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Zanu-PF bigwigs question Mnangagwa's legitimacy
ZIMBABWEAN President Emmerson Mnangagwa, struggling to consolidate and maintain power at the volatile helm amid renewed internal Zanu-PF infighting and disintegration of the coalition which drove his ...Published: 4 hrs ago | 2256 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa not losing sleep
The MDC Alliance said it was not fazed on Monday after a new political party appeared to have hijacked one of its social media mobilisation slogans which some were advocating for to be the new party n...Published: 21 Sep 2021 at 20:53hrs | 905 | by Staff reporter
President E D Mnangagwa @ 79 and overcoming the struggle in transition
The surfeit of one's proximity to a hero has a tendency of dissuading them from appreciating their rarely accorded access to greatness — such is the descriptive parable of the privilege I have to se...Published: 19 Sep 2021 at 08:16hrs | 76 | by Dr Obert Moses Mpofu
'Mnangagwa's anti-graft crusade a facade'
WHEN he took over power in a November 2017 coup, President Emmerson Mnangagwa won the hearts of many sceptics after he pledged to deal with corruption, a vice widely believed to be stalling developmen...Published: 17 Sep 2021 at 20:24hrs | 975 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF to hold extraordinary Politburo
Zanu-PF will hold an extraordinary Politburo meeting on Monday at the party's headquarters in Harare. In a statement, the party's acting Secretary for Information and Publicity Dr Mike Bimha u...Published: 17 Sep 2021 at 19:50hrs | 330 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe: A nationalist hero and authoritarian dictator
A group of Robert Gabriel Mugabe admirers, linked to Zanu-PF, has published a profile of Robert Mugabe. They are trying to provide a profile of the late president, combining both the positive and nega...Published: 17 Sep 2021 at 06:21hrs | 335 | by Fay Chung
Zanu-PF caught in bribery storm
A COLLABORATIVE probe by a British media house, the Bureau of Investigative Journalism and the University of Bath, has exposed how the ruling Zanu-PF party received mouth-watering bribes from the Brit...Published: 14 Sep 2021 at 06:18hrs | 2630 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF denies attacking Zambia
Zanu-PF has dismissed reports indicating it was working against Zambia's newly elected president, Hakainde Hichilema.This comes after Hichilema's United Party for National Development (UPND) p...Published: 13 Sep 2021 at 19:42hrs | 442 | by Staff reporter
Khaya Moyo's absence, Bimha appointed acting spokesperson
Zanu-PF has appointed the party's Secretary for Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment Dr Mike Bimha as the acting Secretary for Information and Publicity with immediate effect. In a statemen...Published: 13 Sep 2021 at 05:52hrs | 1865 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF respect Zambia's sovereignty
Zanu-PF has reiterated its commitment to work with Zambia's ruling party, the United Party for National Development (UNPD), to help foster close cooperation on matters of mutual interest.Since...Published: 12 Sep 2021 at 08:46hrs | 412 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF factions in mudslinging campaigns
A BATTLE for the post of Zanu-PF Midlands provincial chairperson has ensued with party stalwarts already engaging in underground campaigns despite an official directive that members should desist from...Published: 10 Sep 2021 at 18:51hrs | 126 | by Staff reporter
Fresh push for Mnangagwa, Chamisa coalition govt
ZIMBABWE'S two main political parties have expressed interest in the formation of a unity government to unlock the country's long-standing political logjam, but seem to differ on implementation matrix...Published: 10 Sep 2021 at 07:40hrs | 9711 | by Staff reporter
Book on Mugabe set for launch
LEADERS for Africa Network (LAN) in partnership with renowned academic Ibbo Mandaza's regional think-tank, the Southern African Political-Economy Series (Sapes) Trust, will today launch a book tracing...Published: 09 Sep 2021 at 06:16hrs | 1074 | by Staff reporter
'Zanu-PF campaign in full swing'
Zanu-PF candidates eyeing vacant local government and parliamentary seats have reportedly scaled up campaigns, canvassing for votes in door-to-door exercises, doling out freebies in their constituenci...Published: 08 Sep 2021 at 06:13hrs | 371 | by Staff reporter
Joy as Umguza Councillors return back to work
A certain section of Umguza Rural District council residents has expressed joy after Umguza Rural District councilors were reinstated by the High court after being suspended for defying a ministerial ...Published: 07 Sep 2021 at 13:51hrs | 965 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Book on Mugabe's political career set for launch next week
Leaders for Africa Network (LAN) in partnership with the Southern African Political-Economy Series (SAPES) Trust, is set to launch a book on the late former president Robert Gabriel Mugabe's political...Published: 03 Sep 2021 at 19:51hrs | 1630 | by Staff reporter
'Esidakeni applicants have no legal standing'
GOVERNMENT has said Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa (Osisa) director Mr Siphosami Malunga and his two business partners, have no legal standing to approach the court claiming ownership of ...Published: 02 Sep 2021 at 06:13hrs | 540 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF warns against early campaigning
Zanu-PF has warned members against jostling for provincial positions since the party is yet to come up with guidelines on the selection process. Although the party has already completed setting up cel...Published: 01 Sep 2021 at 06:23hrs | 352 | by Staff reporter
Chiefs trained as Zanu PF commissars
CHIEFS in Zimbabwe have recently allegedly been trained as Zanu PF commissars at the Herbert Chitepo School of Ideology to mobilise votes for the ruling party ahead of the 2023 elections, it has emerg...Published: 29 Aug 2021 at 07:51hrs | 1872 | by Stephen Jakes
Banks decline requests by MDC Alliance to open accounts?
