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'Matebeleland politicians have let us down'
MATABELELAND human rights and political activists have blasted the ruling Zanu-PF party and the opposition MDC formations for letting the region down by not fostering development.This came out...Published: 20 hrs ago | 621 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa need votes not retweets
For the first time the biggest opposition party in Zimbabwe led by the young man has come up with a good catch phrase or maybe it's the new slogan hameno. NGAAPINDE HAKE MUKOMANA. Today I am n...Published: 26 Sep 2021 at 20:06hrs | 2589 | by Mapombi
Zanu-PF bigwigs question Mnangagwa's legitimacy
ZIMBABWEAN President Emmerson Mnangagwa, struggling to consolidate and maintain power at the volatile helm amid renewed internal Zanu-PF infighting and disintegration of the coalition which drove his ...Published: 24 Sep 2021 at 18:57hrs | 7876 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's man back in charge
AFTER a bruising battle President Emmerson Mnangagwa's agenda to retain the services of Chief Justice Luke Malaba at the helm of the administration of justice, as part of his power consolidation and r...Published: 24 Sep 2021 at 18:53hrs | 1614 | by Staff reporter
Govt lavishes Mthuli Ncube with a US$200 000 hotel stay
GOVERNMENT allegedly splurged over US$200 000 on Finance minister Mthuli Ncube (pictured)'s accommodation after his lengthy stay at a five-star hotel in the capital before he relocated to a plush home...Published: 24 Sep 2021 at 09:50hrs | 8019 | by Staff reporter
Mphoko ruling further deferred
FORMER Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko's ruling on his application for discharge at the close of the State's case was today further deferred to next month because of the unavailability of the magist...Published: 21 Sep 2021 at 20:53hrs | 192 | by Staff reporter
Govt playing games with Zapu properties
ZAPU and the Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (Zipra) veterans yesterday accused the government of "playing games" with its properties seized in the 1980s.Zipra was the military wing of Za...Published: 16 Sep 2021 at 06:06hrs | 1135 | by Staff reporter
Who needs two VPs, anyway?
TODAY is six months and 11 days since former vice-president Kembo Mohadi resigned from his post following two weeks of juicy revelations of his bedroom commissions with two married women, one of who w...Published: 12 Sep 2021 at 08:59hrs | 616 | by Tawanda Majon
Chris Mutsvangwa's Presidential ambitions exposed
Norton member of Parliament Temba Mliswa has sensationally claimed that War Veterans leader Christopher Mutsvangwa tried to convince the former Zimbabwe National Army General Edzai Chimonyo to support...Published: 30 Aug 2021 at 10:14hrs | 7808 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa's helicopter was forced to return to Harare after failing to land in Mutare
PRESIDENT Emerson Mnangagwa's helicopter was forced to return to Harare after failing to land in Mutare due to thick fog which led to security personnel raise fears it could crash in the mountainous b...Published: 15 Aug 2021 at 08:59hrs | 3922 | by Geoffrey Nyarota
Mohadi still enjoying lavish taxpayer-funded privileges
DESPITE resigning in March as state vice-president amid a string of sensational sex scandals, Kembo Mohadi - who remains Zanu-PF co-deputy leader with Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga - is still en...Published: 31 Jul 2021 at 17:54hrs | 2048 | by Staff reporter
Dethroned Chief Ndiweni forms pressure group
DETHRONED Ntabazinduna chief, Felix Nhlanhlayamangwe Ndiweni, who is based in the United Kingdom, has formed a pressure group - MyRight2Vote - aimed at pushing President Emmerson Mnangagwa's governmen...Published: 22 Jul 2021 at 08:14hrs | 2322 | by Staff reporter
Mphoko trial moved to August
THE trial of former Vice-President Phelekezela Mphoko on criminal abuse of office charges has been moved to the end of August.Mphoko yesterday appeared before Harare magistrate Stanford Mamban...Published: 09 Jul 2021 at 12:15hrs | 137 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa mourns Nkiwane
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has mourned liberation struggle stalwart Abraham Nkiwane describing him as a fearless unflinching patriot who never hesitated to make personal sacrifices to liberate Zimbabwe....Published: 08 Jul 2021 at 19:15hrs | 952 | by Staff reporter
Mphoko's trial deferred
The trial of former Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko on criminal abuse of office charges has been further deferred to August 31 following indications that the presiding magistrate Mr Trynose Utahwash...Published: 08 Jul 2021 at 11:13hrs | 686 | by Staff reporter
2023 election and the reconfiguration of Zanu-PF
