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Mugabe's long-time Chaplain calls for dialogue, mediation skills among young politicians
Father Fidelis Mukonori, who was Robert Mugabe's long-time confidante, has stressed the importance of mediation, negotiation, and dialogue as crucial skills for young people involved in politics. He m...Published: 12 Dec 2024 at 15:55hrs | 991 | by Staff reporter
Brian Molefe might take Corruption Watch to the cleaners
Former Eskom and Transnet CEO Brian Molefe might take Corruption Watch (RF) NPC to the cleaners.The non-profit organisation last week filed a notice of withdrawal against Molefe to be declared...Published: 10 Jun 2024 at 14:00hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
South Africa's IEC accused of leaking ballot papers to ANC
South Africans have taken to social media platforms to express concern over whether the upcoming general elections will be free and fair following the alleged unauthorised delivery of ballot papers in...Published: 26 May 2024 at 15:48hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa attributes victory to unity
PRESIDENT elect Dr Emmerson Mnangagwa has attributed his overwhelming victory in Wednesday's election to the power of unity and progress and said together with the people he will continue building a b...Published: 28 Aug 2023 at 06:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Presidential candidates concede defeat
SOME of the presidential candidates in Wednesday's harmonised elections last night conceded defeat, following the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission's pronouncement of President Mnangagwa as winner of the ...Published: 27 Aug 2023 at 09:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Verification of Zimbabwe Presidential ballots is currently underway
As Zimbabweans wait on tenterhooks for the presidential election result following the polls, verification of the ballots is currently underway.The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission said:"V...Published: 26 Aug 2023 at 17:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
6,6 million Zimbabweans eligible to cast ballots
ZIMBABWEANS go to the polls today with at least 6,6 million registered voters expected to decide the next leadership that will steer the country forward for five years.The Zimbabwe Electoral C...Published: 23 Aug 2023 at 06:32hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Supreme Court to rule on Kasukuwere appeal
The Supreme Court will rule tomorrow whether the appeal by independent presidential aspirant Saviour Kasukuwere challenging a High Court ruling disqualifying him from contesting the August 23 election...Published: 19 Jul 2023 at 06:37hrs | 30 | by Staff reporter
Malema wants Zimbabweans living in South Africa to go home and vote
Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema has strongly urged Zimbabweans living in South Africa to make the trip back home and participate in the presidential and parliamentary elections se...Published: 09 Jul 2023 at 10:49hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Defiant CCC resists rallies 'ban'
The Nelson Chamisa-led Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) has approached the High Court to challenge attempts by police to block a rally meant to launch the party's August 23 election campaign amid c...Published: 09 Jul 2023 at 10:41hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
NPC President targets Matebeleland
National People's Congress (NPC) President Engineer Wilbert Mubaiwa is set to take his campaign team to Bulawayo next week.The Presidential candidate Mubaiwa claims he has following in Matebel...Published: 09 Jul 2023 at 08:58hrs | 6 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Characteristics of good presidential candidates for Zimbabwe's 2023 elections
EVERY five years, Zimbabweans go to the polls in general elections - including the presidential race - to elect their representatives at various levels of government.However, the most high-pro...Published: 26 Jun 2023 at 19:39hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Full Zimbabwe election candidate list out Friday
The final list of successful candidates for the August 23 harmonised elections, who submitted their nomination papers during the sitting of the Nomination Court last Wednesday, will be gazetted on Fri...Published: 25 Jun 2023 at 09:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Obama of Zimbabwe politics bows out of Presidential race due to financial challenges
OPPOSITION Democratic Union of Zimbabwe (DUZ) party leader Robert Chapman has withdrawn from the August 23 polls Presidential race citing financial constraints.This comes after DUZ Bulawayo pr...Published: 24 Jun 2023 at 06:15hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
ZEC says 10 presidential candidates rejected
Eleven candidates will contest Zimbabwe's presidential election on August 23, the commission running the elections announced on Thursday.The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) said 21 candida...Published: 23 Jun 2023 at 06:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Knives out for Zapu's Nkomo
Knives are out against Zapu president Sibangilizwe Nkomo with some former top officials plotting his ouster for allegedly frustrating the growth of the opposition party.They also accuse Nkomo ...Published: 19 Feb 2023 at 18:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Aaron Motsoaledi vows Zimbabwean exemption permit holders 'will be punished'
