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Sophie Mokoena bids farewell to SABC
Veteran journalist and international news editor Sophie Mokoena is leaving the SABC after an illustrious 31-year career, marking the end of an era at South Africa's public broadcaster. The announcemen...Published: 17 Jul 2025 at 19:33hrs | 644 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: Mawarire says Mnangagwa now part of the criminals
Jealousy Mawarire, former spokesperson to the late President Robert Mugabe, has launched a blistering attack on President Emmerson Mnangagwa, accusing him of surrendering executive power to a clique o...Published: 14 May 2025 at 19:13hrs | 4613 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans in South Africa demonstrate at embassy
Zimbabweans took to the streets on Monday, voicing their opposition to President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government and the proposed extension of his term in office.The demonstrations followed ca...Published: 01 Apr 2025 at 08:39hrs | 349 | by Staff reporter
Over 2,000 Zimbabweans were nabbed trying to skip border into South Africa
Over 2,000 Zimbabweans were apprehended while attempting to illegally cross into South Africa through the porous Beitbridge Border Post before, during, and after the recent festive season, South Afric...Published: 15 Feb 2025 at 07:57hrs | 348 | by Staff reporter
Soldiers heighten patrols along South Africa-Zimbabwe border
The South African Defence Forces (SADF) have ramped up security measures along the Malaladrift area, which borders Zimbabwe, as part of a heightened effort to curb cross-border smuggling and prevent i...Published: 30 Nov 2024 at 13:07hrs | 186 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Ramaphosa's Deputy faints on stage
Deputy President Paul Mashatile was rushed to hospital on Saturday afternoon after fainting on stage, according to a report.State broadcaster, SABC News reported that Limpopo Premier, Dr ...Published: 14 Sep 2024 at 16:02hrs | 2877 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: South Africa's new Minister of Home Affairs not committing on ZEP yet
New Home Affairs Minister, Dr Leon Schreiber, has not taken a position yet on the future of the Zimbabwean Exemption Permit. He says he will focus on 'getting it right'. Recently, a Constituti...Published: 04 Jul 2024 at 12:48hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
13 Zimbabweans die in Cape Town crash
THIRTEEN Zimbabweans were killed and 26 others injured when their coach belonging to Simplex Bus Company collided with a haulage truck on the N1 Highway near Hex River Pass in Western Cape, South Afri...Published: 11 Mar 2024 at 04:51hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's spin doctor hits back at 'ungrateful' Sikhala
CCC deputy spokesperson Gift "Ostallos" Siziva has implied that former Zengeza West MP, Job Sikhala, is unappreciative, following Sikhala's claim that the opposition party neglected him during his nea...Published: 02 Feb 2024 at 09:26hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala ordered to stop press interviews
Sikhala blames CCC leaders for abandoning himZimbabwean politician Job Sikhala, who was freed after spending nearly 600 days of pre-trial detention, says he is not a happy man and has little to ce...Published: 02 Feb 2024 at 09:01hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa reiterates stance of rejecting Zimbabwe election
The leader of the main opposition party, Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) in Zimbabwe, Nelson Chamisa, says his party maintains the position of rejecting the election results.Chamisa spoke ...Published: 06 Sep 2023 at 20:28hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
All systems go for polls
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) has finalised the deployment of polling officers and materials across the country paving the way for a smooth voting process tomorrow.Citizens will vote...Published: 22 Aug 2023 at 06:25hrs | 3 | by Stafff reporter
Chamisa's pluses ahead of Aug 23 polls
By addressing concerns about a runoff scenario, Chamisa has showcased his leadership qualities and strategic foresight, reassuring voters of his commitment to decisive victory in the first round again...Published: 11 Aug 2023 at 06:42hrs | 16 | by Sharon Hofisi
Malema says Zimbabweans must fight for their country
South African opposition leader Julius Malema yesterday said Zimbabweans must fight to reclaim their country from "kleptocrats" in pointed criticism of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government....Published: 30 Jul 2023 at 09:00hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe has been hijacked by criminality, says Malema
Ahead of Zimbabwe election slated for 23 August 2023 Julius Malema told SABC News Zimbabweans must fight for their country and reclaim it from kleptocracy and the criminality that hijacked Zimbabwe. ...Published: 29 Jul 2023 at 13:57hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
'Chamisa partly to blame for 'weak' Zimbabwe opposition'
