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Zuma's MK Party brings big guns to NCOP
The uMkhonto Wesizwe (MK) Party is planning to send a team of heavyweights as its new members in the National Council of Provinces (NCOP) as early as this week.Sunday World revealed that forme...Published: 07 Jul 2024 at 19:02hrs | 42 | by Mzilikazi wa Afrika
Regional journalists and artists in True Zimbabwe Journalists (Media) Tour
The Zimbabwean government is basking in the glory of a public relations and marketing tour by regional journalists and artists being used as a publicity ploy by the Harare regime ahead of general elec...Published: 10 Aug 2023 at 19:26hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
SA opposition adds voice to ZEP saga
SOUTH Africa's opposition African People First (APF) party has backed calls to renew Zimbabwe exemption permits in that country who hail from Matabeleland citing historical ties.APF said this ...Published: 11 May 2023 at 05:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Judges question Ramaphosa's timing in suspending Public Protector
Judges in the Western Cape High Court have questioned President Cyril Ramaphosa's timing in suspending Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane.Mkhwebane has accused the president of suspending her...Published: 26 Jul 2022 at 20:49hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Chinamasa lands top Sadc role
Zanu-PF Secretary for Finance and Economic Development and former Cabinet Minister Patrick Chinamasa and diplomat Ambassador Dr Andrew Hama Mtetwa have been appointed to the Southern African Developme...Published: 03 Mar 2022 at 05:38hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
SA Minister opposes court bid by Zimbabwean-born law graduates
SOUTH AFRICA'S Legal Practice Council (LPC) and the Minister of Justice are opposing a court bid by three Zimbabwean-born graduates to change legislation which bars them from practicing law in South A...Published: 02 Dec 2021 at 06:44hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean woman secures AU ambassadorial post
ZIMBABWEAN Ms Cynthia Chingwena has been selected as the second cohort of African Youth Ambassadors for Peace (AYAPs) to represent the Southern Africa region by the Political Affairs, Peace and Securi...Published: 16 Nov 2021 at 05:38hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
South Africa to dump 'useless' AstraZeneca via African Union
South Africa plans to share a million AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine doses it received from the Serum Institute of India with other African countries via the African Union (AU), a senior health official...Published: 16 Feb 2021 at 17:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Africans have last laugh
Africans are responding to the chaos at the US Capitol with irony, sarcasm and humour. #Trump started trending on Twitter in places like Nigeria, South Africa and Kenya as the platform blocked the US ...Published: 08 Jan 2021 at 07:24hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Jacob Zuma found guilty
Former South African former President Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Mhlanganyelwa Zuma has loss a court battle where Former Tourism Minister Derek Hanekom was suing him for defamation over a lawsuit wher...Published: 06 Sep 2019 at 10:09hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zulu King to hold imbizo against xenophobia
Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini will hold a meeting with traditional leaders in a bid to stop xenophobic attacks, ...Published: 17 Apr 2015 at 11:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gaza Strip death toll hits 121
Tel Aviv/Gaza City - The death toll in the Gaza Strip topped 121, as Israel bombed dozens of targets overnight on the fifth day of airstrikes on Saturday.Three men were killed near a mosque in...Published: 12 Jul 2014 at 08:36hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe Big Brother auditions set for July 12 & 13
The ninth edition of Africa's biggest reality series, BIG BROTHER AFRICA, kicks off in September and already fans are asking . . . who will the new housemates be?Who will find their names and ...Published: 17 Jun 2014 at 11:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
TB Joshua's Synagogue - The Mecca, Jerusalem Most Nigerian's Don't See
I WAS in far away Ajaokuta Steel Company in Kogi State that day; my phones kept ringing like hell. Since we were in the middle of a guided tour of the abandoned multi-million dollars steel company...Published: 16 Feb 2014 at 11:18hrs | | by Chuks Nwanne
UN investigators discover mass grave in South Sudan
Nairobi - UN investigators discovered a mass grave in a rebel-held city in South Sudan, the United Nations said on Tuesday, as a possible opening occurred for negotiations to avert civil war in the wo...Published: 25 Dec 2013 at 04:25hrs | | by AP
Chidhakwa to officially open Mining and Infrastructure Indaba
HUNDREDS of delegates in the country's mining sectors are today expected to converge in Harare for the two-day Mining and Infrastructure Indaba.Newly appointed Mines and Mining Development min...Published: 25 Sep 2013 at 01:27hrs | | by Staff Reporter
A billion persons with disabilities have rights
