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Slain CCC activist's family denied food relief
The family of slain Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) activist Mboneni Ncube is allegedly being denied government food aid due to their involvement in opposition politics. Ncube was killed by suspec...Published: 15 Jul 2024 at 16:37hrs | 273 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe is committed to impartial food distribution'
Despite the El Nino-induced drought, the Zimbabwean government has been working tirelessly to ensure food security for all citizens. Recently, the United Nations signed a $429 million drought ...Published: 19 Jun 2024 at 12:23hrs | 3 | by Tonderai Ndoro
CCC MP raps Zanu-PF over partisan food distribution
BINGA South Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) legislator, Fanuel Cumanzala, has accused Zanu-PF officials of hijacking the yet to be launched food aid distribution programme to ensure only its party...Published: 26 Feb 2024 at 04:52hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Food crisis escalates in Matebeleland region
A food crisis is worsening in the Matebeleland region owing to erratic rains with hunger already stalking villagers in drought-prone provinces, including the Bulawayo metropolitan province.Com...Published: 19 Feb 2024 at 04:48hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC seeks diaspora funding
THE opposition MDC Alliance is seeking help from the diaspora to fund its 2023 electoral campaign, and to help it break into Zanu-PF strongholds, party secretary-general Chalton Hwende said yesterday....Published: 23 Aug 2021 at 07:07hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Youths demand justice for rights defenders
A YOUTH pressure group in Matabeleland South province has demanded justice for human rights defenders, including slain MDC Alliance member Joseph Mazwi Ndlovu, who was reportedly killed in July for qu...Published: 04 Nov 2020 at 05:54hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Red Cross rubbishes reports of cyclone aid politicisation
REPORTS of politicisation of aid for Cyclone Idai victims, which have mainly been emanating from the local opposition, were yesterday dismissed by the International Red Cross with its country director...Published: 27 Mar 2019 at 22:54hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe is food secure'
GOVERNMENT still insists that Zimbabwe will be food secure this year, despite signs of drought already showing due to erratic rainfall patterns throughout the country.Labour and Social Welfare...Published: 09 Feb 2019 at 07:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Partisan food distribution exposed after Zanu PF defeat in Chakohwa
Zimbabwe Peace Project has reported that paartisan food aid distribution was exposed when defeated Zanu PF councillor in Chakohwa continued to access grain from the Grain Marketing Board (GMB) and dis...Published: 10 Oct 2018 at 09:32hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
'Zanu-PF in partisan food distribution'
ZANU-PF officials in Chimanimani East are denying agricultural inputs to everyone they suspect to have voted against their party in the just-ended harmonised elections.The practice has been so...Published: 16 Aug 2018 at 14:10hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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 | 14 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
Mugabe told to 'shut up' by war vets
THE Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans' Association's (ZNLWVA) top leadership has ordered former President Robert Mugabe to shut up and stop seeking to mount a political comeback by demonising ...Published: 12 Mar 2018 at 06:14hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF women's league members conduct partisan food distribution
Villagers in Insiza North have complained that Zanu-PF women's league members in the area are conducting partisan food distribution."Members of Zanu-PF lnsiza North women's league led by...Published: 28 Jan 2018 at 11:30hrs | | by Steven Jakes
Zanu-PF's unofficial political commissars available to highest bidder
Traditional chiefs - Zanu-PF's unofficial political commissars - are playing hard to get with the ruling party, threatening to paralyse its campaign for next year's polls if Treasury does not consent ...Published: 18 Sep 2017 at 18:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Sandi Moyo snubs Mutsvangwa executive
BULAWAYO Provincial Affairs minister Eunice Sandi Moyo has declared that her office will not entertain grievances or requests made by war veterans opposed to President Robert Mugabe's rule.Moy...Published: 12 Sep 2017 at 08:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF enticing women's vote
Government has opened discussions with countries in the BRICs with a view to acquiring 100 000 tractors for distribution to women.The BRICs is made up of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South...Published: 16 Jul 2017 at 12:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF binges as nation starves
At a time that long-suffering Zimbabweans are struggling to make ends meet, President Robert Mugabe's ruling Zanu-PF is splurging up to $60 million on a new fleet of cars, trucks and buses, ahead of n...Published: 14 May 2017 at 15:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Govt 'bribes' to chiefs escalated
In a move that has been roundly criticised by the opposition as "2018 bribes", President Robert Mugabe's stone-broke government is to splurge millions of scarce United States dollars on new vehicles f...Published: 12 May 2017 at 14:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF warns opposition parties
Zanu-PF has warned opposition parties that they will face a rout of epic proportions in the much-anticipated watershed elections next year in which they are expected to participate as a coalition....Published: 11 Apr 2017 at 11:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Nera to defy demo ban
