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Drug lord in Zanu-PF primary election contest
VIOLENCE mongers, drug lords, and shoddy characters were disqualified from standing for the ruling party in the forthcoming elections as Zanu-PF maintains high ethical standards with rerun polls set t...Published: 04 Apr 2023 at 06:30hrs | 23 | by Mbuso Ndlovu
The poor are on their own in Zimbabwe
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa was all smiles as he officially opened the privately-developed Aspindale apartments in Harare. His infrastructure programme - housing for all - seemed to be all in order y...Published: 20 Feb 2023 at 05:30hrs | 1 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Chirau appointed deputy secretary
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has appointed former Zanu-PF acting Deputy Secretary for Youth Affairs, Tendai Chirau, as the Deputy Secretary for Security in the Politburo.Speaking after the 362nd Politb...Published: 09 Jun 2022 at 06:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Zanu-PF women scared to challenge Mutsvangwa'
CANDIDATES eyeing top Zanu-PF women's league posts are allegedly scared to challenge Information minister Monica Mutsvangwa due to her alleged close links to President Emmerson Mnangagwa.The r...Published: 30 May 2022 at 07:06hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's ex-minister locked out of her farm
Former Women Affairs, Gender and Community Development minister Nyasha Chikwinya has filed an urgent chamber application at the High Court to evict some youths and the Mama Mafuyana Housing Co-operati...Published: 31 Jul 2019 at 08:05hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chikwinya faces civil imprisonment
OLD Mutual Property Co-operation (Private) Ltd has petitioned the High Court seeking an order to have former Women Affairs, Gender and Community Development minister Nyasha Chikwinya incarcerated for ...Published: 04 Jul 2019 at 08:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora rejected by Midlands
Nelson Chamisa was still unopposed after Midlands province became the fourth of the Movement for Democratic Change's (MDC) 13 administrative provinces to make its nominations ahead of the party's cong...Published: 11 Apr 2019 at 21:01hrs | 1 | by ZimLive
Mugabe's ex-minister sued over $31,000 power bill
FORMER Women Affairs, Gender and Community Development minister, Nyasha Chikwinya, has been taken to court over an outstanding $31 765 energy bill owing to the Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Di...Published: 22 Sep 2018 at 09:25hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Losing Zanu-PF MPs in rebellion
Zanu-PF legislators who lost in the recently-held primary polls are becoming rebellious in their attitude in the National Assembly which could force the ruling party to rely on the whip system to push...Published: 15 May 2018 at 07:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF candidate hits the ground running
Zanu-PF parliamentary candidate for Mutare South Jeffrey Ngome has hit the ground running by beginning to address a myriad of challenges confronting the constituency.His priorities include reh...Published: 11 May 2018 at 07:12hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF announces additional rerun
Zanu-PF's National Elections Commission (NEC) yesterday ordered an additional rerun of elections in Kambuzuma Constituency.However, there will not be a rerun in Gutu East (Masvingo province) a...Published: 08 May 2018 at 07:02hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
G40 resurfaces in Zanu-PF primaries?
Suprising losses by some perceived party big-wigs in the recently held Zanu-PF primary elections have increased fears that the expelled G40 faction is very much alive within the rank and file of the p...Published: 04 May 2018 at 12:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Poll re-runs in select Zanu-PF constituencies
Zanu-PF yesterday released the official list of candidates who were successful in the primary polls to contest for the National Assembly seats in elections set for July with more of the old guard maki...Published: 04 May 2018 at 07:20hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF 'giant killers' fears poll results nullification
JOYCE Bukuta, who thumped the ruling Zanu-PF national chairperson, Oppah Muchinguri in the just-ended party primary elections, yesterday expressed fears that her victory could be nullified or the resu...Published: 03 May 2018 at 17:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF primary poll winners list out
Zanu-PF yesterday announced the official list of candidates who will contest the forthcoming National Assembly elections on the ruling party's ticket. The results reflect a renewal of the party after ...Published: 03 May 2018 at 06:51hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mutsvangwa crashes in Zanu-PF primaries?