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights calls for end of exploitation and marginalization of persons with disabilitiesGENEVA, Switzerland - Every seve...Published: 14 Sep 2013 at 08:00hrs | | by APO | Light for the World
'I would refuse to go to a homophobic heaven' says Tutu
South African peace icon Desmond Tutu has said he would rather go to hell than worship a homophobic God, likening the fight against gay prejudice to the anti-apartheid struggle.Tutu made the c...Published: 26 Jul 2013 at 22:21hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Nothing wrong with Tambo's interview of Mugabe
Why did Dali Tambo's interviewing style of Robert Mugabe deserve such vitriolic attack from Verashni Pillay, wonders ANC chairperson Luther Lebelo.The article by Mail & Guardian Online's...Published: 09 Jun 2013 at 19:07hrs | | by Luther Lebelo
Dramatising the pain and suffering of Zimbabweans will not change our perspective
The connivance of Verashni Pillay, the deputy editor of Mail & Guardian, and ...Published: 04 Jun 2013 at 20:05hrs | | by Kennedy Mapesa Mandaza
Interview with a despot - Dali Tambo and the Robert Mugabe interview
Cyberspace has gone mad over the past few days, following the interview of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe by Dali Tambo on his recently revived acclaimed show; People of the South.In his u...Published: 04 Jun 2013 at 14:05hrs | 10 | by Thamsanqa N. Ncube
DJ Black Coffee asks YFM to stop playing his music
Popular South African house-music DJ Black Coffee has asked YFM to stop playing his music, 'Three-Men on a Boat' reported.This is after they allegedly tried to blackmail him over the upcoming...Published: 20 Apr 2013 at 18:15hrs | 1 | by Larry Kwirirayi
Mandela's fifth day in hospital
Johannesburg - As former president Nelson Mandela moves into his fifth day in hospital on Monday, South Africans have left messages of support on stones surrounding plants outside Mandela's Johannesbu...Published: 01 Apr 2013 at 08:50hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Witches targets albinos
Albinos, whose body parts are prized by witch doctors, are being attacked in rising numbers in Tanzania, with children who are still alive having their limbs chopped off, the top United Nations (UN) H...Published: 06 Mar 2013 at 10:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Selfish Zuma allowed Mugabe to kill SADC Tribunal'
The former Chief Justice of the disbanded Southern African Development Community (SADC) Tribunal has accused President Jacob Zuma of "selfishly" standing back and letting Zimbabwe President Robert Mu...Published: 03 Mar 2013 at 18:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe: African Union's Juvenile Delinquent
Ever since Botswana's Vice President Mompati Merafhe called for Zimbabwe to be suspended from the African Union (AU) and the Southern African Development Community (SADC) in 2008, African leaders se...Published: 21 Jan 2013 at 11:01hrs | | by Makusha Mugabe
SA court tells Mugabe's man to delay SA mansion
A close friend of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has been ordered to stop the construction of a R200-million mansion in Ballito, northern Durban, until his building plans have been approved....Published: 22 Aug 2012 at 07:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Malawi revives debate on gay rights
By selling the presidential jet and getting rid of 60 limousines driven by high-ranking officials, Joyce Banda, Malawi's new president, is making waves. But even before trimming the fat from the state...Published: 07 Aug 2012 at 16:24hrs | | by Jocelyne Sambira
Scores of Women with kids stranded at Beitbridge Border Post
A large number of Zimbabwean women travelling to South Africa with minors are stranded at Beitbridge Border Post as the neighbouring country's immigration officials are demanding a...Published: 03 Aug 2012 at 02:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai calls for conditional removal of sanctions
Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai on Monday urged to lift the sanctions on President Robert Mugabe and his inner circle by the West, but suggested them to be lifted in tandem with the institution of ...Published: 24 Jul 2012 at 05:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Putting up with challenges of the Zimbabwean GNU
"The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain." - Dolly PartonWhen it was formed in September 2008, the Zimbabwe Government...Published: 19 Jul 2012 at 05:27hrs | | by Mathula Lusinga
Zanu-PF dismiss sanctions removal speculation
Zanu-PF has dismissed as unintelligible reports that the European Union wanted to suspend sanctions it imposed on Zimbabwe after the country met certain conditions. Zanu-PF negotiator and mem...Published: 16 Jul 2012 at 13:59hrs | | by Nare Msupatsila
A good colonialist is a dead one
Last Thursday and Friday Zimbabweans were rudely reminded of the nationalist proposition that a good colonialist is a dead one when Whitehall descendants of Zimbabwe's dead colonisers displayed their ...Published: 15 Jul 2012 at 08:02hrs | | by Professor Jonathan Moyo
Britain will scupper lifting of sanctions on Mugabe
BRITAIN will scupper any plans by European Union countries to lift sanctions on Zimbabwe because senior government figures are "appalled" by thoughts of President Robert Mugabe shaking hands with the ...Published: 15 Jul 2012 at 07:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans welcome suspended sanctions plans
