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Chinamasa reposts deleted Tagwirei appointment tweet
ZANU PF Legal Affairs Secretary Patrick Chinamasa has reignited political debate after reposting a once-deleted tweet declaring businessman Kudakwashe Tagwirei's controversial appointment to the party...Published: 05 Aug 2025 at 09:49hrs | 651 | by Staff reporter
Walter Mzembi hospitalised
Zimbabwe's former Foreign Minister, Dr Walter Mzembi, is reported to be seriously ill and hospitalised at Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals, amid growing concerns from medical staff over shortages of es...Published: 01 Aug 2025 at 17:13hrs | 2015 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean appointed director of water and sanitation by Polokwane
The Polokwane Municipality has appointed Zimbabwean national Chihota K. as the new Executive Director of Water and Sanitation, a decision that has triggered both political debate and public concern ov...Published: 30 Jul 2025 at 16:01hrs | 792 | by Staff reporter
Legal showdown brews between Mahere and Tinoda Machakaire
A legal and political battle is heating up between prominent lawyer and former Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) spokesperson Fadzayi Mahere and Minister of Youth Empowerment, Development and Vocati...Published: 08 Jul 2025 at 19:44hrs | 715 | by Staff reporter
Stroke of a genius Real Reason Musk Bought Twitter
When Elon Musk first bought Twitter (now X), many were puzzled. Why would the man behind Tesla, SpaceX, and Neuralink companies focused on cutting-edge technology suddenly dive into social media?...Published: 31 Mar 2025 at 22:40hrs | 908 | by Engineer Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi
New Zimbabwe political party vows to resist Mnangagwa's 2030 agenda
A new political party, the Assemblies of Minorities (AM), has emerged in Zimbabwe, declaring its opposition to President Emmerson Mnangagwa's alleged attempts to extend his rule beyond 2028.Th...Published: 18 Mar 2025 at 12:59hrs | 2639 | by Staff reporter
What happens to Sam Nujoma's mantle? Who inherits it?
There are speculations in parts of the world, particularly in modern Western nations, individuals of remarkable are cloned. Human cloning refers to creating a genetically identical copy of a person, t...Published: 18 Mar 2025 at 09:15hrs | 629 | by Hosea Shishiveni
Former Zimbabwean CIO boss recounts near-fatal helicopter crash
Former Zimbabwean Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) Director-General Happyton Bonyongwe has revealed that he narrowly escaped death in a helicopter crash in Manicaland province in May 2007. Bony...Published: 02 Feb 2025 at 10:32hrs | 3029 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora demands investigation into politicization food aid distribution
Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader, Douglas Mwonzora, has called for a government investigation into allegations that ZANU-PF officials are politicizing food aid distribution in rural areas, ...Published: 05 Dec 2024 at 10:44hrs | 274 | by Staff reporter
Time to outlaw SADC
The SADC organisation has to be outlawed or changed to reflect contemporary politics.Africa needs to wake up and oppose this kind of group, which has abandoned its mission to serve the interes...Published: 28 Nov 2024 at 15:06hrs | 214 | by Leonard Koni
Mohadi, CCC MP in ugly funeral bust-up
A funeral in Beitbridge turned tense on Monday when two lawmakers, Senator Tambudzani Mohadi (Zanu-PF) and Sithabisiwe Mulowa (Citizens Coalition for Change, CCC), engaged in a heated exchange at the ...Published: 21 Nov 2024 at 06:27hrs | 1621 | by Staff reporter
WhatsApp group admins in Zimbabwe to obtain license or risk penalties
In a new and controversial move, Zimbabwe's government has announced that administrators of WhatsApp groups operating within the country's borders must now register and secure a license from the Post ...Published: 08 Nov 2024 at 07:11hrs | 6644 | by Staff reporter
Hichilema alarmed by prospects of defeat and prosecution for corruption
When Zambia experienced democratic backsliding between 2011 and 2021, the deliberate use of legal mechanisms to weaken opposition parties played a central role. Lawfare has been a constant theme of Za...Published: 07 Oct 2024 at 17:08hrs | 2657 | by Sishuwa Sishuwa
Oppenheimer-funded party, RISE Mzansi falls behind in SA elections
As of Friday, day two after the elections, the ANC is leading in national results with 41.88%, followed by the DA (23.22%), Umkhonto weSizwe (11.52%) and the EFF (9.48%).However, the Oppenheim...Published: 31 May 2024 at 21:12hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Opposition Politics is dead in Zimbabwe.
