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Zimbabwean President surrounded by vultures masquerading as patriots
There has been serious abuse of political power and government by individuals who are surrounding the president. People have worked their way to the top in order to oil their pockets and mouths. ...Published: 10 hrs ago | 6836 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Oppah Muchinguri to become Vice President?
Defense Minister Oppah Muchinguri-Kushiri might outfox Vice President Constantino Nyikadzino Chiwenga to assume the Vice Presidency as infighting within ZANU PF rages on. This was revealed by ...Published: 11 hrs ago | 19272 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Energy Mutodi speaks on Mnangagwa 'ritual photo'
Deputy Minister of Media, Information and Broadcasting Services Energy Mutodi has come out in defense of President Emmerson Mnangagwa after Professor Jonathan Moyo tweeted a picture of Mnangagwa sugge...Published: 12 hrs ago | 10106 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Enter the dragon: The rise of China
The most remarkable economic turnaround story of the 21st century undoubtedly belongs to the People's Republic of China. As the country marks the 40th anniversary of economic reforms and opening, the ...Published: 14 hrs ago | 1640 | by Victor Bhoroma
'Zimbabwe electricity imports to continue until 2027'
Zimbabwe is expected to continue relying on electricity imports for the next eight years due to lack of investment in the sector, a leading international think-tank has said.The southern Afric...Published: 15 hrs ago | 137 | by Staff reporter
PHOTO: Mthuli Ncube dumps Mnangagwa's scarf?
Minister of Finance Professor Mthuli Ncube has appeared in a picture with President Emmerson Mnangagwa without wearing the popular multi-coloured scarf but donning a Burberry one. The sc...Published: 16 hrs ago | 6842 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Malema should mind his own business
Following the three-day protest stay away, which was ostensibly given as meant to register disquiet over the prevailing economic challenges, the South African controversial Economic Freedom Fighters (...Published: 17 hrs ago | 3092 | by Nobleman Runyanga
ZANU PF bribes MDC officials to oust Chamisa
ZANU PF has approached some officials of the opposition Movement for Democratic change in a bid to ‘buy' them to contest Nelson Chamisa in the forthcoming Congress penciled for 2019.The reve...Published: 17 hrs ago | 4614 | by Mandla Ndlovu
The impeachment of President ED is long overdue
If Terence Mukupe and Justice Mayor Wadyajena are not ignorant, they are stupid. Removing a sitting president from power via parliament is neither a crime nor a sin but a manifestation of democracy. A...Published: 18 hrs ago | 2708 | by Don Chigumba
Why Matabeles must not die for Zimbabwe
Matebeles do not owe Zimbabweans or Shona people anything. We are fade up with Zimbabwe's endless political problems. Zimbabweans/ Shona people must learn to fight their own battles from now on. As Ma...Published: 18 hrs ago | 1154 | by Israel Dube
PHOTO: Mnangagwa in bizzare ritual?
A picture of President Emmerson Mnangagwa sitting in some traditional Asian setting has emerged on social media raising speculation that he was participating in some bizarre ritual....Published: 18 hrs ago | 8397 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Povo must be clear what they want out of street protests - draining of political sewage swamp
"This is a foolish idea!" I wrote on 17 November 2017, to discourage the ordinary Zimbabweans planning to march in support of the military coup the following day."The ZDF coup is about the fac...Published: 18 hrs ago | 567 | by Wilbert Mukori
'I am staying to rebuild nation' insist Coventry - how naïve, with an illegitimate and murderous regime
"I would like to make it clear that I have not resigned as minister. Whatever the problems, sport can and should be part of the solution and I will pour my energies in uplifting our sports, the youth ...Published: 19 hrs ago | 673 | by Nomusa Garikai
Pasi seeks removal from remand
FORMER Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) commissioner-general Gershem Pasi, who is facing criminal abuse of office charges, has filed a notice before Harare magistrate Rumbidzai Chitumbura, seeking r...Published: 19 hrs ago | 365 | by Staff reporter
The horror Zimbabwe govt is hiding behind blackout
Hundreds of people, including children as young as 10, have been killed or beaten in Zimbabwe in recent days in a crackdown the regime has tried to hide by shutting down the internet and deporting for...Published: 19 hrs ago | 815 | by The Times (UK)
'Racist' SA party to approach international court if Ramaphosa fails to intervene in Zimbabwe
SOUTH Africa's Democratic Alliance party has threatened to approach the International Criminal Court (ICC) if President Cyril Ramaphosa fails to intervene directly to stop the ongoing human rights vio...Published: 19 hrs ago | 383 | by TimesLive.com
Arrested looters must be treated with dignity?
