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Smelly Dube among top 100 global influencers
Gweru businesswoman Smelly Dube has been recognized as one of the top 100 most influential people globally for 2024. She was honored alongside notable figures such as former U.S. President Donald Trum...Published: 18 Aug 2024 at 13:57hrs | 312 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa plots divisive constitutional coup
ZIMBABWEAN President Emmerson Mnangagwa's strategy for a third term - practically a constitutional coup - is now gathering momentum and going full steam ahead after a brief retreat as the military reg...Published: 04 Mar 2024 at 18:43hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa scared of gukurahundi, plots divisive constitutional coup
ZIMBABWEAN President Emmerson Mnangagwa's strategy for a third term - practically a constitutional coup - is now gathering momentum and going full steam ahead after a brief retreat as the military reg...Published: 29 Feb 2024 at 20:34hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
'Tendai Biti should take a break from politics'
Renowned journalist and government critic, Hopewell Chin’ono, has suggested that Tendai Biti take a hiatus from active political involvement and redirect his focus towards his roles as a lawyer, aut...Published: 29 Feb 2024 at 07:03hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa treading on explosive political minefield
President Emmerson Mnangagwa is currently facing a mounting political challenge as evidence surfaces indicating that soldiers voted against him in various barracks and through postal ballots to a grea...Published: 17 Sep 2023 at 22:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
White skin, black masks!
Two developments caught my attention this week. One is a Brenthurst Foundation scholarship invitation to young Africans intent on pursuing postgraduate studies.Brenthurst Foundation is owned a...Published: 19 Feb 2023 at 18:08hrs | | by Jamwanda
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 | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Nigerian coup leader blames Zimbabwe for wave of coups in Africa
Former Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo has blamed Zimbabwe for allegedly setting a wrong precedent of coups in Africa after late President Robert Mugabe's November 2017 ouster was sanitised and p...Published: 11 Nov 2022 at 05:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai speaks from the grave
EXACTLY four years ago, the doyen of the country's democratic struggle died. It was only befitting that the late Morgan Richard Tsvangirai would die on Valentine's Day - on the day that the power of l...Published: 15 Feb 2022 at 05:37hrs | | by Luke Tamborinyoka
Electoral reforms must dominate political discourse in 2022
AS we bask on the cusp of a new year, Zimbabweans appear to have gone agog about the pending by-elections and what many deem to be the watershed plebiscite of 2023.And yet for some of us, high...Published: 18 Jan 2022 at 05:32hrs | | by Luke Tamborinyoka
Mnangagwa jets off to SA for Trade Fair
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa left Harare Monday for Durban in South Africa to attend the Inter Africa Trade Fair (IATF) in Durban, South Africa.Early this month, Mnangagwa and an entourage of ...Published: 15 Nov 2021 at 18:40hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, Hichilema in 30 minutes meeting
Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema got down to serious business yesterday soon after taking his oath of office in Lusaka with a 30-minute diplomatic meeting with President Mnangagwa where they agree...Published: 25 Aug 2021 at 06:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Trade Fair moved to December
THE second edition of the Intra-African Trade Fair (IATF2021) has been rescheduled to December to allow for a wider roll-out of the Covid-19 vaccines across the continent. IATF, wh...Published: 25 Mar 2021 at 05:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
President E.D engage your political nemesis
ContextIn 1999, the then MDC leader and former Prime Minister of Zimbabwe, Dr Morgan Richard Tsvangirai, whilst he was addressing more than 20 000 supporters in Rufaro stadium, called for the ...Published: 12 Jan 2021 at 21:24hrs | | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
Criminals around Mnangagwa will surely bring him down
ONE night in November 2017, a chubby soldier donning a red beret and military fatigues appeared on ZBC-TV. It was immediately clear something was amiss. His demeanour immediately betrayed what mischie...Published: 30 Oct 2020 at 06:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa, Mnangagwa must renew cordiality
In 2009, former Prime Minister of Zimbabwe Dr Morgan Richard Tsvangirai appointed the then MDC National Organizing Secretary, Nelson Chamisa to be in charge of Ministry of Information and Communicatio...Published: 17 Sep 2020 at 10:27hrs | | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
ZRP ropes in Interpol
POLICE have roped in the International Criminal Police Organisation (Interpol) and their counterparts in South Africa and Botswana to assist in locating four armed robbers who escaped arrest following...Published: 01 Sep 2020 at 15:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
ED now faces tough political choices
