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Drug lord in Zanu-PF primary election contest
VIOLENCE mongers, drug lords, and shoddy characters were disqualified from standing for the ruling party in the forthcoming elections as Zanu-PF maintains high ethical standards with rerun polls set t...Published: 04 Apr 2023 at 06:30hrs | 12 | by Mbuso Ndlovu
Zanu-PF congress maintains 2017 coup hierarchy
"LOBENGULA comes back as secretary for administration," Zanu-PF leader, President Emmerson Mnangagwa announced on 29 October as he appointed the ruling party's top leadership at the recent congress at...Published: 20 Nov 2022 at 15:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa in tough Zanu-PF balancing act
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is said to have pacified his deputy Constantino Chiwenga by picking some of his close lieutenants into the central committee to stop factionalism.There was specula...Published: 06 Nov 2022 at 11:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa brings rival Chiwenga to his knees
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has brought his bitter rival Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga to his knees - literally and metaphorically - at the crucial Zanu-PF congress which ended in Harare yester...Published: 31 Oct 2022 at 18:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mohadi bounces back as Zimbabwe's second Vice President
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa, who was unanimously re-elected as First Secretary of Zanu-PF on Friday at the party's 7th National People's Congress, yesterday reappointed Constantino Chiwenga and Kembo Mohadi a...Published: 30 Oct 2022 at 06:50hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa appoints new Central Committee and Politburo members
THE President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa has appointed ten personal nominees into the Central Committee, one from each province.The members are as follows;Manicaland - Wilson Khumbula...Published: 29 Oct 2022 at 17:23hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Zanu-PF commandeers train to Mnangagwa's rally
Zanu-PF will on Saturday use a National Railways of Zimbabwe train to transport its supporters to a party rally to be addressed by President Emmerson Mnangagwa in Mutasa, Manicaland province as campai...Published: 14 Oct 2022 at 05:56hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF elections marred by violence
VIOLENCE and ugly scenes reportedly marred the just-ended Zanu-PF central committee (CC) elections as bigwigs locked horns over positions in the party's highest decision-making body.Reports an...Published: 10 Oct 2022 at 06:11hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF bigwigs fall by the wayside in chaotic elections
As results started trickling in last night, some Zanu-PF bigwigs including former Health minister David Parirenyatwa, politburo member Tendai Chirau and ex-wife of ruling party deputy president Kembo ...Published: 09 Oct 2022 at 07:57hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, Chiwenga rivalry widens
THE ruling Zanu-PF party has banned its members from celebrating presumed victories in its internal polls for provincial executive members in a move seen as an attempt to quash factional fights betwee...Published: 03 Jan 2022 at 06:01hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF meets over controversial provincial polls
Zanu-PF's Politburo will meet this week to confirm winners and address any complaints from the party's provincial elections held last week.The ruling party's national political commissar, Mike...Published: 02 Jan 2022 at 09:09hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Fireworks expected as Zanu-PF slides into provincial elections
THE ruling Zanu-PF party is preparing for provincial party elections with candidates backed by politburo members seeking to solidify their control of grassroots structures clashing in the internal pol...Published: 24 Dec 2021 at 16:42hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF gets strict on youth league
Zanu-PF has introduced strict measures barring candidates over 35 years from contesting in elections for the youth league.In the past, the party had a number of people, including the late Abso...Published: 16 Dec 2021 at 23:29hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Bvute vies for top Zanu-PF post
BUSINESSMAN Ozias Bvute has joined the race for the Zanu-PF Mashonaland East chairperson's post ahead of provincial elections.The post fell vacant following the death of the Transp...Published: 12 Dec 2021 at 20:14hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Chaos rocks Zanu-PF provinces
Zanu-PF is battling to conclude its restructuring exercise due to violent clashes among supporters, which have affected several provinces, it has emerged.Several provinces, especially in Midla...Published: 29 Nov 2021 at 05:38hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Confusion rocks Zanu-PF ahead of provincial elections
CONFUSION has rocked the ruling Zanu-PF party in Mashonaland East ahead of provincial elections as top contestants across all wings were from the same district, Wedza.The party has since halte...Published: 22 Nov 2021 at 06:12hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF reinstates women's league boss
