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Parties fail gender parity test
WOMEN activists have decried the low number of female representation in the March 26 by-elections, saying this hinders progress in achieving the 50/50 gender representation quota as stipulated in the ...Published: 3 hrs ago | 111 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa hand picked 'Citizens Candidates'
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) leader, Nelson Chamisa and his lieutenants have chosen to do away with primary elections by hand-picking candidates to represent the newly formed organisation in th...Published: 14 hrs ago | 2574 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa upbeat about polls
Zimbabwe's main opposition leader is upbeat about victory in next year's elections, despite a crackdown that he compares to being in "the jaws of a crocodile."Nelson Chamisa told AFP that Pres...Published: 14 hrs ago | 1244 | by Staff reporter
When it gets cold outside Zanu-PF
Last week various social media platforms and some online publications were awash with the news of a meeting in South Africa between former Zanu-PF members namely G40 kingpin, Saviour Kasukuwere, expel...Published: 27 Jan 2022 at 04:37hrs | 767 | by Nobleman Runyanga
3.2 magnitude earthquake shakes southern Zimbabwe
A light magnitude 3.2 earthquake shook parts of southern Zimbabwe on Tuesday night.The quake was timed at 9.42PM, according to data from the Council for Geoscience at the South African Nationa...Published: 26 Jan 2022 at 21:16hrs | 1070 | by Staff reporter
Maimane slams Zanu-PF
One SA movement leader Mmusi Maimane has weighed in on the challenges of immigration in SA‚ laying the blame at the government's feet and slamming the Zimbabwean ruling party.Immigration con...Published: 26 Jan 2022 at 06:07hrs | 3730 | by Staff reporter
Is Mwonzora playing to his master's tune?
PRESIDENTIAL spokesperson George Charamba is fond of political prophecies, usually involving the opposition.One of his "prophesies" came to pass when MDC-T leader Douglas Mwonzora last week wr...Published: 26 Jan 2022 at 04:49hrs | 5810 | by Staff reporter
US Embassy sweats to save Chamisa's sinking ship
The United States Embassy in Harare has reactivated its propaganda machinery ahead of the forthcoming by-elections slated for March 26.After a notable lull in propaganda tweets since the depar...Published: 25 Jan 2022 at 05:40hrs | 1454 | by Hosia Mviringi
Chamisa concedes defeat in the battle for MDC?
FORMER MDC leader Mr Nelson Chamisa conceded defeat in the battle for control of the heart and soul of the opposition party as he surrendered the name MDC-Alliance to adopt the name Citizen Coalition ...Published: 25 Jan 2022 at 05:40hrs | 658 | by Staff reporter
Bread flour price up 6,25%
GRAIN Millers Association of Zimbabwe (GMAZ) says the price of bread flour went up by 6,25 percent to $119 000 from $112 000 tonne with effect from 9 January 2022.The successful 2021 command w...Published: 25 Jan 2022 at 05:38hrs | 220 | by Staff reporter
Tender scandal: Zacc scared of Mangwiro
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) is politically hamstrung to arrest deputy Health minister John Mangwiro (pictured) after he allegedly coerced state-owned medical supplies entity NatPhar...Published: 23 Jan 2022 at 20:39hrs | 1069 | by Staff reporter
MDC circus continues
THE political circus in the MDC continues with the party's vice president Dr Thokozani Khupe announcing yesterday that she had broken ranks with former president Mr Douglas Mwonzora to form a splinter...Published: 22 Jan 2022 at 05:22hrs | 620 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Dr. Obert Mpofu a hero or thief?
The question: What has Dr. Obert Moses Mpofu achieved for Zimbabwe and Zimbabweans has been asked by many people and yet met with different answers. Some have claimed without evidence that Obert Mpofu...Published: 21 Jan 2022 at 12:06hrs | 2351 | by Nicholas Ncube
Thokozani Khupe breathes fire...declares MDC-T split
Former Deputy Prime Minister Thokozani Khupe has taken over as the leader of the Movement for Democratic Change Tsvagirayi (MDC-T) after the party officially split on Friday. The s...Published: 21 Jan 2022 at 11:42hrs | 4027 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Bulawayo turns into a dark city
WHEN daylight is gone, dark patches emerge in many parts of Bulawayo due to lack of street lighting, a development that has become a safety hazard for both pedestrians and motorists.In some pl...Published: 21 Jan 2022 at 05:33hrs | 301 | by Staff reporter
MDC aversion to democracy - its death knell
A simple definition of democracy is a system of governance in which people choose their leaders by voting for them.That very definition, in its simplicity, was recently on display in the gover...Published: 21 Jan 2022 at 05:31hrs | 137 | by Fungi Kwaramba
Bread price up 15%
THE price of flour has gone up by 6.5% from $112 000 to $119 000 per metric ton, a situation that also pushed the price of bread up by 15% from $175 to $210.Grain Millers Association of ...Published: 20 Jan 2022 at 05:39hrs | 1525 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe fuel consumption hits 1,2bn litres after bounce back
ZIMBABWE'S fuel consumption increased to almost 1,2 billion litres during the 11 months to November last year, compared to just over one billion litres in 2020, data from the energy regulator showed y...Published: 20 Jan 2022 at 05:35hrs | 285 | by Staff reporter
Transport blues resurface
Police say the operation came after it was realised that many unregistered vehicles were being used as getaway cars in the commission of dangerous crimes, including armed robberies.As part of ...Published: 20 Jan 2022 at 05:34hrs | 601 | by Staff reporter
Jah Prayzah, Winky D square off
CONTEMPORARY singer Jah Prayzah and dancehall chanter Winky D, who are considered the country's most sought-after musicians, are set to revive their "rivalry" when they battle for supremacy at this ye...Published: 19 Jan 2022 at 05:24hrs | 376 | by Staff reporter
A true leader doesn't create separation, but brings people together!
