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Mzembi says unity in Zimbabwe will fix the economy
As the Zimbabwe crisis worsens former long-serving Tourism Minister and candidate in the last UNWTO Secretary-General elections, Dr. Walter Mzembi breaks his silence to weigh in with a prescription on...Published: 10 hrs ago | 42 | by Staff reporter
'MDC better off with Biti, not Cobra'
My PeopleThe ever clueless opposition, which always behaves suspiciously like Zanu-PF employees would make a good case study of how a vibrant opposition political party can remain in opposition fo...Published: 13 Oct 2019 at 08:17hrs | 4905 | by Dr Stop IT
Botswana to repatriate 620 Zimbabweans
ABOUT 620 victims of Gukurahundi and post-independence political violence who are sheltered at Dukwe Refugee Camp in Botswana will be repatriated back home at the end of the month, the Southern Eye on...Published: 13 Oct 2019 at 08:16hrs | 1931 | by Staff reporter
How Nhari, Badza rebels were 'crushed'
Last week, freedom fighter Parker Chipoyera told Levi Mukarati of an uprising famously called the Nhari-Badza rebellion during the liberation struggle. The revolt, according to Parker, s...Published: 13 Oct 2019 at 07:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe National Football Team (The Warriors)
National Zimbabwe's football team, The Warriors, represents their country in an international football game and is governed by the Zimbabwe Football Association (ZIFA), also known as the Football Asso...Published: 10 Oct 2019 at 15:16hrs | | by Staff Writer
MDC MPs give Mudenda 48-hr ultimatum
MDC legislators who walked out of Parliament during President Emmerson Mnangagwa's State of the Nation Address last week have given the Speaker of the National Assembly, Jacob Mudenda 48 hours to with...Published: 09 Oct 2019 at 08:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Robert Mugabe was 90% correct and 10% wrong
The legacy of former Zimbabwe President Robert Gabriel Mugabe remains a contested terrain and it ought to be understood within the context of colonialism and neo-colonialism. The deconstruction of the...Published: 04 Oct 2019 at 10:48hrs | | by Jerry Matebesi
China - Zimbabwe's 40-year relations
ON May 15 1981, former president Robert Mugabe - then Zimbabwe's prime minister - held a meeting with legendary Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping in Beijing, China, which could have changed Zimbabwe's cour...Published: 04 Oct 2019 at 08:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe: A champagne Pan-Africanist
Since the death of Robert Mugabe on September 6, both the local and international media has been saturated with competing, complementary and contradictory obituaries, opinion pieces and narratives abo...Published: 04 Oct 2019 at 08:53hrs | | by Blessings Denhere
'Change is coming,' says Chamisa
Nelson Chamisa hailed the MDC as "the bravest, strongest and most consistent" party as the opposition movement marked its 20-year anniversary at Rufaro Stadium on Saturday.Chamisa said the MDC...Published: 30 Sep 2019 at 17:56hrs | | by ZimLive
Mugabe's body parts on demand, buried in a steel coffin
The bizarre burial of Robert Mugabe saw the former Zimbabwean leader interred in a steel-lined coffin under a layer of concrete on Saturday, following a bitter dispute over his resting place between g...Published: 30 Sep 2019 at 08:32hrs | | by Peta Thornycroft
Mnangagwa calls on churches to lead in unifying nation
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has urged the church to take a leading role in unifying the country to ensure the achievement of development goals set out by his administration. In an address at the Gospe...Published: 30 Sep 2019 at 07:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Taxmen, police, and army take bribes from smugglers
The Victoria Falls, on the mighty Zambezi River between Zimbabwe and Zambia, is one of the world's seven wonders and arguably the largest waterfall by width and depth.It is alternatively known...Published: 29 Sep 2019 at 13:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
The recruits who challenged the Zipra leadership
SEVENTY-THREE-year-old Tapson Ncube passes for just another villager in the Inyankuni area in Umzingwane District, but when one goes down memory lane, the man whose pseudo name was Makhula Thebe durin...Published: 29 Sep 2019 at 13:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's burial a cause for concern as Gucci 'won' Zimbabwe's game of thrones
Grace Mugabe got one more chance to spite the men who betrayed her husband and won this round in Zimbabwe's game of thrones. Gucci's decision lately to refuse the burial of her husband at the national...Published: 29 Sep 2019 at 11:54hrs | | by Georgia Marlins
Good start, bad and sad end: The story of Robert Gabriel Mugabe
It did not have to end this way. It is a story that started well but ended badly. Mugabe was poised to be greater than Mandela or Gandhi. Outside and inside Zimbabwe, Mugabe was revered and considered...Published: 27 Sep 2019 at 08:51hrs | | by Lovemore Gurajena Sibanda PhD
Harare mayor speaks on intensifying water crisis
Zimbabwe's capital, Harare, has been plunged into a crisis by an acute shortage of potable water after two out of three supply dams ran dry due to drought, while the city council failed to buy water p...Published: 27 Sep 2019 at 08:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe finally moves out from Mugabe's shadow
With the passing of Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe is finally moving away from the shadow of his 37-year reign. His successor President Emmerson Mnangagwa has made reforms his priority since he took ...Published: 24 Sep 2019 at 15:07hrs | | by Agencies
The making of Mugabe's intolerance
