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Zimbabwe's narrative: A view from the outside!
In the case of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe's government was democratic, economically savvy and politically astute, until one day, overnight, it became oppressive and intolerable.The sudden change ...Published: 1 hr ago | 39 | by Kenneth Mufuka
Our unity to last an eternity
UNITY, peace and development.These three words are all deeply rooted in the ZANU-PF way, such that they have become our official motto, for the party recognises that, without unity, there is n...Published: 3 hrs ago | 37 | by Dr Obert Moses Mpofu
The Zimbabwe Grand Tour can now be yours - for US$21 000 per person
You can now experience a recreation of the Grand Tour: One for the Road route across Zimbabwe – minus Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond – if you have about US$21 000 (per person) to s...Published: 19 Sep 2024 at 07:35hrs | 1209 | by Staff reporter
Nelson Chamisa must wake up from slumber and spare us this confusion
If truth be told, the tragic events happening in the opposition can only be attributed to Nelson Chamisa himself because only him can put a stop to this nonsense. If he were to step up and sho...Published: 30 Jul 2024 at 20:39hrs | 734 | by Fanuel Chinowaita
Shots fired after thieves target Mnangagwa's private residence
Shots were fired after thieves broke into President Emmerson Mnangagwa's private residence in the exclusive Hellensville neighbourhood in Harare on July 6.It is the third break-in targeting th...Published: 10 Jul 2024 at 08:09hrs | 39 | by Staff reporter
4 CCC factions tussle for political party funds
Four factions of the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) are locked in an intense fight for the party's share of funds that are disbursed by the Government under the Political Parties (Finance) Act....Published: 24 Mar 2024 at 14:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mutambara defends his book on Mugabe
PROFESSOR Arthur Mutambara has defended the credibility of his newly published book, which opens a window on the political life of former President Robert Mugabe, who died without writing his memoirs....Published: 08 Dec 2023 at 20:53hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe military commander will soon be redeployed
AS President Emmerson Mnangagwa continues to make surprise post-election appointments amid political manoeuvres by the military to reposition itself for a more influential role going forward, Zimbabwe...Published: 06 Nov 2023 at 21:24hrs | 54 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe politics: Lineaments of stock characters
What are stock characters?LET me be basic so I am accessible to many of my readers, whatever level of education, and from whichever discipline they hail.In literature we have what are ...Published: 22 Apr 2023 at 19:00hrs | 10 | by @Jamwanda2 on Saturday
Zec commissioners' revolt intensifies?
THE revolt by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec)'s seven commissioners who have refused to append their signatures on both the draft preliminary delimitation report submitted to Parliament and th...Published: 12 Feb 2023 at 11:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Hwende stops campaigning over negative comments from CCC citizens on Twitter
THERE is internecine strife in the Citizens' Coalition for Change (CCC) party to the extent that top official, Charlton Hwende, has decided to stop campaigning for the party in Mhondoro.This c...Published: 05 Dec 2022 at 05:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere in apparent jibe at G40 colleagues, Jonathan Moyo hits back
FORMER Zanu-PF political commissar, Saviour Kasukuwere says he will not grovel before party leaders, including President Emmerson Mnangagwa, seeking forgiveness and re-admission into the revolutionary...Published: 27 Nov 2022 at 14:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Hwende in alleged plot to impose his clique as CCC's 2023 election candidates
THERE is internecine strife in the Citizens' Coalition for Change (CCC) party amid claims top official, Charlton Hwende, is planning to impose his preferred candidates to contest the 2023 harmonised e...Published: 26 Sep 2022 at 06:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa 'has already identified his new Chief Justice and RBZ head'
THE opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) has appointed a team to "overshadow" government ministries in parliament with insiders describing the development as demonstrative of the party's rea...Published: 16 Jul 2022 at 10:33hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
ZIMRA bus in horrifying accident...4 confirmed dead
The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority bus was involved in a tragic accident on Tuesday that has reportedly claimed the lives of four of its members. According to a statement issued by the Revenue Aut...Published: 20 Apr 2022 at 09:58hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Reports of Zanu-PF defeat in 2023 polls are tad premature
SEVERAL Zimbabwe commentators have interpreted recent by-elections as raising the possibility that Zanu-PF's 42-year-long grip on power is loosening and, come the 2023 general elections, opposition le...Published: 16 Apr 2022 at 08:34hrs | 10 | by Derek Matyszak
Grace Mugabe frets over son's unholy alliances
