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FULL TEXT: 'I am sorry for working with ZANU PF' Minister Gandawa apologises
I have felt, for some time, compelled to issue a statement to settle longstanding accusations that I was a central cog in Zanu PF and participated in its violation of human rights.While I read...Published: 19 hrs ago | 8104 | by Godfrey Gandawa
Chamisa loses 15 MPs
MDC Alliance MPs who have been boycotting Parliament yesterday started trickling back to the House and were heckled by their Zanu-PF counterparts, who jeered and labelled them MDC-T instead of MDC All...Published: 21 hrs ago | 6184 | by Staff reporter
List of MDC MPs to be 'recalled'
THOKOZANI Khupe, the acting MDC president, has recommended 12 sitting Members of Parliament (MPs) for recall as she consolidates her power in the party.Former co-Home Affairs minister Theresa ...Published: 01 Jun 2020 at 15:55hrs | 2991 | by Staff reporter
Mthwakazi Human Rights donates to victims of police brutality and torture
The 1893 Mthwakazi Human Rights Restoration Movement on 24 May gave a donation of groceries to two victims of brutality and torture by the Zimbabwean security agents in Cowdrypark, Bulawayo on t...Published: 01 Jun 2020 at 15:46hrs | 394 | by Staff reporter
Supplementary Education Budget necessary for schools to Re-open: ZIMTA
The Zimbabwe Teachers Association (ZIMTA) has appealed to the Government to significantly increase the education budget if schools are to meet the minimum health and safety requirements necessary for ...Published: 01 Jun 2020 at 15:45hrs | 341 | by Staff Reporter
Bosso mull 50% pay cut
OUTSPOKEN Highlanders member Carlos Zidya has challenged the Bosso faithful to engage their contacts to assist the club. Zidya facilitated the club's assistance from Insiza North legislator Fa...Published: 01 Jun 2020 at 08:33hrs | 98 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean fathers petition parliament...demand equal custodial rights with mothers
We the people being bona Fide citizens of the Republic of Zimbabwe, and also being tax payers and constituents drawn from various constituencies in Zimbabwe hereby exercise our rights as enshrined in ...Published: 31 May 2020 at 15:21hrs | 1027 | by Fathers' Rights Movement
Chamisa's MPs irked by Parly boycott directive?
MDC-Alliance legislators are disgruntled over their leader, Nelson Chamisa's directive to boycott parliament business in protest of the recalling of four MDC legislators, arguing that they heavily rel...Published: 30 May 2020 at 14:55hrs | 5635 | by Staff reporter
'MPs must recognise Mnangagwa'
ALL Members of Parliament - including those from the opposition - will now be expected to recognise President Emmerson Mnangagwa following the adoption of new rules by the august House.Parliam...Published: 29 May 2020 at 14:33hrs | 2565 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean MPs press for new cars
THE cash-strapped government is under pressure to release vehicles for MPs of the current Ninth Parliament and Justice minister Ziyambi Ziyambi has been tasked to discuss the matter with his Finance c...Published: 29 May 2020 at 08:29hrs | 731 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's son in US$1m COVID-19 tender scam
GOVERNMENT early this month went out of its way to authorise payment of nearly US$1 million for a consignment of COVID-19 equipment at an inflated cost from a company linked to President Emmerson Mnan...Published: 29 May 2020 at 08:20hrs | 410 | by Staff reporter
Polad meets Mnangagwa on alleged 'abductions'
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has met with the Political Actors Dialogue (POLAD) members this morning in the capital. Led by the POLAD Chairperson on Governance and Legislative Agenda, Professor Lovemo...Published: 28 May 2020 at 13:41hrs | 2833 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance activists charged at hospital hearing
THREE MDC Alliance activists including Harare West Member of Parliament Joanah Mamombe were yesterday charged with breaking lockdown rules at a bedside hearing held at Parktown Hospital in Waterfalls,...Published: 28 May 2020 at 08:13hrs | 842 | by Staff reporter
Human rights defender sets up torture fund
KWEKWE-BASED human rights defender Nkosilathi Moyo said he was putting together a war chest to assist victims of State-sponsored violence.Moyo launched his fight for democracy in 2015 when he ...Published: 28 May 2020 at 08:03hrs | 177 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliances loses confidence in Adv Mpofu?
