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Kenya's Ruto eats humble pie
Kenyan President William Ruto said Wednesday he won't sign into law a finance bill proposing new taxes, a day after protesters stormed parliament and several people were shot dead. It was the biggest ...Published: 27 Jun 2024 at 09:58hrs | 4 | by Associated Press
Zimbabwe-Zambia relations deteriorate
ZIMBABWE'S relations with Zambia have become frosty since the Sadc observer mission led by the neighbouring country's former vice-president Nevers Mumba revealed gross irregularities in the country's ...Published: 04 Sep 2023 at 21:14hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
NRZ gets US$115m loan to procure new locomotives, wagons
A NEW era is beckoning for the National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ), which is expected to tap into a US$115 million line of credit negotiated by the Government towards procurement of new locomotives an...Published: 25 Jul 2023 at 06:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Africa: Embattling a Continent
When the IMF goes to warSo the International Monetary Fund (IMF) staff has decided to grant Ukraine some whooping USD15,6 billion?Ukraine is at war with Russia.A war funded and...Published: 25 Mar 2023 at 12:59hrs | | by Jamwanda2 on Saturday
Chigumba resists political pressure over delimitation
IN the days leading to 17 February when the final delimitation report was supposed to be gazetted by President Emmerson Mnangagwa, the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) chairperson Justice Priscilla...Published: 26 Feb 2023 at 10:38hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
4 die of suspected poisoning
POLICE has confirmed the death of four family members due to suspected poisoning after complaining of severe stomach pains at Musisinyani village in Mwenezi."The ZRP reports a sad incident whi...Published: 01 Dec 2022 at 04:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa frets over Chamisa's Sadc links?
ZIMBABWEAN President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government is increasingly becoming worried about the growing anti-establishment wave sweeping across the region after a recent shock victory by former opposi...Published: 13 Nov 2022 at 17:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Sikhala says they want to jail him until 2023
ZENGEZA West MP Job Sikhala says there is a sinister political plot by the authorities to keep him in detention beyond the 2023 general elections, The NewsHawks reported.Sikhala, who celebrate...Published: 31 Oct 2022 at 18:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa feels Sikhala, Sithole's prison torture
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa has claimed that the State is maliciously exposing incarcerated legislators Job Sikhala (Zengeza West) and Godfrey Sithole (Chitungwiza North)...Published: 31 Oct 2022 at 04:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Sikhala turns 50 behind bars
DETAINED Citizens Coalition for Change legislator, Job Sikhala, was defiant Sunday as he turned 50-years-old, marking the milestone at the notorious Chikurubi Maximum Prison in Harare where he has bee...Published: 30 Oct 2022 at 12:01hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa stole power, destroyed Zimbabwe, says Chamisa
OPPOSITION Citizens Coalition for Change party president Nelson Chamisa has accused President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration of destroying the country after "usurping" power from the late former ...Published: 20 Sep 2022 at 06:08hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa preaches unity in Kenya amid political intolerance back home
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa says he and other African Heads of States have challenged newly-elected Kenyan President William Ruto to put aside the disputed election outcome and embrace perennial losi...Published: 15 Sep 2022 at 06:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
African opposition leaders should learn to lose with grace
Elections for either presidential or parliamentary positions will birth two people – a loser and winner, so it is important that political parties and their leaders always bear this in mind the mome...Published: 15 Sep 2022 at 05:50hrs | | by Mukachana Hanyani
Mnangagwa in Kenya for Ruto inauguration ceremony
President Mnangagwa has arrived in Nairobi where he is expected to join at least 20 Heads of State from across Africa for the inauguration of Kenyan President-elect William Ruto at Moi Int...Published: 12 Sep 2022 at 19:02hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa set for Ruto inauguration
President Mnangagwa is set to leave for Kenya today where he is expected to join at least 20 Heads of State from across Africa for the inauguration of President William Ruto at the Moi International S...Published: 12 Sep 2022 at 06:05hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa congratulates Williams Ruto on winning the Kenyan election
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa has congratulated Kenya's President elect Williams Ruto despite publicly endorsing his rival Raila Odinga.Ruto garnered 50.5% of the v...Published: 06 Sep 2022 at 19:11hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Kenyan elections: A lesson to Zimbabwe opposition parties