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe's widow, Grace, is fretting over her son Robert Jnr's newfound acquaintances who have nudged him into embracing his father's "tormentors" in Zanu-PF, amid fears he is being exp...Published: 08 Apr 2022 at 09:23hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF wrestles seats from Chamisa
Zanu-PF snatched two parliamentary seats from the opposition in the by-elections held on Saturday, winning in Epworth and Mutasa South and also getting a foothold in urban local authorities.Ah...Published: 28 Mar 2022 at 06:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Muchadeyi Masunda's wife dies
Harare City Council (HCC) Saturday announced the death of Mrs Fikile Patricia Faith Masunda, wife of former Harare Mayor Mr Muchadeyi Ashton Masunda.The local government authority said Mrs Mas...Published: 13 Mar 2022 at 19:22hrs | | by Staff
Chebundo roped into Mnangagwa campaign squad
BLESSING Chebundo became "marked for death" in Kwekwe, his house razed down and forced into hiding for days as Zanu-PF hounds bayed for his blood.His sin was daring to challenge Emmerson Mnang...Published: 19 Feb 2022 at 18:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mahiya accused of taking US$20k bribe to campaign for Kazembe Kazembe
Zanu-PF secretary for war veterans' affairs in the politburo, Douglas Mahiya, is in the eye of a raging storm after being accused of receiving US$20 000 from Home Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe to h...Published: 29 Nov 2021 at 15:44hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's 2017 coup coalition collapses
THE fact that Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga is contemplating challenging President Emmerson Mnangagwa for the Zanu-PF presidency at the party's elective congress next year, while factions loyal ...Published: 22 Nov 2021 at 06:17hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
By-elections spook opposition
PROSPECTS of by-elections in the first quarter of next year have spooked the broke and divided MDC-Alliance led by Mr Nelson Chamisa, which is now threatening to boycott the polls for alleged absence ...Published: 17 Nov 2021 at 05:12hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga to tackle Mnangagwa
IN a move that could have far-reaching political consequences for the ruling Zanu-PF and the nation, Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga is contemplating challenging President Emmerson Mnangagwa in th...Published: 13 Nov 2021 at 17:48hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
We own Zanu PF, say Chiefs
CHIEFS' Council president Fortune Charumbira yesterday openly defied the national Constitution which forbids traditional leaders from dabbling in partisan party politics after he publicly declared tha...Published: 30 Oct 2021 at 14:08hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Mudha Ncube chickens out of Zanu-PF Midlands race
STATE security minister Owen Mudha Ncube has dropped out of the race for the Zanu-PF Midlands provincial chairmanship as the deadly internecine fights for control of the party heats up following the i...Published: 22 Oct 2021 at 06:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ziyambi tears into Mliswa-Chikoka
Zanu-PF Mashonaland West is living to its billing as a political hotbed with internecine battles for control of provincial structures continuing unabated among party bigwigs.During Sunday's Za...Published: 04 Oct 2021 at 19:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mary Mliswa accused of ordering arrests of rival
THE internecine factional ructions battle for control of Mashonaland West Zanu-PF has reached a crescendo, with claimant to the provincial chairmanship, Vengai Musengi this week accusing Provincial Af...Published: 23 Sep 2021 at 06:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's new biography confirms political brinkmanship with Chiwenga
THE political war of attrition between President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his deputy Constantino Chiwenga has found expression in the President's controversial new biography as internecine unresolved le...Published: 06 Sep 2021 at 06:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC name is ours, no one else: Mwonzora
AN INTERNECINE fight is brewing over the use of the name MDC ahead of the 2023 general elections, with MDC-T leader Douglas Mwonzora saying their party was the only legitimate owner and rights holder ...Published: 24 Jul 2021 at 07:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Lands ministry haven for corruption cartels'
A GOVERNMENT investigation, whose preliminary findings have been submitted to President Emmerson Mnangagwa, has exposed rampant corruption at the Ministry of Lands, Agriculture, Water and Rural Resett...Published: 21 May 2021 at 06:08hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
MDC linked NGO push for Ziyambi arrest
JUSTICE minister Ziyambi Ziyambi faces arrest on contempt of court charges after his shocking weekend outburst following the landmark ruling by three High Court judges trashing President Emmerson Mnan...Published: 18 May 2021 at 06:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa tightens grip on power
LAST week's move by the Zanu-PF dominated Senate to adopt the controversial Constitution Amendment Bill(1) is a brazen attempt to consolidate President Emmerson Mnangagwa's grip on power while emascul...Published: 16 Apr 2021 at 08:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Defections expose Chamisa's frailties
