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Some Sadc leaders boycott extraordinary indaba in Zimbabwe?
Heads of State and Government, along with high-ranking representatives, have begun arriving in Harare for the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Extraordinary Summit set to be chaired by Zi...Published: 20 Nov 2024 at 06:47hrs | 1083 | by Staff reporter
Call for reparations: A mere excuse by failed African leaders!
As the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting (CHOGM) kicked off this week in Samoa, the topic of reparations for slavery and colonialism has once again been thrust into the spotlight. Sever...Published: 23 Oct 2024 at 20:31hrs | 275 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe referees for Cosafa Cup
Brighton Chimene and Thabani Ruzario are among the match officials for the 2024 Cosafa Cup, starting Wednesday in South Africa. Referees have been undergoing training in Johannesburg, includin...Published: 24 Jun 2024 at 06:35hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
ED2030 sloganeering lacks practicability
GOOD day, President Emmerson Mnangagwa. Your Excellency, as I see it, the ED 2030 campaign sloganeering lacks practicality. It is corrosive, divisive and erosive. It contradicts the time-honoured lead...Published: 19 Jun 2024 at 07:26hrs | 1 | by Cyprian Muketiwa Ndawana
US says companies may review stance on Zimbabwe after sanctions shift
US businesses may re-examine their stance on Zimbabwe following the adoption of a new sanctions program which places only three entities and the nation's top leaders including Zimbabwean President Emm...Published: 09 Mar 2024 at 10:57hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa plots divisive constitutional coup
ZIMBABWEAN President Emmerson Mnangagwa's strategy for a third term - practically a constitutional coup - is now gathering momentum and going full steam ahead after a brief retreat as the military reg...Published: 04 Mar 2024 at 18:43hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa dynastic ambitions laid bare
VIRAL images of President Emmerson Mnangagwa pictured alongside his twin sons Sean and Collins have raised eyebrows amid suspicions that this could be a strategy to psych the nation into accepting the...Published: 01 Mar 2024 at 20:57hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa scared of gukurahundi, plots divisive constitutional coup
ZIMBABWEAN President Emmerson Mnangagwa's strategy for a third term - practically a constitutional coup - is now gathering momentum and going full steam ahead after a brief retreat as the military reg...Published: 29 Feb 2024 at 20:34hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa still engaging Mnangagwa on Zimbabwe's sham polls
SOUTH African President Cyril Ramaphosa continues to engage President Emmerson Mnangagwa over the political lockjam in Harare arising from a shambolic election, with the latest engagement having been ...Published: 11 Oct 2023 at 09:25hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
SADC Troika fails to produce Summit minutes as is per the usual norm?
Following the Southern African Development Community's (Sadc) Extraordinary Organ Troika Summit's ministerial meeting, chaired by Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema online no minutes of the scaled-d...Published: 02 Oct 2023 at 21:48hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Mugabe did not actively push for his family's primitive accumulation of wealth'
THE late president Robert Mugabe stopped his son-in-law Simba Chikore and daughter Bona from joining the scramble to take over the country's third-largest mobile network operator, Telecel Zimbabwe....Published: 13 Mar 2023 at 08:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Knox Mutizwa joins SA top hitters list
Zimbabwean forward, Knox Mutizwa who plays for South Africa's Premier Soccer League side Golden Arrows, has joined a list of top footballers who scored 50 league goals for one club in Mzansi's topflig...Published: 08 Mar 2023 at 05:29hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe midfielder honoured in France
ZIMBABWE international midfielder Marshall Munetsi has been recognised for his rich vein of form for French side Stade de Reims by being included in the Ligue 1 team of the month for February by...Published: 03 Mar 2023 at 06:23hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
CSC Boustead Beef Zimbabwe strikes gold in US
MEAT processor, CSC Boustead Beef Zimbabwe has struck a partnership agreement with United States-based Ethos asset management Inc in an arrangement that will see the American firm providing capital in...Published: 04 Nov 2022 at 05:36hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Globetrotting Mnangagwa walking in Mugabe's footsteps
IN June 2017, the late former president Robert Mugabe attracted an angry backlash following his trip to a United Nations (UN) conference in Mexico on oceans even though the country is a landlocked sta...Published: 25 Sep 2022 at 16:49hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa now 80 years old
ON what was his 80th birthday, President Mnangagwa chose to put in a full day shift on duty as he joined other Heads of State at the inauguration of Angolan President Joao Lourenco in Luanda yesterday...Published: 16 Sep 2022 at 06:03hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Deaths of renowned African nationalist leaders in overseas hospitals exposes cruel deception of independence!
