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Zanu-PF's 5 million votes achievable, claims Shakespeare Maya
Former National Alliance for Good Governance (NAGG) president, Dr Shakespeare Maya, who rejoined Zanu-PF in 2018 and was recently elected Chegutu District Coordinating Committee (DCC) secretary for sc...Published: 15 Jan 2021 at 07:30hrs | 249 | by Staff reporter
Former Zanu-PF official vows to take Mnangagwa head-on
RECENTLY-EXPELLED Zanu-PF Mashonaland Central official Goodman Tamuona Musariri says he is going to challenge President Emmerson Mnangagwa's legitimacy in the courts of law. He allegedly denounced Mna...Published: 06 Dec 2020 at 23:25hrs | 6634 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's new republic, worse than Mugabe era
THE country looks like a civilian regime where everything is run by civilians in which democratic institutions exist in form, but not in substance, because the electoral, legislature, judicial, media ...Published: 01 Dec 2020 at 07:03hrs | 1219 | by Leonard Koni
Operation restore legacy was a no brainer
This regime that looked democratic in appearance but grounded in authoritarian rule is a time bomb and waiting for the right time to explode.The country also looked like a civilian regime wher...Published: 30 Nov 2020 at 17:10hrs | 894 | by Leonard Koni
'Mnangagwa makes hast military appointment amid coup threats' - Report
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has made forced cross-cutting changes to his Presidential Guard (PG) Brigade several months after his wife Auxillia clashed with one of the most senior officers in the uni...Published: 22 Nov 2020 at 05:22hrs | 5951 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo, Saviour Kasukuwere calls for 'popular revolution' against Mnangagwa
EXILED former G40 kingpins, Jonathan Moyo and Saviour Kasukuwere have said the only option available for suffering Zimbabweans in getting rid of the current Zanu-PF government was staging "a popular r...Published: 21 Nov 2020 at 22:23hrs | 1074 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF to shame sloppy ministers
ZANU-PF will not hesitate to name and shame ministers sleeping on the job as Zimbabwe starts implementing National Development Strategy 1 (NDS1) meant to contribute towards making the country an upper...Published: 20 Nov 2020 at 05:55hrs | 81 | by Staff reporter
2017 coup targeted 'criminals around Mugabe' and now it's payback time - we are but mice to these Zanu PF thugs
Three years ago at 04.00 hours local time on 15th November 2017 Zimbabwe Defence Force (ZDF) spokesman, Major General Sibusiso Moyo, addressed the nation and the world at large, live on Zimbabwe Broad...Published: 19 Nov 2020 at 20:50hrs | 482 | by Nomusa Garikai
'No cheer under Mnangagwa administration 3 years on'
RESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's new dispensation will this month mark three years in office, with analysts saying there was nothing to cheer about as the regime had failedto fulfil most of its promi...Published: 18 Nov 2020 at 05:35hrs | 5675 | by Staff reporter
G40 calls for 'popular revolution' against Mnangagwa
EXILED former G40 kingpins, Jonathan Moyo and Saviour Kasukuwere have said the only option available for suffering Zimbabweans in getting rid of the current Zanu PF government was staging "a popular r...Published: 14 Nov 2020 at 05:34hrs | 7884 | by Staff reporter
Supreme Court throws out Chombo's appeal
Court Reporter THE trial of former Finance Minister Ignatius Chombo on charges of criminal abuse of office will go ahead after the Supreme Court threw out his appeal for permanent stay of prosecution....Published: 12 Nov 2020 at 05:41hrs | 672 | by Staff reporter
Criminals around President: How Zimbabwe revolution was hijacked (II)
THE first part of this series, which was published last week articulated the unconstitutionality of the military intervention in November 2017, which was a coup d'etat.This week, Part II of th...Published: 28 Aug 2020 at 07:21hrs | 1852 | by Jonathan Chando
'Military role in politics cannot be wished away' argue Biti - always paid lip service to democratic changes
"Biti says military role in Zimbabwe politics cannot be wished away!" screamed the headlines in Bulawayo24."There must be dialogue that takes care of military concerns. In 2008 after the MDC w...Published: 22 Aug 2020 at 08:02hrs | 1141 | by Wilbert Mukori
Criminals around the president: How Zimbabwe revolution was hijacked
WHEN the Zimbabwe Defence Forces grabbed power on November 15, 2017, they coined their take-over "Operation Restore Legacy".At the time, they told the nation that they wanted to round up and a...Published: 21 Aug 2020 at 08:02hrs | 2324 | by Jonathan Chando
Go well Gudo Guru
ON Wednesday morning, the nation suffered a great and painful blow. Zimbabwe lost Honourable Perrance Shiri, the Lands, Agriculture and Rural Resettlement minister. He was also a long-serving Air Mars...Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 07:36hrs | 683 | by Monica Mutsvangwa
Is someone poisoning our Generals?