THE re-assignment of Zanu-PF Second Secretary Kembo Mohadi to run party affairs on a full time basis, signals a massive operational turnaround to the revolutionary function of the ruling Zanu-PF....Published: 20 Jun 2021 at 07:19hrs | 362 | by Dr Obert Moses Mpofu,
My last days with Jason Ziyaphapha Moyo
I knew Jason ZIYAPHAPHA MOYO, when I joined the National Democratic Party (NDP) in 1960, after my agricultural course at Tsholotsho Breeding and Experimental Station.The relationship between t...Published: 15 Jun 2021 at 21:06hrs | 3887 | by Phelekezela Mphoko (Zimbabwe former Vice President)
Correction of Zimbabwe history
The Zimbabwe African Peoples Union (ZAPU) never had a Military Command Structure called Special Affairs. The name Special Affairs was a Code name for the Armed Struggle, which ZAPU, (under the...Published: 14 Jun 2021 at 15:27hrs | 3623 | by Phelekezela Mphoko (Zimbabwe former Vice President)
Luck runs out for former Zinara boss
FUGITIVE former Zinara acting chief executive officer Moses Julius Juma, who was lying low after his appeal against conviction and sentence for abuse of office was struck off by the High Court, has no...Published: 14 Jun 2021 at 06:16hrs | 1278 | by Staff reporter
Mphoko's trial deferred as lawyer is involved in car accident
The trial of former Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko on criminal abuse of office charges failed to continue today following indications that his lawyer Mr Zibusiso Ncube was involved in a car acciden...Published: 31 May 2021 at 18:55hrs | 831 | by Staff reporter
ZACC intensifies manhunt for ex-Zinara boss
A manhunt has intensified for former Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (Zinara) acting chief executive officer, Moses Julius Juma, who is on the run after losing a High Court appeal against his c...Published: 29 May 2021 at 08:11hrs | 312 | by Staff reporter
ZACC hunts for former Zinara boss
The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) is hunting for former Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (Zinara) acting chief executive officer Moses Julius Juma who is on the run after losing a H...Published: 24 May 2021 at 06:32hrs | 976 | 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 | 1592 | 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 | 6944 | by Staff reporter
How my pistol sold me out: Tshinga Dube
AS we continue to commemorate our Independence Day, we revisit an article published earlier in this section in which our Assistant Editor Mkhululi Sibanda (MS) spoke to one of the pioneer guerillas, R...Published: 25 Apr 2021 at 07:32hrs | 6187 | by Staff reporter
Why Mnangagwa wants Luke Malaba to stay
ON 6 April 2021, the Zimbabwean senate passed Constitutional Amendment Bill (N0.1), which had been declared null and void by the Constitutional Court (ConCourt) on 31 March 2020, after it was unconsti...Published: 13 Apr 2021 at 07:56hrs | 4642 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF bigwigs resists female VP push
Zanu-PF is resisting calls to amend its constitution to re-introduce a woman as one of the party's vice presidents - as the race to replace former State vice president Kembo Mohadi heats up.Th...Published: 06 Apr 2021 at 15:43hrs | 6012 | by Staff reporter
SK Moyo too junior to be Vice president
In November 2017 Zapu Harare provincial secretary-general Elphacy Dube said the province was throwing its weight behind Khaya Moyo. Zapu Harare province jumped the gun and suggested SK Moyo without co...Published: 30 Mar 2021 at 16:26hrs | 2761 | by Colin Khumalo
Former Vice President's Boy Ex-Zinara acting CEO goes into hiding
FORMER Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) acting chief executive officer Moses Julius Juma is on the run after losing a High Court appeal against his conviction for abuse of office....Published: 15 Mar 2021 at 17:58hrs | 3157 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Roll call for six comrades selected by Joshua Nkomo for the armed struggle who boarded a train at Luveve Railway Station
On the 04 April 1964, after being selected by Joshua Nkomo President of the Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU), the six mentioned above left for Zambia, enroute for military training in the former...Published: 09 Mar 2021 at 17:27hrs | 4208 | by Report Phelekezela Mphoko
Mohadi: Tale of a brave man knocked down by ruinous sex
LIKE many of his contemporaries, Kembo Dugishi Campbell Mohadi - who hails from Mtetengwe area 40 kilometres west of Beitbridge border town along the Bulawayo highway - belongs to a generation which w...Published: 06 Mar 2021 at 08:03hrs | 1897 | by Staff reporter
Kembo Mohadi's replacement as Vice-President of Zimbabwe found?
After the unceremonious resignation of the vice president Kembo Mohadi from the office of the vice president, it has become incumbent to discuss the esteemed office of the Vice President. Cde Kembo Mo...Published: 02 Mar 2021 at 16:38hrs | 5572 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Zacc surpasses targets?