AS Zimbabwe's economic turmoil intensifies and the country reaches a crossroads, government security experts and foreign diplomats based in Harare have started drawing scenarios and weighing consequen...Published: 23 Jun 2019 at 17:23hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa faces riots, palace coup and impeachment
AS Zimbababwe's economic turmoil intensifies and the country reaches a crossroads, government security experts and foreign diplomats based in Harare have started drawing scenarios and weighing consequ...Published: 22 Jun 2019 at 19:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Biti challenges Ramaphosa
MDC Deputy National Chair Tendai Biti says President Ramaphosa has a key role to play in resolving the crisis in Zimbabwe. And he warned: 'If Zimbabwe implodes South Africa will suffer'.Biti w...Published: 09 Jun 2019 at 19:44hrs | | by Zimbabwe Vigil Diary
Biti warns Mnangagwa
MDC vice-president Tendai Biti has warned that President Emmerson Mnangagwa will eventually face street protests if he does not initiate dialogue with the opposition party.Biti told MDC suppor...Published: 09 Jun 2019 at 09:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Biti says, 'Mthuli is a loud mouth that doesn't have a connection with its brain'
Wednesday 5 June 2019 saw Honourable Tendai Biti, Zimbabwe's former and without doubt most successful Finance Minister this Century, visit Chatham House in Westminster, London.Honourable Tenda...Published: 07 Jun 2019 at 08:46hrs | | by Thabo Makuyana
WATCH: Opposition parties under threat, says Biti
MDC vice president Tendai Biti, believes that opposition parties in southern Africa are under threat from governments that are failing to follow democratic principles. Speaking while in the Un...Published: 07 Jun 2019 at 07:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's security providing security cover and guard for Obasanjo
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's government has said it secretly arranged security details for visiting former Nigerian President Olesugun Obasanjo who was in the country for the launch of a book he co-...Published: 02 Apr 2019 at 13:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa placed Obasanjo under surveillance during Zimbabwe visit
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's government has said it secretly arranged security details for visiting former Nigerian President Olesugun Obasanjo who was in the country for the launch of a book he...Published: 02 Apr 2019 at 08:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora triggers an MDC storm
Nelson Chamisa's MDC has reacted angrily to secretary- general Douglas Mwonzora who triggered a storm when he claimed that the party's founding father Morgan Tsvangirai is turning in his grave because...Published: 01 Apr 2019 at 21:37hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Of a book on democracy and democracy hypocrites
Last week MDC Alliance leader, Nelson Chamisa was on cloud nine when he officially co-launched with former Nigerian President, Olusegun Obasanjo the book, Democracy Works – Re-wiring politics to Afr...Published: 01 Apr 2019 at 13:44hrs | | by Nobleman Runyanga
Mnangagwa denies ignoring Nigerian military ruler
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration had professed ignorance of the presence of former Nigerian leader Olusegun Obasanjo, leaving opposition MDC national vice chairman Tendai Biti besides him...Published: 30 Mar 2019 at 17:38hrs | | by newzimbabwe
Nigerian military ruler says it was a military coup in Zimbabwe
FORMER Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo, who served as a millitary leader between 1976 and 1979, says Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa seized power through a millitary coup that toppled his...Published: 29 Mar 2019 at 12:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Obasanjo learns the hard way in Zimbabwe
FORMER Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo - who supported Zimbabwe's liberation struggle in the late 1970s when he was a military ruler - learnt it the hard way that democracy is not yet working in ...Published: 29 Mar 2019 at 12:10hrs | | by Dumisani Muleya
It was a military coup, says Obasanjo
Former Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo says Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa seized power through a military coup that toppled his predecessor Robert Mugabe in 2017. This came yest...Published: 29 Mar 2019 at 06:25hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimra foils Biti's bid to smuggle books
THE Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) yesterday foiled an attempt by MDC-Alliance deputy chairman Mr Tendai Biti to smuggle copies of his book, Democracy Works, without paying import duties. ...Published: 28 Mar 2019 at 23:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Seizure of Biti book consignment 'gives Zimbabwe bad name', claims Chamisa
The seizure of copies of a new book by Zimbabwean authorities "gives our country a negative image", Movement for Democratic Change leader Nelson Chamisa said on Thursday.‘Democracy Works' wa...Published: 28 Mar 2019 at 20:02hrs | | by ZimLive
CIOs seize Biti book again
