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The role of religion in Zimbabwe politics
The role of religious and spiritual dynamics, including African Traditional Religion (ATR), in Zimbabwean politics has been significant and complex. These dynamics have influenced both the historical ...Published: 19 Dec 2023 at 11:20hrs | 7 | by Josh Mhambi
Zimbabwe's Two-State Dilemma: Unveiling the marginalization of Matabeleland
In the heart of southern Africa, Zimbabwe stands as a nation marred by a tumultuous history, marked by colonial oppression, independence struggles, and a post-colonial era fraught with political turmo...Published: 13 Dec 2023 at 07:29hrs | 1 | by Josh Mhambi
Spirit of vengeance cited in Lupane double murder
Spiritual leaders believe that Clever Ngwenya of Gwalubha village in Lupane District, who brutally killed his elderly parents, may have been influenced by vengeful spirits haunting him.Clever ...Published: 26 Sep 2023 at 06:18hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Ostallos Siziba/va's surname sparks huge debate on Twitter
Opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) Deputy Spokesperson Ostallos's surname has taken social media by storm.There is a debate raging as to what Ostallos's real surname is. He is...Published: 06 Jul 2023 at 09:32hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Call for election boycott over hefty nomination fees
The Nationalists Alliance Party (NAP) has called on other political parties to boycott the upcoming elections in protest against the hefty nomination fees for election candidates.NAP leader, D...Published: 18 Jun 2023 at 09:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Nomination fees divide Zimbabwe Parliament
PARLIAMENT has been torn apart after its Legal Committee issued a non-adverse report, effectively endorsing the exorbitant nomination fees set by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission for candidates wishi...Published: 16 Jun 2023 at 07:57hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Joseph Busha advocates for increase of nomination fees to US$50 000
OPPOSITION party leader Joseph Makamba Busha has urged authorities to increase presidential nomination fees for the upcoming elections to US$50 000 to avoid a congested ballot paper in the upcoming el...Published: 14 Jun 2023 at 06:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe election US$20,000 nomination fee too low'
Opposition FreeZim Congress party leader Joseph Busha has said the US$20 000 nomination fee set by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission for presidential candidates is too little."We don't want pe...Published: 13 Jun 2023 at 06:44hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Parliament decides on election nomination fees
PARLIAMENT is today expected to decide on election nomination fees following an order by the Constitutional Court after hearing an application that said the amount of money required was beyond the rea...Published: 13 Jun 2023 at 06:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZEC's hefty nomination fees unite political rivals
Zimbabwe's three main political parties will find cause to unite in parliament this coming week as they seek to strike down exorbitant nomination fees pegged by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC)...Published: 12 Jun 2023 at 06:43hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's ConCourt orders review of steep nomination fees
THE Constitutional Court (ConCourt) has ordered Parliament to review Statutory Instrument 144 of 2022, which drastically increased the nomination fees for candidates seeking to run for public office i...Published: 10 Jun 2023 at 17:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Polad member challenges 2023 poll fees
A MEMBER of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's controversial Political Actors Dialogue (Polad) platform has approached the courts challenging the steep nomination fees set by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commis...Published: 24 Apr 2023 at 07:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Black Umfolosi condemns Elvis Nyathi murder
As Black Umfolosi and international musicians, we totally condemn the most cruel, evil and babaric killing of our dear innocent brother Elvis Nyathi in Diesploot by our own black South African b...Published: 16 Apr 2022 at 19:59hrs | 12 | by Thomeki Dube
Court orders Zanu-PF members, police off Mbare toilets
HIGH Court judge Justice Rogers Manyangadze yesterday ordered police, Zanu-PF members and the Harare City Council to stop disrupting operations of a company leasing Mbare toilets for a fee.Man...Published: 04 Feb 2022 at 05:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Khaya Moyo's journey over the years
Zanu-PF secretary for Information and Publicity Ambassador Simon Khaya Moyo, who died yesterday at the age of 76, was born in Plumtree, Matabeleland South on October 1 1945 to Mr Robert Khaya Ngulani ...Published: 15 Nov 2021 at 05:24hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
The death of Dr Dumiso Dabengwa - A fiting tribute to an enigma
1. Paying tribute to an enigma I was on a bus on Thursday morning, the 24th May 2019, travelling through Botswana from Kwa Bulawayo, Mthwakazi when news abo...Published: 30 May 2019 at 15:45hrs | 2 | by Dr Mpiyesizwe Churchill Guduza