MDC bigwigs in the Nelson Chamisa-led faction have expressed concern over the continued loss of MDC court cases by the opposition party's top lawyer Advocate Thabani Mpofu.A source within the ...Published: 27 May 2020 at 20:13hrs | 2972 | by Christopher Makaza
Pair in court for ivory possession
Two men from Mutoko were remanded in custody Wednesday when they appeared in court facing charges of unlawful possession of ivory.The two are Peter Kachere (46) and Vambayi Chiripanyanga (37)....Published: 27 May 2020 at 20:10hrs | 227 | by Naume Muza
'Parliament useless without Chamisa's MPs,' says Mliswa
NORTON MP Temba Mliswa (Independent) yesterday said the National Assembly would be "useless" without opposition MDC Alliance MPs, adding that Zanu-PF legislators were incapable of asking probing quest...Published: 27 May 2020 at 07:52hrs | 5593 | by Staff reporter
Mokoomba stirs magic on stage
INIMITABLE Afro-fusion outfit Mokoomba on Monday night justified their profile as the country's biggest music export with a matchless stage performance during the Africa is Mother Live Concert to mark...Published: 27 May 2020 at 07:40hrs | 314 | by Staff reporter
MDC official granted bail
HARARE Ward 23 councillor Stanley Manyenga, who is also the opposition MDC Alliance Harare provincial chairperson, was freed on $1 000 bail on Friday after he appeared in court on public violence char...Published: 25 May 2020 at 13:01hrs | 629 | by Staff reporter
Towards the re-invention of Africa
The world is a huge afterthought. Most of what we know about the world and what happened in it is based on the history that was told later, in the hindsight of the historians.We can perceive t...Published: 24 May 2020 at 08:15hrs | 97 | by Cetshwayo Zindabazezwe Mabhena
Dumiso Dabengwa - Tribute from a civic and personal perspective
The first time I had a close engagement with the late iconic hero Dr Dumiso Dabengwa was when he was Minister of Home Affairs and I was President of the Junior Association of Christian Communica...Published: 22 May 2020 at 11:34hrs | 619 | by Dumisani Nkomo
GMAZ boss Musarara spills the beans on Wadyajena
RAIN Millers Association of Zimbabwe (GMAZ) chairman Tafadzwa Musarara yesterday made sensational claims that Gokwe-Nembudziya MP Justice Mayor Wadyajena was using Parliament to settle personal scores...Published: 22 May 2020 at 07:11hrs | 2930 | by Staff reporter
Man found with human head
HORRIFIC details have emerged in a court case in which a Harare man was allegedly found with a decomposing human head in December 2018.Emmanuel Anesu Matsika appeared before Harare magistrate ...Published: 21 May 2020 at 18:30hrs | 7680 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Chaos rocks parliament as Advocate Uriri is barred from representing client
There was drama at the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Agriculture hearing into the US$27 million wheat facility after a heated exchange erupted between Committee Chairperson Justice Mayor Wadyaj...Published: 21 May 2020 at 12:25hrs | 4002 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Musarara seeks legal representation in Parly
GRAIN Millers Association of Zimbabwe chairperson and Drostky (Pvt) Ltd chief executive officer Tafadzwa Musarara has approached the High Court challenging Parliament's decision to deny him a chance t...Published: 21 May 2020 at 07:42hrs | 365 | by Staff reporter
Fireworks expected as Musarara appears in Parliament on Thursday
Fireworks are expected at the parliamentary portfolio committee on Agriculture on Thursday where Tafadzwa Musarara is set to have another showdown with Chairman Mayor Justice Wadyajena.On the ...Published: 20 May 2020 at 22:04hrs | 2152 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'Zanu-PF will not defer by-elections'
JUSTICE minister Ziyambi Ziyambi yesterday dismissed speculative reports that the Zanu-PF government was planning to amend the Constitution to defer holding of by-elections and form a unity government...Published: 20 May 2020 at 07:36hrs | 2268 | by Staff reporter
40,000+ to die from coronavirus in South Africa by November
More than 40 000 people are expected to die from the coronavirus in South Africa by November, one million people will be infected and the country is unlikely to have enough ICU beds at the peak of the...Published: 19 May 2020 at 23:02hrs | 3703 | by Staff reporter
High Court postpones MDC Alliance MPs recall case
THE High Court has postponed to tomorrow the case in which Nelson Chamisa's MDC Alliance is seeking to stop reinstated MDC-T secretary-general Douglas Mwonzora from recalling MPs from Parliament....Published: 19 May 2020 at 20:19hrs | 5877 | by Staff reporter
New list of MDC MPs to be recalled from Parliament on Tuesday
The Dr Thokozani Khupe led MDC-T is set to recall some of its proportional representation Members of Parliament and Senators who are reportedly pledging allegiance to the MDC Alliance led by Nelson Ch...Published: 18 May 2020 at 06:06hrs | 5240 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mwonzora, Komichi seek VIP protection
MDC senior leaders Douglas Mwonzora and Morgan Komichi have also asked for police protection amid rising threats from rivals in the wake of the Supreme Court ruling which ordered for an extraordinary ...Published: 17 May 2020 at 12:16hrs | 5259 | by Staff reporter
MDC mulls reprieve on election deadline
Opposition party MDC has indicated that it will approach the High Court seeking an extension of the date to hold its elective congress as the country battles to contain the spread of the coronavirus p...Published: 17 May 2020 at 12:14hrs | 4852 | by Staff reporter
MP's recall triggers backlash
TOM Phiri* popped out of a grocery shop at Areno shopping centre in Harare's Kuwadzana suburb swinging a plastic bag with three tomatoes using his right hand.Phiri also clasped a loaf of bread...Published: 17 May 2020 at 09:34hrs | 2331 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo has enough water for a year, says Govt
Government has brushed aside a proposal by the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) to declare the water situation a national disaster, saying there is enough water to last up to 14 months.With the dam...Published: 16 May 2020 at 09:20hrs | 1150 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa dumped by deputy?
