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Zuma dares Judges to apply double standards
Jacob Zuma says his urgent court application to interdict his private prosecution of President Cyril Ramaphosa will test "whether Lady Justice has removed her blindfold in South Africa"."There...Published: 09 Jan 2023 at 07:19hrs | 1526 | by Staff reporter
CIOs up for torturing man
A BUDIRO man was severely assaulted and tortured by suspected Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) officers before being handed over to the police on charges of plotting to topple President E...Published: 07 Jan 2023 at 07:06hrs | 609 | by Staff reporter
Jail has cost Job Sikhala a fortune already
Just before the presidential elections of early 2002, two young MPs from the united MDC, Job Sikhala and Tafadzwa Musekiwa, arranged a meeting with the late Perrance Shiri, who was then commander of t...Published: 25 Dec 2022 at 14:15hrs | 658 | by Tawanda Majoni
Job Sikhala pens another letter from Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) interim vice-chairperson Job Sikhala has penned another letter from Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison where he says he is being crucified by the regime of President...Published: 21 Dec 2022 at 20:10hrs | 568 | by Staff reporter
Varakashi beat up Mapostori4ED leader
A BOGUS intelligence operative and a member of the militant Varakashi group has been arrested for kidnapping and bashing a Budiriro-based apostolic sect leader and impersonating a Central Intelligence...Published: 20 Dec 2022 at 20:44hrs | 1698 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabweans are serial plan B people!' Where is plan B if millions are in the dark and starving
"Zimbabwe did not become a failed state overnight. The collapse of the country happened over a period of decades, starting as early as the 1980s," wrote Malaika Mahlatsi in an article circulating in m...Published: 15 Dec 2022 at 10:01hrs | 816 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Sikhala a habitual offender
Empty vessels make a lot of noise. CCC interim vice national chairperson, Job Sikhala, has of late been making unfounded claims about the country's judiciary as being captured.This is stemming...Published: 09 Dec 2022 at 05:11hrs | 410 | by Zivanai Dhewa
Biti, Karenyi trial deferred
THE trial of CCC vice presidents, Tendai Biti and Lynette Karenyi, on charges of violating Covid-19 regulations during the lockdown period after they allegedly staged an illegal demonstration at their...Published: 02 Dec 2022 at 19:33hrs | 169 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's CCC to boycott 2023 elections?
Sources within the Nelson Chamisa-led CCC have revealed that a fierce debate on whether or not to participate in next year's elections is raging. According to the sources, the debate has...Published: 30 Nov 2022 at 10:37hrs | 4464 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Opposition 4ED crumbles like a deck of cards
It never rains but pours for MDC-T leader Mr Douglas Mwonzora. The centre is not holding at his party which he unconstitutionally grabbed from Nelson Chamisa with the help of President Emmerson Mnanga...Published: 25 Nov 2022 at 13:25hrs | 2841 | by Leonard Koni
Air Zimbabwe pilot appointed Mangwe headman
HIGHFLYING Air Zimbabwe pilot Captain Simon Thalon Moyo has been appointed as Godzi headman under Chief Tjanguluba in Mangwe District, Matabeleland South Province.The pilot has flown President...Published: 23 Nov 2022 at 04:58hrs | 863 | by Staff reporter
Plumtree pilot defies racial attitudes to pursue dream
FORTY years and still counting years of flying different aircraft types, heads of States, the late Prince Philip; husband to the late Queen Elizabeth II, and roles spanning basic flying, advanced flyi...Published: 21 Nov 2022 at 04:57hrs | 813 | by Staff reporter
Why did African leaders cease speaking for ordinary citizens but standing with oppressive leaders?
