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Mnangagwa blesses Parliament's probe into ZINARA
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has approved investigations by a parliamentary portfolio committee into the operations of the Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (ZINARA) after an audit unearthed mass...Published: 4 hrs ago | 528 | by Staff reporter
Whites score big against blacks - land compensation
Land is and was at the centre of all political developments for the indigenous black Zimbabwean population's pre and post independence movements. The liberation war against white minority rule's black...Published: 10 hrs ago | 1826 | by Terence Simbi
Coltart defends Jonathan Moyo...fingers Chinamasa and Mnangagwa
Former MDC secretary for Legal Affairs David Coltart has absolved ex-Minister Professor Jonathan Moyo on allegations that he was involved in the drafting and steering of the notorious Public Order Sec...Published: 13 hrs ago | 5598 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mliswa attacks journalists
Norton Member of Parliament Temba Mliswa has come out guns blazing against journalists who are paid brown envelope by Ministers to write fake stories involving non-existent 9nvestments. ...Published: 15 hrs ago | 2202 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Call to arrest August 1 killer soldiers
WHILE government has been commended for promising compensation to victims of the August 1 killings as recommended by the commission of inquiry which was chaired by former South African President Kgale...Published: 15 hrs ago | 2292 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa is illegitimate by virtue of rigged elections - regardless Chamisa climb-down
As far as Mnangagwa is concerned last year's elections were free, fair and credible. He has invited opposition parties, civic society and all other interested parties to a national dialogue to discuss...Published: 18 hrs ago | 1690 | by Wilbert Mukori
Easter Holiday accidents kill 24
The death toll of people who died during the Easter Holiday rose to 24 on Sunday night after 11 people perished on the spot in a fatal head-on collision at the 118km peg along Harare-Mutare highway in...Published: 18 hrs ago | 405 | by Staff reporter
Zec warms up for 2023 polls
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commissioner has started warming up for the 2023 harmonised elections by convening a national multi-stakeholder conference aimed at reflecting at the July 30, 2018 general polls...Published: 18 hrs ago | 659 | by Staff reporter
POSA replacement Bill gazetted
Government last week gazetted the Maintenance of Peace and Order Bill that will replace the Public Order and Security Act (Posa) in line with its commitment to open up democratic space and align laws ...Published: 18 hrs ago | 254 | by Staff reporter
NSSA pensioners are 'dying a little each day'
The National Social Security Authority must do more to ameliorate the suffering of NSSA pensioners who are 'dying a little each day'. It has been alleged talks, consultations and requests but ...Published: 22 Apr 2019 at 17:51hrs | 1654 | by Tondo
ZANU PF launches 10 000 youths to fight for a mine?
Norton Member pf Parliament Temba Mliswa has condemned the abuse artisan number in a fight between one Mr Steward Luckford and Breckridge company over a Gadzema Gold Mine located in Chegutu.Th...Published: 22 Apr 2019 at 16:42hrs | 4681 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'Corruption and cronyism worrying Mnangagwa' ZANU PF MP says
ZANU PF Member of Parliament for Gokwe-Nembudziya Justice Mayor Wadyajena says President Emmerson Mnangagwa is troubled that the majority problems in the country emanate from corruption and cronyism....Published: 22 Apr 2019 at 16:02hrs | 2326 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'Zimbabwe public finances in bad shape'
ZIMBABWE'S public finance management is characterised by growing fiscal leakages, lack of transparency, accountability and continuous violation of legal and constitutional provisions, the Zimbabwe Coa...Published: 22 Apr 2019 at 08:36hrs | 414 | by Staff reporter
Dreaded CIO Minister in fresh mine wrangle storm
Minister of State Security in the Office of the President Owen Mudha Ncube has been fingered in the mine wrangle that is happening at Gaika gold mine in Kwekwe.In a letter that is circulating ...Published: 21 Apr 2019 at 15:28hrs | 3001 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa must apologise for his role in gukurahundi genocide
VICTIMS of the 1980s Matabeleland and Midlands massacres, known as Gukurahundi, have challenged President Emmerson Mnangagwa to openly apologise for the killing of over 20 000 innocent civilians, sayi...Published: 21 Apr 2019 at 08:58hrs | 3150 | by Staff reporter
Lupane East MP's burial unites Zanu-PF, MDC
THE Lupane East Member of Parliament and liberation war heroine Sithembile Gumbo was yesterday buried at the Matabeleland North Provincial Heroes' Acre at Lupane Centre.Gumbo (56), died on Mon...Published: 21 Apr 2019 at 08:12hrs | 5665 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa reaches out to Mnangagwa
IN A positive development, opposition leader Nelson Chamisa has dropped most of the demands that he had set as fundamental conditions for him to have direct talks with President Emmerson Mnangagwa, th...Published: 20 Apr 2019 at 15:46hrs | 22270 | by Staff reporter