I love Bluetooth! I fondly remember the first time using it - when we discovered that could actually send SMS texts to each other with my beloved wife Tinta (who was still my fiancée all thos...Published: 18 Jan 2022 at 19:42hrs | 591 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Kasukuwere guns for Mnangagwa?
EXILED former Cabinet minister Saviour Kasukuwere has claimed that it was time for him to make "difficult decisions" to "save the revolutionary movement" and to act on the injustices that President Em...Published: 18 Jan 2022 at 05:35hrs | 4402 | by Staff reporter
Over 90 000 arrested in cross border crimes
Close to 100 000 people have been arrested for cross border crimes since the inception of an operation code-named No to Cross Border Crimes, according to the Zimbabwe Republic police (ZRP).In ...Published: 18 Jan 2022 at 05:34hrs | 433 | by Staff reporter
Manager transfers 300 'corrupt' Zimra staff
THE Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra)'s new manager at Beitbridge Border Post, Kenneth Mungati, has reportedly ordered the transfer of over 300 staff members from the border town after accusing them ...Published: 18 Jan 2022 at 05:34hrs | 2239 | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere shown middle finger by Zanu-PF
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa does not need the support of "moonlighting" and "failed" politicians to lead Zanu-PF to a thunderous victory in the upcoming by-elections and in the 2023 harmonised elections as he...Published: 18 Jan 2022 at 05:30hrs | 2707 | by Staff reporter
'Difficult decisions have to be made' Kasukuwere says
Dear ComradesWe all carry deep and painful wounds of the treatment that has been meted out by fellow comrades to many of us. You loved the party and respected President Mugabe. You willingly s...Published: 17 Jan 2022 at 16:08hrs | 5090 | by Saviour Kasukuwere
Chamisa a cunning megalomaniac
THERE is a problem that the Zimbabwean electorate is not seeing in the opposition politics of our country.The situation cannot even be explained using the words disaster and catastrophe. Many ...Published: 17 Jan 2022 at 06:34hrs | 1119 | by Gibson Nyikadzino
Rebranding is a matter of life and death for MDC-Alliance
WILLIAM Shakespeare, the 16th century English playwright who once prominently featured on the Zimbabwean Ordinary Level and Advanced Level English literature school curriculum, once rhetorically asked...Published: 16 Jan 2022 at 18:16hrs | 909 | by Taona T. Denhere
Mnangagwa democratic credentials face litmus test in election season
THE year 2022 is a litmus test for President Emmerson Mnangagwa's regime which promised to open up political space and uphold civil liberties as temperatures hot up ahead of next year's general electi...Published: 16 Jan 2022 at 18:13hrs | 566 | by Staff reporter
Change your name!: Zanu-PF's new trump card against Chamisa
IN a surprise move, President Emmerson Mnangagwa proclaimed 26 March 2022 as the date for long overdue by-elections. This should fill in vacancies created through the controversial recalls of elected ...Published: 16 Jan 2022 at 18:12hrs | 1060 | by Reginald Murendo
Sisulu tko Ronald Lamola in an open letter
I ask you, why are some so irritated with my opinion piece? Until all daggers, some agonizingly blunt, are drawn, and some have already assumed my head must go to the guillotine in the narrowness of m...Published: 16 Jan 2022 at 17:52hrs | 661 | by Lindiwe Sisulu.
Blacks representation should be more than just wokeism and hypersensitivity - our values need representation too
In one of the popular interviews of our generation, Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex, told Oprah Winfrey about the importance of representation. I agree. But, by the same token, black people have ...Published: 16 Jan 2022 at 10:29hrs | 328 | by Mandlenkosi Siziba
Crossing the Limpopo River
NKANYEZI Dube is a 25-year-old young woman from Lubhangwe in the Matobo District of Matabeleland South. She attended Lubhangwe primary and secondary schools. She did not qualify to proceed to universi...Published: 16 Jan 2022 at 08:56hrs | 324 | by Pathisa Nyathi
Bread prices hiked
THE price of bread has gone up to $201 from $175, with bakers attributing the increase to the cost of the main ingredient, flour, coupled by escalating fuel prices.A survey by Sunday News Busi...Published: 16 Jan 2022 at 08:55hrs | 499 | by Staff reporter
The last great war might have begun
The tongue can be a powerful weapon.It can build and destroy. It also can excite, spite and incite.And when a sharp tongue is mixed with potent ideas, it is easy to concoct a nuclear w...Published: 16 Jan 2022 at 08:50hrs | 144 | by Bishop Lazi
SA Deportation A Step Backwards for Africa Unity!
