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ZPRA veterans challenge govt to fulfil liberation promises

The Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (ZPRA) Veterans Association has issued a sharp rebuke of the government's handling of liberation war veterans and the broader citizenry as the nation marks Heroes Day.In a strongly worded press stat…

Published: 12 Aug 2025 at 08:23hrs | 89 | by Staff reporter

Mnangagwa's govt fails to honour promises

Traders who lost goods worth over US$20 million in a devastating fire at Mbare Musika last October are expressing frustration over the government's failure to fulfill its promises of interest-free loans to help them rebuild their businesse…

Published: 08 Feb 2025 at 12:53hrs | 902 | by Staff reporter

Mnangagwa assures delivery on promises

CONSOLIDATION of gains made in the first term and advancement of the Zimbabwe dream to become an upper middle class economy will characterise the second term of President Mnangagwa who was sworn in yesterday.The President told thousands of…

Published: 05 Sep 2023 at 06:14hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter

'Don't trust Zanu-PF's electoral promises'

Matebeleland-BASED opposition Freedom Alliance (FA) has warned the electorate to watch out for the ruling Zanu-PF party's false electoral promises.The party said Zanu-PF has been in power for the past 43 years, but had destroyed even the i…

Published: 15 Aug 2023 at 06:35hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter

Chamisa promises projects already delivered by Zanu-PF?

CCC leader Mr Nelson Chamisa took his campaign trail to Gadzema grounds in Chinhoyi yesterday, where he promised to undertake developments that have already been implemented or are being undertaken by the ruling Zanu-PF.In his address, Mr …

Published: 01 Aug 2023 at 06:28hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter

Mnangagwa tainted and haunted by unfulfilled 2018 promises

WHILE President Emmerson Mnangagwa is seeking re-election on August 23 this year, his campaign is being overshadowed by unfulfilled promises from the previous poll, The NewsHawks has learnt.Zimbabwe's economic trend has been spiraling down…

Published: 18 Jun 2023 at 16:05hrs | | by Staff reporter

Unfulfilled election promises frustrate Zimbabwe youths

SOME youths in Bulawayo doubt that elections will better their lives, citing failed promises by politicians and the government over the years.A survey by Southern Eye Weekender showed that there is general disinterest in the upcoming elect…

Published: 13 May 2023 at 19:11hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter

Mnangagwa's Ministers cornered over false promise to military

MEMBERS of Parliament on Wednesday cornered the acting leader of government business in the National Assembly, Felix Mhona, and deputy Finance minister Clemence Chiduwa over an unfulfilled promise made to the millatry in 2020 for construct…

Published: 12 Feb 2023 at 11:13hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

Mnangagwa's second Republic full of promises but no action

ALL the good things the nation wants is what President Emmerson Mnangagwa says and promises: Growing economy; zero tolerance to corruption; openness for business; a listening President; involvement of all Zimbabwean in development, a democ…

Published: 24 Oct 2022 at 06:14hrs | 1 | by Concerned

Zanu-PF made 235 poll promises, keeps 13

Zanu-PF made 235 electoral promises in the run up to the 2018 polls, but only managed to keep only 13, less than a year to polls in 2023, a non-governmental organisation has claimed.Independent policy research think-tank Sivio Institute ha…

Published: 02 Aug 2022 at 06:48hrs | | by Staff reporter

Mr President, Zimbabweans don't eat promises

I AM not sure if the Second Republic led by President Emmerson Mnangagwa is aware that things are going out of hand.At independence, the late Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere remarked that the incoming black rulers had inherited a "Jewel…

Published: 24 Aug 2021 at 06:34hrs | | by Mukunda Chitova

3 years of false promises

IT is now three years since President Emmerson Mnangagwa took over power from the late former President Robert Mugabe with the assistance of the military.Mnangagwa promised a break from the past.He proclaimed a zero tolerance to corruption…

Published: 01 Dec 2020 at 07:00hrs | 3 | by Concerned

War veterans 'tired of empty promises'

WAR veterans from Bulawayo and Matabeleland South provinces have urged Government to address their grievances once and for all as they are tired of empty promises that have been made over the years without action. Speaking during public he…

Published: 30 Jul 2019 at 07:24hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter

Will Mnangagwa deliver on gukurahundi promises?

LAST week President Emmerson Mnangagwa made an unprecedented move to lure the much radical and vocal Matabeleland civic society to his Bulawayo State House.Here, Mnangagwa judiciously allowed the civic society members who had been given a …

Published: 25 Mar 2019 at 11:10hrs | | by Jeffrey Muvundusi

Mnangagwa pays price for broken promises

Influential Americans have expressed disappointment with President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his government for failing to live up to their promises that were made when the country's former leader, Robert Mugabe, was ousted from power through…

Published: 07 Mar 2019 at 06:49hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

Josh Mhambi makes promises to Bulawayo Central constituency if elected MP

The aspiring house of assemble candidate for Bulawayo Central, Joshua Mhambi has made an array of promies to the constituency if he got elected into office."When I am elected to parliament priority will be given to the agitation for the ad…

Published: 28 Jul 2018 at 11:55hrs | | by Stephen Jakes

Mnangagwa and keeping the promise

PRESIDENT Mnangagwa's meeting with members of the white, Asian and mixed race communities at Borrowdale Race course in Harare on Saturday generated a lot of excitement among opposition parties as they struggle to keep up with the Zanu-PF l…

Published: 23 Jul 2018 at 06:50hrs | | by Nduduzo Tshuma

Chamisa's 15 billion dollar promise

'15 billion' seems to be a recurring theme in this election cycle. We heard Nelson Chamisa's claim that he met the Trump administration whereby he was supposedly promised 15 billion US dollars if he were to win the election. That turned ou…

Published: 11 Jun 2018 at 10:23hrs | 2 | by Anthony Mkondo

Promises and lies, Mugabe at it again

President Robert Mugabe has intensified his un-official 2018 election campaign by promising to build 17 mini-hydro power stations in dams countrywide.Next year, he will be seeking another term in office.Mugabe last week said besides instal…

Published: 22 May 2017 at 06:45hrs | | by Mary Charamba

Policies and promises of Zanu-PF, MDC

Zimbabweans are set to choose their next leader this week in an election that many fear will not be free and fair. Africa Check takes a look at what the main contesting parties (Robert Mugabe's Zanu-PF and Morgan Tsvangirai's MDC) have to …

Published: 29 Jul 2013 at 12:21hrs | | by AfricaCheck

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