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Ndabaningi Sithole: Zimbabwe's forgotten intellectual and leader
NDABANINGI Sithole was one of the founding fathers of the modern state of Zimbabwe in southern Africa. In August 1963, he became the first president of the Zimbabwe African National Union (Zanu), the ...Published: 07 Jul 2022 at 08:02hrs | 1 | by Tinashe Mushakavanhu
Ex-ZPC board chair reveals other Chivayo beneficiaries
FORMER Zimbabwe Power Company chairperson Stanley Kazhanje, who is accused of concealing his business interests in Intratrek Zimbabwe, yesterday revealed in court that he was not the only engineer pai...Published: 27 Jun 2019 at 07:05hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chivayo case in new twist
Former Zimbabwe Power Company chairperson Stanley Nyasha Kazhanje yesterday denied allegations that he received a $10 000 bribe so that he does not cancel a 100 megawatt Gwanda solar panel station pro...Published: 04 Apr 2019 at 06:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZPC boss disowns Chivayo
FORMER Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC) chairperson Stanley Nyasha Kazhanje yesterday pleaded not guilty to charges that he concealed a personal interest in a transaction from his principal after he alleg...Published: 04 Apr 2019 at 06:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Prisoners jump off moving truck, flee
AN unknown number of inmates yesterday jumped off a moving prison transfer truck ferrying them between Harare and Whawha prisons.Circumstances surrounding the escape were still sketchy yesterd...Published: 07 Jan 2019 at 08:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Skeletons tumble as MPs begin investigation
FORMER Mines deputy minister Freddie Moyo has become the latest politician to be linked to the demise of Hwange Colliery Company Limited (HCCL), a development that left the lives of thousands of famil...Published: 18 Nov 2018 at 07:54hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Perrance Shiri's imposter in court for swindling farmers
AN unrepentant ex-convict who allegedly registered cellphone lines in the name of Lands, Agriculture, Water, Climate and Rural Resettlement Minister Perrance Shiri and used them to swindle unsuspectin...Published: 12 Oct 2018 at 07:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Lawyers fume over release of Zanu-PF activists
HUMAN rights lawyers have petitioned the Officer-in-Charge at Nyanyadzi Police Station over alleged unprocedural release of six Zanu-PF activists arrested for political violence.Lawyer Peggy T...Published: 20 Jul 2018 at 07:56hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF activists arrested for violence
SIX Zanu-PF supporters were arrested in Manicaland province for allegedly assaulting MDC-Alliance activists during a prayer meeting on Monday.The Zanu-PF cadres were also accused of threatenin...Published: 11 Jul 2018 at 07:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC dithers as election date nears
THE countdown to the July 30 harmonised elections enters the homestretch today when the Nomination Court sits to accept successful candidates countrywide. The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) and s...Published: 14 Jun 2018 at 07:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Terminate Chivayo tender'
THE Zimbabwe Power Company must immediately terminate it's contract with Intratrek as one of its directors, Mr Wicknell Chivayo, has a criminal record and does not qualify to be a managing director of...Published: 13 Jun 2018 at 08:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Nominations begin
Aspiring candidates across the political divide have started submitting nomination papers to the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC), amid reports of serious bickering in MDC Alliance as MDC-T support...Published: 13 Jun 2018 at 08:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC-T, Zanu-PF losing candidates plot shocker
Political tension has reportedly hit both Zanu-PF and opposition MDC-T camps in Manicaland province, where disgruntled party members, who lost in the primary elections, have threatened to shock their ...Published: 12 Jun 2018 at 07:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC-T wants Mutezo out
MDC-T supporters in Chimanimani West constituency on Saturday demonstrated against the candidature of former Zanu-PF member and Energy and Power Development ex-Minister Mr Munacho Mutezo in the July 3...Published: 11 Jun 2018 at 08:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZRP, ZACC in a spot over Chivayo
PARLIAMENT has urged the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc)and the police to immediately investigate businessman Wicknell Chivayo and four former energy ministers for alleged corrupt activitie...Published: 03 Jun 2018 at 20:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
WikiLeaks: 25 most corrupt ministers and public figures in Zimbabwe
These individuals will never be prosecuted by the Mnangagwa government because he is involved with entirely all of them. Either they were in the deal together or they know too much of his own dirty de...Published: 03 Jun 2018 at 11:06hrs | 31 | by WikiLeaks
Probe Mugabe ministers' conduct
A parliamentary committee has recommended an investigation into the conduct of government officials, including former ministers, fingered in opaque deals involving the $200 million Gwanda solar projec...Published: 01 Jun 2018 at 16:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zesa told to terminate Chivayo's $183 million contract
