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Muchinguri says returnees from SA, Botswana have put Zimbabwe under tremendous pressure
Defence and War Veterans Affairs Minister Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri told Parliament that the recent influx of returnees from South Africa and Botswana have put the country under tremendous pressure....Published: 30 May 2020 at 10:15hrs | 4361 | by Staff reporter
3 000 more returnees next week, says Muchinguri
DEFENCE minister Oppah Muchinguri yesterday told Parliament that more than 3 000 more returnees were expected into the country next week from neighbouring countries and abroad at a time when governmen...Published: 28 May 2020 at 07:57hrs | 1016 | by Staff reporter
Resident to sue military for assault
A BULAWAYO resident, who was allegedly assaulted by soldiers while queuing outside Econet Zimbabwe offices in Bulawayo during lockdown, has filed a notice of intention to sue the Zimbabwe National Arm...Published: 21 May 2020 at 07:43hrs | 573 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa castigates illegal demos
President Mnangagwa has urged Zimbabweans to remain peaceful during this time of Covid-19 and avoid endangering the lives of other citizens through illegal demonstrations to score cheap political scor...Published: 21 May 2020 at 07:04hrs | 313 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF distributes food hampers in Manicaland
Zanu-PF has handed over food hampers worth more than $150 000 mobilised by the Muduvuri Rehabilitation and Empowerment Foundation (MREF) to people with disabilities in Manicaland. MREF mobilis...Published: 18 May 2020 at 07:22hrs | 237 | by Staff reporter
We always get a govt we deserve
"EVERY nation gets the government it deserves."These words by philosopher Joseph de Maistre might be sarcastic, but are a sober reminder for introspection today.Zimbabwe is touted as o...Published: 15 May 2020 at 07:44hrs | 876 | by Cliff Chiduku
What next if we remove Mnangagwa and Zanu-PF???
The question is a muti-dollar question which as a nation of Zimbabwe cant provide an answer easily. While it can be generally agreed that many people would like to see ZANU PF going as soon as yesterd...Published: 13 May 2020 at 15:10hrs | 2026 | by Kumbirai Stein Chivhuna
Chris Mutsvangwa guns for Vice Presidency?
Christopher Mutsvangwa claims to have been the brains behind the operation restore legacy which saw the removal of former President Robert Mugabe. Mutsvangwa was seen in a video celebrating th...Published: 12 May 2020 at 10:15hrs | 5104 | by Tinashe Matavire
Mnangagwa's govt speaks on ZDF deployment
Government had today dismissed repeated allegations that it had deployed its army to Mozambique to fight some armed elements bent on destabilising that country.Defence and War Veterans Affairs...Published: 07 May 2020 at 16:38hrs | 3882 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa says priority is lives over economy
President Mnangagwa is still considering the next steps to be taken when the extended lockdown ends on Sunday, but stresses the decision will be informed by the need to save lives. Speaking at...Published: 30 Apr 2020 at 07:03hrs | 312 | by Staff reporter
Cabinet hawks, fearful of civil unrest, forced 14, instead 21, day lockdown extension – pyrrhic victory as covid-19 marches on
There was never any doubt in anyone's mind that Zimbabwe was going to extend the country's initial 21-day lockdown. The lockdown was imposed when the country had less than 5 confirmed corona virus inf...Published: 24 Apr 2020 at 22:14hrs | 2779 | by Wilbert Mukori
Mnangagwa's tricky test
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa disregarded the advice of health experts who recommended a 21-day Covid-19 lockdown extension, preferring instead to listen to his Zanu PF and Cabinet colleagues who argue...Published: 24 Apr 2020 at 08:58hrs | 8376 | by Staff reporter
Police harass journalist
Police in Rusape allegedly harassed online Post on Sunday reporter Shingirai Vambe on a covid 19 function on Saturday.Vambe was barred from covering an event where Minister of Defense Oppah Mu...Published: 20 Apr 2020 at 12:54hrs | 608 | by Simbarashe Mwandipendaa
Muchinguri laments lack of PPE at Chiredzi Clinic
DEFENCE and War Veterans Minister Oppah Muchinguri has lamented lack of personal protective equipment (PPE) for frontline health workers at Chiredzi Polyclinic.Addressing journalists during a ...Published: 20 Apr 2020 at 08:31hrs | 292 | by Staff reporter
Manicaland residents get roller meal at home
Manicaland has started door-to-door deliveries of subsidised roller meal to residents in the high-density suburbs of Mutare and Makoni districts to curb long queues and promote social distancing. ...Published: 20 Apr 2020 at 07:56hrs | 181 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga, Mohadi tour Covid-19 centres
While Zimbabwe has done much to cope with a major outbreak of Covid-19, more needs to be done ,Vice Presidents Constantino Chiwenga and Kembo Mohadi said yesterday as they toured facilities to assess ...Published: 18 Apr 2020 at 07:49hrs | 658 | by Staff reporter
White MDC Alliance MP takes Mnangagwa to court
Harare North MP Allan Norman Markham (MDC Alliance) and human rights activist Mfundo Mlilo have dragged President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his ministers to court to force them to provide safety nets for...Published: 15 Apr 2020 at 08:20hrs | 7666 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe police, army risk spreading COVID-19'
