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Mnangagwa crafts crude strategy to stay in power
IN December 2014, the late Zanu-PF Women's League national secretary Shuvai Mahofa collapsed after spending two hours singing and dancing in support of the then First Lady Grace Mugabe. Mahofa...Published: 20 Nov 2022 at 15:41hrs | 1051 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa speaks on 2023 polls prospects, accepting results
A wave of opposition victories in the Sadc region over the past two years has elicited mixed reactions from political parties in Zimbabwe.The opposition says this is a sign that the tide was c...Published: 20 Nov 2022 at 15:40hrs | 433 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa 'mutilates' Zanu-PF constitution
Zanu-PF president and first secretary Emmerson Mnangagwa has mutilated the party constitution introducing sweeping changes, ostensibly, to remove some provisions that hounded his firm grip to power....Published: 18 Nov 2022 at 05:44hrs | 2915 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa seeks legacy after outfoxing internal rivals
President Emmerson Mnangagwa emerged the ultimate winner after the 7th Zanu-PF congress riding over challenges, some perceived, with structures overwhelmingly endorsing him to lead the party for the n...Published: 14 Nov 2022 at 05:18hrs | 742 | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere lives in fear in Joburg as Harare steps up pressure
SELF-EXILED former Zimbabwean minister and Zanu-PF political heavyweight Saviour Kasukuwere is living in fear in Johannesburg, South Africa, as the Harare government steps up pressure behind the scene...Published: 13 Nov 2022 at 17:47hrs | 3964 | by Staff reporter
'Chiwenga down but not out'
ALLIES of Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga, who was brought to his knees by President Emmerson Mnangagwa - literally and metaphorically - at the crucial Zanu-PF congress last weekend, say the forme...Published: 06 Nov 2022 at 11:50hrs | 8622 | by Staff reporter
'Liberation museum sitting on goldfield'
SATELLITE images dating back to 1985 show that the famed US$40 million Museum of African Liberation project is being constructed on a goldfield, the Zimbabwe Independent reported.According to ...Published: 04 Nov 2022 at 05:31hrs | 1320 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga's humiliation complete
Zanu-PF co-deputy president Constantino Chiwenga has effectively conceded defeat by announcing his arch-rival, President Emmerson Mnangagwa, as the sole presidential candidate for the ruling party ahe...Published: 31 Oct 2022 at 18:53hrs | 8588 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF congress: The Great Betrayal
IF the late former Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Douglas Smith felt betrayed by the British government and his allies - including apartheid South Africa - whom he expected to side with him to keep Rhod...Published: 31 Oct 2022 at 18:52hrs | 812 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa recycles deadwood
Some forgotten Zanu-PF stalwarts had their political careers resurrected at the ruling party's just ended congress after spending years in the cold following the creation of a council of elders and ap...Published: 30 Oct 2022 at 06:57hrs | 1002 | by Staff rporter
Mnangagwa coronation day
NONE gave the Chevrons a chance against Pakistan in a Super 12 stage at the T20 Cricket World Cup currently underway in Australia. It is a biblical David v Goliath story and the Chevrons passed the te...Published: 29 Oct 2022 at 19:40hrs | 739 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Zanu-PF congress: Fireworks expected
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa will storm into next week's Zanu-PF elective congress seeking to tighten his grip on power as his age is likely to trigger a fierce succession debate.The ruling pa...Published: 24 Oct 2022 at 18:33hrs | 740 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa crafts crude strategy to stay in power, revels in adulation
IN December 2014, the late Zanu-PF Women's League national secretary Shuvai Mahofa collapsed after spending two hours singing and dancing in support of the then First Lady Grace Mugabe. Mahofa...Published: 23 Oct 2022 at 09:20hrs | 441 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo Chiefs in Chibuku Super Cup final
BULAWAYO Chiefs and Herentals wrote their own piece of history by booking their first appearance in the final of the Chibuku Super Cup to be played on November 19 at Barbourfields Stadium in Bulawayo....Published: 17 Oct 2022 at 06:07hrs | 296 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa ring-fences Zanu-PF allies
SEVERAL Zanu-PF bigwigs - among them politburo members Christopher Mutsvangwa, Ziyambi Ziyambi, Obert Mpofu and Kenneth Musanhi - sailed through the central committee uncontested at the we...Published: 11 Oct 2022 at 06:09hrs | 4050 | by Staff reporter
Fraud-accused socialite cleared to contest Zanu-PF elections
Zanu-PF has given the nod to socialite Mike Chimombe's candidature to stand in the weekend elections for the ruling party's Central Committee (CC).The polls are being fiercely contested amid a...Published: 06 Oct 2022 at 06:08hrs | 2246 | by Staff reporter
Musengezi finds company in Mnangagwa challenge
