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Chamisa concedes defeat in the battle for MDC?
FORMER MDC leader Mr Nelson Chamisa conceded defeat in the battle for control of the heart and soul of the opposition party as he surrendered the name MDC-Alliance to adopt the name Citizen Coalition ...Published: 25 Jan 2022 at 05:40hrs | 638 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans sold a dummy by the coup
In 2017 some months after the coup, people were still gripped with some frenzy of excitement that Robert Mugabe the once powerful leader who ruled by iron fist has been dethroned.Many people v...Published: 24 Jan 2022 at 20:30hrs | 608 | by Leonard Koni
Mary Mliswa targets rivals in purging spree
THE infighting within Zanu-PF Mashonaland West is raging on, with an elaborate plot to suspend, and consequently remove, Zvimba district coordinating committee (DCC) chairman Bywell Mbiri sparking ren...Published: 23 Jan 2022 at 08:04hrs | 1638 | by Staff reporter
MDC provinces endorse Khupe suspension
SUSPENDED MDC-T Vice President, Thokozani Khupe's troubles continue to mount after eight MDC-T political provinces endorsed her suspension.The eight provinces are: Bulawayo, Harare, Matebelela...Published: 23 Jan 2022 at 08:03hrs | 2379 | by Staff reporter
'African dictators face resistance'
AFRICA is witnessing increasing resistance to autocratic regimes, Zimbabwe included, where opposition and human rights activists are taking to the streets at the risk of being arrested or shot, the Hu...Published: 22 Jan 2022 at 05:24hrs | 1133 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF cults, national myths, hegemony
THE British are renowned for their liking of leaders, particularly those who took them through tough periods like the Second World War and the Cold War-era. Most notable are army commander Winston Chu...Published: 22 Jan 2022 at 05:23hrs | 218 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
SADC has leverage to force Zanu PF to accede to reform, giving that up for 'winning in rigged elections strategies' is insane
Over the weekend Hopewell Chinono hosted a twitter discussion on "The importance of NOT boycotting elections with #ProfLevitsky". "I consider Zimbabwe to be a competitive authoritarian regime....Published: 19 Jan 2022 at 12:07hrs | 1393 | by Wilbert Mukori
Chiwenga's estranged wife awaits verdict as State closes her case
VICE-PRESIDENT Constantino Chiwenga's estranged wife Marry Mubaiwa, who is being accused of attempting to forge her marriage certificate, will know her fate on February 4 when Harare magistrate Lazini...Published: 19 Jan 2022 at 05:25hrs | 527 | by Staff reporter
Chinese miner evicts villagers
CHINESE mining company, Monaf Investments has given villagers in Muchesu ward 12, Binga, three months' notice to vacate their ancestral land after it was granted a permit to extract coal in the area....Published: 19 Jan 2022 at 05:24hrs | 833 | by Staff reporter
Rebranding is a matter of life and death for MDC-Alliance
WILLIAM Shakespeare, the 16th century English playwright who once prominently featured on the Zimbabwean Ordinary Level and Advanced Level English literature school curriculum, once rhetorically asked...Published: 16 Jan 2022 at 18:16hrs | 908 | by Taona T. Denhere
Floods wreak havoc as downpours persist
The persistent rains falling countrywide have seen the usual seasonal flooding in some areas and blocked drains in urban areas.The rainy season started late, but since New Year rain has been f...Published: 14 Jan 2022 at 05:17hrs | 295 | by Staff reporter
Zondo's stunt backfires as his credibility is questioned
Acting Chief Justice Raymond Zondo's press briefing to ‘address' tourism minister Lindiwe Sisulu's opinion piece has backfired and opened him to questions regarding his credibility.Various s...Published: 12 Jan 2022 at 23:38hrs | 3832 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa activist's trial kicks off January 18
THE trial of MDC Alliance Makomborero Haruzivishe has been set for January 18.Haruzivishe who was released from remand prison on Saturday after spending 10 months in prison appeared before mag...Published: 12 Jan 2022 at 23:14hrs | 240 | by Staff reporter
Demolitions of illegal structures to spread across all cities
The government says it will carry out more demolitions of illegal structures in the Harare as part of its ambition to create "smart cities".Over the weekend, the government directed the City o...Published: 12 Jan 2022 at 23:12hrs | 674 | by Staff reporter
Violence Rocks New Zanu-PF Mashonaland West PCC
VIOLENCE dominated the new Zanu-PF provincial joint council of the main wing, women's and youth leagues' inaugural meeting held in Chinhoyi Saturday.The meeting was meant to officially hand ov...Published: 10 Jan 2022 at 06:04hrs | 2404 | by Staff reporter
Adv Sibanda declared national hero
THE Zanu-PF Politburo has posthumously declared the late former High Court Judge Advocate Siwanda Kennedy Mbuso Sibanda a national hero.Adv Sibanda, a legal icon of the liberation struggle, di...Published: 06 Jan 2022 at 18:58hrs | 483 | by Staff reporter
'Don't cause Zambian wildlife loss' British govt told
The President for Zambia National Community Resources Board Association(ZNCRBA)Mr George Tembo said that the British Government's recent announcement to ban international trophy hunting impo...Published: 06 Jan 2022 at 15:15hrs | 2114 | by Emmanuel Koro
Djokovic controversy exposes crumbling pro-mandatory COVID-19 vaccine house of cards
As tennis world number one Novak Djokovic sparks controversy over his granting of a medical exemption from mandatory COVID-19 vaccination requirement to enter Australia for the a major grand slam tour...Published: 05 Jan 2022 at 13:01hrs | 1440 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Grade 7 exam markers clash with ZIMSEC
