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Tsvangirai's MDC relives the spirit of 1999
The Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) is for the first time celebrating its anniversary in the absence of its charismatic founding leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, who died in February this year and effo...Published: 16 Sep 2018 at 13:39hrs | 2665 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa keeps Chiwenga in check
The new Cabinet announced by President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Friday last week significantly dilutes Vice President Constantino Chiwenga's influence in the security sector, the Daily News reported....Published: 12 Sep 2018 at 08:11hrs | 19841 | by Staff reporter
Perrance Shiri rules out bread shortage
Government has ruled out the possibility of bread shortage in the country as mechanisms have been put in place to import wheat in the short-term. Further, Government wants to boost wheat cropp...Published: 12 Sep 2018 at 07:04hrs | 321 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's new Cabinet: A patronage, merit alchemy?
ZIMBABWEAN President Emmerson Mnangagwa, following a disputed narrow victory in July which had to be validated by the Constitutional Court in August, appointed a new Cabinet on Friday, September 7....Published: 11 Sep 2018 at 13:38hrs | 1584 | by Washington Katema
Mnangagwa's Ministers ready to roll
NEW Cabinet Ministers sworn-in yesterday pledged to bring about sweeping changes in Government and ensure Zimbabwe becomes a middle income economy by 2030. The 20 Cabinet Ministers - who took ...Published: 11 Sep 2018 at 06:54hrs | 408 | by Staff reporter
Mnangawa's Cabinet was tight balance between economy, politics
I WATCHED the Cabinet announcement with a colleague from East Africa, who opined that Zimbabweans are too easy to please and that they move on faster than expected.From the dusty campaign trai...Published: 10 Sep 2018 at 06:56hrs | 592 | by Tapiwa Gomo
All eyes on Mnangagwa's new Cabinet
THE new Cabinet will be sworn-in at Sate House today with Zimbabweans across the political divide optimistic that President Emmerson Mnangagwa's new 20-member team will immediately hit the ground runn...Published: 10 Sep 2018 at 06:51hrs | 176 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's new Cabinet to be sworn in today
President Mnangagwa will today swear in his newly appointed Cabinet of 20 members, 13 deputy ministers and nine provincial ministers, to come up with policies that can steer the nation out of its prol...Published: 10 Sep 2018 at 06:43hrs | 190 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa appoints technocrats in new Cabinet
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday pulled a shocker when he dropped several Zanu PF party bigwigs, some who had served as Cabinet ministers for several years, and appointed three technocrats - for...Published: 08 Sep 2018 at 08:28hrs | 1514 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa in Cabinet shocker
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday pulled a shocker when he dropped several Zanu PF party bigwigs, some who had served as Cabinet ministers for several years, and appointed three technocrats - for...Published: 08 Sep 2018 at 07:14hrs | 2776 | by Staff Reporter
New Mnangagwa Cabinet gets thumbs up
President Mnangagwa's new Cabinet is a refreshing start to the Second Republic as it blends young brains with seasoned technocrats with capacity to revive the economy, analysts said yesterday....Published: 08 Sep 2018 at 06:47hrs | 1285 | by Staff Repotrter
Mnangagwa appoints Prof Mthuli Ncube as Finance minister
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has appointed the Professor Businessman Mthuli Ncube as Finance Minister replacing the long serving minister Patrick Chinamasa.Ncube owned the now defunct Barbican...Published: 07 Sep 2018 at 15:24hrs | 6816 | by Stephen Jakes
BREAKING: Mnangagwa's New cabinet announced
The Chief Secretary to the President and Cabinet Dr Misheck Sibanda, flanked by President Emmerson Mnangagwa and Vice President Dr Constantino Chiwenga, has announced the new cabinet at State Ho...Published: 07 Sep 2018 at 14:31hrs | 17010 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa must appoint competent team to steer economic recovery
THE enormity of the task of steering the country's economic revival requires that President Emmerson Mnangagwa appoints the best team at his disposal into Cabinet. The pool of possible Ministe...Published: 07 Sep 2018 at 06:48hrs | 526 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga shifts attention to the economy
Zanu-PF has shifted attention from the recent harmonised elections which it won resoundingly, and is now focusing on tangible deliverables aimed at transforming the country into a middle income econom...Published: 04 Sep 2018 at 06:26hrs | 573 | by Staff reporter
GMB blast kills 4 workers
At least four workers were killed, while three others were seriously injured after a massive explosion, whose cause is still unknown, rocked the Grain Marketing Board's Lions Den depot in Mashonaland ...Published: 29 Aug 2018 at 06:37hrs | 215 | by Staff reporter
GMB explosion - One body recovered, three workers missing
