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Police round up 900 maShurugwi
Zimbabwean police have arrested 907 people in Mazowe, Mashonaland Central in an operation targeting the notorious Machete wielding maShurugwi gold panners...Published: 15 Jan 2020 at 18:09hrs | 7930 | by Staff Reporter
Jonathan Moyo links maShurugwi to two of Mnangagwa's ministers
Former Minister and Zanu-PF politburo member Professor Jonathan Moyo says the maShurugwi menace was presented to former President Robert Mugabe where July Moyo and Owen Ncube were implicated.M...Published: 10 Jan 2020 at 18:18hrs | 7636 | by Staff Reporter
Chiwenga puts Mnangagwa under virtual military house arrest
CAPE TOWN/HARARE - The power tussle between President Emmerson Mnangagwa, and his deputy, Vice President Rtd General Constantino Chiwenga, to gain control of the country has reached boiling point, ami...Published: 10 Jan 2020 at 07:30hrs | 58032 | by Mary-Kate Kahari/Malvin Motsi
Mashurugwi: A smokescreen to loot and plunder by the rulers
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Mnangagwa visits Kwekwe market
PRESIDENT, Emmerson Mnangagwa this Monday took people at the Kwekwe long-distance bus terminus by surprise when he visited and bought eats from vendors.He got off from his motorcade and headed...Published: 25 Dec 2019 at 09:03hrs | 3566 | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa makes surprise visit to Kwekwe market
President Mnangagwa yesterday morning took people at Kwekwe Long Distance Bus Terminus by surprise when he visited unannounced and bought eats from vendors, personally. He alighted from ...Published: 24 Dec 2019 at 06:06hrs | 651 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa sticks to Polad
AN air of camaraderie characterised the Political Actors Dialogue (Polad) meeting in Kwekwe yesterday to mark National Unity Day. The meeting started at mid-morning at President Mnangagwa's farm, with...Published: 23 Dec 2019 at 15:42hrs | 131 | by Staff reporter
CIO, police pay assault victim $7 000 compensation
THE Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) and the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) have paid $7 000 to a victim of assault after he successfully sued them with the assistance of Zimbabwe Lawyers for H...Published: 20 Dec 2019 at 11:44hrs | 2178 | by Stephen Jakes
Reflection of Historical perspective: Mashurungwi & August 1 Narrative
There was a paradox of analogue on why Mnangagwa was given security roles ahead of any other roles as a cabinet Minister. Was it a sign of bravery or he resembled the hardline stance which made him to...Published: 09 Dec 2019 at 16:14hrs | 671 | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
Unleash army on killer mashurugwi panners: MDC-A Senator
MDC Alliance Senator Lilian Timveos has recommended that the army is unleashed to deal with the notorious ma Shurugwi gold panners who have terrorised and killed people in gold wars across the country...Published: 06 Dec 2019 at 10:24hrs | 2089 | by Staff Reporter
'Armed machete gangs will defeat security forces'
Former Minister Arts, Sports and Culture Makhosini Hlongwane has warned that the armed machete gangs from Midlands popularly known as Mashurugwi and Al Shabaab will soon liberate their own territory a...Published: 06 Dec 2019 at 09:51hrs | 5409 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Machete gang killers linked to Minister Owen Mudha arrested
Police have initiated investigations on the reports of the machete wielding gangs that are seen in videos that have gone viral killing and terrorising some citizens. Said Energy Mutodi, "Rogue...Published: 05 Dec 2019 at 17:50hrs | 2957 | by Mandla Ndlovu
EU not happy with pace of Zimbabwe reforms
European Union (EU) ambassador to Zimbabwe Timo Olkkkonen says Brussels is not happy with the pace of reforms in the country, especially the realignment of laws to the constitution.Olkkonen (T...Published: 24 Nov 2019 at 14:36hrs | 169 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa pleads with Trump, Europe
President Emmerson Mnangagwa is pleading with the West to lift their sanctions against Harare and help Zimbabwe to turn around its sickly economy, the Daily News reports.This comes after Presi...Published: 19 Nov 2019 at 20:47hrs | 3057 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa flies out to Dubai
President Emmerson Mnangagwa will tomorrow join fellow African governments and business leaders for the 6th Global Business Forum Africa 2019 (GBFAfrica 2019) scheduled to kick off this Mo...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 18:21hrs | 740 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa Cabinet reshuffle sparks uproar
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa (pictured)'s cabinet reshuffle has caused consternation in government and Zanu-PF as officials believe it was motivated by the need to consolidate and retain power rather ...Published: 15 Nov 2019 at 06:20hrs | 1893 | by Staff reporter
Is Biti crafting the US Policy on Zimbabwe?