TEACHERS marking 2021 Grade Seven examinations have vowed to resist the Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (ZIMSEC)'s decision to demand Covid-19 test certificates.ZIMSEC last week wrote a m...Published: 05 Jan 2022 at 05:55hrs | 923 | by Staff reporter
Kamambo resists SRC engineered extraordinary general meeting
Suspended Zifa president Felton Kamambo has refused to call for an extraordinary general meeting requested by some association councillors in line with Article 28 of the Zifa constitution.Kama...Published: 05 Jan 2022 at 05:55hrs | 541 | by Staff reporter
Lawyers sue police over house fire
THE Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) have threatened to sue police after a Chitungwiza man lost household property in a fire when he was arrested and denied a chance to put out a mosquito coil...Published: 04 Jan 2022 at 05:59hrs | 1396 | by Staff reporter
UK can help solve mystery of Mbuya Nehanda's missing skull
FOR Zimbabweans have been calling on Britain to return the skulls of a former spiritual leader, Mbuya Nehanda, and several chiefs who were killed during the First Chimurenga, an Ndebele-Shona revolt a...Published: 02 Jan 2022 at 09:06hrs | 603 | by Staff reporter
Stalinist approach to COVID-19 vaccines only fuels more hesitancy and skepticism!
The easiest way to make someone mistrust and distrust you (arousing suspicions about you), is to act as if you are hiding something from him....Published: 01 Jan 2022 at 08:41hrs | 601 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
'Chamisa has debunked Zanu-PF myths,' claims MDC Chamisa
THE MDC Alliance yesterday said it "scored big" in 2021 by demystifying "the myth that rural areas were strongholds for Zanu-PF" following opposition leader Nelson Chamisa's whirlwind tours which saw ...Published: 31 Dec 2021 at 00:09hrs | 1888 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa activist tastes freedom after 9 months
THE High Court yesterday granted bail to MDC Alliance activist Makomborero Haruziviishe who was jailed early this year for staging an illegal demonstration last year.Justice Webster Chinamhora...Published: 30 Dec 2021 at 07:55hrs | 499 | by Staff reporter
Violence erupts as aspiring Zanu-PF chairman 'smuggles' ballot boxes
ASPIRING Zanu-PF Mashonaland West chairman, Vengai Musengi has courted the ire of his rivals, who accuse him of transporting stuffed ballot boxes and attempting to impose his preferred presiding offic...Published: 29 Dec 2021 at 19:55hrs | 1474 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: Makomborero Haruzivishe granted bail
The High Court of Harare has granted bail to opposition activist Makomborero Haruzivishe after being successfully represented by Prof. Lovemore Madhuku and Simon Chabuka.Haruzivishe was arrest...Published: 29 Dec 2021 at 08:43hrs | 3612 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'Army plays decisive role in politics' - Zanu PF fuelled conjecture, without one iota of evidence
"It is beyond any iota of doubt in Zimbabwe that the institution of the military plays a decisive factor in the politics of the country," reported The Independent. "Numerous "clever" politicians ...Published: 26 Dec 2021 at 09:50hrs | 654 | by Wilbert Mukori
Chamisa says Zimbabwe is a banana republic
MDC Alliance President Nelson Chamisa has described Zimbabwe as a Banana Republic, led by Zanu-PF, a party that views the country as a one-party state.Speaking on The Namibian's Desert Radio, ...Published: 26 Dec 2021 at 07:46hrs | 2539 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe military remains single decisive factor in politics
The opprobrium that characterised the rebuke of remarks made by Chief Murinye by the Vice President of Zimbabwe, Dr Constantino Chiwenga exemplifies the reality around the power matrix in Zimbabwe....Published: 24 Dec 2021 at 16:40hrs | 1176 | by Sapien Sapien
Jonathan Moyo revokes offer to train Chamisa's poll agents
SELF-EXILED former minister Jonathan Moyo has withdrawn an offer to train MDC Alliance polling agents ahead of the elections expected in 2023, claiming the opposition party failed to take a clear posi...Published: 22 Dec 2021 at 04:51hrs | 7184 | by Staff reporter
How to effectively set realistic goals for 2022
With the pandemic still in full swing, 2021 has been a tough year for many. Some have struggled with slow business, loss of employment, renewed lockdowns and not being able to see family and friends. ...Published: 21 Dec 2021 at 19:41hrs | 110 | by Staff Writer
Mnangagwa shuts down dissenting voices
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa once famously declared that he is soft as wool, but beneath that woolie facade lies a ruthless determination to either co-opt or coerce those he believes are a threat to h...Published: 19 Dec 2021 at 19:00hrs | 959 | by Blessing Goronga
Bulawayo family held hostage, robbed
A BULAWAYO family was last Friday evening held hostage for two hours by armed robbers who broke into their home in the affluent suburb of Burnside.Mr Mtsheki Sibanda and his family were trauma...Published: 19 Dec 2021 at 07:03hrs | 679 | by Staff reporter
Thokozani Khupe tasting her own medicine
The MDC-T outfit is just a reconfiguration and transformation of fatigued, greedy visionless politicians, retired by democratic process.The likes of Douglas Mwonzora, Morgan Komichi, Tho...Published: 17 Dec 2021 at 17:23hrs | 4129 | by Leonard Koni
If Zimbabweans not angry enough over their oppression and suffering, then I don't know what we really want!
