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Hands off Grace, says the Mugabes
THE late former President Mugabe's family yesterday rubbished moves by a Zvimba traditional leader to summon former First Lady Grace Mugabe to appear before his traditional court on a charge of "impro...Published: 10 hrs ago | 5003 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa should embrace reform demands
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa should embrace reform demands made by citizens and not rush to dismiss them at face value.If Mnangagwa were to take a cursory look at opposition parties and civic ...Published: 10 hrs ago | 213 | by Ndabanengi
Grace Mugabe petitioned over 'courtyard' burial of Robert
A Zimbabwean chief has summoned former First Lady Grace Mugabe to appear before a village court to answer charges of "inappropriately" burying the country's late former president, Robert Mugabe, at th...Published: 12 May 2021 at 10:46hrs | 3723 | by Staff reporter
Madhuku says Zimbabwe's proposed Patriotic Bill is dangerous
Zimbabwe is planning to introduce a law to punish people who are deemed "unpatriotic" because they criticise the country when abroad - and it has left activists feeling nervous.Constitutional ...Published: 12 May 2021 at 10:44hrs | 2283 | by Staff reporter
Crisis Coalition blasts Mnangagwa's spin doctor
CRISIS in Zimbabwe Coalition (CiZC) has vowed to continue with its pursuit for a democratic society in the wake of continued intimidation by some top government officials irked by the NGO grouping's w...Published: 12 May 2021 at 10:33hrs | 1502 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's plan to outlaw 'unpatriotic acts'
Zimbabwe is planning to introduce a law to punish people who are deemed "unpatriotic" because they criticise the country when abroad - and it has left activists feeling nervous.Constitutional ...Published: 12 May 2021 at 08:28hrs | 1466 | by BBC
Portugal to send troops to its Mozambican colony
Portugal will send a further 60 troops to Mozambique as part of a new cooperation agreement aimed at helping the country tackle an Islamic State-linked insurgency in its north, Portugal's defence mini...Published: 11 May 2021 at 06:33hrs | 1147 | by Staff reporter
People must resist dictatorship
This economic, social-political collapse and crisis in Zimbabwe is a result of poor governance. It has now affected nearly three-quarters of the country pushing others to leave the country en masse to...Published: 09 May 2021 at 09:13hrs | 976 | by Leonard Koni
Zanu-PF youths gun for party bigwigs
Zanu-PF youths in Manicaland province are plotting to invade farms belonging to the ruling party's secretary for finance Patrick Chinamasa and former secretary for administration Didymus Mutasa, it ha...Published: 09 May 2021 at 08:18hrs | 2076 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe days are back
President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Friday predictably signed into law the controversial Constitutional Amendment No 2 Bill, which makes him an all-powerful president.Clearly, Mnangagwa could not ...Published: 09 May 2021 at 08:17hrs | 1145 | by Staff reporter
Biti vows 'a floodgate to protect constitution' - excuse for participating in yet another flawed election
There are many reasons why Zimbabwe is in this serious economic and political mess and many of them dovetail to the nation's inability and/or disrespect for truth, facts and reality; especially the co...Published: 09 May 2021 at 07:59hrs | 297 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Do you need a college degree to become a mercenary? The surprising answer...
If you always had boyhood dreams of becoming a mercenary, or the more formal term of private military contractor, you may have the misconception that all you need is a large machine gun and some kille...Published: 08 May 2021 at 21:16hrs | 765 | by Staff writer
Lawyers dig in to fight Mnangagwa
AS the government moved today to gazette controversial constitutional amendments to help President Emmerson Mnangagwa consolidate power as part of his 2023 re-election bid, agitated lawyers are diggin...Published: 08 May 2021 at 08:54hrs | 2891 | by Staff reporter
Chief Justice Malaba's tenure set to be extended next week
CHIEF Justice Luke Malaba is on course to remaining in office beyond 15 May (next Saturday) when his tenure ends by operation of law following the passing of the Constitution of Zimbabwe Amendment (No...Published: 08 May 2021 at 08:54hrs | 1166 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora is Mnangagwa's trusted tool?
