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Zanu-PF, MDC hardliners oppose Mnangagwa, Chamisa dialogue
The much-talked about talks between President Emmerson Mnangagwa and opposition leader Nelson Chamisa are being frustrated by hardliners within both the ruling Zanu-PF and the MDC, the Daily News can ...Published: 12 Jan 2019 at 17:31hrs | 896 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe refugees return home
THE first of group of 335 Zimbabweans who sought refuge in Botswana a few years ago is set to arrive in the country today through Plumtree Border Post in an initiative being championed by the Governme...Published: 12 Jan 2019 at 15:31hrs | 1861 | by Staff Reporter
Ndebeles will never rule Zimbabwe
The closest a Ndebele will get to political power and smell it, would be when they are appointed 2nd Vice President, an insignificant position that reduces one to a mere servant in the President's off...Published: 11 Jan 2019 at 06:18hrs | 2316 | by Israel Dube
Who is a voter?
We have a problem with who the voter is in Zimbabwe. Only at election time do our politicians start thinking about who will vote for them. Who is expected to vote at election time anywhere? Ho...Published: 05 Jan 2019 at 10:24hrs | 313 | by Clement Moyo
Chief Ndiweni's warrant of arrest cancelled
BULAWAYO magistrate Gladmore Mushove has cancelled a warrant of arrest he recently issued against Ntabazinduna Chief Felix Ndiweni for failing to appear in court last month.The court has set J...Published: 03 Jan 2019 at 09:15hrs | 859 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's ministers fail 2018 ratings
As Zimbabweans waved goodbye to 2018 yesterday, and awaited with much trepidation the dawn of the new year, in the light of the country's deepening economic woes, the Daily News - as per its rich annu...Published: 02 Jan 2019 at 14:20hrs | 1157 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa okayed deadly army deployment
A flurry of behind-the-scenes consultations that took place before the August 1 army killings has lifted the lid on who actually authorised the military deployments that quelled demonstrations which r...Published: 24 Dec 2018 at 19:57hrs | 4750 | by Staff reporter
Prosecute killer soldiers
President Emmerson Mnangagwa deserves praise for keeping his word that he will make public findings of a commission of inquiry into the cold-blooded murder of protestors by soldiers on August 1 even w...Published: 23 Dec 2018 at 10:20hrs | 1208 | by Editorial - the standard
Zanu-PF gobbles millions on chefs' fat-cat salaries
WHEN President Emmerson Mnangagwa, who is also the ruling Zanu-PF leader, deployed 15 senior party officials, including former ministers dropped from his cabinet in September, to the party headquarter...Published: 22 Dec 2018 at 19:06hrs | 543 | by Staff reporter
When politicians say things to make people angry, not to solve problems
Many of the people who appeared before the commission of inquiry into the events leading to the August 1 killings, the shootings themselves and then map the way forward, proved themselves to be invent...Published: 21 Dec 2018 at 10:53hrs | 774 | by Conway Tutani
Army, police commanders lied under oath
The Zimbabwe Defence Forces Commander General Phillip Valerio Sibanda and police Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga lied under oath when they testified before the commission of inquiry into the post-...Published: 21 Dec 2018 at 07:02hrs | 1935 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo shreds Motlanthe report
"The Report of the Kgalema Motlanthe Commission is poorly written, badly reasoned and self-contradictory. It's the worst published Report by a Commission of Inquiry since 1980," Exiled Former G40 King...Published: 19 Dec 2018 at 13:33hrs | 10914 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa to reshuffle cabinet
President Emmerson Mnangagwa will soon effect a cabinet reshuffle that will see a number of ministers losing their posts, a senior government official has revealed.Posting on micro-bloggin...Published: 18 Dec 2018 at 11:43hrs | 6530 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa's mature politics
Given the rate at which MDC leader, Nelson Chamisa, has been touting about how much he has allegedly been soiling the party for ZANU PF, one would expect President Emmerson Mnangagwa and the revolutio...Published: 18 Dec 2018 at 07:52hrs | 4597 | by Jasper Hloka
Minister SB Moyo retires?
President Emmerson Mnangagwa is reportedly mulling a cabinet reshuffle that will see minister of foreign affairs Sibusiso Busi Moyo retiring from the ministry of Foreign Affairs and taking up fu...Published: 17 Dec 2018 at 07:29hrs | 29680 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zanu-PF wary of demos as indaba starts
ZANU-PF'S 17th national people's conference kicks off today in Esigodini, Matabeleland South province, with the party seeking to deal with indiscipline and intolerance amid reports that a section of d...Published: 14 Dec 2018 at 05:53hrs | 821 | by Staff reporter
ZANU PF's 'War Room' exposed?
