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Battle for ZANU PF top youth league post heats up
Following a politburo decision to remove youth league leaders Godfrey Tsenengamu, Lewis Matutu and Pupurai Togarepi from their positions, jostling for the youth league top post has intensified. ...Published: 14 hrs ago | 3727 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chamisa tackles Zanu-PF rural hegemony
THE MDC has taken its campaign machinery into rural areas to challenge Zanu-PF electoral dominance, with the opposition saying it is gearing to wrest power from President Emmerson Mnangagwa before the...Published: 24 Feb 2020 at 17:42hrs | 317 | by Staff reporter
Youths, vendors join anti-corruption fight
VENDORS and activists have joined the anti-graft fight spearheaded by suspended Zanu-PF youth league leaders, Godfrey Tsenengamu and Lewis Matutu, vowing to take the fight to corrupt officials' doorst...Published: 24 Feb 2020 at 17:37hrs | 543 | by Staff reporter
MDC tackles Zanu-PF rural hegemony
THE MDC has taken its campaign machinery into rural areas to challenge Zanu-PF electoral dominance, with the opposition saying it is gearing to wrest power from President Emmerson Mnangagwa before the...Published: 24 Feb 2020 at 10:10hrs | 1255 | by Staff reporter
Mujuru biography traces hero's life, suspicious death
CHOFAMBA SITHOLE - A newly-published scholarly biography of the late retired commander of the Zimbabwe National Army, General Solomon Mujuru, captures the liberation war hero's key role in shaping the...Published: 24 Feb 2020 at 07:13hrs | 1724 | by Staff reporter
July Moyo's $78m order raises eyebrows
A letter by Local Government minister July Moyo directing the Harare City Council to pay the state-linked Chemplex a staggering $78 million for water treatment chemicals has sent tongues wagging with ...Published: 23 Feb 2020 at 08:39hrs | 2589 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa white washing Gukurahundi genocide prosecutions
HOPES of seeing justice in their relatives' death as a result of Gukurahundi atrocities could be fading by the day for many as President Emmerson Mnangagwa has put up a programme to have those who wer...Published: 23 Feb 2020 at 08:24hrs | 319 | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere lauds Mugabe's reign
FORMER cabinet minister and G40 kingpin Saviour Kasukuwere has showered glowing praises on late former state leader Robert Mugabe while reserving snide comments for his successor, Emmerson Mnangagwa h...Published: 22 Feb 2020 at 18:51hrs | 477 | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere taunts Mnangagwa's 'real criminals'
FORMER cabinet minister and G40 kingpin Saviour Kasukuwere has showered glowing praises on late former state leader Robert Mugabe while reserving snide comments for his successor, Emmerson Mnangagwa h...Published: 22 Feb 2020 at 05:38hrs | 2830 | by newzimbabwe
Zimbabwe losing US$400m to oil pipeline cartels
ZIMBABWE is losing US$400 million annually in potential oil revenue due to Sakunda Holdings' untenable monopoly over the Beira-Harare fuel pipeline, it has emerged.Sources in government and th...Published: 20 Feb 2020 at 13:33hrs | 1781 | by Staff reporter
Methodist Church wades into Zimbabwe's dialogue logjam
THE Methodist Church in Zimbabwe has called for broad-based dialogue to address the country's multi-faceted crisis characterised by a deepening economic and social crisis.The call comes in the...Published: 20 Feb 2020 at 13:31hrs | 682 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo begs Chiwenga for mercy
SELF-EXILED former minister and Zanu-PF politburo member Jonathan Moyo is seeking to apologise to Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga after accusing him of using a ghost writer for his doctoral ...Published: 19 Feb 2020 at 06:42hrs | 10876 | by Staff reporter
Muchinguri to confront Mnangagwa
ZANU-PF National Chairperson Oppah Muchinguri is reportedly mobilizing members of the Central Committee to back her in a bid to confront President Emmerson Mnangagwa on the party's decision to suspend...Published: 18 Feb 2020 at 21:48hrs | 6854 | by Staff reporter
Brace for Mnangagwa, Chamisa's Kenyan handshake
Infighting in Zanu-PF has been the talk of the town for the past couple of years and it took a turn in the last few weeks. All hell broke loose when two Zanu-PF young musketeers - Lewis Matutu and God...Published: 18 Feb 2020 at 20:16hrs | 4648 | by Cliff Chiduku
Muchinguri mobilises Central Committee to confront Mnangagwa?