Journalist Hopewell Chin'ono has criticised CCC leader Nelson Chamisa saying his decision to “get rid” of senior opposition figures such as Tendai Biti and Welshman Ncube has weakened the oppositi...Published: 11 Jul 2023 at 23:51hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere unmoved by threats
EXILED independent presidential aspirant Saviour Kasukuwere, has vowed to defy arrest threats and fly back to Harare to launch his election campaign.Police said Kasukuwere had two pending warr...Published: 26 Jun 2023 at 06:52hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Mugabe groomed Kasukuwere for Presidency'
Ex-Zanu-PF member William ‘Acie Lumumba' Mutumanje has claimed late former President Robert Mugabe was priming his close ally Saviour Kasukuwere to take over as the country's leader.Lumumba,...Published: 24 Jun 2023 at 06:14hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
South Africa on the edge! National renewal needed urgently
WITH various leaders and commentators having suggested that things have gone horribly wrong in South Africa since Cyril Ramaphosa became president more than five years ago, to such an extent that the ...Published: 24 May 2023 at 17:18hrs | 4 | by Thandisizwe Mgudlwa
ZEP holders not keen on Zimbabwe return
ZIMBABWEANS that are facing deportation from South Africa after the expiry of their special permits in June are not taking the government's offer to register for assistance to return home voluntarily,...Published: 27 Apr 2023 at 06:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
US sanctions the reason Zimbabweans are flooding SA, says Ramaphosa
President Cyril Ramaphosa has called for an end to sanctions against Zimbabwe, saying that is one the reasons those citizens flood into South Africa.South Africa has seen an influx of Zimbabwe...Published: 09 Jan 2023 at 06:54hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mliswa fights in Sikhala's corner
Outspoken Norton legislator Temba Mliswa has continued to fight in incarcerated Zengeza West legislator Job Sikhala's corner.Mliswa said th...Published: 24 Dec 2022 at 09:20hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
Mnangagwa's govt must fix healthcare system
THE Zimbabwean government has been challenged to fix the country's ailing healthcare system, which has forced citizens to cross the border to neighbouring South Africa to access better health services...Published: 26 Aug 2022 at 06:32hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Limpopo Health MEC says Mnangagwa should save Zimbabweans
LIMPOPO provincial health minister, Phophi Ramathuba, has said there was nothing wrong with her expressing frustrations to a Zimbabwean woman who was scheduled for a surgery at a hospital in Bela Bela...Published: 24 Aug 2022 at 21:23hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Malema threatens to leak video with Ramaphosa counting hard cash in a plane
Economic Freedom Fighters leader, Julius Malema, alleges that there is video depicting president Cyril Ramaphosa counting hard cash in a plane which could be leaked soon. Malema has addressed EFF supp...Published: 17 Jun 2022 at 11:03hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Without incorporating the boy child we can kiss goodbye to ending misogyny and women's abuse!
I still clearly remember sometime around 2007, when I excitedly approached such women's rights organizations as Women's Action Group (WAG), and Musasa Project, as well as the public broadcaster (ZBC),...Published: 16 May 2022 at 11:48hrs | 3 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe engages South Africa over xenophobia
The Zimbabwean Embassy in South Africa has begun engaging authorities in Pretoria to immediately address the recent upsurge in xenophobic violence.South African gangs have recently unleashed a...Published: 10 Apr 2022 at 08:16hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans in SA cash heist
ZIMBABWEAN Ambassador to South Africa, David Hamadziripi has called on Zimbabweans living in the neighbouring country to desist from criminal activities as this tarnishes the good image of fellow hard...Published: 23 Feb 2022 at 05:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZANU PF regime a pathetic victim of its own delusional thinking and propaganda
In aviation, there are numerous causes of airplane accidents - but, they are usually grouped in three categories - technical faults, external factors, or human errors.Technical faults can be a...Published: 21 Feb 2022 at 17:19hrs | 2 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
ZBC has historically always been tool of oppression which never spoke for suffering majority
Not surprisingly, the disgracefully lopsided and seriously flawed propaganda piece flighted by the state-controlled ZTV (Zimbabwe Television), on the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) Star Rally, he...Published: 21 Feb 2022 at 17:07hrs | 2 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Aren't Zimbabwe ruling elite ashamed when citizens have to beg to stay in foreign lands?
