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Protest at your own risk, says Zanu-PF
THE ruling Zanu-PF party yesterday said it would deal harshly with the planned protests against President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government on July 31, evoking memories of killings by the army of civili...Published: 10 hrs ago | 6299 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF to unleash supporters on July 31 protesters
ZANU-PF has threatened to unleash its own supporters to counter national anti-government protests planned for July 31 by the MDC Alliance and its opposition allies.Addressing the media soon af...Published: 10 hrs ago | 772 | by Staff reporter
Pan-Africanism and Anti-Imperialism should never be abused to justify corruption, tyranny, and brutality against one's own citiz
In all my 47 years of existence on this planet Earth, there has always been one thing that has always thoroughly vexed my intellect - as I have greatly struggled to fathom how something that appears s...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 15:42hrs | 927 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zanu-PF bigwigs linked to July 31 mass demos
IN A surprising development, expelled former Zanu-PF youth leader Godfrey Tsenengamu, pictured, has sensationally claimed that some ruling party bigwigs are involved in the organisation of the planned...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 15:30hrs | 9073 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe has always had a democracy deficit
DEMOCRACY is an embodiment of governance in which supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodic free ...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 07:16hrs | 459 | by Jonathan Chando
Tighter lockdown for Harare, Bulawayo
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's government has announced plans to tighten lockdown regulations for Harare and Bulawayo after infections spiked to 885 as of Wednesday, with local infections also rising....Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 07:04hrs | 4063 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo instigating mass uprising in Zimbabwe?
Zimbabwe's ruling Zanu-PF party on Monday accused exiled former minister Jonathan Moyo of agitating for "mass uprising" in the country and called for his extradition from Kenya.Zanu-PF secreta...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 06:58hrs | 3382 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Not Worried About the 31st July Demonstrations.
Protesters may organize a protest as a way of publicly making their opinions heard in an attempt to influence public opinion or government policy, or they may undertake direct action in an attempt to ...Published: 09 Jul 2020 at 17:37hrs | 2998 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Zimbabweans should refuse to be abused, and used as sacrificial lambs for a self-serving ruling elite opportunist clique
Whenever any government resorts to habitually and incessantly using the 'national interests' tag, then a wise nation should immediately know that their leaders have reached record lows in their parasi...Published: 09 Jul 2020 at 15:32hrs | 822 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Interview with ZPRA Instructor Thoriso Moyo
This week on the Big Interview, we have Toriso Moyo, a freedom fighter and military instructor with the Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (ZIPRA), a Mgagao attack survivor, and one of the fir...Published: 09 Jul 2020 at 15:20hrs | 2490 | by The Big Interview
Mnangagwa pampers soldiers, police
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has pampered soldiers and the police, giving them between $5 000 and $8 000 COVID-19 allowances which critics say are meant to appease them ahead of the planned July 31 pr...Published: 09 Jul 2020 at 07:26hrs | 20595 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF frets over planned protests
ZANU-PF says the planned July 31 protests presented a threat to its hegemony and accused the opposition MDC Alliance of leading an "unholy alliance" to remove President Emmerson Mnangagwa unconstituti...Published: 08 Jul 2020 at 18:00hrs | 873 | by Staff reporter
Nehanda's bones not yet risen - as she didn't die for White Rhodesia to be replaced by Black Rhodesia!
Yesterday, the 7th July 2020, I took time to watch the usual post-Cabinet media briefing, beamed live on state television - whereby, several government ministers update the nation on their deliberatio...Published: 08 Jul 2020 at 15:51hrs | 761 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
'Army fired Minister Obadiah Moyo'
Professor Jonathan Moyo has alleged that the Zimbabwe military was behind the expulsion of Minister of Health Obadiah Moyo.Moyo added that the Minister was fronting First Lady Auxilia Mn...Published: 08 Jul 2020 at 11:37hrs | 14546 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Panicking Zanu PF hunting 'detractors' to stop protests - then hunt all 34% living in abject poverty
"Our party detractors continue with their anti-establishment agendas. The party is aware of the plan for mass protests (on July 31) being organised by the MDC Alliance renegades: Tajamuka, the Front f...Published: 08 Jul 2020 at 07:23hrs | 2280 | by Nomusa Garikai
Mnagnagwa loyalists facing purges from Zanu-PF
FRESH fissures are emerging in the ruling Zanu-PF party with cadres seen as loyal to President Emmerson Mnangagwa under the Team Lacoste banner facing purges amid reports of a plot to reform the party...Published: 07 Jul 2020 at 18:07hrs | 5179 | by Staff reporter
The greatest threat to Zimbabwe's peace and security are not foreign entities, or their 'stooges', but it's ZANU PF itself!
