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Zimbabwe's covert operation targets dissent ahead of 2028 elections?
As Zimbabwe's political landscape heats up in anticipation of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's potential power retention schemes, a covert operation reportedly aims to silence dissenting voices througho...Published: 21 Oct 2024 at 07:52hrs | 894 | by Staff reporter
Zambia's Hakainde Hichilema threatening to delay 2026 elections
On 13 September, Zambia's President Hakainde Hichilema addressed parliament in fulfilment of the Constitution that requires the president to address the National Assembly every year and provide a repo...Published: 26 Sep 2024 at 14:55hrs | 654 | by Sishuwa Sishuwa
Hichilema gears up to change Zambia's constitution
As President Hakainde Hichilema of Zambia made his annual address to parliament on 13 September, he shocked many observers as he made a series of revealing off-the-cuff remarks on the topic of constit...Published: 26 Sep 2024 at 13:36hrs | 357 | by Sishuwa Sishuwa
Bulawayo demands transparent food aid registration
Residents in Bulawayo have voiced concerns about the lack of transparency in the registration process for drought relief cash transfers, amid allegations of corruption. Many residents are unclear abou...Published: 23 Aug 2024 at 06:45hrs | 67 | by Staff reporter
Zec voter registration raises dust
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) is reportedly conducting a covert voter registration drive in rural areas where the ruling Zanu-PF party has a strong voter base. Critics claim that this operat...Published: 12 Aug 2024 at 13:59hrs | 221 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa succession takes centre stage in Zanu-PF
Zanu-PF finds itself in a familiar predicament as President Emmerson Mnangagwa's supporters aggressively advocate for his potential extension of presidency beyond 2030, despite his current term ending...Published: 15 Jul 2024 at 16:36hrs | 2004 | by Staff reporter
Shareholders cream off US$1,6b from Mutapa
Zimbabwe's debt restructuring talks are at risk following revelations that the country's liabilities may have increased due to a secretive US$1.6 billion payment to unknown shareholders under the sove...Published: 04 Jul 2024 at 09:33hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
'Chivayo flying too close to the sun with wax wings'
INFORMATION and Broadcasting Services secretary Ndavaningi 'Nick' Mangwana has insinuated that controversial businessman Wicknell Chivayo who implicated President Emmerson Mnangagwa in his extensive a...Published: 11 Jun 2024 at 08:43hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Why is Zanu-PF opening branches and office in South Africa?
Out of all liberation parties in Africa, Zanu PF is the only one that is opening offices and branches in all major South African cities and beyond. For an independent country like Zimbabwe, an embassy...Published: 17 May 2024 at 13:45hrs | 16 | by Israel Dube
Zimbabwe is in hands of callous ruling elite
GOOD day, President Emmerson Mnangagwa.Your Excellency, methinks Zimbabwe is in the hands of a callous ruling elite. It is my conviction that the country is not governed according to rule of t...Published: 21 Feb 2024 at 07:16hrs | 6 | by Cyprian Muketiwa Ndawana
Mark Zuckerberg builds US$100 million underground house as he prepares for Doomsday
In a move that has sparked intense speculation, Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg is reportedly in the process of constructing a sprawling $100 million compound in Hawaii, featuring an underground bunker a...Published: 18 Dec 2023 at 07:26hrs | 933 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Divorce cases spike in Zimbabwe
INFIDELITY, social media abuse, poor communication, grudges and gender-based violence are among top drivers of divorces across the country with Bulawayo alone recording 658 divorces this year al...Published: 15 Dec 2023 at 07:25hrs | 51 | by Staff reporter
Zambia is on the verge of being a one-party state
Zambia's former ruling parties have typically fared poorly after losing power. The United National Independence Party (UNIP) ruled for 27 years but gradually collapsed following its defeat in 1991. Th...Published: 12 Dec 2023 at 21:11hrs | 11 | by Sishuwa Sishuwa
Secrecy surrounding resource-backed loans in Zimbabwe
IntroductionTO realize the aspirations of Vision 2030, Zimbabwe needs to invest US$2 billion in infrastructure development in five consecutive years to close the infrastructure asset gap, a hu...Published: 07 Dec 2023 at 05:29hrs | 12 | by Mbongeni Nhliziyo
Mnangagwa clips Mthuli Ncube's wings
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has clipped Finance minister Mthuli Ncube's wings by removing the Zimbabwe Investment Development Agency (ZIDA) Act from his ministry.This comes amid fears t...Published: 11 Nov 2023 at 15:55hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Charamba exposes Chamisa?
