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UK MPs want Mnangagwa invite cancelled
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's visit to the United Kingdom for King Charles III's coronation hangs in the balance after some parliamentarians in London demanded that he be barred over alleged human ri...Published: 26 Apr 2023 at 06:36hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe back on UK radar
THE House of Lords in the United Kingdom (UK) has raised a red flag over the deteriorating human rights situation in Zimbabwe and called for action on Harare after the arrest and detention of oppositi...Published: 04 May 2021 at 06:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Peter Hain's heinous plot against Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe's justice system is under siege from foreign powers and their opposition proxies. The dishonourable Peter Hain, a member of the House of Lords in Britain, on April 27 2021, under the misguide...Published: 04 May 2021 at 06:17hrs | 2 | by Charlene Shumba
Britain desperately needs Rhodesia/ Zimbabwe
THE most outlandish aspect of Britain's past and recent actions is that despite its posturing on Zimbabwe, the former colonial power desperately needs Harare for its economic revival efforts, especial...Published: 22 Feb 2021 at 05:49hrs | | by Golden Guvamatanga
Zimbabwe 'cartels' report con-insides with US sanctions renewal
UNITED STATES President Joe Biden's administration is most likely to renew sanctions against senior Zanu-PF and government officials as well as service chiefs after the release early this week of a da...Published: 13 Feb 2021 at 10:31hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mandiwanzira hits out at 'staggering incompetence' over 'cartels' report
Former Cabinet Minister Supa Mandiwanzira has been left crying foul over what he called "staggering incompetence" by a South African publication, the Daily Maverick, whose exclusive report on the mass...Published: 12 Feb 2021 at 05:55hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Colonialist UK pushes to further isolate the Mnangagwa government
THE United Kingdom's unexpected move this week to impose sanctions on four Zimbabwean security chiefs for human rights violations - following a series of critical pronouncements in recent months - sig...Published: 06 Feb 2021 at 16:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's MPs fume over UK meddling
ZANU-PF MPs have expressed concern over the United Kingdom (UK) criticism of Zimbabwe, saying the country's former colonial master was not an oasis of democratic practice, the Daily News reports....Published: 01 Nov 2020 at 08:20hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
UK imposing sanctions on Zanu PF pressuring SADC to do same - is it too little too late
One of the biggest Zimbabwe foreign policy blunders the British government has ever made in the last decade was to believe Mnangagwa's foolish rhetoric that Zimbabwe had changed for the better followi...Published: 31 Oct 2020 at 07:46hrs | 10 | by Wilbert Mukori
Mnangagwa faces new sanctions from colonial master UK
THE United Kingdom has threatened to slap President Emmerson Mnangagwa with a new sanctions regime over the deteriorating human rights situation in the country and failure by the administration to dea...Published: 30 Oct 2020 at 06:32hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt slams Britain's colonial hangover
Foreign Affairs and International Trade Minister Dr Sibusiso Moyo has told the British that the New Dispensation's openness and re-engagement stance is not an open invitation for interference or intru...Published: 30 Oct 2020 at 06:16hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Rushwaya accomplice implicates Mnangagwa's wife
An associate of Zimbabwe Miners Federation president Henrietta Rushwaya implicated first lady Auxillia Mnangagwa and her twin son, Collins, after Rushwaya was arrested for gold smuggling on Monday, it...Published: 29 Oct 2020 at 21:32hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Britain to impose fresh sanctions on Zimbabwe?