Whenever I watch clips, repeatedly replayed on state television, of a couple of African leaders calling for the 'lifting of sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe', my heart sinks, as I am quite sure, it also ...Published: 01 Nov 2022 at 11:50hrs | 924 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Sikhala says they want to jail him until 2023
ZENGEZA West MP Job Sikhala says there is a sinister political plot by the authorities to keep him in detention beyond the 2023 general elections, The NewsHawks reported.Sikhala, who celebrate...Published: 31 Oct 2022 at 18:53hrs | 573 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa feels Sikhala, Sithole's prison torture
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa has claimed that the State is maliciously exposing incarcerated legislators Job Sikhala (Zengeza West) and Godfrey Sithole (Chitungwiza North)...Published: 31 Oct 2022 at 04:57hrs | 1247 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala turns 50 behind bars
DETAINED Citizens Coalition for Change legislator, Job Sikhala, was defiant Sunday as he turned 50-years-old, marking the milestone at the notorious Chikurubi Maximum Prison in Harare where he has bee...Published: 30 Oct 2022 at 12:01hrs | 999 | by Staff reporter
From Mzilikazi High to the world flying high and far-flung
PROMINENT Zimbabwean lawyer Sternford Moyo is flying high - literally and figuratively. He has been traversing the world as International Bar Association (IBA) president - from Harare to Singapore and...Published: 02 Oct 2022 at 09:07hrs | 372 | by Staff reporter
Sternford Moyo gets Freedom of the City of London
Alpha Media Holdings (AMH) board member and International Bar Association president Sternford Moyo has tonight been honoured with the Freedom of the City of London, an award given to High impact Inter...Published: 29 Sep 2022 at 05:58hrs | 778 | by Staff reporter
Mr President, Zimbabwe has never known respite from terror
DEAR President Emmerson Mnangagwa,Your Excellency, as we count down to the 2023 harmonised elections, it is my fervent supplication that you replicate the Madiba blueprint. Despite the massive...Published: 28 Sep 2022 at 06:00hrs | 389 | by Cyprian M Ndawana
Zimbabweans among four winners of 2022 Mandela social impact awards
THE Mandela Rhodes Foundation (MRF) has announced four of its award winners for its social impact award the Äänit Prize.The four winners – all of them young leaders – are focused on soci...Published: 25 Sep 2022 at 16:45hrs | 159 | by Staff reporter
South Africa should not carry burden of Zimbabwe's poor leadership – Chamisa
Like many people in Zimbabwe and elsewhere around the world, I recently watched a video in which Dr Phophi Ramathuba, the Limpopo MEC for Health, spoke to a Zimbabwean patient seeking care in a hospit...Published: 09 Sep 2022 at 19:57hrs | 1480 | by Nelson Chamisa I CCC President
Zimbabwe -SA frosty relations hit new low
RELATIONS between President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his South African counterpart Cyril Ramaphosa continue to deteriorate amid growing anger in the neighbouring country over the immigration crisis at a...Published: 04 Sep 2022 at 15:16hrs | 1604 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa's ANC adopts populist politics ahead of polls
SOUTH Africa's governing African National Congress (ANC) is moving to left wing politics in a populist bid to garner votes in the 2024 elections, which explains the party's newly adopted stance agains...Published: 28 Aug 2022 at 19:10hrs | 2077 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora vows to 'rise again'
MDC-T president, Douglas Mwonzora, whose party lost dismally in the recent by-elections, has vowed to reclaim the party's lost ground in future elections.This is despite the fact that senior o...Published: 12 Aug 2022 at 06:43hrs | 2480 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora claims he is brewing a shocker for Zimbabwe
MDC-T president Douglas Mwonzora has said his party is brewing a shocker for the nation ahead of the crucial harmonised elections pencilled for next year.This is despite his party having fared...Published: 11 Aug 2022 at 18:09hrs | 1096 | by Staff reporter
For a country that was a British colony why has Zimbabwe not learnt that no leader is remotely indispensable?
As I was listening to the British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announcing his expected resignation, this afternoon, I could not help being engulfed with a sense of admiration for the beauty of democra...Published: 07 Jul 2022 at 15:35hrs | 3043 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
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 | 323 | by Staff reporter
Zipra demands public holiday for Joshua Nkomo
THE Zipra War Veterans Association wants government to declare July 1 a public holiday to commemorate the death of the late former Vice-President and liberation struggle icon Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo....Published: 01 Jul 2022 at 07:28hrs | 678 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa's 'plot' to kill the ANC
SOME senior ANC leaders have accused President Cyril Ramaphosa of working with external parties to collapse the governing party and replace it with a centre-right coalition led by him after the 2024 g...Published: 30 Jun 2022 at 19:46hrs | 2676 | by Staff reporter
South Africa's moonlighting President has a serious constitutional case to answer
Our rudderless President Cyril Ramaphosa has been exposed not only for his lack of leadership, but also for his gross misunderstanding of the country's Constitution.We all know that he was a v...Published: 28 Jun 2022 at 12:01hrs | 358 | by Paul Ngobeni
Ramaphosa has a serious constitutional case to answer
Our rudderless President Cyril Ramaphosa has been exposed not only for his lack of leadership, but also for his gross misunderstanding of the country's Constitution.We all know that he was a v...Published: 26 Jun 2022 at 09:26hrs | 706 | by Paul Ngobeni
ZEC removes 32 010 from roll
