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2 dead after Mnangagwa campaign rally blast
The State-run media say two people have died of their injuries from Saturday's explosion at a presidential campaign rally.The Chronicle newspaper says officials at Mpilo hospital confirmed the...Published: 3 mins ago | 25 | by AFP
Of weak candidates in a purportedly strong alliance
Stronger! Together! So goes one of the MDC-Alliance slogans. From this slogan one gets the idea that the seven parties that make up the Alliance came together with the aim to better their chances agai...Published: 10 mins ago | 20 | by Mapozho Saruchera
Bombs have 'no place in democratic elections,' says President Ramaphosa - ED is rigging, so stop wittering!
"Kamoto kamberevere ndikokano pisa matanda mberi!" (It is the unattended small fire that will burn down the forest!) Shona elders advise. There is no denying that Zimbabwe is in a serious econ...Published: 23 mins ago | 203 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Mnangagawa's office denies any hand in bomb attack
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's office yesterday denied stage-managing a bomb blast in the second capital as a pretext to hunt down and silence political opponents linked to the country's sulking forme...Published: 31 mins ago | 446 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa likely to amend Constitution to realise dream
President Emmerson Mnangagwa is likely to amend the Constitution to enable him to stand as a presidential candidate for three terms following his recent pronouncements in Gweru that he will lead the c...Published: 33 mins ago | 198 | by Staff reporter
Security breaches since 15 November Zimbabwe coup
Since coming to power through military assistance in November 2017‚ Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa has sought to do things differently compared to his predecessor‚ Robert Mugabe‚ but that...Published: 3 hrs ago | 2277 | by TimesLive
Chamisa should check his ego for the sake of Zimbabwe's future
The Book of James says "God opposes the proud but shows favour to the humble."Perhaps Pastor Nelson Chamisa would do well to reread his Bible every now and again, because it is replete with op...Published: 4 hrs ago | 1699 | by Faith Hope
MDC Alliance tightens bolts on rebels
The MDC Alliance, the biggest opposition party in the country is working 24 hours to persuade rebel candidates who filed nomination papers against party decision to withdraw from the race before this ...Published: 5 hrs ago | 2348 | by A Mhlongo
Chamisa fingers Khupe in rigging plot
MDC Alliance presidential candidate Nelson Chamisa has sensationally claimed the existence of an axis of evil involving the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) Zanu-PF and his former colleague turned ...Published: 5 hrs ago | 3458 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa bomb blast a typical ploy to tarnish Matebeleland
ZAPU has described the blast which rocked White City Stadium in Bulawayo on Saturday during a Zanu-PF rally as an act of terrorism meant to tarnish Matebeleland province."Zapu is concerned and...Published: 5 hrs ago | 2024 | by Staff reporter
Violence, bomb attacks unacceptable, regrettable
THE cowardly grenade attack on Saturday at President Emmerson Mnangagwa's campaign rally in Bulawayo is most regrettable and must be strongly condemned for what it is, especially for a country with no...Published: 6 hrs ago | 372 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa plays the tribalism card
MDC Alliance presidential candidate Nelson Chamisa has called for compulsory teaching of local languages in primary school as a means of reversing "language imperialism".Addressing a bumper cr...Published: 6 hrs ago | 1222 | by Staff reporter
Air Zimbabwe leaves passengers stranded
Scores of passengers were left stranded at Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport yesterday morning after an Air Zimbabwe flight to Bulawayo took to the skies two hours earlier than scheduled....Published: 6 hrs ago | 1136 | by Staff reporter
'Zanu-PF hoodwinked us'
Seven months after helping President Emmerson Mnangagwa wrestle power from his mentor Robert Mugabe, war veterans are crying foul claiming there is a plot to sideline them in Zanu-PF.The war v...Published: 6 hrs ago | 821 | by Staffr eporter
Chingwizi ghost still haunts Bhasikiti in Mwenezi East
THE ghost of 18 000 Tokwe-Mukosi flood victims dumped in the inhabitable Chingwizi Ranch and unfairly treated by government lurks over former Masvingo Provincial Affairs Minister Kudakwashe Bhasikiti ...Published: 7 hrs ago | 774 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa needs a miracle, says Chamisa
MDC-T leader and MDC Alliance presidential candidate Nelson Chamisa yesterday declared that next month's general elections can only be adjudged as free and fair if he wins the presidential race agains...Published: 7 hrs ago | 1467 | by Staff rpeorter
Mnangagwa to commission Hwange expansion project
