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Inside the fight over Robert Mugabe's body
Former president Robert Mugabe's family was told that they risked losing his Harare mansion and other Harare properties if they did not accede to government's demands that the long-time ruler should b...Published: 15 Sep 2019 at 07:59hrs | 2108 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe funeral programme shifts to Zvimba
Former President Robert Mugabe's body is today expected to be taken to Zvimba, to afford people in his home area of Mashonaland West province a chance to bid farewell to the late Statesman.The...Published: 15 Sep 2019 at 07:40hrs | 614 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to hold mock Heroes Acre burial for Mugabe on Sunday?
A mock burial will be conducted for former President Robert Mugabe at the National Heroes Acre in Harare on Sunday – but his actual burial will not be held for several days after, his nephew and fam...Published: 13 Sep 2019 at 14:48hrs | 10947 | by ZimLive
Mugabe, Tsvangirai died miles away from Zimbabwe's dilapidated death traps
THE death of former president Robert Mugabe - some 8 260 kilometres away from home in far-flung Singapore - is a terrible indictment on his legacy and the state of the country's healthcare institution...Published: 13 Sep 2019 at 07:39hrs | 481 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe: A peerless, malevolent fearmonger
AS a young lad, my late grandmother would occasionally ship me to her rural home in Nkayi, where, for the first time, I came face to face with the late former President Robert Mugabe's handiwork....Published: 12 Sep 2019 at 21:01hrs | 199 | by Nqaba Matshazi
Teachers declare incapacitation as schools open
TEACHERS have indicated they will not be able to resume work when schools open for the third term today citing incapacitation due to erosion of their salaries and the recently advanced cost of adjustm...Published: 10 Sep 2019 at 21:48hrs | 440 | by Staff reporter
Genocidal Dictator Mugabe Dies at 95
The world and our organization, the 1893 Mthwakazi Human Rights Restoration Movement (1893 MHRRM), woke up to the news that Robert Gabriel Mugabe, the former President of Zimbabwe, who ruled Zimbabwe ...Published: 06 Sep 2019 at 16:58hrs | 2672 | by Thembani Dube, 1893 MHRRM Secretary for Information and Publicity
Deputy minister's remarks frightening
I was expecting people like Dr Masimba Mavaza to come out guns blazing to condemn the remarks by Deputy Minister Energy Mutodi that alleged that Zimbabwe accommodated South Africans and allowed them t...Published: 04 Sep 2019 at 09:03hrs | 1788 | by Lizwe Dube
A history of abductions, assassinations in Zimbabwe
October 15, 1975: Edson Sithole and his secretary Miriam Mhlanga were grabbed by unknown assailants, bundled into a car and were never seen again. A few weeks earlier, Sithole had fallen out with othe...Published: 01 Sep 2019 at 15:04hrs | 1472 | by Staff reporter
Will Zimbabwe's current Esap II work?
In the weeks leading up to the poorly kept secret of his impeding appointment as Minister of Finance, Mthuli Ncube campaigned hard for the position, coming out of a long diasporan silence to write art...Published: 30 Aug 2019 at 08:36hrs | 977 | by Makunike
Mnangagwa must beware of people power
Zimbabweans notice with sadness the blatant violent violation of their constitutional right to peacefully demonstrate against a government that has totally failed to manage their affairs.On Au...Published: 30 Aug 2019 at 08:34hrs | 1532 | by Zanda Shumba
'ZCTU will protest until Mnangagwa listens'
THE Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) says the country was now in a humanitarian crisis and accused government of ignoring the plight of workers and of downplaying the impact of its austerity m...Published: 26 Aug 2019 at 07:04hrs | 1383 | by Staff reporter
The Christian attack against the native family and The Native Religion Beyond Jerusalem! Rome and London
"I have travelled across the length and breath of africa and I have not seen one person who is a beggar, who is a thief such wealth I have seen in this country such high moral values, people of ...Published: 25 Aug 2019 at 22:36hrs | 741 | by Reginald Thabani Gola
The Chief can do no wrong
In Nguni "inkosi ayoni" the Chief can do no wrong. This is derived from the concept that all decisions made by the Chief represent the collective wisdom and aspirations of his people. Unlike a Judge t...Published: 25 Aug 2019 at 09:07hrs | 1861 | by L Dube
Police crush teachers' demo
POLICE yesterday ruthlessly crushed a demonstration organised by the Amalgamated Rural Teachers' Union of Zimbabwe (Artuz) at Finance minister Mthuli Ncube's offices and arrested the union's eight top...Published: 24 Aug 2019 at 09:15hrs | 721 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's government: The mask has slipped
In April last year, on these pages, I expressed concern at President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his government's obvious fascination with Rwanda and China.On the face of it, it seemed as if Mnanga...Published: 22 Aug 2019 at 07:45hrs | 899 | by Nqaba Matshazi
Chief Ndiweni's dilemma: A balanced analysis