PARLIAMENT yesterday recommended the investigation and prosecution of the four former Energy ministers Samuel Undenge, Dzikamai Mavhaire, Elton Mangoma and former Energy deputy minister Munashe Mutezo...Published: 01 Jun 2018 at 09:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa sucked into Chivayo's mess
Angry members of Parliament plan to summon President Emmerson Mnangagwa to explain his government's contentious decision to retain controversial "tenderpreneur" Wicknell Chivayo on the $200 million Gw...Published: 24 Apr 2018 at 07:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Wicknell Chivayo back at solar project site
PARLIAMENT heard yesterday that controversial businessman Wicknell Chivayo was back on the site earmarked for the Gwanda solar project at a time legislators were still investigating circumstances lead...Published: 24 Apr 2018 at 07:15hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Army's diamond mining activities under spotlight
Defence secretary Martin Rushwaya is today expected to appear in Parliament for grilling over the army's mining activities in the Chiadzwa diamond fields.Rushwaya was initially scheduled to ap...Published: 19 Apr 2018 at 07:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Chamisa will trounce Mnangagwa'
OPPOSITION People's Democratic Party leader Tendai Biti has lashed out at President Emmerson Mnangagwa, saying he lacked the political charisma to match MDC Alliance presidential candidate Nelson Cham...Published: 16 Apr 2018 at 07:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance welcomes another opportunist Madhuku
National Constitutional Assembly president, Professor Lovemore Madhuku's, pronouncement that he has joined MDC Alliance is already showing that the purported marriage of convenience is doomed to fail....Published: 04 Apr 2018 at 13:23hrs | | by Virimayi Chidembo
Mutezo distances self from Chivayo solar project tender
FORMER Energy deputy minister Munacho Mutezo has distanced himself from controversial businessman Wicknell Chivayo's Gwanda solar energy project, declaring that he was ready to appear before a parliam...Published: 19 Mar 2018 at 05:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mangoma distances self from Chivayo tender scam
RENEWAL Democrats of Zimbabwe and former Energy Minister Elton Mangoma has written to Speaker of Parliament Advocate Jacob Mudenda, requesting to be invited before the Parliamentary committee on Mines...Published: 15 Mar 2018 at 08:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
4 ex-ministers face probe over Chivayo deals
FOUR former Energy ministers, who served under ex-President Robert Mugabe between 2013 and 2017 are being investigated for allegedly turning the Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC) into their feeding trough,...Published: 13 Mar 2018 at 06:01hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance officially launched in Manicaland
MDC Alliance National Coordinating Committee which is chaired by the MDC T Deputy National Chairperson Morgan Komichi officially launches the Alliance in Mutare on Saturday. While addres...Published: 11 Dec 2017 at 13:56hrs | | by Fanuel Chinowaita
All Zanu-PF members are thieves, says People First VP
People First Vice President Munacho Mutezo has said ZANU PF has been destroying Zimbabwe for the last 37 years while addressing MDC Alliance members in Mutare at MDC T office on Saturday. Whil...Published: 11 Dec 2017 at 13:44hrs | 1 | by Fanuel Chinowaita
Bhasikiti, Makova expelled from ZimPF
THE circus at the opposition party ZimPF continued yesterday after party leader Agrippa Mutambara announced the expulsion of senior leaders Kudakwashe Bhasikiti and Claudius Makova.Bhasikiti l...Published: 02 Nov 2017 at 05:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Defiant Mutambara still ZimPF President
Zimbabwe People First (ZimPF) leader Retired Brigadier Agrippa Mutambara is battling to fend off an internal coup after party interim secretary-general Kudakwashe Bhasikiti on Tuesday wrote to him ann...Published: 26 Oct 2017 at 08:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gunfire as gold war turns ugly
THREE people were shot and seriously wounded following an exchange of heavy gunfire in Odzi last Saturday as rival groups fought to control a lucrative gold mine in the area.Detectives quickly...Published: 22 Sep 2017 at 06:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Numbers don't lie
Morgan thinks a return to the original MDC will save him but then the dynamics have changed a lot. A company of fools suffers harm and bad company corrupts good character.JUST like I told you,...Published: 06 Aug 2017 at 13:12hrs | | by Bishop
Mujuru failed Zanu-PF
"The bigger they are, the harder they fall" so the saying goes. Last week's instalment remembered the MDC tripartite and how it has failed to correct what it dismissed.This week I want to remi...Published: 18 Jun 2017 at 10:22hrs | | by Micheal Mhlanga
Mugabe the ultimate 'prophet'
While the majority of Zimbabweans believe in prophecy in the Christian sense, there is one "prophet" they must surely consider following religiously and heeding his words when he says something politi...Published: 07 May 2017 at 13:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZimPF splits again
Zimbabwe People First has split for the second time in two months after a faction in the party today officially appointed former Ambassador and Retired Brigadier-General Agrippa Mutambara as the inter...Published: 03 May 2017 at 17:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZimPF splits again?
