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Over 1,000 national youth service graduates offered govt jobs
The Zimbabwean government has confirmed that over a thousand graduates from the controversial National Youth Service programme are set to be absorbed into public institutions, sparking fresh debate ov...Published: 09 Apr 2025 at 22:02hrs | 429 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt employs national youth service graduates
The Zimbabwean government has begun employing graduates from the National Youth Service (NYS) program in line with a Cabinet directive that prioritizes the recruitment of these trainees into the civil...Published: 07 Dec 2024 at 10:35hrs | 557 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF indaba reinforces party supremacy over Zimbabwe govt
At its recent Annual National People's Conference held in Bulawayo, ZANU-PF resolved to reinforce the principle of party supremacy over government functions, ensuring that party objectives directly in...Published: 29 Oct 2024 at 07:33hrs | 101 | by Staff reporter
'Green Bombers' join ZiG campaign
As the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe grapples with making the new currency work by using several measures including a crackdown on illegal money changers, government's quasi-military wing, the National You...Published: 25 May 2024 at 13:00hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
ZNYSGA Distances Themselves From The Banket Utterances
The Zimbabwe National Youth Service Graduates Association have distanced themselves from the recent utterances by what they call 'splinter' group that represents National Youth Service members....Published: 20 Jun 2023 at 16:20hrs | 3 | by Desire Tshuma
'Green Bombers' groupings haggle over who 'owns' Mnangagwa
TEMPERATURES are rising among former National Youth Service (NYS) graduates, derogatorily known as ‘Green Bombers', amid revelations two distinct groupings are tussling to claim rights to canvass su...Published: 20 Jun 2023 at 07:00hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
When it gets cold outside Zanu-PF
Last week various social media platforms and some online publications were awash with the news of a meeting in South Africa between former Zanu-PF members namely G40 kingpin, Saviour Kasukuwere, expel...Published: 27 Jan 2022 at 04:37hrs | 1 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Green bombers throw weight behind Kasukuwere
Zimbabwe National Youth Service Graduates Association sternly warns Mutsvangwa against his childish sentiments torwards Cde Saviour Kasukuwere.Mutsvangwa was an opportunist of the liberation s...Published: 19 Jan 2022 at 00:56hrs | | by Kudakwashe Ndavara
'Zanu-PF must apologise for 2008 poll violence'
FORMER Masvingo Central legislator Jeffreyson Chitando (MDC Alliance) yesterday demanded an apology from Zanu-PF youths over June 27, 2008 violence in which hundreds of opposition supporters were kill...Published: 02 Jul 2021 at 19:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
NPF plots to retain Kwekwe Central seat
THE National Patriotic Front (NPF), a breakaway party from the ruling Zanu-PF party, has announced that it will participate in all the by-elections should their suspension over COVID-19 be lifted and ...Published: 03 Nov 2020 at 07:16hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Political nobodies should not comment about land
I write to dissect and expose the lies and hypocrisy in the statement issued yesterday by one Kudakwashe Ndavara on behalf of the so called Zimbabwe National Service Graduates Association (ZIM-NASGA)....Published: 05 Sep 2020 at 16:56hrs | 2 | by Kundayi Masekesa
Zimbabwe in lockdown ahead of demo
TENSION and fear gripped Harare and other parts of the country yesterday amid a huge deployment of heavily armed soldiers and police ahead of a planned demonstration today by the opposition MDC to pro...Published: 16 Aug 2019 at 07:28hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa panics...recruits 2 000 paramilitary personnel
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has taken a move to beef up his security when he visits the country's provinces by recruiting 2 000 security personnel who will be deployed all over the ten provinces. ...Published: 01 May 2019 at 13:33hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
MDC councillor still holed up in SA in the wake of army crackdown
Masvingo Urban Ward 4 councillor, Godfrey Kurauone remains holed up in South Africa where he sought refuge in the wake of a national crackdown against perceived instigators of the national shutdown pr...Published: 16 Feb 2019 at 20:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC councillor receives death threats from Zanu-PF activists
MDC Masvingo Urban Ward 4 councillor, Godfrey Kurauone has reportedly fled his home fearing for his life after apparently receiving death threats from Zanu-PF activists and security forces at the heig...Published: 26 Jan 2019 at 16:52hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Looting soldier shot during protests