ACADEMIC and Friends of Shabani, Mashava Mine Trust member Tichaona Mupasiri on Monday filed an application for a joinder in the case in which Zanu-PF member Sybeth Musengezi is seeking to stop the pa...Published: 05 Oct 2022 at 06:37hrs | 2003 | by Staff reporter
Why Zanu, Zanu-PF were successful in the 1970s, 80s and 90s
I was in a meeting recently when someone who is not a member of Zanu or Zanu-PF asked the question: Why was Zanu and Zanu-PF successful in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s and not successful after 2001? ...Published: 25 Sep 2022 at 16:48hrs | 617 | by Fay Chung
3,000 hectares of wheat in Mat North
FARMERS in Matabeleland North have increased their wheat hectarage from last year's 950 hectares to about 3 000 hectares as the province moves towards enhancing the country's food security and attainm...Published: 22 Sep 2022 at 05:57hrs | 82 | by Staff reporter
Croco Motors managers in deep trouble
Reports reaching this reporter indicate that Croco Motors managers are reportedly in trouble after reports emerged alleging that Croco motors botched a Mercedes Benz service deal and went on to intimi...Published: 21 Sep 2022 at 13:33hrs | 4069 | by Mandla Ndlovu
2 jailed for trying to smuggle lithium ore to SA
TWO Mutoko men appeared at the Mutoko Magistrates Court on Wednesday charged with attempting to smuggle 40 tonnes of lithium ore out of the country using a South African registered truck.Livin...Published: 19 Sep 2022 at 06:02hrs | 682 | by Staff reporter
300 industries for Cowdray Park
BULAWAYO is establishing industries in Cowdray Park suburb and nearly 300 industrial stands are set for development in the city's most populous suburb.According to the 2022 Population Census p...Published: 09 Sep 2022 at 06:01hrs | 424 | by Staff reporter
'We did not send you to unseat the leadership'
We resume our interview with former ZPRA guerilla and now Zanu-PF Secretary for Administration Dr Obert Moses Mpofu who during the armed struggle was also known as Cde Mzandeki. Dr Mpofu who joined th...Published: 04 Sep 2022 at 07:56hrs | 1747 | by Staff reporter
Is Auxillia Mnangagwa following in 'Gucci' Grace's path?
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa was sworn in as interim leader during a colourful ceremony at the National Sports Stadium in Harare, after the ouster of the late former President Robert Mugabe in a coup ...Published: 02 Sep 2022 at 06:52hrs | 2474 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga allies cry Mnangagwa betrayal
WHILE the poisoned relations between President Emmerson Mnangagwa and Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga are hardly spoken about publicly, close allies say the former army commander feels betrayed by...Published: 20 Aug 2022 at 17:06hrs | 6137 | by Staff reporter
'Zanu-PF bootlickers were Mnangagwa's back stabbers during Mugabe era'
SOME high-ranking Zanu-PF officials who were staunchly opposed to President Emmerson Mnangagwa taking over the reins from late former president Robert Mugabe, but are now his loudest praise singers, a...Published: 16 Aug 2022 at 06:43hrs | 3973 | by Staff reporter
Fallen heroes' spirits speak out
SPIRITS of freedom fighters, who died during Zimbabwe's 1970s war of liberation, have reportedly expressed their displeasure at how those in Zanu-PF have forgotten their promises to the fallen heroes....Published: 09 Aug 2022 at 08:24hrs | 831 | by Staff reporter
'Military running Zimbabwe affairs'
ZIMBABWE has been described as a military-run State whose future is being determined by the army.This was revealed on Monday during a Twitter space discussion hosted by Open Parly, which discu...Published: 27 Jul 2022 at 06:33hrs | 8084 | by Staff reporter
Cowdray Park: It's not a suburb, it's a town
THE number of people in Cowdray Park suburb has grown exponentially, surpassing towns such as Gwanda at a time when the population of Bulawayo is almost stagnant, increasing by a mere 12 000 in the pa...Published: 27 Jul 2022 at 06:28hrs | 914 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean and SA professor clash over hard-hitting reviews of each other's books
A battle of professors has erupted between Zimbabwe's University of Oxford-based Associate Professor Blessing Miles-Tendi and Professor David B. Moore of the University of Johannesburg, who has some Z...Published: 05 Jul 2022 at 21:26hrs | 2412 | by Staff reporter
Shangani dam a fulfilment of Dr Nkomo's dream
"NKOMO made Freeman" was the bold headline in the Chronicle edition of Friday 28 February 1992, with the accompanying sub-heading; "Vice President tasked to make the Zambezi project a success."...Published: 03 Jul 2022 at 09:26hrs | 322 | by Staff reporter
Zacc torches storm in Karoi
KAROI residents have petitioned Parliament to rein in members of the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) which they accused of unprofessional conduct and bias.The residents said the sus...Published: 24 Jun 2022 at 07:39hrs | 300 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe has lived through decades of lies
THE so-called revolutionary Zanu-PF party has survived through lies since its formation.This country has been brought to its knees by the perpetuation of lies and it seems lies are part of its...Published: 23 Jun 2022 at 06:48hrs | 595 | by Bee