THE Zanu-PF leadership in Mashonaland East Province has reinstated Nyarai Tsvuura as the provincial Women's League boss following the recommendations of the Central Committee.Tsvuura who hails...Published: 17 Nov 2021 at 05:38hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Looming by-elections fuel Zanu-PF factionalism
ANNOUNCEMENT of by-election dates by President Emmerson Mnangagwa has triggered rivalry and factionalism within Zanu-PF in Mashonaland East province as aspiring candidates are trying to outwit each ot...Published: 16 Nov 2021 at 05:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF moves to mend structures
Zanu-PF has deployed politburo and central committee members to all provinces to conduct verification exercises to resolve its chaotic restructuring programme.The party's restructuring exercis...Published: 12 Nov 2021 at 05:36hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF deploys Politburo members to faction ravaged provinces
Zanu-PF has deployed politburo and central committee members to all provinces to conduct verification exercises to resolve its chaotic restructuring programme.The party's restructuring exercis...Published: 12 Nov 2021 at 05:35hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Chinese miner loses granite licence
A Chinese firm, Heijin Mining Company, is set to lose its certificates of operations in Kaseke and Chibvi 2, in Murehwa following complaints by the community, Chief Nyajina and Councillor Marowa....Published: 08 Nov 2021 at 05:24hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Villagers don't have title to communal land: Chinese miners
CHINESE mining company, Heijin, has reportedly told villagers in Kaseke, Uzumba district, that they have no capacity to stop their eviction to pave way for granite stone mining as they have no title d...Published: 27 Sep 2021 at 06:18hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt admits mistake in Chinese mine saga
TOP government and Zanu-PF officials on Tuesday descended on Kaseke Village, Uzumba, on a fact-finding mission after a Chinese mining company reportedly took over an entire village to extract black gr...Published: 23 Sep 2021 at 06:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Daggers out in Zanu-PF restructuring
THE Zanu-PF restructuring exercise has exposed deep-rooted factionalism as well as infighting fuelled by jostling for positions ahead of the party's provincial elections.The party is set to co...Published: 20 Sep 2021 at 07:17hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Politically-motivated arrests worry Zanu-PF
Zanu-PF officials in Mashonaland East province are wary of politically-motivated arrests of members ahead of the looming provincial elections.Speaking during a provincial co-ordinating committ...Published: 09 Sep 2021 at 06:14hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF implodes
Zanu-PF internal fights have marred preparations for the party's Mashonaland East province elections.A recent meeting at the provincial party offices in Marondera resulted in the provincial wo...Published: 13 Aug 2021 at 07:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF bigwigs keep cards close to chests
Zanu-PF bigwigs in Mashonaland East are keeping their cards close to their chest as the race to elect a new provincial leadership intensifies.The provincial chairpersonship is vacant following...Published: 05 Aug 2021 at 06:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mohadi rallies Mashonaland East leadership
Zanu-PF Vice President and Second Secretary Kembo Mohadi has challenged the Mashonaland East provincial executive to engage in sustainable projects which will contribute to the attainment of Vision 20...Published: 16 Jul 2021 at 09:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF eyes MDC Alliance's Marondera seat
THE Zanu-PF Mashonaland East provincial executive has scaled up its campaign to wrest the Marondera Central parliamentary seat from the opposition MDC Alliance in the upcoming by-election.This...Published: 02 Jun 2021 at 07:28hrs | | by Staff report
Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF popularises new slogan
THE ruling Zanu-PF party has begun to popularise its new slogan in preparation for the 2023 elections.In 2018, Zanu-PF campaigned with party supporters chanting the slogan "ED Pfee", but now i...Published: 31 May 2021 at 06:47hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF Mashonaland East remembers Shiri
The ruling Zanu-PF party will this weekend a memorial service for the late Minister of Agriculture, Lands, Water, Fisheries and Rural Resettlement Perence Shiri at Mutekedza Village in between Msasa a...Published: 20 May 2021 at 21:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF invites CVs for vacant seats
THE Zanu-PF party in Mashonaland East is already preparing for by-elections to replace recalled MDC-Alliance MPs and councillors and is inviting curriculum vitaes from its members eyeing to contest pr...Published: 17 May 2021 at 06:45hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF parades returning Mutinhiri
Zanu-PF in Mashonaland East yesterday paraded former MDC Alliance member Tracy Mutinhiri and 51 other people that defected to the ruling party from the opposition.Mutinhiri, also a former depu...Published: 02 May 2021 at 09:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Broke Zanu-PF candidates slow down campaigns