MDC Alliance vice president Ms Lynette Karenyi has reportedly jumped ship and joined Dr Thokozani Khupe MDC-T after it emerged yesterday that she was in the latter's WhatsApp chat group organising for...Published: 16 May 2020 at 07:23hrs | 2472 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa intervenes in Bulawayo water crisis
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has been engaged over Bulawayo water woes and Government has started implementing a plan to solve the crisis. To that end, consultant engineers have been roped in to come up with s...Published: 16 May 2020 at 07:16hrs | 958 | by Staff reporter
Arrogance vs ignorance: How the MDC's lurching deeper into chaos
RECENTLY, I wrote two articles which were both published in the Zimbabwe Independent. The first was an opinion piece titled The MDC imbroglio is devastating for the opposition. In the opinion piece, I...Published: 15 May 2020 at 08:16hrs | 736 | by Jonathan Chando
Majority of Chamisa's MPs continue Parly snub
THE majority of MDC Alliance legislators continued their snub of Parliament business yesterday, with the exception of three MPs who defied their party directive and attended portfolio committee meetin...Published: 15 May 2020 at 07:41hrs | 1009 | by Staff reporter
The Daily News won't be bullied by nincompoops within the burning MDC
IT'S a sad reality that Zimbabwe's fortunes have been plunging on many fronts for the past four decades.Unfortunately, one of the things that should have fallen for good by now, but which is s...Published: 14 May 2020 at 10:49hrs | 3777 | by Daily News
Mnangagwa hints at lockdown extension
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday said he was under pressure to lift the national lockdown and re-open the country's ailing economy, but indicated that his priority is to save lives first before ...Published: 14 May 2020 at 08:10hrs | 26915 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa too busy to meddle in opposition parties' internal politics'
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa is too busy working towards achieving Vision 2030 to be meddling in the internal politics of opposition parties, Zanu-PF national political commissar Victor Matemadanda has said. ...Published: 13 May 2020 at 07:26hrs | 454 | by Staff reporter
Push to stop by-elections
THE Zanu-PF government is reportedly pushing to do away with by-elections and allow political parties to choose a replacement in the event a legislator is recalled from Parliament or dies, saying its ...Published: 12 May 2020 at 07:58hrs | 1805 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's suicidal response to internal storms
Following the March 31, 2019, Supreme Court ruling which declared that the MDC leader, Nelson Chamisa's ascension to the leadership of that party in 2018 was unprocedural, there has been turmoil in th...Published: 11 May 2020 at 08:16hrs | 2008 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Chamisa's rivals in disarray
Thokozani Khupe yesterday convened the first national council meeting of a faction of the mainstream MDC where top officials clashed on a number of issues, including plans to recall more Nelson Chamis...Published: 10 May 2020 at 08:25hrs | 11302 | by Staff reporter
Second-hand clothes ban sparks outrage
NOMORE Nsingo has for the past eight years been surviving by selling second-hand clothes at one of Mutare's busiest informal markets.Nsingo, like most Zimbabweans running informal businesses, ...Published: 10 May 2020 at 08:17hrs | 1097 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF's 'revenge tactics' irks MDC bigwigs
THE country was plunged into political turmoil yesterday after the MDC-Alliance suspended participation in parliament pending wider consultations on total withdrawal, as the opposition furiously accus...Published: 08 May 2020 at 17:48hrs | 2042 | by Staff reporter
Shameless move when people are starving
PUBLIC Service, Labour and Social Welfare minister Paul Mavima tells the world that government can only afford to cater for people facing hardships to enable them to survive the impact of COVID-19. ...Published: 08 May 2020 at 00:35hrs | 739 | by Kennedy Kaitano
Zanu-PF says, 'We're not involved in MDC drama'
ZANU PF has no hand in the vicious infighting within MDC-T that culminated in the opposition party recalling four of its legislators from Parliament on Tuesday, a senior Politburo member has sai...Published: 07 May 2020 at 11:13hrs | 566 | by Staff reporter
'MDC-T must be a party of rules'
MDC-T has been thrown into a state of confusion and uncertainty following the recall of its four legislators from Parliament on grounds that they had ceased acting in the interest of their party. The ...Published: 07 May 2020 at 11:11hrs | 982 | by Staff reporter
Jacob Mudenda assisted Mwonzora and Khupe to recall MPs
Former Minister of Education David Coltart claims that Douglas Mwonzora and Thokozani Khupe breached the Constitution and recalled four MDC Members...Published: 07 May 2020 at 10:03hrs | 2136 | by Simbarashe Mwandipendaa
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