On August 9, Kenyans came out in their numbers to elect a man who will lead their country for the next five years.Dr William Ruto was on August 15 declared as the President-elect by the countr...Published: 23 Aug 2022 at 06:25hrs | | by Mukachana Hanyani
Kenya's Odinga copies from Chamisa's playbook
Opposition figure Raila Odinga said Tuesday that he would challenge the results of Kenya's close presidential election with "all constitutional and legal options" after Deputy President William Ruto w...Published: 17 Aug 2022 at 06:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa congratulates Kenyan President-elect Ruto
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has congratulated Kenyan President-elect William Ruto, who beat his main rival Mr Raila Odinga in a hotly contested poll that was held in the eastern African country last week....Published: 16 Aug 2022 at 06:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa ally bites the dust in Kenyan presidential poll
Deputy President William Ruto has won Kenya's presidential election, the electoral commission chairman has said, amid dramatic scenes.He narrowly beat his rival, Raila Odinga who is seen in Zi...Published: 15 Aug 2022 at 16:53hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Toxic Biti warns of corrosive political divisions; hatred on social media
ZIMBABWE could easily be engulfed in a deadly conflict on the scale of Rwanda's 1994 Genocide which claimed more than 900,000 lives, opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) deputy leader, Tenda...Published: 27 Jul 2022 at 06:42hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Ndabaningi Sithole: Zimbabwe's forgotten intellectual and leader
NDABANINGI Sithole was one of the founding fathers of the modern state of Zimbabwe in southern Africa. In August 1963, he became the first president of the Zimbabwe African National Union (Zanu), the ...Published: 07 Jul 2022 at 08:02hrs | 1 | by Tinashe Mushakavanhu
New crop of opposition political parties in the region
It is believed that opposition political parties are a watchdog of central Government, ensuring that the people's lives and livelihoods are supported, that the country's economy is buttressed by susta...Published: 24 Mar 2022 at 09:27hrs | 1 | by Prosperity Mzila
Zanu-PF rams on brickwall in Zambia
RATTLED by the rise of Zimbabwe's main opposition leader Nelson Chamisa's Citizens' Coalition for Change (CC) and its close relations with Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema's ruling United Party fo...Published: 19 Feb 2022 at 18:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa scared stiff of Chamisa, Hichilema relationship
IN the aftermath of the rise of Zimbabwe's main opposition leader Nelson Chamisa's Citizens' Coalition for Change (CCC) and its "yellow wave" from the ashes of the now defunct MDC-Alliance and Zambian...Published: 13 Feb 2022 at 20:47hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Hichilema invites regional opposition leaders to inauguration
Zambia's incoming president Hakainde Hichilema sent dozens of invitations to foreign leaders for his inauguration on Tuesday, but breaking with tradition, he is also inviting opposition leaders from Z...Published: 23 Aug 2021 at 17:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
No democracy works without dialogue
WHEN a President in the United States of America (USA) is set to address the nation, it is often report-ed that many citizens tend to go about their business and catch up with the address afterwards. ...Published: 17 Feb 2021 at 06:12hrs | | by Gibson Nyikadzino
Trump, a poisoned chalice, says analysts
In yet another not so surprising move, United States of America (USA) President, Donald Trump has refused to commit to a peaceful transfer of power, if he loses the 3 November 2020, elections....Published: 11 Oct 2020 at 10:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa, Mnangagwa must renew cordiality
In 2009, former Prime Minister of Zimbabwe Dr Morgan Richard Tsvangirai appointed the then MDC National Organizing Secretary, Nelson Chamisa to be in charge of Ministry of Information and Communicatio...Published: 17 Sep 2020 at 10:27hrs | | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
Crucifying 'Wiwa' for a mere political rhetoric: A countenance of the Devil
While we mutually admonish instigators of anarchy, despondency, divisiveness and secessionism we loudly criticize an all-out war on the deputy chairperson of MDC-Alliance over an address at a politica...Published: 10 Jul 2019 at 18:41hrs | 2 | by Benny Gudo
'Youth will rescue Zimbabwe' - no, only strong minds will; age, war hero irrelevant and failed
It was the great Greek philosopher Socrates, 2 500 years ago, who said "STRONG MINDS DISCUSS IDEAS, AVERAGE MINDS DISCUSS EVENTS AND WEAK MINDS DISCUSS PEOPLE."Socrates lived during the golden...Published: 17 Jun 2019 at 09:16hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Macro-economic stability critical for development
Countries that enjoy peace and political stability also tend to enjoy economic stability. In Zimbabwe, it appears that there are some critical economic challenges that have been created by pol...Published: 11 Jun 2019 at 06:52hrs | | by Panganai Kahuni
Civil society & opposition leaders' arrests normal for the democratic struggles
A struggle for democracy is not a romantic affair but a game of rugby without a referee. The players may be injured or die within the struggle anytime. I therefore want to take this opportunity to urg...Published: 09 Jun 2019 at 19:41hrs | | by Don Chigumba
