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Mnangagwa launches US$51 million John Deere mechanisation facility
President Mnangagwa has launched the US$51 million John Deere Mechanisation Facility that is expected to transform the agriculture sector and ensure the industry becomes the pathway out of poverty and...Published: 25 Jun 2020 at 16:19hrs | 1424 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF bigwigs snub Chiwenga
TOP Zanu-PF officials and legislators from the Midlands province on Friday reportedly snubbed a field day at Lozani Farm, Kwekwe, where Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga was guest of honour as facti...Published: 15 Jun 2020 at 07:58hrs | 6814 | by Staff reporter
Coup, what coup? Spreading to fear and dispondence?
ON Thursday, Home Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe was joined by fellow ministers in the security sector and army bosses just to dispel rumours of an "immi-nent coup d'état".Kazembe was f...Published: 12 Jun 2020 at 07:51hrs | 681 | by Staff reporter
'Plot afoot to oust Mnangagwa'
Home Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe flanked by service chiefs at a Press briefing in Harare last nightHOME Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe last night accused rivals in government, military ...Published: 11 Jun 2020 at 07:52hrs | 5852 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF selectively applying lockdown regulations
THE ruling Zanu-PF is selectively dishing out COVID-19 lockdown exemption letters while other citizens are arrested for returning to their offices having been blocked from accessing them.Look ...Published: 11 Jun 2020 at 07:51hrs | 773 | by Kennedy
Police ordered to descend hard on pirate taxis, kombis
GOVERNMENT has said police should come down hard on pirate kombis and taxis and also ensure there is tight security at quarantine centres. In Gweru, Bulawayo and other cities, private commuter...Published: 01 Jun 2020 at 08:35hrs | 644 | by Staff reporter
Beatrice Mtetwa's scathing letter to Mnangagwa
Sir, I address you, not because you personally abducted, tortured and sexually abused JOANA MAMOMBE, CECILIA CHIMBIRI and NETSAI MAROVA. Neither do I address you because I know or am in other way conn...Published: 19 May 2020 at 18:59hrs | 8046 | by Beatrice Mtetwa
Jonathan Moyo fingers Owen Ncube in MDC abductions
Professor Jonathan Moyo says the abduction of MDC Lawmaker Joana Mamombe and other two activists was the work of Minister of State Security Owen Mudha Ncube. Said Moyo, "This is the dirty ...Published: 15 May 2020 at 18:18hrs | 8095 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Cabinet hawks, fearful of civil unrest, forced 14, instead 21, day lockdown extension – pyrrhic victory as covid-19 marches on
There was never any doubt in anyone's mind that Zimbabwe was going to extend the country's initial 21-day lockdown. The lockdown was imposed when the country had less than 5 confirmed corona virus inf...Published: 24 Apr 2020 at 22:14hrs | 2781 | by Wilbert Mukori
Mnangagwa's tricky test
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa disregarded the advice of health experts who recommended a 21-day Covid-19 lockdown extension, preferring instead to listen to his Zanu PF and Cabinet colleagues who argue...Published: 24 Apr 2020 at 08:58hrs | 8381 | by Staff reporter
Zim @ 40, A New Dispensation that never was minus Mugabe's booming voice
It's dreary Saturday and somewhat overcast midmorning in Pretoria as I watch live news feeds from the North across the mighty Limpopo River. Life away from home has turned many into creatures ...Published: 19 Apr 2020 at 07:42hrs | 299 | by Josiah Mucharowana
MPs warned over travel exemptions
MINISTER of State Security Owen Ncube has warned Members of Parliament and councillors against issuing travelling exemptions to people during the Covid-19 induced lockdown. Speaking during the...Published: 13 Apr 2020 at 08:00hrs | 204 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa wishes Chiwenga dead - Zanu pf official
Embattled Zanu PF official Goodman Musariri who was dragged to court on Saturday for undermining the authority of the president sensationally claimed that president Emmerson Mnangagwa and his clan wis...Published: 08 Apr 2020 at 09:29hrs | 13733 | by Simbarashe Mwandipendaa
Mnangagwa not the change that Zimbabwe needs!
