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Battles to watch in today's Zimbabwe election
AFTER five very short years, we are back to the polls.It feels it was just yesterday when President Mnangagwa gave us that signature dance to the Kutonga Kwaro soundtrack. It feels it was just...Published: 23 Aug 2023 at 06:33hrs | 19 | by Staff reporter
Ziyambi, more Zanu-PF heavyweights fall in party primaries
Justice Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi has suffered defeat in weekend Zanu-PF primary elections, becoming one of the high profile casualties in the just ended ruling party internal polls.A fervent l...Published: 29 Mar 2023 at 06:59hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Massive turnout in Zanu-PF primaries
VOTERS yesterday turned out in huge numbers, as Zanu-PF held its primary elections in eight provinces across the country, prompting the party leadership to extend voting to today in some areas....Published: 26 Mar 2023 at 10:00hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Journalists target Uzumba-Maramba-Pfungwe
Uzumba is one of the most talked about constituencies in Zimbabwe's political history.Just like its neighbouring Maramba constituency, also known as Maramba-Pfungwe, Uzumba is popularly known ...Published: 18 Mar 2023 at 06:55hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF Mashonaland East hunts for commissar
Zanu-PF party, Mashonaland East Province, is hunting for a new political commissar following the elevation of Tinoda Machakaire to the politburo.Machakaire, Wedza South legislator and Youth, S...Published: 09 Jan 2023 at 07:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean MPs call for harsh penalties for sanctions beggars
ZIMBABWEANS inviting sanctions against the country and so causing people to suffer should be barred from holding public office, Zanu-PF chief whip, Pupurai Togarepi, told the National Assembly yesterd...Published: 15 Jun 2022 at 07:29hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF disowns Uzumba 'rebels'
Zanu-PF officials in Uzumba constituency have disowned party supporters who recently demonstrated against Chinese miner, Heijin's granite mining operations in the district.The supporters threa...Published: 15 Dec 2021 at 06:41hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Chinese miner loses granite licence
A Chinese firm, Heijin Mining Company, is set to lose its certificates of operations in Kaseke and Chibvi 2, in Murehwa following complaints by the community, Chief Nyajina and Councillor Marowa....Published: 08 Nov 2021 at 05:24hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Villagers don't have title to communal land: Chinese miners
CHINESE mining company, Heijin, has reportedly told villagers in Kaseke, Uzumba district, that they have no capacity to stop their eviction to pave way for granite stone mining as they have no title d...Published: 27 Sep 2021 at 06:18hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt admits mistake in Chinese mine saga
TOP government and Zanu-PF officials on Tuesday descended on Kaseke Village, Uzumba, on a fact-finding mission after a Chinese mining company reportedly took over an entire village to extract black gr...Published: 23 Sep 2021 at 06:38hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF bigwigs keep cards close to chests
Zanu-PF bigwigs in Mashonaland East are keeping their cards close to their chest as the race to elect a new provincial leadership intensifies.The provincial chairpersonship is vacant following...Published: 05 Aug 2021 at 06:22hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Govt privatises IDs, passports production
GOVERNMENT has awarded a tender to an unnamed private company to print citizens' identification (ID) cards and passports under a build operate and transfer (BOT) agreement in a bid to ease the current...Published: 19 Jun 2021 at 15:03hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Land barons, infighting cost Zanu-PF Goromonzi South seat
THE Zanu-PF Mashonaland East provincial leadership has admitted that infighting and land barons caused them to lose Goromonzi south constituency to the opposition MDC alliance in the 2018 elections....Published: 24 Mar 2021 at 06:39hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Charumbira wades into Chief Nyamukoho estate wrangle
CHIEF'S Council president Fortune Charumbira on Sunday waded into Chief Nyamukoho's family wrangle, urging the late traditional leader's family members to find common ground in the distribution of the...Published: 02 Mar 2021 at 06:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF bigwigs jostle for Matiza's posts
