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Steenhuisen contradicts Ramaphosa on Russia
The DA has distanced itself from President Cyril Ramaphosa's comments that the government views Russia as a "valuable ally and friend". This is after Ramaphosa told Russian President Vladimir ...Published: 23 Oct 2024 at 13:52hrs | 659 | by Staff reporter
Hichilema blunders again
Today, the Southern African Development Community (SADC) will hold the 44th ordinary summit of Heads of State and Government in Harare, Zimbabwe. The SADC Summit is accountable for the regional bloc's...Published: 17 Aug 2024 at 15:47hrs | 3290 | by Dr Fred M'membe
Kasukuwere mocks Mnangagwa
Saviour Kasukuwere, the exiled former Cabinet Minister, has derided President Emmerson Mnangagwa for what he perceives as the ongoing isolation of the Zimbabwean leader from the international communit...Published: 22 Jan 2024 at 04:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to intensify lobby for UN Security Council seat
ZIMBABWE will take its lobby for a United Nations Security Council seat to the African Union (AU) when the continental bloc meets in February, President Mnangagwa has said.The Southern African...Published: 21 Jan 2024 at 07:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi genocide brigade was deployed on this day 41 years ago
Today in history: On this day 41 years ago and three years after Zimbabwe gained independence from Britain, the Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA)'s Fifth Brigade was deployed in Matabeleland North on 2...Published: 20 Jan 2024 at 16:40hrs | 56 | by Staff reporter
Non-Aligned Movement is a big sham!
Is there anyone who is genuinely unbiased and neutral in their views or stances on particular issues?We can even move on to the political landscape.Who can claim to be totally impartia...Published: 18 Jan 2024 at 19:35hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Redi Thlabi: the black woman weaponized against South Africa
South Africa is under attack by Western countries led by the US due to its BRICS membership and non-aligned geopolitical policy. This isn't surprising, given the West's frustration with the country's ...Published: 30 Sep 2023 at 12:46hrs | 2 | by Larmbert Ebitu
SA threatened with sanctions for its non-aligned stance on Ukraine Russia war
President Cyril Ramaphosa has reiterated that the West has threatened African countries with sanctions if they refuse to take sides in the conflict in Ukraine.He said South Africa was one of t...Published: 19 Jul 2023 at 06:31hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
60 countries to observe Zimbabwe elections
ZIMBABWE has extended invitations to 60 countries and regional bodies to observe the August elections, a 20% rise from 48 in the previous election, giving the international community a chance to see Z...Published: 09 Jul 2023 at 14:22hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Over 60 foreign observer missions invited to Zimbabwe elections
FORTY-SIX countries — including the United States, Russia and the United Kingdom — as well as 17 continental and regional bodies, have been invited to observe the August 23 harmonised elections, i...Published: 02 Jul 2023 at 07:38hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
'America wants Chamisa'
SOUTH African ruling party ANC's Secretary General Fikile Mbalula has labelled Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) President Nelson Chamisa an American puppet in his latest rant over Zimbabwe....Published: 26 Jun 2023 at 19:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa must expand Lady R probe to include Nato
SOUTH Africa's sovereignty stands in the dock. Whether we emerge as truly autonomous before the eyes of the world – the jury is out. Recent events that have pitted our country against the might of t...Published: 06 Jun 2023 at 17:05hrs | 8 | by Abbey Makoe
'Russia is in a war with imperialism'
FIREBRAND leader of South African opposition party, Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), Mr Julius Malema has said Russia was at war with imperialism, in the war against Ukraine and declared that he could...Published: 25 May 2023 at 06:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
US envoy says Russian ship picked up arms in South Africa
The United States envoy to South Africa said on Thursday he was confident that a Russian ship had picked up weapons in South Africa, in a possible breach of Pretoria's declared neutrality in the Ukrai...Published: 12 May 2023 at 06:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Why does Africa feel it has to be a slave to one global power or the other?