Zimbabwean opposition parties and street protest movements yesterday vowed to demonstrate in Harare's Central Business District (CBD) despite a police ban.Yesterday's meeting of a coalition of...Published: 06 Apr 2017 at 14:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
2018 Election: Sanyati residents live in fear of State sponsored Political Violence
As the nation braces for the 2018 polls, Sanyati residents in the Midlands province said they are living in constant fear of state sponsored politically motivated violence. They fear being victimised ...Published: 27 Mar 2017 at 17:00hrs | 6 | by Alfred Towo
President Morgan Tsvangirai’s statement to the press
MDC-T Leader Morgan Tsvangirai has issued a winding statement on the worsening economic crisis of the country condemning the ruling Zanu PF for failing to rescue the nation from the spiraling economic...Published: 12 Mar 2017 at 06:01hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Tsvangirai's statement to the press, calls for March 22 protests
Introduction The party's national executive has just met, amid the context of a worsening national crisis and Zanu PF's attempt to steal the next election, ...Published: 09 Mar 2017 at 13:02hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
MDC-T complain over partisan food distribution in Bulawayo
The MDC-T has complained over the partisan distribution of food aid by the ruling Zanu PF in Magwegwe and parts of Bulawayo.This was revealed by MDC-T Bulawayo Provincial Deputy Spokesperson F...Published: 09 Mar 2017 at 06:13hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Tsvangirai told gory murder stories in Mukumbura
President Tsvangirai today spent three hours engaging with community leaders in Mukumbura, in the Dande Valley i...Published: 01 Mar 2017 at 12:57hrs | 1 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
'Traditional chiefs left out of food aid distribution processes'
CHIEFS Council president, Fortune Charumbira has claimed traditional leaders were being left out of the country's food aid distribution processes, which the opposition says were biased towards Zan...Published: 08 Feb 2017 at 05:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe the Trump of Zimbabwe
The $1.35 million diamond recently bought by Grace Mugabe was only the sparkler on top of a $7.5 million spending spree. Apart from the diamond, Grace is known to have also recently paid $4.5 mill...Published: 22 Jan 2017 at 16:31hrs | 1 | by ZimVigil
Political violence has become part of Zanu-PF DNA
Zimbabwe Peace Project (ZPP) is concerned that even as untoward behaviour is condemned with every by-election that has been conducted since 2013, it seems no one is moved and they continue to perp...Published: 22 Jan 2017 at 12:35hrs | 2 | by ZPP
ZEC asked to 'execute responsibilities' after by-election shooting - which ZEC
The political situation in the Bikita West by-elections is so bad there is no way anyone can consider this a free, fair and credible election. No way! "The situation in Bikita West is cause fo...Published: 20 Jan 2017 at 06:34hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Violence and intimidation rocks Chimanimani West ahead of by elections
Zimbabwe Peace Project (ZPP) has condemned victimisation, intimidation of voters and partisan food distribution in Chimanimani West ahead of the national assembly by election to be held on 26 Nove...Published: 22 Nov 2016 at 14:50hrs | 2 | by Stephen Jakes
Ministry should act decisively on partisan food aid distribution reports
The Minister of Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare Prisca Mupfumira convened an emergency meeting on food mitigation with humanitarian assistance partners and civil society recently.Add...Published: 28 Oct 2016 at 07:31hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
ZANU-PF in partisan food distribution, says human rights commission
ZANU-PF and top government officials have been fingered in systematic partisan food distribution by the Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission (ZHRC).The commission has called for investigations...Published: 08 Sep 2016 at 06:50hrs | | by Thobekile Zhou
MDC-T goes to Mutare
The Morgan Tsvangirai-led MDC will follow up this week's Bulawayo demonstration with yet another one in the city of Mutare in early June, party officials told the Daily News.Apparently, buoyed...Published: 28 May 2016 at 12:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC-T Women's Assembly deplores partisan food distribution
The MDC Women Assembly feels heavily disheartened by the hunger that has bedeviled and gripped the country.As the women's leadership of the party, we are in solidarity with every citizen of Zi...Published: 24 Feb 2016 at 15:47hrs | | by Lynette Karenyi
Partisan food distribution dominates in November
Zimbabwe Peace Project has reported that during the month of November there was rampant partisan food distribution committed by the rulin g Zanu PF party."The month of November was rife with r...Published: 21 Dec 2015 at 05:44hrs | 3 | by Stephen Jakes
MDC-T blasts politicisation of food aid
Nelson Chamisa, MDC legislator for Kuwadzana, yesterday slammed partisan distribution of farming inputs in Parliament.He alleged Zanu-PF was working with agricultural extension officia...Published: 07 Nov 2013 at 07:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC-T supporters wants Mugabe's food
Zanu-PF has been accused of denying MDC-T supporters wheat and rice that was donated by President Robert Mugabe to areas affected by drought, on the grounds the food was meant for card-carrying member...Published: 25 Apr 2013 at 06:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Pedzisai Ruhanya Behind the Headlines on Nyikayaramba - SW Radio Africa interview
Political commentator Pedzisai Ruhanya joins SW Radio Africa journalist Lance Guma Behind the Headlines to explain why the country sh...Published: 04 Jan 2012 at 15:04hrs | | by Lance Guma
'The demons of violence are back': PM Morgan Tsvangirai's statement to the Press
Introduction Good afternoon members of the Press and I welcome you to the second edition of the monthly Prime Minister’s Press Day....Published: 02 Nov 2011 at 10:13hrs | 1 | by MDC-T
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