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Zimbabwe needs a reset through an NTA to prepare for democratic transition
Zimbabwe is teetering on the brink. We are witnessing a nation sliding further into economic despair, political illegitimacy, and social disintegration. The alarm bells are ringing lou...Published: 18 May 2025 at 17:46hrs | 451 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Harare City Council inquiry accused of protecting corrupt officials while attacking reformers
The ongoing Commission of Inquiry into the Harare City Council, led by retired Justice Maphios Cheda, is facing mounting accusations of complicity in shielding corrupt officials, while exerting unnece...Published: 07 Feb 2025 at 17:14hrs | 162 | by David Hunda
Visit by my nemesis ED and Chiwenga will be story of my life!" boasted Chamisa. But why nemesis!
This visit by my nemesis ED and General Chiwenga and the dynamics around it will feature prominently in the story of my life." Posted Chamisa on X accompanied by a video of motorcade of the two arrivi...Published: 11 Jan 2025 at 10:06hrs | 1564 | by Wilbert Mukori
MDC/CCC have 'fought in the trenches for change' said Mahere. Nonsense! Name one change they have brought in 24 years?
The sheer chutzpah and hypocrisy of Zimbabwe's opposition leaders stinks!"On the 1st of November, I spoke on the phone with Duma Boko to congratulate him on an outstanding victory in Botswana'...Published: 13 Nov 2024 at 21:58hrs | 874 | by Wilbert Mukori
It's time African leaders were barred from foreign medical care!
So, the people of Cameroon have no idea where their president is. Paul Biya, who is now the oldest head of state in the world, at 91 years old, has not been seen in public for the past three m...Published: 09 Oct 2024 at 10:51hrs | 1115 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mnangagwa's muppets refuse to declare Bulawayo a water disaster area
The Emmerson Mnangagwa led Zanu-PF government has refused to declare Bulawayo a water disaster area, attributing the city's water crisis to mismanagement by local authorities rather than a national em...Published: 05 Sep 2024 at 15:17hrs | 854 | by Staff reporter
Team Pachedu belated V11 data does not 'vindicate' ZEC, it confirms the folly of CCC participating in flawed elections
Nelson Chamisa and company were hell-bent on participating in the flawed and illegal elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy for the sake of a few gravy train seats reward. The folly of participating in ...Published: 27 Aug 2024 at 13:21hrs | 675 | by Wilbert Mukori
Zanu-PF councillor released on US$1 000 bail
Zanu-PF ward 1 councillor for Seke, Blessing Munemo, has been granted US$1,000 bail following his arrest on charges of defrauding two companies of US$4 million. ...Published: 19 Aug 2024 at 07:18hrs | 286 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF cell restructuring in shambles
The ZANU-PF cell verification exercise has been disrupted by factionalism within the party. The exercise, intended to restructure party membership and improve control over structures, has faced delays...Published: 19 Aug 2024 at 07:17hrs | 273 | by Staff reporter
Why is an 81-year-old so preoccupied with extending the presidential term limit?
Hardly a day passes in Zimbabwe without news on President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa's machinations to extend his tenure one way or another.Ever since securing his second and final term, in t...Published: 26 May 2024 at 13:43hrs | 8 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe war vets bay for minister's blood
WAR veterans are demanding the axing of Matebeleland North Provincial Affairs minister Richard Moyo over a basket of charges that include disrespecting the Zanu-PF leadership.Moyo, who is also...Published: 07 Apr 2024 at 10:35hrs | 21 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa must not exempt state entities from scrutiny
GOVERNANCE watchdogs has demanded that President Emmerson Mnangagwa discard his gazetted General Notice 164B of 2024 which exempts 21 key state entities from complying with the Public Procurement and ...Published: 21 Feb 2024 at 20:03hrs | 63 | by Staff reporter
'Something stinks at the Highlanders clubhouse'
THE car wash business at the Highlanders clubhouse that paid the Bulawayo giants US$50 in revenue for the whole of 2023 as revealed by financial statements read out by club interim treasurer Israel Mo...Published: 02 Feb 2024 at 04:53hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Air Zimbabwe missing in action
AIR Zimbabwe, which faces a myriad of problems ranging from mounting debts, ageing aircraft, government interference and poor management, has become a pale shadow of itself as it is failing to make a ...Published: 27 Dec 2023 at 17:26hrs | 18 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's house negroes
THERE was once a fire at the slave master mansion and the house negro was heard wailing: "Our house is on fire!" much to the astonishment of the field negroes.This small anecdote flashed and r...Published: 23 Dec 2023 at 10:21hrs | 14 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Mnangagwa ruined Zanu-PF business empire
THE predictable appointment of FBC Holdings chief executive John Mushayavanhu as the incoming Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor has completed President Emmerson Mnangagwa's critical post-electio...Published: 12 Dec 2023 at 18:00hrs | 32 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa moves to appease security forces