Will Africa ever be truly free? That is the question that always bugs my mind, as I watch the manner in which our leaders appear perpetually trapped in a 'slave mentality' - whereby, they beli...Published: 29 Apr 2023 at 12:17hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Harare backs Moscow
WINDS of a renewed Cold War between the United States and Russia - thunderously manifesting itself in Ukraine through iron and blood - swept across the southern African region this week as Russian For...Published: 02 Feb 2023 at 19:07hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Biden's US$55 billion fails to entice African countries to ditch Russia
FRESH from the US-Africa Summit in Washington DC, with a US$55 billion financial package over the next three years, African leaders from the region find themselves confronted with a reality check of a...Published: 21 Dec 2022 at 20:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa still isolated after 47 global trips
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has travelled 47 foreign trips since coming to power, in a re-engagement drive that has been bogged down by human rights abuses and failure to implement key political refo...Published: 06 Nov 2022 at 11:50hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa tables electoral reform demands ahead of 2023 polls
Zimbabwe opposition Citizens' Coalition for Change (CCC) leader, Nelson Chamisa says there was urgent need to correct historical anomalies in order to end disputed election outcomes.The timing...Published: 30 Sep 2022 at 06:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa's R62m farmgate scandal puts spotlight on David Mabuza
The $4 million (about R62m) farmgate scandal, which threatens to cut short President Cyril Ramaphosa's presidency, has thrust his deputy David Mabuza into the spotlight as a possible replacement....Published: 10 Jun 2022 at 20:25hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Biden angry at Ramaphosa after South Africa abstains from UN Russia vote?
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa held telephone talks Friday with United States President Joe Biden, a day after the continental powerhouse abstained from voting on a resolution suspending Russ...Published: 11 Apr 2022 at 08:27hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
'Bidenism' has killed dollar dominance?
Time will tell whether Putin wins the sweepstakes of expansionism or the cost of economic distress eventually overwhelms Russia and him. However, some interesting shifts in geo-strategy are discernibl...Published: 15 Mar 2022 at 16:09hrs | 7 | by Vaishali Basu Sharma
Shava takes engagement mission to Europe
Foreign Affairs and International Trade Minister, Ambassador Frederick Shava, has embarked on an engagement and re-engagement mission to Europe that will see him interact with Foreign Ministers of Fra...Published: 30 Sep 2021 at 07:13hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Kenneth Kaunda: His dream for southern Africa came true: hailed & sung with praises in heaven!
He left his mark: he left a void in southern Africa just like Mandela, we are struggling to get the calibre of leaders to take over from where they left. KK was an indisputable great son of the soil. ...Published: 20 Jun 2021 at 15:20hrs | 1 | by Nomazulu Thata
Mnangagwa hails Ramaphosa
President Mnangagwa, who is scheduled to address the 75th Session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) today, has thanked South African counterpart President Cyril Ramaphosa for using the Ass...Published: 24 Sep 2020 at 05:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa two years on
THE Second Republic under President Mnangagwa has, in the two years of its span, recorded a number of milestones across sectors towards the achievement of Vision 2030 to transform the economy and impr...Published: 28 Aug 2020 at 06:47hrs | 6 | by Nqobile Tshili, Nduduzo Tshuma and Prosper Ndlovu
It's not an offence to advocate for regime change
EAR Mr President,A few hours ago, I was just going through articles that I wrote over the past years having embarked on this very long, torrid and perilous journey in 1989 when I started contr...Published: 26 Aug 2020 at 07:12hrs | 6 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
'Chamisa is a master of empty promises'
MDC leader, Nelson Chamisa has earned himself several sobriquets, all deriving from his knack for lying with a straight face.The youthful opposition leader has become a habitual liar and a mas...Published: 11 Jul 2019 at 07:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Russia double-crossed ZIPRA with ZANLA?
Regarding a joint Zimbabwe-Rhodesian and South African military strike in Mozambique against ZANLA / FRELIMO in September 1979 (Operation URIC - ZRSF / Operation Bootlace - SADF), queries have been as...Published: 28 Apr 2019 at 16:57hrs | 6 | by John Frame
US sanctions shatter Zim's economic revival roadmap
"Beware the ides of March," a soothsayer warned the Roman Emperor, Julius Caesar in William Shakespeare's play, Julius Caesar. The words came to fruition in Zimbabwe during the evening of 4 March 2019...Published: 13 Mar 2019 at 10:14hrs | 1 | by Elijah Chihota
Foreign help urged in blast probe
A GROUP of non-aligned war veterans have called on the government to rope in international forensic investigators to assist local police in probing the explosion that rocked the White City Stadium in ...Published: 29 Jun 2018 at 07:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Planetarity: From Third World to Global South
Presently it is the true stuff of political and intellectual fashion to refer to Africa, Latin America and even Asia as collectively the Global South.For the reason that there are more politic...Published: 10 Jun 2018 at 09:29hrs | | by Cetshwayo Zindaba Mabhena