The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) is working on a higher target of cases to be investigated this year in its fight against corruption, amid indications it surpassed its target of 80 docke...Published: 06 Jan 2021 at 06:50hrs | 191 | by Staff reporter
Zapu to establish welfare fund for its vetarans
OPPOSITION party, Zapu, is set to establish a social welfare fund to meet the needs of its members and wartime comrades who are wallowing in poverty, the party's social affairs department has said....Published: 31 Dec 2020 at 10:38hrs | 178 | by Staff reporter
An open letter to all former Zipra cadres - Response to comments from the president of the MLF
17 December, 2020 Comments on any presentation, debate and indeed on any other body of ideas put forward are one of the cornerstones of what makes us human. It is through such engagements that...Published: 18 Dec 2020 at 21:40hrs | 1386 | by Churchill Mpiyesizwe Guduza
How South Africa can nudge Zimbabwe toward stability
What's new? As Zimbabwe's political and economic crises worsen, South Africa is moving beyond its policy of "quiet diplomacy" with its northern neighbour and applying more pressure on Harare to open...Published: 18 Dec 2020 at 06:42hrs | 2008 | by crisisgroup
Mphoko's trial continues in camera
THE trial of former Vice-President Phelekezela Mphoko on charges of criminal abuse of office continued yesterday in camera at the Harare Magistrates Court.Mphoko was arrested by the Zimbabwe A...Published: 03 Dec 2020 at 06:56hrs | 756 | by Staff reporter
Choppies ownership wrangle sucks in Mogae
FORMER Botswana President Festus Mogae and Choppies managing director Ottapathu Ramachandran have been sucked into the legal battle between former Vice-President Phelekezela Mphoko and retail gr...Published: 11 Nov 2020 at 06:35hrs | 2235 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa gazettes Mphoko's benefits
President Mnangagwa last week gazetted benefits for spouses of former presidents and vice presidents that have served the country since 1987. The benefits are contained in Statutory Instrument...Published: 02 Nov 2020 at 05:42hrs | 3156 | by Staff reporter
Mphoko rekindles Choppies fight
FORMER Vice-President Phelekezela Mphoko and his son Siqokoqela have taken the Botswana-headquartered Choppies Enterprises, its distribution centre and Nanavac Investments to court demanding an outsta...Published: 24 Oct 2020 at 08:04hrs | 4599 | by Staff reporter
Mohadi is just a place holder
VICE-PRESIDENT Kembo Mohadi is hardly known by all and sundry because he represents nobody. Nobody voted for him. He is in the Executive by default, thanks to the political wizardry in the form of the...Published: 21 Oct 2020 at 21:49hrs | 4454 | by Deconstruction
How Zanu-PF came into existence
The born-free generation, born after Zimbabwe gained its independence in 1980, has grown up knowing a political system run by the Zanu PF party.Unbeknown to many people, the ruling party, is a...Published: 26 Sep 2020 at 19:17hrs | 3429 | by Irvine Sibhona
Mugabe's indigenisation law ill-conceived, says Zanu-PF
GOVERNMENT rolled out an ill-conceived indigenisation policy for political expediency during the late former President Robert Mugabe's era, Zanu-PF acting spokesperson Patrick Chinamasa has said....Published: 22 Sep 2020 at 06:31hrs | 1501 | by Staff reporter
Mphoko's trial continues in camera
Former Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko's trial continued yesterday in camera at the Harare Magistrates Court. Mphoko is facing criminal abuse of office charges after he allegedly instructed ...Published: 15 Sep 2020 at 06:12hrs | 330 | by Staff reporter
Beitbridge Border Post, the epicentre of graft
Beitbridge border post ranks first as the busiest inland port of entry in the rest of Southern Africa, between South Africa and Zimbabwe, and Second busiest inland post of entry after Egypt's Taba. ...Published: 09 Sep 2020 at 08:16hrs | 1388 | by Stephen Jakes
Mphoko to expose govt secrets?
THE State fears former vice president Phelekezela Mphoko's trial on corruption charges will expose government secrets and applied to have the matter heard in camera.State counsel Lovert Masuku...Published: 03 Sep 2020 at 18:41hrs | 3584 | by Staff reporter
Mphoko's trial to be heard in camera to protect state secrets
The State yesterday successfully applied for proceedings in the trial of former Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko be heard in camera to ensure the protection of State secrets. Mphoko is facing...Published: 03 Sep 2020 at 06:09hrs | 779 | by Staff reporter
We must not politicise the Zimbabwean judiciary system
Zimbabwe has been on the social media, news , whatsapp and any other news outlet took time to cast a flood light upon Zimbabwe. Indeed the world in now global village and any events in any country are...Published: 28 Aug 2020 at 13:08hrs | 4120 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Mnangagwa two years on
THE Second Republic under President Mnangagwa has, in the two years of its span, recorded a number of milestones across sectors towards the achievement of Vision 2030 to transform the economy and impr...Published: 28 Aug 2020 at 06:47hrs | 540 | by Nqobile Tshili, Nduduzo Tshuma and Prosper Ndlovu
The Comrades that saved ZPRA from demise
The political changes that flew in the face of the struggle during the seventies were largely influenced by the governments of front line states which arm-twisted the liberation movements in the name ...Published: 23 Aug 2020 at 15:52hrs | 1433 | by Irvine J. Sibhona
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