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Ultimate Survivor: The nine lives of Wadyajena
JUST a few months ago, it looked almost certain that factional wars in Zanu PF had buried Justice Mayor Wadyajena. Yet, Mayor's detractors, especially in his turbulent Midlands Province, ...Published: 01 Nov 2024 at 20:02hrs | 929 | by Paul Ndou
Mnangagwa did not rape me, says ex-Zanu-PF minister
FORMER Environment and Tourism deputy minister Annastancia Ndlovu, who is now a full-time employee at Zanu-PF headquarters in the party's directorate, has strongly denied reports that she was se...Published: 30 Jul 2022 at 19:15hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Tables turn against Chadzamira
THE battle for the Zanu-PF Masvingo provincial chairperson's post that raged between 2016 and 2017 was reignited in the recently held provincial elections which saw Provincial minister Ezra Chadzamira...Published: 08 Jan 2022 at 06:00hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF's 2017 post-coup minutes made public
IN the aftermath of the High Court application by Zanu-PF member Sybeth Musengezi challenging President Emmerson Mnangagwa's legitimacy, minutes of the central committee meeting held on 19 November 20...Published: 30 Oct 2021 at 15:05hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Pupurai Togarepi invests CDF in clinic
Gutu South Member of Parliament (MP) Pupurai Togarepi is investing part of the $50 000 Constituency Development Fund (CDF) allocated to him by parliament to resume work on a clinic project in Ward 28 ...Published: 17 Aug 2019 at 11:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chimedza's bid to rejoin Zanu-PF flops
Zanu-PF has turned down an application by former Minister of State for Masvingo Provincial Affairs and Gutu South legislator Dr Paul Chimedza to rejoin the party following his expulsion in December 20...Published: 06 Feb 2019 at 08:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF recovers 15 vehicles from expelled members
Zanu-PF says it has recovered 15 party vehicles from expelled members and has enlisted the service of police to recover 13 more. The ruling party in November last year, expelled G40 kingpins a...Published: 19 Dec 2018 at 06:09hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Politburo rejects G40 bigwigs
The ruling party has all but shut its door on the majority of members of the Generation 40 (G40) faction who were seeking to re-join Zanu-PF, nearly a year after they were given their marching orders....Published: 26 Oct 2018 at 22:25hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa shuts door on G40 bigwigs
The ruling party has all shut its door on the majority members of the G40 faction who were seeking to re-join Zanu-PF, nearly a year after they were give their marching orders. The Zanu-PF Pol...Published: 26 Oct 2018 at 08:33hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Kudzai Chipanga's Zanu-PF readmission issue still under continuous review
The Zanu-PF Politburo has resolved to admit Anastancia Ndlovu as an ordinary card carrying member, while Kudzai Chipanga's issue is still under continuous review.Innocent Hamandishe remains ex...Published: 25 Oct 2018 at 20:55hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Chipanga's bid to rejoin Zanu-PF hits a brick wall
Ex-Zanu-PF youth league leaders Kudzanai Chipanga and Innocent Hamandishe's bid to be readmitted into the President Emmerson Mnangagwa led Zanu-PF hit a brick wall after the ruling party turned down a...Published: 25 Oct 2018 at 16:34hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chadzamira rubbishes reports of Hungwe tiff
Newly-appointed Masvingo Provincial Affairs Minister Ezra Chadzamira has rubbished reports of a tiff between him and his predecessor, Senator Josaya Hungwe, whom he described as the "father figure" in...Published: 24 Sep 2018 at 09:54hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
'Chamisa must not waste time fighting Mnangagwa'
Newly-appointed Minister of State for Masvingo Provincial Affairs Ezra Chadzamira has called for unity in the province, saying there was need to end "political dogfights" and focus on development. ...Published: 21 Sep 2018 at 06:37hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Pupurai Togarepi survives in Gutu South
The Zanu-PF national youth league boss Pupurai Togarepi has emerged victorious in Gutu South after garnering 7 938 votes against the MDC Alliance's 6 052.A total of six candidates raced to rep...Published: 06 Aug 2018 at 12:15hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Gutu South yearns for capable leadership, says Togarepi
The people of Gutu South yearn for capable representation and leadership that can initiate and sustain development, something they are bound to have come July 30, Zanu-PF Gutu South parliamentary cand...Published: 21 Jul 2018 at 12:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Of Zanu-PF perennial losers
Persistence, perseverance, patience, they say, are the hallmarks of success. Not so for many Zanu-PF parliamentary aspirants, who have tried their luck several times with no success after being beaten...Published: 04 May 2018 at 07:43hrs | 2 | by Staff rpeorter
Mahofa daughter eyes late mother's Parly seat
FUNGAI Masendeke, the daughter of the late Masvingo Provincial Affairs minister and Gutu Senator Shuvai Mahofa, has thrown her hat into the ring to contest in the Zanu-PF primary elections in a bid to...Published: 24 Apr 2018 at 07:16hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF Politburo shuts door on Jonathan Moyo and G40 cabal