Reading the media in Zimbabwe, even since the November 2017 military coup d'etat - which toppled long-time tyrant Robert Gabriel Mugabe, replacing him with his decades-long right-hand man and protĂ©gĂ...Published: 07 Jul 2020 at 14:46hrs | 2037 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
'Mnangagwa fails to honour promises'
ZIMBABWE is currently going through political and economic crises that have caused untold suffering to citizens. At the same time, factionalism appears to be devouring both the ruling Zanu-PF and oppo...Published: 06 Jul 2020 at 18:00hrs | 5750 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa says he is still in charge
OPPOSITION MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has assured his followers that he is still in charge of the main opposition political party in Zimbabwe, and dismissed what MDC-T leaders Thokozani Khupe,...Published: 06 Jul 2020 at 13:11hrs | 4885 | by Staff reporter
Who is in control of Zimbabwe's crashing economy?
LAST month, in an unprecedented Press conference, military generals said they didn't plan to topple President Emmerson Mnangagwa. Yet weeks later, security leaders sidelined his administration to forc...Published: 06 Jul 2020 at 13:08hrs | 2794 | by Bloomberg
Perence Shiri gives ZPRA property to ZANU PF
Minister of Lands, Agriculture, Water, and Rural Resettlement Hon. Air Chief Marshal P. Shiri (Rtd) has instructed ARDA's Acting Chairman J. Makado to transfer Nijo Estate comprising eight (8) propert...Published: 06 Jul 2020 at 11:46hrs | 5935 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'No bailout until implement reforms' says Paris Club - we're paying dearly for double Dutch
Zimbabwe is in this serious economic mess and political paralysis; having Zanu PF on the one hand and an equally corrupt, incompetent and utterly useless opposition on the other; because, for 40 years...Published: 06 Jul 2020 at 06:57hrs | 2577 | by Wilbert Mukori
Fake ZNA card lands bogus soldier in trouble
A bogus soldier was sold by his fake Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) which he produced at a roadblock in Guruve on Wednesday.Costa Taruvin...Published: 05 Jul 2020 at 21:16hrs | 2974 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Zimbabwean problems need a military solution
To solve problems brought by genocidists in a country, the route can never be through the popularly known ballot box but a military intervention, if indeed prosperity becomes the ultimate goal wanted ...Published: 05 Jul 2020 at 18:35hrs | 3454 | by Mthwakazi Liberation Front
Jostling for posts divides Khupe's party
INFIGHTING has erupted in the MDC-T led by Thokozani Khupe a few months after the faction found new life following a Supreme Court ruling that reinstated the former deputy prime minister as leader of ...Published: 05 Jul 2020 at 11:10hrs | 5859 | by Staff reporter
Donald Trump is an atheist and a blasphemer
DONALD Trump is a liar when he claims that his unbridled dictatorship owes its currency through God's appointment. Trump declared recently that he is the most powerful president of the United States b...Published: 05 Jul 2020 at 11:09hrs | 1099 | by Jonathan Maphenduka
'Chamisa's MDC deliberately tried to soil security forces'
The MDC ALLIANCE took issue with the security forces for failing to intervene when the MDC-T took over Harvest House and instead deliberately tried to sully the image of the uniformed forces by making...Published: 05 Jul 2020 at 11:05hrs | 782 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa wants to kill Jonathan Moyo?
EXILED former Higher Education minister Jonathan Moyo claims President Emmerson Mnangagwa tried to assassinate him and he has evidence to prove it.Moyo made the claims as he reacted to reports...Published: 05 Jul 2020 at 11:04hrs | 7097 | by Staff reporter
The Politics of Cyber Security: A State of Anarchy?
