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Mnangagwa salutes private sector
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday saluted the country's private sector which has risen to the occasion through the production of the majority of goods found in local supermarkets.This is testimony...Published: 11 Mar 2023 at 06:33hrs | 181 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's Ministers cornered over false promise to military
MEMBERS of Parliament on Wednesday cornered the acting leader of government business in the National Assembly, Felix Mhona, and deputy Finance minister Clemence Chiduwa over an unfulfilled promise mad...Published: 12 Feb 2023 at 11:13hrs | 1384 | by Staff reporter
War vets postpone congress
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has advised the Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association (ZNLWVA) to postpone its Congress until after the elections as the ex-combatants lead in the campaigns for bot...Published: 10 Feb 2023 at 05:38hrs | 346 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe army concludes major exercise
The Zimbabwe Defence Forces yesterday concluded its major field training exercise in northern Mashonaland Central showing it was committed to ensure peace, stability and security in the country....Published: 22 Oct 2022 at 05:40hrs | 297 | by Staff reporter
Broad reforms key for Mnangagwa ahead of US-Africa summit
ZIMBABWE'S invitation to attend the US-Africa summit in December can only reap through country a diplomatic dividend if President Emmerson Mnangagwa implements broad reforms to deepen democracy and pr...Published: 30 Sep 2022 at 20:57hrs | 734 | by Staff reporter
Musarara mourns Minister Kazembe's daughter
ZANU PF Mazowe District Coordinating Committee chairperson Tafadzwa Musarara has sent condolences to to Home Affairs Minister Kazembe Kazembe following the death of his daughter Charlene.Charl...Published: 23 Sep 2022 at 15:32hrs | 2624 | by Simbarashe Sithole in Mazowe
Muchinguri under fire over army company operations
DEFENCE minister Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri was on Wednesday cornered by independent Norton MP Temba Mliswa over the opaque investments and business dealings of army-owned company Rusununguko Nkululeko ...Published: 20 Aug 2022 at 17:06hrs | 3759 | by Staff reporter
Mphoko spills beans on murky US$6bn deal
Former vice-president Phelekezela Mphoko has revealed how the army seized Zimbabwe's biggest platinum reserves, saying he was threatened with dismissal by unnamed generals for questioning the deal whi...Published: 19 Jun 2022 at 10:10hrs | 8092 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe targeting key role in global electric car industry
ZIMBABWE is poised to become a key player in the global transition to green energy, not only through lithium mining, but its beneficiation that can empower local communities and develop the nation as ...Published: 18 Jun 2022 at 07:24hrs | 174 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa denounces violence
President Mnangagwa has castigated violent tendencies among Western-sponsored puppet political parties, saying the scourge retards economic development. To ensure the country continues on its ...Published: 18 Jun 2022 at 07:23hrs | 191 | by Staff reporter
Maj-Gen Bhebe declared a national hero
The late Major-General (Retired) Sydney Bhebe has been declared a national hero.President Mnangagwa made the announcement yesterday when he visited the Bhebe family home in Cranborne West, Har...Published: 16 Jun 2022 at 08:21hrs | 231 | by Staff reporter
Matutu promises to tear CCC in Masvingo
Former Masvingo urban Member of Parliament Tongai Matutu who defected to Zanu-PF after a fall out with then MDC Alliance party after he was disqualified from contesting the provincial chairmanship pos...Published: 15 Mar 2022 at 17:03hrs | 1863 | by Staff reporter
Zivhu's rebound: is Chiwenga gaining more ground?