President Mnangagwa is on Wednesday expected to preside over the ground-breaking ceremony for the expansion of Hwange Thermal Power Station, which is estimated to cost $1,5 billion.The expansi...Published: 7 hrs ago | 158 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa humbled by support
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday said he was humbled by the outpouring of love and compassion from Zimbabweans following an attempt on his life at White City Stadium in Bulawayo.Prelimin...Published: 7 hrs ago | 406 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's escape: Dark symbolism, darker plot
The apparent attempt on the life of President Mnangagwa at White City Stadium in Bulawayo on Saturday is a twist to a story that was already fraught with symbolism. Mnangagwa addressed thousands of Za...Published: 7 hrs ago | 686 | by Tichaona Zindoga
Bomb blast at White City Stadium Bulawayo
The government must deploy more security personnel as we draw near the harmonised elections in a couple of weeks to come.We seem to be heading for a political turbulence in the country as we n...Published: 8 hrs ago | 2295 | by Leonard Koni
Bulawayo Bomb Blast
It was in a rally in Gutu early 1981, when Mugabe was almost assassinated. Shiri and Rugeje were there attending that rally. The blame was squarely put on ZPRA/ ZAPU and Nkomo. There was chaos on that...Published: 16 hrs ago | 3360 | by Clive Zulu
History repeating itself yet again! The arms catch in the 1980s versus Bombing in White City today
This bombing had to happen right in the city of Kings and Queens: Bulawayo. It was well staged to the extent that the bomber was not captured. The perpetrator of the silly bombing could not have escap...Published: 16 hrs ago | 2428 | by Nomazulu Thata
MDC Alliance fears crackdown after Mnangagwa bombing
Opposition leaders in Zimbabwe fear the bombing of a ruling party election rally on Saturday will serve as a pretext for a wide-ranging crackdown by the government or the military in the southern Afri...Published: 22 hrs ago | 5103 | by theguardian
Mnangagwa rules out state of emergency after bomb attack
Presidential spokesperson has ruled out a state of emergency after an explosion at the president's campaign rally on Saturday that state media has called an assassination attempt.George Charam...Published: 22 hrs ago | 2540 | by AP
Cash shortages now Zimbabwe's major election issue
The leader of Zimbabwe main opposition party, Nelson Chamisa, alighted from his car, grabbed a microphone and made a bold promise to scrap bond notes if he wins the July 30 presidential election to st...Published: 22 hrs ago | 1276 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa calls assassination attempt 'cowardly act'
President Emmerson Mnangagwa was unscathed Saturday by an explosion at his Bulawayo campaign rally that state media called an attempt to assassinate him, later visiting his two injured vice presidents...Published: 22 hrs ago | 401 | by AP
Mujuru, Khupe in battle to be Zimbabwe's first female president
Former vice-president Joice Mujuru and ex-deputy prime minister Thokozani Khupe present the best chance for Zimbabwe to get its first female leader, but the two will have to move mountains for them to...Published: 22 hrs ago | 356 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe, allies organised starvation during Gukurahundi
This paper explores an episode of state-perpetrated extreme mass violence and atrocities in south-west Zimbabwe in the 1980s, with specific focus on Matabeleland South between February and April 1984,...Published: 22 hrs ago | 622 | by Hazel Cameron
Chipanga enters political ring
WITH 26 albums to his name and tired of being relegated to the periphery of real political life as a joker – someone devoid of being taken seriously, Hosiah ''Kwachukwachu'' Chipanga believes ...Published: 22 hrs ago | 1098 | by Staff reporter
Removing the political teeth of tyrannism
REMOVING THE POLITICAL TEETH OF TYRANNISM: Who among Zimbabwe political opposition coalitions shares a clear governance vision?...Published: 24 Jun 2018 at 10:49hrs | 210 | by Andrew Manyevere
Mnangagwa's White City explosion staged
Mthwakazi activist Hloniphani Ncube said the President Emmerson Mnangagwa's alleged assassination attempt was stage managed."I am one of the people who believe that the people of Mthwakazi are...Published: 24 Jun 2018 at 10:43hrs | 4050 | by Stephen Jakes
'I am used to these (bomb, etc.) attempts,' boasted ED - you have a thick skin, povo are ones dying like flies
"President Emmerson Mnangagwa, who survived a blast at a ruling Zanu-PF party rally on Saturday, suggested he was the target of the attack which left one of his vice-presidents wounded," reported AFP....Published: 24 Jun 2018 at 08:15hrs | 1963 | by Wilbert Mukori
Could the Bulawayo Zanu-PF skirmish be internal or staged however we view it?
The violence perpetrated at the Zanu-PF rally in Bulawayo on Friday 22 June 2018 is an act of barbarism founded on fear to promote instability against excellent prospects for a successful and peaceful...Published: 24 Jun 2018 at 08:13hrs | 3743 | by Andrew Manyevere
Was Mnangagwa really meant to be killed - or was it something else?