Like many people who migrated from Zimbabwe, recently I’ve spent time discussing the challenges faced by the Zimbabwean government and role of the opposition in addressing the rot. Interestingly, I ...Published: 31 Mar 2024 at 16:35hrs | 22 | by Sam Wezhira
The politics of Zimbabwe's land reform: winners and losers
The political debates about the rights and wrongs of Zimbabwe's land reform continue to occupy many.The tired, old obsession about how the land was taken and the associated focus on so-called ...Published: 31 Mar 2024 at 16:34hrs | 3 | by Ian Scoones
'Zanu-PF created 2,7 million jobs promised in 2018,' claims party's deputy youth commissar
Zanu-PF aspiring legislator for Epworth North Constituency Taurai Kandishaya has defended President Emmerson Mnangagwa's two million jobs promise saying the ruling party has surpassed the target....Published: 02 Aug 2023 at 07:06hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
David Coltart apologises to Jonathan Moyo
Senator David Coltart of the Citizens Coalition for Change has apologised to exiled Zimbabwe Cabinet minister Jonathan Moyo for invoking Moyo's father in a political debate.Moyo announced Colt...Published: 01 Aug 2023 at 08:26hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
US$12 billion minerals export revenue surpassed says Ziyambi
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's chief election agent and Minister of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Ziyambi Ziyambi has said export revenue in the mining industry has more than doubled, surpa...Published: 27 Jul 2023 at 06:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo's late unsung hero
DEATH has robbed Bulawayo of one of its finest sons Bulisani Ncube who passed away on June 3 afternoon at Mpilo Hospital.Chris Raymond posits that as much as good men may die, death cannot kil...Published: 07 Jul 2023 at 07:41hrs | 3 | by Edwin Ndlovu
Harare backs Moscow
WINDS of a renewed Cold War between the United States and Russia - thunderously manifesting itself in Ukraine through iron and blood - swept across the southern African region this week as Russian For...Published: 02 Feb 2023 at 19:07hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Aaron Motsoaledi's shameful outburst
Minister of Home Affairs Aaron Motsoaledi has published a shameful attack on the Helen Suzman Foundation and civil society.The Foundation is taking Home Affairs to court because of its decisio...Published: 01 Jul 2022 at 19:44hrs | 10 | by GroundUp Editors
Chamisa's CCC lost all humanity in search of power
One of our fellow-citizen has lost her life being victim of a heinous crime and heartless violence at the hands of one whom she had, at one time, shared her soul with.Moreblessing Ali had been...Published: 13 Jun 2022 at 17:55hrs | 12 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Zondo's stunt backfires as his credibility is questioned
Acting Chief Justice Raymond Zondo's press briefing to ‘address' tourism minister Lindiwe Sisulu's opinion piece has backfired and opened him to questions regarding his credibility.Various s...Published: 12 Jan 2022 at 23:38hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt snooping on citizens to quash dissenting voices
AFRICAN governments, Zimbabwe included, are using sophisticated surveillance equipment to snoop on citizens and to quash dissenting voices.This is contained in a report compiled by the Interna...Published: 23 Dec 2021 at 05:43hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC needs to grow up if it wants to be electable
It is difficult to understand the MDC-A's continuous pressure to have the financial sanctions against Zimbabwe maintained, and what looks like a willingness to manufacture evidence of Government wrong...Published: 21 Oct 2021 at 06:19hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe under attack as the united nations special rapporteur is deployed
THE United Nations (UN) will deploy a special rapporteur to Zimbabwe to probe the impact of sanctions on the country and determine if President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government was not using them as a ...Published: 30 Sep 2021 at 17:07hrs | 12 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Ex-ZBC TV news anchor clashes with late Mugabe's son
Former ZBC TV news anchor Lee Ann Bernard clashed with late President Robert Mugabe's son Bellarmine Chatunga over the latter's post defending Mudiwa's 'poverty is a choice' post.This comes af...Published: 31 Aug 2021 at 08:19hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Sulu in political storm
SULUMANI Chimbetu has apparently always been a political animal, and is often seen in the company of prominent activists. His latest gambit, however, could prove disastrous.Pictures of the den...Published: 12 Jun 2021 at 07:54hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Vice President Mohadi's weapon of mass destruction misfired or was he trapped?
One American writer by the name Samantha Rose Hill once said" we can shout truth to power and it will never be heard, because truth and politics don't stand on common ground"So how vulnerable ...Published: 21 Feb 2021 at 23:34hrs | 4 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Cyberocracy: from prospects to reality?
Implications for Political Communication and Digital Diplomacy for Zimbabwe and the Developing WorldIn 1992, David Ronfieldt writing for the RAND Corpo...Published: 16 Jan 2021 at 15:32hrs | 22 | by Taurai Mutoti
Impact of new media on Zimbabwean politics
Recent events in the United States stimulated debate on cyber space. Social media has taken the world by storm, and the recent developments in the US have raised debate on the impact of the phenomenon...Published: 14 Jan 2021 at 07:47hrs | 4 | by Livit Mugejo
Fare thee well Ruth Lemani
The only certainty in a hero's life is that it could end at any moment. As a hero, RUTH LEMANI could not banish dangers, but could banish fears.We mustn't demean life by standing in awe of dea...Published: 10 Jun 2019 at 06:31hrs | 10 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
No political bullying during bereavement
Some shameless Zanu-PF supporters in their regalia invaded the food serving points, not bothering to observe the queue on Sunday at the home of Zapu's departed President Dumiso Dabengwa. They ...Published: 28 May 2019 at 09:39hrs | 3 | by Mkhululi Zulu Zapu Presidential Spokeperson.
