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ZANU-PF headquarters shaken as Africa calls spade a spade
Once you see the bigmouth trio of George Charamba aka Jamwanda, Presidential Spokesman, Victor Matemadanda aka Taximan, Deputy Minister of Defence and Monica Mutsvangwa, Minister of Information, spewi...Published: 9 hrs ago | 8511 | by Israel Dube
G40 ministers reported to Grace Mugabe on key Cabinet decisions
ZANU-PF says former senior party members who were part of the G40 faction were less qualified to talk about constitutionalism as they also disregarded it when they were ministers who reported to forme...Published: 12 hrs ago | 4409 | by newzimbabwe
'Chamisa should seriously consider forming another party'
A ZIMBABWEAN human rights lawyer says the Movement for Democratic Change Alliance led by Nelson Chamisa is unlikely to seek a court order to stop the Thokozani Khupe MDC-T from using the Alliance to f...Published: 22 Sep 2020 at 19:10hrs | 3854 | by Staff reporter
Rushed Zim Dollar introduction cost the economy
The Zimbabwean government recently gazetted the Finance Bill (H.B.4 of 2020) which validates the fiscal changes that were tabled in the Mid-Term budget review in July 2020. The Bill amends the Gains T...Published: 22 Sep 2020 at 18:17hrs | 1086 | by Victor Bhoroma
Dozens of laws should be repealed in Gambia
The Commonwealth has said dozens of discriminatory gender laws should be repealed or revised in The Gambia to guarantee equal rights for women and girls within the legal framework.A report - p...Published: 22 Sep 2020 at 16:40hrs | 334 | by Stephen Jakes
Kasukuwere, Mzembi tell Chinamasa to 'stop throwing sewage at us'
FORMER Zanu-PF top officials have accused the ruling party's acting national spokesperson Patrick Chinamasa of using undiplomatic language to fight his opponents.Chinamasa is holding weekly pr...Published: 22 Sep 2020 at 06:39hrs | 6635 | by newzimbabwe
What is Khupe up to?
WEEKEND reports that the MDC-T led by Thokozani Khupe had claimed the MDC Alliance title exposes confusion in that party. It speaks to desperation on the part of the MDC-T to seek legitimacy. But to w...Published: 22 Sep 2020 at 06:35hrs | 3387 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's indigenisation law ill-conceived, says Zanu-PF
GOVERNMENT rolled out an ill-conceived indigenisation policy for political expediency during the late former President Robert Mugabe's era, Zanu-PF acting spokesperson Patrick Chinamasa has said....Published: 22 Sep 2020 at 06:31hrs | 1448 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF vice chair steps down
Zanu-PF Masvingo provincial vice chair Ailess Baloyi has relinquished his post in the ruling party after his appointment as the new chief executive for Chiredzi Rural District Council, since senior ex...Published: 22 Sep 2020 at 06:28hrs | 1677 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF indaba to observe Covid-19 rules
AHEAD of its annual conference to be held in Bindura, Mashonaland Central, the ruling Zanu-PF party has hinted that it is likely to reduce the number of delegates in line with the Covid-19 regulations...Published: 22 Sep 2020 at 06:26hrs | 102 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF to take part in Govt procurement processes, says Chinamasa
ZANU-PF is finalising on preparing a document that will among other issues see the governing party being involved in the lucrative government procurement business.The party's acting national s...Published: 22 Sep 2020 at 06:25hrs | 391 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe may hold solution to Africa's energy crisis
BACK in the early 1990s, Mobil was exploring for oil in Zimbabwe when it came across large hydrocarbon resources in the Cabora Bassa Basin.The petroleum giant explored over an area extending a...Published: 21 Sep 2020 at 20:44hrs | 1897 | by Staff reporter
Numbers & brand only can't take you to State House
Zanu PF is not afraid of Facebook posts, Whatsapp and Twitter rants. Zanu PF only panics when you go back silently to the drawing board to plan and refresh on ideas. Come 2023, opposition may be given...Published: 21 Sep 2020 at 13:43hrs | 2896 | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
Help Mildred Nkomo go to university
An intelligent girl Mildred Nkomo from St Paul's in Gidubhu-area Komba Lupane District. Mildred Nkomo got 11 O's, 3 A's, 5 B's and 3 C's and obtained 12 points in Sciences at A'level. Her situ...Published: 21 Sep 2020 at 10:44hrs | 4138 | by T. Nyoni
Zanu-PF official points gun at colleague
A top Zanu PF official, Tonderai Bosha, allegedly pulled out his gun and pointed it at his colleague following a dispute over a woman, Bulawayo24.com has learnt.The incident occurred in Ruwa r...Published: 21 Sep 2020 at 09:01hrs | 9006 | by Simbarashe Sithole
