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Motorists evade checkpoints
Motorists are evading police checkpoints and using alternative routes into Harare's central business district (CBD) where vehicular traffic has significantly increased over the past few days despite t...Published: 19 hrs ago | 434 | by Staff reporter
Sell-outs: are they going to be exonerated if they contributed to the Mthwakazi-begging kitty?
There are three appeals in Mthwakazi region taking rounds: one was done by Comrade Ezra Tshisa Sibanda: he is appealing to the public to contribute to his crowdfunding, the money he is going to use to...Published: 08 Apr 2020 at 18:01hrs | 3011 | by Nomazulu Thata
Details surrounding death of Bulawayo Coronavirus patient emerge
A confidential document surrounding the death of a 79-year-old Bulawayo man who died of Coronavirus has revealed that the patient's samples could not be taken to Harare on time because of lockdown reg...Published: 08 Apr 2020 at 14:08hrs | 3154 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Govt to expedite Covid-19 testing, treatment & isolation centres
GOVERNMENT has resolved to expedite and prioritise the establishment of Covid-19 testing, treatment and isolation centres in provinces and districts in line with the thrust of decentralisation of test...Published: 08 Apr 2020 at 07:53hrs | 134 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe brought army Commanders to a Cabinet meeting to confront G40
In 2017, President Robert Mugabe invited military Generals led by General Constantino Chiwenga to come and defend the controversial Command Agriculture project that gobbled about Three billion United ...Published: 07 Apr 2020 at 22:41hrs | 5396 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe's Lockdown brings prejudice to over 96 percent Informal Workers
The announcement by Emmerson Mnangagwa, president of Zimbabwe to put the country under a 21-day lockdown amid the widespread of the coronavirus pandemic was welcomed by most citizens, but the 96 perce...Published: 07 Apr 2020 at 15:11hrs | 525 | by Prince Njagu
'Nothing can sanitise Chamisa's illegal transgressions' says Chamboko - Hear! Hear!
Dear Moses Chamboko, Thank you very much for your sober analysis of the recent Supreme Court judgement on the legality of Chamisa's takeover of the MDC-T following Tsvangirai's death. The fact...Published: 07 Apr 2020 at 15:04hrs | 2249 | by Wilbert Mukori
Ministry of Health latest information on Coronavirus
The Ministry of Health has says Zimbabwe has only one Coronavirus testing centre located at Sally Mugabe Central Hospital in Harare and it ahs a capacity of carrying out 400 tests a day. In a ...Published: 07 Apr 2020 at 12:46hrs | 2530 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Ex-Tsvangirai aide attacks MDC officials for resisting Supreme Court ruling
MAXWELL Shumba, a former chief strategist to the now late MDC founding president, Morgan Tsvangirai, has labelled senior MDC Alliance officials and their supporters a disappointment for dismissing a r...Published: 07 Apr 2020 at 08:09hrs | 1503 | by Staff reporter
Constitutionalism not populism will take Zimbabwe forward
From the outset, let me make it abundantly clear that I am neither a member of ZANU PF nor of any permutation of the MDC. If I say anything that you may n...Published: 07 Apr 2020 at 07:07hrs | 696 | by Moses Chamboko
Mnangagwa's New Dispensation lacks communication strategy
The ordinary person at the grass-roots level is constantly asking the question: what has President Emmerson Mnangagwa achieved since he became President.President ED Mnangagwa in his opening r...Published: 06 Apr 2020 at 13:27hrs | 1484 | by Nicholas Ncube
Lockdown: Police demand 'risk allowance' bribes from public