TREASURY has allocated 18% of the national budget to the security sector, ZW$10.8 trillion (US$1.9 billion), which is a large amount in peacetime, as President Emmerson Mnangagwa moves to appease the ...Published: 04 Dec 2023 at 15:07hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
1 ambulance for Parirenyatwa
ZIMBABWE'S largest referral hospital, Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals, which services Harare and other nearby provinces, has been operating with only one functional ambulance, reflecting the country's...Published: 12 Nov 2023 at 20:40hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter
After all posturing CCC withdraw court challenge of recalled MPs - proof of CCC's blundering incompetence
After all the grandstanding and finger pointing by Chamisa following the recall of the party's elected officials, the case ends with yet another humiliating defeat for CCC. The High Court challenge of...Published: 03 Nov 2023 at 15:59hrs | 12 | by Wilbert Mukori
Air Zimbabwe planes unaccounted for
ACTING Auditor-General Rheah Kujinga has exposed the rot at Air Zimbabwe which includes financial books that are in a shambles as well as the failure by the national airline to account for the number ...Published: 31 Oct 2023 at 16:27hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
An open letter to Chamisa and the CCC
This letter serves to advise you sir and your party to choose the candidates who represent your party in councils and parliament diligently, failure to do so will cost you in the future.In jus...Published: 02 Oct 2023 at 07:57hrs | 11 | by Thandolwenkosi Mnyukhi
Dialogue, best way forward for Zimbabwe
GOOD day, President Emmerson Mnangagwa. Your Excellency, as I see it, your hitting the ground running to inauguration placed you in bad light with international development partners. It threw spanners...Published: 06 Sep 2023 at 06:20hrs | 2 | by Cyprian Muketiwa Ndawana
Zimbabwe slowing getting back to its feet at 43
IN 1893 my ancestors raised the Union Jack in a place they called Salisbury, in the middle of what is now called southern Africa. That is 130 years ago and for the next 87 years this tiny group of whi...Published: 05 Sep 2023 at 06:19hrs | 2 | by Eddie Cross
It is time for Mnangagwa to go
This is the perfect time for Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa to go. Leadership is not his forte. He does not have the dexterity needed to govern a country. The past five years testify of his failure which...Published: 26 Aug 2023 at 13:03hrs | 1 | by @maximilianlion
Mnangagwa reminds Chamisa that 'State House is too far'
President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa has reminded the country's main opposition party Citizens Coalition for Change leader Nelson Chamisa that State house is still far for him.Addressing thou...Published: 03 Aug 2023 at 06:50hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Sham elections likely to spark uprisings - Analysts
THE failure by regional bodies to deal with disputed elections in Zimbabwe could lead to a possible revolution, a new report has warned.Zimbabwe will hold general elections on 23 August 2023 b...Published: 01 Aug 2023 at 21:13hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe is under siege
GOOD day President Emmerson Mnangagwa. Your Excellency, my heart subscribes to the notion that Zimbabwe is completely under siege. As I see it, the country is overwhelmed with all manner of naked aggr...Published: 26 Jul 2023 at 06:40hrs | | by Cyprian M Ndawana
Open letter to President Ramaphosa, Mnangagwa and HH
Open Letter from Dr Vusumuzi Sibanda a Constitutional and Human Rights law Practitioner and African Diaspora Global Network CEO The President of Zi...Published: 25 Jul 2023 at 09:50hrs | 5 | by Dr Vusumuzi Sibanda
'Criminals around Mnangagwa are not useful'
AN army of independent legislators will rise to claim positions in Zimbabwe's National Assembly after next month's polls and dramatically shifting the political landscape, according to independent leg...Published: 21 Jul 2023 at 07:00hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa ignoring citizens' concerns,' says NGOs
COMMUNITY-Based organisations (CBOs) in Manicaland province have said President Emmerson Mnangagwa does not want to accept the truth that Zimbabwe is facing severe economic challenges that have left c...Published: 05 Jul 2023 at 07:49hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Statement on Mangaliso Ndlovu's insensitive and violence-laden utterances
The inflammatory, violence-laden and dangerously insensitive utterances by one ZANU PF chairperson for Matabeleland South, Nqobizitha Mangaliso Ndlovu, in which he referred to one opposition party as ...Published: 04 Jul 2023 at 16:03hrs | 24 | by Freedom Alliance
Chamisa'sd CCC rescued by ZEC after 'strategic ambiguity' fiasco
CCC has Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) to thank after its constituency and proportional representation candidates in Bulawayo and Harare - whose nomination papers were either fatally defective or...Published: 22 Jun 2023 at 19:18hrs | 9 | by Jonathan Moyo
ZPC appeal papers against Chivayo ruling in shambles
THE Supreme Court yesterday postponed to next week the hearing of an appeal by the Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC), which is contesting a High Court ruling that found businessman Wicknell Chivayo not gui...Published: 20 Jun 2023 at 06:52hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
ED shouldn't indoctrinate our children to idolize tyranny!