BCC acts on Cowdray Park flooding
FOLLOWING perennial flooding in Cowdray Park, Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has resolved to demolish 17 properties and relocate the affected families to pave way for development of drainage infrastructu...Published: 09 Jun 2022 at 06:41hrs | 613 | by Staff reporter
ZANU PF internal challenges a blessing for Chamisa in Mashonaland Central
Mashonaland Central is home to Madzibaba veShanduko real name Godfrey Karembera who hails from Guruve. Madzibaba veShanduko and several Citizens for Change have descended upon Mashonaland Central as C...Published: 06 Jun 2022 at 10:36hrs | 5816 | by Hector Muringani
Mnangagwa's spin doctor says MPs are ignorant
ZIMBABWEANS will have to wait for President Emmerson Mnangagwa to appoint a Vice-President in his own time, presidential spokesperson George Charamba said, and called Members of Parliament agitating f...Published: 31 May 2022 at 06:32hrs | 2890 | by Staff reporter
Chiyangwa cedes land to African Museum
The Institute of African Knowledge yesterday officially received 5,5 hectares including some structures from Kilma Investments owned by Dr Phillip Chiyangwa after the legal dispute between the institu...Published: 27 May 2022 at 06:37hrs | 99 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF eyes Bulawayo seats in 2023
Zanu-PF's Bulawayo Greens district political commissar Elias Mweneziko said the party was set to regain all the seats it lost to the opposition in 2018.Bulawayo has been an opposition strongho...Published: 25 May 2022 at 06:40hrs | 746 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF seeks readmission of ousted Mujuru ally
Zanu-PF Mahuwe district branch has recommended the readmission of former Mbire legislator David Butau into the party.Butau was expelled from the ruling party in 2015 after he was linked to the...Published: 24 May 2022 at 07:27hrs | 1665 | by Staff reporter
Town officials arrested by ZACC
KAROI acting town secretary Tongai Namisala has been charged with criminal abuse of office alongside housing director Admire Jimu following their arrest by the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZAC...Published: 20 May 2022 at 06:30hrs | 707 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa told to appoint 2nd VP
AN opposition MP yesterday said that President Emmerson Mnangagwa should appoint a second Vice-President to fill in the void left by former Vice-President Kembo Mohadi who resigned last year after a s...Published: 18 May 2022 at 06:24hrs | 9575 | by Staff reporter
Nightshifts at Lake Gwayi Shangani
CONTRACTORS at Lake Gwayi Shangani are now working night shifts to ensure the construction of the dam wall is completed next month.Construction work at the Lake Gwayi Shangani dam wall and ear...Published: 10 May 2022 at 07:43hrs | 727 | by Staff reporter
Harare converts golf courses to stands
HARARE City Council (HCC) has been caught up in a fresh storm after it emerged that the corruption and controversy-riddled municipality is seeking to convert two community golf courses into residentia...Published: 07 May 2022 at 06:18hrs | 525 | by Staff reporter
Andy Muridzo's coodinator speaks on suspension
Andy Muridzo's Jeetaz band coodinator Onismo Saini claims to be a friend to the band owner rather than in the management team.Saini who...Published: 06 May 2022 at 21:28hrs | 894 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Robbers gang-rape storekeeper
Two Mutoko robbers who broke into a tuckshop, stole groceries and gang-raped the storekeeper were arrested.Omega Sikochi (25)and Tinashe Chikeya (24) appeared before Mutoko magistrate Elijah S...Published: 28 Apr 2022 at 12:27hrs | 2594 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Johane Marange rape victim refuses medical examination
A Johane Marange minor congregant who was allegedly raped by her uncle refused to go for a medical examination as it is against her church doctrine.The matter came to light at Mutoko magistrat...Published: 28 Apr 2022 at 12:25hrs | 1506 | by Simbarashe Sithole in Mutoko
Woman in court for drug peddling
POLICE in Mudzi arrested a 40 -year-old woman who was drug peddling and dragged her to court.Dorcas Masanga was found with 22 satchets ...Published: 24 Apr 2022 at 06:20hrs | 763 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Mudzi man nabbed for robbery
A 22-YEAR-OLD suspected robber is in soup for allegedly robbing a pedestrian of his US$20.The matter came to light at Mutoko magi...Published: 24 Apr 2022 at 06:16hrs | 656 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Armed robbers pounce on gold buyer
Five armed robbers who robbed a gold buyer of his gold and a safe containing cash have been arrested while fleeing with their loot along Nyamapanda highway.Wiramayi Willard Gatsi(34), Benjamin...Published: 21 Apr 2022 at 14:42hrs | 1409 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Prisoner with hermaphroditism given community service for stock theft
MUTOKO based convict with both reproductive organs who stole five cows from his grandmother was finally given a community service sentence by Mutoko magistrate Elijah Sibanda.The convict was g...Published: 16 Apr 2022 at 20:42hrs | 1028 | by Simbarashe Sithole
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