The obfuscation of issues seems to have reached unprecedented levels and it is therefore necessary for sober voices and sound arguments to be part of the national discourse to preclude the noise from ...Published: 21 Aug 2019 at 08:46hrs | 4758 | by L Dube
Zimbabweans too domesticated, but Mnangagwa beware, people will come for you
Zimbabweans notice with deep sadness the blatant violent violation of their constitutional right to peacefully demonstrate against a government that has totally failed to manage their affairs. On the ...Published: 20 Aug 2019 at 15:27hrs | 1677 | by Zanda Shumba
Protests a form of feedback
Zimbabweans have noted with sadness the blatant violation of their constitutional right to peacefully demonstrate against a government that has totally failed to manage their affairs. On August 16, th...Published: 20 Aug 2019 at 15:15hrs | 410 | by Zanda Shumba
Mnangagwa beware, people will come for you
Zimbabweans notice with deep sadness the blatant violent violation of their constitutional right to peacefully demonstrate against a government that has totally failed to manage their affairs. On the ...Published: 20 Aug 2019 at 09:09hrs | 12787 | by Zanda Shumba
An open letter to Magistrate Gladmore Mushove
It is our belief that you sit in court to deliver true justice to all who place themselves above the law, without you being influenced by any one in which-soever way or on tribal lines. Therefore magi...Published: 19 Aug 2019 at 17:23hrs | 4296 | by MLF
Chief Ndiweni's incarceration is political
Today Bulawayo Magistrate courts found Chief Khayisa guilty and was immediately sent to prison pending judgement tomorrow.This happens on the eve of the opposition's scheduled demo which Chief...Published: 16 Aug 2019 at 15:40hrs | 658 | by Mbonisi Solomon Gumbo
Chiyangwa mocks Zifa ban
FORMER ZIFA president Philip Chiyangwa says the life ban imposed on him by the new association's leadership "is a joke," which will be dismissed by those who make pronouncements that matter in this ga...Published: 16 Aug 2019 at 07:37hrs | 270 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF 'primitive bakery' projects mocked
Zanu-PF's promotion of wood-powered kiln ovens to make bread has been described as "primitive and unsustainable".The project was commissioned in Harare recently before the concept was taken to...Published: 10 Aug 2019 at 11:38hrs | 730 | by Staff reporter
Zapu plots mock govt in exile
LATE national hero, Dumiso Dabengwa's party, Zapu says it is planning to set up shadow government structures in exile whose main purpose shall be to push for the formation of a national transitional a...Published: 05 Aug 2019 at 07:42hrs | 938 | by newzimbabwe
War veterans want to be paid like Lt-Colonels
War veterans in Mashonaland East on Wednesday demanded that their pension benefits be raised to match salaries of serving army lieutenant-colonels.Speaking during a public meeting by the Calis...Published: 02 Aug 2019 at 07:56hrs | 810 | by Staff reporter
Teachers make new threats
TEACHERS have vowed not to return to work at the beginning of this year's third term if government fails to review their current salaries to match a purchasing value of US$550 before government abando...Published: 01 Aug 2019 at 21:56hrs | 2590 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa, Mnangagwa fans fighting for Boris Johnson's love - 'The Boris is mine'
Boris Johnson, mocker of African "piccaninny" children and their "watermelon smiles", became Prime Minister of Britain on Wednesday. On hearing the news, supporters of two political parties in an Afri...Published: 31 Jul 2019 at 19:34hrs | 6684 | by newZWire
'We reiterate, Chamisa is winner of 2018 elections' - not just obdurate but obstructive stupidity
"It is now a year since Zimbabweans voted in the last harmonized elections on 30th July 2018," read the MDC statement."We reiterate that the results of the Presidential election as announced b...Published: 31 Jul 2019 at 19:21hrs | 4141 | by Nomusa Garikai
Does Bona Mugabe's censorship board still exist?
The last time the nation heard of a Censorship board was when Ignatius Chombo was the Minister of Home Affairs. Then Home Affairs Minister Ignatius Chombo announced a new Board of Censors that...Published: 29 Jul 2019 at 11:58hrs | 8258 | by Nicholas Ncube
Why marrying a single mother is the right thing to do
DID you know that the Ndebele name "imvana'' was originally a mocking name? When a man marries a woman who already has a child, the man's friends would mock him and say "wadonsa ugatsha lamahlamvu alo...Published: 28 Jul 2019 at 09:56hrs | 1857 | by Nobuhle Virgie Ajiti
How Jonathan Moyo survived Chiwenga's killers
Professor Jonathan Moyo's escape story from the then Commander Defense Forces Constantino Chiwenga's killers in November 2017 is a candidate for a Hollywood script. While Prof Moyo is ye...Published: 24 Jul 2019 at 12:56hrs | 11369 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Teachers appeal for wages above poverty line
TEACHERS unions, represented by the Zimbabwe Teachers' Union (Zimta) and the Progressive Teachers' Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ), yesterday demanded that government pays salaries above the poverty datum li...Published: 23 Jul 2019 at 13:56hrs | 1438 | by Staff reporter
Kambarami: A limping goat with one horn on its forehead!