A well placed source close to Tendai Biti has revealed that the MDC Co-Vice President actually crafts US policy on Zimbabwe.According to the source, the US Embassy regularly consults Biti on w...Published: 13 Nov 2019 at 11:59hrs | 2553 | by Felix Kundishora
UN speaks about Zimbabwe sanctions
PRESIDENT of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly Tijjani Muhammad-Bande says Zimbabwe has struggled to deal with its problems and that sanctions were not solely to blame.This comes as the...Published: 08 Nov 2019 at 05:57hrs | 2118 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt has all but trashed re-engagement drive
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration has effectively abandoned its international re-engagement agenda as evidenced by public confrontations with the European Union (EU) and United States, rem...Published: 08 Nov 2019 at 05:21hrs | 750 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa arrives in Bulawayo
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday arrived in Bulawayo where he is scheduled to commission 79 Zimbabwe United Passenger Company (Zupco) buses and officiate at the National University of Science and Technol...Published: 08 Nov 2019 at 04:54hrs | 724 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to solve fuel crisis
President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Thursday met with a special envoy from Mozambique President Filipe Nyusi Minister of Transport and Communication Mr Carlos Mesquita, to discuss a number of bilateral is...Published: 07 Nov 2019 at 15:46hrs | 5081 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa pledges to end machete wars
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday pledged to descend heavily on perpetrators of machete violence, reiterating that deterrent sentences must be imposed on those found in possession of the weapons....Published: 07 Nov 2019 at 05:46hrs | 464 | by Staff reporter
Arrest violent 'MaShurugwi' - Mnangagwa
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has called on the arrest of notorious gold panners infamously known as MaShurugwi. The gold panners with reported links to Mnangagwa himself and State security min...Published: 06 Nov 2019 at 18:19hrs | 6458 | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa's govt dismisses reports Minister retracted condemning US ambassador's actions
THE Government has dismissed reports that the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Dr Sibusiso Moyo has retracted or renounced his statement last week condemning the actions of US Ambas...Published: 06 Nov 2019 at 11:32hrs | 328 | by Staff reporter
Govt on SB Moyo statement... Dismisses reports Minister retracted condemning US ambassador's actions
THE Government has dismissed reports that the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Dr Sibusiso Moyo has retracted or renounced his statement last week condemning the actions of US Ambas...Published: 06 Nov 2019 at 11:06hrs | 388 | by Staff Reporter
Mugabe coup announcer distanced himself from US ambassador attack?
Foreign Affairs Minister Sibusiso Moyo told Western diplomats before and after making an intemperate rant against the United States ambassador last week that he was not the originator of the statement...Published: 04 Nov 2019 at 11:34hrs | 18215 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa caps record GZU graduates
President Mnangagwa yesterday conferred degrees to 4 936 graduates at Great Zimbabwe University (GZU)'s 13th graduation ceremony held at the institution's main campus.The graduates were drawn ...Published: 03 Nov 2019 at 06:34hrs | 193 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe threatens to expel U.S. ambassador
Zimbabwe on Thursday threatened to expel the United States ambassador to Harare in a new low in diplomatic relations between the two countries.Zimbabwe accuses the United States of imposing "i...Published: 01 Nov 2019 at 21:39hrs | 1585 | by ZimLive
Unites States ignores Zim threats
The United States has ignored threats by Zimbabwe's foreign affairs minister Sibusiso Moyo against its ambassador Brian Nichols on Thursday. Moyo made veiled threats against Nichols whom he ac...Published: 01 Nov 2019 at 17:38hrs | 3289 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe's Commonwealth re-admission hangs in the balance
ZIMBABWE'S desperate bid to re-join the Commonwealth is hanging in the balance after the United Kingdom this week accused President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration of falling short of satisfying r...Published: 01 Nov 2019 at 06:46hrs | 1001 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt rebukes US Ambassador Brian Nichols
Government has rebuked United States Ambassador to Zimbabwe Mr Brian Nichols for his utterances on the recent SADC anti-sanctions march to press for the removal of the embargo against Harare. ...Published: 01 Nov 2019 at 06:25hrs | 378 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt tackling American ambassador Brian Nichols head-on
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government is tackling American ambassador Brian Nichols head-on over his country's robust statements during last week's anti-sanctions march - in another move that coul...Published: 31 Oct 2019 at 07:42hrs | 7920 | by Staff reporter
Minister Ncube placement on sanctions list uncalled for
Zimbabweans, the SADC region, other organs and countries joined hands on the 25th of October calling for the removal of the illegally EU-US-imposed sanctions on Zimbabwe. The US camp responded with co...Published: 29 Oct 2019 at 17:35hrs | 1921 | by Gift Mashoko