During the course of my life I heard three stories that I dismissed as mere jokes. Firstly a human resources lecturer once told us that he once came come across a white colour employee that did not kn...Published: 02 Apr 2020 at 11:17hrs | 1045 | by Ishemunyoro Mupokosera
Zimbabwe setting up 67 makeshift isolation centres
THE Government is working on establishing 67 makeshift isolation centres, producing and importing medicines, acquiring protective clothing and producing masks and hand sanitisers for distribution amon...Published: 31 Mar 2020 at 08:40hrs | 2042 | by Staff reporter
'Urgent need to capacitate Ekusileni, Thorngrove hospitals'
THE Government has said there is an urgent need to capacitate Ekusileni Medical Centre and Thorngrove Infectious Disease Hospital as isolation centres for Covid-19 patients in Bulawayo. The bu...Published: 30 Mar 2020 at 08:13hrs | 249 | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai son in soup over sanctions utterances
THE late founding father of the MDC, Morgan Tsvangirai's son Vincent - who is the MP for Glen View South - has come under fire from his party after he said that sanctions were not targeted, but were a...Published: 19 Mar 2020 at 17:51hrs | 6700 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe situation now dire'
ZimRights says the situation in the country has become dire and there was compelling need for all stakeholders to come together outside the political actors to address the crisis which it claims has r...Published: 18 Mar 2020 at 06:44hrs | 1080 | by Staff reporter
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 | 4807 | by Staff reporter
'Living on the Edge'
A valiant group braved coronavirus to hold the Vigil outside the Zimbabwe Embassy despite the UK gradually going into lockdown as the disease claims more victims.Airliners are being grounded a...Published: 16 Mar 2020 at 07:10hrs | 618 | by Zimbabwe Vigil Diary
US says Zimbabwe sanctions not enough
THE US government has admitted its sanctions were not enough to force any change of behaviour among Zimbabwean authorities and has urged ordinary locals to also take the challenge and remedy their own...Published: 16 Mar 2020 at 05:44hrs | 1050 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa told that he has no choice
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has been told by his allies that he has no choice but to implement reforms and end human rights violations in order to win over western countries that are increasingly tig...Published: 15 Mar 2020 at 11:08hrs | 3931 | by Staff reporter
Trump to slap more Zimbabwe officials with sanctions
A NUMBER of high ranking government officials are under probe for human rights violations and risk being slapped with individual sanctions if found to be trampling upon citizens' rights, a senior US o...Published: 15 Mar 2020 at 00:09hrs | 3297 | by newzimbabwe
Chiwenga snubs Mnangagwa
Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga yesterday allegedly snubbed his boss President Emmerson Mnangagwa's field day held at the latter's Pricabe Farm in Sherwood, Kwekwe, as reported power struggles con...Published: 13 Mar 2020 at 06:00hrs | 6703 | by Staff reporter
US wants Zimbabweans to stop Zanu-PF
THE United States yesterday said sanctions alone would not force the Zimbabwean government to end human rights abuses, and urged mass action to make Harare commit to stopping human rights violations....Published: 13 Mar 2020 at 05:59hrs | 1910 | by Staff reporter
US senators urge Trump to add more names to Zimbabwe sanctions list
Two influential United States senators on Wednesday reacted to the blacklisting of two Zimbabwean officials by saying "there remain several others who need to be held accountable", while urging Presid...Published: 12 Mar 2020 at 23:50hrs | 2470 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, Trump cross swords over sanction
A war of words is brewing between Zimbabwe and the United States following the addition of State Security Minister Owen Ncube and former Presidential Guard commander, Brigadier-General Anselem Sanyatw...Published: 12 Mar 2020 at 12:03hrs | 4408 | by Staff reporter
Anselem Sanyatwe and Owen Ncube are slapped by US sanctions
Dear Editor, The warlords in power are complaining about being held accountable for their despicable acts of state-sponsored terrorism against defenceless Zimbabweans. It's amazing how they do...Published: 12 Mar 2020 at 10:40hrs | 1148 | by Bigboy Sibanda
Zimbabwe slams US over sanctions
Government has slammed the United States government for placing State Security Minister Owen Ncube and Ambassador Anselem Sanyatwe on the sanctions list. In a statement yesterday, Foreign Affa...Published: 12 Mar 2020 at 06:48hrs | 200 | by Staff repor
Ray Kaukonde removed from US sanctions list
THE US Wednesday announced the removal of late Zanu-PF stalwart, Shuvai Mahofa from its list of targeted sanctions against senior ruling party and government officials.Also removed from the li...Published: 12 Mar 2020 at 06:47hrs | 1036 | by Staff reporter
US blacklists Mnangagwa allies
The United States on Wednesday imposed sanctions on Zimbabwe's state security minister and its ambassador to Tanzania, the U.S. Treasury Department said, accusing them of human rights abuses, includin...Published: 11 Mar 2020 at 18:53hrs | 3148 | by Reuters