Expired Zimbabwean exemption permit (ZEP) holders who do not apply to be in SA legally must be prepared to face the consequences.Home affairs minister Aaron Motsoaledi gave this warning on Tue...Published: 14 Sep 2022 at 05:59hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe association to continue fighting SA special permit cancelation
SOUTH AFRICA: The Zimbabwe Permit Holders Association says it has not withdrawn its court challenge against the government's decision to discontinue the Zimbabwe Special Permit.This comes afte...Published: 04 Jul 2022 at 07:05hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
New political party set to contest in the 2023 elections
A NEW political party was launched in the capital on Wednesday, with plans to contest the 2023 elections.Perere Kunyenzura, the president of the new party, Zimbabwe Transformative Party (ZTP) ...Published: 28 May 2022 at 08:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean engineer forms new political party to unite divided country
RENOWED engineer and banker, Wilbert Mubaiwa, has launched a new political party which will contest in next year's general election.The new party, which uses blue and purple colour codes, is k...Published: 25 Apr 2022 at 09:19hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Russia, India explore opening alternative payment channels
Russia, many of whose banks have been cut off from the Swift financial network, is exploring opening alternative payment channels with India, including linking Unified Payments Interface (UPI) with th...Published: 16 Mar 2022 at 07:19hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Bimha sucked into deadly Zanu-PF wrangle
Zanu-PF national political commissar, Mike Bimha, has been caught up in the deadly factional firestorm raging in President Emmerson Mnangagwa's Midlands backyard amid reports he received a US$4 000 ca...Published: 07 Feb 2022 at 05:19hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF to disqualify the violent and the cheats
THE rampant rigging and violence that characterised Zanu-PF's provincial elections held on Tuesday has been admitted to at the party's highest level, with national political commissar Mike Bimha sayin...Published: 01 Jan 2022 at 13:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF prolongs poll announcement delay
Zanu-PF has failed to announce results of Tuesday's provincial elections for the second day in a row as contestants complained of massive rigging allegations and called for a re-run.Results we...Published: 31 Dec 2021 at 07:30hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF bigwigs denounce shameful election
THE extended delay in announcing results from Tuesday's provincial Zanu-PF elections has led to fears the outcome was deliberately manipulated in favour of candidates preferred by the party's leadersh...Published: 30 Dec 2021 at 07:52hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Sibangilizwe Nkomo still in the race
SIBANGILIZWE Nkomo, the son of the late Zapu founding leader Joshua Nkomo, yesterday dismissed attempts by some party members to sideline him from the opposition party's presidential race.Nkom...Published: 24 Sep 2021 at 09:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zapu to hold elective congress next month
ZAPU is expected to hold its elective congress next month with six candidates jostling for the party's top post. The elective congress, which seeks to elect a new leadership following the death of the...Published: 24 Sep 2021 at 09:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
The ZAPU NPC resolution to bar Nkomo is unconstitutional
The ZAPU National People's Council has upheld its resolution which seeks to bar Mr Sibangilizwe Nkomo from contesting as a ZAPU President. The resolution to the effect that one has to be a member for ...Published: 23 Sep 2021 at 09:45hrs | 1 | by Thulani Nkala
Zapu plots to sideline Nkomo's son
THE opposition Zapu has reaffirmed a contentious resolution barring presidential aspirants who have not been card-carrying members of the party for the past five years from contesting the presidency a...Published: 21 Sep 2021 at 21:35hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Chadzamira drags Chiwenga in the mud
Chickens have come home to roost for ZANU PF Masvingo Provincial Chairperson, Ezra Ruvai Chadzamira as he drags Vice President Constantine Chiwenga into t...Published: 12 Sep 2021 at 00:36hrs | 9 | by Paul Ndou
Zanu-PF wants MP censured for calling Mnangagwa's wife a 'whore'
Zanu-PF'S Headlands MP Christopher Chingosho's political life is at stake after party national commissar Patrick Chinamasa said he should be censured for allegedly labelling First Lady Auxillia ...Published: 01 Sep 2021 at 06:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zapu chefs stampede for party presidency
OPPOSITION Zapu presidential aspirants have been slammed for abandoning their current posts to jostle for the party's top post ahead of the forthcoming elective congress.The party's former dir...Published: 20 Aug 2021 at 07:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zapu orders members to vaccinate ahead of October congress
Zapu has ordered all its members wishing to participate in the upcoming elective congress in October to be vaccinated against Covid-19.The move is part of efforts to make sure that congress de...Published: 26 Jul 2021 at 19:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
The greatest threat to ZANU-PF revealed