FOR President Emmerson Mnangagwa's power consolidation and 2023 presidential election bid to succeed, he desperately needs MDC-T leader Douglas Mwonzora to be on his side since Zanu-PF no longer comma...Published: 08 May 2021 at 08:53hrs | 1384 | by Staff reporter
'Zanu PF Amendments will lead another coup d'état' - some Professor, doesn't even know what led to 2017 coup
For a University graduate much more a University Professor of a highly acclaimed institution like University of Oxford, UK; one would expect Arthur Mutambara to have common sense and thus say somethin...Published: 08 May 2021 at 08:23hrs | 834 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Airstrip rehabilitation to boost Binga tourism
GOVERNMENT has started rehabilitating Binga airstrip and others countrywide, a move aimed at improving accessibility, especially in tourism areas so that they contribute to the national economy. ...Published: 08 May 2021 at 08:03hrs | 190 | by Staff reporter
Town Clerk wants to be called Retired Major
AN error by the Bulawayo City Council recorders has revealed disagreements between Town Clerk Mr Christopher Dube and councillors on his request to be referred to as a Retired Major. It has em...Published: 08 May 2021 at 08:03hrs | 544 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa's new law will lead to another coup in Zimbabwe'
FORMER Deputy Prime Minister in the now-defunct inclusive government, Arthur Mutambara has predicted the Constitutional Amendment Bill No.2, recently endorsed by lawmakers, will lead to another coup i...Published: 07 May 2021 at 06:24hrs | 2128 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa is a lousy politician and communicator'
Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa who came to power in November 2017 has done a good job in transforming the country's economy in the past three-and-a-half years but the world does not know this b...Published: 06 May 2021 at 10:00hrs | 3915 | by Staff reporter
My charges aren't clear, says Mupfumira
THE trial of former Labour minister Priscah Mupfumira on criminal abuse of office charges resumed yesterday where she claimed that her charge sheet did not specify the duties she allegedly abused....Published: 06 May 2021 at 05:45hrs | 1143 | by Staff reporter
11 Mwonzora senators vote with Zanu-PF
Zimbabwe's Senate approved a constitutional amendment bill on Tuesday removing a clause in the constitution on electing vice presidents, a move which the opposition says is intended by President Emmer...Published: 04 May 2021 at 21:40hrs | 2293 | by Staff reporter
Constitutional Amendment to give Mnangagwa Mugabe-era powers
Three years after sweeping into power through a military coup and promising a new and unfolding democracy, Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa is now being compared to his authoritarian predecesso...Published: 04 May 2021 at 08:00hrs | 1277 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF afraid of Nelson Chamisa
When President Emmerson Mnangagwa grabbed power with the assistance of the military in November 2017, a lot of people were willing to work with him to improve the country's battered image but unfortun...Published: 03 May 2021 at 13:48hrs | 2361 | by Leonard Koni
Mnangagwa's mansion construction stalls
This means taxpayers' funds have been wasted on a property that Mnangagwa may no longer be keen on living in. The hideous property was being built as part of his state package. Usually the President a...Published: 03 May 2021 at 07:34hrs | 7630 | by Staff reporter
2008 terror leader dies
ZAKA residents say they are not sorry about the recent death of a Zimbabwe National Army colonel, Christopher Rufu Mayoyo, who led a murderous terror campaign against opposition supporters in the dist...Published: 03 May 2021 at 07:32hrs | 5684 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF chef in hot soup over army brutality remarks
MIDLANDS senator Maybe Mbohwa, who is also a senior Zanu PF official and women's league commissar, is in soup after she exposed cases of army brutality for which she will likely be dragged before the ...Published: 03 May 2021 at 06:27hrs | 2660 | by Staff reporter
Pay workers in US dollar, says Chamisa
MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday said employers must pay their workers in United States dollars, saying they deserve a decent wage.In a message to commemorate Workers Day, Chamisa ...Published: 02 May 2021 at 08:58hrs | 774 | by Staff Reporter
Fresh war erupts over Mugabe remains
A fresh war has erupted over the burial of the late president Robert Mugabe with a Zvimba villager dragging the erstwhile strongman's widow Grace to a traditional court over the matter.M...Published: 02 May 2021 at 08:52hrs | 3655 | by Simbarashe Sithole in Dotito
Zanu-PF escalates its 2023 campaign
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is scheduled to launch a fine-tuned new indigenisation and empowerment policy in Bulawayo today, as Zanu-PF escalates its campaigns for the 2023 national elections. ...Published: 01 May 2021 at 20:17hrs | 539 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans blamed for SA xenophobic attacks
ZAMBIAN opposition United Party for National Development (UPND) leader Hakainde Hichilema has blamed Zimbabweans for xenophobic attacks suffered by some of their less fortunate compatriots in neighbou...Published: 01 May 2021 at 20:15hrs | 923 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa 'gives up' on sanctions fight
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa appears to have given up on the fight for the removal of West-imposed sanctions and is shifting focus to internal sources of finance for key government projects. T...Published: 01 May 2021 at 08:48hrs | 2875 | by Staff reporter
Government must expeditiously engage ZIST