SEVERAL Zanu-PF bigwigs, mostly politburo members and Cabinet ministers, were left in shock yesterday after they lost in the just-ended party primary elections, a development likely to end their polit...Published: 02 May 2018 at 08:00hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF bigwigs fall
ZANU-PF heavyweights in Manicaland Province reportedly failed to make it during the primary elections, with Politburo member and Minister of State in the President's Office responsible for Scholarship...Published: 02 May 2018 at 06:53hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF bigwigs face uncertain future
Only two seating Members of Parliament in Manicaland Province are guaranteed of progressing to the do-or-die general elections to be held in July this year after their respective constituencies could ...Published: 26 Apr 2018 at 11:52hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Madiro eyes Mutare North constistuency
ZANU-PF Manicaland chairman, Mike Madiro has headlined a list of 109 candidates that will take part in the provincial party's primaries slated for early next month.Madiro is eyeing the Mutare ...Published: 23 Apr 2018 at 07:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
President Mnangangwa and his suggested cabinet
The list below shows suggested senior officials of President ED Mnangagwa's government and cabinet if he decides to form a transitional government with the opposition members represented or not repres...Published: 24 Nov 2017 at 19:48hrs | 2 | by Conilious Toga
Mnangagwa loyalists face the music
THE Zanu-PF leadership in various provinces yesterday joined calls for the elevation of First Lady Dr Amai Grace Mugabe to be one of the party's two Vice Presidents.The provinces also recommen...Published: 07 Nov 2017 at 05:18hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF implodes
ZANU-PF National Secretary for Transport and Welfare Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri was yesterday hauled over the calls by the revolutionary party's Women's League representatives in Manicaland for sowing h...Published: 07 Nov 2017 at 05:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Woman wants lobola abolished
A HARARE woman has approached the Constitutional Court challenging the constitutionality of the practice of paying lobola, saying it reduces women to mere "assets" that are open for abuse. Ms Priccila...Published: 02 Nov 2017 at 05:11hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Outcry as gun-toting police officers raid kitchen tea party
Home Affairs deputy minister Obedingwa Mguni was yesterday grilled in the National Assembly over an incident in Siganda, Tsholotsho, where police officers allegedly pounced on women at a kitchen tea p...Published: 12 Oct 2017 at 10:15hrs | 3 | by Staff Reporter
Grace Mugabe unveils Mazowe grand plan
First Lady Dr Grace Mugabe says she does not shout about her philanthropic work in Mazowe, but projects on the ground and the good work she is doing for the people of Zimbabwe speak for themselves. Co...Published: 04 Oct 2017 at 06:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Women's bank now 85% complete
The Minister of Women Affairs, Gender and Community Development, Nyasha Chikwinya says the much-awaited women's microfinance bank is now 85% complete.The first women's bank in the country set ...Published: 03 Oct 2017 at 19:11hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Wishing Tsvangirai a speedy recovery, Cdes
Dear Cabinet and Politburo membersCOMRADES, I am really worried for Morgan … I am praying hard for the brother to get well soon because, no matter our differences, he still remains a brother...Published: 23 Sep 2017 at 21:03hrs | | by CZ
Mnangagwa roasted at Grace rally
A SOLIDARITY march organised for First Lady Grace Mugabe by her supporters in Harare yesterday failed to live up to its billing, as it turned into an anti-Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa show, as to...Published: 31 Aug 2017 at 07:34hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Women's Bank to open by September
WOMEN Affairs, Gender and Community Development Minister Nyasha Chikwinya has said the much awaited Women's Bank will open for business by September this year.Mooted some years ago, the bank h...Published: 17 Jul 2017 at 06:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF enticing women's vote
Government has opened discussions with countries in the BRICs with a view to acquiring 100 000 tractors for distribution to women.The BRICs is made up of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South...Published: 16 Jul 2017 at 12:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
'I was Mujuru, Khupe's boss'
Women's Affairs minister Nyasha Chikwinya yesterday bragged about leading former State Vice-President Joice Mujuru and MDC-T vice-president Thokozani Khupe at the United Nations Women in Politics semi...Published: 07 Jul 2017 at 06:28hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF break-ins: what's REALLY going on?