I am not an explosives expert, or a security fundi, but the explosion that rocked ZANU PF and Zimbabwe President Emmerson Dambudzo Mangwana's rally yesterday raises more questions than answers, as it ...Published: 24 Jun 2018 at 08:09hrs | 6602 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe President survives bomb explosion
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has survived a bomb attack in the city of Bulawayo.Footage from the blast at White City Stadium appears to show Mr Mnangagwa leaving the stage after addressing sup...Published: 23 Jun 2018 at 15:20hrs | 9926 | by BBC
Mnangagwa is a different person, he has learned
IN his well-cut suit, with outstretched hand and beaming smile, Sibusiso Moyo is the very picture of a modern politician.He speaks softly, smoothly and pauses to listen as if he had spent year...Published: 23 Jun 2018 at 15:14hrs | 2771 | by BBC
Chamisa victory not guaranteed, dynamics long changed
A Chisumbanje-based youth empowerment lobby group, Platform for Youth Development Trust (PYD), which said managed to convince, recruit and register 200 000 virgin voters in Manicaland province for the...Published: 23 Jun 2018 at 15:12hrs | 1609 | by newzimbabwe
Advice to MDC Allians:Know what to oppose and what to support
The opposition politicians must know what to oppose and what to support unless if they want to lose respect in the eyes of the citizens . There are people who just oppose something without reasoning s...Published: 23 Jun 2018 at 13:12hrs | 757 | by Erick Matotoba
ED is leading us away from Pharoah and towards the Promised Land
The new Zimbabwe that everyone talks about is surely upon us. We see signs of it all around.Even if we have yet to reach the Promised Land, it is clear that we have left the bondage of Egypt l...Published: 23 Jun 2018 at 13:04hrs | 495 | by Joice Tsitsi
Mnangagwa recounts poisoning incident
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday recounted the day he was poisoned while attending a Zanu-PF rally in Gwanda last August.Mnangagwa who was then the Vice President, had to be airlifted to...Published: 23 Jun 2018 at 06:49hrs | 2025 | by Staff Reporter
'Only ED deserve your vote,' argue Dr Mavaza - how so, fool; he is one wielding the veto
People like Dr Masimba Mavaza have such poor memory, they forget yesterday's troubles with sleep. "Kukangamwa chezuro nehope!" as one would say in Shona."The world believes that only ZANU PF h...Published: 22 Jun 2018 at 17:06hrs | 1508 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Chamisa should stop spreading 'fake news'
As we get nearer to the elections, the lies get stronger and more outlandish.One example is Nelson Chamisa's recent pronouncement that his opposition was making attempts on his life."I...Published: 22 Jun 2018 at 16:57hrs | 2789 | by Knowledge Moyo
Mnangagwa stop lying there is no democracy in Zimbabwe
Revolutionary greetings comrades. The elections are around the corner, yet the atmospere is as quiet as if the elections are not anywhere close. Does this mean that the electorate now cares less about...Published: 22 Jun 2018 at 16:31hrs | 1560 | by Khulani David Ndhlovu
Who is who on the Zimbabwe campaign trail?
A TOTAL of 23 candidates successfully filed their nomination papers last week enabling them to run in the presidential elections to be held on July 30, although it is self-evident the real race will b...Published: 22 Jun 2018 at 15:06hrs | 739 | by Staff reporter
Parties, media to witness ballot paper printing
POLITICAL parties and journalists are today expected to visit and witness ballot paper printing at the state-owned Fidelity Printers & Refiners and Printflow Pvt Ltd which have been contracted to ...Published: 22 Jun 2018 at 14:57hrs | 958 | by Staff reporter
Maphosa seeks safe haven in Zimbabwe
South Africa-based Zimbabwean business mogul and Big Strategic Group boss Justice Maphosa, who has of late been in trouble over citizenship and tax fraud issues, is set to make massive investments acr...Published: 22 Jun 2018 at 14:54hrs | 2727 | by Staff reporter
Nkosana Moyo's unorthodox campaign plan unpacked
SITTING outside a restaurant overlooking the immaculate greenery of Royal Harare Golf Club, the Zimbabwe Independent news crew can see a group of professional golfers going about their practice sessio...Published: 22 Jun 2018 at 14:49hrs | 737 | by Tinashe Kairiza
Appointment of Zimbabwe judges opens can of worms
LEGAL experts have demanded that the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) releases the scoresheets of candidates who were publicly interviewed for four advertised Supreme Court judges' vacancies, as they...Published: 22 Jun 2018 at 14:46hrs | 1087 | by Staff reporter
The 'ED effect' is already boosting our economy and saving us money
Since President Emmerson Mnangagwa came into office, he has brought a new way of thinking to the Zimbabwean economy. He has touted free trade principles and opened up the country to unprecedented inve...Published: 22 Jun 2018 at 12:51hrs | 2098 | by Mike Tawanda
Chiwenga tightens grip on Zimbabwe government
VICE President Constatino Chiwenga has been given new responsibilities to administer Zimbabwe's public procurement processes, anti-corruption drive and key components of the Home Affairs ministry, ign...Published: 22 Jun 2018 at 10:14hrs | 8051 | by Staff reporter
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