Police manning roadblocks in Zimbabwe's roads top enforced the 21-day lock down declared by President Emmerson Mnangagwa are demanding bribes termed as "r...Published: 06 Apr 2020 at 12:34hrs | 1134 | by Moyo Roy
'Thabani Mpofu now runs MDC from his law firm,' claims Komichi
MDC-T national chairperson Morgen Komichi said he advised MDC alliance leader Nelson Chamisa against appealing the High court judgment that nullified his ascendancy within the party leadership after M...Published: 06 Apr 2020 at 09:39hrs | 5424 | by Staff reporter
Thomas Mapfumo's choices affected by his old age, says Mutodi
The Deputy Minister of Information, Energy Mutodi has said that Zimbabwean music icon, Thomas "Mukanya" Mapfumo's political choices are affected by his old age.Posting on Twitter, Mutodi a for...Published: 06 Apr 2020 at 09:10hrs | 2078 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa was warned against appealing High Court judgment
MDC-T national chairperson Morgen Komichi said he advised MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa against appealing the High court judgment that nullified his ascendancy within the party leadership after M...Published: 06 Apr 2020 at 09:09hrs | 1905 | by Staff reporter
Joshua Nkomo betrayed Zipra, writes Obert Mpofu
THE late former Vice-President Joshua Nkomo's participation in the 1979 Lancaster House talks was frowned upon by the military element in his-PF-Zapu, Zipra, which felt the negotiations were a "self-c...Published: 06 Apr 2020 at 08:26hrs | 4251 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's youths threaten protests after lockdown
Militant MDC youths have threatened rolling protests soon after the 21-day national lockdown to force President Emmerson Mnangagwa to step down and allow the formation of the National Transitional Aut...Published: 06 Apr 2020 at 08:18hrs | 2437 | by Staff reporter
The plot to keep Douglas Mwonzora out of power
MDC has an engine running twenty four hours. This is the engine of scheming and plotting The party is now not stable and fear exists,power struggle manifests itself As the establishment's need t...Published: 05 Apr 2020 at 20:07hrs | 5602 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Jonathan Moyo doesn't need Nelson Chamisa
Two days after former President Robert Mugabe fired Professor Jonathan Moyo, I received a meeting request from the former information and publicity minister. It was a crazy, unpredictable time....Published: 05 Apr 2020 at 11:49hrs | 6470 | by Tafi Mhaka
Mnangagwa's allies 'grab' Ziscosteel properties amid fears of total collapse
'Vultures' are not waiting for the death of the Zimbabwe Iron and Steel Company (Ziscosteel), but are instead flying low for the kill, eyeing its mega-million assets, among them the steelworks' real e...Published: 05 Apr 2020 at 08:58hrs | 13647 | by Staff reporter
So the capital will be in Mt Hampden after all
THE decision to locate Zimbabwe's new capital at Mount Hampden will indeed go down in history as the only decision that deserved poetic justice in memory of an episode whereby African nationalism and ...Published: 05 Apr 2020 at 08:55hrs | 1514 | by Jonathan Maphenduka
IMF warns of adverse Covid-19 impact on Zimbabwe's economy
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned that Zimbabwe's economy is likely to take a battering from the coronavirus outbreak that has paralysed the world as it would make it harder to balance ...Published: 05 Apr 2020 at 08:52hrs | 362 | by Staff reporter
'Welshman Ncube deliberately setting up Chamisa for failure so that you take over from him in 2024'
MDC top politicians, Welshman Ncube and Douglas Mwonzora have had ugly exchanges on twitter with the latter accusing the party vice president of plotting a coup against disputed party leader Nelson Ch...Published: 05 Apr 2020 at 08:21hrs | 1340 | by newzimbabwe