What is happening to our Generals? Could there be a strange omen befalling our decorated and gallant sons or could it be the hand of God as Diego Maradona would put it?I have been thinking and...Published: 30 Jul 2020 at 10:32hrs | 6104 | by Alex Muzuva
Chihuri destroyed ZRP financial records
Financial records at Police General Headquarters (PGHQ) were reportedly loaded into a Nissan UD truck on the instruction of then police bosses and destroyed by fire at Chikurubi Camp during Operation ...Published: 18 Jul 2020 at 08:38hrs | 1504 | by Staff reporter
Joshua Nkomo: A globalist, political negotiator and institution builder
FORMER Vice-President Joshua Nkomo's legacy is prominently embedded in the military and radical polemic side of Zimbabwe's liberation struggle.This historiography bias towards Nkomo's contribu...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 07:21hrs | 201 | by Richard Runyararo Mahomva
Mutsvangwa disowns Twitter account
War veteran's leader Chris Mutsvangwa Ambassador Chris Mutsvangwa has disowned Twitter accounts in his name saying they are creations of self-exiled G40 kingpin Jonathan Moyo.This comes after ...Published: 23 Jun 2020 at 14:47hrs | 1170 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's new dispensation turned into piracy
I THOUGHT the 2017 Operation Restore Legacy was meant to rescue our sinking ship, but only to be surprised when the "saviours" turned out to be pirates.The question is: was the operation a gen...Published: 17 Jun 2020 at 07:02hrs | 528 | by Fanuel Gwete
Kasukuwere's brother released without charge
FORMER Zanu-PF Mashonaland Central provincial chairman Dickson Mafios, who was arrested soon after his release from Harare Polytechnic quarantine centre, has been released without charge.Mafio...Published: 13 Jun 2020 at 09:37hrs | 1252 | by Staff reporter
Celebrating an auspicious Day
TOMORROW is Africa Day, a truly and deeply auspicious day on the continent's calendar.On this day, various leaders of African nations that had wrestled freedom and independence gathered in Add...Published: 24 May 2020 at 08:11hrs | 180 | by Ambassador Chris Mutsvangwa
Operation restore legacy a failure
Emmerson Mnangagwa's Operation Restore Legacy has dismally failed the litmus test.The progressive Zimbabweans are sick and tired of this regime and are ready to give the system the knock out p...Published: 22 May 2020 at 11:37hrs | 1345 | by Leonard Koni
Operation Restore Legacy a failure
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's Operation Restore Legacy has dis-mally failed the litmus test. Zimbabweans are sick and tired of this regime and are ready to give the system the proverbial suck...Published: 22 May 2020 at 07:04hrs | 449 | by Leonard Koni
Chris Mutsvangwa guns for Vice Presidency?
