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Exposing Mnangagwa Sadc facade
Your Excellencies, I write this public letter as an ordinary citizen of Zimbabwe, a member state of the Southern African Development Community (SADC).It is in the true African spirit of ubuntu...Published: 07 Aug 2024 at 15:34hrs | 1844 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
Top Zimbabwe army generals fired over housing corruption
THE Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF), which brings together the country's army and air force wings, has fired three senior military commanders at the Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) over a multi-million-dol...Published: 12 Feb 2024 at 13:49hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Horror crash exposes parlous state of Matebeleland roads
The Bulawayo City Council has completed a sewer and water sanitation rehabilitation project funded through an African Development Bank AfDB US$33,6 million grant.Council is considering approac...Published: 23 Nov 2023 at 05:33hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Violence spectre casts shadow over elections
A NEW report by the Research and Advocacy Unit (Rau) has predicted increased organised violence and torture, particularly in urban areas, highlighting the need for more surveillance as the country hea...Published: 28 May 2023 at 17:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa wants election to stop 'dictatorship'
Zimbabwe's main opposition leader has insisted that his party is ready to participate in forthcoming elections, despite the rigging and repression he said was already under way to keep President Emmer...Published: 26 Apr 2023 at 20:27hrs | 2 | by Joseph Cotterill
Gold panners besiege Kwekwe monuments
GOLD panners have invaded three historical monuments in Globe and Phoenix, Kwekwe, leaving the properties facing possible collapse.The illegal miners have been digging tunnels and pits at the ...Published: 08 Nov 2022 at 05:10hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa may call Zimbabwe snap 2023 general polls early next year
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa may call snap general elections in the first quarter of next year - in March - after securing a fresh mandate as Zanu-PF leader and its candidate in the polls, it emerged ...Published: 31 Oct 2022 at 18:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ziyambi faces arrest
JUSTICE minister Ziyambi Ziyambi and Attorney-General Prince Machaya face arrest for contempt of court after they defied a ruling ordering them to craft a code of conduct for the country's Vice-Presid...Published: 16 Sep 2022 at 06:11hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
PTUZ begs govt
TEACHERS have challenged the government to take advantage of the deferment on the opening of schools and address teachers' meagre salaries and their living standards.The teachers also want the...Published: 03 Jan 2022 at 06:02hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
President sends Solidarity Message to Teachers' Unions
HARARE: NMWUZ - National Mine Workers' Union of Zimbabwe President Kurebwa Javangwe Nomboka and his Executive, National Council and General Workers have sent a solidarity message to ARTUZ - Amalgamate...Published: 13 Dec 2021 at 08:19hrs | 15 | by Maxwell Teedzai
Mnangagwa's regime change claims 'baffles' teachers
THE Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) has refuted government and state media accusations that the union was working with the United Kingdom (UK) government to effect a regime change in the...Published: 03 Dec 2021 at 05:38hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa must not contest the 2023 presidential election'
ZIMBABWEAN President Emmerson Mnangagwa must regularise his illegitimate leadership position, but not contest the 2023 presidential election, as he would be a geriatric by then, prominent corporate ex...Published: 30 Oct 2021 at 15:06hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe funeral parlours warn of mass graves
FUNERAL service providers have indicated that they are overwhelmed by COVID-19 deaths and warned that the country could be forced to bury deceased citizens in mass graves if the upward trend of new in...Published: 31 Jul 2021 at 05:51hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
ZAPU mourns Elder Nkiwane
ZAPU family was yesterday thrown into mourning following the passing of our Elder Comrade Abraham Dumezweni Nkiwane. He had been admitted at a local hospital in Bulawayo a few days earlier.Kno...Published: 07 Jul 2021 at 11:59hrs | 4 | by Iphithule Maphosa
The infamy of Mnangagwa's US$18m chopper toy
A parent's aptitude is determined by their priorities. As teachers and other civil servants table legitimate grievances regarding their grossly inadequate salaries and parlous living circumstances, Em...Published: 24 Apr 2021 at 07:12hrs | 1 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
Zimbabwe independence is now a senior bachelor!