NGUNDU-Controversial businessperson and former Chivi South Zanu-PF legislator, Killer Zivhu who was shown an exit door by the party's highest disciplinary body, the National Disciplinary Committee (ND...Published: 26 Feb 2022 at 18:15hrs | 360 | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi was Mugabe's plot to consolidate power
GUKURAHUNDI was never a result of tribal differences but the quest to consolidate power through annihilating opponents by the then Prime Minister Robert Mugabe's administration, a top civil society ac...Published: 01 Feb 2022 at 05:26hrs | 300 | by Staff reporter
SB Moyo was never a coward, says Mnangagwa
THE success the country is making in the re-engagement drive with the international community is as a result of the foundation laid by sacrifices and dedication to service that was exhibited by the la...Published: 05 Dec 2021 at 06:12hrs | 35 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga mourns Khaya Moyo
Tributes continued to pour in for Simon Khaya Moyo yesterday, who succumbed to cancer on Sunday at a Bulawayo hospital, with Vice President and Minister of Health and Child Care Dr Constantino Chiweng...Published: 17 Nov 2021 at 05:14hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
$8 billion target for Intwasa programme
HEAVY rains that fell in Gokwe North District from Wednesday night till yesterday morning brought relief to villagers after days of high temperatures.And that relief turned into celebration wh...Published: 12 Nov 2021 at 05:33hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Transfer of health workers starts
Cabinet received an update on the country's response to the Covid-19 outbreak, which was presented by the Minister of Defence and War Veterans Affairs, Honourable OCZ Muchinguri-Kashiri, as chairperso...Published: 29 Sep 2021 at 06:37hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa arrives for grand Fair
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa arrived yesterday in Bulawayo ahead of today's official opening of the 61st edition of the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair (ZITF). The President, who was accompanied by M...Published: 23 Sep 2021 at 06:19hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
War vets expose Zanu-PF terror campaign
DISGRUNTLED veterans of the 1970s liberation war yesterday accused President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his government of neglecting them, in a development signalling deepening ructions in Zanu-PF....Published: 31 Aug 2021 at 06:16hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa has betrayed us'
DISGRUNTLED liberation war veterans have drawn daggers against President Emerson Mnangagwa accusing him of betraying them.The easily irritable former freedom fighters say by failing to give th...Published: 31 Aug 2021 at 06:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora appoints shadow Cabinet
The MDC-T has appointed a 26-member shadow Cabinet to monitor the performance of sitting Cabinet ministers. Some of the notable figures appointed are Senator Morgen Komichi appointed as the sh...Published: 19 Aug 2021 at 16:43hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Zezuru hardliners blocked Mnangagwa from becoming Defence minister
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's previous ambition of becoming the country's Defence minister was blocked by the ethnically driven politics of hawkish Zezuru stalwarts in the ruling Zanu-PF, a new book ...Published: 14 Aug 2021 at 18:38hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Defence Forces here to serve, says Gen PV Sibanda
THE Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) are not only there to fight wars, but also uplift the lives of ordinary people through assisting Government in tackling emerging challenges such as Covid-19. ...Published: 11 Aug 2021 at 06:30hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Tribalism, regionalism cited in conferment of Zimbabwe National hero status
NATIONAL Assembly members Wednesday gave Home Affairs Minister Kazembe Kazembe a torrid time asking him to explain the criteria used by the government in determining who befits the national hero statu...Published: 30 Jul 2021 at 07:49hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF, army conflation under spotlight
THE Zanu-PF-military conflation came under spotlight last Thursday when opposition senators grilled Defence minister Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri over the ruling party's abuse of the army to retain politi...Published: 26 Jul 2021 at 06:49hrs | 24 | by Staff reporter
Govt to increase hospital beds capacity for Covid-19 patients
The Ministry of Health and Child Care is set to increase the bedding capacity at hospitals in Bulawayo and Harare in response to an increase in Covid-19 patients in need of hospitalisation.The...Published: 21 Jul 2021 at 18:52hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa in army boss appointment clash with Chiwenga
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa and Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga are on a new collision course over the appointment of the next Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) commander, with retired Lieutenant-Gene...Published: 20 Jul 2021 at 11:17hrs | 48 | by Staff reporter
South African minister of Defence refuses to deployed army in KZN
Minister of Defence and Military Veterans Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula says the army will not be deployed in KwaZulu-Natal because there is no war in the province.She says her department will only ...Published: 11 Jul 2021 at 13:11hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe removes Sadc visa requirement
Zimbabwe has become the first country to exempt all SADC Member States from visa requirements, taking the lead in the region as part of accelerated efforts to operationalise the African Continental Fr...Published: 08 Jul 2021 at 11:12hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Lockdown enforcement tightens
