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Chamisa's CCC moots paramilitary group with foreign help
THE opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) is contemplating setting up a paramilitary wing within its party's ranks ahead of the 2023 harmonised general elections in the name of "defending the...Published: 17 Jun 2022 at 08:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa: Illusions of democracy, statesmanship
LAST week CCC leader Mr Nelson Chamisa was pontificating about the sovereignty of Ukraine, railing against the Russian special mission into its neighbour as a travesty that trampled on international s...Published: 02 Mar 2022 at 05:36hrs | | by Fungi Kwaramba
Zanu-PF's corrupt election funding exposed
THE ruling Zanu-PF mortgaged the country's natural resources in lieu of US$100 million in financial support ahead of the country's 2013 general elections, a new report by a local watchdog has shown....Published: 31 Jul 2021 at 17:54hrs | 22 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe striking terribly hard in death
LAST week marked the first anniversary of the death of Robert Gabriel Mugabe, independent Zimbabwe's first president. Arguably one of the world's most shrewd and controversial politicians, the "larger...Published: 11 Sep 2020 at 07:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
What Dabengwa said about Chiwenga and Perence Shiri
The late struggle stalwart Dr Dumiso Dabengwa told United States of America's Ambassador James D. McGee in 2008 that Vice President Chiwenga was a corrupt person who would not allow any reforms in Zim...Published: 24 May 2019 at 08:32hrs | 7 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe health minister a medical impostor
HEALTH minister Obadiah Moyo is neither a qualified medical doctor nor a fellow of various international elite societies as stated on his curriculum vitae posted by Chitungwiza Central Hospital (CCH),...Published: 12 Oct 2018 at 07:38hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's new Health Minister labelled academic fraud
Zimbabwe's new Health Minister, Obadiah Moyo, is an academic fraud who does not have the qualification he claims to possess, according to the United States embassy.Moyo, who lost to the MDC Al...Published: 08 Sep 2018 at 20:48hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
'Mugabe has two months to live as prostate cancer takes toll'
The dramatic dismissal of Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa from the presidium may have been prompted by President Mugabe's mounting health issues amid unconfirmed reports he has two months to live....Published: 10 Nov 2017 at 06:55hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Mugabe puts himself under unnecessary strain
President Robert Mugabe (93), the oldest living head of state in the world, has travelled over 300 hours, covering almost 180 000km and gobbling millions of taxpayers' money this year.Besides ...Published: 22 Oct 2017 at 13:53hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
MDC-T congress closer than national polls
SPECIMEN NUMBER ONE:"Zimbabweans should brace themselves for early polls as the escalating factional and succession wars that are devouring the post-congress zanu-pf could soon see the ruling part...Published: 02 Jul 2016 at 12:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai once said Mugabe should resign over poor health, will he do the same?
REWIND to 02 November 2011Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe should consider resigning because of his age and health, Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai s...Published: 28 Jun 2016 at 16:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF scoffs at Mujuru, Tsvangirai coalition talk
Zanu-PF is unmoved by reports that Zimbabwe People First leader Dr Joice Mujuru was mulling a coalition with MDC-T leader Mr Morgan Tsvangirai for the 2018 harmonised elections.In an interview...Published: 24 Mar 2016 at 05:35hrs | 1 | by Zvamaida Murwira
Mujuru, Tsvangirai in 2018 ploy to topple Mugabe
Revelations that Zimbabwe People First's leader Dr Joice Mujuru will seek a coalition with MDC-T leader Mr Morgan Tsvangirai for the upcoming 2018 elections confirm how she has been working against Pr...Published: 23 Mar 2016 at 05:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zim's economic hell will test the metal of this nation and Mugabe, Mujuru or Tsvangirai will not get us out!