Zimbabwe@ 40: Joshua Nkomo and the Liberation Footpath (Part 2)
The Lancaster Conference and the Build-up to Nkomo's temporary setbackIn 1979, Nkomo's Zapu and Mugabe's Zanu delegations under the PF banner took part in the final push for diplomatic transit...Published: 05 Apr 2020 at 08:15hrs | 247 | by Obert Mpofu
Zimbabwe mum over 'Italian national' turned back from OR Tambo
Zimbabwean officials were tight-lipped on Thursday after a charter aircraft originating from Harare was turned away by authorities at OR Tambo International Airport in South Africa – exposing lapses...Published: 04 Apr 2020 at 12:18hrs | 4427 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo threatens to expose Mwonzora
Professor Jonathan Moyo has threatened to expose how MDC leader Douglas Mwonzora sent him a message begging for money to fight Nelson Chamisa. Moyo was responding to Mwonzora, "In 2002...Published: 04 Apr 2020 at 11:38hrs | 7596 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe white farmers reject Mnangagwa's offer
A FORTNIGHT ago, President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government a said it was offering about 800 commercial farms as compensation to farmers who had lost their land during the violent land seizures that be...Published: 04 Apr 2020 at 08:38hrs | 4960 | by newzimbabwe
CAAZ probes charter plane incident
THE Civil Aviation Authority of Zimbabwe (CAAZ) is investigating reports that a private charter plane from Zimbabwe was on Wednesday turned away at OR Tambo International Airport in South Africa. ...Published: 04 Apr 2020 at 08:16hrs | 537 | by Staff reporter
Wasted 40 years of uhuru
As we celebrate the country's independence this month most of our faces are gloomy and crying with no hope for the future.When the late former President took over from the colonial system led ...Published: 03 Apr 2020 at 20:29hrs | 825 | by Leonard Koni
Coronavirus to push Zimbabwe to the brink?
With Zimbabwe's health-care sector crippled by a strike by doctors and nurses, underfunding and years of general neglect, fears are growing that Covid-19 will hit the troubled country very hard....Published: 03 Apr 2020 at 08:20hrs | 249 | by Financial Mail
Mwonzora's hands are clean
Embattled MDC deputy secretary for International Relations Douglas Mwonzora has said his hands are clean and he is not leading any faction plotting to depose the party's leader Nelson Chamisa....Published: 02 Apr 2020 at 19:25hrs | 3043 | by Staff reporter
ZANU PF refuses to grant Clark Mpofu national hero status
May Clark Mpofu's soul rest in eternal peace and may his gallant deeds be forever etched in the hearts and minds of those who care to know the truth about his sterling contribution which is a painful ...Published: 02 Apr 2020 at 15:33hrs | 4248 | by Moses Mzila Ndlovu
Mnangagwa not the change that Zimbabwe needs!
During the course of my life I heard three stories that I dismissed as mere jokes. Firstly a human resources lecturer once told us that he once came come across a white colour employee that did not kn...Published: 02 Apr 2020 at 11:17hrs | 1006 | by Ishemunyoro Mupokosera
Clark Mpofu: Zanu-PF had no reason to declare him a national hero
May Clark Mpofu's soul rest in eternal peace and may his gallant deeds be forever etched in the hearts and minds of those who care to know the truth about his sterling contribution which is a painful ...Published: 01 Apr 2020 at 18:58hrs | 4193 | by Moses Mzila Ndlovu
SA bank repossesses Grace Mugabe son's R1.2-million Range Rover
South African bank repossesses Grace Mugabe son's R1.2-million Range Rover.A top of the range luxury vehicle belonging to Grace Mugabe's son from her first marriage, Russell Goreraza, has been...Published: 01 Apr 2020 at 10:31hrs | 8823 | by Staff reporter
Can the judiciary choose for the people?