A NUMBER of Zanu-PF candidates who are eyeing the vacant Marondera East constituency in Mashonaland East province have slowed down their campaigns after the party delayed announcing a date for the pri...Published: 22 Apr 2021 at 06:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Fresh disorder rocks Zanu-PF
Zanu-PF has been hit by fresh chaos, with the party's highly divisive and recently restored District Co-ordinating Committees (DCCs) at the centre of the latest commotion.The DCCs - which were...Published: 25 Mar 2021 at 16:09hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Land barons, infighting cost Zanu-PF Goromonzi South seat
THE Zanu-PF Mashonaland East provincial leadership has admitted that infighting and land barons caused them to lose Goromonzi south constituency to the opposition MDC alliance in the 2018 elections....Published: 24 Mar 2021 at 06:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF gears for by-elections
Zanu-PF has stepped up preparations for primary elections to elect candidates for by-elections in the three parliamentary seats that were left vacant in Mashonaland East province.This is despi...Published: 16 Mar 2021 at 06:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF in quandary over Matiza successor
TOP Zanu-PF party officials in Mashonaland East province are reportedly divided over how to fill the vacant chairmanship post left by the late Transport minister, Joel Biggie Matiza, with the ruling p...Published: 05 Mar 2021 at 06:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, Chiwenga-linked cartels take over public firms, mines, fuel sector - report
HIGHLY secretive cartels linked to President Emmerson Mnangagwa and Vice President Constantino Chiwenga are reported to have taken over the operations of key state-owned companies, including private f...Published: 10 Feb 2021 at 07:33hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF bigwigs jostle for Matiza's posts
THE death of Transport minister Joel Biggie Matiza two weeks ago has plunged Mashonaland East province into election mode, with Zanu-PF party members reportedly jostling to take over his parliamentary...Published: 09 Feb 2021 at 06:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zinara boss in court for transferring Grace Mugabe linked employees
ZINARA chief executive officer Nkosinathi Ncube was yesterday arraigned before Harare magistrate Trynos Wutawashe on allegations of victimising and transferring four subordinates that are linked to Gr...Published: 08 Dec 2020 at 06:38hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Tension remains high in Zanu-PF
POLITICAL temperatures remain high in Zanu-PF as party bigwigs jostle to lead the former liberation movement's provincial structures.The polls for the influential positions will take place soon af...Published: 22 Nov 2020 at 19:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF finalises DCC vetting process
Zanu-PF has completed the vetting of candidates vying to contest in the District Coordinating Committee (DCC) elections in eight provinces, a process it launched as part of its due diligence.H...Published: 19 Nov 2020 at 21:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zinara boss suspended a year after court recommended his probe
TRANSPORT minister Joel Biggie Matiza took almost a year to suspend Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) board chairperson Michael Madanha after a Harare magistrate recommended he should be ...Published: 24 Sep 2020 at 07:33hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, Chiwenga fight turns nasty
A POWER struggle that has been simmering for months between President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his ambitious deputy, retired General Constantino Chiwenga, has intensified over the past two weeks, with f...Published: 18 Sep 2020 at 07:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Masiyiwa-Chamisa refuses to go
THE Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (Zinara) is losing thousands of dollars every month as it continues to pay a full salary and associated benefits to suspended chief executive officer, Mrs Na...Published: 30 Jul 2019 at 07:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Zinara senior, executive managers earn hefty salaries'
REVELATIONS that executive directors at the Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) earn $6 909,50, while senior management get between $3 721 and $4 523, with the lowest paid worker at the sam...Published: 23 Jul 2019 at 08:22hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zinara faces Parliament grilling over operations
PARLIAMENT will today question the Zimbabwe Nationals Road Administration (Zinara) over the state of affairs at the parastatal which has, of late, hogged news headlines because of corrupt practices....Published: 22 Jul 2019 at 08:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zinara finance director, deputy suspended
Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) finance director Simon Taranhike and his deputy Anyway Mudodo, who are under investigation on allegations of criminal abuse of office and attempts to con...Published: 28 Jun 2019 at 22:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zinara finance director arrested
ZIMBABWE National Road Administration (Zinara) finance director Simon Taranhike has been arrested on allegations of criminal abuse of office and attempts to conceal corruption. Sources close t...Published: 26 Jun 2019 at 06:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
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