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Johann Rupert's state capture 2.0
In a significant development on the diplomatic front, Johann Rupert, South Africa's wealthiest man, is reportedly in Washington, DC, potentially accompanying President Cyril Ramaphosa for a pivotal me...Published: 21 May 2025 at 08:07hrs | 484 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, Chivayo raise eyebrows again
Corruption-accused businessman Wicknell Chivayo, who has long been a subject of public scrutiny, was a conspicuous presence during President Emmerson Mnangagwa's recent visit to Bulawayo for the Zimba...Published: 28 Apr 2025 at 12:47hrs | 6983 | by Staff reporter
Liz Truss resigns, 6 weeks after becoming UK Prime Minister
Liz Truss said on Thursday she was resigning as British prime minister just six weeks after she was appointed, brought down by an economic programme that sent shockwaves through financial markets last...Published: 20 Oct 2022 at 21:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
UK Rwanda asylum-seeker flight cancelled after European court ruling
A first flight carrying asylum seekers to Rwanda as part of a controversial UK policy was cancelled on Tuesday, in an embarrassing blow to Prime Minister Boris Johnson's government.The number ...Published: 15 Jun 2022 at 08:13hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF bigwigs question Mnangagwa's legitimacy
ZIMBABWEAN President Emmerson Mnangagwa, struggling to consolidate and maintain power at the volatile helm amid renewed internal Zanu-PF infighting and disintegration of the coalition which drove his ...Published: 24 Sep 2021 at 18:57hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Private sector-led growth
Two years ago, the new Minister of Finance in Zimbabwe, Mthuli Ncube brought together a small group of local business persons in an informal advisory group.I was privileged to be included. our...Published: 01 Apr 2021 at 07:23hrs | | by Eddie Cross
Zimdollar to remain stable
TWO years ago, the new Minister of Finance in Zimbabwe brought together a small group of local business persons in an informal advisory group. I was privileged to be included.Our meetings were...Published: 29 Mar 2021 at 18:10hrs | 1 | by Eddie Cross
Only few heads have to roll in Midlands for sanity to prevail
In the 2018 elections ZANU PF lost in Kwekwe to a G40 kingpin the late Blackman Matambanadzo. It was not the campaign of Matambanadzo or the idiocy of Chebundo which lost the plot for ZANU PF. It was ...Published: 28 Nov 2020 at 23:46hrs | 3 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Mnangagwa, Chiwenga fly Dubai planes
President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his deputy Constantino Chiwenga have taken two Dubai-registered private jets on foreign trips in the last seven days - spending precious foreign currency.Chiwe...Published: 25 May 2019 at 15:13hrs | 2 | by ZimLive
Senior ministers to be rested in this weeks reshuffle
Zimbabwe will have a First reshuffle this week since elections in July. In the inauguration speech the previous year ED had pledged to hit the ground running. The ground is available the running has s...Published: 18 Feb 2019 at 20:41hrs | 2 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Political lessons from the village
We Africans are proud of our villages, our traditions and our heritage. And rightly so. We are the cradle of humanity, a culture dating back to the annals of time. Obviously, there is a lot of wisdom ...Published: 22 Oct 2018 at 14:23hrs | | by Anthony Mkondo
Everything you need to know about Zim's election
TODAY, Zimbabweans go to the polls to elect a President, parliamentarians and local councillors.The elections are an unprecedented opportunity for Zimbabweans to choose who they believe can de...Published: 30 Jul 2018 at 07:13hrs | 1 | by Piers Pigou
Ministers urged to shine, few months before elections
Norton Legisltaor Temba Mliswa has urged the ministers to shine before the elections this year as a way of showing the electorate that they know how to service them.Mliswa made the remarks in ...Published: 28 Mar 2018 at 07:29hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Mnangagwa's extra-ordinary track-record of escape
A child of the revolution, nurtured on the perennial run, from childhood to the present age of 75. Multiple narrow escapes! Emmerson Munangagwa's multiple escapes remain too extra-ordinary to ...Published: 11 Dec 2017 at 06:24hrs | 1 | by Reginald Thabani Gola
Zimbabwe has lost its culture and its too bad
Cultural decay is when a culture no longer holds any value to the youth of the period and is slowly cast aside in favor of new trends. ... The effects would be anarchy and mayhem.It is when a ...Published: 07 Sep 2017 at 10:14hrs | 4 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
UK 'turned blind eye' to Gukurahundi killings, Mnangagwa 'fully aware': Study claims
New research has claimed that UK officials apparently downplayed the massacre of up to 20,000 dissidents by Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe in the 1980s to protect the UK’s interests.According to ...Published: 16 May 2017 at 22:49hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
What Britain did (and didn't) on Gukurahundi
CONTRARY to allegations that Western governments "did nothing" when Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's army went on the rampage in the early 1980s, they may have helped prevent total slaughter. But ...Published: 28 Apr 2017 at 17:30hrs | 2 | by Stuart Doran Historian & Author
Did Nikuv hack Zimbabwe's elections? A credible article
In the past three years, a new slang word has come to be popular in the Zimbabwean capital. I've heard it in professional settings and at parties. It's a conjugation of the word nikuv, to say that you...Published: 02 Mar 2017 at 11:02hrs | 1 | by Yael Even Or
Mugabe's bizarre stance on corruption
When ZBC's Tarzen Mandizvidza interviewed President Robert Mugabe to mark his 93rd birthday last week, he was humongous in his platitudes.He described the president as a "seasoned campaign...Published: 26 Feb 2017 at 10:03hrs | 3 | by Tawanda Majoni
Zanu-PF Masvingo brawl gets under way
So bad have the dog-eat-dog tribal, factional and succession wars that are devouring President Robert Mugabe's ruling Zanu-PF become, that some insiders say the party's annual conference which get...Published: 12 Dec 2016 at 13:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Writing on the wall for Mugabe'
Some Zanu-PF insiders and former party bigwigs say it could now only a matter of tie before president Robert Mugabe bites the dust, after restless war veterans became the latest key constituency i...Published: 25 Jul 2016 at 08:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe struggle - Has Zambia been paid enough?