Children usually become like their parents. That is why there is the saying, 'an apple doesn't fall far from the tree'.The greatest ability children were given by the Creator, as...Published: 17 Jun 2023 at 10:53hrs | 14 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zec's refusal to avail electronic 2023 voters' roll dents election
THE voters' roll which is in a shambles and the persistent refusal by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) to release the electronic version for audit have dented the credibility of the 23 August g...Published: 14 Jun 2023 at 18:50hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Ex - Dynamos and CAPS United player dumps newly born baby , wife and kids
IT was an emotional scene at the Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport yesterday when the players from the Archford Gutu Boys Academy, who have been stranded in the United Arab Emirates after a ...Published: 14 Jun 2023 at 13:04hrs | 2 | by Erick Matotoba
'Voters' roll must be audited before elections' CCC's folly is no excuse for granting Zanu PF legitimacy again
A year or so ago, Team Pachedu warned that the voters' roll was in shambles. ZEC denied the accusation by denying ownership of the voters' roll Team Pachedu have used for their analysis. Team Pachedu ...Published: 31 May 2023 at 09:09hrs | 1 | by Wilbert Mukori
Zimbabwe's Africa Day: Celebrating a Continent We Have Failed
Every year on May 25, African countries commemorate Africa Day, a day that celebrates the unity and pride of Africa. African countries come together to remember the fight and struggles of their forefa...Published: 24 May 2023 at 21:02hrs | 12 | by Kumbirai Thierry Nhamo
Africa Day: Zimbabwe has achieved nothing
Zimbabwe has achieved nothing. That phrase may sting, but it is the heart-wrenching truth. As Africa Day approaches, there is no better time to reflect on the state of Zimbabwe and the current state o...Published: 24 May 2023 at 20:59hrs | 2 | by Kumbirai Thierry Nhamo
Confidence in August poll hits rock bottom
A NEW report reveals that confidence in the August general election has struck rock bottom, with the country failing the litmus test on tenets of electoral international best practice, less than three...Published: 24 May 2023 at 17:25hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Confidence in August poll hits rock bottom
A NEW report reveals that confidence in the August general election has struck rock bottom, with the country failing the litmus test on tenets of electoral international best practice, less than three...Published: 22 May 2023 at 19:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF splashes on 800 more cars
Zanu-PF is said to have bought 800 more top-of-the-range vehicles after dishing out at least 210 all-terrain cars to its 2023 parliamentary election candidates.The spending spree by the ...Published: 21 May 2023 at 08:13hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
General Notice 635 of 2023 fiasco
It's a bird! It's a plane! No, wait, it's the government of Zimbabwe doing its usual shenanigans.In a recent move that has left many scratching their heads and wondering about the state of aff...Published: 14 May 2023 at 13:33hrs | | by Kumbirai Thierry Nhamo
Uproar over Mnangagwa's US$54m jet
ZIMBABWEANS have angrily reacted to reports that President Emmerson Mnangagwa has acquired a US$54 million presidential jet — a Dassault Falcon 7X , at a time the majority of the population is wallo...Published: 01 May 2023 at 08:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Take the game of football seriously
Zimbabwe celebrated its 43rd years of self rule and independence and this year's national celebrations were held for the first time in Mashonaland Central Province Mt Darwin.Forty three years ...Published: 19 Apr 2023 at 23:12hrs | 1 | by Leonard Koni
'Zanu-PF cell structures in shambles'
Zanu-PF cell structures are reportedly in shambles, with some members allegedly removing names of their perceived rivals from the registers to deny them an opportunity to participate in party primarie...Published: 08 Mar 2023 at 05:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Prisons officer sacked over missing food rations to be re-instated
The High Court has ordered the reinstatement of a prison officer who was dismissed from service 2019 after an internal hearing found her guilty of misappropriating inmates' food stocks.Rhoda M...Published: 10 Feb 2023 at 19:40hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF commandeers supporters to register en masse
THE ruling Zanu-PF party has reportedly been mobilising its supporters to get registered to vote in Harare and Bulawayo, with hundreds turning up daily at the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) regis...Published: 19 Jan 2023 at 07:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa to recall rebellious MPs over the $40,000 loans?
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa has said that his party's lawmakers who accepted the US$40 000 loan facilities from parliament crossed the line and will be punished.P...Published: 06 Dec 2022 at 06:58hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
2023 elections cost US$116m
ZIMBABWE'S 2023 general elections are expected to gobble up ZW$76 billion (US$116 million).The country will hold presidential, parliamentary and local government elections simultaneously, most...Published: 03 Dec 2022 at 18:10hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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