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Hichilema alarmed by prospects of defeat and prosecution for corruption
When Zambia experienced democratic backsliding between 2011 and 2021, the deliberate use of legal mechanisms to weaken opposition parties played a central role. Lawfare has been a constant theme of Za...Published: 07 Oct 2024 at 17:08hrs | 2627 | by Sishuwa Sishuwa
'80% of ministers boycott Parliament sessions'
A heated debate broke out in the National Assembly on Thursday as lawmakers voiced their frustration over the frequent absenteeism of Cabinet ministers during question-and-answer sessions. This week, ...Published: 07 Sep 2024 at 10:10hrs | 176 | by Staff reporter
Transcript of 'Russia-Zimbabwe talks' between Putin and Mnangagwa
The penchant for frivolous bluster in Zimbabwe's public discourse has once again reared its ugly trappings after the widespread circulation on social media platforms of a 2.42-minutes video clip poste...Published: 10 Jun 2024 at 08:37hrs | 16 | by Jonathan Moyo
Zimbabwe invited to observe SA elections
THE South African chapter of the Anti-Corruption Trust of Southern Africa (ACT SA) has expressed concern over the African National Congress government's decision to invite Zanu PF and the Zimbab...Published: 27 May 2024 at 10:07hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe finds a way to turn paper into gold long live Gushungo!!!
Money, the market, free enterprise, free trade, law, and justice, among others - existed in other forms before the colonialists introduced paper currency. The natives had their own functional institut...Published: 09 Apr 2024 at 16:58hrs | 2 | by Sam Wezhira
Zapu slams Zimbabwe's new currency ZiG
The 'mother' party ZAPU says as long as the country lacks legitimacy derived from free and fair elections, people will have no faith in a currency produced in Zimbabwe.On April 5, 2024, the ne...Published: 07 Apr 2024 at 21:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe teachers call for job action over salaries
THE Federation of Zimbabwe Educators Unions, (Fozeu), has called for an immediate job action starting from tomorrow after teachers declared incapacitation amid rising inflation and cost of living....Published: 19 Mar 2024 at 12:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa turns to Tshabangu's CCC structures
Opposition leader Nelson Chamisa's Blue Movement is using Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) structures to mobilise support amid concerns by political analysts that the organisation might just face t...Published: 11 Mar 2024 at 04:55hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
What Of The Logo?
Five months ago, I wrote an article criticizing the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) for using ...Published: 25 Jan 2024 at 19:29hrs | 1 | by Kumbirai Thierry Nhamo
Mnangagwa must face Gukurahundi victims for resolution to genocide!
About a year ago, a close cousin of mine committed suicide after repeated acts of adultery by her husband. This was a most terrible and traumatizing experience for the family as we felt deeply...Published: 30 Dec 2023 at 15:03hrs | 11 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Tshabangu's by-elections challenged
A ZIMBABWEAN based outside the country has lodged a formal complaint with the Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission (ZHRC) questioning the legality of the recent by-elections and the legitimacy of the indi...Published: 19 Dec 2023 at 06:16hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Home team fails to provide enough security at Barbourfields
IT is a match that had all the ingredients for a spectacular afternoon.The rivalry between old foes, Dynamos and Highlanders had been renewed setting the stage for a bruising battle.In...Published: 10 Sep 2023 at 18:15hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
SADC risks extinction in allowing itself to be bullied by ZANU PF!
So, the Zimbabwe ruling party is up to its usual dirty tricks again!Bullying!In 2011, the heads of state of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) were bullied by ZANU PF in...Published: 02 Sep 2023 at 07:06hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Jonathan Moyo says Electoral Act has to be reviewed
Professor Jonathan Moyo says the Electoral Act needs to be reviewed and brought in line with the current constitution of Zimbabwe.The Electoral Amendment Bill, which was gazetted on November 1...Published: 17 Aug 2023 at 22:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Nelson Chamisa's Face as a Logo - A Questionable Choice for CCC
Let me start off by saying that I am all for embracing creativity, innovation, and expressing oneself, especially when it comes to political parties. However, there are certain things that make you qu...Published: 11 Aug 2023 at 16:19hrs | 7 | by Kumbirai Thierry Nhamo
Bossolona still unbeaten at 16 games
Highlanders FC 1-0 Manica Diamonds FCIT took a really good run of play for Highlanders FC defender, Peter Muduhwa as he strode lengths yelling for a pass, and eventually he was there to score the ...Published: 23 Jul 2023 at 18:00hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Give you vote to those who deserve it' argue ZCBC. Can't give what was never ever yours!