MDC deputy chair Tendai Biti's book has been seized by state security again, NewZimbabwe.com reported.Although details are still sketchy, a source close to Tendai Biti has said that the books ...Published: 28 Mar 2019 at 19:45hrs | 5 | by newzimbabwe
'Zimbabwe invented State Capture and SA refined it,' says Tendai Biti
Zimbabwean opposition MP and constitutional lawyer Tendai Biti told a Durban audience on Tuesday night that his country had invented state capture and South Africans had merely refined it. "I ...Published: 27 Mar 2019 at 07:26hrs | | by African News Agency (ANA)
'Free the last colony' Mnangagwa speaks on Western Sahara
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday said African leaders cannot continue to fail the people of Western Sahara, the only nation on the continent under colonisation, and should unrelentingly persist to make c...Published: 27 Mar 2019 at 06:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Biti's book he co-authored with 2 former presidents seized by CIO
The Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) has seized a consignment of books co-authored by Movement for Democratic Change MP Tendai Biti.The book, 'Democracy Works', is set to be launched in...Published: 14 Mar 2019 at 19:35hrs | | by ZimLive
Zimbabwe situation needs proper strategic development plan
We lack basic fundamentals to fulfil the benchmark of legitimacy and credibility. We need to correct a lot of things on the ground. We have so much potential, we simply need to pass the legitimacy tes...Published: 18 Feb 2019 at 16:11hrs | | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
General Mujuru wanted to kill Masiyiwa
The late General Solomon Mujuru wanted to kill Econet Guru Strive Masiyiwa, the NPF Spokesperson Jealousy Mawarire has alleged."President Mugabe said, in his interview with the Indep...Published: 02 Nov 2018 at 11:30hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe not white man's burden
We are on the edge of an epoch in Zimbabwe.The nation could experience a new normal, so to speak, as the Constitutional Court (ConCourt) has only a matter of days to validate President-elect E...Published: 17 Aug 2018 at 06:21hrs | | by Conway Tutani
Mnangagwa admits to land reform errors
Emmerson Mnangagwa has admitted that the haphazard land reform programme caused a serious dip in farm productivity.Zimbabwe went through a chaotic land redistribution in the early 2000s, which...Published: 22 Jul 2018 at 16:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe and African countries urgently need a new generation of leaders?
For the youth in Zimbabwe, you have a chance for "youth quake" on July 30, 2018! Zimbabwe like most African countries' populations is dominated by young people. Unfortunately, these young peop...Published: 09 Jul 2018 at 18:34hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
Chamisa threatens to boycott forthcoming polls
OPPOSITION coalition MDC Alliance has threatened to boycott the July 30 general elections if its demands for electoral reforms are disregarded by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec).The sp...Published: 15 Jun 2018 at 14:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Zanu PF junta controls ZEC,' admit MDC - penny has finally dropped but what next!
The issue of producing verified voters' roll is an important one. Without an audited voters' roll it is impossible to verify that all those eligible to vote are on the roll and only those eligible...Published: 30 May 2018 at 15:23hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Jonathan Moyo sets Mugabe on Mnangagwa
Former Higher Education Minister Jonathan Moyo has urged ousted President Robert Mugabe to throw his weight behind an opposition coalition in order to bring to an end to Zanu PF rule.Moyo used...Published: 14 May 2018 at 15:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Strive Masiyiwa reflects on traumatic Zimbabwe moment
ZIMBABWE'S night is over, and we must work together now to bring in the dawn. We must work hard to turn away from (and learn from) the pages of our pained past. This includes talking about it, because...Published: 06 May 2018 at 15:43hrs | | by Strive Masiyiwa
Life after the Presidency
Life after Presidency has to be time to relax and enjoy the fruits of hard work, to regurgitate and reflect on the past, to be a role model to the society and not to be an unrepentant nuisance. Intere...Published: 27 Apr 2018 at 14:58hrs | | by Wilton Nyasha Machimbira
Rigging will trounce Democracy come July 2018
International Community will endorse EDM's rigging shenanigans as it did in Kenya. With the head of state making a lot of noise promising to hold free, ...Published: 18 Apr 2018 at 07:17hrs | | by Knowledge Hakata
Mugabe, Nkomo were busy fighting each instead of confronting their common enemy
FORMER Nigerian President, Olusegun Obasanjo, has opened up on the pivotal role he played in bringing together ex-President Robert Mugabe and the late Vice-President Joshua Nkomo's Zanu and Zapu parti...Published: 09 Apr 2018 at 07:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Trudy Stevenson quits MDC
Lottie Gertrude "Trudy" Stevenson is a remarkable political survivor, appointed as Zimbabwean Ambassador to Senegal in 2009 during the GNU as a deployee of the MDC led by Welshman Ncube.A form...Published: 04 Apr 2018 at 15:23hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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