Christopher Mutsvangwa claims to have been the brains behind the operation restore legacy which saw the removal of former President Robert Mugabe. Mutsvangwa was seen in a video celebrating th...Published: 12 May 2020 at 10:15hrs | 5238 | by Tinashe Matavire
Gen Mujuru portrayal - valiant, but misdirected
George Shire, you are very right my revolutionary soul mate.There was a turning point way back in 1976 to 1977 at Chimoio in Mozambique. Robert Mugabe wrestled leadership.Clutching a f...Published: 03 May 2020 at 09:00hrs | 806 | by Amb Christopher Mutsvangwa
Mnangagwa is 'illegitimate' says Zanu-PF chairman |
THE recent Supreme Court "Corona judgement" has inadvertently opened opportunities for as Zanu-PF district chairman to be the ‘Mashavira' of the ruling party as he plots to approach the courts to ch...Published: 28 Apr 2020 at 19:47hrs | 9422 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe@40: Still standing . . . going strong
APRIL 18 marks Zimbabwe's Independence Day.We commemorate this auspicious national occasion heroically fighting Covid-19, a global pandemic that has claimed and is still claiming thousands of ...Published: 19 Apr 2020 at 07:46hrs | 113 | by Ambassador Chris Mutsvangwa
Chief Samambwa spills the beans on Zimbabwe's 2018 elections
CHIEF Samambwa, from Midlands province, has spilled the beans, revealing that traditional leaders in the province campaigned for President Emmerson Mnangagwa in the 2018 general elections and vowed to...Published: 17 Mar 2020 at 06:43hrs | 4829 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga's wife now fears for her life
Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga's estranged wife says she fears for her life as unknown people are allegedly stalking her.Marry told a British newspaper The Times that her life had been tu...Published: 08 Mar 2020 at 09:07hrs | 4588 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC defends Grace Mugabe over multiple farms
MDC-Alliance legislators yesterday defended former First Lady Grace Mugabe's ownership of multiple farms and quashed calls by Norton legislator Mr Temba Mliswa to repossess them. The incident ...Published: 05 Mar 2020 at 05:46hrs | 2250 | by Staff reporter
Land grab: Zimbabwe's euphoria
Many of us thought the introduction of land grabs from white owners was noble since most of our rich agricultural soils was within the possession of the whites - a minority group, against the black ma...Published: 29 Feb 2020 at 07:34hrs | 336 | by VaDhira Mhinhau
MOGS fuel deal: An MDC project
NEW details are emerging regarding Mine Oil and Gas Services (MOGS), which of late has been making futile attempts to build a second pipeline in Zim...Published: 13 Feb 2020 at 21:51hrs | 2385 | by Paul Ndou
'Zimbabwe army must step in'
THE military must now step in to stop machete gangs who are terrorising and killing people in many parts of the country, Norton MP Temba Mliswa has said.Speaking at a policy dialogue meeting o...Published: 01 Feb 2020 at 19:30hrs | 6297 | by Staff reporter
'MaShurugwi will remove Mnangagwa and Zanu-PF'
OUTSPOKEN Norton legislator Temba Mliswa has warned marauding machete wielding gangs that have caused massive terror through murder, rape, robbery and other forms of anarchy in parts of the country's ...Published: 01 Feb 2020 at 06:23hrs | 3368 | by newzimbabwe
Mnangagwa reshuffles army chiefs
AN unsettled President Emmerson Mnangagwa, seeking to strengthen his grip on power and coup-proof his regime, has yet again changed commanders of the Presidential Guard (PG), the infantry battalion wh...Published: 31 Jan 2020 at 19:16hrs | 1969 | by Staff reporter
Muchinguri - Saviour Kauskuwere merge forces?
Oppah Muchinguri Kashiri has been at the centre of faction wars, playing King maker from a distant. In 2004 Oppah Muchinguri was at the centre of the Dinyane debacle which saw her being left out in th...Published: 24 Jan 2020 at 12:15hrs | 12412 | by Nicholas Ncube
Why Kasukuwere, Mzembi are doomed to fail
Since November 2019, former ZANU-PF national political commissar Saviour Kasukuwere has been attempting to effect a political comeback and went as far as threatening to contest the 2023 presidential e...Published: 22 Jan 2020 at 06:31hrs | 559 | by Nobleman Runyanga
General Tongogara's ZANU PF died in 2017
Is this the country that Tongogara, Chitepo, JZ Moyo, Silundika and other gallant sons and daughters gave up their lives for?Is this version of ZANU PF the same liberation movement that Tongog...Published: 28 Dec 2019 at 07:38hrs | 12990 | by Dr Utete
Examining Grace Mugabe's relationship with Saviour Kasukuwere: Is it political or deeper?