Zimbabwe has for a very long time been experiencing boorish governance which led to unprecedented economic abyss coupled with gross violation of human rights and other ignoble injustices manufactured ...Published: 30 Apr 2021 at 19:31hrs | 217 | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
Third part soars cost of Mnangagwa copter
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa cancelled a deal by his late predecessor Robert Mugabe to acquire a presidential helicopter from Russia opting for an Airbusmade superjet in a deal involving a third party...Published: 30 Apr 2021 at 07:29hrs | 4329 | by Staff reporter
Battle for Zimbabwe's rural votes kicks off
THE opposition is making a determined push for rural votes ahead of the fast approaching 2023 harmonised elections - triggering an atypical but titanic turf war with Zanu-PF which has always dominated...Published: 30 Apr 2021 at 07:25hrs | 1926 | by Staff reporter
Ziyambi accuses MDC-T senator of tribalism
JUSTICE minister Ziyambi Ziyambi has accused MDC-T senator Khalipani Phugeni of being a tribalist for alleging that President Emmerson Mnangagwa was marginalising the Matabeleland region by not appoin...Published: 30 Apr 2021 at 06:48hrs | 1562 | by Staff reporter
Tribalism row erupts in Senate over vacant vice president position
Justice Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi accused a Senator of being a tribalist on Tuesday for claiming that President Emmerson Mnangagwa was marginalising Matabeleland and women by failing to appoint a new v...Published: 29 Apr 2021 at 08:40hrs | 6890 | by Staff reporter
Kembo Mohadi removal was necessary for 'nation building'
Since Kembo Mohadi is on record saying Matabeleland genocide was necessary for nation-building, we also put it on record that his sacking by Mnangagwa following his sexual romps was good for nation bu...Published: 29 Apr 2021 at 08:12hrs | 2277 | by Israel Dube
Vote overwhelmingly to counter rigging
The 2023 election is going to be the most interesting do or die battle for both the main two political rival parties Zanu PF and MDC-Alliance who are playing their cards right on their chests....Published: 28 Apr 2021 at 15:34hrs | 1132 | by Leonard Koni
Funeral parade for copter crash victims
A funeral parade to honour two pilots and a technician who died in a helicopter crash in Goromonzi last week will be held by the Air Force of Zimbabwe (AFZ) on Friday. The pilots are Wing Comm...Published: 27 Apr 2021 at 07:57hrs | 656 | by Staff reporter
US told that 'Democracy is not Coca-Cola' by China
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi has urged Washington to abandon its ideological approach to foreign policy, arguing that it is wrong of the US to try to model the rest of the world in its own image S...Published: 27 Apr 2021 at 07:57hrs | 612 | by Staff reporter
'What good is strong party in fraying economy' - for once, Heads, povo win Tails, Zanu PF lose
Much has been said about the endless factional wars in the country's main opposition MDC ever since the party's launch in 1999. Zanu PF has suffered similar factional war with the booting out of the V...Published: 27 Apr 2021 at 06:21hrs | 551 | by Nomusa Garikai
Mnangagwa woos G40, Gamatox
POLITICAL analysts have warned that the closing of ranks by Zanu-PF factions spells even greater danger for the country's brawling opposition ahead of the 2023 national elections.The fresh war...Published: 26 Apr 2021 at 20:39hrs | 2476 | by Staff reporter
'I've defeated my opponents in polls before,' says Mwonzora
MDC leader Douglas Mwonzora has described the fact that his opposition rivals continue to underestimate him politically as "the best position" for him to be in.Speaking to the Daily News On Su...Published: 26 Apr 2021 at 20:38hrs | 1549 | by Staff reporter
Rights Forum raises alarm as cases of arrests, torture rise
A LEADING human rights organisation, the Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum, has raised strong concerns over the continuing rise in violations especially arbitrary arrests and torture mainly of oppositio...Published: 26 Apr 2021 at 06:31hrs | 214 | by Staff reporter
Constitution: Mnangagwa power play 'a great betrayal of people'
President Emmerson Mnangagwa is repeating mistakes made by his predecessor Robert Mugabe by seeking to amend the constitution to entrench his rule, political analysts have warned.Mnangagwa and...Published: 25 Apr 2021 at 08:12hrs | 1065 | by Staff reporter
Board of inquiry for helicopter crash
GOVERNMENT has set up a board of inquiry to investigate the cause of Friday's helicopter crash which killed two Air Force of Zimbabwe (AFZ) pilots and a flight technician in Goromonzi, Mashonaland Eas...Published: 25 Apr 2021 at 07:18hrs | 471 | by Staff reporter
Air Force of Zimbabwe mourns the death of helicopter accident victims
The Air Force of Zimbabwe (AFZ) is in mourning after the horrific accident that claimed the lives of two pilots and an aircraft technician.The pilots who perished are Wing Commander Thomas Tin...Published: 25 Apr 2021 at 07:17hrs | 184 | by Staff reporter
National Youth Service (Zimbabwe) a disservice!
The re-establishment of the National Youth Service in Zimbabwe is uncalled for and an unnecessary disservice. It is totally against ubuntu and the rule of law. The youth militia, infamously known as t...Published: 24 Apr 2021 at 09:24hrs | 915 | by Inhokomo Yesizwe SikaMthwakazi
Mnangagwa mourns AFZ officers, child killed in chopper crash
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has send condolence messages to the families of two Air Force of Zimbabwe (AFZ) pilots, a technician, and a child who died after a helicopter crashed in Chinyika, Goromonz...Published: 24 Apr 2021 at 07:17hrs | 2020 | by Staff reporter
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