YOUR Excellency, President Emmerson Mnangagwa,Sunday April 18 was Independence Day a once-hallowed day that has since lost its glitz because the requisite freedoms associated with the occasion are...Published: 21 Apr 2021 at 07:11hrs | 1 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
'Zanu-PF commandeered touts, makorokoza to pose as MDC Alliance defectors'
MDC ALLIANCE in Midlands has accused Zanu-PF of mobilising touts and artisanal miners commonly known as makorokoza to pose as genuine opposition party members who were defecting to the governing party...Published: 05 Apr 2021 at 07:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe should not blindly reopen borders
THE fact that our biggest trading partner, neighbouring South Africa has decided to reopen its land borders from Monday following advice from its National Coronavirus Command Council (NCCC), should no...Published: 13 Feb 2021 at 10:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
No alternative to genuine reforms in Zimbabwe
President Emmerson Mnangagwa got very useful advice when he met Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on the sidelines of the just ended seventh International Conference on African Development (Ticad) in...Published: 01 Sep 2019 at 14:52hrs | | by Editorial - The Standard
World body condemns Zimbabwe over poor state of teachers
THE World's biggest sectoral union federation, Education International (EI), has criticised the Zimbabwean government over the deteriorating labour situation and poor welfare of teachers.EI is...Published: 26 Jul 2019 at 08:25hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
The calibre of councillors
THE Auditor-General's (AG) Local Authorities Report for 2018 makes for some serious, but disturbing reading.It reports the state of financial management of local authorities and shows the exte...Published: 13 Jul 2019 at 08:18hrs | 2 | by Miriam Tose Majome
Zimdollar comeback divides civil servants
THE reintroduction of the Zimbabwe dollar as the sole legal tender has widened divisions within the civil service, particularly teachers, who are now accusing each other of colluding with government t...Published: 28 Jun 2019 at 06:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF's power obsession in hunger-stricken nation
THE acquisition of a huge assortment of weapons and ammunition at a time the country's economic crisis is deepening is reflective of government's misplaced priorities, as well as President Emmerson Mn...Published: 21 Jun 2019 at 07:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tensions boil over at a Zanu-PF Parly caucus forum
TENSIONS boiled over at a Zanu-PF parliamentary caucus meeting on Wednesday morning as MPs confronted Finance minister Mthuli Ncube over the parlous state of the economy and their welfare issues....Published: 17 May 2019 at 07:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Robert Mugabe's true legacy
There have been a number of books written on former President Robert Mugabe in his many leadership roles. As a leader of a guerrilla movement/army, as a Prime Minister (1980-87), as President (1987-20...Published: 01 Apr 2019 at 06:43hrs | | by Takura Zhangazha
Open letter to Ramaphosa
Greetings from Zimbabwe, Your Excellency. I hope I find you in the best of health. Incidentally, this letter is all about health.I, like so many others am grateful for the huge role that...Published: 25 Feb 2019 at 19:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bold steps Mnangagwa should be taking instead of fiddling with the petrol price
When economically-challenged rulers try to run nations, especially fragile ones, they can easily make mistakes.In the past few weeks, demonstrators have taken to the streets of Khartoum and Om...Published: 05 Feb 2019 at 06:44hrs | 1 | by Robert Rotberg
Mnangagwa dumps Chinese contractor
GOVERNMENT has abandoned talks with Chinese contractor Anhui Foreign Economic Construction Group Limited (AFECC) for the dualisation of the Beitbridge-Harare-Chirundu Highway, opting for local financi...Published: 30 Nov 2018 at 10:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Why Mnangagwa doesn't have the answers
When President Emmerson Mnangagwa campaigned in July for Zimbabwe's...Published: 22 Oct 2018 at 07:19hrs | | by Robert Rotberg, Harvard University
Zimbabwe: Troubled nation now faces tough foreign policy choices
The toxic presidency of Mugabe may be over, but the new Zimbabwean government of Emmerson Mnangagwa must quickly make some hard foreign p...Published: 05 Oct 2018 at 17:18hrs | | by Stephen Chan, Professor of World Politics, University of London
Mthuli Ncube's ambitious plans
ZIMBABWE'S Finance minister Mthuli Ncube has ambitious plans of floating a Eurobond on the international debt market but he will have to put them on hold until he hammers out an elaborate schedule to ...Published: 29 Sep 2018 at 13:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe economy on the mend
Zimbabweans have entered the most anxious week. The new cabinet flew into a cholera crisis and from nowhere prices sky rocketed and rates came to obnoxious stinking levels. Mthuli Ncube's first week i...Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 07:32hrs | 1 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Mnangagwa should prove his mantle
From his first coming as President - in November last year - Emmerson Mnangagwa has sought to portray himself as a Statesman, a man who would put the needs of the nation first and rise above the poiso...Published: 07 Sep 2018 at 07:05hrs | | by Editorial - newsday
Panic in the air