SENIOR officials in the MDC Alliance in Masvingo Province have claimed that their request to open bank accounts for the opposition party have been turned down by CBZ.Zimbabwe's government has ...Published: 26 Aug 2021 at 19:10hrs | 2208 | by Staff reporter
Govt only constructs 10km stretch of road in 5 years
GOVERNMENT only managed to construct a mere 9,5 kilometres of the Bulawayo-Nkayi Road between 2015 and 2020, a progress report on construction of the road by Transport and Infrastructural Development ...Published: 25 Aug 2021 at 06:44hrs | 767 | by Staff reporter
Esidakeni Farm wrangle turns nasty
IN a move which underlines a further deterioration in the rule of law and property rights under President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government, Esidakeni Farm manager Makhabane Nkomo was on Thursday evenin...Published: 14 Aug 2021 at 18:25hrs | 1379 | by Staff reporter
Tsholotsho MP declared liberation hero
TSHOLOTSHO South legislator and Zanu-PF Central Committee member Zenzo Sibanda, who succumbed to Covid-19 on Wednesday, has been declared a liberation hero.Sibanda (50) will be buried in Bhubh...Published: 13 Aug 2021 at 13:50hrs | 401 | by Staff reporter
Obert Mpofu: Mnangagwa's most reliable lieutenant
President Emmerson Mnangagwa deployed Dr. Obert Mpofu to serve at party Headquarters on a full-time basis. This deployment was similar to the Robert Mugabe deployment of Didymus Mutasa one of ZANU PF'...Published: 09 Aug 2021 at 14:32hrs | 2418 | by Nicholas Ncube
Jane Ngwenya to be buried at Heroes Acre
NATIONALIST and liberation stalwart Jane Lungile Ngwenya has been declared a National Heroine. Ngwenya (86) died on Thursday night at Bulawayo's Mater Dei Hospital. Zanu-PF Secretary f...Published: 09 Aug 2021 at 07:34hrs | 566 | by Staff reporter
Jane Ngwenya declared national hero
THE ruling Zanu-PF party yesterday declared liberation stalwart Jane Ngwenya a national hero.Ngwenya (86) died on Thursday at Mater dei Hospital in Bulawayo.The conferment message was ...Published: 08 Aug 2021 at 22:05hrs | 1059 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa mourns Jane Ngwenya
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday sent a condolence message to the Ngwenya family following the death of nationalist and freedom fighter Jane Lungile Ngwenya. Mnangagwa said he received the news of the pa...Published: 07 Aug 2021 at 07:03hrs | 275 | by Staff reporter
'Blitz on NGOs long overdue'
Zanu-PF has backed Government's position to demand work plans from Non-Governmental Organisations, saying it promotes accountability. President Mnangagwa recently said machinations by the coun...Published: 05 Aug 2021 at 06:13hrs | 230 | by Staff reporter
How committed is Mnangagwa to eradication of corruption?
PreSIdenT emmerson dambudzo Mnangagwa addressed the nation on the auspicious occasion of the fifth edition of the African Anti-Corruption day on July 12, 2021.I listened to the president with ...Published: 01 Aug 2021 at 06:56hrs | 928 | by Geoffrey Nyarota
Zanu-PF sets US$140 million budget for Mnangagwa re-election in 2023
Zanu-PF has set a target of raising US$140 million for the 2023 election campaign, just days after a new report accused the party of "mortgaging" the country's minerals to finance its past campaigns....Published: 28 Jul 2021 at 09:15hrs | 2002 | by Staff reporter
Malunga farm ownership wrangle turns nasty
NATIONAL University of Science and Technology (Nust) lecturer Dumisani Madzivanyati has claimed that he sustained head injuries after he was allegedly struck with an iron rods early this month by co-o...Published: 26 Jul 2021 at 06:45hrs | 3224 | by Staff reporter
Ministers and CIOs named in farm grab
CENTRAL Intelligence Organisation (CIO) deputy director-general Gatsha Mazithule la, Agriculture minister Anxious Masuka and Matabeleland North Minister of State Richard Moyo have been dragged to the ...Published: 23 Jul 2021 at 09:06hrs | 1376 | by Staff reporter
Mthwakazi vows to stop farm seizure
THE secessionist Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) last week stormed Siphosami Malunga's Kershelmar Farm in Nyamandlovu, Matabeleland North province in a bid to stop government from seizing it for redist...Published: 20 Jul 2021 at 08:16hrs | 727 | by Staff reporter
'Team Number 2' faction emerges in Zanu-PF
Zanu-PF has been rocked by the emergence of a shadowy new faction going by the moniker, Team Number 2, which was showcased at recent clandestine Women's League meeting in Bulawayo, the Zimbabwe Indepe...Published: 16 Jul 2021 at 09:31hrs | 4075 | by Staff reporter
Mine dispute spills into court