PHOTOS: Chamisa and team invade Gweru
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa on Friday led a team of Senior MDC leaders to Midlands where they interacted with structures before proceeding to Gweru where there was a political debate between Candidates ...Published: 10 May 2019 at 20:08hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chamisa confused about the role of the leader of the opposition in parliament
The president of Zimbabwe indicated that he is minded to create a formal position of a leader of the opposition in parliament in accordance with the British and commonwealth system. This raised a grea...Published: 27 Sep 2018 at 07:02hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Unpacking idea of 'losing' Chamisa in Parliament
The President of Zimbabwe indicated that he is minded to create a formal position of a leader of the opposition in Parliament in line with the British and Commonwealth systems. This raised great excit...Published: 27 Sep 2018 at 06:44hrs | | by Masimba Mavaza
Africa: Beyond the captive state
The phrase "state capture" comes very easily into our formal and informal communication these days.What is not easy, however, is true understanding of what the phrase fundamentally means. In S...Published: 09 Sep 2018 at 08:36hrs | 2 | by Cetshwayo Zindabazezwe Mabhena
US sanctions on Zimbabwe - truths, history and lies
A new regime of US sanctions has just been signed into law, opening a fresh front in the increasingly polarised political debate in Zimbabwe.Critics say they hurt the economy, while supporters...Published: 20 Aug 2018 at 19:01hrs | 9 | by newsZWire
Zimbabwe elections: Recognition and God's Case, No Appeal
RECOGNITION of the result of Zimbabwe's 2018 harmonised elections was always going to be a matter of basic international relations. One would be forgiven for arguing about which countries recognise th...Published: 18 Aug 2018 at 08:04hrs | 3 | by Takura Zhangazha
Polls divide united nation again
Emmerson Mnangagwa, the leader of the ruling Zanu-PF party, has been declared the winner of Zimbabwe's presidential election. But his margin of victory - he garnered 50,8% of the votes - has led the m...Published: 10 Aug 2018 at 11:33hrs | | by Blessing Tendi
This election has divided us again
Emmerson Mnangagwa, the leader of the ruling Zanu-PF party, has been declared the winner of Zimbabwe's presidential election.But his margin of victory - he garnered 50,8 percent of the votes -...Published: 05 Aug 2018 at 19:09hrs | | by Miles Tendi
Let's protect our progress
On Monday 30 July Zimbabweans will head to the polls to choose their next government, with millions of voters desperate for a functioning economy. International election observers have been invited to...Published: 29 Jul 2018 at 08:30hrs | | by Dr M Mavaza and Paul Mugari
'Chamisa is a typical G40'
NATIONAL Patriotic Front (NPF) spokesperson Jealousy Mawarire has sensationally likened the MDC Alliance's Presidential candidate, Nelson Chamisa, to members of Zanu-PF's erstwhile Generation 40 (G40)...Published: 21 Jul 2018 at 11:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Where the election currently stands: The Facts
I know we are in the midst of a heated election campaign, but for a second, please let's put emotions aside. Let's put down the red and the green, the 'ED Pfeeee' and the ‘Chamisa Chete Chete', and ...Published: 20 Jul 2018 at 12:21hrs | | by Knowledge Moyo
Khupe slams parties threatening to boycott polls
MDC-T president Dr Thokozani Khupe has lashed out at political parties that are threatening to boycott the July 30 harmonised elections saying they are confused.Dr Khupe attacked the parties w...Published: 16 Jul 2018 at 07:04hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Candidates must shun hate speech
WITH the general elections due in 20 days and political temperatures at their peak, we call on the political actors to exercise extreme restraint and stick to the dictates of the peace pledge which th...Published: 10 Jul 2018 at 08:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance candidate raises kidnapping allegations
MDC-T councillor for ward 9 in Chegutu, Edward Dzeka claims he was abducted and tortured by suspected State security agents on Sunday night.Dzeka, who is also his party's deputy spokesperson f...Published: 04 Jul 2018 at 08:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
War vets group fights in Chamisa’s corner
A GROUP of war veterans opposed to Zanu PF rule has given thumbs up to opposition MDC Alliance presidential candidate, Nelson Chamisa's pledge to improve the welfare of former combatants, saying the y...Published: 18 Jun 2018 at 07:19hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Chamisa's militia created to counter Mugabe's youth brigade
MDC-T elections secretary Murisi Zwizwai told a political debate radio show that its 'Order of the Vanguard' youth outfit which was widely condemned as a version of Zanu PF's Chipangano and Green Bomb...Published: 29 May 2018 at 14:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
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