There were times when the church, especially the Catholic Church, used to be the voice of the oppressed and downtrodden and spoke the truth to power. Alas, those days are long gone and the nations is ...Published: 10 Jul 2023 at 09:03hrs | 7 | by Wilbert Mukori
Why the Zimbabwean Government is broken: The inherent flaws of democracy
Welcome to the land of opportunity, or rather, Zimbabwe. This country, located in southern Africa, is blessed with a diverse range of natural resources, cultural traditions, and historical heritage. H...Published: 15 May 2023 at 11:13hrs | 1 | by Kumbirai Thierry Nhamo
Mnangagwa not a born-again democrat
President Emmerson Mnangagwa almost succeeded in fooling everyone with his pretence that he had suddenly become a born-again democrat after the coup that toppled strongman Robert Mugabe six years ago....Published: 12 May 2023 at 06:25hrs | | by Kholwani Nyathi
Prioritise Gwayi-Shangani Dam, pipeline
THE ruling Zanu PF party's Twitter account has some interesting nuggets. Its posts on February 25, 2021 on the Gwayi-Shangani pipeline groundbreaking ceremony and the commissioning of the 20 boreholes...Published: 11 May 2023 at 05:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Disqualified Zanu-PF candidate jailed 2 years
Disqualified candidate in the recently held Zanu-PF primary election for the Chipinge South House of Assembly seat, Robert Nyemudzo, was on Wednesday jailed an effective 18 months by a Chipinge magist...Published: 05 May 2023 at 06:14hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe slips back to gukurahundi years
It is existentially draining and disempowering that the leader of Transform Zimbabwe Jacob Ngarivhume, has been shockingly convicted and sentenced for an effective three years in jail – for some twe...Published: 29 Apr 2023 at 20:12hrs | | by Jonathan Moyo
Mnangagwa wife's official meddling intensifies
First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa's meddling in government affairs intensified this week after she flew out of the country with her twin sons Sean and Collins to hold separate meetings with Belarus Presid...Published: 18 Apr 2023 at 20:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Obama was 'fundraising phenomenon' but nothing compared to Mnangagwa's US$ 240 startup, thanks to Gold Mafia
When elections costs in an impoverished nation like Zimbabwe are comparable and even exceed those in a very rich nation like United States of America; you can be sure of one thing the Zimbabwe electio...Published: 11 Apr 2023 at 09:51hrs | 2 | by Wilbert Mukori
Mnangagwa must relinquish Ambassador At Large Angel's appointment
Zimbabwe Coalition on Debt and Development (ZIMCODD) has appealed to the Office of the President and Cabinet to immediately relinquish Ambassador At Large for Europe and the Americas, Uebert Angel of ...Published: 08 Apr 2023 at 10:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZAPU forces Eubert Angel's Church to close
Zapu sent shocking waves down the spine of Mr Eubert Angel the so-called plenipotentiary ambassador for ZIMBABWE in the Americas and Europe. Since the first episode of Al Jezeera called the Gold Mafia...Published: 08 Apr 2023 at 07:28hrs | | by Thulani Nkala
'Forget elections, go out in the street!' argue Mapfumo. Protesting what? It's CCC who is hell bent in participating in flawed e
"Zimbabweans must understand who they are really dealing with, [President Emmerson] Mnangagwa took over power from (Robert) Mugabe in an unconstitutional manner and he will never let go of that power ...Published: 20 Mar 2023 at 09:22hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Mliswa portrayed as a two-headed snake
Former Zanu-PF Mashonaland West provincial chairperson and Norton legislator Temba Mliswa recently got emotional after being ridiculed for his Zanu-PF links by a ZimbabweDaily cartoonist. The ...Published: 19 Mar 2023 at 10:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Jitters over Al Jazeera exposé telling
GOOD day President Emmerson Mnangagwa,Your Excellency, rarely has Zanu-PF and the said new dispensation been in jitters as they are now. Contrary to their characteristic obstinacy, they are un...Published: 15 Mar 2023 at 06:53hrs | 1 | by Cyprian M Ndawana
Mnangagwa's govt tables paltry offer for civil servants
THE National Joint Negotiation Council (NJNC) meeting held yesterday failed to yield positive results for civil servants after the Zimbabwe Congress of Public Sector Trade Unions (ZCPSTU) rejected the...Published: 03 Mar 2023 at 06:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai turning in his grave
THE late opposition MDC stalwart Morgan Richard Tsvangirai who died on 14 February, five years ago, is turning in his grave because some of his family members and close associates have joined the Zanu...Published: 25 Feb 2023 at 10:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Harare mayor fires salvo at govt
HARARE mayor Jacob Mafume yesterday fired a salvo at government for choosing to disburse funds to the Environment Management Agency (EMA) to buy refuse collection trucks, instead of giving the funds t...Published: 21 Feb 2023 at 05:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF elites perfect the catch-and-release strategy
THE release of Zanu-PF's Gokwe Nembudziya legislator Justice Mayor Wadyajena on grounds that the state was not ready for trial four months after arrest is proof of double standards and that the govern...Published: 12 Feb 2023 at 11:09hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF members are the ones who are Unpatriotic
The infrastructure, economic and social situations has come to a bad image. This was caused by incapable political leaders who pretend as if are very patriotic and love their country so much.F...Published: 09 Feb 2023 at 19:24hrs | 2 | by Fanuel Chinowaita
Mliswa slams selective application of law
INDEPENDENT Norton Member of Parliament (MP) Temba Mliswa has slammed selective application of the law and lack of political will to fight corruption after Zanu-PF MP Mayor Wadyajena was removed from ...Published: 08 Feb 2023 at 05:07hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's wife steals limelight in meddling
WHEN the 2017 coup that toppled the long-time ruler Robert Mugabe unfolded, military commanders and top Zanu-PF officials announced that one of the reasons for the ouster was to stop the then first la...Published: 17 Dec 2022 at 12:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mafume laughs off latest govt salary schedule
Harare mayor Jacob Mafume has laughed off the latest government salary schedule, saying that he is now one of the country's lowest-paid workers.Mafume who labelled the allowances a "mockery" w...Published: 24 Oct 2022 at 06:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZANU PF to elect Ndebele President in the coming congress?