ZANU PF National Chairperson Oppah Muchinguri is reportedly mobilizing members of the Central Committee to back her in a bid to confront President Emmerson Mnangagwa on the party's decision to suspend...Published: 18 Feb 2020 at 12:34hrs | 8591 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Tsenengamu trashes Chinamasa
Suspended Zanu-PF Youth League political commissar Godfrey Tsenengamu says he is not apologetic about his anti corruption stance denying Patrick Chinamasa's statement that he has apologised to the par...Published: 18 Feb 2020 at 06:32hrs | 9168 | by Staff reporter
Canaan Banana an unsung hero, says Son
NATHAN Banana - the son of the late founding President of Zimbabwe, Canaan Sodindo Banana, has described his father as an unsung hero and lamented government's failure to honour him for the key ...Published: 17 Feb 2020 at 10:41hrs | 1337 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF commends Matutu, Tsenengamu
Zanu-PF has commended former Youth League leaders Lewis Matutu and Godfrey Tsenengamu for accepting censure and rehabilitation. Matutu was the deputy secretary for Youth Affairs, while Tseneng...Published: 17 Feb 2020 at 06:13hrs | 5668 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF ex-youth leaders accepts censure, retraining
Zanu-PF has commended the acceptance of censure and rehabilitation by former Youth League leaders Lewis Matutu and Godfrey Tsenengamu. Matutu was the deputy secretary for youth affairs while T...Published: 17 Feb 2020 at 06:05hrs | 811 | by Staff reporter
Tshinga Dube fights in Matutu, Tsenengamu's corner
OUTSPOKEN Zanu-PF Politburo member, Tshinga Dube has described the suspension of Zanu-PF youth leaders, Lewis Matutu and Godfrey Tsenengamu as a perpetuation of a culture of intolerance and would wors...Published: 17 Feb 2020 at 06:01hrs | 1283 | by newzimbabwe
Chamisa's MDC took money from 'murderers'?
THE motor-mouthed MDC secretary for elections, Jacob Mafume, has defended the party's decision to embrace people implicated in the murder of the party's activists in previous elections.Respond...Published: 16 Feb 2020 at 18:12hrs | 3379 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo switches sides as he announces his new political home
EXILED former Zanu-PF Politburo member, Jonathan Moyo, has confirmed that he is an MDC – Alliance supporter with a right to support a candidate of his choice in an election.In tweets he post...Published: 16 Feb 2020 at 08:52hrs | 16401 | by newzimbabwe
Queen Bee and Chinamasa's fat lies
Where just about everything is going nowhere very fast — as is the case in Zimbabwe — even a badly scripted drama series is not a bad idea.There was that time when we were kept glued to th...Published: 16 Feb 2020 at 08:40hrs | 643 | by Tawanda Majoni
ZANU PF facing another split?
The past few days have been quite interesting with the developments in Zimbabwe's ruling party ZANU PF. The unfolding events have been triggered by a press conference by the now-suspended two&nb...Published: 15 Feb 2020 at 15:01hrs | 11589 | by Blessing Vava
Muchinguri's faction behind Tsenengamu and Lewis Matutu?