Over the past two editions, Zambian veteran politician Dr Vernon Mwaanga has been narrating Zimbabwe's liberation struggle from a Zambian point of view.This week, Dr Mwaanga concludes his narr...Published: 13 Mar 2016 at 06:52hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
What Mugabe said to Jonathan Moyo.. 'why are you here?'
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe on Tuesday shocked one of his senior ministers, Information minister Jonathan Moyo, when he unexpectedly told him to leave cabinet room at Munhumutapa Building indicating he w...Published: 26 Jun 2015 at 07:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Robert Mugabe toasts 91st, West defeated
THE world's oldest leader, President Robert Mugabe, turns 91 on Saturday with much to celebrate -- even as critics condemn as "obscene" his lavish birthday party plans in a country he is accused of pl...Published: 20 Feb 2015 at 18:16hrs | | by AFP
Didymus Mutasa evicts new farmers for white crony
Minister of State for Presidential Affairs in the President's Office and Zanu-PF secretary for administration Didymus Mutasa allegedly instigated the eviction of resettled black Zimbabweans...Published: 30 Nov 2014 at 11:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Position Of Senior Minister
Vice President Dr. Joshua Nkomo; Dr. Bernard Chidzero; Comrade Morris Nyagumbo; and Vice President Dr. Joseph Msika, were all senior Ministers of Home Affairs, Finance, Political Affairs a...Published: 08 Oct 2014 at 05:23hrs | | by John Songo
Crimea votes to join Russia
Simferopol - Crimeans voted overwhelmingly on Sunday in favour of joining former political master Russia as tensions soared in the east of the splintered ex-Soviet nation amid the worst East-West...Published: 16 Mar 2014 at 19:48hrs | 1 | by AFP
The life of Robert Mugabe
Robert Gabriel Mugabe was born on February 21, 1924, in Kutama, Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe).His birth came just months after Southern Rhodesia had become a British Crown colony. As a resu...Published: 21 Feb 2014 at 13:25hrs | 12 | by biography.com
Unity talks divide Tsvangirai's MDC
Possible unity talks between Zanu-PF and the troubled MDC-T have divided outgoing PM Morgan Tsvangirai's party with a hardliners in the faltering movement equating the potential for cooperation with t...Published: 23 Aug 2013 at 06:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Fresh unity talks loom between Mugabe and Tsvangirai
IN the aftermath of bitterly-contested election between them and a disputed result, President-elect Robert Mugabe is likely to engage outgoing Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai after the finalisation ...Published: 16 Aug 2013 at 07:34hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Transferring wealth to Zimbabweans
Our fear is that it will not be done properly by people who have the relevant expertise and experience.Between 2004 and 2006 all but a few indigenous banks in Zimbabwe faced significant p...Published: 15 Aug 2013 at 09:46hrs | | by Vince Musewe
Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez has died,
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez died on Tuesday after a two-year battle with cancer, ending 14 years of tumultuous rule that made the socialist leader a hero for the poor but a hate figure to his opp...Published: 05 Mar 2013 at 20:40hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
UN launches global campaign to curb death toll from NCDs
The United Nations today launched an all-out attack on non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as cancer and diabetes with a summit meeting devoted to curbing the factors, like tobacco and alcohol use, ...Published: 19 Sep 2011 at 18:27hrs | | by UN
Zimbabwe mining companies sanctions busters
Mining companies accused of using elaborate underground networks to transfers diamond revenue to evade US, EU.Zimbabwe's state-owned mining companies are clandestinely ...Published: 23 Mar 2011 at 08:16hrs | 1 | by Byo24News
Prof Mutambara must walk the talk
ONE of the most dramatic pronouncements in the history of the inclusive Government is the one made by the outgoing Deputy Prime Minister, Professor Arthur Mutambara, regarding his future after a Cabin...Published: 09 Feb 2011 at 19:42hrs | | by Qhubani Moyo
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