HOW an autocratic strain of pan-Africanism of the early 1960s sheds light on the late former President Robert Mugabe's seemingly contradictory roles as freedom fighting anti-colonial nationalist, foll...Published: 24 Sep 2019 at 15:03hrs | | by Brooks Marmon
A gentle response to Mr Hanana and Mr Ryton Dzimiri
This article saves to respond and repel the myths raised by the two writers, namely Mr Hanana of Dumiso Dabengwa Foundation and the angry yet incisive firebrand in the form of Mr Ryton Dzimiri. I need...Published: 24 Sep 2019 at 10:53hrs | | by Thulani Nkala
Demystifying Robert Mugabe's Pan-African bubble
When the dust settles, it's time to write. I have just watched Ian Bedowes' engagement of Robert Mugabe's legacy, which got me thinking. I was reminded of my very robust, 'no walls barred' WhatsApp re...Published: 22 Sep 2019 at 17:18hrs | | by Dr Brilliant Sigabade Mhlanga
'Bhora Mugedhi Versus Bhora Musango' : The interface between football discourse and Zimbabwean politics
Football is the most popular sport in Zimbabwe and across the globe. It has been asserted elsewhere that the game is not limited to scoring goals on the pitch but that this also occurs in politics and...Published: 22 Sep 2019 at 16:02hrs | | by Lyton Ncube Siya
Remembering Dr Mzee: Soul of the nation
CDE SIMON Muzenda, who had his last breath on September 20, 2003 at Parirenyatwa Hospital, was declared a national hero and buried at the National Heroes Acre in Harare. On Friday, the nation commemor...Published: 22 Sep 2019 at 10:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's legacy now source of competing narratives, polemics
FOLLOWING the death of former president Robert Mugabe in Singapore, competing and contradicting narratives around his divisive legacy have emerged, reflective of the enigmatic and complex personality ...Published: 21 Sep 2019 at 08:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe praises shows stupidity of hating each
JUST when you think the funeral saga surrounding the late former President Robert Mugabe is finally over, new twists and turns emerge.Not to mention that everyone - virtually everyone - wants ...Published: 20 Sep 2019 at 08:41hrs | | by Conway Tutani
Moving on from Mugabe era
BEING in Harare in the past two weeks has been quite an experience. The Robert Mugabe era has finally closed after his death in Singapore on September 6, even through he is yet to be buried.Bu...Published: 20 Sep 2019 at 08:32hrs | | by Eddie Cross
UN probes Zimbabwe amid 'abductions'
UNITED Nations (UN) special rapporteur on the Rights of Freedom of Peaceful Assembly Clement Voule this week flew into a storm as his visit coincided with the reported abduction of the acting presiden...Published: 20 Sep 2019 at 08:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's roots mystery unravelled
AFTER what seemed an eternity for villagers who gathered at his rural homestead in Zvimba since his demise on September 6, Robert Mugabe's body was on Monday brought back to where his life's journey b...Published: 20 Sep 2019 at 08:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe was a devout Catholic
THE late former president Robert Mugabe was a devoted parishioner who attended mass every Sunday at his Kutama parish in Zvimba, according to the resident priest.However, the fallen strongman ...Published: 20 Sep 2019 at 08:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Magombeyi's abduction requires a firm 'Jamal Khashoggi-style' solidarity response
The recent abduction of the acting president the Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors' Association (ZHDA) Dr. Peter Magombeyi should be a wake up call for all Zimbabweans to finally stand strongly together again...Published: 19 Sep 2019 at 12:10hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
‘We'll be watching' – a reporter's fraught return to Zimbabwe after 16 years
The immigration officer lifted his stamp to put the visa into my passport and I heaved a sigh of relief. But then my passport was taken by a smiling woman who asked, "Have you been to Zimbabwe before?...Published: 19 Sep 2019 at 07:48hrs | | by Andrew Meldrum I Associated Press
Mugabe The Legacy
Born 21 February 1924 in Kutama Zvimba to Bona a catechist and Gabriel a carpenter no one would have thought that such a humble family would raise up an astute Pan-Africanist, Robert Gabriel Mugabe....Published: 18 Sep 2019 at 16:33hrs | | by Daniel Itai
Mugabe coup leaders forgiven
TRADITIONAL leaders in Zvimba yesterday said they had pardoned those who removed former President Robert Mugabe from power through a military coup in November 2017 to foster national healing.S...Published: 18 Sep 2019 at 08:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo reveals Zimbabwe's abduction team
Professor Jonathan Moyo says a group called Ferret is involved in the abduction of citizens and some operations done by the security forces in Zimbabwe.Moyo's statement comes at a time when a ...Published: 17 Sep 2019 at 11:50hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe Communist Party speaks on abducted doctor
At around 10pm, Saturday 14th September 2019, state agents armed with automatic weapons abducted Dr Peter Mugombeya, President of the Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors' Association (ZHDA) in Budiririro, Harar...Published: 17 Sep 2019 at 03:57hrs | | by ZCP
Robert Mugabe: Rule by the whip
Books he trusted. One was usually in his hand in those first, mostly happy, years as Zimbabwe's leader. He would be home at State House by 5:30pm, slamming doors so that his beloved wife Sally would k...Published: 15 Sep 2019 at 08:04hrs | | by The Economist
A too-comfortable end for Mugabe
"Peace has come to Zimbabwe/Third World's right on the one/Now's the time for celebration/ ‘Cause we've only just begun." So sings Stevie Wonder in Master Blaster, his 1980 hit single. And he wasn't...Published: 15 Sep 2019 at 07:43hrs | | by Jason L Riley
Is grieving Grace behind Mugabe funeral plans drama?
