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Zimbabwe media guru appointed into AU's AI think tank
Tabani Moyo, Regional Secretariat Director for the Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA), has been appointed as a member of the African Union (AU) Working Group on Artificial Intelligence (AI). Th...Published: 01 Jun 2025 at 14:33hrs | 96 | by Staff reporter
Nobel Peace Prize circus as Zelensky is nominated
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, but he is not expected to win Reuters reported.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who has been nomi...Published: 05 Oct 2024 at 15:29hrs | 551 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa congratulates DRC's Tshisekedi on re-election
President Mnangagwa has congratulated DRC President Félix Antoine Tshisekedi Tshilombo on his re-election after garnering over 70 percent of the vote, according to results announced by the electoral ...Published: 01 Jan 2024 at 17:50hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean tech start-up wins US$250,000 Kofi Annan Award for Innovation in Africa
ZIMBABWEAN tech start-up Vaxiglobal was recently named among the first winners of the Kofi Annan Award for Innovation in Africa which attracted 330 applicants from 38 countries across the continent....Published: 15 Jul 2022 at 09:13hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Desmond Tutu dies
Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu has died at the age of 90.Tutu, the last surviving South African laureate of the Nobel Peace Prize, died in Cape Town.President Cyril Ramaphosa sa...Published: 26 Dec 2021 at 07:43hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Apartheid leader De Klerk to be burnt
The funeral of South Africa's last white president, Frederik Willem (FW) de Klerk, who died last Thursday aged 85, will take place on November 21 in a private ceremony, his foundation said in a statem...Published: 16 Nov 2021 at 05:39hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
What Zimbabwean leaders can learn from FW de Klerk's legacy
WHEN the late former Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe met the last apartheid South African leader Frederik Willem de Klerk, who died of cancer-related complications at 85 this week, in Gaborone, Bot...Published: 13 Nov 2021 at 17:38hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
FW de Klerk dies at 85
FW de Klerk, the former president of South Africa and the last white person to lead the country, has died at the age of 85.Mr de Klerk, who was also a key figure in the nation's transition to ...Published: 11 Nov 2021 at 11:31hrs | 17 | by Staff Reporter
Families of apartheid victims call for FW de Klerk to face law for involvement
With the National Prosecuting Authority having recently committed a new specialist unit to probe apartheid-era atrocities dating from the 1960s to the 1980s, family members of apartheid victims have c...Published: 18 Jul 2021 at 11:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Persistent moaning for COVID-19 vaccine patent waiver by Africa questions our intellectual capacity
Please allow me to start this discourse with a list of names - Max Theiler, Allan McLeod Comack, Aaron Klug, and Sydney Brenner.I am not sure if these names ring a bell for most of us, but the...Published: 11 Jun 2021 at 14:00hrs | 2 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mnangagwa's Polad needs gravitas
Polad (an acronym for Political Actors Dialogue) is a voluntary platform for national dialogue launched by President Emmerson Mnangagwa just a few days after the Ides of May 2019.Polad was fla...Published: 31 May 2019 at 07:33hrs | 1 | by Willard Chinhara
Reviving the 'New Zimbabwe' dream in 2019
As Zimbabweans enter 2019 from a forgettable festive season, probably the worst in the past decade, uncertainty abounds about Emmerson Mnangagwa's government.Zimbabweans are deeply concerned a...Published: 02 Jan 2019 at 14:07hrs | 3 | by Vivid Gwede
British have cut ED adrift, has he even Smith's common sense to admit 'game is up!'