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) has removed the names of 32 010 deceased people from the voters' roll in line with provisions of the Electoral Act.The list of the deceased persons was ...Published: 03 Jun 2022 at 07:43hrs | 110 | by Staff reporter
MDC-T ordered to pay Khupe aide's outstanding benefits
THE Labour Court has ordered the MDC-T to pay an aide of the party's former acting president, Thokozani Khupe, outstanding salaries and benefits.Kudzanai Mashumba dragged the opposition party ...Published: 21 May 2022 at 18:03hrs | 229 | by Staff reporter
Mandela's grandson arrested over drugs and unlicensed gun
News coming from neighbouring indicate that former president Nelson Mandela's grandson, Mbuso Mandela, has been arrested for the possession of an unlicensed firearm and suspected drugs after pol...Published: 05 May 2022 at 18:02hrs | 1044 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabweans won't flee South Africa to return home
"WHEN you see a rat running into a fire, then you know that what it is running away from is hotter than the fire." - African proverb. Zimbabweans, who are in their millions in South Africa - som...Published: 27 Apr 2022 at 13:41hrs | 1592 | by Staff reporter
World Bank and the IMF have remained largely colonial in character to this day
Most people assume that inequality between the global South and the global North (the United States, Western Europe, Japan, Canada and Australia) has been declining over the past few decades. After al...Published: 13 Apr 2022 at 07:43hrs | 381 | by Professor Jason Hickel
Elvis Nyathi can't just die in vain
IN the aftermath of the gruesome murder of Zimbabwean man Elvis Nyathi (43) by vigilantes in Johannesburg's Diepsloot township, tough questions must be asked.Nyathi cannot die in vain. The tim...Published: 09 Apr 2022 at 11:13hrs | 481 | by Staff reporter
Chinamsa and friend steals Government car
TWO men appeared in court yesterday on allegations of conniving to steal a car from the Office of the President and Cabinet after the driver parked it in Harare's city centre to buy a pair of shoes....Published: 01 Apr 2022 at 09:06hrs | 515 | by Staff reporter
Trevor Ncube says was ‘wrong' to back Mnangagwa, renews Chamisa criticism
Alpha Media Holdings (AMH) owner Trevor Ncube has admitted he was "wrong" to assume President Emmerson Mnangagwa would govern better than Robert Mugabe.Ncube, one of Mnangagwa's biggest cheerl...Published: 30 Mar 2022 at 11:49hrs | 1323 | by Staff reporter
CCC's winning the March by-elections: a trap for 2023 general elections
The by-elections that were handsomely achieved in favour of CCC must bamboozle young kids in the political play to think the elections were free and fair....Published: 29 Mar 2022 at 06:17hrs | 5053 | by Nomazulu Thata
The ugly face of Zanu-PF, CCC intolerance
POLITICAL consciousness is nourished by a healthy discussion of competing ideas. Ultimately, political tolerance, be it among fierce opponents or fellow comrades, promotes a culture of political plura...Published: 25 Mar 2022 at 18:03hrs | 558 | by Brian Chitemba
Chamisa's Madzibaba veshanduko bail ruling tomorrow
THE State on Tuesday opposed bail for Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) supporter, Godfrey Karembera saying it has a strong case against him.Karembera, popularly known as Madzibaba Veshanduk...Published: 23 Mar 2022 at 05:36hrs | 445 | by Staff reporter
The political agency of xenophobia, violence in SA
SOUTH Africa is home to millions of immigrants, mainly from Lesotho, Nigeria, Mozambique and Zimbabwe. The regional giant has played an immense role for more than a century in attracting labour for it...Published: 22 Mar 2022 at 05:50hrs | 619 | by Tatenda Mazarura
'Police lied on tortured CCC activist charges'
LAWYERS representing Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) supporter Godfrey Karembera, who was allegedly brutally tortured in police custody, have accused the police of falsely claiming that he had att...Published: 22 Mar 2022 at 05:47hrs | 924 | by Staff reporter
Russia-Ukraine tiff exposes hypocrisy of US, West
On the last Friday of last month, a delegation of US Embassy in Zimbabwe personnel and its European Union (EU) counterparts made a beeline for Munhumutapa Building in Harare to the Ministry of Foreign...Published: 16 Mar 2022 at 05:30hrs | 231 | by Nobleman Runyanga
When everyone dreams of being an 'influencer' who will truly change the world?
It is all now about the "glitz and glam"!We now have a generation that wants to make a living from partying and drinking champagne!Everyone now dreams of being a "social media influenc...Published: 05 Mar 2022 at 17:40hrs | 487 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Teachers plan march to Parliament
TEACHERS are planning to march to Parliament this week to deliver a petition as they desperately try to force the government to improve their conditions of service.They have rejected the gover...Published: 28 Feb 2022 at 05:25hrs | 1268 | by Staff reporter
CCC aspiring councillors arrested as Biti, Karenyi remanded
POLICE in Mutare on Monday arrested two aspiring Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) councillors as they were conducting a door-to-door campaign.Aspiring wards 5 and 4 councillors Simon Mapuwi...Published: 23 Feb 2022 at 05:55hrs | 2331 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's allies continue minting it
FEASIBILITY studies of the shady US$1.3 billion petroleum pipeline project, whose cost has quickened from US$850 million to US$1.3 billion and will ultimately surge to US$4 billion, are nearing comple...Published: 30 Jan 2022 at 17:00hrs | 2792 | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere dares Mnangagwa
Exiled former cabinet minister Saviour Kasukuwere last week declared himself a thorn in the flesh of Zanu-PF and dared President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his government to arrest him.Kasukuwere ...Published: 23 Jan 2022 at 08:05hrs | 4910 | by Staff reporter
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