Mnangagwa top ally in trouble
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has been dealt yet another blow with US President Donald Trump on Friday adding his close ally, State Security minister Owen Ncube, to the sanctions list.Ncube who...Published: 29 Oct 2019 at 10:37hrs | 2616 | by Staff reporter
Owen Ncube's sanctioning absurd, say analysts
POLITICAL analysts have described as absurd the decision by the United States to add State Security Minister Owen Ncube on to the sanctions list. Minister Ncube was added to the list on Friday...Published: 29 Oct 2019 at 06:37hrs | 770 | by Staff reporter
EU, US not moved by Zimbabwe sanctions march
THE European Union (EU) and United States (US) have scoffed at the anti-sanctions march held by government on Friday, saying the restrictive measures would remain in place until President Emmerson Mna...Published: 28 Oct 2019 at 11:45hrs | 3097 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, Zanu-PF told to reform or suffer
President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his lieutenants risk being slapped with more punitive measures by the United States of America (USA) and the European Union (EU) - unless they start implementing much-...Published: 28 Oct 2019 at 07:07hrs | 3554 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa ally's sanctioning draws Zimbabwe govt ire
Government has fired a salvo at the United States of America's decision to add to its sanctions list, State Security Minister Owen Ncube on allegations of gross violations of human rights, describing ...Published: 28 Oct 2019 at 06:31hrs | 728 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe sanctions lunacy
The anti-sanctions public holiday on Friday was a new dimension in Zimbabwean lunacy, buoyed by mistaken African solidarity. They accept Zanu PF propaganda without looking into what these sanctions ar...Published: 27 Oct 2019 at 20:26hrs | 2098 | by Zimbabwe Vigil
US sanctions on Zimbabwe, a regime change agenda, says Wadyajena
Zanu-PF legislator for Gokwe-Nembudziya, Justice Mayor Wadyajena says economic sanctions imposed on the country by western nations are hurting ordinary Zimbabweans and the United States of America is ...Published: 27 Oct 2019 at 12:29hrs | 2224 | by Staff reporter
Trump fires warning shots at Mnangagwa
IN AN ominous development for President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his under pressure government, the United States of America (USA) has slapped State Security minister Owen Ncube with sanctions over alle...Published: 27 Oct 2019 at 10:50hrs | 17510 | by Staff reporter
Global capitals back Zimbabwe
The push to remove sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe by the West is gaining traction after the African Union (AU), China, Japan and Sadc diplomats around the world lent their voice for the embargo to be l...Published: 27 Oct 2019 at 09:45hrs | 274 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: America adds Minister Owen Ncube on sanctions list
United States of America Secretary of State Michael Richard Pompeo has announced that the Minister of State in the President's Office for National Security Owen Mudha Ncube has been slapped with sanct...Published: 26 Oct 2019 at 00:29hrs | 10463 | by Mandla Ndlovu
CIOs not happy with huge salary gap
JUNIOR officers in the spy agency, the Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) are reportedly not happy with the huge salary gap between them and their bosses, NewsDay has learnt.This paper is...Published: 25 Oct 2019 at 10:51hrs | 4158 | by Staff reporter
MaShurugwi terror grips Zimbabwe's gold rich areas
Takesure Choga considers himself lucky to be alive after he was abducted by thugs driving an unregistered car, who stripped him naked and dumped him in a bush in Kwekwe.Choga, a human rights a...Published: 20 Oct 2019 at 23:52hrs | 774 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa says 'Science education way to go'
President Mnangagwa has said science education is critical for Zimbabwe to achieve rapid modernisation, urging institutions of higher learning to churn out graduates capable of producing transformativ...Published: 13 Oct 2019 at 06:36hrs | 127 | by Staff reporter
Minister fingered in machete wars
STATE Security minister Owen Ncube has been implicated in the often violent Mazowe illegal mining activities that have seen youth gangs popularly known as MaShurugwi, engaged in machete wars over gold...Published: 10 Oct 2019 at 06:53hrs | 1243 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa back home from UNGA
The President, Emmerson Mnangagwa and Amai Auxillia Mnangagwa, who attended the 74th United Nations General Assembly, have arrived back home from New York,United States.The president and his d...Published: 27 Sep 2019 at 19:31hrs | 2542 | by Staff reporter
ZRP, Magombeyi fight
The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) yesterday filed an urgent chamber application seeking the correction of an earlier court order interdicting them from preventing the release of the Zimbabwe Hospital...Published: 25 Sep 2019 at 06:37hrs | 1566 | by Staff reporter
As Dr Magombeyi resurfaces, the third force debate rages on, as Job Sikhala narrates torture story
The acting president of Zimbabwe Hospital Doctor Associations Peter Magombeyi, who was allegedly abducted on Friday last week in Budiriro, was on last week Thursday night confirmed to have been releas...Published: 24 Sep 2019 at 10:29hrs | 3664 | by Thomas Mukandi
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