Chris Mutsvangwa began his solo anti Kuda Tagwirei crusade in 2018 during an interview with the Standard he said, "One of the optimal conditions to attract investment is free competition. The RB...Published: 15 Feb 2020 at 13:05hrs | 3626 | by Nicholas Ncube
Tsenengamu says, 'It's game on'
FORMER Zanu-PF national youth commissar Godfrey Tsenengamu has vowed to continue with the anti-corruption fight, saying plans were at an advanced stage for the first ever anti-corruption conference sl...Published: 15 Feb 2020 at 11:24hrs | 1529 | by Staff reporter
Zanu PF did not care about destruction caused by war, since it ruined us, still don't care - Enough is enough
"If you see anyone purporting to represent Zanu-PF youth league, those people are pretenders, they are masquerades. This is the real and authentic Zanu-PF youth league that is gathered here at the par...Published: 15 Feb 2020 at 09:37hrs | 309 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Defending the Undefendable: The unending list of Zanu Pf apologists
When the Zanu PF Youth league members held a press conference to name and shame people linked to Zimbabwe's economic woes some applauded the move.These were youth leadership members who belong...Published: 14 Feb 2020 at 14:02hrs | 2397 | by A Kadada
Zimbabweans ready for Kasukuwere to lead them
Inflation in Zimbabwe has gone past the 500% mark, while salaries remain stagnant. A number of households are currently living below the poverty datum line and the future seems bleak for the 90% of th...Published: 14 Feb 2020 at 12:14hrs | 8596 | by Ntokozo Msipha
Zanu-PF hawks query Mnangagwa's capacity
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's 2023 election campaign, which has been underway since the Zanu-PF Esigodini Conference in 2018, is increasingly coming under scrutiny within government, the ruling party...Published: 14 Feb 2020 at 06:56hrs | 7590 | by Staff reporter
Youth league pledge to defend Mnangagwa's presidency 'at all cost'
THE Zanu-PF youth league yesterday disowned its suspended leaders, and pledged to defend President Emmerson Mnangagwa's presidency "at all cost."This follows the politburo's decision to suspen...Published: 14 Feb 2020 at 06:56hrs | 744 | by Owen Gagare
Fresh Zanu-PF factional fights crippling economic recovery
THE factional fights which have erupted yet again in Zanu-PF following the suspension of youth league leaders betrays the ruling party's pre-occupation with power struggles at the expense of an implod...Published: 14 Feb 2020 at 06:52hrs | 1320 | by Staff reporter
Threats won't stop Tsenengamu
A white Ford Ranger truck suddenly screeches to a halt in front of this reporter, drawing the attention of vendors and passersby in the Graniteside industrial area on a Monday afternoon.The dr...Published: 14 Feb 2020 at 06:51hrs | 3710 | by Staff reporter
Matutu, Tsenengamu defiance irks Zanu-PF
SUSPENDED Zanu-PF youth leaders Lewis Matutu and Godfrey Tsenengamu, who have remained defiant in their anti-corruption campaign, face expulsion from the ruling party after it tasked its commissariat ...Published: 14 Feb 2020 at 06:50hrs | 2563 | by Staff reporter
New Zanu-PF Youth boss will not shout about corruption
ACTING Zanu-PF youth league boss Tendai Chirau says he will not be too excited to join his suspended colleagues shout anti-corruption allegations against individuals outside party procedure and releva...Published: 14 Feb 2020 at 06:46hrs | 1011 | by newzimbabwe
Matutu, Tsenengamu censure a master-stroke for Zanu-PF
It is Monday February 3, 2020 and I see two esteemed comrades getting into the Media Centre in Harare. They arrive in five-minute intervals, much to the excitement of the who-is-who in the media indus...Published: 14 Feb 2020 at 05:55hrs | 520 | by Tafadzwa Mugwadi
Matutu, Tsenengamu now face expulsion from Zanu-PF
IN A dramatic turn of events, it has emerged that the newly-installed leadership of Zanu-PF's youth league may now be pushing for the expulsion of the wing's suspended executives from the ruling party...Published: 13 Feb 2020 at 19:31hrs | 4946 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo Confirms G40 Sponsored Chamisa 2018 Election