The controversy swirling around the burial of Zimbabwe's founding leader, Robert Mugabe, centers on his widow, Grace, who has remained dramatically cloaked behind a heavy black veil as she succeeded i...Published: 14 Sep 2019 at 22:56hrs | | by AP
Ex-fighter sheds light on Mugabe's escape to Mozambique
Robert Gabriel Mugabe's life epitomises a journey well travelled, with cumulative substance offering new horizons where outspokenness made and indeed earned him the coveted place of being the darling ...Published: 14 Sep 2019 at 08:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kalanga association rubbishes recently installed Mambo King
The Kalanga Language and Cultural Development Association (KLCDA), a representative association of the Kalanga Nation in Zimbabwe and affiliated to the Society for the Promotion of iKalanga Language ...Published: 14 Sep 2019 at 09:09hrs | | by Kalanga Association KLCDA
Mugabe's pictures
AS the country continues to celebrate the life of the late former President Robert Mugabe, The Chronicle went to its archives to get some pictures taken by its photojournalists over the years....Published: 13 Sep 2019 at 23:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe: A liberator turned oppressor
ROBERT Mugabe, who led Zimbabwe for almost four decades, died aged 95, leaving behind an indelible stain on his country's human rights record.His early years as leader of Zimbabwe, following t...Published: 13 Sep 2019 at 07:47hrs | | by Amnesty International
I dreaded Mugabe's death for years, write ex-CIO boss
ON Friday September 6 2019, I woke up to the news that former President Comrade Robert Gabriel Mugabe was no more. His death was something I dreaded for years as I worked to secure his wellbeing....Published: 13 Sep 2019 at 07:39hrs | | by Happyton Mabhuya Bonyongwe
Mugabe leaves a bitter legacy
ROBERT MUGABE'S career can be divided into three main parts.First, as an extraordinarily skilful leader who managed to dominate a fractious nationalist movement opposed to the white-supremacis...Published: 13 Sep 2019 at 07:35hrs | | by The Economist
Mugabe swallowed by Frankenstein monster
ONE of the country's greatest orators - and demagogue too - former president Robert Mugabe, was controversial in life and now in death. Although he was ideologically difficult to pin down given his co...Published: 13 Sep 2019 at 07:33hrs | | by Gumisai Nyoni
Mugabe's influence on sports
BRUCE Grobbelaar, the legendary Liverpool goalkeeper, claims he was forced out of Zimbabwe by him.Peter Ndlovu, possibly the finest Zimbabwean footballer of all time, says he played a pivotal ...Published: 13 Sep 2019 at 07:30hrs | | by Enock Muchinjo
Zimbabwe an example of how to co-exist, says Muchinguri-Kashiri
ZIMBABWE is a shining example of how to co-exist in the region and beyond, a sign of maturity by its people, Defence and War Veterans Minister Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri has said. She was speaki...Published: 12 Sep 2019 at 20:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe to be buried in Kutama next week
Zimbabwe's former president Robert Mugabe will be buried early next week in his village and not at a national monument for liberation heroes, his family said on Thursday.The family of Mugabe, ...Published: 12 Sep 2019 at 10:07hrs | | by Zimlive
Mugabe's dogmatic policies stalled Zimbabwe
A SOUTH African corporate watchdog has said the late former President Robert Mugabe could have taken Zimbabwe far had he not adopted dogmatic economic policies prescribed by the International Monetary...Published: 10 Sep 2019 at 21:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ghanaians saw Mugabe as their in-law
In our series of letters from African writers, journalist and former Ghana government minister Elizabeth Ohene writes that Zimbabwe's ex-President Robert Mugabe, who has died aged 95, had a special pl...Published: 10 Sep 2019 at 19:33hrs | | by BBC
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