The uncanny and hellish school boy behaviour by one Tinashe Kambarami of unknown origin, who by the devil's design, strangely found himself being the self-proclaimed godfather of Bulawayo, is exceedin...Published: 17 Jul 2019 at 00:31hrs | 4503 | by Muntukaziwa
Kambarami: A pig in royal robes still finds amusement in mud
The Tinashe Kambarami cabal's crass exhibition of foolishness unmasks the failure of the MDC to run urban councils. The exalted office of councillorship has been defiled by the repugnant behaviour of ...Published: 16 Jul 2019 at 07:37hrs | 1733 | by Ndabazabantu Sondokhulu
Chamisa and allies: Don't start wars that you can't finish
To hide a lie, a thousand lies are needed.The main opposition MDC was caught totally off-guard when one of their own, the talkative Job Sikhala, revealed the party worst-kept secret: That they...Published: 13 Jul 2019 at 08:20hrs | 6251 | by Conway Tutani
Job Sikhala must stop behaving like a teaser bull
MDC-Alliance deputy national chairperson Job Sikhala, who has been arraigned before the courts on allegations of subverting a constitutionally-elected Government, is indeed, not new to controversy. It...Published: 12 Jul 2019 at 07:28hrs | 960 | by Isdore Guvamombe
Fatal stabbing in church
A 24-year-old Masvingo man allegedly fatally stabbed a fellow congregate with a knife during a prayer vigil following a dispute over badly cooked relish, police have confirmed. Tinos Mud...Published: 08 Jul 2019 at 07:58hrs | 2292 | by Staff reporter
Answers still needed for Warriors horror show
THE horror show in Egypt as we succumbed to a 4-0 thumping to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) at AFCON on Sunday night sums up the mediocrity in the ranks of Zimbabwean football. We wer...Published: 06 Jul 2019 at 17:11hrs | 1078 | by Phillip Zulu
ZCTU can do better than demonstrate for redollarisation
No good deed goes unpunished.Normally, the doer of a good deed expects just a "thank you", but usually someone is adversely affected by the good deed. For example, saving someone's life from a...Published: 05 Jul 2019 at 08:10hrs | 695 | by Conway Tutani
Soldiers dance on Joshua Nkomo's grave
Pictures circulating on social media of three soldiers dancing on top of Joshua Nkomo's grave on the 20th anniversary of his death has led to massive protests.Joshua Nkomo, one of Zimbabwe's l...Published: 01 Jul 2019 at 20:32hrs | 17553 | by Staff Reporter
'TB Joshua's meeting in Nazareth is rebranding Africa's image abroad...'
In the last week, Israeli media has been awash with news of the controversial visit of Nigerian cleric T.B. Joshua to Nazareth.Initial news of the visit ignited a furore among apprehensive rel...Published: 30 Jun 2019 at 07:47hrs | 2483 | by Ihechukwu Njoku
10 Implications of de-dollarization and introduction of the Zim dollar
Wheels have finally come off as government has been cornered and forced to involuntarily de-dollarize without a plan.When government introduced bond notes we warned that the surrogate currency was bad...Published: 24 Jun 2019 at 21:01hrs | 15722 | by Tapiwa Mashakada and Miriam Mushayi
The civil servants problem
All along I have been thinking that cevil servants understand and know how to deal with their problem. No they don't. Cevil servants don't need a bond note salary increment because it becomes the caus...Published: 24 Jun 2019 at 11:24hrs | 2586 | by Clemen Moyo
European Union embarasses ZBC
The European Union Mission in Zimbabwe has embarrassed the national broadcaster the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation after it tweeted a EU Afunded solar project in Gwanda and credited the government ...Published: 21 Jun 2019 at 14:38hrs | 10501 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Manyika mocks Mnangagwa's 'voodoo economics'
Opposition Build Zimbabwe Alliance leader Noah Manyika has mocked President Emmerson Mnangagwa for introducing what he described as "voodoo" economics anchored on lack of understanding that the econom...Published: 20 Jun 2019 at 08:02hrs | 1791 | by Staff reporter
Parly in heated debate over pregnant school girls
THE Education Amendment Bill, which is currently in its second reading stage in the National Assembly, has attracted heated debate on whether pregnant girls should be allowed to continue with class....Published: 19 Jun 2019 at 07:44hrs | 1319 | by Staff reporter
Passport shortage leaves Zimbabweans stranded
With Zimbabwe's economy in shambles and political tensions rising, leaving the country seems the best option for many who are desperate for jobs. But those dreams often end at the passport office, whi...Published: 16 Jun 2019 at 20:26hrs | 737 | by AP
Zanu-PF rescues apostle Chiwenga from the jaws of death
Zimbabwe and social media has been awash with the sad news of the accident of apostle Talent Chiwenga of the TF Chiwenga ministries. Apostle Chiwenga lost his wife and another church member. I...Published: 15 Jun 2019 at 13:13hrs | 39040 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Zimbabwe's economic crunch hits passports
With Zimbabwe's economy in shambles and political tensions rising, leaving the country seems the best option for many who are desperate for jobs. But those dreams often end at the passport office, whi...Published: 15 Jun 2019 at 10:45hrs | 7606 | by Farai Mutsaka, The Associated Press
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