EXILED former Zanu-PF Politburo member and Cabinet Minister, Jonathan Moyo has confirmed some Zanu-PF from G40 faction within the party bankrolled MDC presidential candidate Nelson Chamisa, in the 201...Published: 13 Feb 2020 at 19:31hrs | 1242 | by newzimbabwe
Prosecutor-General under fire
A ZANU-PF-aligned civic society organisation #308 has written to the Justice ministry, National Prosecuting Authority and the Judicial Services Commission (JSC) calling for an investigation into the c...Published: 13 Feb 2020 at 07:51hrs | 1294 | by Staff reporter
Tsenengamu refuses to go for Zanu-PF political orientation
FORMER Zanu-PF Youth League Political Commissar Godfrey Tsenengamu has defied the party's directive to go for political orientation at the Herbert Chitepo School of Ideology.The directive come...Published: 12 Feb 2020 at 12:26hrs | 4821 | by Staff reporter
Mutsvangwa feud with Tagwirei exposed
The feud between Christopher Mutsvangwa, Eddie Cross with business tycoon Kuda Tagwirei is centred on the failure by the two to bring the businessman to support MOGS Oil & Gas Services' bid to tak...Published: 12 Feb 2020 at 11:59hrs | 9683 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo sponsored Chamisa 2018 Presidential campaign
FORMER Sunday Mail Editor Edmund Kudzayi has sensationally claimed that exiled ex-minister Jonathan Moyo funded the MDC 2018 presidential candidate Nelson Chamisa’s election campaign.Kudzayi...Published: 12 Feb 2020 at 10:15hrs | 3408 | by Staff reporter
US$17.7 million loan blocked foreigners from Feruka pipeline
The US$17.7 million loaned to government by business tycoon Kuda Tagwirei in 2018 blocked foreigners from taking over controlling stake in the Feruka pipeline.This emerged at a time when Zanu ...Published: 12 Feb 2020 at 09:45hrs | 1081 | by Paul Ndou
Axed Zanu-PF youth leaders in extortion storm
TWO of the three former Zanu-PF youth leaders, who were axed from their positions last week, allegedly extorted goods and services from businessman and Grain Millers Association of Zimbabwe (GMAZ) cha...Published: 12 Feb 2020 at 06:07hrs | 4227 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo declares water crisis emergency
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has applied to Government to declare the city's water crisis an emergency. BCC says the declaration will enable developmental partners to mobilise resources towards pro...Published: 12 Feb 2020 at 05:40hrs | 1177 | by Staff reporter
Tsenengamu returns Zanu-PF Ford Ranger, denies CIA link
SUSPENDED Zanu-PF youth league bosses, who faced the wrath of the party politburo last week, have had their salaries and allowances frozen and all benefits that came with their posts garnished....Published: 11 Feb 2020 at 21:23hrs | 7288 | by Staff reporter
Kuda Tagwirei 'takes over' ZANU PF Politiburo
Oil baron Kuda Tagwirei has been reported to have taken over the financial affairs of ZANU PF Politiburo by being the chief buyer of cars and becoming the paymaster to the members of the highest ZANU ...Published: 11 Feb 2020 at 10:30hrs | 14426 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe NPA, judiciary captured by 'cartels'
Prosecutor General Kumbirai Hodzi on Monday made startling revelations that key institutions mandated to fight corruption, including the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) which he heads, had been c...Published: 11 Feb 2020 at 07:19hrs | 1722 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF's Togarepi accepts fate
FORMER Zanu-PF secretary for the youth league Pupurai Togarepi, who was demoted from the politburo last Wednesday, says he has accepted his fate and will now serve the party in the central committee....Published: 10 Feb 2020 at 15:10hrs | 4298 | by Staff reporter
'Matabeleland Collective was a Mnangagwa scam' Jonathan Moyo says
Former Minister of information Professor Jonathan Moyo says the now-defunct Matabeleland Collective was a creation of President Emmerson Mnangagwa to cover up for the Gukurahundi genocide that l...Published: 10 Feb 2020 at 07:03hrs | 2052 | by Mandla Ndlovu
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