While the MDC announces a round-the-clock vigil for electoral reforms outside the offices of the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission, the main concern of Zimbabweans in the UK seems to be not the looming el...Published: 23 Jul 2018 at 19:13hrs | | by Zimbabwe Vigil Diary
MDC-T ineptitude resolves West's old dilemma over Zimbabwe
Former president Robert Mugabe was ready to take former MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai in this year's harmonised elections. Both men are out of the game now for the July 30 elections. Forecasts even b...Published: 02 Jun 2018 at 15:32hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa flying on broken wings
Following the passing on of Tsvangirai, the late leader of a faction of the MDC, I had an animated discussion with some opposition figure whose identity I shall not disclose. Congenitally boisterous a...Published: 02 Jun 2018 at 15:28hrs | 1 | by Igomombe
Chamisa, MDC-T leadership meet SADC observer team
President Nelson Chamisa and nine other national standing committee members today held a two-hour briefing with the seven-member SADC Electoral Advisory Council at the party's headquarters ahead of th...Published: 13 Mar 2018 at 13:52hrs | 1 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
AU Chair 'scornful' of Mugabe's complaints
In a major blow to former president Robert Mugabe and his followers, it has emerged that the high-level African Union (AU) mission that met with him at his palatial Borrowdale mansion last week did no...Published: 27 Feb 2018 at 06:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
ATTENTION: Tsvangirai to address the nation
Movement for Democratic Change president Morgan Tsvangirai will on Sunday have an opportunity to speak to Zimbabweans ahead of the voter registration blitz that kicks off in the country on Tuesda...Published: 06 Oct 2017 at 11:26hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
'Opposition will not end Zanu PF rule,' admit former MDC adviser - still dishing out wrong advice
Alex Magaisa, Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's chief adviser during the GNU, admitted the opposition will NOT dislodge Zanu PF from power but still does not understand why that is so. Even now with ...Published: 01 Aug 2017 at 19:19hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
'MDC-T will struggle to end Zanu-PF hegemony,' says Tsvangirai's ex-advisor
Constitutional law expert and former adviser to Tsvangirai during the inclusive government, Alex Magaisa, says the President Robert Mugabe's opponents will struggle to end Zanu-PF hegemony because of ...Published: 01 Aug 2017 at 14:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC-T to broke for 2018 elections?
The Morgan Tsvangirai-led MDC - which has not been spared by the economic meltdown - has hit hard times, casting doubts over its capacity to withstand the well-oiled Zanu-PF machinery in the 2018 elec...Published: 01 Aug 2017 at 13:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
The resurgence of the democratic movement in Zimbabwe
It might have taken long in coming but the past few months have seen the much-awaited resurgence of the democratic movement in Zimbabwe.For a long time, this is what the people of Zimbabwe hav...Published: 29 May 2017 at 12:55hrs | | by Morgan Richard Tsvangirai
Tsvangirai, voter registration is 'serious (impossible) work' because you failed to reform ZEC
"Nhamo inenharo!" (Intellectual) poverty is stubborn!) so goes the Shona adage. Nowhere is this more true and tragic than in Morgan Tsvangirai's case."Fellow Zimbabweans, this being Workers' D...Published: 01 May 2017 at 16:55hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Register to vote, Tsvangirai tells workers
Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai has rallied suffering workers to go and register for next year's elections — telling them it's the only route to restore their dignity and values eroded by the cu...Published: 01 May 2017 at 12:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai's Workers' Day message to the people of Zimbabwe
Today, I join the world and the nation in commemorating this great day dedicated to celebrating the working community even though in our country, sadly, formal work has become a rarity.On this...Published: 01 May 2017 at 08:57hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe doctors mull crippling strike
Zimbabwe's collapsing public health sector could plunge into total chaos this week, after long-suffering State doctors issued a warning to go on strike on Wednesday - unless President Robert Mugab...Published: 14 Feb 2017 at 06:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
City mulls concrete roads
HARARE is migrating to concrete roads arguing that the traditional asphalt ones are prone to cracks and potholes. The city's road network is in bad shape with potholes making life difficult for mo...Published: 25 Jan 2017 at 07:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe fuelling Zanu PF wars
At a time that there is much excitement within sections of the ruling Zanu PF over some hotly-contested resolutions which were presented at the party's annual conference in Masvingo last weekend, Pres...Published: 20 Dec 2016 at 14:35hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Zhuwao's Mnangagwa jibe angers Mutsvangwa
Former War Veterans minister Christopher Mutsvangwa has described Youth and Indigenisation minister Patrick Zhuwao as a "charlatan" after President Robert Mugabe's nephew declared he will not supp...Published: 11 Dec 2016 at 09:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
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