It is very tragic that this nation should now find itself in this tragic situation of serious economic meltdown resulting in collapse of all basic services and forcing millions of our people out of wo...Published: 09 Dec 2015 at 19:51hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Minister wants white farmer to leave his farm within 7 days
THE Minister of Land and Rural Resettlement, Douglas Mombeshora, is locked in a legal wrangle with a white commercial farmer over the ownership of a farm in Bulilima district.The commercial fa...Published: 17 Oct 2015 at 10:52hrs | | by Mashudu Netsianda
Don't mess with Grace Mugabe
During a state banquet in Pretoria, South Africa, in April 2015, I had a brief encounter with Grace Mugabe, the first lady of Zimbabwe. I was asking her husband, Robert Mugabe, about the question of ...Published: 16 Jul 2015 at 08:47hrs | | by David Smith
Mugabe's Zanu-PF must thank Morgan Tsvangirai
Zanu-PF smiles from ear to ear whenever the opposition opens its mouth to speak, for that it must thank Tsvangirai.IT'S unlikely we'll ever get a public admission, but I suspect Zanu-PF is del...Published: 06 Jul 2015 at 12:06hrs | 1 | by Edmund Kudzayi
Mnangagwa 'bullies' Mugabe to satisfy his desires
JUSTICE Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa "grabbed President Robert Mugabe by the lapels" during a heated argument in 2008, according to a leaked United States embassy communications.In an Octob...Published: 06 Nov 2014 at 11:37hrs | | by Staff Reporter
The Hedge Fund and Robert Mugabe
This article was taken from businessweek.com...Published: 23 Aug 2014 at 18:05hrs | 2 | by Cam Simpson and Jesse Westbrook
Army detonates Gono's presidential ambition
COLOGNE - Zimbabwe's no nonsense hardline military generals, have allegedly paralysed former central bank governor, Gideon Gono's ambition to become president as a compromise Zanu PF candidate, after ...Published: 27 Jun 2014 at 07:21hrs | | by Itai Gwatidzo Mushekwe
VP Joice Mujuru faces challenge in Zanu-PF
Vice-President Joice Mujuru is likely to be challenged at the Zanu PF elective congress set for December, party sources have said.The party is already making preparations for the December Cong...Published: 25 May 2014 at 10:29hrs | | by Staff Reporter
More controversy around the Mall of Zimbabwe
Controversial property developer, Ken Sharpe is in the news once again over his plans to build a massive new shopping mall in Harare's posh Borrowdale suburb.Concern has however been raised af...Published: 19 Jul 2012 at 11:06hrs | 2 | by Lance Guma
Mugabe and Mujuru did not see eye to eye
President Robert Mugabe and the late Retired General Solomon did not see eye-to-eye in the period leading to the March 2008 harmonised elections with Zanu-PF insiders saying the two's "estrangement w...Published: 14 May 2012 at 09:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gono has 'dirt' on Mugabe - reports
Zimbabwe's Central Bank governor, Gideon Gono, accused of looting state resources, cannot be fired because he knows where President Robert Mugabe and Zanu-PF skeletons are buried, a top United States ...Published: 14 Mar 2012 at 05:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe, Tsvangirai squander resources on luxuries
HARARE - While President Robert Mugabe and his allies rubbish the West as responsible for Zimbabwe's economic decline, the same "enemies" have kept critical services such as health and education runn...Published: 05 Mar 2012 at 06:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
I have beaten Jesus Christ - Mugabe
Harare - President Robert Mugabe declared himself as "fit as a fiddle" as he celebrated his 88th birthday on Tuesday. On Tuesday, the Herald carried 22 pages of messages congratulating the veteran rul...Published: 21 Feb 2012 at 18:08hrs | | by Nare Msupatsila
Mugabe scoffs at fears about his health as he turns 88
Harare - President Robert Mugabe scoffed at fears about his health and said he was "fit as a fiddle" as he turned 88 on Tuesday."The day will come when I will become sick," Mugabe, who is Afri...Published: 21 Feb 2012 at 09:05hrs | | by Sapa
Discussing Zimbabwe, without Zimbabwe
EARLY this month, the US government's House Foreign Affairs Committee's Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, and Human Rights in Washington DC organised a hearing under the theme "Beyond the Reign ...Published: 09 Dec 2011 at 05:57hrs | | by Obi Egbuna
High Court orders Director-General of CIO to justify claims
THE High Court of Zimbabwe has ordered director-general of the Central Intelligence Organisation Major General Happyton Bonyongwe to justify the US$10 million he is claiming from Africa Consolidated R...Published: 07 Dec 2011 at 20:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Can Zimbabwe trust Jesse Jackson!