Mnangagwa, Chamisa play hide and seek
BITTER political rivals, President Emmerson Mnangagwa and MDC's Nelson Chamisa, again failed to meet face to face at a strategic national dialogue meeting convened by the Zimbabwe Council of Churches ...Published: 08 Feb 2019 at 08:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Chamisa election petition was late'
The MDC Alliance missed the deadline to serve its poll petition on President-elect Emmerson Mnangagwa and the Constitutional Court should thus dismiss it, Zanu-PF's lawyers have said.The rulin...Published: 12 Aug 2018 at 09:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Josh Mhambi makes promises to Bulawayo Central constituency if elected MP
The aspiring house of assemble candidate for Bulawayo Central, Joshua Mhambi has made an array of promies to the constituency if he got elected into office."When I am elected to parliament pri...Published: 28 Jul 2018 at 11:55hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Parliament candidates clash with ZEC
BULAWAYO parliamentary candidates on Wednesday clashed with the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) over allegations the elections body 'leaked' voter mobile phone details to Zanu PF to give the rulin...Published: 13 Jul 2018 at 08:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Political novices spoiling the 2018 electoral broth
The presidential nomination court witnessed a record 23 presidential candidates successfully filing their papers ahead of Zimbabwe's 2018 harmonised elections. Indeed, this was good for democracy as a...Published: 26 Jun 2018 at 17:07hrs | | by Elijah Chihota
Zimbabwe presidential race breaks record
A record 23 people yesterday successfully filed nomination papers to contest as presidential candidates in the July 30 harmonised elections. The record figure, the highest since independence in 1980, ...Published: 15 Jun 2018 at 07:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean man goes missing in South Africa
A Zimbabwean man based in South Africa is looking for his son, Mthabisi Mhambi, who has been missing since Monday last week (15 May).On Wednesday last week, Mhambi posted on his timeline sayin...Published: 23 May 2017 at 07:22hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Mhambi takes over
DEPUTY officer commanding Suburban District Superintendent Mhambi Ndebele has taken over the chairmanship of ambitious Zifa Southern Region Division One side ZRP Byo.Ndebele takes over fro...Published: 09 Mar 2017 at 05:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Sidinga ugogo uViolet Nhliziyo
Linjani zihlobo kuzo zonke indawo elikuzo.Sidinga ugogo uViolet Nhliziyo oleminyaka engu (78) yokuzalwa ubehlala eGwayi Village 2 eNyamayendlovu wasuka ngoLwesine 16/02/17 esiyahola kasafikang...Published: 20 Feb 2017 at 20:20hrs | 1 | by Nomathemba
Zanu-PF pardons 11 suspended members
THE Zanu-PF Matabeleland South Province has endorsed President Mugabe as the party's candidate for the 2018 presidential elections and recommended for the lifting of suspensions on 11 party member...Published: 20 Nov 2016 at 12:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mlambos Express Band writes a letter to the president
JOHANNESBURG - The Mzansi based Zimbabwean Rhumba ace Mlambos Express Band-"The Super Legends" will deliver a letter to the state president before jetting off to "another planet."Speaking ...Published: 06 Oct 2016 at 15:43hrs | | by Future Moyo aka Jamelah
Gwanda residents mourn death of Deputy Commissioner General Rhodes Moyo
Go well our HeroStatement from Gwanda Residents Association on the passing on of Deputy Commissioner General Rhodes MoyoOn behalf of all residents and stakeholders of Gwanda, The Gwand...Published: 15 Sep 2016 at 08:18hrs | 1 | by Bekezela Maduma Fuzwayo
Maskandi ambassadors releases hot DVD
JOHANNESBURG - Mthwakazi Maskandi ambassadors Amabhukudwana and Insukamini released their long awaited DVD at the Hillbrow Theatre on Saturday the 5th of March.Multitudes from different areas ...Published: 10 Mar 2016 at 18:45hrs | 1 | by Vusmann
Welshman Ncube divisive character - MDC members
The dismissal of Moses Mzila Ndlovu as acting secretary general of MDC on Saturday has sparked heated debate among party members.Some party members have taken to social media to v...Published: 09 Feb 2016 at 09:39hrs | | by Thobekile Zhou
Mugabe's party burns in Bulawayo as factionalism deepens
A stormy emergency meeting is currently under-way at Zanu-PF's Bulawayo headquarters in Davis Hall with reports that provincial youth chair Khumbulani Mpofu will be fired.The meeting started a...Published: 16 Dec 2015 at 14:36hrs | | by Thobekile Zhou
Misihairabwi-Mushonga survives MDC purge
THE MDC led by Professor Welshman Ncube has reportedly made a climbdown on attempts to fire its proportional representation legislator Priscilla Misihairabwi-Mushonga after the party failed to make a ...Published: 23 Sep 2015 at 06:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
NOTICE: All former Mtshabezi High students invited
All former Mtshabezi high school students are invited to a very important meeting at BICC Bulawayo central Masotsha Ndlovu - Fort Street on Saturday 12 September 2015 at 10:00am.Guest chairper...Published: 10 Sep 2015 at 20:03hrs | 1 | by Staff Repoter