Imagine your spouse and children having to flee from home, due to your abusive, cruel, and irresponsible behavior - which had resulted in their untold hunger and unspeakable suffering - thereafter, se...Published: 25 Oct 2021 at 15:16hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabweans blamed for SA xenophobic attacks
ZAMBIAN opposition United Party for National Development (UPND) leader Hakainde Hichilema has blamed Zimbabweans for xenophobic attacks suffered by some of their less fortunate compatriots in neighbou...Published: 01 May 2021 at 20:15hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa 'funding' Chamisa's MDC - report
A South African daily newspaper The Star reports that P...Published: 11 Jan 2021 at 15:47hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF distances self from Mugwadi utterances on ANC
ZANU-PF has distanced itself from a statement issued by its director of information Tafadzwa Mugwadi threatening to expose South Africa's African National Congress (ANC)'s alleged sinister agenda behi...Published: 11 Jan 2021 at 08:00hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF disciplines Mugwadi
Zanu-PF has moved to contain a fallout with the ANC, taking disciplinary action against its director of information Tafadzwa Mugwadi. Party spokesperson Simon Khaya Moyo says Mugwadi's threats...Published: 10 Jan 2021 at 22:18hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
ANC delegate to Harare told Zanu-PF they want to oust Ramaphosa
A Zimbabwean senior ruling Zanu-PF official told The NewsHawks that when South Africa's governing ANC leaders visited Harare in Sept 2020 to discuss the Zimbabwe crisis, one of them intimated that the...Published: 10 Jan 2021 at 18:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF's Mugwadi, Sophie Mokoena in catfight over 'fake news'
Zanu-PF's director of information Tafadzwa Mugwadi has been embroiled in a prolonged war of words with SABC foreign editor Sophie Mokoena over what he claims to be biased reporting by South Africa's p...Published: 10 Jan 2021 at 16:57hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa dares Zanu-PF
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has waded into a potentially explosive diplomatic tiff between Zanu-PF and the ANC over threats by Zanu-PF to "leak a bombshell" that would expose and embarrass...Published: 10 Jan 2021 at 08:13hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean woman dies while waiting to cross border at Beitbridge
A Zimbabwean woman passed away at the Beitbridge border post while waiting on a bus. As reported by eNCA, emergency services are at the scene, but they were unable to revive the woman.Passenge...Published: 22 Dec 2020 at 18:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
How South Africa can nudge Zimbabwe toward stability
What's new? As Zimbabwe's political and economic crises worsen, South Africa is moving beyond its policy of "quiet diplomacy" with its northern neighbour and applying more pressure on Harare to open...Published: 18 Dec 2020 at 06:42hrs | 1 | by crisisgroup
Sophie Mokoena flouted SABC procurement processes, in hot water?
Three top news managers at the SABC are facing numerous charges before disciplinary hearings over irregular expenditure of R2.5m involving a foreign news agency and allegations of poor performance....Published: 07 Sep 2020 at 15:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Car opens abductions can of worms
A leading Harare-based car rental company has been drawn into an abduction and torture saga involving a 22year-old university student ahead of the July 31 protests.Tawanda Muchehiwa, a Midland...Published: 30 Aug 2020 at 11:11hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: SABC airs wrong president Ramaphosa speech
The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) has apologised to President Cyril Ramaphosa after broadcasting an incorrect version of his speech on SABC News on Thursday.https://www.youtube...Published: 05 Sep 2019 at 22:09hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Like Mnangagwa, Mphoko knows he will not be treated fairly
Former Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko is not a fugitive as reported by some sections of media but is at home and cooperating with the detectives from the Anti-Corruption Commission his lawyer has s...Published: 21 Aug 2019 at 07:59hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Latest on Phelekezela Mphoko
Former Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko is not a fugitive as reported by some sections of media but is at home and cooperating with the detectives from the Anti-Corruption Commission his lawyer has s...Published: 21 Aug 2019 at 06:39hrs | 2 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa's POLAD progressive, says top MDC-T official
MDC-T vice president Mr Obert Gutu on Saturday said the Political Actors Dialogue (POLAD) launched by President Mnangagwa in February this year, was making progress. POLAD seeks to bring all p...Published: 18 Jun 2019 at 07:57hrs | 18 | by Staff reporter
Mbeki speaks on Zimbabwe dialogue
Former South African president Thabo Mbeki has said President Mnangagwa is correct in convening the Political Actors Dialogue (POLAD) despite winning the 2018 harmonised elections, and advised other A...Published: 17 Jun 2019 at 09:18hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: Cyril Ramaphosa elected President of South Africa
Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa was elected unopposed by South African lawmakers on Wednesday Ramaphosa as the nation's president, two weeks after the ruling ANC party returned to power in legislative electi...Published: 22 May 2019 at 16:08hrs | 8 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mystery surrounds Chiwenga's treatment in SA
Vice President Constantino Chiwenga is receiving treatment in South Africa, the second time in four months, after falling ill last week.Protestors against Chiwenga's decision to seek medicatio...Published: 04 Feb 2019 at 22:05hrs | 3 | by Satff reporter
Chiwenga's whereabouts unknown
Protestors against Vice President Constantino Guvheya Chiwenga's decision to seek medication in South Africa may have been in vain after South African officials denied that he is being treated at the ...Published: 04 Feb 2019 at 19:40hrs | 2 | by Mandla Ndlovu
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