After another bout of involuntary strenuous morning exercises - engaging in some heavy lifting of several twenty litre (20lt) plastic containers [weighing about twenty-five to thirty kilograms (25-30k...Published: 14 Dec 2021 at 09:26hrs | 1292 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Matabeleland tops in child-headed families
MOST families in the Matabeleland region are either child-headed or female-headed after they lost one or both of their parents, and are reportedly in need of assistance to mitigate the effects of COVI...Published: 14 Dec 2021 at 05:54hrs | 369 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans in SA still collect ARVs locally
ZIMBABWEANS living in South Africa continue to collect antiretrovirals (ARVs) locally as many are undocumented and cannot access the health care facilities easily in the neighbouring country, a situat...Published: 12 Dec 2021 at 20:09hrs | 67 | by Staff reporter
BUSE students forced to sit exams during Covid-19 outbreak
The Bindura University of Science Education (BUSE) on Monday controversially commenced examinations despite a Covid-19 outbreak at the institution.The university ignored pleas to postpone exam...Published: 12 Dec 2021 at 19:49hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Mutare town clerk defies suspension
MUTARE acting town clerk Tinashe Mtetwa has continued reporting for work in defiance of a suspension order, setting the stage for a potentially bruising boardroom fight.Mayor Blessing Tandi su...Published: 12 Dec 2021 at 19:18hrs | 40 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa ready to rule
MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has declared he was ready to rule the country and solve the country's economic problems.He made the declaration during to tombstone unveiling ceremony for hi...Published: 05 Dec 2021 at 06:20hrs | 173 | by Staff reporter
Pupils shun teen vaccination programme
BULAWAYO health officials say some pupils are resisting to be vaccinated in the ongoing vaccination programme targeting teenagers aged 16 and 17, a challenge blamed on parents and guardians' vaccinati...Published: 03 Dec 2021 at 05:29hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Do our leaders and scientists even understand how COVID-19 vaccines work?
I am not trying to sound cocky - but, this is the question that has bothered me ever since the development and introduction of vaccines meant to fight and curb the COVID-19 pandemic.This quest...Published: 29 Nov 2021 at 19:04hrs | 7 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Chamisa in fresh call for dialogue following murder of MDC activist - implement reforms, hypocrite
The sheer hypocrisy and duplicity of MDC leaders when it comes to dealing with the thorny issue of Zimbabwe's political culture of violence, never seize t...Published: 28 Nov 2021 at 19:40hrs | 6 | by Nomusa Garikai
MDC still can't 'do the obvious - withdraw from (sham) elections' out of greed - will SADC continue punish povo for it
There is a real danger of Zimbabwe sending the wrong and confused message to SADC and the international community at large; yet again. SADC and the world at large want to know whether Zimbabweans want...Published: 26 Nov 2021 at 20:26hrs | 6 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Some Zimbabwe coup troopers die without enjoying benefits of their sweat
SEVERAL key players in the 2017 coup that toppled the late former President Robert Mugabe and elevated President Emmerson Mnangagwa to the helm have died in the past four years without fully realising...Published: 22 Nov 2021 at 06:15hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa for Life President, says Chiwenga
VICE-PRESIDENT Constantino Chiwenga has unwittingly exposed the ruling Zanu-PF party's plans to use its parliamentary majority to railroad constitutional amendments and declare its leader Emmerson Mna...Published: 22 Nov 2021 at 06:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa lawyers are bullies: Zanu-PF activist
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's lawyers have been accused of applying "bullying tactics" after they threatened to sue a legal firm representing Zanu-PF activist Edwin Manikai who is challenging the par...Published: 22 Nov 2021 at 06:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Firm loses five smuggled trucks
The Supreme Court has confirmed the forfeiture of five haulage trucks smuggled into the country by a local company saying they were tainted property.Madefit Investments (Pvt) Limited is said t...Published: 22 Nov 2021 at 05:52hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans' fear of their oppressors makes them an attractive magnet for dictators!
I have often wondered whether Zimbabweans were the easiest people to oppress on this planet.I once even wrote any article, some years ago, postulating that Zimbabweans themselves were the main...Published: 21 Nov 2021 at 08:45hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
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