SOLDIERS and police enforcing the 21-day national lockdown risk contracting and spreading COVID-19 as they continue operating without protective clothing, it has emerged.The fears came as the ...Published: 14 Apr 2020 at 07:45hrs | 429 | by Staff reporter
Residents confront 'abusive' police, army enforcement teams for not wearing masks
TWO Chinhoyi residents have petitioned the High Court seeking an order to compel police officers and soldiers, who are currently enforcing the national lockdown to wear protective clothing in the cour...Published: 14 Apr 2020 at 07:10hrs | 317 | by Staff reporter
Mohadi reassures frontline workers
FRONTLINE health workers in the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic have been assured that their safety is a priority. Vice President Kembo Mohadi said this when he toured Parirenyatwa Group of Hospit...Published: 14 Apr 2020 at 07:10hrs | 360 | by Staff reporter
Corona Virus in Zimbabwe: The Battle for Mis(Information)
International Health Regulations Review Committee (2011) opined that, "The world is ill-prepared to respond to a severe influenza pandemic or to any simil...Published: 13 Apr 2020 at 17:37hrs | 1482 | by Sikhulumeli Kole
Mohadi tours Wilkins Hospital
Vice President Kembo Mohadi yesterday toured Wilkins Infectious Diseases Hospital and expressed satisfaction with renovation works at the institution following its designation as a Covid-19 isolation ...Published: 13 Apr 2020 at 07:49hrs | 88 | by Staff reporter
Covid-19 and the bad 'all-weather' friends
THIS lockdown must be logging down Sibusiso Moyo, the Foreign Affairs minister, too bad. When you are used to being out too much, lockdowns are, no doubt, a bad thing to happen to you.You, the...Published: 12 Apr 2020 at 09:33hrs | 418 | by Tawanda Majoni
Zimbabwe military in US$90m murky weapons deals
ZIMBABWE'S military splurged vast amounts of money, exceeding US$90 million, on undeclared and opaque transactions to acquire new and refurbished armaments from 2000 to 2016 at a time the country was ...Published: 10 Apr 2020 at 08:42hrs | 1700 | by Staff reporter
War Veterans to get $4 800 salaries per month
The former war of liberation fighters will from the month-end of April be entitled to a combined pension plus allowance of ZWL$4 800. The Harare based law firm Kanoti and partners last month w...Published: 09 Apr 2020 at 14:35hrs | 4659 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa wishes Chiwenga dead - Zanu pf official
Embattled Zanu PF official Goodman Musariri who was dragged to court on Saturday for undermining the authority of the president sensationally claimed that president Emmerson Mnangagwa and his clan wis...Published: 08 Apr 2020 at 09:29hrs | 13679 | by Simbarashe Mwandipendaa
Zimbabwe lockdown more of entrenchment than fighting #Covid-19
Zimbabwe tonight will go on a countrywide lockdown following a worldwide outbreak of Covid -19 pandemic, an illness caused by the novel human corona virus. The pandemic first emerged in China befo...Published: 30 Mar 2020 at 11:20hrs | 1166 | by Iphithule Thembani kaMaphosa
Painful lessons from our COVID-19 so far
The confirmed number of coronavirus (COVID-19) cases worldwide crossed the half a million mark last week and still going. The world's biggest cities and towns are on lockdown; so are the biggest marke...Published: 30 Mar 2020 at 08:25hrs | 599 | by Tapiwa Gomo
WATCH: Zimbabwe army to enforce 21-day lockdown
Zimbabwe Information Minister Monica Mutsvangwa says army will enforce Monday's lockdown since the country is in a war-like situation against COVID19. She warned churches not to gather during ...Published: 29 Mar 2020 at 20:23hrs | 7155 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga will not go into self-isolation after spending a fortnight in China
VICE-President Constantino Chiwenga will not go into self-isolation after spending a fortnight in China and will instead lead the country's battle to stop the spread of the coronavirus, a top governme...Published: 29 Mar 2020 at 11:40hrs | 4507 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga returns from China to chair Covid-19 taskforce
Health minister Obadiah Moyo was branded "useless" by furious army chiefs during a meeting of the Cabinet taskforce on Covid-19 on Friday.Moyo, who has been under intense public criticism from...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 11:07hrs | 5103 | by Staff reporter
Quarantine 'sick' Oppa Muchinguri and Obert Mpofu
Zimbabwe Minister of Defence, Oppa Muchinguri Kashiri and Zanupf Secretary for Administration, Obert Mpofu must be stopped from addressing the public and isolated until the covid19 pandemic is curbed....Published: 24 Mar 2020 at 14:29hrs | 13282 | by Israel Dube
Defence minister Muchinguri explains the war veterans bill
THE Minister of Defence and War Veterans Oppah Muchinguri has said the drafting of the Veterans of the Liberation Struggle Bill is in line with President Emmerson Mnangagwa's legislative agenda to ali...Published: 24 Mar 2020 at 08:56hrs | 2401 | by Stephen Jakes
Computers boost for Zanu-PF structures
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has donated 40 computers to war collaborators, war veterans and the Zanu-PF Women's League, to speed up the process of capturing data for party members. The donation was pr...Published: 24 Mar 2020 at 06:32hrs | 151 | by Staff reporter
A clerical call on ZEC to postpone by-elections until decisive measures are implemented to reduce exposure to Covid-19 pandemic
Zimbabwe's embattled leader Emmerson Mnangagwa last week declared COVID-19 a national disaster. Along with the declaration came a host of largely copycat ...Published: 24 Mar 2020 at 03:49hrs | 439 | by Magugu Benard, Zapu Secretary of Elections (NEC)
Did they receive counselling after the war?