How many nationalist leaders, who bravely fought European colonialism and avidly preached against so-called Western imperialism, actually took their last breath on the African continent, in African he...Published: 31 Aug 2022 at 06:37hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mnangagwa in Luanda for Dos Santos funeral
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa will today join other Heads of State and Government here for the funeral service of former Angolan President Jose Eduardo Dos Santos, who died at a private clinic in Barcelona, Spa...Published: 28 Aug 2022 at 08:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Fortune Charumbira calls for peaceful general elections in Angola
Pan African Parliament President Chief Fortune Charumbira has appealed to the Angolan authorities to ensure that general elections are free and fair. Millions of Angolans will head to the polls ...Published: 22 Aug 2022 at 20:23hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Robert Mugabe honoured by Sadc
FOUNDING fathers of the Southern African Development Community (Sadc) were honoured at the ongoing 42nd Summit of the regional bloc, home to 340 million people and a region that is now charting a new ...Published: 18 Aug 2022 at 06:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa warns that bickering, personality clashes will cost Zanu-PF in 2023
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has warned that bickering and personality clashes threatening to tear his ruling Zanu-PF party could cost it in the 2023 elections.Mnangagwa made the remarks on We...Published: 15 Jul 2022 at 09:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa says military ready to deal with Zimbabwe's detractors or their puppets
ZIMBABWE will not brook any evil machinations meant to weaken the country's State security sector which is ever ready to deal with any mischief from either the country's detractors or their puppets po...Published: 14 Jul 2022 at 07:32hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Strive Masiyiwa net worth jumps 125%
The net worth of Zimbabwe's telecoms tycoon Strive Masiyiwa, who has recently been appointed to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation board, has surged 125 percent to US$2.7 billion (R41.3 billion), F...Published: 28 Jan 2022 at 05:55hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Masiyiwa ranked 10th and US$100m richer
Africa's billionaires are richer than they have been in years, despite the global pandemic. As a group, the continent's 18 billionaires are worth an estimated $84.9 billion - a 15% increase from twelv...Published: 25 Jan 2022 at 17:43hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, Chiwenga were not present at the formation of the Patriotic Front in 1976
The People of Zimbabwe were united under the Zimbabwe African People's Union (Z.A.P.U).When Z.A.P.U. was banned, the party leadership decided that it will not form another political party, aga...Published: 26 Dec 2021 at 16:41hrs | 12 | by Report Phelekezela Mphoko
The slow death of key liberation movements in Southern Africa
SOUTH Africa's governing party, the African National Congress (ANC) - the continent's oldest liberation movement - has for the first time since the 1994 democratic elections - dropped below 50% in loc...Published: 13 Nov 2021 at 05:59hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
2 foreign national up for fraud
AN Angolan and a Congolese national yesterday appeared before Harare magistrate Chido Garwe accused of tricking a soldier attached to the command agriculture programme to enter into a botched US$3 mil...Published: 05 Nov 2021 at 06:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Jomo Sono mourns Shaya
JOMO SONO has showered George Shaya with the ultimate compliment, describing him as the finest attacking footballer to come out of Zimbabwe. The beautiful game is mourning the death of the legendary f...Published: 25 Aug 2021 at 06:43hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe blocked son-in-law, daughter and nephew over attempts to take over Telecel
WHILE the late former president Robert Mugabe's regime was corrupt and incompetent it allowed ministers, top civil servants and its business cronies to loot public resources Mugabe himself was very st...Published: 06 Mar 2021 at 08:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Afro-Sino economic relations in the 21st Century: Mixed Reactions and Misinterpretations
The Author is a Master of Science in International Trade and Diplomacy student at the University of Zimbabwe. He holds a MSc degree in Development Studies (National U...Published: 04 Jan 2021 at 19:21hrs | 12 | by Livingstone Kazizi
A bad-bye to a bad year
Arsenal's emphatic win over Chelsea at the Emirates stadium on Boxing day lifted my spirits in a tenuous and gloomy year in which the despondent people of this country were boxed down mainly by the tw...Published: 01 Jan 2021 at 19:08hrs | 2 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
Chamisa ally listed amongst 100 'Most Influential Young Africans' of 2020
PR & Rating firm, Avance Media and Africa Youth Awards have announced the 5th annual publication of the 100 Most Influential Young Africans list for 2020. The list is curated to recognise young Af...Published: 04 Nov 2020 at 20:54hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa should come clean on name dropping