'Zimbabwe crisis man-made'
OUTSPOKEN cleric and one of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's top advisers, Shingi Munyeza, yesterday said the country's crisis was man-made, and mainly centred on unresolved succession matrix.In...Published: 21 Sep 2020 at 07:09hrs | 2487 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe, Zambia satisfied with progress at Batoka hydro plant
ZIMBABWE and Zambia have expressed satisfaction on the progress made in the construction of the Batoka Gorge Hydro-Electric Scheme (BGHES) since the project was awarded to a Chinese contractor....Published: 21 Sep 2020 at 07:08hrs | 2173 | by Staff reporter
Khupe an embarrassment to women
IT is clear MDC-T leader Thokozani Khupe does not have a political compass, neither does Douglas Mwonzora have gravitas and that extra touch, worse Morgen Komichi is just a natural disaster and a time...Published: 21 Sep 2020 at 06:49hrs | 2846 | by Leonard Koni
'Incorporate youths in ZANU-PF structures'
ZANU-PF must incorporate youths in party structures during the impending District Co-ordinating Committee (DCC) elections in eight provinces since they are competent, knowledgeable and educated to ini...Published: 21 Sep 2020 at 06:47hrs | 236 | by Staff reporter
More questions over SANDF jet misuse by Ramaphosa's ANC to Zimbabwe
The ANC delegation to Zimbabwe shared a flight with Defence Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula, which was en route to the neighbouring country.Political analyst Ralph Mathekga has questioned the...Published: 21 Sep 2020 at 06:46hrs | 777 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF factions hold key to ending Zimbabwe problems
FORTHRIGHT former Cabinet minister, Tshinga Dube, says the push by South Africa President Cyril Ramaphosa and his ruling African National Congress (ANC) to end Zimbabwe's decades-long political and ec...Published: 20 Sep 2020 at 17:28hrs | 3862 | by Staff reporter
Pressure keeps mounting on Chamisa
Pressure keeps mounting on MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa as his former top lieutenant and now MDC-T secretary general Douglas Mwonzora has said that MDC Alliance name belongs to the MDC-T and the...Published: 20 Sep 2020 at 17:26hrs | 5274 | by Staff reporter
Race For Khupe's Position Resumes
THE battle for the MDC presidency begins in earnest in a fortnight with the party receiving nominations of candidates aspiring to challenge interim leader Thokozani Khupe, at an extra-ordinary congres...Published: 20 Sep 2020 at 17:23hrs | 5418 | by Staff reporter
Thambolenyoka was hurt to leave military life
WE continue our interview with Tennyson Mlobi Khutshwekhaya Ndlovu who during the post-independence conflict operated as a dissident and was known as Thambolenyoka. However, during the war of liberati...Published: 20 Sep 2020 at 08:34hrs | 4845 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF DCC hopefuls submit CVs
ZANU-PF members have been called upon to take the process of electing District Coordinating Committee (DCC) members seriously and ensure that they choose people who will further push the party to pros...Published: 20 Sep 2020 at 08:32hrs | 614 | by Staff reporter
'Zanu-PF bond with ANC unshakable'
ZANU-PF and the African National Congress (ANC) will not succumb to machinations by the opposition MDC Alliance and G40 remnants to split them as the revolutionary movements are not rookies to such sh...Published: 20 Sep 2020 at 08:28hrs | 175 | by Staff reporter
Whistle-blowers help bust Covid-19 looters
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) is on record calling on all those entrusted with managing resources earmarked for fighting Covid-19 to exercise a high degree of transparency and account...Published: 20 Sep 2020 at 08:27hrs | 207 | by Comm John Makamure
Gono says Zimbabwe is in a crisis
Former reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor Gideon Gono says there is no need to deny that the country is in a crisis as the problems were self-evident.President Emmerson Mnangagwa and the ...Published: 20 Sep 2020 at 08:19hrs | 3031 | by Staff reporter
Outcry over Khupe recalls
Harare and Bulawayo residents say they have been caught in the crossfire in the ongoing opposition power struggles after the Thokozani Khupe-led MDC-T engineered the mass recalling of councillors in M...Published: 20 Sep 2020 at 08:06hrs | 2008 | by Staff reporter
Professorships must be earned
Professor Jonathan Jansen thinks that South Africa is suffering from some kind of professor fraud. It is about the way in which people are running about in South Africa calling themselves "professors"...Published: 20 Sep 2020 at 08:02hrs | 564 | by Ken Mufuka
What's Mnangagwa and Auxillia up to?