THE past few days have seen a record more than 800 accused persons arrested countrywide in a State security dragnet following the deadly protests which occurred last week, leaving at least 12 people d...Published: 20 hrs ago | 253 | by Editorial - newsday
Zimbabwe seeks more fuel sources
Energy and Power Development Minister Dr Joram Gumbo has engaged a top petroleum products player, Fleet Energy (Pvt) Limited, as Government moves to locate lasting solutions to fuel shortages dogging ...Published: 20 hrs ago | 340 | by Staff reportere
Police officer killed during violent protests buried
A POLICEMAN killed by rogue protestors in Bulawayo during violent demonstrations instigated by the MDC-Alliance and its allies in civil society last week, was on Saturday buried at his rural home in M...Published: 20 hrs ago | 554 | by Staff reporter
Service station besieged for refusing to sell fuel
A fuel station owner in Gweru had to scurry for cover as motorists were baying for his blood for refusing to sell fuel barely an hour after a tanker offloaded at his filling station. In an inc...Published: 20 hrs ago | 648 | by Staff reporter
Calling for talks from burning anthills
There is so much talk about a Government of National Unity (GNU); talk which seems to be gaining traction, especially so with the coming on board of the Zimbabwe Council of Churches (ZCC), and the dem...Published: 20 hrs ago | 200 | by Elliot Ziwira
Deadly ZANU PF officials plot to oust Mnangagwa
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has unearthed a plot by ZANU PF senior officials to oust him using parliamentary impeachment process, it has emerged.On Saturday a faction of ZANU PF aligned to Am...Published: 21 hrs ago | 18089 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe on brink of diplomatic row with US, Germany
A fresh diplomatic row could erupt between Zimbabwe and western governments after Harare threatened to expel envoys from the United States and Germany for allegedly funding protests across the country...Published: 20 Jan 2019 at 16:57hrs | 13270 | by Staff reporter
No South African bailout for Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe's plan to seek an emergency financial package from South Africa suffered a big blow after the region's economic powerhouse cited budgetary constraints as it prepares for its next general elec...Published: 20 Jan 2019 at 16:53hrs | 6050 | by Staff reporter
Kazakhstan firms keen on Zimbabwe investment
Over 50 Kazakhstan companies have expressed interest in partnering Zimbabwean counterparts in various business and economic development spheres.The companies' representatives met President Mna...Published: 20 Jan 2019 at 16:44hrs | 2310 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa must just do the right thing
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's quest to have the economic sanctions imposed on the country by the West lifted is falling by the wayside every day because of his government's actions on the ground....Published: 20 Jan 2019 at 12:30hrs | 7963 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa faces uphill task to re-engage world
Zimbabwe's chances of re-engaging with some of the world's biggest economies are fast fading away after the latest wave of human rights abuses by government security organs which according to civil so...Published: 20 Jan 2019 at 12:28hrs | 3107 | by Staff reporter
Cry my beloved Zimbabwe . . . as country is closed for business
Once open for business, Zimbabwe is closed for business.Shops are closed, people are scared and companies are closing just as is the democratic space that President Emmerson Mnangagwa opened u...Published: 20 Jan 2019 at 12:25hrs | 2123 | by Staff rpeorter
'Dodgy' NGO blasts Mnangagwa's government
A recently released annual World Report by Human Rights Watch, a United States-based organisation, said President Emmerson Mnangagwa and other senior officials in his administration have failed to liv...Published: 20 Jan 2019 at 12:23hrs | 1191 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's minister distances self from fuel crisis
Energy and Power Development minister Joram Gumbo yesterday said his ministry was doing its part bringing plenty of fuel into the country but government, through the Finance ministry, was failing to b...Published: 20 Jan 2019 at 09:45hrs | 1546 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe won't die, the youth will save it
What really caught Ian Smith unawares was presumptuous complacency and his government's arrogance of incumbency… a deeply entrenched sense, both of class entitlement and invincibility based, not so ...Published: 20 Jan 2019 at 09:40hrs | 736 | by Zifiso Masiye
Zimbabwe's internet clampdown: A tale of absurdities
When the current crop of leaders in government executed a clever coup that drove out Robert Mugabe in November 2017, most of us overestimated their ability to think. Those guys are just a dumb lump of...Published: 20 Jan 2019 at 09:38hrs | 297 | by Tawanda Majoni
Let the walls come down
The recent shutdown in Zimbabwe stirred a lot of reflective moments as I took time to engage some critical thinking and problem-solving mechanisms in a bid to find solutions that could address our bro...Published: 20 Jan 2019 at 09:37hrs | 248 | by Cynthia C Hakutangwi
MDC Chamisa has nothing to do with last week's massive protests