THE Zanu-PF Politburo has ruled that its former members who were expelled for links with the G40 cabal will have to seek re-admission in 2023.The Politburo met yesterday in Harare.Zanu...Published: 08 Mar 2018 at 05:40hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Violent send off for Morgan Tsvangirai
With soaring freedom songs and poignant memories, tens of thousands of mourners yesterday paid tribute to opposition leader and freedom icon Morgan Tsvangirai at an emotional farewell in Harare, with ...Published: 21 Feb 2018 at 01:38hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
More drama at Tsvangirai send-off
MDC-T leader Mr Morgan Tsvangirai's mother caused a scene at Robert Mugabe Square in Harare yesterday when she refused to disembark from the hearse carrying her son's body at a send-off ceremony for p...Published: 20 Feb 2018 at 07:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
G40s form New Patriotic Front party
Members of the G40 faction who were expelled from Zanu-PF are reportedly regrouping and expected to launch a political outfit, New Patriotic Front (NPF), which is expected to contest in this year gene...Published: 03 Feb 2018 at 08:50hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF urged to remain united
A Zanu-PF Politburo member has exhorted ruling party members in Masvingo to remain united if the province is to maintain its coveted status of a "one-party" province under the ruling party's strangleh...Published: 01 Feb 2018 at 05:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's major headache
Mnangagwa faces a major headache following revelations that a number of legislators linked to the Generation 40 (G40) faction are mulling shifting their allegiance to former vice president Joice Mujur...Published: 27 Jan 2018 at 15:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mzembi 'to remain loyal to Zanu-PF despite expulsion'
FORMER Foreign Affairs Minister Dr Walter Mzembi has accepted his expulsion from Zanu-PF and subsequent ejection from Parliament.However, he pledged to remain loyal to the revolutionary party ...Published: 22 Jan 2018 at 05:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's administration rapped over selective application of law against G40
MDC official Discent Collins Bajila has rapped President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration over what he called selective application of the law, which has seen most of the members of the G40 which c...Published: 21 Jan 2018 at 09:26hrs | 2 | by Stephen Jakes
11 Zanu-PF MPs expelled
Parliament yesterday expelled eleven Zanu-PF legislators after the ruling party notified the august House that they no longer represented the interests of the revolutionary party.This brings t...Published: 19 Jan 2018 at 05:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chinamasa blasted over misplaced priorities
MDC legislator, Priscilla Misihairabwi-Mushonga yesterday asked Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa to provide $6 million for acquisition of menstrual cups for girls, as she questioned why condoms are ...Published: 18 Jan 2018 at 07:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF to recall G40 left overs from Parliament
The Zanu-PF provincial leadership in Masvingo wants four MPs to be recalled from Parliament while Mashonaland East has recommended 13 senior officials to be redeployed for being foot soldiers of the G...Published: 03 Jan 2018 at 09:49hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
G40 kingpins being persecuted by Mnangagwa
HARARE - Former Zanu PF and government officials linked to former president Robert Mugabe have claimed that they are being persecuted for their past political association with the ousted despot by Pre...Published: 19 Dec 2017 at 09:46hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
G40 MPs set to be ejected from Parliament
At least eight more Zanu-PF Members of Parliament are set to be ejected from Parliament after the ruling party's Extraordinary Congress held last Friday adopted a Central Committee report recommending...Published: 19 Dec 2017 at 07:14hrs | | by Staff Reporter
'Mugabe smarter than Mnangagwa,' says Hungwe
The newly-appointed Minister of State for Masvingo Provincial Affairs Josaya Hungwe stunned party members during a Provincial Coordinating Committee (PCC) meeting when he revealed that Team Lacoste fa...Published: 13 Dec 2017 at 11:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Auxillia Mnangagwa urged to lead in cancer fight
LEGISLATORS yesterday implored First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa to take the lead in the fight against cancer to ensure affordable treatment.The issue was raised in a motion moved in the National ...Published: 06 Dec 2017 at 05:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's nephew fears for life
The nephew of deposed Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe says that he fled the country because he feared for his life during the military coup. He added that his employees were beaten and robbed and h...Published: 05 Dec 2017 at 16:02hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Dokora breaks the record of Zim's short-lived govt ministers
If there was someone queer enough to apply to Guinness Book of World Records to have the title "shortest lived government ministers" added to their database, the category will certainly not be short o...Published: 04 Dec 2017 at 13:39hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Mphoko deported from Botswana?