Should a Matabele, through a miracle, be elected as ZANU PF President in the coming congress, that man or woman would be very lucky to come out of Harare alive.You have heard how MDC aka CCC s...Published: 12 Oct 2022 at 13:54hrs | 1 | by Israel Dube
Mnangagwa's scapegoat for governance failure
AHEAD of the 2023 polls, President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government - after largely failing to fulfill its 2018 election promises - has found a scapegoat to justify its dismal bad governance record by ...Published: 02 Oct 2022 at 09:04hrs | 9 | by Brenna Matendere
100 Days for Job 'Wiwa' Sikhala
Whenever one talks about the weaponization of law in Zimbabwe, one name comes to mind, Job "Wiwa" Sikhala. From the so called First republic to the Second republic, Wiwa has come to regar...Published: 23 Sep 2022 at 11:12hrs | | by Nontokozo Malaba Ncube
Zanu PF rigged 2018 and, with no reforms, is likewise rigging 2023 - holy grail is to deny it legitimacy
There are three questions anyone serious about getting Zimbabwe out of this economic and political mess must asked oneself, a CCC supporter and, most important of all, any CCC leaders including Nelson...Published: 20 Sep 2022 at 09:14hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Mnangagwa regime's concept of 'development' is to impoverish citizens then come in as 'saviors'!
Picture these scenes in Zimbabwe. A group of urban dwellers gather in the scorching sun, awaiting President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa's much anticipated arrival, in order to officially hando...Published: 14 Sep 2022 at 12:29hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mr Mnangagwa, Blair is in the past, and remains there
DEAR President Emmerson Mnangagwa,Your Excellency, with all due respect, it was an abasement for you to be ecstatic on meeting former British Prime Minister Tony Blair. As I see it, your beati...Published: 14 Sep 2022 at 05:49hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Operation Dudula challenges ZEP extension
SELF-APPOINTED illegal immigrant watchdog Operation Dudula says it is heading to the apex court to interdict the Home Affairs minister's extension of Zimbabwean Exemption Permits (ZEP).Zandile...Published: 07 Sep 2022 at 06:47hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Drama around Ndebele king making a mockery of the throne
THE intriguing drama around the Ndebele kingship, with about four claimants to the throne is a recipe for disaster to the Kingdom's potential revival. At this rate, authorities are bound not to take t...Published: 18 Aug 2022 at 06:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Democratisation of mine workers representation platform critical to build an inclusive NEC
HARARE: Zimbabwe has a monopolistic mine workers' representation system which constitutes National Chamber of Mines and AMWUZ - Associated Mine Workers Union of Zimbabwe.This uneven terrain in...Published: 22 Jul 2022 at 21:54hrs | | by Maxwell Teedzai
Chatunga makes Jonathan Moyo a babarian
Chiwenga moved from the barracks to state House while Phelekezela Mphoko was there in the structures. This is according to Chatunga Mugabe son of the late rabid tribalist, genocidal, dictator Robert M...Published: 27 Jun 2022 at 06:35hrs | 1 | by Phosiwe Ncube
Zimbabwe pensioners scoff at US$15 NSSA grocery vouchers
Pensioners have scoffed at the $10 000 (US$15) once-off grocery voucher offered by National Social Security Authority (NSSA), describing it as a mockery to a lifetime of service and dedicated co...Published: 25 Jun 2022 at 08:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police fail to break nurses' strike
GOVERNMENT yesterday dispatched riot police with dogs at Harare's Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals in a futile attempt to stop nurses from protesting against low salaries and poor working conditions....Published: 21 Jun 2022 at 06:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe sliding into full-blown crisis
CRISIS in Zimbabwe Coalition (CiZC) chairperson Peter Mutasa was recently in South Africa for engagements with top officials from labour, political parties, civic society organisations and other solid...Published: 16 Jun 2022 at 08:26hrs | | by Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition
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