The Zimbabwe People First (ZPF) has once again been rocked by chaos, with the party's elders - Rugare Gumbo and Didymus Mutasa - announcing yesterday that they are still in charge, not former army gen...Published: 25 Apr 2017 at 06:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mutambara elected ZimPF new leader
War veteran and former diplomat, Agrippa Mutambara, was yesterday named the new leader of the Zimbabwe People First (ZPF) - amid chaotic scenes which threatened to derail the meeting which had...Published: 23 Apr 2017 at 13:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Tendai Biti is welcome back,' says MDC-T
A picture of MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai and former Finance minister Tendai Biti marching together in Harare during a National Electoral Reform Agenda (Nera) demonstration against the Zimbabwe ...Published: 03 Apr 2017 at 07:27hrs | | by Obey Munyati
Selfish political leaders mark Zimbabwean political landscape
A few days ago, Mrs Joyce Mujuru surprised many totally by saying that her party, ZPF will contest the 2018 elections with or with no reforms. It was very disturbing when she revealed this in direct o...Published: 24 Feb 2017 at 15:40hrs | | by Zanda Shumba
Will Mujuru survive?
ON March 1 2016 hundreds of people thronged a five-star hotel in Harare to meet former vice-president Joice Mujuru as she announced the launch of the Zimbabwe People First (ZimPF) party at a press...Published: 24 Feb 2017 at 06:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZimPF elders to elect Mujuru replacement
A ZIMPF faction led by the founding elders will in May elect a substantive leader to take over from the caretaker leadership of Didymus Mutasa and Rugare Gumbo, NewsDay reported.The two fo...Published: 24 Feb 2017 at 05:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mujuru's ZimPF race for relevance
The launch of Zimbabwe People First (ZimPF) two years ago sold a dummy to a section of gullible Zimbabweans, political analysts as well as misguided veterans who viewed the Joice Mujuru-led political ...Published: 21 Feb 2017 at 06:13hrs | 1 | by Rungano Dzikira
Zec prepares for Mwenezi East by-election
ZANU-PF's Joosbi Omar and Mr Kudakwashe Bhasikiti-Chuma of ZimPF were among four candidates who filed their nomination papers at the Nomination Court in Masvingo yesterday for the April 8 Mwenezi ...Published: 19 Feb 2017 at 09:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZimPF demise weakens opposition
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe has been vindicated. Having foretold the disintegration of former vice president Joice Mujuru's Zimbabwe People First (ZPF) during celebrations to mark his 92nd birthday at the...Published: 16 Feb 2017 at 06:08hrs | | by Tendai Makaripe and Problem Masau
'Mujuru working with CIO'
In a sensational claim that is set to rip the troubled Zimbabwe People First (ZPF) further apart, former State Security minister and one of the founders of the fledgling party, Didymus Mutasa, has...Published: 15 Feb 2017 at 14:46hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
ZimPF implosion has nothing to do with Zanu-PF, says Chombo
Zanu-PF is not amused by accusations that it has a hand in the fissures that rocked Zimbabwe People First party and considers it an insult to be associated with expelled members. Addressing party ...Published: 15 Feb 2017 at 05:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe People First race for relevance
The launch of Zimbabwe People First (ZimPF) two years ago sold a dummy to a section of gullible electorate, political analysts as well as some misguided veterans who viewed the Joice Mujuru led politi...Published: 13 Feb 2017 at 11:08hrs | | by Rungano Dzikira
Mujuru want to control ZimPF image rights
The ruckus in the troubled Zimbabwe People First (ZPF) party took a surprise turn yesterday when one of the outfit's disaffected founding fathers, Didymus Mutasa, said it was possible that they co...Published: 12 Feb 2017 at 11:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mujuru, elders fight over ZimPF
Embattled former Vice President and Zimbabwe People First (ZPF) interim leader Joice Mujuru is contemplating forming a new party after the fledgling political outfit's founding fathers claimed the...Published: 12 Feb 2017 at 11:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mujuru's ZimPF split over funds
ZIMBABWE People First leader Dr Joice Mujuru fell out with her lieutenants over her failure to account for membership subscriptions and funds donated to the party by foreign elements, our Harare B...Published: 12 Feb 2017 at 08:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
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