South Africa's then president F W de Klerk and the man who would succeed him, Nelson Mandela, were co-recipients of the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize.Nelson Mandela's citation for the prize was easil...Published: 02 Oct 2018 at 00:30hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
Mnangagwa pays tribute to Kofi Annan
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has joined other world figures in paying tribute to the late former UN Secretary-General and Nobel Laureate Kofi Annan (80), who died on Saturday at a hospital in Switzerl...Published: 20 Aug 2018 at 05:53hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa 'deeply saddened' by the sudden death of Kofi Annan
Zimbabwean opposition leader Nelson Chamisa says he is "deeply saddened" by the sudden death of "the iconic Kofi Annan" whom he met "a few days go" just before the Zimbabwe elections.The focus...Published: 18 Aug 2018 at 14:12hrs | 1 | by AP
Kofi Annan dies
The former UN secretary-general Kofi Annan, who won the Nobel Peace Prize for humanitarian work, has died aged 80.International diplomats said Annan was the first black African to take up the ...Published: 18 Aug 2018 at 12:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa pins hopes on Kofi Annan
The opposition political parties that have been feuding with Zec are pinning their hopes on the visiting Elders group to help them make headway on a number of demands they want met before elections ar...Published: 19 Jul 2018 at 07:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe was the real life Wakanda, recalls Danai Gurira
DANAI Gurira is taking a break from promoting her blockbuster film Black Panther to talk to a group that does not include any Hollywood reporters. But the playwright turned movie megastar is not actua...Published: 30 Jun 2018 at 08:13hrs | 1 | by Sean Braswell
Gays praise Mnangagwa
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has received rare praise from the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) community for abandoning his predecessor Robert Mugabe’s politics of discrimin...Published: 17 Jun 2018 at 11:40hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Donald Trump's America is a Nightmare
America is like an uncivilized fool that would even poison a river just because it wants to kill a crocodile. And when you poison a river, you don't only kill the crocodiles, but you would also end up...Published: 29 May 2018 at 19:44hrs | 1 | by Salom Shilongo
ED abandons free, fair and credible for gun-point 'peaceful' elections - another military assisted transition
VOTE ED! DELIVERING PEACEFUL ELECTIONS TO THE PEOPLE.So Zanu PF has given up on the promise for FREE, FAIR AND CREDIBLE ELECTIONS and settle for just pe...Published: 10 May 2018 at 12:03hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
ED delivering a most peaceful election
The election season is upon us. Already, all candidates are in full swing preparing for the historic election, the first without Robert Mugabe in 38 years, and without Morgan Tsvangirai in 18 years. H...Published: 10 May 2018 at 09:08hrs | 1 | by Chigumbu Warikandwa
Mutare to name road after Tsvangirai
Mutare City Council has resolved to rename a street in the city's central business district after the country's late former prime minister, Morgan Tsvangirai.Council made the resolution to ren...Published: 26 Apr 2018 at 11:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Young Women it's your time!
"We cannot all succeed when half of us are held back. We call upon our sisters around the world to be brave - to embrace the strength within themselves and realize their full potential." - Malala Yous...Published: 28 Mar 2018 at 11:31hrs | | by Loveness Nyathi
Tsvangirai's death, political phonies and crocodile tears
WHAT a dramatic political week it was in Zimbabwe and South Africa. On Valentine's Day two momentous events happened on either side of the Limpopo River with huge implications on the politics of the t...Published: 16 Feb 2018 at 16:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dr Morgan Richard Tsvangirai - The Peak of the Struggle's Hall of Fame
Ash Wednesday is the day that the traditional churches remember that the human being is mortal; the Priest physically draws a cross of ash on each of the foreheads of every congregant accompanied by t...Published: 15 Feb 2018 at 10:26hrs | 1 | by Jacob Mafume, PDP
Gays and Lesbians raise alarm over stereotyping in Zimbabwe
THE Gays and Lesbians of Zimbabwe (GALZ) is engaging the clergy, lawyers, traditional leaders among other stakeholders to raise awareness on issues relating to their members to correct stereotypes abo...Published: 05 Dec 2017 at 05:20hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Few tears in China as old friend Mugabe ousted in Zimbabwe
China is shedding few tears over the ousting of its old friend Robert Mugabe as President of Zimbabwe, fed up with the ruinous state of its economy and confident a new government will not antagonise t...Published: 23 Nov 2017 at 05:15hrs | | by Reuters
Bob and Grace Mugabe's Muppet Show is in full swing
Get ready to salsa to the sounds of party-political kongonya when Grace Mugabe takes centre stage at the Zanu-PF special congress scheduled for December. So I hope Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa ca...Published: 20 Oct 2017 at 09:59hrs | 2 | by Tafi Mhaka
Chipanga: Bootlicking gone awry
The late Harare mayor Tony Gara who infamously once likened President Robert Mugabe to Jesus Christ, would have been proud of Zanu-PF youth leader Kudzanai Chipanga if he was still alive.Gara'...Published: 13 Aug 2017 at 12:54hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
South Africa facing moment of reality
South Africa is currently engulfed in political and economic storms whose magnitude are threatening to tear the governing Tripartite Alliance apart, over and above the threat to the tenure of incumben...Published: 21 Apr 2017 at 07:03hrs | 2 | by Tererai Danga