If the AU has any purposes at all, one of them should be to address and redefine what "foreigner", means.The deportation of any African from another African country, need not be a trauma...Published: 15 Jan 2022 at 18:33hrs | 1467 | by Hlatshwayo Dhlamini
Mwonzora cannot claim a non-existent entity, says Jonathan Moyo
POLITICAL scientist Professor Jonathan Moyo says Douglas Mwonzora's manoeuvre for the MDC-T to contest the 26 March by-elections under the MDC-Alliance banner is null and void at law and would confirm...Published: 15 Jan 2022 at 15:05hrs | 3307 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa caught in between a rock and a hard place
ZIMBABWE'S main opposition MDC-Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa is caught between a rock and a hard place ahead of crucial by-elections on 26 March.Nomination is on 26 January.Chamisa fa...Published: 15 Jan 2022 at 15:04hrs | 4344 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's trap for Chamisa
In a surprise move, President Emmerson Mnangagwa proclaimed March 26, 2022, as the date for long overdue by-elections. This is to fill vacancies created through the controversial recalls of elected of...Published: 15 Jan 2022 at 00:25hrs | 9551 | by Reginald Murendo
Chamisa breaks his silence
OPPOSITION MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday broke his silence on the raging debate regarding contestations over the party name, and told his supporters that he was unfazed by Zanu-PF and M...Published: 15 Jan 2022 at 00:21hrs | 6406 | by Staff reporter
Warriors booted out
Zimbabwe 1 - 2 MalawiIT had been long since the Warriors hogged so much spotlight as they did in the run-up to their Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) Group B encounter against Malawi here yesterday....Published: 15 Jan 2022 at 00:14hrs | 553 | by Staff reporter
Mike Madiro gives up contesting Zanu-PF internal elections
Zanu-PF Manicaland provincial chairman Mike Madiro has vowed not to contest in future highly contentious party elections to allow new leadership to take over.However, the decision has been vie...Published: 13 Jan 2022 at 16:04hrs | 1637 | by Staff reporter
Sadc regional integration will benefit Zimbabwe
THE Southern African Development Community's (Sadc) regional indicative strategic development plan (RISDP) 2020–30 of October 2020 is a framework for the implementation of Sadc's regional integratio...Published: 12 Jan 2022 at 23:13hrs | 417 | by Vince Musewe
'I'm the MDC Alliance president,' Mwonzora says
Douglas Mwonzora has declared himself leader of the MDC Alliance in a letter to the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC).Mwonzora told ZEC that only he and three other officials of his MDC-T pa...Published: 12 Jan 2022 at 23:12hrs | 924 | by Staff reporter
Resources wasted by by-elections
Freebies worth US1,2million delivered to Polad membership will never be a resources wasting agenda but a legal, useful and necessary adventure bent on the betterment of Zimbabwean peoples lives and vi...Published: 12 Jan 2022 at 17:22hrs | 312 | by Phosiwe Ncube
Mwonzora throws knockout punch
OPPOSITION MDC-T leader Douglas Mwonzora has written to the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) seeking to bar his rival and leader of the MDC Alliance, Nelson Chamisa, from using the acronym MDC....Published: 12 Jan 2022 at 04:35hrs | 5778 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe sliding back to 2008 crisis'
ZIMBABWE is in economic and political crises which are threatening peace, particularly ahead of the 2023 elections.Observers say corruption and looting of public resources have reached alarmin...Published: 10 Jan 2022 at 06:02hrs | 3706 | by Staff reporter
Warriors hunt for the Lions of Teranga
ZIMBABWE received some good news after all players and officials returned a clean bill of health in their last Covid-19 tests before the opening Group B encounter of the delayed 2021 AFCON finals agai...Published: 10 Jan 2022 at 05:57hrs | 245 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's options in the context of despotic capture of MDC Alliance?
In 1998, in Russia's St Petersburg, Oleg Sergeyev ran for the Governor's position. When he officially launched his campaign, to his chagrin there were two other opponents. Opponent one was Oleg Sergey...Published: 09 Jan 2022 at 06:08hrs | 4641 | by Staff reporter
Tariff hikes reflect erosion of Zimdollar, raise inflation fears
TARIFF hikes on electricity and toll gates among others have piled more misery on consumers who are already battered by the tough economic environment and expose the vulnerability of the local currenc...Published: 09 Jan 2022 at 06:06hrs | 931 | by Staff reporter
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