A looting soldier was allegedly shot by a businessman while leading residents to loot at Ashes Supermarket in Bulawayo.An eye witness who spoke to Bulawayo24.com said, "One protester who...Published: 17 Jan 2019 at 15:58hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Government fires 2 917 'Green bombers'
Government has finally announced that it will be retiring 2 917 Youth Officers who are still on government payroll be end of December 2018.Addressing Parliament on Wednesday Minister of ...Published: 22 Nov 2018 at 15:51hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zanu-PF shelves Mnangagwa victory parade
THE Zanu-PF youth league in Harare has suspended plans for a grand parade in celebration of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's disputed election victory.Provincial youth league chairman Godwin Gom...Published: 07 Aug 2018 at 07:46hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
National Youth Service Graduates Association called to duty at Zanu PF headquarters
National Youth Service graduates have been called to the Zanu PF headquarters to protect property which was partly destroyed by MDC Alliance protesters yesterday.in a notice their leaders said...Published: 02 Aug 2018 at 10:10hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Walkout at Mnangagwa rally again
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's final campaign rally ahead of tomorrow's elections was yesterday marred by a walkout by Zanu-PF supporters before he could finish delivering his campaign speech....Published: 29 Jul 2018 at 10:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa, Mnangagwa in panic mode
WITH time fast running out ahead of Monday's general elections, opposition MDC Alliance presidential candidate Nelson Chamisa has reportedly pressed the panic button amid fears that the Sadc Troika ma...Published: 24 Jul 2018 at 07:18hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa meets Green-bombers tomorrow
President Mnangagwa will tomorrow meet members of the National Youth Service Graduates Association at Robert Mugabe Square in Harare. The association, which is registered under the Zimbabwe Yo...Published: 23 Jul 2018 at 06:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa meets Border Gezi youths as election draw closer
President Emmerson Mnangagwa is in a programme of meeting the National Youth Service Graduates, providing an opportunity to interact with him. The president will take time to listen to issues ...Published: 12 Jul 2018 at 12:43hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
National Youth Service graduates defect to NPF
ABOUT 200 former Zanu-PF members and graduates of the National Youth Service (NYS) in Bulawayo on Saturday defected to the National Patriotic Front (NPF), citing frustration with the ruling party....Published: 23 May 2018 at 07:58hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Green bombers' return dents electoral roadmap
REPORTS that President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration has agreed to re-engage the controversial national youth service graduates into the public service are cause for concern, and cast aspersions...Published: 13 Apr 2018 at 07:36hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
3,200 'Green Bombers' bounce back
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's government has made a U-turn and re-engaged Zanu-PF's dreaded national youth service graduates, derisively called known as Green Bombers to their positions as youth offi...Published: 12 Apr 2018 at 07:16hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chinamasa makes sweeping changes
FINANCE minister Patrick Chinamasa has introduced a raft of cost-cutting measures, among them a drastic reduction in government travel, other luxuries and fired over 3 000 national youth service gradu...Published: 08 Dec 2017 at 05:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Don't soil Zanu-PF's name,' says Chipanga
People should not hide behind political fig leaves, in the process soiling Zanu-PF's name, when they are implicated in unethical or illegal dealings, the boss of the ruling party's youth wing has said...Published: 05 Nov 2017 at 08:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's bloody poll plot 'exposed'
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe is reportedly plotting a bloody 2018 election campaign, with Zanu PF youth militia acting as his storm troopers ahead of the polls, NewsDay reported.Political analysts ...Published: 09 Aug 2017 at 11:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe leaves sleepy Masvingo in awe
The cavalcade of top-notch fuel-guzzling vehicles snaked through the usually serene and traffic starved city of Masvingo guided by police riders that cleared the road for President Robert Mugabe to cr...Published: 02 Jul 2017 at 10:32hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Mugabe's Green bombers already being trained'