South Africa facing moment of reality
South Africa is currently engulfed in political and economic storms whose magnitude are threatening to tear the governing Tripartite Alliance apart, over and above the threat to the tenure of incumben...Published: 20 Apr 2017 at 09:15hrs | 2 | by Tererai Danga
Desomond Tutu back in hospital
JOHANNESBURG - South African anti-apartheid campaigner Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu has admitted himself to a Cape Town hospital for treatment of a recurring infection, according to his family...Published: 26 Aug 2016 at 06:50hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Unleashing the power of Africa's civil society
A Liberian women's peace movement led by 31-year-old Leymah Gbowee did something extraordinary in July 2003 to force Liberian warlords to sign a peace agreement that ended 10 years of a bloody civil w...Published: 13 Aug 2016 at 09:11hrs | | by Kingsley Ighobor
AFR100 to restore 100 million hectares of land in Africa
African countries have launched African Forest Landscape Restoration Initiative (AFR100), a Pan-African, country-led effort to restore 100 million hectares of degraded and deforested landscapes by 203...Published: 07 Dec 2015 at 14:26hrs | | by Andrew Mambondiyani in Paris, France
Sustainable Development Goals are in sync with Africa's priorities
Newly adopted Sustainable Development Goals could transform the continentOn 26 September, a day after world leaders adopted the new development age...Published: 20 Nov 2015 at 21:55hrs | 1 | by Kingsley Ighobor
Another prestigious award for me, Cdes
Dear Cabinet and Politburo membersCOMRADES, I have to admit that I am beside myself with unbridled joy. I could not believe it when I received communication from Beijing that I was this year's...Published: 02 Nov 2015 at 20:16hrs | | by CZ
Mugabe 'rejects' China award
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe has dissociated himself from a peace prize awarded to him by a Chinese institution.Mugabe was last month awarded the Confucious Peace Prize - a supposed Chinese rival t...Published: 26 Oct 2015 at 05:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's Chinese Award deserved, says Zanu-PF
ZANU-PF has hit back at President Robert Mugabe's opponents, particularly the opposition MDC-T, for criticising a Chinese peace prize awarded to the 91-year-old leader last month.Mugabe was aw...Published: 24 Oct 2015 at 12:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe Nobel peace prize draws scorn
A Chinese peace award to President Robert Mugabe has drawn scorn from the opposition, which described the honour as a mockery to Zimbabweans, who, they say, have been subjected to gross human righ...Published: 23 Oct 2015 at 07:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe wins Chinese Nobel Peace Prize, Beats Bill Gates, Ban Ki-Moon
Hailing the aging revolutionary icon's continued work in actively promoting "African peace", the African Union chairman was selected to win the Confucius Peace Prize.Africa Crable website repo...Published: 20 Oct 2015 at 07:53hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Mugabe wins Confucius award
He secured re-election in an election marred by fraud but that has not stopped Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe from being awarded China's version of the Nobel Peace Prize.Hailing the aging...Published: 18 Oct 2015 at 11:54hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Electoral Reforms, the primary step
Congratulations to the Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet for winning the Nobel peace Prize awarded for its efforts for paving the way for democracy in the country through nurturing institutions neces...Published: 10 Oct 2015 at 11:51hrs | | by Zanda Shumba
Jonathan Moyo went ballistic over Gukurahundi - Coltart
I have had an interesting twitter exchange with Jonathan Moyo this morning. It started when someone asked whether we agreed on anything. I responded by saying that we agreed on a lot prior to him "j...Published: 20 Jul 2015 at 10:34hrs | | by David Coltart
Don't mess with Grace Mugabe
During a state banquet in Pretoria, South Africa, in April 2015, I had a brief encounter with Grace Mugabe, the first lady of Zimbabwe. I was asking her husband, Robert Mugabe, about the question of ...Published: 16 Jul 2015 at 08:47hrs | 3 | by David Smith
A second letter to all women in Zimbabwe in preparation for the grand boycott!
"Passive resistance" Dear Zimbabwe Women of all ethnic societies, As we slowly and surely approach the international women's day of the global v...Published: 14 Feb 2015 at 17:56hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
Chinotimba award must be revoked
Human rights defenders have demanded that Zimrights immediately withdraw the so-called "Human Rights People's Choice" award controversially conferred on Buhera South Zanu-PF legislator Joseph Chinotim...Published: 09 Jan 2015 at 12:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Women empowerment the answer to Zimbabwe's corruption problems
"The most common way people give up their power, is by thinking they don't have any" - Alice Walker.As corruption in Zimbabwe continues to escalate to shocking proportions,its contagiousne...Published: 05 Jan 2015 at 08:56hrs | 18 | by Minenhle Gumede
Tsvangirai outflanks his political opponents with unparalleled dexterity
In a mere three days, Morgan Tsvangirai communicated with Africa as a statesman but ended up two days later at a village in Domboshawa to commiserate with a bereaved family in an ordinary village unde...Published: 16 May 2014 at 15:39hrs | 2 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
MDCs are orchestrators of their own demise
Presented with an opportunity to confront the malign in the country, the MDC's have plunged into their darkest hour as a result of self-interest and greed.Because absolute power corrupts absol...Published: 15 May 2014 at 14:46hrs | | by Immigration Maziwisa
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