William Mutumaje (Acie Lumumba) ran a ZANU PF media ‘war room' comprising of an informal grouping of party comrades with expertise in social media and public relations to launch an ‘aerial b...Published: 12 Dec 2018 at 16:12hrs | 16863 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chief Maduna seeks Amnesty protection after confronting Mnangagwa on Gukurahundi
OUTSPOKEN traditional chief Vezi Maduna Mafu has sought protection from Amnesty International's South African office while claiming President Emmerson Mnangagwa has assigned state agents to trail him ...Published: 11 Dec 2018 at 07:22hrs | 9056 | by newzimbabwe
PHOTOS: ZANU PF pre-conference venue
Its all systems go at the explosive ZANU PF conference to be held at Esigodini from Wednesday. A wide range of resolutions ranging from endorsing President Emmerson Mnangagwa as the 2033 Presidential ...Published: 10 Dec 2018 at 14:51hrs | 5710 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zanu-PF conference ready to roll
ZANU-PF Secretary for Administration Obert Mpofu yesterday said all is set for the 17th Annual National People's Conference in Esigodini, Matabeleland South province with civil works having been compl...Published: 10 Dec 2018 at 05:44hrs | 276 | by Staff reporter
Obert Mpofu's building burns
Former Minister of Home Affairs Obert Mpofu's building located between Herbert Chitepo St and 8TH Avenue was burning at its 4th floor on Saturday afternoon. Officers of the fire brigade we...Published: 08 Dec 2018 at 15:51hrs | 10736 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Govt, doctors talks deadlocked
THE strike by doctors at public hospitals, which started last weekend, is set to continue after a meeting between Health minister Obadiah Moyo and the doctors' representatives yesterday ended without ...Published: 06 Dec 2018 at 05:47hrs | 1044 | by Staff reporter
Temba Mliswa chased away
Norton legislator Honourable Temba Mliswa continues to hog the limelight for the wrong reasons after he was chased away from the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Lands, Agriculture, Water, Climate...Published: 04 Dec 2018 at 16:23hrs | 10069 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe post-election violence probe team slams critics
The seven-member Commission of Inquiry into the post-elections violence that claimed six lives and left property worth of millions dollars destroyed in Harare, has slammed its critics and defended the...Published: 03 Dec 2018 at 07:14hrs | 530 | by Staff reporter
How the Motlanthe commission of inquiry shot itself in the foot
The seven-member commission of inquiry into the August 1 disturbances wound up its work last week and presented the executive summary of its report to President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Thursday, three m...Published: 02 Dec 2018 at 10:39hrs | 3190 | by Tawanda Majoni
Mystery surrounds killing report
President Emmerson Mnangagwa did not receive the report into the August 1 killings of protesters by soldiers yesterday as scheduled as the government and the panel investigating the violence gave cont...Published: 02 Dec 2018 at 10:33hrs | 667 | by Staf reporter
Mnangagwa left paralysed by a crisis of legitimacy
Last week on November 24 Emmerson Mnangagwa was in Murombedzi - former president Robert Mugabe's village backyard in Mashonaland West - to commemorate his chequered one year in office following his co...Published: 02 Dec 2018 at 10:17hrs | 1563 | by Jonathan N Moyo
Mnangagwa's new headache
ZANU-PF leader Emmerson Mnangagwa comes face to face with the party's enormous demands as discord emerges over the party-state conflation following his ascendancy last November. The confe...Published: 01 Dec 2018 at 15:04hrs | 16428 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa gets shootings inquiry report
THE Commission of Inquiry into the post-election violence of August 1 that claimed six lives in Harare and left 22 injured yesterday submitted the executive summary of its report to President Emmerson...Published: 30 Nov 2018 at 07:17hrs | 5582 | by Staff Reporter
'Linda Masarira a ZANU PF hired gun' says Jonathan Moyo
Self exiled former G40 Kingpin Professor Jonathan Moyo has alleged that MDC-T Spokesperson Linda Masarira is a hired gun who was used by ZANU PF to counter testimonies by MDC leaders Nelson Chamisa an...Published: 28 Nov 2018 at 19:57hrs | 5358 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'Obert Mpofu phoned me' Nelson Chamisa admits
Opposition MDC Leader Nelson Chamisa has conceded that Former Home Affairs Minister Obert Mpofu phoned him during the election period. Chamisa however has denied that their conversation was about the ...Published: 28 Nov 2018 at 13:53hrs | 7522 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Shock as Linda Masarira exposes MDC youth militant trainings
MDC Alliance youths received training in Zambia and South Africa to rise against the Government in the event that they lost the July 30 harmonised elections, the Commission of Inquiry into the violenc...Published: 28 Nov 2018 at 10:44hrs | 5721 | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa sent in killer soldiers: Obert Mpofu
ZANU PF secretary for administration and former Home Affairs minister Obert Mpofu yesterday told the commission of inquiry investigating the post-election violence of August 1 that the soldiers who al...Published: 28 Nov 2018 at 09:57hrs | 5104 | by Staff writer