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe has already activated the training of youth militias under the guise of National Youth Service (NYS) ahead of make-or-break elections next year, a local peace lobby group h...Published: 01 Mar 2017 at 05:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's Zanu-PF appeals to 'green bombers'
Ahead of the eagerly anticipated October 22 Norton by-election, Zanu PF is now appealing to the notorious national youth service graduates, famously known as Border Gezis or green bombers, to lead...Published: 13 Oct 2016 at 08:51hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Border Gezi graduates offer free labour
NATIONAL Youth Service (NYS) graduates in Matabeleland North have offered free labour services to paratastals that need extra hands. Matabeleland North National Youth Service Commander, Ma...Published: 18 Jan 2016 at 05:26hrs | | by Border Gezi graduates offer free labour
Mutasa undaunted by Mugabe insults
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe on Wednesday launched another salvo at Didymus Mutasa, but the dogged former Zanu PF secretary for administration insists he wants a response to a letter he wrote to his b...Published: 06 Feb 2015 at 06:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Cde Gamatox hits back at Zanu-PF 'weevils'
FORMER Zanu-PF secretary for administration Didymus Mutasa has hit back at his adversaries in the ruling party, whom he has once again described as "weevils" who could not do anything to him....Published: 02 Feb 2015 at 05:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
'I'm not scared,' says Mutasa
FORMER Zanu-PF secretary for administration Didymus Mutasa has said he is ready to appear before a disciplinary committee set to deal with his case, cheekily equating his impending disciplinary heari...Published: 30 Jan 2015 at 07:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF to expel coup plotters?
The Zimbabwe National Youth Service Graduates Association has added its voice to mounting calls for the sacking of all party members who are implicated in the treasonous allegations of plotting to ass...Published: 25 Nov 2014 at 17:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Border Gezi graduates endorse Grace Mugabe
The Zimbabwe National Youth Service Graduates Association has pledged its support for the First Family following Dr Grace Mugabe's nomination to head the women's league and the endorsement of Presiden...Published: 14 Nov 2014 at 18:13hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF youths slam factionalism
The Zimbabwe Congress of Students Union (ZICOSU) and the national youth service graduates have slammed factionalism and infighting saying it is retrogressive and derails the Zanu PF party from core v...Published: 13 Sep 2014 at 16:51hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Students back Grace Mugabe
The Zimbabwe Council of Students Unions and the National Youth Service Graduates Association have rallied behind President Mugabe and the elevation of the First Lady Grace Mugabe to lead the Zanu-...Published: 12 Sep 2014 at 05:34hrs | | by Tichaona Zindoga
Zanu-PF youth blasts senior members on interfering
The Zanu-PF Youth League Secretary for International Relations, Tongai Kasukuwere, has implored senior members of the party to stop interfering in the affairs of the youth league, saying their int...Published: 07 Aug 2014 at 14:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Why I granted Mugabe elections extension,' Judge President explains
JUDGE President Justice George Chiweshe has said it would not have made sense to order President Mugabe to hold by-elections as that would strain resources since the country is geared for harmonised e...Published: 09 Apr 2013 at 03:31hrs | | by Court Reporter
Justice Chiweshe okays June 29 by-elections
JUDGE President Justice George Chiweshe has granted President Mugabe's application seeking an extension of the March 31 by-elections deadline to June 29 this year.The President was last year o...Published: 05 Apr 2013 at 21:31hrs | | by Staff Reporter
By-election ruling expected today
JUDGE President George Chiweshe said he would today try to rule in the case in which President Mugabe is seeking an extension of the March 31 by-election deadline to June 29 this year.The Judg...Published: 05 Apr 2013 at 04:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
By-elections ruling set for today
RULING on President Mugabe's two urgent chamber applications seeking an extension of the 31 March by-election deadline to 29 June this year is expected today.Harmonised elections should have b...Published: 03 Apr 2013 at 04:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Election dates hearing set for Thursday
JUDGE President George Chiweshe will on Thursday hear President Mugabe's two urgent chamber applications seeking an extension of the March 31 by-election deadline to June 29 by which time harmonised e...Published: 27 Mar 2013 at 19:51hrs | | by Staff Reporter
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