One body has been recovered and three workers are missing after an explosion at the Grain Marketing Depot (GMB) Lions Den Depot this afternoon.The explosion resulted in fire in the control tow...Published: 28 Aug 2018 at 18:27hrs | 4786 | by Staff Reporter
Sanctions will not deter us, says Shiri
RENEWED illegal economic sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe by the United States will not deter an increase in agriculture productivity through land utilisation to ensure food security at household level, ...Published: 28 Aug 2018 at 15:46hrs | 1770 | by Staff Reporter
Mugabes to lose farms
Former president Robert Mugabe will only be allowed to keep one farm in line with the government's land policies, President Emmerson Mnangagwa says.In a wide-ranging interview with the Indepen...Published: 20 Aug 2018 at 10:29hrs | 7095 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe needs 15 000 tractors
THE country needs more than 15 000 tractors for it to be fully mechanised in agriculture and be able to utilise land productively, Lands, Agriculture and Rural Resettlement Minister Perrance Shiri has...Published: 19 Aug 2018 at 07:32hrs | 1044 | by Staff reporter
'Con-Court must be free to decide,' says Chiwenga
The Constitutional Court should be allowed to deal with MDC-Alliance application challenging President Mnangagwa's victory in the harmonised elections without undue influence from anyone, Acting Presi...Published: 18 Aug 2018 at 07:54hrs | 420 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga tours controversial ARDA Antelope project
Acting President Retired General Constantino Chiwenga has arrived at ARDA Antelope Estate in Maphisa, Matobo District, to appreciate operations at the facility.He is accompanied by Lands, Agri...Published: 17 Aug 2018 at 13:23hrs | 2193 | by Ndou Paul
Inputs distribution underway
The agricultural inputs distribution programme for this year is in full swing as Government moves to ensure that farmers receive necessary support on time for a successful farming season. ...Published: 06 Aug 2018 at 07:15hrs | 226 | by Staff reporter
2018 elections: The lies, promises and the drama
ZANU PF party supporters gathered and waited for long before their leaders arrived to address them in Marondera Central recently.With the DJ now being the centre of attraction playing the famo...Published: 30 Jul 2018 at 07:09hrs | 230 | by Staff reporter
Chimene's son-in-law wanted by police
THE son-in-law of self-exiled former Manicaland Provincial Affairs Minister Mandi Chimene - Perthwell Kanjanda Nyambuya - is wanted by the Criminal Investigation Department in connection with a fraud ...Published: 27 Jul 2018 at 08:28hrs | 1373 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF supporters politicising presidential inputs
ZANU PF supporters aligned to Mazowe North aspiring Member of Parliament Campion Mugweni have been accused of politicising the presidential input scheme in his constituency.Sources who decline...Published: 25 Jul 2018 at 07:41hrs | 152 | by Simbarashe Sithole
'War vets intimidating electorate'
Guruve South candidate Wilbert Mubaiwa has accused war veterans in the constituency of intimidation, following his decision to part ways with Zanu-PF to run as an independent.Addressing a rall...Published: 21 Jul 2018 at 11:38hrs | 427 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF dangles carrot to rural voters
TOP Zanu-PF and Lands ministry officials are reportedly promising to roll out irrigation projects and other agricultural inputs in several parts of the country, particularly drought-prone rural areas,...Published: 19 Jul 2018 at 06:32hrs | 490 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe faces farm eviction
THREE Mazowe farmers who were evicted from Teviotdale Farm in 2009 to pave way for former President Robert Mugabe's Gushungo Holdings have approached the High Court seeking a reverse deal.In t...Published: 18 Jul 2018 at 08:45hrs | 4782 | by Staff reporter
Why army warning is omnious
Army press conferences are rare and ominous events in Zimbabwe. When the army calls a press conference in Zimbabwe, it is a serious matter and you better sit up and listen. When they did in November l...Published: 15 Jul 2018 at 18:20hrs | 4757 | by Siphosami Malunga
Mugabe's prophet buried
THE late Johane Masowe eChishanu Vadzidzi VaJesu Church leader Aaron Mhukuta Gomo, popularly known as Mudzidzi Wimbo, was laid to rest at his church shrine in Shamva yesterday.Hundreds of chur...Published: 14 Jul 2018 at 11:42hrs | 857 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa mourns Wimbo
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday sent his condolences to the family and church of Johane Masowe eChishanu Vadzidzi VaJesu Church founder Aaron Mhukuta Gomo, popularly known as Wimbo, who died on Thursday...Published: 14 Jul 2018 at 11:38hrs | 299 | by Staff reporter
Mat South to be turned into green belt, says Chiwenga
The Zanu-PF Government is working on programmes and projects meant to improve the people's lives and this includes the project to transform Beitbridge and its environs into a green belt.Vice P...Published: 12 Jul 2018 at 07:23hrs | 321 | by Staff rpeorter
Top army official ordered to vacate farm