Joshua Mhambi quits MDC
THE troubled Welshman Ncube led MDC has lost another senior member, Joshua Mhambi, the former national spokesman who was recently seconded to the party's international relations wing.Although ...Published: 03 Sep 2015 at 06:38hrs | 1 | by Whinsley Masara
Welshman Ncube's MDC behaves like Zanu-PF, says Zapu
The Dumiso Dabengwa-led Zapu yesterday accused Zimbabwe's opposition political parties of lack of commitment in working together to challenge President Robert Mugabe's Zanu-PF and solve some of the co...Published: 06 Aug 2015 at 14:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
14 Zimbabweans travel to 2015 Global Entrepreneurship Summit
United States ambassador Bruce Wharton says the fourteen Zimbabweans attending the sixth annual Global Entrepreneurship Summit (GES) in Nairobi, Kenya, on July 25-26, 2015 represent the human capi...Published: 26 Jul 2015 at 06:55hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Paul Themba Nyathi quits MDC
MDC leader Professor Welshman Ncube has been forced into a reshuffle of his top team after Paul Themba Nyathi became the latest senior official to quit his position as treasurer.Nyathi last ni...Published: 16 Jun 2015 at 08:16hrs | | by Nduduzo Tshuma
Zanu-PF unfit to govern
PRESS STATEMENTThe declaration made in Tsholotsho by the two appointed Vice Presidents of Zimbabwe over the weekend that only constituencies under Zanu-PF will benefit from government sponsore...Published: 09 Jun 2015 at 13:06hrs | | by Joshua Mhambi
Zanu-PF use divisive campaign tactics, MDC says
THE Welshman Ncube led MDC has condemned Vice-Presidents Emmerson Mnangagwa and Phelekezela Mphoko for saying only constituencies controlled by Zanu-PF will receive government funding.MDC said...Published: 08 Jun 2015 at 16:01hrs | | by Thobekile Zhou
MDC - MDC Renewal reunification collapses
MDC Renewal has pulled out of re-unification with Welshman Ncube led MDC with immediate effect.The two MDC formations merged late last year under a new name - Democratic Union (UD).An ...Published: 22 May 2015 at 15:15hrs | | by Thobekile
MDC statement on the proposed curriculum change
THE Government proposed syllabus change which will see foreign languages like Chinese, Swahili, French and Portuguese being compulsory subjects in all government schools is ill-timed and speaks of...Published: 12 May 2015 at 17:58hrs | | by MDC
'We all came from central Africa and are foreigners to the land of the Khoisan'
The thuggery actions by misguided conscienceless South Africans to our African and other foreign national brothers is satanic, barbaric and the highest order of pre-civilization. The problem with ...Published: 19 Apr 2015 at 12:27hrs | | by Thembelani Batshwayi in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
MDC express dismay over scrapping of bonuses
The MDC has expressed utter dismay over Zanu-PF government's scrapping of civil servants bonuses indicating that this is a sign that the ruling party still continues with its desire to strangulate...Published: 14 Apr 2015 at 14:56hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Government Civil service audit hypocritical
Government must expend its energies on cutting down the President Robert Mugabe's foreign travels expenses as a matter of urgency before they put focus on civil servants, MDC has said.The oppo...Published: 08 Apr 2015 at 13:37hrs | | by Thobekile Zhou
One on one with Professor Welshman Ncube
THE Chronicle's Political Editor Nduduzo Tshuma on Thursday sat down with MDC leader Professor Welshman Ncube in the wake of a spate of resignations of senior party officials, including secretary gen...Published: 28 Mar 2015 at 10:51hrs | | by Nduduzo Tshuma
Welshman Ncube's MDC makes new appointments
Troubled MDC has made appointments to fill vacant posts after the mass resignations.Below are the new office bearers:"The office of the Preside...Published: 23 Mar 2015 at 18:06hrs | | by Thobekile Zhou
Sinazo to host an open Jz Moyo themed gig in Johannesburg
Music group Sinazo, under the Malaba Productions badge, is to host an old school gig and album launch in Johannesburg on the 18th April 2015. As the poetic rhyme goes,On with the dance! let j...Published: 03 Feb 2015 at 22:20hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Grace Mugabe saved Khaya Moyo
Simon Khaya Moyo, the former Zanu-PF national chairman, escaped the chop for his support for Joice Mujuru because his wife is close to Grace Mugabe, according to a senior party insider.Khaya M...Published: 22 Jan 2015 at 17:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
VP Mphoko not a sellout
No amount of lies or smear campaign can turn VP Mphoko into a sell out. No genuine former ZPRA commander or soldier can support those lies, except former Rhodesian Special Branch personnel who were do...Published: 16 Dec 2014 at 17:08hrs | | by John Songo
Khaya-Moyo not guaranteed to deputise Mugabe
Successive pronouncements by former-PF Zapu heavies that "no one is assured" of a post under an arrangement with Zanu-PF means party chairman Simon Khaya-Moyo is not guaranteed of the Zanu-PF depu...Published: 16 Aug 2014 at 15:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
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