Defence Minister Sydney Sekeramayi is the latest high-profile member of Zimbabwe's ruling party to have a break-in.Sekeramayi's apparently palatial home in Borrowdale, Harare was broken into i...Published: 20 Jun 2017 at 10:22hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Khupe, Mujuru in America
MDC-T vice-president Thokozani Khupe and National People's Party (NPP) Joice Mujuru are in New York, United States, attending a high-level African women leaders' meeting.Zanu-PF is represented...Published: 05 Jun 2017 at 06:56hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
International Children's Day statement - ZWIPA
Today is International Children Day. Children's rights in most third world countries are still just but a piece of paper. The International Day for Protection of Children is observed in many c...Published: 02 Jun 2017 at 09:06hrs | 1 | by Linda T. Masarira
Grace Mugabe hails Mnangagwa's Command agriculture
THE First Lady Dr Grace Mugabe has hailed the command agriculture programme for boosting the country's economy and creating jobs for locals.Dr Mugabe toured the Zimbabwe International Trade Fa...Published: 29 Apr 2017 at 10:00hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Paul Mwazha declares allegiance to Zanu-PF
Leader of the African Apostolic Church Mutumwa Paul Mwazha says he is an admirer of President Robert Mugabe and supports Zanu-PF.Mwazha told the Minister of Women's Affairs, Gender and Com...Published: 13 Apr 2017 at 15:28hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mwazha's wife buried
The wife of African Apostolic Church leader, Paul Mwazha, Mrs Joyce Mwazha, who died on Saturday, has been laid to rest at the family farm im Chivhu at a funeral attended by thousands of people wh...Published: 12 Apr 2017 at 19:12hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mudenda threatens to charge Nyasha Chikwinya
SPEAKER of the National Assembly Jacob Mudenda has threatened to charge Women Affairs minister Nyasha Chikwinya with contempt of Parliament for allegedly avoiding to respond to questions posed by ...Published: 02 Apr 2017 at 17:46hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Tsholotsho flood donations abused
Tsholotsho flood victims have accused officials of unfair distribution of donations particularly sanitary pads and food amid reports of starvation at holding camps. Minister of Women Affa...Published: 28 Mar 2017 at 05:54hrs | 5 | by Staff Reporter
Prophet Magaya weeps
PROPHETIC Healing and Deliverance ministries founder Prophet Walter Magaya threw himself to the ground and wept after receiving a stone of recognition from Israel at his Waterfalls base yesterday....Published: 06 Feb 2017 at 14:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mzembi lavishes Prophet Magaya with praise
Tourism and Hospitality minister Walter Mzembi yesterday described Prophetic Healing and Deliverance (PHD) leader Walter Magaya's critics as attackers from "hell".Addressing thousands of P...Published: 05 Feb 2017 at 07:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF goes for broke in Chimanimani
ZANU-PF is not leaving anything to chance as it has intensified its presence on the ground ahead of Saturday's Chimanimani West by-election. Zanu-PF candidate Nokuthula Matsikenyere will battle it...Published: 23 Nov 2016 at 05:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabweans ready for female President,' claims Mujuru
ZIMBABWE People First leader Joice Mujuru yesterday said Zimbabwe was ripe for female leaders in both politics and business, and encouraged them to break the gender barriers.Mujuru said th...Published: 20 Nov 2016 at 13:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Arrest Mphoko'
Opposition MPs last week raised the red flag on Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko and other Cabinet ministers who are in the habit of bunking Parliament business, calling for them to be charged wi...Published: 17 Oct 2016 at 13:17hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mphoko one of biggest Parly bunkers
Vice-President Phelekezela Mphoko and Foreign Affairs minister Simbarashe Mumbengegwi are some of the biggest Parliament bunkers, the National Assembly heard on Wednesday. Kuwadzana East M...Published: 14 Oct 2016 at 10:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gwanda centre for gender-based violence opens
One Stop Centre for survivors of gender based violence has been opened at Gwanda Provincial Hospital bringing the number of such centres to four in the country.The establishment of the Cen...Published: 26 Sep 2016 at 07:20hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Africa ready to pull out of UN, claims Mugabe
African countries have intensified their push to get two permanent seats in the United Nations Security Council with the continent's leaders exploring the option of pulling out of the UN if their ...Published: 25 Sep 2016 at 09:29hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Culture of rape originated from the liberation movements
Does it surprise us then that the culture of rape is just imbedded in our societies. The history of Zimbabwe is now marred by sexual violence on women and girls. Sexual violence has become perva...Published: 22 Aug 2016 at 15:22hrs | 1 | by Nomazulu Thata
Zimbabwe govt rescues 120 women from Kuwait
THE Government has rescued about 120 Zimbabwean women from Kuwait where some had been turned into sex slaves.Women's Affairs, Gender and Community Development Minister Nyasha Chikwinya told Th...Published: 20 Aug 2016 at 08:40hrs | | by Patrick Chitumba
Govt to launch women's bank
Government will soon launch a women's bank that will provide financial support to small and medium enterprises run by women, a Cabinet minister has said. The Ministry of Women's Affairs, G...Published: 27 Jul 2016 at 09:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
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