HIGH Court judge Justice Hlekani Mwayera has ordered top army officer, Colonel Never Makuyana, to vacate former Zanu-PF Manicaland youth leader Mubuso Chinguno's Chipinge West Farm.Makuyana in...Published: 10 Jul 2018 at 07:26hrs | 1020 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF bigger than individuals, says Kazembe
ZANU-PF Mashonaland Central leadership has promised to deliver overwhelming votes to the ruling party in the forthcoming harmonised elections. Addressing a bumper crowd at a star rally at Chip...Published: 10 Jul 2018 at 07:13hrs | 75 | by Staff rpeorter
Shiri slams 'unrepentant sellout'
ZANU-PF Politburo member Perrance Shiri has described Guruve South independent candidate Mr Wilbert Mubaiwa as an unrepentant sellout who was fired from the Zimbabwe National Army, expelled from Dr Jo...Published: 09 Jul 2018 at 15:30hrs | 2420 | by Staff reporter
Fierce Mnangagwa critic Mandi Chimene breaks silence
Mandiitawepi Chimene -the motor mouth former minister of State for Manicaland Province and a fierce critic of President Emmerson Mnangagwa - has broken her silence for the first time since she went in...Published: 08 Jul 2018 at 13:34hrs | 19407 | by Staff reppretr
Shiri endorses Dutiro
Agriculture minister and former Air Force of Zimbabwe (AFZ) commander Air Marshal Perrance Shiri has endorsed Guruve South legislator Patrick Dutiro as the ZANU PF candidate while blasting his rival W...Published: 06 Jul 2018 at 09:35hrs | 1743 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Dabengwa regrets collapse of coalition talks
ZAPU leader Dumiso Dabengwa has said he regrets the failure by opposition to form a grand coalition to block what he fears will herald political militarisation should the ruling Zanu-PF win the July 3...Published: 05 Jul 2018 at 07:13hrs | 1169 | by Staff reporter
Chimene's daughter rendered homeless
FORMER Manicaland Provincial Affairs minister Mandiitawepi Chimene's daughter Ellen Zimondi is now "homeless" after the government allegedly dispossessed her of a fraudulently owned plot in Mutare....Published: 04 Jul 2018 at 07:26hrs | 1560 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt launches Command Dairy
THE dairy sector is set for a massive revitalisation after Government launched the National Command Dairy programme at Sangano Cooperative Dairy in Makoni last week. Speaking during the launch...Published: 04 Jul 2018 at 07:12hrs | 191 | by Staff reporter
Chimene's daughter up for impersonating Shiri
FORMER Manicaland Provincial Affairs minister Mandiitawepi Chimene's daughter, Ellen Zimondi appeared at the Mutare Magistrates' Court yesterday charged with impersonating Lands, Agriculture and Rural...Published: 03 Jul 2018 at 07:24hrs | 3522 | by Staff reporter
Punish Zanu PF for Gukurahundi, voters told
MDC Alliance spokesperson Welshman Ncube has called on voters in Matabeleland to avoid voting Zanu PF because of its tainted history and refusal to apologise for the Gukurahundi massacres.Addr...Published: 02 Jul 2018 at 08:04hrs | 1218 | by Staff reporter
'We should have clipped Mugabe's wings'
Zanu-PF Politburo member Perrance Shiri believes that the party could have erred in giving former president Robert Mugabe carte blanche to stay in office for as long as he pleased, as this seems to ha...Published: 30 Jun 2018 at 07:59hrs | 1557 | by Staff reporter
Food aid for Uzumba Maramba-PFungwe folk
Government has promised to provide food to the villagers in Uzumba Maramba-PFungwe District who failed to get meaningful yields in the last season due to poor rains. Lands, Agriculture and Rur...Published: 29 Jun 2018 at 07:18hrs | 62 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF aims for clean sweep in Makoni
ZANU-PF politburo member and Makoni Central candidate, Patrick Chinamasa, has warned the opposition that it will receive a heavy shellacking in the forthcoming elections as Makoni was a one-party dist...Published: 28 Jun 2018 at 16:17hrs | 876 | by Staff reporter
Zanuism, 'barrack democracy' threat to Zim's progress
Zanu-PF provides the most shocking example of the culture of exceptionalism which has characterised many a liberation party in power. These include:-the belief that it is entitled to rule fore...Published: 27 Jun 2018 at 06:57hrs | 446 | by Gus Manatsa
Shiri arm-twists Rushinga district to vote Zanu-PF
Minister of Agriculture, Lands and Resettlement, Air Chief Marshal (retired) Perrance Shiri has revealed that he promised the people of Rushinga district that he would donate his pension to them. Shir...Published: 26 Jun 2018 at 12:03hrs | 1325 | by A Mhlongo
Shiri warns independents
Lands, Agriculture and Rural Resettlement Minister Perrance Shiri has called on all Zimbabweans to remain united and peaceful during and after the forthcoming harmonised elections. Zimbabwe will hold ...Published: 26 Jun 2018 at 06:53hrs | 450 | by Staff reporter
Security experts comb Mnangagwa blasts scene
White City Stadium was yesterday turned into a no-go area as top security officials continued to comb the scene of the weekend's bomb attack for leads. Part of the investigation team dispatche...Published: 25 Jun 2018 at 08:44hrs | 2700 | by Staff reporter
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