DEFECTIONS by MDC-Alliance official and former legislators Lillian Timveos and that of Blessing Chebundo first to MDC-T then to Zanu-PF have exposed Nelson Chamisa's deficiencies in leading a once uni...Published: 05 Mar 2021 at 07:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC enjoys pressing self-destruct button
Last week, the social media was abuzz with the news of the defection of two senior MDC Alliance members, Blessing Chebundo and Lillian Timveous, to Zanu-PF. In response to the development, the...Published: 04 Mar 2021 at 06:19hrs | 1 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Mohadi saga: Fresh details emerge
FRESH details have emerged that embattled former Vice-President Kembo Mohadi tendered his resignation last week, although he made it known to the public in a statement on Monday.This was confi...Published: 03 Mar 2021 at 06:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ethnicity: Emmerson Mnangagwa's power weapon
THEORISTS specialising in social identity cite three main categories primordialism, constructivism and instrumentalism ethnic cleavages upon which human nature adopts distinctiveness. Without ...Published: 12 Feb 2021 at 15:41hrs | 1 | by Brian Chitema
Harare war rages
OVERNMENT has remained mum over fights that have engulfed the City of Harare, where senior council officials are said to be involved in internecine battles for control of the capital with scant regard...Published: 24 Jan 2021 at 22:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
SB Moyo: Mugabe coup anchor turned face of diplomacy
"We wish to assure the nation that His excellency, the President Robert Gabriel Mugabe and his family are safe and sound and their security is guaranteed," these were some of the words from the then M...Published: 21 Jan 2021 at 06:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Battle to control council rages
A VICIOUS battle to control Harare City Council has emerged between suspended town clerk Hosiah Chisango and Zvenyika Chawatama, who was occupying the role on an acting basis following the arrest of t...Published: 15 Jan 2021 at 07:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Josiah Magama Tongogara 41 years on
A day after celebrating christmas swimming through the stiffed hard but good festive seasons on the 26th December 1979 duty called. In the call of duty the son of the soil breathed his last breath....Published: 26 Dec 2020 at 17:42hrs | 9 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Harare home demolitions 'A Zanu-PF govt-MDC Alliance council resolution'
HARARE Provincial Development Coordinator Tafadzwa Muguti says recent demolitions on homes in Budiriro were part of a government and council resolution to rid the city of some illegal structures....Published: 13 Dec 2020 at 14:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
The political economy of corruption
As a cancer inherent in varying degrees of intensity across the globe, corruption is an integral part of the political economy of world capitalism.So, the capitals of the western world lie at ...Published: 25 Oct 2020 at 08:24hrs | 3 | by Ibbo Mandaza
Understanding method to 'madness' in urban councils
Nowadays, hardly a day passes without news headlines relaying salacious details of corrupt goings on in predominantly opposition run urban councils. Often, these headlines are accompanied by t...Published: 12 Oct 2020 at 06:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora accused of creating 'ghost structures'
THE MDC-T secretary-general, Douglas Mwonzora has come under intense criticism by the Nelson Chamisa-aligned faction for working in cahoots with Zanu-PF to set up "ghost structures" in Mashonaland Wes...Published: 02 Oct 2020 at 07:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC in kidnapping storm
SUISPECTED MDC-Assembly hooligans, who illegally stormed into the troubled opposition party Morgan Tsvangirai headquarters on Sunday, yesterday allegedly kidnapped 12 of their rivals as the internecin...Published: 29 Sep 2020 at 18:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
NSSA corruption exposes Mnangagwa
Opposition MDC says the recently exposed NSSA scandal exposes the long standing allegation that Mnangagwa's government that it is rotten to the core and it cannot self-correct.Secretary for Pu...Published: 30 Jul 2019 at 16:35hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chamisa's MDC meets to endorse him
Zimbabwe's main opposition this weekend is expected to elect Nelson Chamisa as its next president in its first congress since the death of its revered founder, Morgan Tsvangirai.The Movement f...Published: 25 May 2019 at 08:40hrs | | by AFP
Chamisa reaches out to Mnangagwa
AN increasingly flippant MDC-Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday desperately reached out to President Emmerson Mnangagwa by calling for dialogue between his beleagured party and Zanu-PF.H...Published: 05 May 2019 at 08:14hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Whites score big against blacks - land compensation
Land is and was at the centre of all political developments for the indigenous black Zimbabwean population's pre and post independence movements. The liberation war against white minority rule's black...Published: 23 Apr 2019 at 15:37hrs | | by Terence Simbi
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