A MEMBER of a mining syndicate operating in Matobo District in Matabeleland South has been taken to court by his colleagues after he allegedly forged documents purporting to be their accredited agent ...Published: 16 Jul 2021 at 09:03hrs | 332 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa declares Colonel Panganai Kahuni a Liberation War Hero
President Mnangagwa has conferred Liberation War Hero status to the late liberation war fighter and decorated senior officer Colonel Panganai Kahuni.Colonel Kahuni (61) died in Gweru on Sunday...Published: 14 Jul 2021 at 15:45hrs | 772 | by Staff reporter
Nkiwane snubs Heroes Acre burial
THE family of the national hero Abraham Nkiwane has said it is yet to come up with the burial date of the veteran nationalist. They agreed that the liberation stalwart will be buried at his farm in Um...Published: 10 Jul 2021 at 10:54hrs | 1070 | by Staff reporter
Nkiwane declared national hero
NATIONALIST and liberation stalwart Abraham Nkiwane has been declared a national hero.Nkiwane (93) succumbed to prostate cancer at Bulawayo United Hospitals (UBH) on Tuesday where he was admit...Published: 08 Jul 2021 at 18:50hrs | 1307 | by Staff reporter
Minister sucked into 'Malunga' farm grab
Matebeleland North Minister of State for Provincial Affairs and Devolution Richard Moyo has been sucked into OSISA director Siphosami Malunga's Nyamandlovu farm grab saga.About three weeks ago...Published: 08 Jul 2021 at 18:49hrs | 1207 | by Staff reporter
Row over farm seizure deepens as owners produce deed of title
HOLDERS of Kershelmar Farms (Pvt) Limited - which legally owns Kershelmar Farm currently at the centre of a fierce row between politicians in Matabeleland North province and its lawful property owners...Published: 03 Jul 2021 at 21:32hrs | 3509 | by Staff reporter
Demolitions should go ahead, says Zanu-PF
THE ruling Zanu-PF party yesterday pivoted again, saying the ongoing demolitions of illegal structures by government should continue.Zanu-PF secretary for administration Obert Mpofu on Monday ...Published: 01 Jul 2021 at 15:09hrs | 1594 | by Staff reporter
Minister under fire over demolitions
MDC-T legislator Peter Moyo (Southerton) yesterday called for the resignation of National Housing minister caused by Daniel Garwe accusing him of being responsible for the chaos caused by demolition o...Published: 30 Jun 2021 at 17:18hrs | 2141 | by Staff reporter
Demolitions continue despite restraint order
HARARE City Council yesterday continued with the demolition of informal business structures in Glen View highdensity suburb, a day after the ruling party Zanu-PF ordered a stop to the destruction of a...Published: 30 Jun 2021 at 17:03hrs | 306 | by Staff reporter
Zanu PF in dramatic U-turn
UNDER-FIRE Zanu PF yesterday made a dramatic U-turn and ordered a stop to the demolition of all illegal structures in the country, including in Harare, Chitungwiza and Melfort in Mashonaland East prov...Published: 29 Jun 2021 at 13:32hrs | 6202 | by Staff Reporter
Lands minister distances self from Malunga farm seizure
LANDS and Agriculture minister Anxious Masuka has distanced himself from the seizure of a farm belonging to prominent human rights lawyer Siphosami Malunga and his business partners, with his juniors ...Published: 26 Jun 2021 at 15:26hrs | 3057 | by Staff reporter
'Local communities transformed into Zanu-PF battlegrounds'
A PEACE-BUILDING rights group has said local communities have been turned into battlegrounds by Zanu-PF foot soldiers canvassing for party votes ahead of the 2023 polls.A May report by Heal Zi...Published: 24 Jun 2021 at 11:04hrs | 499 | by Staff reporter
'Zanu-PF hijacks war vets vetting'
THE Zipra War Veterans Association has accused the ruling Zanu-PF party of manipulating the ongoing war veterans vetting exercise amid allegations that some undeserving party activists were being regi...Published: 24 Jun 2021 at 11:03hrs | 787 | by Staff reporter
Chaos rocks Zanu-PF provinces
THE ruling Zanu-PF party has been rocked by serious infighting ahead of provincial congresses, with clashes being reported in Mashonaland West, Mashonaland Central, Midlands and other provinces....Published: 21 Jun 2021 at 06:14hrs | 3337 | by Staff reporter
CIO big shot behind Malunga farm grab
A TOP Zimbabwean Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) director and senior ruling Zanu-PF officials in Matabeleland North province are behind the illegal seizure of a farm belonging to a local inter...Published: 19 Jun 2021 at 15:07hrs | 4493 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF completes inquest in Kwekwe Central primary poll violence
ZANU-PF Midlands provincial leadership has completed investigations into the violence that rocked Kwekwe Central primary poll leading to the indefinite suspension of the process in October last year....Published: 04 Jun 2021 at 07:07hrs | 166 | by Staff reporter
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