FROM as early as 2018, CCC leader Mr Nelson Chamisa sent various envoys who included journalists, businessmen and church leaders to open talks with President Mnangagwa but all his missions collapsed a...Published: 16 Oct 2023 at 06:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Politics of ethnicity: Jumping from the pan into the fire
BELOW is a book excerpt from In Search of the Elusive Zimbabwean Dream, Volume III (Ideas and Solutions) by Professor Arthur Mutambara.President Emmerson Mnangagwa's new Cabinet shocked many b...Published: 29 Sep 2023 at 08:31hrs | 6 | by Arthur Mutambara
Nkomo not afraid of competition for Bulawayo deputy mayor post
Ward 4 Councillor Dumisani Nkomo, who is being tipped for Bulawayo's deputy mayor post, has said he is not afraid of competition and is ready to fight for the position.Nkomo's comments come af...Published: 08 Sep 2023 at 06:43hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Fake candidates shocked to find their names on list
SOME individuals say they were baffled when they "found" themselves on the list of election candidates who successfully filed nomination papers for National Assembly seats as they did not personally s...Published: 26 Jun 2023 at 19:41hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's CCC urges members to join CIO, army
A SENIOR official in the main opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) has urged party youths in Matebeleland to join intelligence and security services to save themselves from possible post-ele...Published: 17 May 2023 at 21:49hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Knives out for Zec over voters roll
INDEPENDENT election watchdogs say they are worried that the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) could manipulate the number of registered voters citing secrecy surrounding its management of the elect...Published: 10 May 2023 at 06:02hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF returns to polls after violence
THE ruling Zanu-PF party has been forced to rerun local authority primary elections across the country after the outcomes were contested in the first round due to violent clashes, among other reasons....Published: 06 May 2023 at 06:36hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans must stay away from occult wealth seeking
IMAGINE being instructed by an inyanga or sangoma to take soil from a stranger's grave that will be used to perform a ritual to invoke the spirit of a dead person to help you get instant wealth and po...Published: 04 Mar 2023 at 08:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe in a crisis of Mnangagwa's own making
ZIMBABWEAN electoral processes have in recent years become the reason for its strife and ostracisation from the Commonwealth of nations.None more so that the bitterly fought and fraught electi...Published: 24 Feb 2023 at 07:10hrs | | by staff reporter
Govt 'unleashes' JOC on CSOs
GOVERNMENT has tightened its noose on operations of civil society organisations (CSOs) that have been assisting communities with aid by reportedly subjecting them to strict monitoring by members of th...Published: 29 Nov 2022 at 05:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa attacked
SELF-EXILED former minister Saviour Kasukuwere has accused the ruling Zanu-PF party of failing to abide by its constitution in elevating President Emmerson Mnangagwa as its leader following the oustin...Published: 21 Nov 2022 at 05:00hrs | 184 | by Staff reporter
39 students arrested at a 'sex' party
THE Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) Friday arrested 39 students from various schools in Bulawayo after raiding a Vuzu party in Khumalo Suburb.Vuzu parties are popular secretive indoor gathering...Published: 19 Nov 2022 at 17:06hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zec digs in on voters roll
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) says it will not avail the voters roll through a portable electronic mode to protect it from possible tampering.The decision has, however, riled elector...Published: 26 Oct 2022 at 06:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Human rights abuses resurface in Chiadzwa
Human rights abuses have resurfaced in the volatile Marange diamond fields in Chiadzwa, Manicaland province, jolting government to dispatch high-ranking officials and State security agents to ease ten...Published: 21 Oct 2022 at 06:06hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Zec evasive on delimitation'
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has been accused of being too secretive on the delimitation roadmap as opposition parties raised fears yesterday that the process could be rigged in favour of t...Published: 14 Oct 2022 at 05:55hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Who Owns Blinart Investments?