THE death of Transport minister Joel Biggie Matiza two weeks ago has plunged Mashonaland East province into election mode, with Zanu-PF party members reportedly jostling to take over his parliamentary...Published: 09 Feb 2021 at 06:58hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Retired Major-General Nyambuya NOT dead
Retired Major-General Mike Nyambuya, former Energy minister and ex-deputy Speaker of the Senate who was reported to have died is alive and well.There are some sections of the media which repor...Published: 23 Jan 2021 at 06:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
18 died in holiday accidents
Eighteen people were killed, while 73 others were injured in 147 road accidents on Christmas Day and Boxing Day holidays. During the same period last year, 17 were killed, while 174 others were injure...Published: 28 Dec 2020 at 07:18hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Easter Holiday accidents kill 24
The death toll of people who died during the Easter Holiday rose to 24 on Sunday night after 11 people perished on the spot in a fatal head-on collision at the 118km peg along Harare-Mutare highway in...Published: 23 Apr 2019 at 07:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
11 dead in kombi, Honda fit head-on accident
Eleven (11) people are feared dead following an accident involving a commuter omnibus and a Honda fit near Headlands this morning.The tragedy once again hit the Apostolic Christian community a...Published: 22 Apr 2019 at 17:22hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Expanding economy driving fuel demand'
The huge demand for fuel, which has caused supply challenges and spawned fuel queues across the country, is testimony that economic activity has expanded significantly over the past year or so, Reserv...Published: 11 Mar 2019 at 06:54hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mangudya grilled over RTGS$, US rate disparity
RESERVE Bank of Zimbabwe Governor John Mangudya was on Thursday grilled in Parliament over disparities between the official United States dollar rates of 1:2,5 and the parallel market rate of 1:3,6 re...Published: 09 Mar 2019 at 12:27hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Of mute MPs and their mute brigade
Parliament offers its members many platforms to speak on diverse issues.A member can rise on the floor to table a petition, a private members' Bill, raise a matter of national importance, ask ...Published: 06 Jan 2019 at 17:55hrs | 1 | by Blessings Mashaya
Perrance Shiri's imposter in court for swindling farmers
AN unrepentant ex-convict who allegedly registered cellphone lines in the name of Lands, Agriculture, Water, Climate and Rural Resettlement Minister Perrance Shiri and used them to swindle unsuspectin...Published: 12 Oct 2018 at 07:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
'MPs should serve two 5-year terms,' says Zanu-PF legislator
A ZANU PF legislator has suggested that MPs should be limited to serving two five-year terms, after which they should exit Parliament.Chikomba Central MP Felix Mhona said legislators should kn...Published: 27 Sep 2018 at 07:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF top brass besiege Vambe's funeral
TOP Zanu-PF officials on Sunday besieged Magunje Village in Uzumba to pay their last respects to the late traditional drummer, Douglas Vambe.Vambe died on Tuesday at Parirenyatwa Hospital, six...Published: 07 Aug 2018 at 07:24hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Accept poll results, says Chiwenga
CANDIDATES vying for political office in the harmonised elections set for Monday must accept the outcome of the polls as every race has a winner, Acting President Constantino Chiwenga has said....Published: 27 Jul 2018 at 07:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Scrap off cannabis/ mbanje license fee
The radical Member of Parliament for Uzumba, Simbaneuta Mudarikwa has urged the government to completely erase the recently proposed $50 000 licensing fees for mbanje farmers highlighting that the fee...Published: 11 May 2018 at 16:22hrs | | by A Mhlongo
MPs want cannabis/ mbanje fees reduced
LEGISLATORS yesterday lobbied the government to reduce the $50 000 licence fee charged on farmers, who want to take up the production of cannabis on a commercial scale.The MPs claimed the fees...Published: 10 May 2018 at 08:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF primary poll voters in massive drop
Zanu-PF'S 2018 primary election figures have significantly dropped in terms of the numbers of voters who participated compared to the previous poll in 2013, which could spell disaster for the ruling p...Published: 07 May 2018 at 16:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa faces 'Bhora musango' scenario