'War vets killed civilians to liberate Zimbabwe'
Former Home Affairs minister Obert Mpofu has come under fire after uttering statements insinuating former freedom fighters injured and killed civilians in order to attain Independence in Zimbabwe....Published: 28 Nov 2018 at 08:42hrs | 6393 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'Obert Mpofu is a CIO operative,' says Jonathan Moyo
Former Minister of Home Affairs is a Central Intelligence Operative who was recruited by President Emmerson Mnangagwa to spy on ZAPU leaders, Professor Jonathan Moyo has alleged. Moyo was resp...Published: 27 Nov 2018 at 16:22hrs | 12280 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Recorded Chamisa phone call 'admitting he lost the election' surfaces
FORMER home affairs minister Obert Mpofu has claimed that snipers were likely placed on top of Harare buildings on the day post-election violence rocked Harare, leaving six people dead and several oth...Published: 27 Nov 2018 at 16:15hrs | 7630 | by newzimbabwe
Chamisa's hands are clean
Opposition leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday told the Commission of Inquiry probing the deadly August 1 post-election violence in Harare - which left at least six people dead after the military joined p...Published: 27 Nov 2018 at 16:09hrs | 1227 | by Staff reporter
Obert Mpofu to testify before the Motlanthe Commission of Inquiry
He was Home Affairs Minister on August 1. He requested the military to intervene to quell the disturbances. In the next hour, Obert Mpofu appears before the Kgalema Motlanthe chaired Commissio...Published: 27 Nov 2018 at 11:51hrs | 5507 | by Ndou Paul
Zanu-PF targets youth vote
Zanu-PF is already looking towards the 2023 harmonised elections as they have started rolling out programmes that attract the youth vote.Addressing a "Thank You" rally at Murombedzi Growth Poi...Published: 26 Nov 2018 at 16:01hrs | 185 | by Staff reporter
Obert Mpofu praises Mthuli Ncube
THE Zanu-PF Secretary for Administration, Dr Obert Mpofu, has praised the 2019 National Budget announced by Finance and Economic Development Minister Professor Mthuli Ncube last week, saying it raises...Published: 25 Nov 2018 at 08:36hrs | 792 | by Staff reporter
Police Commissioner General Godwin Matanga demoted?
"Commissioner General of Police Godwin Matanga, has been sent on leave pending redeployment as an ambassador,"exiled former G40 Kingpin Prof. Jonathan Moyo has revealed."This paves the way for...Published: 23 Nov 2018 at 08:36hrs | 27061 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mutsvangwa dumps Lacoste?
Minister of Information, publicity and broadcasting services Monica Mutsvangwa has reportedly dumped the Lacoste faction aligned to President Emmerson Mnangagwa in favour of a new faction led by her h...Published: 22 Nov 2018 at 12:03hrs | 16520 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mugabe's shadow looms large
EXACTLY a year ago today, then President Robert Mugabe who had been in power for 38 years announced his resignation triggering an explosion of celebrations across the country.Some 12 months la...Published: 21 Nov 2018 at 12:02hrs | 2802 | by Staff reporter
Obert Mpofu appears in court
FORMER Minister of Home Affairs and Culture Dr Obert Mpofu appeared in court yesterday after he was summoned to testify in a case in which Chief Felix Ndiweni and his 13 subjects are accused of destro...Published: 20 Nov 2018 at 07:02hrs | 6309 | by Staff reporter
Mliswa set to finish off Obert Mpofu
Hwange-based Zambezi Gas, a coal mining company, has appealed to the Temba Mliswa-led parliamentary panel to intervene so that it can get its land, which was allegedly grabbed by Zanu-PF administratio...Published: 19 Nov 2018 at 12:41hrs | 4279 | by Staff reporter
Mliswa handed fodder to finish off Obert Mpofu
Hwange based Zambezi Gas, a coal mining company, has appealed to the Temba Mliswa-led parliamentary panel to intervene so that it can get its land, which was allegedly grabbed by Zanu-PF administratio...Published: 19 Nov 2018 at 07:21hrs | 6611 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's selective arrests erode anti-graft campaign
ZIMBABWEANS, who were very hopeful for progress after President Emmerson Mnangagwa's call for zero tolerance to corruption in his maiden speech, have reason to now feel despondent.Talk is chea...Published: 19 Nov 2018 at 06:12hrs | 874 | by Editorial - newsday
Mnangagwa, Chiwenga feud in new twist
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's former advisor Chris Mutsvangwa has accused Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga of being behind plots to oust him as war veterans leader, claiming it was a fight-back ag...Published: 18 Nov 2018 at 08:05hrs | 11401 | by Staff reporter
Obert Mpofu arrest warrant cancelled
A WARRANT of arrest which had been issued against former Minister of Home Affairs and Culture, Dr Obert Mpofu, for failing to attend court to testify in a case in which Chief Felix Ndiweni and his 13 ...Published: 16 Nov 2018 at 05:36hrs | 1023 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga aligned war vets gun for Mutsvangwa
WAR veterans in Mashonaland West province on Tuesday resolved to recall Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association chairperson Christopher Mutsvangwa on allegations of sowing divisions. ...Published: 15 Nov 2018 at 05:36hrs | 3012 | by Staff reporter
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