Zimbabwean people never stop to amaze me-how can a whole parliament waste time debating about a USD$9,000 laptop? Is our parliament genuine in discussing this issue or it is just one of the sideshows ...Published: 04 Oct 2022 at 17:49hrs | 1 | by Sam Wezhira
Assessing the US$12 billion mining industry target
The Zimbabwean government launched an ambitious plan to transform the mining sector into a US$12 billion export industry by end of 2023. The plan was launched in October 2019 as a key pillar to sustai...Published: 11 Aug 2022 at 12:01hrs | 1 | by Victor Bhoroma
Secret grave exposes Chinese 'cartel's' identity fraud scam, fraudulent schemes
In a case pregnant with intrigue, bizarre episodes and curious developments involving what appears to be a sophisticated criminal Chinese cartel, the Registrar General's office was forced to cancel a ...Published: 03 Jul 2022 at 09:30hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Surely, there is no honour among thieves
NO honour among thieves is a universal truth, a biblical saying that has found resonance globally to denote the actions of robbers who usually double-cross each other, never mind the perils involved i...Published: 18 May 2022 at 06:19hrs | | by Fungi Kwaramba
Mnangagwa, Chamisa in secretive GNU talks
SECRETIVE coalition talks are underway between Zanu-PF leader, President Emmerson Mnangagwa, and Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) front man Nelson Chamisa with the aim of forming a seven-year gover...Published: 15 Apr 2022 at 09:05hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa bans 'Zanu-PF' journalists from rallies
DESPITE claiming to be a democrat, Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Mr Nelson Chamisa yesterday dropped a bombshell when he banned journalists perceived to be working with the ruling Zanu-PF...Published: 01 Mar 2022 at 05:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Storm over CIO dabbling in by-elections processes
A STORM has erupted over the embattled Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec)'s position that it has a legal right to work with the state security agency, Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO), and oth...Published: 19 Feb 2022 at 18:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
New Gates Foundation trustee led plot to overthrow Zim leader alongside US
WHILE Zimbabwean billionaire Strive Masiyiwa, recently appointed to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to add his other high-profile board appointments such as at Rockefeller Foundation, is a rol...Published: 05 Feb 2022 at 19:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Electoral reforms must dominate political discourse in 2022
AS we bask on the cusp of a new year, Zimbabweans appear to have gone agog about the pending by-elections and what many deem to be the watershed plebiscite of 2023.And yet for some of us, high...Published: 18 Jan 2022 at 05:32hrs | | by Luke Tamborinyoka
Kasukuwere shown middle finger by Zanu-PF
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa does not need the support of "moonlighting" and "failed" politicians to lead Zanu-PF to a thunderous victory in the upcoming by-elections and in the 2023 harmonised elections as he...Published: 18 Jan 2022 at 05:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Lupane, Binga battles relived
TODAY as we continue our interview with Lieutenant-Colonel (Retired) Stanford Moyo pseudo name Lloyd Zvanananewako or Mabhikwa, the former freedom fighter takes us through operations in the Zipra oper...Published: 19 Dec 2021 at 07:03hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Bona does not know secrete relationship between Mugabe and Mnangagwa: Nor has she Zezuru powers to recite Nyakasikana rituals
Bloggers go overdrive in wanting to make much awaited narratives become facts overnight. Bona cannot make holly cries of Zezuru-Nyakasikana to prevent her father from exhumation and be interred in the...Published: 30 Sep 2021 at 07:26hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
Govt onslaught on NGOs starts
GOVERNMENT has made the first move in its clampdown on nongovernmental organisations (NGOs), with the Harare metropolitan provincial development co-ordinator (PDC) Tafadzwa Muguti ordering civic organ...Published: 01 Jul 2021 at 14:53hrs | | by Staff reportr
Mwonzora's 'demands' to Mnangagwa revealed
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa was asked by MDC-T leader Douglas Mwonzora to consider scrapping pending byelections when the two met under controversial circumstances at State House on June 11, The Stan...Published: 20 Jun 2021 at 07:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Macron seeks Mnangagwa's military intervention in Mozambique
MOZAMBICAN President Felipe Nyusi visited Zimbabwe last week looking for military assistance to secure French investments in the conflict-ridden northern Mozambique at the behest of President Emmanuel...Published: 18 Jun 2021 at 13:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Sex abuse scandal erupts at REPS, boarding master on the run
The Rhodes Estate Preparatory School (REPS) in Matopo, Matabeleland South, says two young girls were sexually abused by an assistant boarding master who has evaded arrest.In a communication to...Published: 05 Jun 2021 at 09:15hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Poverty drives women into prostitution
UNSURE of the direction he was taking, the driver of the fancy Chevrolet stopped beside two village women that were walking from the opposite direction, along the dusty road in Maranda, Mwenezi....Published: 16 May 2021 at 09:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zela red-flags proposed constitutional amendments
THE Zimbabwe Environmental Law Association (Zela) has urged MPs to reject the recently gazetted Constitutional Amendment Bill No 2, saying the Bill seeks to strip them of the power to keep the Executi...Published: 21 Apr 2021 at 07:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Unresolved economic issues for 2021
The Zimbabwean economy has experienced a period of relative stability since October 2020, even though multiple reforms have to be implemented to attain sustained economic growth. To a larger extent th...Published: 19 Apr 2021 at 09:05hrs | | by Victor Bhoroma
Son of a Zimbabwean nurse is bookies' new favourite for James Bond
He is the dashing Netflix duke who could be about to swap regency era London for the secretive world of MI6. Regé-Jean Page left women swooning as the suave star of smash-hit British series Bridgerto...Published: 09 Apr 2021 at 07:40hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
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