SOME things are just not easy to understand. Just before Zimbabwe registered its first case of coronavirus (COVID-19), we had a whole senior government minister and Zanu-PF official ranting and raving...Published: 23 Mar 2020 at 12:58hrs | 2964 | by Tapiwa Gomo
'Corona Virus does not affect black people' a myth - Mahere
MDC official Fadzai Mahere has dismissed a myth being peddled by many people on Corona Virus that it does not affect black people."So many people still believe the #CoronaVirus does not affect...Published: 23 Mar 2020 at 10:00hrs | 2969 | by Simbarashe Mwandipendaa
Muchinguri in complete u-turn, joins efforts to curb coronavirus
Zanu PF members should advocate zero tolerance to coronavirus, national chairperson Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri has said. This comes after President Mnangagwa launched a US$26 million preparednes...Published: 21 Mar 2020 at 05:46hrs | 1006 | by Staff reporter
'It takes more than just Closing Schools and Tertial Institutions,' Mnangagwa told
ZANU PF leader, Emmerson Mnangagwa has ordered the closure of all schools and tertiary institutions in the country on Tuesday 24 March as a precautionary measure to curb the widespread of COVID-19....Published: 20 Mar 2020 at 09:58hrs | 3056 | by Prince Njagu
War veterans demand 20% quota system
WAR VETERANS want a 20 percent quota system in Government institutions and Parliament, while demanding for improved medical care and pensions allocation for ex-combatants.The former freedom fi...Published: 19 Mar 2020 at 17:49hrs | 1667 | by Staff reporter
Evil ZANU-PF laughs at the poor in press conference
The recent announcement today that Cabinet is likely to be reshuffled can only be greeted with intrepid cautiousness. Their ability to just laugh at...Published: 19 Mar 2020 at 16:08hrs | 6170 | by Thabo Makuyana
MDC raps Mnangagwa for violating his own ban of public gathering decree
The MDC Manicaland Province has rapped President Emmerson Mnangagwa for violating his own decree that gatherings of 100 and more people is ban after he held a rally that had more than thousand p...Published: 19 Mar 2020 at 13:48hrs | 1285 | by Stephen Jakes
Muchinguri heckled over diplomat gaffe
DEFENCE minister Oppah Muchinguru was yesterday heckled in the National Assembly by opposition MPs, who shouted "coronavirus" as she presented the Veterans of the Liberation Struggle Bill for a Second...Published: 18 Mar 2020 at 07:14hrs | 8390 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa urges empathy amid coronavirus menace
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has differed with his excitable defence minister Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri who said Friday the coronavirus outbreak that has devastated China and parts of Europe was God's ...Published: 18 Mar 2020 at 07:11hrs | 722 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa throws Muchinguri under the bus
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday threw his Defence minister - Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri - under the bus when he rebuked her for claiming that the deadly coronavirus which has wreaked havoc across...Published: 17 Mar 2020 at 13:12hrs | 10207 | by Staff reporter
Zanu PF disrupts Parliament business
Zanu PF MPs have gone all out to disrupt Parliament business by seeking to ensure that all committees chaired by MDC legislators do not conduct meetings until the party accepts the illegitimate Mr Dam...Published: 17 Mar 2020 at 09:23hrs | 3032 | by Prosper Chapfiwa Mutseyami
Reckless statement about the deadly coronavirus made by a reckless Zimbabwean minister
The comments made by Minister Oppah Muchinguri about the deadly Coronavirus that it is the work of God punishing the West for sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe leaves a lot to be desired. It's a total dis...Published: 17 Mar 2020 at 09:17hrs | 2021 | by Netsayi Makarichi
BREAKING: Chiwenga airlifted to China
Ailing VP Constantino Chiwenga was in fact airlifted to China Sunday, as health woes continue to dog the powerful former military commander. This comes after Chiwenga was reported to not feeli...Published: 17 Mar 2020 at 06:49hrs | 18851 | by Staff reporter
Chief Samambwa spills the beans on Zimbabwe's 2018 elections
CHIEF Samambwa, from Midlands province, has spilled the beans, revealing that traditional leaders in the province campaigned for President Emmerson Mnangagwa in the 2018 general elections and vowed to...Published: 17 Mar 2020 at 06:43hrs | 4801 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa slams Muchinguri
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa says Defence Minister Oppah Muchinguri must withdraw claims the deadly novel coronavirus was God's curse on countries that imposed sanctions on Zimbabwe.Chamisa was s...Published: 17 Mar 2020 at 06:30hrs | 2001 | by Staff reporter
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