"Man is by nature a political animal" Aristotle.The realm of electronic communication, viz-a-viz cyberspace has taken a complex turn into a murky, treacherous, if sometimes not a total ridicul...Published: 03 Jul 2020 at 20:09hrs | 900 | by Bongani Mazwi Mkwananzi
Fresh cracks rock Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF
A STORM is brewing in Zanu-PF over the ruling party's newly-launched war veterans' wing - pitting many former freedom fighters against their national spokesperson Douglas Mahiya.This comes as ...Published: 03 Jul 2020 at 18:16hrs | 4430 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police in distress
THE officer commanding police in Harare yesterday appealed to Zimbabwe Republic Police commanders to provide transport and accommodation to junior officers who are facing eviction from their rented ac...Published: 03 Jul 2020 at 07:59hrs | 3189 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt splurges millions on ambassadors' new cars
THE cash-strapped Zimbabwe government has splurged millions to purchase top-of-the-range vehicles for nearly 50 ambassadors posted across the globe when the State is failing to pay agitated civil serv...Published: 03 Jul 2020 at 07:52hrs | 4031 | by newzimbabwe
The truth about coup rumours in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe is awash with speculation, innuendo and rumours of a coup following a statement against corrupt leaders by the army General during a burial of a national hero Nleya, with even left some...Published: 03 Jul 2020 at 07:06hrs | 3716 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Job Sikhala dares Muchinguri
OUTSPOKEN MDC Alliance deputy chairperson Job Sikhala, recently accused of spreading falsehoods on an impending coup to unseat President Emmerson Mnangagwa, has warned Defence Minister Oppah Muchingur...Published: 02 Jul 2020 at 18:32hrs | 2580 | by newzimbabwe
Racism storm hits Zimbabwe Pepsi maker
WORKERS at Varun Beverages Zimbabwe Limited (VBZL), producers of Pepsi drinks, yesterday downed tools alleging racism, human rights abuses and unfair labour practices at the company.The worker...Published: 02 Jul 2020 at 18:27hrs | 980 | by Staff reporter
Govt, workers face off over US$ salaries
ZIMBABWE'S public sector unions yesterday demanded that government pays their wages in United States dollars and threatened to go on strike, adding to the problems facing President Emmerson Mnangagwa'...Published: 02 Jul 2020 at 18:27hrs | 1155 | by Staff reporter
When the clueless and corrupt pray
A FEW days back President Emmerson Mnangagwa called for a day of prayer and repentance. The objective was to pray for the intervention of the Almighty in the global pandemic, the COVID-19. Mnangagwa h...Published: 02 Jul 2020 at 18:25hrs | 260 | by Shepherd Mpofu
So much lies and distortions in Zimbabwean history - the true story needs to finally be told
When renowned pan-Africanist Marcus Garvey famously said, "A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots", he had a very valid point, as indeed,...Published: 02 Jul 2020 at 14:27hrs | 1829 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
We need a transitional government: CSO
Pressure Group Ibhetshu Lika Zulu has called for a Transitional government as the economy is sinking at a very fast rate.The pressure group secretary Mbuso Fuzwayo said the only way forward fo...Published: 02 Jul 2020 at 09:08hrs | 2132 | by Stephen Jakes
A Win for Malawians ls A Win for Zimbabweans
Democracy has triumphed over in Malawi.The Courts proved they can deliver justice independently without external influence from those in power.In the end the Court declared a new election afte...Published: 02 Jul 2020 at 09:04hrs | 1039 | by A Kadada
Zanu PF blames 'illicit market' plus usual suspects minus MDC for growing instability - 'It is the economy, stupid'
"The politics are being shaped from the market, it is as if we are being told, if you won't have MDC-Alliance for an opposition then we will create an opposition for you through illicit market activit...Published: 01 Jul 2020 at 22:06hrs | 2266 | by Nomusa Garikai
Zimbabwe's political climate remains tense
WITH Zimbabwe's political situation remaining tense, the government is planning to introduce a new law which criminalises the spreading of falsehoods against key State institutions such as the militar...Published: 01 Jul 2020 at 17:54hrs | 1354 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa hunts for coup mongers
Defence Minister Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri says that government would soon be bringing a new Bill to clamp down on purveyors of falsehoods, which are harmful to the security of the country. Thi...Published: 01 Jul 2020 at 07:33hrs | 9990 | by Staff reporter
It's too risky for Mnangagwa to let soldiers go hungry
REPORTS that morale has hit rock bottom in the army make for sad and terrifying reading. Zimbabwe's worsening economic situation, coupled with a severe food crisis, hyperinflation and cash shortages p...Published: 01 Jul 2020 at 07:25hrs | 6089 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe security chefs fingered in mobile money suspension
Zimbabwe's security force leaders sidelined the nation's economic chiefs and forced the government to close the stock exchange and halt most mobile-money transactions, people familiar with the situati...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 22:44hrs | 5840 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe soldiers go hungry...criminal activities feared
Zimbabwean soldiers who were instrumental in effecting the November 2017 military coup are hungry and the government has been implored to step in and assist then to prevent the details from engaging i...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 14:27hrs | 5362 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chinese army begins Coronavirus vaccines
Chinese media has reported that the country’s military has approved a coronavirus vaccine for use for its soldiers. The said vaccine was created by the Chinese army research unit and a biote...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 12:03hrs | 3946 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'The army budgeted US$100 million for a coup'
The bloody military coup that ended the late President Robert Mugabe's 37 years of iron rule had a budget of US$100 million, exiled Professor Jonathan Moyo has revealed. Posting on social medi...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 11:55hrs | 10749 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe army's morale at rock bottom
DEFENCE minister Oppah Muchinguri sensationally told Parliament yesterday that morale among members of the Zimbabwe National Army had hit rock bot-tom as a result of the failing economy and that many ...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 08:23hrs | 12270 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe needs competent managers: APA
The Alliance for People's Agenda, led by Nkosana Moyo has said Zimbabwe is in serious need of competent managers amid concerns that President Emmerson Mnanaggwa's administration has failed to run the ...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 08:08hrs | 508 | by Stephen Jakes
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