Trump's US extends Zimbabwe sanctions
The United States has extended targeted sanctions imposed on some Zanu PF officials saying President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government "has arguably accelerated its persecution of critics and economic m...Published: 05 Mar 2020 at 06:00hrs | 3933 | by Staff reporter
Fireworks as ZANU PF Politburo meets tomorrow
The Zanu PF Politburo heads into the first ordinary session of March 2020 faced with critical issues that are likely to determine the short term course of events. The Politburo is faced with critical ...Published: 03 Mar 2020 at 15:27hrs | 5088 | by Peter Moyo
Zimbabwe army to monitor social media
THE Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) commander Edzai Chimonyo says the military would soon start snooping into private communications between private citizens to "guard against subversion," alarming media...Published: 03 Mar 2020 at 07:35hrs | 1219 | by Staff reporter
State Security Minister declines to answer Ndebele Senator ...Says he doesn't understand the language
State Security Minister Owen Ncube declined to answer a question from a Senator who had posed a question in Ndebele saying he does not understand the language.Ncube, a close ally of President ...Published: 02 Mar 2020 at 19:12hrs | 5803 | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa's govt to probe State capture allegations
THE government will investigate allegations of State capture made by Prosecutor-General (PG) Kumbirai Hodzi early this month, Vice President Kembo Mohadi told Parliament on Wednesday.This come...Published: 28 Feb 2020 at 16:52hrs | 582 | by Staff reporter
Kirsty Coventry commits to refurbish stadiums
YOUTH, Sports, Arts and Recreation minister Kirsty Coventry has on Thursday, spoken out on the dilapidated state of the local stadiums and made a commitment to refurbish them.She however categ...Published: 27 Feb 2020 at 12:11hrs | 1384 | by Staff reporter
There is plenty mealie-meal, claims CIO minister
THE question and answer session in the National Assembly degenerated into a circus yesterday after State Security minister Owen Ncube briefly assumed the position of acting leader of the H...Published: 27 Feb 2020 at 06:16hrs | 783 | by Staff reporter
Minister to issue statement on stadium ban
A ministerial statement on the ban of local stadiums by the Confederation of African Football (CAF) now has to be made by Youth, Sport, Arts and Recreation Minister Kirsty Coventry. The instru...Published: 27 Feb 2020 at 05:41hrs | 245 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MPs walk out on Mnangagwa's spy Minister
PARLIAMENT was Wednesday forced to adjourn earlier than planned when MDC MPs angrily voiced their disapproval over the ‘shallow' manner with which State Security minister Owen Ncube was responding t...Published: 27 Feb 2020 at 05:40hrs | 539 | by newzimbabwe
Security minister implicated in machetes violence
OPPOSITION MPs yesterday alleged in Parliament that State Security minister Owen Ncube was the co-ordinator of the machete gangs, popularly known as MaShurugwi.They said this as they grilled H...Published: 25 Feb 2020 at 06:56hrs | 1671 | by Staff reporter
AU insists on Zimbabwe sanctions removal
African Union Commission, deputy commissioner Mr Kwesi Quartey has called for the removal of sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe by United States and its allies, saying they were negatively impacting on the...Published: 25 Feb 2020 at 06:31hrs | 176 | by Staff reporter
By-Election results do not represent will of the people
The outcome of the recently held by-elections in Mwenezi and Kuwadzana does not reflect the will of the people of Zimbabwe as the elections were not conducted in a free and fair environment.Th...Published: 12 Feb 2020 at 12:25hrs | 1669 | by People's Party
Mnangagwa in Ethiopia for AU Summit
President Mnangagwa arrived in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, yesterday for the 33rd Ordinary Summit of the African Union. He was received at Bole International Airport by Zimbabwe's Ambassador to Ethiopia, A...Published: 08 Feb 2020 at 09:35hrs | 256 | by Staff reporter
Designation: The new US weapon against Zimbabweans
The United States does not want to leave Zimbabwe alone and has upped its game by using designation of persons as a way of forcing the ZANU PF government to capitulate. In a strange development, the U...Published: 08 Feb 2020 at 07:33hrs | 1996 | by Elijah Chihota
Chiwenga threatens tough action against maShurugwi
VICE President Constantino Chiwenga has warned machete wielding gangs that the government will take stern action against them.It is rare for a high ranking Zimbabwe government official to publ...Published: 02 Feb 2020 at 12:14hrs | 1093 | by newzimbabwe.com
'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 | 6285 | 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 | 3357 | by newzimbabwe
Trump tightens screws on Mnangagwa
THE United States of America (USA) is mulling adding more top Zanu-PF and government officials to its targeted sanctions list - in a bid to force Harare to embark on much-needed political and economic...Published: 31 Jan 2020 at 19:24hrs | 5427 | by Staff reporter
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 | 1958 | by Staff reporter
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