Zimbabwean politics is a joke and it is now at its rotten state. Politics and judiciary are never near each other. The juduciary consists of lawyers, laws and judges whilst politics has people, ...Published: 01 Apr 2020 at 10:01hrs | 793 | by Leonard Koni
Mnangagwa's govt should enforce lockdown to save lives
THE world over, the major news is only about one thing, coronavirus or COVID-19. Countries, cities and states are going into lockdowns to contain a blowout of this fast-spreading virus which has left ...Published: 01 Apr 2020 at 07:50hrs | 929 | by Staff reporter
Re-imagining the post-COVID-19 political scene in Zimbabwe
There is no denying that the global pandemic figuratively known as COVID-19 has disrupted our everyday lives. Even our economies have ground to a halt. Our educational institutions have been for...Published: 01 Apr 2020 at 07:50hrs | 215 | by Admire Mare
Politics in Zimbabwe is a game with no rules
Zimbabwe's political field is a game with no rules. It is a game any player can just enter provided he/she meets the right age. It does not matter whether the individual fully ascribes to the dos and ...Published: 01 Apr 2020 at 07:28hrs | 248 | by Obert Gutu
Zimbabweans still in bondage in 'Egypt' - we're still awaiting our Moses to deliver us
It is always common knowledge that whenever political leaders - with the help of their sidekicks, mouthpieces, and praise singers - resort to misinterpreting biblical scriptures to justify and defend ...Published: 31 Mar 2020 at 12:17hrs | 817 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
WATCH: Zimbabwean police soiling the war against Covid-19
The President of Zimbabwe cde Dambudzo Mnangagwa introduced drastic new measures to curb the spread of coronavirus, including banning public meetings of more than two people who do not live together....Published: 31 Mar 2020 at 11:17hrs | 3966 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
'Nust well-equipped for Covid-19 tests'
THE National University of Science and Technology (Nust)'s Applied Genetic Testing Centre has the capacity to test for coronavirus, the germ that causes Covid-19. In an interview yesterday, th...Published: 31 Mar 2020 at 07:55hrs | 512 | by Staff reporter
ZimFirst taking Zimbabwe to the future
Zimbabwe has been groaning under the pains of corruption cronyism and relentless looting by the ZANU PF and its vampires. As Zimbabweans we hoped for a land of milk and honey managed by ourselves for ...Published: 31 Mar 2020 at 07:47hrs | 284 | by Dr Maxwell Shumba ZimFirst President
Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF suspends DCC elections
THE Zanu-PF Mashonaland Central provincial executive has suspended its district co-ordinating committee (DCC) elections that were scheduled for this month, citing health threats posed by the coronavir...Published: 30 Mar 2020 at 08:28hrs | 192 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans fear 'starving in their own homes' during lockdown
Zimbabweans braced on Sunday for a three-week lock-down to curb the spread of the coronavirus which has killed one person so far and infected six others, and for many the lockdown means tough times ah...Published: 29 Mar 2020 at 19:55hrs | 1502 | by AFP
Zimbabwe@ 40: Joshua Nkomo and the Liberation Footpath (Part 2)
This is a continuation of the instalment published last week in this paper.It is also believed that Dr Nkomo's decision to take part in Lancaster Conference was largely driven by the advice he...Published: 29 Mar 2020 at 07:30hrs | 305 | by Dr Obert Mpofu
Sex workers scramble for operating space
STANDING at a dimly lit street corner opposite a once-popular nightclub in Bulawayo, five skimpily dressed sex workers flag down passing vehicles and individuals on foot soliciting for clients....Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 13:49hrs | 2313 | by Staff reporter
'Chamisa refused to meet Mnangagwa and Mbeki at State House'
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa refused to meet President Emmerson Mnangagwa and South African politician Thabo Mbeki at the State House for a political and economic dialogue. South Africa's Institu...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 11:36hrs | 9086 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Jonathan Moyo farm tussle in dramatic turn
IN a dramatic turn of events, Lands, Agriculture and Rural Resettlement minister Perrance Shiri has poured cold water on exiled former minister Jonathan Moyo's court application against the seizure of...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 08:08hrs | 8040 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa office's corruption exposed
A DAMNING audit report has implicated the Office of the President and Cabinet (OPC) in a murky deal in which it arm-twisted Zesa Holdings into handpicking businessperson Kuda Tagwirei's company, Sakun...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 08:06hrs | 2835 | by Staff reporter
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