Published: 12 Feb 2023 at 19:14hrs | 1366 | by Staff reporter
PHOTO: 1 000 CCC members defect to ZANU PF in Masvingo
Former MDC Member of Parliament and leader of #Returnees4ED Tongai Matutu says his organisation has welcomed 1 000 former opposition CCC party members who defected to the ruling party ZANU...Published: 10 Feb 2023 at 17:25hrs | 1783 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'Donors snub Nelson Chamisa's CCC'
Former MDC Masvingo urban lawmaker and member of Returness4ED Tongai Matutu has sensationally claimed that the opposition CCC led by Nelson Chamisa has suffer a major blow after losing all its major d...Published: 06 Feb 2023 at 17:14hrs | 3319 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zanu-PF unleshes machete gangs?
THE ruling Zanu-PF party has allegedly unleashed machete-wielding gangs in the Midlands province to mobilise voters for its five million votes for ED campaign ahead of this year's polls.NewsDa...Published: 26 Jan 2023 at 07:36hrs | 1550 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF Chair pained by CCC members' assault
Zanu-PF Mashonaland East chairperson Daniel Garwe says he was deeply pained by the brutal assault of several elderly Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) members in Murewa last week.His comment...Published: 12 Jan 2023 at 09:51hrs | 1456 | by Staff reporter
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 | 3801 | by Staff reporter
List of people and organisations who participated in the sanctioning of Zimbabwe
FORMER Masvingo Urban legislator, Tongai Matutu, has published a long list of eminent opposition politicians he claims were at the forefront inviting "hurtful" sanctions on Zimbabwe.Last week,...Published: 24 Oct 2022 at 06:16hrs | 2755 | by Staff reporter
Shouldn't all those 'confessing' to calling for Zimbabwe targeted sanctions be the first to be arrested?
Let us just imagine this scenario for a moment.I come out openly confessing to the unresolved brutal murder of a person, which I perpet...Published: 18 Oct 2022 at 05:30hrs | 436 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zanu-PF old guard retain CC posts
THE ruling Zanu-PF party retained its old guard in the recently held central committee (CC) elections with a few young guns making it into the party's highest decision-making body.The party's ...Published: 17 Oct 2022 at 06:11hrs | 1642 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube elected as a Zanu-PF Central Committee member
Zanu-PF has released names of Central Committee elect members who sailed through in the just ended elections.Some party heavyweights who retained are Cdes Obert Mpofu, Mike Bimha, Christopher ...Published: 17 Oct 2022 at 06:05hrs | 511 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's former ally in sensational Zimbabwe sanctions claim
THE Citizens' Coalition for Change (CCC) has blasted former Masvingo Urban legislator, Tongai Matutu, arguing his unfounded and preposterous claims that the then vibrant Movement for Democratic Change...Published: 16 Oct 2022 at 19:24hrs | 556 | by Staff reporter
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 | 1703 | 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 | 4501 | 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 | 3710 | 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 | 556 | 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 | 96 | 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 | 221 | 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 | 996 | 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 | 3046 | 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 | 1338 | 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 | 1078 | 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 | 604 | 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 | 4822 | 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 | 1454 | 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 | 3414 | 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 | 1863 | 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 | 180 | 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 | 161 | 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 | 727 | 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 | 39 | 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 | 28 | 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 | 42 | 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 | 27 | 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 | 4 | 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 | 3 | 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 | 11 | 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 | 5 | 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 | 17 | 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 | 4 | 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 | 14 | 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 | 14 | 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 | 13 | by Staff reporter
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