The conceptualization of factionalism in political parties takes a different view if we consider its importance in a democratic environment. Following an ugly encounter with the ugly face of factional...Published: 26 Jun 2021 at 14:44hrs | 1 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
China is irreplaceable to Zim, Parly told
CHINA has proven to be an irreplaceable partner to Zimbabwe amid difficult challenges, including the ravaging COVID-19 pandemic and poverty, Sadc parliamentarians heard yesterday.Speaking at a...Published: 25 Jun 2021 at 07:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Erroneous reports on Zapu resolution to recall former MPs
The EditorThe article published on Sunday April 11, 2021 refers.In the article, it is erroneously reported that as party spokesperson, I confirmed that the Saturday [April 10, 2021] specia...Published: 18 Apr 2021 at 09:26hrs | | by Iphithule T Maphosa (Zapu national spokesperson)
Zapu to decide on Khaya Moyo, Mathema's fate on Parly recalls Saturday
ZAPU will Saturday hold its National People's Council (NPC) meeting where the proposed recall from Parliament of former senior party members who are now Zanu-PF MPs will be top of the agenda.T...Published: 09 Apr 2021 at 07:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Matemadanda's recall sets the pot boiling
Zimbabwe is settling to the news that the outspoken and imposing hardworking National Political Commissar Comrade Victor Matemadanda was relieved of his position and has been re-assigned a diplomatic ...Published: 02 Apr 2021 at 22:34hrs | 1 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
The fighting spirit of Honourable Joanne Mamombe deserves honour: Salute my girl-child
After 2 minutes of watching a video in New Zimbabwe news media, Honourable Mamombe was narrating how they got attacked by a snake in the prison cell in the middle of the night, I did not finish watchi...Published: 02 Apr 2021 at 18:20hrs | 9 | by Nomazulu Thata
Magwizi eyes Zapu vice presidency
ZPRA Veterans Association secretary-general Buster Magwizi has been suggested to contest for the vacant Zapu vice presidency post at the opposition party's elective congress next month.The par...Published: 30 Mar 2021 at 08:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Matemadanda demoted?
Zanu PF has relieved Victor Matemadanda from the political commissar post over incompetence and his verbal diarrhoea remarks on the decimation of the opposition MDC Alliance.Sources said Matem...Published: 26 Mar 2021 at 09:38hrs | | by Shelton Muchena/Simbarashe Sithole
Joshua Nkomo's son for Zapu presidency
THE late Vice-President and iconic statesman Joshua Nkomo's son, Sibangilizwe, has been nominated as one of the candidates to contest for the opposition Zapu presidency. The party also wants t...Published: 20 Mar 2021 at 07:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Blessing Chebundo praises Matemadanda for the hard work
The newest member of ZANU PF cde Blessing Chebundo praised the ZANU PF NATIONAL POLITICAL COMMISSAR cde Victor Matemadanda for the hard work he did in bringing Chebundo over to ZANU PF. ...Published: 25 Feb 2021 at 12:57hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
The factions exposed during DCCs must be dealt with now
There are two primary causes for voter apathy: alienation and voter fatigue. Alienation is defined as,the sense that voters feel like the political system does not work for them and any attempt to inf...Published: 09 Dec 2020 at 15:24hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Only few heads have to roll in Midlands for sanity to prevail
In the 2018 elections ZANU PF lost in Kwekwe to a G40 kingpin the late Blackman Matambanadzo. It was not the campaign of Matambanadzo or the idiocy of Chebundo which lost the plot for ZANU PF. It was ...Published: 28 Nov 2020 at 23:46hrs | 1 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Zapu elective congress set for April 2021
ZAPU will now hold its elective congress in April next year to choose a new leader for the opposition party.After an extra ordinary meeting Saturday, the National People's Council (NPC) decide...Published: 05 Oct 2020 at 18:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo reveals his failed personal mission in ZANU PF government
Former cabinet minister Jonathan Moyo has revealed his failed personal mission that he undertook when he was in government.Moyo said his major task was to dig up Gukurahundi secrets. T...Published: 31 Aug 2020 at 08:57hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
An explosive ZANU PF Conference being planned
ZANU PF is the ruling party of Zimbabwe and he who has control of ZANU PF controls the country. The importance of ZANU PF was emphasized during the events of November 2017. The tussle for power ...Published: 08 Jul 2019 at 11:52hrs | | by Nicholas Ncube
Zapu endorses Isaac Mabuka as acting president until 2020 congress
Zapu has endorsed its acting chair, Isaac Mabuka as acting president until 2020 congress.This follows a meeting Saturday by the National People Council (NPC), the opposition party's highest de...Published: 23 Jun 2019 at 21:08hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Knives out for Matemadanda
ZANU PF National Political Commissar Victor Matemadanda has come under from a certain faction of ZANU PF that are calling for him to step down from the position or resign from the Deputy Ministry of D...Published: 20 Jun 2019 at 10:19hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
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