MDC Alliance 'bullet train' political campaign
The MDC Alliance's "bullet train" political campaign has clearly been quick off the mark (no pun intended).Perhaps too quick off the mark to the extent that they had raked up in excess of 40 r...Published: 10 Jun 2018 at 09:21hrs | 1 | by Staff writer
Comesa confident of free, fair Zim elections
The Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (Comesa) yesterday expressed confidence that the situation obtaining on the ground would see Zimbabwe conducting peaceful, free and fair harmonised el...Published: 24 May 2018 at 06:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa insists on free and fair elections
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has reiterated his message that this year's general elections will be free and fair, saying the world is welcome to come and witness the polls that are constitutionally due in July...Published: 17 Apr 2018 at 07:13hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
All welcome to observe Zimbabwe democracy in action
President Mnangagwa has reiterated his message that this year's general elections will be free and fair, saying the world is welcome to come and witness the polls that are constitutionally due in July...Published: 17 Apr 2018 at 07:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
46 countries to observe Zimbabwe elections
Government has approved a list of 46 countries, 15 regional and continental bodies to observe general elections set for July this year as President Mnangagwa's administration makes good its pledge for...Published: 10 Apr 2018 at 06:48hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
List of observers that Mnangagwa will invite
A list of observers that Govt will invite for 2018 elections. It includes 46 countries; the EU, US and Commonwealth. Also on the proposed list is US Senator Flake, one of the 'ZDERA' Senators ...Published: 09 Apr 2018 at 18:10hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'No barriers to Zimbabwe rejoining Commonwealth'
Zimbabwe was a member of the Commonwealth since its independence in 1980, but was suspended in 2002 after a diplomatic fallout between Harare and London. The country then pulled out of the Commonwealt...Published: 24 Mar 2018 at 10:06hrs | | by Sifelani Tsiko
New CIO boss scorned, Zimbabweans in SA happy with his re-deployment
PRETORIA: Zimbabwe's ambassador to South Africa Isaac Moyo has been re-deployed back to Harare as director general of the Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) with immediate effect.Moyo, wh...Published: 10 Dec 2017 at 05:33hrs | 4 | by ANA
Mugabe, Zuma pay tribute to OR Tambo
President Mugabe and President Jacob Zuma yesterday paid tribute to the late ANC icon, Oliver Tambo, saying the liberation struggle stalwart was an exemplary leader who should never be forgotten....Published: 04 Oct 2017 at 06:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe urged to embrace GMOs
Zimbabwe has been urged to embrace genetically modified (GM) crops to improve harvests and reduce crop production costs.This comes as government has remained rigidly averse to GM crops, common...Published: 28 Aug 2017 at 13:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Not only War vets should rule Zimbabwe
A RECENTLY launched war veterans' association on non-aligned ex-combatants, the Concerned Freedom Fighters (CFF), has said it does not subscribe to the notion that only those with liberation war crede...Published: 03 Aug 2017 at 08:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
What Britain did (and didn't) on Gukurahundi
CONTRARY to allegations that Western governments "did nothing" when Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's army went on the rampage in the early 1980s, they may have helped prevent total slaughter. But ...Published: 28 Apr 2017 at 17:30hrs | 1 | by Stuart Doran Historian & Author
Robert Mugabe turns 93
PRESIDENT Mugabe turns 93 today with the ruling Zanu-PF party describing him as a visionary leader, liberator and champion of education and empowerment.Zanu-PF Secretary for Administration...Published: 21 Feb 2017 at 06:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe dribbles factions
Zanu-PF bigwigs say President Robert Mugabe was at his "foxy" best during Wednesday's heated politburo meeting in Harare - running rings around the ruling party's two warring factions and apparent...Published: 19 Feb 2017 at 10:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Acid test for coalition to unseat Mugabe
There has been so much hullabaloo about Zimbabwean opposition forming a coalition to uproot Zanu-PF from power and the arrest of Pastor Evan Mawarire presents an acid test on what the parties prio...Published: 08 Feb 2017 at 16:00hrs | | by Itayi Mamutse
Mugabe foils G40, Lacoste
President Robert Mugabe continues to outwit his warring Zanu-PF lieutenants, proving for the umpteenth time on Friday that he remains the troubled ruling party's ultimate conductor and puppeteer d...Published: 30 Jan 2017 at 16:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
G40 hunts Mnangagwa
As Zanu-PF's "Cupgate" saga, and its deadly tribal, factional and succession wars continue to rage, scores of the ruling party's officials drawn from the country's 10 provinces gathered in Harare yest...Published: 12 Jan 2017 at 06:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF wars reach a climax
Zanu-PF insiders say last week's dramatic turn of events which saw disaffected war veterans burying the hatchet with powerful First Lady Grace Mugabe and cranking up the heat on under siege minist...Published: 20 Nov 2016 at 13:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
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