QUITE a morsel of things doesn't add about the trip that Sheik Fayez Muhamad Salem Sultan Al Qassimi has just made to Zimbabwe, outside the winding name. The sheik arrived in Zimbabwe last Sun...Published: 20 Sep 2020 at 07:59hrs | 1371 | by Tawanda Majoni
Mystery surrounds Mnangagwa meeting with sheik
MyStery surrounds the recent visit to Zimbabwe by a top United Arab emirates (UAE) official, Sheik Fayez Muhamad Salem Sultan Al Qassimi, who arrived in Harare last Sunday to reportedly discuss invest...Published: 20 Sep 2020 at 07:58hrs | 1425 | by Staff reporter
City fathers under fire over water
SOME former Bulawayo councillors say the current council leadership cannnot escape blame for the grave water shortages in the city amid accusations the local authority is failing to manage the limited...Published: 20 Sep 2020 at 07:45hrs | 195 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa govt promises 200 000 new houses by 2023
At least 200 000 new houses will be constructed by 2023, while apartments that are unfit for human habitation will be rebuilt and informal settlements revamped as part of a raft of measures to overhau...Published: 20 Sep 2020 at 07:40hrs | 228 | by Staff Reporter
Strictest lockdowns cause surge in viewership of online videos
The adult industry has been seriously shaken by recent events. There has been an increase in online content because of the need for social distancing by creators and also the consumers. Some a...Published: 19 Sep 2020 at 20:21hrs | 804 | by Staff Writer
Road rehabilitation project creates employment for women
THE Government's decision to use local companies in rehabilitating the Beitbridge-Harare highway has created opportunities for women in the male-dominated road construction industry.The wideni...Published: 19 Sep 2020 at 20:20hrs | 1117 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe cities left with less than a year of water supply
WATER supplies in many cities and towns in the country are dwindling, while local authorities face additional challenges of shortages of chemicals and broken down pipes and pumps, Lands deputy ministe...Published: 19 Sep 2020 at 06:22hrs | 466 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe unpacks hemp/ mbanje growing regulations
It is now legal to grow, process and sell mbanje in Zimbabwe, but this does not mean throwing a few seeds in your backyard and waiting for a crop: There is a 32-page statutory instrument giving the ru...Published: 19 Sep 2020 at 06:12hrs | 412 | by Staff reporter
No more singing in Zimbabwe Parliament
PARLIAMENT has enacted a new rule which bans legislators from singing in the chambers, the Daily News reports.Speaking in the Senate recently, Parliamentary Affairs minister Ziyambi Ziyambi, pictu...Published: 18 Sep 2020 at 21:09hrs | 1548 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF's age-old factionalism burns hot
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has deployed Zanu-PF bigwigs in three provinces that are being ravaged by ugly infighting ahead of the party's District Co-ordinating Committee (DCC) elections.Zan...Published: 18 Sep 2020 at 21:09hrs | 1556 | by Staff reporter
Leonard Dembo's music will live on - Tendai Dembo
Born Tendai Dembo on 8 August 1987 in Harare Zimbabwe, Tendai is the second born in a family of three siblings of the late sungura musical icon Kwangwari Gwaendepi popularly known as Leonard Dembo or ...Published: 18 Sep 2020 at 15:30hrs | 1384 | by Leonard Koni
'People must defend their vote' - never ever had a vote, can't defend what is not there
The root cause of Zimbabwe's crippling economic meltdown and political paralysis (politicians on both sides of the political divide are corrupt, incompetent and utterly useless) is the failure to hold...Published: 18 Sep 2020 at 13:59hrs | 1489 | by Wilbert Mukori
We're still Zanu-PF, says G40
EXILED members of the Zanu-PF's G40 faction have said they are still Zanu-PF members and are fighting tirelessly to force the ruling Zanu-PF party to return to constitutionalism, accusing President Em...Published: 18 Sep 2020 at 07:17hrs | 1974 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, Chiwenga fight turns nasty
A POWER struggle that has been simmering for months between President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his ambitious deputy, retired General Constantino Chiwenga, has intensified over the past two weeks, with f...Published: 18 Sep 2020 at 07:16hrs | 24102 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF trashes ANC in explosive meeting
FRESH details have emerged from last week's stormy meeting between Zanu-PF and South Africa's ruling party, the African National Congress (ANC), revealing that the two former liberation movements main...Published: 18 Sep 2020 at 07:14hrs | 5063 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF loses out on goodwill over its stark denialist attitude
UTTERANCES by Zanu-PF acting spokesperson Patrick Chinamasa (pictured) that neighbouring South Africa's ruling party, the African National Congress (ANC), has no mandate to intervene in Zimbabwe's mul...Published: 18 Sep 2020 at 07:08hrs | 1190 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt abuses critics, allege rights groups
GODFREY Kurauone, a Zimbabwean opposition official, sang a protest song at the funeral of a party member in July. For that, and other political charges, he spent 42 days in jail before the prosecution...Published: 18 Sep 2020 at 06:50hrs | 388 | by Staff reporter
Prophet Bushiri accused of rape
Self-proclaimed prophet Shepherd Bushiri might be facing more than just fraud and money-laundering charges. Police have confirmed they're investigating the multi-millionaire leader of the Enli...Published: 18 Sep 2020 at 06:46hrs | 1456 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe takes sanctions fight to UN
Zimbabwe will next week use the opening of the 75th session of United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), that will be held virtually because of Covid-19, to reiterate its call for the unconditional remo...Published: 18 Sep 2020 at 06:44hrs | 341 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF district elections escalate Mnangagwa, Chiwenga fight
THE impending Zanu-PF District Coordinating Committee (DCC) elections have presented a new battlefield for party bigwigs, who are scheming to consolidate their political power in various provinces ahe...Published: 18 Sep 2020 at 06:44hrs | 696 | by Staff reporter
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