Zimbabwean politicians and analysts have welcomed news that Europe is planning to suspend targeted measures on President Mugabe and his allies. On both sides of the political divide, most agre...Published: 12 Jul 2012 at 06:27hrs | | by Telegraph I Aislinn Laing, Peta Thornycroft
Britain and EU preparing to lift sanction on Mugabe
Britain and the EU are preparing to lift sanctions on Robert Mugabe and his closest henchmen in an effort to persuade the Zimbabwean President into holding free and fair elections. A review of...Published: 12 Jul 2012 at 06:02hrs | 1 | by Daily Telegraph I Damien McElroy, Peta Thornycroft
Zim generals have no capacity to carry out a coup
MDC secretary-general, Priscilla Misihairabwi-Mushonga, has said the military top brass were posturing when they claimed they would not salute anyone without liberation credentials.She said th...Published: 09 Jul 2012 at 16:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Reality check for some GPA creatures by Prof J Moyo
Here is a reality check which some GPA creatures and those who support them in and outside the country are conveniently if not dangerously ignoring in the vain hope that they can fool everyone all the...Published: 24 Jun 2012 at 10:52hrs | 7 | by Jonathan Moyo
Mnangagwa threatens to unleash generals on Biti says MDC-T
The MDC-T says it views threats by Defence minister, Emmerson Mnangagwa that he will send army generals to Tendai Biti's office as unprofessional and a serious threat on the Finance Minister's life....Published: 13 Jun 2012 at 04:14hrs | | by Nare Msupatsila
Senator Coltart calls for the lifting of Zimbabwe sanctions
Education, Sport, Arts and Culture Minister Senator David Coltart has called for the lifting of sanctions against Zimbabwe.Coltart is the MDC legal affairs secretary.Senator Coltart wa...Published: 10 Jun 2012 at 11:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
EU condemns the resurgence of politically motivated violence
The European Union (EU) has condemned the resurgence of politically-motivated violence in some parts of the country following the recent clashes in Mudzi.In a statement yesterday, the EU said:...Published: 06 Jun 2012 at 06:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
SADC position on Zimbabwe commendable
The MDC-T said it hails SADC's position that Zimbabwe must proceed with the implementation of the outstanding issues in the Global Political Agreement and the Roadmap to free and fair Elections....Published: 05 Jun 2012 at 06:53hrs | | by MDC=T
US Senator calls for the lifting of Zimbabwe sanctions
United States Senator Jim Inhofe has added his voice to the growing calls for the lifting of sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe by his country and its Western allies, noting that the embargo is affecting t...Published: 03 Jun 2012 at 06:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Polls in Zimbabwe should be held within the next 12 months - Sadc Troika
THE Sadc Troika on Defence, Politics and Security Cooperation yesterday said elections in Zimbabwe should be held within the next 12 months.The organ urged the parties to the Global Political ...Published: 02 Jun 2012 at 04:43hrs | | by staff reporter
There is a possibility EU could lift sanctions - Mugabe
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe has said there is a possibility the European Union (EU) could lift its sanctions against Zimbabwe when the body reviews the measures in July.Mugabe was speaking to repo...Published: 31 May 2012 at 14:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Exile Movement demands UN peacemakers in Zim
A demonstration to have United Nations peacekeepers in Zimbabwe's next general elections was held on Tuesday in central London by The Zimbabwe Exile Movement, documents were handed to South Africa and...Published: 31 May 2012 at 05:23hrs | | by Martin William Chinyanga
Global Zimbabwe Forum Invitation: Reactions to draft constitution
State of the NationAn assessment and response to the balance of forces in ZimbabweThe recent visit to Zimbabwe by the UN Human Rights High Commissioner Navi Pillay and reactions to the...Published: 29 May 2012 at 08:30hrs | | by Daniel Molokele
UN's Navi Pillay failed to press Mugabe on key issues
UN's Navi Pillay failed to press Mugabe on key issues Clifford Chitupa Mashiri, 27 May 2012One would be excused for feeling short-changed by the UN human rights chief Ms Navi Pillay af...Published: 28 May 2012 at 13:35hrs | | by Clifford Chitupa Mashiri
Mugabe under British probe over crimes against humanity
British detectives are investigating Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe and his close associates for crimes against humanity, weekend reports have said. British detectives are to grill a CIO ope...Published: 28 May 2012 at 14:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Matabeleland parties hail Pillay's Gukurahundi calls
Political parties in Matabeleland have hailed United Nations Human Rights High Commissioner Navi Pillays call for the arrest of Gukurahundi perpetrators, saying it was long overdue.Pillay, who...Published: 28 May 2012 at 09:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
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