The MDC says it has nothing to do with last week's massive protests which brought the country to a standstill for at least three days. Thousands of Zimbabweans took to the streets across the country i...Published: 20 Jan 2019 at 09:28hrs | 489 | by Staff reporter
Mwaruwari threatened with court action
CYPRUS-based former Zimbabwe Warriors player, Musa Mguni is seeking to instigate legal action against fellow Zimbabwean soccer legend Benjani Mwaruwari, whom he claims to have been involved in a prope...Published: 20 Jan 2019 at 09:24hrs | 4982 | by Staff reporter
Bishop Mutendi hails Zanu-PF legislators
THE leader of the Zion Christian Church (ZCC) Bishop Nehemiah Mutendi has praised the decision by Zanu-PF legislators to forego luxury vehicles opting that the funds be channelled towards development....Published: 20 Jan 2019 at 09:24hrs | 554 | by Staff reporter
Fuel deliveries resume
FUEL deliveries at service stations have resumed after being temporarily halted for about a week owing to the violent protests that rocked the country, a Cabinet Minister has said.In a telepho...Published: 20 Jan 2019 at 09:17hrs | 540 | by Staff reporter
'Information as a threat to national security'
We publish the full presentation by the Minister of Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services Minister Senator Monica Mutsvangwa at the Zimbabwe National Defence University in Harare last week....Published: 20 Jan 2019 at 09:13hrs | 337 | by Senator Monica Mutsvangwa
MDC-Alliance's orgy of violence
Around 8am on Tuesday, Lewis Marimo (not his real name) dodges a pelt of stones as he navigates a makeshift barricade at the intersection of High Glen Road and First Street near Kuwadzana, Harare....Published: 20 Jan 2019 at 09:10hrs | 129 | by Staff reporter
It is easier for a 'hooligan' to enter the kingdom of God, than an oppressive leader
This morning I woke up contemplating the meaning of the popular Shona saying, "Zvakaoma sekunamata", and came up with several very interesting, but powerful conclusions.Obviously, the very fir...Published: 20 Jan 2019 at 09:09hrs | 239 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zanu PF goes mad – Zimbabwe Vigil Diary
'Whom the gods would destroy they first make mad', goes the old adage. It seems to be coming true in our new 'reformed' Zimbabwe so warmly welcomed last year by the UK government. The UK is not smilin...Published: 20 Jan 2019 at 09:08hrs | 534 | by ZimVigil
Zimbabwe army and police came out in the open - Dangers of misinformation and disinformation
Most of the information spread on social media have been found to be largely false.We need to recognise that some journalists are being influenced by sources peddling a political agenda, and that ...Published: 20 Jan 2019 at 09:01hrs | 6028 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Mnangagwa arrives in Kazakhstan
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has landed in Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan from Azerbaijan this Saturday evening.He was received by the Minister of Industry and Commerce, Mr Zhenis Kassymbek...Published: 19 Jan 2019 at 18:55hrs | 1282 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa has no product to sell in Davos' says Dr Moyo - true, US$25 m for trip was wasted
In his interview with CNBC Africa Dr Nkosana Moyo got two things right:a) that President Emmerson Mnangagwa's trip to Davos, Switzerland was a waste of time and resources. "He goes to ...Published: 19 Jan 2019 at 17:46hrs | 5348 | by Nomusa Garikai
Plot to embarrass Mnangagwa in Switzerland
Pressure is mounting on President Emmerson Mnangagwa regarding his planned trip to the World Economic Forum (Wef)'s annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, next week - amid Zimbabwe's worsening politica...Published: 19 Jan 2019 at 16:17hrs | 8621 | by Staff reporter
Another Grace Mugabe in the making!
So you are telling me that the whole acting president of the Republic of Zimbabwe failed to bring to an end the strike by the skilled labourers - I mean the junior doctors? But it took Auxilia a few h...Published: 19 Jan 2019 at 16:08hrs | 21073 | by Mapombi Adonha
'Third hand behind Zimbabwe disturbances'
The government has confirmed the presence of a third hand in the well-choreographed violent disturbances and acts of sabotage by the motley host of opposition outfits led by the MDC Alliance, Zimbabwe...Published: 19 Jan 2019 at 15:50hrs | 2139 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe wheelchair-hound, Zimbabweans to foot $4m bill
THE taxpayer continues to foot former president Robert Mugabe's medical bills, as it emerged President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government gave the deposed strongman US$4 million to cover his hospital exp...Published: 19 Jan 2019 at 11:59hrs | 9593 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC won't compensate anyone
MDC Alliance said it will not compensate anyone for the damages incurred during the national stay-away.The party's vice president Morgen Komichi told the Daily News that his party was not behi...Published: 19 Jan 2019 at 11:58hrs | 6955 | by Staff reporter
Internet shutdown anachronistic
The advent of new media brought in a wave of innovative approaches to the distribution and acquisition of knowledge. What the President Emmerson Mnangagwa-led government is doing in shutting d...Published: 19 Jan 2019 at 11:52hrs | 1133 | by Alwyn Mabehla
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