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration could be staring a fresh dosage of British sanctions after recent cases of human gross human rights violations and corruption got attention from the forme...Published: 29 Oct 2020 at 21:09hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's leadership clearly 'disastrous', says Hain
IN May 2018, when the Zimbabwe Independent interviewed British peer Lord Peter Hain - a prominent critic of former president Robert Mugabe's regime - he was optimistic about the birth of a new era in ...Published: 30 Aug 2019 at 08:35hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa business associate's planes impounded in Botswana
South Africans' involvement with Botswana's election politics caused embarrassment once again when two planes of the controversial South African businessman, Zunaid Moti, were impounded at Francistown...Published: 28 Apr 2019 at 15:10hrs | 1 | by City Press
Mnangangwa's burden of reform
Many who wish the President of Zimbabwe well - and these are the majority that voted for him in elections a short seven months ago - want ED Mnangagwa to succeed and carry out reforms that usher in th...Published: 08 Feb 2019 at 08:36hrs | 2 | by Tichaona Zindoga
Chamisa hoped to tap into the hugely popular Operation Restore Legacy
One false argument which is peddled by the opposition and foreign interests mostly is that nothing has changed in Zimbabwe since November 2017 when the popular Operation Restore Legacy happened. ...Published: 06 Feb 2019 at 07:57hrs | 1 | by George Charamba
Mnangagwa running out of options - and time
ZIMBABWE'S political chaos is a function of its economic crisis – and the economy is only getting worse. To all intents and purposes, Zimbabwe is broke.The government has so little income that i...Published: 25 Jan 2019 at 08:40hrs | | by Simon Allison
Jailed Mnangagwa ally to walk free
South African businessman Zunaid Moti, who has been locked up in a prison in Munich, Germany, for two months after he was arrested on the strength of an international warrant of arrest, could walk fre...Published: 04 Nov 2018 at 09:08hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa not fulfilling his promise, says his British business partner
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's business partner and former British Cabinet minister, Peter Hain has said "treatment of Tendai Biti is terrible and oppressive." Hain also said Mnangagwa "...Published: 09 Aug 2018 at 07:34hrs | 1 | by Ndou Paul
Mugabe terror directed by today's rulers, says former Chronicle editor
Former Chronicle Editor Mduduzi Mathuthu has challenged the anti-apartheid activist, British Labour MP and author Lord Peter Hain on Twitter following his statement saying that the killings in Harare ...Published: 02 Aug 2018 at 09:15hrs | | by Ndou Paul
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
Former British minister meets Mnangagwa
FORMER British Minister of Africa and Labour Party politician, Lord Peter Hain has commended efforts being made by President Emmerson Mnangagwa in opening up Zimbabwe to the world politically and busi...Published: 31 May 2018 at 07:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa meet his British business partner
BRITISH Labour Party politician and former Cabinet member Lord Peter Hain has hailed President Mnangagwa's re-engagement with the international community, commitment to good governance and credible el...Published: 31 May 2018 at 06:59hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's British business partner jets in
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's business partner and former British Cabinet minister, Peter Hain, arrived in Harare last night as part of the Moti Group's drive to promote their chrome mining business ...Published: 30 May 2018 at 08:40hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Americans are shameless, Cdes
Dear Cabinet and Politburo membersCOMRADES, you can now all see that these Americans have no shame at all. After trying everything in the book to make me appear like a very bad leader without ...Published: 12 Nov 2015 at 09:05hrs | 2 | by CZ
Alleged Iranian uranium deal With Zim may revive sanctions debate
WASHINGTON - An alleged clandestine deal in which Zimbabwe might sell sensitive nuclear material to Iran could revive debate over the Persian Gulf nation's ability to import uranium ore, despite inter...Published: 21 Aug 2013 at 21:07hrs | | by Diane Barnes, Global Security Newswire
Leaked papers reveal Mugabe plan to rig polls
DAMNING top-secret intelligence documents that expose President Robert Mugabe's plans to rig the forthcoming election and crush his political rivals have been handed to The Mail on Sunday.Th...Published: 21 Jul 2013 at 18:39hrs | 2 | by Dailymail.co.uk
Nelson Mandela is a 'murdering old terrorist', says British politician
British National Party head Nick Griffin has made a nasty and vicious attack on ailing former South African President Nelson Mandela branding him an "old terrorist".BNP leader Nick Griffin h...Published: 10 Jun 2013 at 10:10hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Forgive Robert Mugabe, Tsvangirai tells West
Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has urged the world to soften its stance on President Robert Mugabe saying the veteran ruler is critical for a smooth transition of power in Zimbabwe.Tsvangir...Published: 25 Jul 2012 at 11:43hrs | 5 | by Staff Reporter
EU meets to review Zimbabwe sanctions
The European Union (EU) meets on Monday in Brussels to review sanctions imposed on President Robert Mugabe and some senior Zanu-PF officials amid optimism by Zimbabwe's three government parties that t...Published: 23 Jul 2012 at 09:14hrs | | by Nare Msupatsila
Mugabe desperate for sanctions removal
Zimbabwe wants to go for elections without the burden of sanctions and calls on the African Union to condemn and call for their removal, President Robert Mugabe has said.Addressing the plenar...Published: 17 Jul 2012 at 09:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Call to extend Zimbabwe sanctions
Parliament will this week hear calls to extend sanctions on Zimbabwe as Britain and the European Union are poised to suspend a variety of punitive measures in a bid to encourage reform.Peter H...Published: 16 Jul 2012 at 04:48hrs | | by Telegraph I Aislinn Laing and Peta Thorneycroft
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