While preparations continue for a safe reopening of schools, Government wants to see full enforcement and compliance of the enhanced Level 4 lockdown put in place last month and last week and is fundi...Published: 07 Jul 2021 at 10:57hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Zambia President Edgar Lungu collapses
Zambia President Edgar Lungu collapsed on Sunday, June 13, 2021, during a Defence Force Day event over "dizziness", the government has said.The President was forced to cut short his presence a...Published: 14 Jun 2021 at 06:16hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Mudenda scolds Ministers for dodging Parliament
SPEAKER Jacob Mudenda says the continued failure by ministers and their deputies to come to parliament has greatly affected proceedings in the august house as MPs have been denied the opportunity to r...Published: 12 Jun 2021 at 07:47hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Holiday lessons at schools banned
Holiday lessons at schools banned Information Publicity and Broadcasting Services Minister Senator Monica Mutsvangwa addresses a post-Cabinet media briefing in Harare yesterday while Chief Secretary t...Published: 09 Jun 2021 at 07:09hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Introducing the First Cabinet of the Federal Republic of Mthwakazi
Greetings to all! As I extend my cordial greetings to all our people, the people of Mthwakazi in their diversity comprising eight different linguistic communities, located in the 14 Districts ...Published: 06 Jun 2021 at 13:43hrs | 42 | by Dr Churchill Mpiyesizwe Guduza
Matemadanda speaks on new appointment
OUTGOING Zanu-PF national Political Commissar, Victor Matemadanda who was appointed as ambassador designate to Mozambique commended President Mnangagwa for re-assigning him to a diplomatic mission and...Published: 04 Jun 2021 at 06:59hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
'Sanctions have made Zimbabweans bolder'
BUSINESS and Zimbabwe at large should forget about baneful sanctions that were imposed by Western countries on the country and focus on local resources through value addition and increasing exports, P...Published: 20 May 2021 at 06:01hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter
China donates more vaccines to Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe has taken delivery of 100 000 more doses of the Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine from China donated to the Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) by their counterparts the People's Liberation Army (PLA)....Published: 17 May 2021 at 18:36hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Fraudster implicates Oppah Muchinguri
The Criminal Investigations Department (CID) Mvurwi allegedly fired shots and arrested four fraudsters who were fleecing Tobacco farmers in Mvurwi on Thur...Published: 15 May 2021 at 20:01hrs | 21 | by Paul Ndou
Mnangagwa to officially open country's first free orthopaedic hospital in Bulawayo
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa is today set to officially open the country's first free orthopaedic hospital, Cure Children's Hospital and a Covid-19 designated treatment and isolation centre at the United Bulaw...Published: 14 May 2021 at 07:07hrs | 25 | by Staff Reporter
Air Force of Zimbabwe hands over property to chopper crash victims
The Air Force of Zimbabwe (AFZ) yesterday handed over household property worth thousands of dollars to the Fenyere family, whose house was razed to the ground by flames when the Agusta Bell 412 (AB 41...Published: 08 May 2021 at 08:00hrs | 12 | 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 | 65 | by Inhokomo Yesizwe SikaMthwakazi
An open letter to Victor Matemadanda
Dear Mr Matemadanda, Hope this letter find you in good health wherever you are and I believe you are enjoying every minute of your heartbeat.I really know that you are a real war veter...Published: 28 Mar 2021 at 13:07hrs | 19 | by Leonard Koni
Oppah Muchinguri divorced?
Male politicians in Zimbabwe are measured and judged by their love affairs. Morgan Tsvangirai was questioned on his love for women and hoping from one relationship to the next. Robert Mugabe was quest...Published: 26 Mar 2021 at 12:04hrs | 81 | by John Chibuwa
Matemadanda demoted?
Zanu PF has relieved Victor Matemadanda from the political commissar post over incompetence and his verbal diarrhoea remarks on the decimation of the opposition MDC Alliance.Sources said Matem...Published: 26 Mar 2021 at 09:38hrs | 13 | by Shelton Muchena/Simbarashe Sithole
Amnesty to decongest prisons
Cabinet received an update on the Covid-19 Outbreak, which was presented by the Minister of Defence and War Veterans Affairs as chairman of the Inter-Ministerial Task Force on the Covid-19 Outbreak. ...Published: 17 Mar 2021 at 06:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Matemadanda graduates with an MBA
Deputy Minister of Defence and War Veterans Affairs, who is also Zanu-PF national political commissar, Victor Matemadanda, graduated with a Masters Degree in Business Administration and Strategic Mana...Published: 15 Mar 2021 at 05:00hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter
Victor Matemadanda defies all odds graduates with fanfare
Cde Victor Matemadanda the deputy minister of Defence and War Veterans Affairs and the National Political Commissar of ZANU Pf graduated with a master of Business Administration with a minor in Strate...Published: 12 Mar 2021 at 13:46hrs | 18 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Dates for schools re-opening
SCHOOLS will re-open for the 2021 calendar on a phased approach with examination classes commencing on March 15 while the rest of learners will resume classes on March 22. Teachers for examina...Published: 03 Mar 2021 at 06:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
What kind of beast is devouring Chiwenga's generals?
"Covid -19 complications", is the cause of the death of army generals. At least that is what we are told by the government of Zimbabwe and the state media.Zimbabwe must be having a new covid- ...Published: 17 Feb 2021 at 08:35hrs | 14 | by Israel Dube
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