LIVE: Temba Mliswa holds his own Independence celebration
Norton Member of Parliament Temba Mliswa held his own parallel Independence celebrations on Saturday.The celebrations were headlined by dancehall artistes. Mliswa is a vocal Member of ...Published: 20 Apr 2019 at 12:49hrs | 2278 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'I prefer to be led by MDC' says Mliswa
Norton Member of Parliament Temba Mliswa says if he is to sit in another Parliamentary portfolio Committee he would choose the one that is led by an MDC MP than a ZANU PF pne. In a tweet...Published: 20 Apr 2019 at 10:25hrs | 12941 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Credible team and sound advice ahead of Elective Congress
Those who have been consistent from 1999, are likely to be beneficiaries of this congress, and secondly off course the Chamisa factor. The Chamisa factor plays a pivotal role on the basis of selection...Published: 20 Apr 2019 at 08:12hrs | 402 | by A big Easter by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
Mugabe commissioned gukurahundi genocide reports 'have been lost'
Reports of two government commissions of inquiry into post-independence massacres in Matabeleland and the Midlands "have been lost", the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) says it has...Published: 19 Apr 2019 at 19:49hrs | 2501 | by ZimLive
Gukurahundi healing, reconciliation timeframes set
GOVERNMENT and the Matabeleland Collective, a group of civil society organisations, have agreed on strict timeframes for the implementation of the Gukurahundi healing and reconciliation implementation...Published: 19 Apr 2019 at 11:09hrs | 299 | by Staff reporter
ZANU PF MP and Zhuwawo agree with Chamisa
MDC President Nelson Chamisa has gotten a rare endorsement from ZANU PF Member of Parliament Fortune Chasi and former ZANU PF member Patrick Zhuwawo.Chamisa had said, "Where we are going now r...Published: 19 Apr 2019 at 11:07hrs | 7520 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Lupane East MP declared provincial heroine
The late Lupane East legislator (Zanu-PF) and Matabeleland North secretary for administration in the women's league, Sithembile Gumbo, has been declared a provincial heroine.Gumbo (56) died at...Published: 19 Apr 2019 at 07:25hrs | 109 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's minister speaks on Gukurahundi, past conflicts
GOVERNMENT is committed to dealing with past conflicts including Gukurahundi by formally recognising them as part of the country's history to bring closure to the events and foster national healing an...Published: 19 Apr 2019 at 07:19hrs | 569 | by Staff reporter
Fake projects scandal: MP Musikavanhu plots to steal CDF
Chiredzi West Member of Parliament (MP) Farai Musikavanhu is having a hard time explaining why he mentioned projects that have already been done in his application for the Constituency Development Fun...Published: 19 Apr 2019 at 07:12hrs | 313 | by Staff reporter
FULL TEXT: President Mnangagwa's full Independence speech
President Emmerson Mnangagwa today delivered his first Independent speech at the national Sports Stadium. In the speech Mnangagwa paid tribute to the victims of Cyclone Idai both from Zimbabwe...Published: 18 Apr 2019 at 20:41hrs | 3493 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'MDC has no hand in sanctions'
The Daily News on Sunday Assistant Editor Maxwell Sibanda caught up with journalist, and human rights advocate Grace Kwinje who is the MDC Alliance's European Union representative based in Brussels. S...Published: 18 Apr 2019 at 17:48hrs | 355 | by Staff reporter
Temba Mliswa talks tough on NRZ managers
Norton Member of Parliament Temba Mliswa has blasted Senior managers at the National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) who are alleged tobe trampling on and changing through the back door the terms and condi...Published: 18 Apr 2019 at 16:05hrs | 1818 | by Mandla Ndlovu
The new Maintenance of Peace and Order Bill is cruel like POSA
There have been reports in the State-owned press that the Government was planning to repeal the "toxic" Public Order and Security Act (POSA) and replace it with a new Maintenance of Peace and Order Bi...Published: 18 Apr 2019 at 09:37hrs | 1561 | by Veritas
'Drop sanctions' said Washington experts - burning tyres producing lots of obnoxious smoke but little heat and no light
"Experts in Washington, discussing whether or not Zimbabwe is a source of shame or opportunity for Africa, were unanimous in their position that targeted sanctions were hurtful to the country, and mus...Published: 18 Apr 2019 at 07:44hrs | 677 | by Nomusa Garikai
Parly committees probe Chiredzi child prostitution
THREE parliamentary thematic committees on Tuesday descended on Chiredzi on a fact-finding mission on child prostitution as well as sexual reproductive health and rights.The committees that ca...Published: 18 Apr 2019 at 07:13hrs | 210 | by Staff reporter
'No top positions for Zanu-PF returnees'
Expelled Zanu-PF members who are rejoining the revolutionary party are not going to be given positions, President Mnangagwa has said. Several Zanu-PF members, who were expelled for various rea...Published: 18 Apr 2019 at 07:02hrs | 351 | by Staff reporter
ZANU PF MP fingers criminals in price increase