The relationship between former First Lady, Grace Mugabe and recently self-proclaimed 2023 presidential aspirant, Saviour Kasukuwere, is enigmatic. Tracing the history of the relationship and its curr...Published: 20 Dec 2019 at 11:42hrs | 5966 | by Felix Kundishora
Do not use state institutions for political fights
The words of Saviour Kasukuwere while he was still ZANU PF Commissar continue to echo loud and seemingly necessary as a desperate and failed regime looks under every rock seeking non-existent enemies ...Published: 20 Dec 2019 at 08:27hrs | 3003 | by Peter Moyo
'Need revolution, nor reforms, to remove Zanu PF' says J Moyo - Zanu PF mob psychosis
I readily confess that I was one of the people who held Professor Jonathan Moyo in high regard as a brilliant intellectual with impeccable moral ethics. That was in the late 1980s and early 1990s; whe...Published: 11 Dec 2019 at 07:27hrs | 3389 | by Wilbert Mukori
'The C'wealth officer jumped from his seat when I threw my AK-47 at him'
Today we conclude the series of interviews that we have been doing with former Zipra guerilla, Tapson Ncube aka Makhula. Ncube was a maverick guerilla who at one point was detained on the orde...Published: 01 Dec 2019 at 05:58hrs | 3864 | by Staff reporter
Tshinga Dube: The Anti-colonial Transfiguration of the Self: Part 2
Last week's introductory instalment attempted to locate Retired Col Tshinga's profile within the shifting currencies and contexts of our struggle for independence. His radical political tutela...Published: 01 Dec 2019 at 05:56hrs | 179 | by Richard Mahomva
Ordinary Zimbabweas played no role in Mugabe coup
As Zimbabwe remembers the second anniversary of the "resignation" of long-time dictator Robert Gabriel Mugabe on November 21, 2017 — marking the end of his 37-year reign of terror — it is shocking...Published: 29 Nov 2019 at 09:41hrs | 465 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Lets not delude ourselves - ordinary Zimbabweans played no role in Mugabe removal! It was purely a coup d'etat!
As Zimbabwe remembers the second anniversary of the 'resignation' of long-time dictator Robert Gabriel Mugabe on 21 November 2017 - marking the end of his 37 year reign of terror - it is shocking how ...Published: 23 Nov 2019 at 10:28hrs | 2768 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zanu-PF members warned not to abuse Mnangagwa's name
ZANU-PF yesterday warned party members in Bulawayo against abusing their proximity to President Mnangagwa to violate party procedures. The party's politburo member and Chitepo School of ...Published: 23 Nov 2019 at 06:43hrs | 797 | by Staff reporter
Tshinga Dube ready to launch book
ALL is set for former Cabinet Minister, Retired Colonel Tshinga Dube's much-anticipated 'Quiet Flows The Zambezi book launch. The autobiography will be launched at the National Art Gallery of ...Published: 20 Nov 2019 at 04:06hrs | 881 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe resurrected
AFTER making headlines with Operation Restore Regasi last year, Masvingo's Charles Austin Theatre is bringing another intriguing political piece titled A Live Discussion with the Late Robert Mugabe, s...Published: 19 Nov 2019 at 20:38hrs | 3940 | by Staff reporter
2 years on, Mnangagwa remains steadfast
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has said he will not waver in his determination to work and achieve the goals and dreams of millions of Zimbabweans who marched in 2017 in a series of events that gave birth to the...Published: 19 Nov 2019 at 05:48hrs | 369 | by Staff reporter
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