PRESIDENT Mugabe recently met an American business delegation led by civil rights leader Reverend Jesse Jackson on the sidelines of a United Nations meeting in New York.To an observer, the mee...Published: 03 Oct 2011 at 14:43hrs | 1 | by Tichaona Zindoga
'Joice Mujuru to be replaced by Oppah Muchinguri'
The recent Sunday Standard quotes unnamed authoritative Zanu-PF officials claiming a Zanu-PF faction loyal to President Mugabe wants Vice-President Joice Mujuru ousted from her post and replaced by t...Published: 27 Sep 2011 at 05:54hrs | | by Ndou Paul
Zimbabwe central bank operated like a 'mafia': RBZ official
A senior RBZ official has said the central bank operated like a "mafia" during the decade-long economic crisis. These disclosures came to light in a leaked American cable released recently by ...Published: 17 Sep 2011 at 11:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
WikiLeaks, a blessing to Zimbabwe: ZAPU
The new Zimbabwe African People's union (ZAPU) says whistleblower website WikiLeaks has been a blessing to Zimbabwe as it has exposed chaos in Zanu PF and also revealed that President Robert Mugabe is...Published: 17 Sep 2011 at 08:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Khaya Moyo also met the US envoy: Wikileaks
Zanu-PF national chairman Simon Khaya Moyo, frustrated the United States ambassador Mr Charles Ray, by stressing that both Zanu-PF and the MDC-T were to blame for the political violence in the country...Published: 12 Sep 2011 at 05:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
WikiLeaks a blessing in disguise
As the rivetting story of the so-called WikiLeaks continues to grip national attention, imagination and excitement under the spell of a thus far disappointingly frivolous and vexatious media coverage...Published: 11 Sep 2011 at 06:41hrs | 1 | by Professor Jonathan Moyo, MP
Chamisa suggested military intervention to topple Mugabe
A MONTH before he was sworn in as minister, MDC-T national organising secretary Mr Nelson Chamisa asked the United States to invade Zimbabwe to force President Mugabe and Zanu-PF out of power....Published: 11 Sep 2011 at 07:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa wanted to beat up Mugabe over Home Affairs Ministry in 2008
According to leaked United States embassy communications, The Defence Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa "grabbed President Robert Mugabe by the lapels" during a heated argument in 2008.According to...Published: 07 Sep 2011 at 19:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's prostate cancer scare is old news
WikiLeaks' release of a cable alleging Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe is dying of prostate cancer and could be gone by 2013 may have raised eyebrows around the world last week, but it's old news ...Published: 07 Sep 2011 at 11:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Central Bank Governor Gideon Gono a liability
PRIME Minister Morgan Tsvangirai and Finance Minister Tendai Biti wanted Central Bank Governor Gideon Gono fired as bait to receive $300 million lines of credit from South Africa for private businesse...Published: 06 Sep 2011 at 05:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe army generals never wanted a unity government
Zanu-PF national secretary for transport and welfare Nicholas Goche admitted that security chiefs were against the agreement that gave birth to the inclusive Government.According to Wikileaks,...Published: 06 Sep 2011 at 05:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gono, Mugabe secret revealed: Wikileaks
Leaked US diplomatic cables have revealed, that President Mugabe is suffering from prostate cancer. According to the cables the 87-year-old was told he might die before 2013.According to a ...Published: 04 Sep 2011 at 11:23hrs | | by -
Military men can also be political men!
Calls for security sector reforms in Zimbabwe by America and fronted here by the regime change functionaries betray unparalleled hypocrisy especially on the part of the US.While they are vocif...Published: 15 Jul 2011 at 03:37hrs | | by Tendai Moyo
I am not Tsvangirai's advisor: US Ambassador
The US Ambassador to Zimbabwe, Charles Ray, has rubbished claims Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai got political advice and instructions from the US Embassy in Harare....Published: 08 Mar 2011 at 04:28hrs | | by Byo24News
Thabo Mbeki and Miles Tendi Zanu-pf apologists
The MDC dismisses the alleged assertion attributed to former South Africa President Thabo Mbeki that President Tsvangirai consulted former US ambassador to Zimbabwe, James McGee during the negotiati...Published: 28 Feb 2011 at 14:11hrs | | by MDC-T
The Grace Mugabe story: If you can’t get to the man, go after his wife
The first lady of Zimbabwe, Grace Mugabe, was in the papers again recently. She is suing the Zimbabwean Standard newspaper US $15 million. The Standard published a story based on a report from t...Published: 11 Jan 2011 at 12:10hrs | | by Jane Madembo
Tea with Mugabe
Johannesburg - Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe regards Thabo Mbeki as a √¢‚Ǩ≈ìgreat man√¢‚Ǩ¬ù and Jacob Zuma as a √¢‚Ǩ≈...Published: 22 Dec 2010 at 13:23hrs | | by Julian Rademeyer
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