Gokwe-Nembudziya Member of Parliament Mayor Justice Wadyajena says the increase in prices of basic commodities is engineered by business criminals whose benefit thrives when the masses suffer. ...Published: 17 Apr 2019 at 19:01hrs | 6229 | by Mandla Ndlovu
WATCH: Mliswa tells Mnangagwa to set up Commission on Itai Dzamara
Norton Member of Parliament Temba Mliswa said President Emmerson Mnangagwa should set up a Commission of Inquiry to bring to closure the issue of the missing activist Itai Dzamara."Human Right...Published: 17 Apr 2019 at 16:10hrs | 8614 | by Mandla Ndlovu
39 years on, Zimbabwe has achieved nothing: Chamisa
ZIMBABWE turns 39 tomorrow and NewsDay (ND) senior reporter Blessed Mhlanga caught up with the opposition MDC leader Nelson Chamisa (NC) to discuss the importance of the day vis-a-vis the current econ...Published: 17 Apr 2019 at 15:00hrs | 2960 | by Staff reporter
Legal think-tank trashes Zimbabwe's Education Bill
LEGAL and parliamentary think-tank Veritas has criticised the Education Amendment Bill, describing it as a flawed document which has been carelessly drafted because it failed, among other provisions, ...Published: 17 Apr 2019 at 07:09hrs | 374 | by Staff reporter
'I am not a CIO operative,' says Tundiya
SHEPHERD Tundiya, the man described as a con-artist by four legislators that appeared before the Parliamentary Privileges Committee last week facing allegations of soliciting for a $400 000 bribe from...Published: 16 Apr 2019 at 18:38hrs | 2972 | by Staff reporter
Gutu to go into self-exile if Chamisa becomes Zimbabwe President
MDC-T vice president Obert Gutu has threatened to go into self-exile if MDC president Nelson Chamisa ever becomes the president of Zimbabwe. Gutu is quoted as saying: "I'm a principled...Published: 16 Apr 2019 at 18:36hrs | 5210 | by Staff reporter
Hwende trial postponed
Chairman of the ICT Parliamentary Portfolio Committee Honorable Charlton Hwende will be back in court on the 7 May 2019 to answer charges of seeking to subvert a constitutionally elected government, t...Published: 16 Apr 2019 at 17:50hrs | 293 | by Staff reporter
POPULISM is ahead of COMPETENCY in the African Context
In Africa one is prepared to die for a politician, and people can go to the extent of kneeling down before political mastitis for favors and bootlicking. One may fail to construct a proper English sen...Published: 16 Apr 2019 at 09:58hrs | 464 | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
Mliswa goes after Wadyajena...again
Norton Member of Parliament Temba Mliswa has called upon Parliament to investigate the Chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Agriculture, Water and Climate Mayor Justice Wadyajena after the Grain ...Published: 16 Apr 2019 at 09:39hrs | 3641 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mwonzora was rejected by his home province Manicaland
MDC secretary-general Douglas Mwonzora says he will decide in the next few days if there is still any merit in fighting to retain his current position at the party's congress scheduled for May 24 to 2...Published: 16 Apr 2019 at 08:12hrs | 3190 | by Staff reporter
Goddard unmasks con-artist Tundiya
BULAWAYO businessman James Goddard, who had interests in coal mining in Hwange, last week narrated before Parliament how a con-artist and businessman Shepherd Tundiya tricked him into believing that h...Published: 16 Apr 2019 at 06:58hrs | 2637 | by Staff reporter
Chief Njelele's subjects evicted by armed soldiers and police
AT least 3 000 families in Chemagora, Sikombela, Bhadha and Sibusiso, under Chief Njelele in Gokwe were left homeless after being evicted from their settlements by armed soldiers and police.Th...Published: 16 Apr 2019 at 06:55hrs | 918 | by Staff reporter
Charamba's obsession of arrogance
President Mnangagwa's spokesperson George Charamba who has dedicated his life to justify all evils perpetrated by Zanu-PF over the decades displayed once more his arrogance as he gave Zanu-PF's positi...Published: 15 Apr 2019 at 10:16hrs | 1886 | by Mkhululi Zulu
'I NOW realise corruption is deep-root' confessed ED - nonsense, you are the godfather
"I now realise that corruption is deep-rooted. I thought that by pronouncing that let's fight corruption those who are corrupt will fear and stop; it's not like that. It's so rooted that you have to f...Published: 15 Apr 2019 at 08:19hrs | 1535 | by Nomusa Garikai
Demands to introduce Shangaan in Zimbabwe education
MINORITY communities southeast of Zimbabwe in Chiredzi are advocating for the introduction of their languages in the school curriculum and the hiring of teachers conversant in the language.The...Published: 15 Apr 2019 at 08:09hrs | 598 | by CAJ News
Call to decentralise Passport Office
Beitbridge residents have called on Government to decentralise the issuance of passports to district level to ease the challenges that people are encountering when applying for the travel documents. ...Published: 15 Apr 2019 at 06:38hrs | 553 | by Staff reporter
Violence & compensation of political violence
Compensation for political violence is the greatest apology but should not be done in a segregatory manor. Compensating white farmers is welcome and so should be the Gukurahundi victims. It looks a se...Published: 14 Apr 2019 at 19:32hrs | 380 | by Clement Moyo (Mr)
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