Chamisa assembling team to force early poll
MDC leader, Nelson Chamisa says his party's elective congress is a platform for him to assemble a team that will force government to an early election using as yet unspecified means despite the fact t...Published: 25 May 2019 at 20:36hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'West must listen to Mnangagwa, not Chamisa'
This past weekend, Zimbabwe took a dramatic step towards national reconciliation. In an effort to improve the country's difficult economic situation and bring about unity among its confrontational pol...Published: 21 May 2019 at 23:25hrs | | by Martin Banks
West urged to support Mnangagwa
The West should focus on supporting President Mnangagwa's structural reforms, rather than figure-hugging the hostile rhetoric of MDC-Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa, the International Policy Digest has...Published: 21 May 2019 at 23:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's nihilism, a futile role in Vision 2030
THE importance and necessity of ideology in modern politics is to enable an organised institution to speak with clarity, confidence and propose its values to the electorate in a fashion that is persua...Published: 27 Feb 2019 at 06:27hrs | | by Marshall Gore
National dialogue: Chamisa misdirecting himself
President Emmerson Mnangagwa met with the 2018 presidential election candidates at State House on 6 February to lay the ground work for national dialogue, which is aimed at forging unity in order to f...Published: 18 Feb 2019 at 10:50hrs | | by Nobleman Runyanga
President ED Mnangagwa is not sincere about the dialogue
A serious dialogue starts in privacy and secrecy, citizens are in most cases alerted about the dialogue when it reaches an advanced state. Uhuru Kenyatta and Raila Odinga did the same, Kenyans were sh...Published: 08 Feb 2019 at 20:01hrs | | by Don Chigumba
Maimane's money & monkey tricks
Last week the South African opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) leader, Mmusi Maimane handed a letter to the Zimbabwean embassy in that country requesting to meet President Emmerson Mnangagwa over the...Published: 06 Feb 2019 at 08:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Digging to the roots of Maimane's stunts
Last week the South African opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) leader, Mmusi Maimane handed a letter to the Zimbabwean embassy in that country requesting to meet President Emmerson Mnangagwa over the...Published: 04 Feb 2019 at 14:56hrs | | by Nobleman Runyanga
Nelson Chamisa assures Zimbabweans
Opposition leader Nelsaon Chamisa says not even demons in hell can stop him because he is a genuine prayerful person."I am a peaceful man. I am fully born again in Christ. My worship is ...Published: 01 Feb 2019 at 07:24hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Strategic Advice to President Mnangagwa
I strongly believe one can be a good President by taking heed to people's call, with sincerity. Events leading to the shutdown was a serious security concern which must not be repeated by giving in to...Published: 30 Jan 2019 at 13:23hrs | 4 | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
Mtukudzi grabs world headlines
THE death of Oliver Mtukudzi grabbed newspaper headlines around the world befittingly demonstrating the global influence of the Afrojazz icon's work and personality.Newspapers around the world...Published: 27 Jan 2019 at 19:02hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF, MDC talks unfolding behind-the-scenes
WHILE President Emmerson Mnangagwa this week ruled out talks and a power-sharing arrangement with the MDC-Alliance, saying Zanu-PF had won a two-thirds majority in the July general elections, it has e...Published: 22 Dec 2018 at 18:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC at 19: A trail of destruction and failure
Naturally in life when a person turns 19 he or she is considered an adult as he or she can exercise their right to vote, marry and be employed without violating any laws such as child labour. This is ...Published: 30 Oct 2018 at 15:39hrs | | by Elijah Chihota
Chamisa's bravado and inauguration ceremony
THE farcical "inauguration" of MDC leader Mr Nelson Chamisa as president of the country during the party's 19th anniversary celebrations in Harare at the weekend did more harm to the troubled oppositi...Published: 30 Oct 2018 at 05:21hrs | | by Nduduzo Tshuma
MDC @19: A lamentation over the death of democracy
This week the police gave the MDC-T Chamisa faction the go ahead to hold an event to celebrate its 19th anniversary after postponing the event over the cholera outbreak of September in Harare. While t...Published: 26 Oct 2018 at 08:50hrs | | by Nobleman Runyanga
Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF invited to Chamisa 'inauguration'
Douglas Mwonzora, the MDC secretary-general, has extended an invitation to President Emmerson Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF to attend the opposition's 19th-anniversary celebrations which had also been planned f...Published: 25 Oct 2018 at 07:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa became Chamisa's undoing
There is an old adage that says a man who lies to himself and listens to his own lies, comes to a point when he cannot discern the truth within himself, or around him, and so loses all respect for him...Published: 11 Oct 2018 at 12:44hrs | 1 | by Prosperity Mzila
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