WHILE it is common knowledge that criminals tend to name-drop each time they are cornered with the hope of evading arrest, the frequency at which President Emmerson Mnangagwa's family name has been th...Published: 31 Oct 2020 at 06:11hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe may hold solution to Africa's energy crisis
BACK in the early 1990s, Mobil was exploring for oil in Zimbabwe when it came across large hydrocarbon resources in the Cabora Bassa Basin.The petroleum giant explored over an area extending a...Published: 21 Sep 2020 at 20:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt to cede TelOne, NetOne majority shares by year-end
GOVERNMENT is moving to complete the sale of its majority shareholding in fixed telecommunications company TelOne and mobile operator NetOne by year-end, businessdigest has learnt.There has be...Published: 12 Jul 2019 at 08:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Failure to deal with currency crisis proving costly for dictators
For autocratic leaders seeking lessons from the toppling of Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, avoiding a currency crisis may be key to survival.It's the same problem that ravaged long-standin...Published: 16 Apr 2019 at 06:54hrs | | by Bloomberg
Currency chaos toppled Sudan's al-Bashir
FOR autocratic leaders seeking lessons from the toppling of Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, avoiding a currency crisis may be the key to survival.It's the same problem that did for long-sta...Published: 13 Apr 2019 at 13:19hrs | | by Bloomberg
PSL scam explodes
MORE damning and incriminating evidence emerged yesterday, exposing a cartel that has been corruptly siphoning funds from Premiership side ZPC Kariba, amid chilling revelations the cancer has spread t...Published: 08 Feb 2019 at 08:35hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo must be puking as Strive Masiyiwa's fortune rises to US$2.3bn
exiled Former G40 Kingpin Professor Jonathan Moyo last week made a jibe on telecommunications guru Strive Masiyiwa saying that Masiyiwa is a Bond-note billionaire, a reference to the local currency th...Published: 15 Jan 2019 at 20:25hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
The West judges Zimbabwe differently
The Western world judges Zimbabwe at a higher standard than it does other African countries, and that's not entirely a bad thing.The temptation is to demand that the European Union (EU) and th...Published: 17 Dec 2018 at 05:40hrs | 1 | by newZWire
Africa's richest woman
No it's not Grace Mugabe, though Grace is not short of money or farms or houses or cars or diamonds. It's someone rather younger - 45-year-old Isobel dos Santos who apparently accumulated a fortune of...Published: 25 Nov 2018 at 18:59hrs | 1 | by Zimbabwe Vigil Diary
Caf to use VAR
CAF has confirmed that it will use video assistant referees (VAR) for the finals of this season's Total Caf Champions League and Confederation Cup next month. The move to use the technology wa...Published: 10 Oct 2018 at 06:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Early sunset to the false start of a stolen election
The past few days have been an indictment to Zanu PF, its politics of falsehoods and the habit of stealing elections.Developments have exposed the pretenders in Zanu PF, that the talk of refor...Published: 07 Oct 2018 at 11:02hrs | | by Clr Jacob Mafume, MDC National Spokesperson
Chamisa should avoid Angola, DRC path
REPORTS this week that Angolan police arrested former president Jose Eduardo dos Santos' son, José Filomeno, over the alleged illegal transfer of US$500 million from state coffers to a Swiss bank acc...Published: 29 Sep 2018 at 13:12hrs | | by Editorial - the independent
UBM shuts down after 50 years
United Builders Merchants (UBM) has shut down after operating in Zimbabwe for the past 50 years.According to employees who spoke to the Daily News on condition of anonymity, UBM management ann...Published: 15 Aug 2018 at 07:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Spotlight on poll observers
Zimbabwe heads for elections on July 30, eight months after the removal of Mugabe. The African Union (AU) and the Southern African Development Community (Sadc) have a mandate to ensure that the countr...Published: 27 Jul 2018 at 11:22hrs | | by Siphosami Malunga
Chamisa legitimising neo-colonialism
Because Mother Africa's children residing at home and abroad are paying extremely close attention to Zimbabwe's upcoming harmonised elections, the individual profiles of the candidates will automatica...Published: 20 Jul 2018 at 07:33hrs | 1 | by Obi Egbuna Jnr Simunye
Zimbabwe seeks global competiveness
Zimbabwe yesterday launched a policy document that lays the foundation for local products to be competitive globally.Addressing delegates at the launch of Zimbabwe National Intellectual Proper...Published: 29 Jun 2018 at 07:31hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Machete attack in fight over woman
A MAN from Esigodini is battling for life at the United Bulawayo Hospitals (UBH) after he was attacked with an empty beer bottle and struck several times with a machete during a fight over a woman....Published: 06 Jun 2018 at 07:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
The dictator's dilemma: How to succeed at succession
Have dictators finally had their day? From retirements to coups d'etat, presidential term limits and opposition candidates winning elections, democracy appears to be making progress across Africa. But...Published: 10 Apr 2018 at 07:21hrs | 7 | by Joe Devanny, Marco Jowell
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