Former Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko who returned to Zimbabwe from Botswana yesterday caused a dramatic 45-minute spectacle at the Plumtree Border Post as he tried to evade the media.Mr Mp...Published: 02 Dec 2017 at 06:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's Command cabinet - 22 ministers, 6 deputies
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday appointed a 22-member Cabinet in a move that saw some line ministries with functional duplications being merged.He also brought in some new faces into Go...Published: 01 Dec 2017 at 05:07hrs | 27 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF to recall more MPs
More heads will roll in the National Assembly as the ruling Zanu-PF party moves to weed out all expelled members, party chief whip Lovemore Matuke said yesterday. On Tuesday, the ruling party ...Published: 30 Nov 2017 at 06:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
G40 members 'resurrect' in Parliament
FORMER Zanu PF officials linked to the obliterated G40 faction yesterday resurrected from their hideouts, when they emerged in Parliament, three weeks after the military-led Operation Restore Legacy f...Published: 30 Nov 2017 at 05:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
G40 linked MPs spared the Parly axe
EXPELLED Zanu-PF bigwigs and G40 kingpins Jonathan Moyo, Ignatius Chombo, Saviour Kasukuwere, Mandi Chimene and Kudzayi Chipanga were yesterday fired by Parliament as ruling party legislators....Published: 29 Nov 2017 at 07:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Botswana 'orders Mphoko out'?
FORMER Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko will soon return to Zimbabwe from Botswana where he has been holed up since the Zimbabwe Defence Forces launched an operation to remove criminal elements aroun...Published: 29 Nov 2017 at 05:15hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe allies purging continues, bigwigs expelled
ZANU-PF Masvingo is backing the decision by the party's Central Committee to expel former Masvingo Provincial Affairs Minister Dr Paul Chimedza, ex-Foreign Affairs Minister Dr Walter Mzembi and legisl...Published: 29 Nov 2017 at 05:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Mphoko ditched old friends on landing VP post'
FORMER Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko, after his appointment in 2015, alienated his old war time friends and surrounded himself with dubious characters who misled him into engaging in factional pol...Published: 28 Nov 2017 at 04:58hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF purges start
The Zanu-PF Masvingo provincial executive has annulled the election of bigwigs such as former provincial Governor Willard Chiwewe and Provincial Affairs Minister Dr Paul Chimedza to the Central Commit...Published: 23 Nov 2017 at 05:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Adios Robert Mugabe!
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe yesterday finally succumbed to pressure from the masses, legislators and the military when he resigned as Head of State and Government ending his 37 year (mis)rule in a dramati...Published: 22 Nov 2017 at 06:04hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
8 dramatic days that led to the end of Mugabe's 37 year reign
YESTERDAY marked an end to a dramatic eight days that led to the end of President Mugabe's 37 year reign when he resigned as Head of State.What started as a warning by the Zimbabwe Defence and...Published: 22 Nov 2017 at 06:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
8 dramatic days that led to the end of Mugabe's 37 year reign
YESTERDAY marked an end to a dramatic eight days that led to the end of President Mugabe's 37 year reign when he resigned as Head of State.What started as a warning by the Zimbabwe Defence and...Published: 22 Nov 2017 at 05:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF Central Committee resolutions
Statement by Zanu-PF Secretary for Legal Affairs Patrick Chinamasa after yesterday's Central Committee meeting....Published: 20 Nov 2017 at 05:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe faces prosecution after #Zimbabwe coup
There was a wholesale purge of all the people around Robert and Grace Mugabe, the so-called G40, at today's Zanu-PF Central Committee meeting.The party has also resolved that Grace Mugabe, who...Published: 19 Nov 2017 at 14:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
List of G40 members purged from Zanu-PF - in FULL
There was a wholesale purge of all the people around Robert and Grace Mugabe the so-called G40 at today’s ZanuPF Central Committee meeting.Grace Mugabe, Jonathan Moyo, Phelekezela Mp...Published: 19 Nov 2017 at 14:28hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe, G40 cabal fired
A host of G40 cabal accused of disintegrating the ruling Zanu PF on factional lines have been expelled from the party.Their expulsion was announced by party's spokesperson Simon Khaya Moyo aft...Published: 19 Nov 2017 at 14:06hrs | | by Staff Reporter
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