In a stunning development, many long-serving Zanu-PF stalwarts have fallen by the wayside in the party's selection of candidates who will participate in this year's watershed elections, the Daily News...Published: 10 Apr 2018 at 14:51hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Moyo disowns G40 cabal
FORMER Bulawayo Provincial Affairs Minister Mrs Eunice Nomthandazo Moyo, who was expelled from Zanu-PF last year, has distanced herself from the G40-linked political outfit, the National Patriotic Fro...Published: 14 Mar 2018 at 11:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Brigadier-General Ambrose Mutinhiri 'anointed' G40 party leader
Former Mashonaland East Minister of State Brigadier-General Ambrose Mutinhiri (Retired) has been reportedly "anointed" by former President Robert Mugabe and former First Lady Grace Mugabe as the leade...Published: 05 Mar 2018 at 05:41hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Demonstration against new minister flops
A BID to demonstrate against the new Mashonaland East Provincial Affairs minister David Musabayana by a section of war veterans flopped after members refused to take part, NewsDay reported.Mus...Published: 07 Dec 2017 at 05:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Made managed Mugabe, Grace's farms'
NORTON MP Temba Mliswa lampooned former Agriculture minister Joseph Made saying during his tenure he spent time managing former President Robert Mugabe and his wife Grace's farms instead of inspecting...Published: 04 Dec 2017 at 06:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF finding it difficult to handle Jah Prayzah
Music star Jah Prayzah has become a hot potato that politicians in the ruling Zanu-PF party are finding difficult to handle.It therefore did not come as a surprise that the album launch of his...Published: 21 Oct 2017 at 15:42hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF heads for special December Extraordinary Congress
ZANU-PF is one vote shy of an Extraordinary National People's Congress in December after four provinces yesterday said they wanted the special indaba.The other six provinces will hold their ex...Published: 15 Oct 2017 at 12:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF one vote shy of special Congress
Zanu-PF is one vote shy of an Extraordinary Congress in December after four provinces yesterday said they wanted the special indaba.The other six provinces will hold their executive council me...Published: 15 Oct 2017 at 07:44hrs | | by Staff Reporter
'Zanu-PF MP's 'no-go area' remarks reckless, barbaric'
THE MDC-T has described Zanu-PF's Uzumba MP Simbaneuta Mudarikwa's recent remarks declaring his constituency a "no-go area" for opposition parties as reckless, barbaric and meant to incite violence ah...Published: 29 May 2017 at 07:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Thuggish remarks about political situation in Uzumba Maramba Pfungwe
On Tuesday,May 23,2017, one Simbaneuta Mudarikwa uttered some very unsavoury and thuggish remarks about the political situation in his constituency, Uzumba Maramba Pfungwe (UMP). Mudarikwa is the Memb...Published: 25 May 2017 at 21:28hrs | | by Obert Gutu
Govt urged to consider returning SMM to Mutumwa Mawere
Government should seek investors for Shabani Mashaba Mines or return its ownership to Mr Mutumwa Mawere as part of measures to resume operations, parliamentarians in the National Assembly said...Published: 17 Apr 2017 at 10:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere to push for Mutodi ouster
There are claims that Zanu-PF political commissar Saviour Kasukuwere will be pushing for the expulsion of businessman Energy Mutodi from the party when the politburo meets on Wednesday.Acc...Published: 14 Mar 2017 at 18:18hrs | 2 | by Energy Mutodi Facebook Page
MPs desert Parliament
PARLIAMENT had to be adjourned last week Wednesday during the second reading of the Finance Bill because Members of Parliament, who were present, could not constitute a quorum for the debate to pr...Published: 09 Feb 2017 at 05:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe won't print bond notes outside framework'
Finance and Economic Development Minister Patrick Chinamasa has said Government will not print bond notes outside of its framework with the Afrexim Bank as it has a reputation to defend.Sp...Published: 26 Jan 2017 at 05:43hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mahoka told to publicly apologize for embarrassing Mnangagwa
OPPOSITION MDC-T MP, James Maridadi, yesterday demanded that Hurungwe East legislator Sarah Mahoka (Zanu-PF) should publicly apologise for embarrassing Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa during a Z...Published: 25 Jan 2017 at 07:23hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Calls to outlaw polygamy
LEGISLATORS yesterday called for outlawing of polygamy as a way to end early child marriages.This was raised during debate on a motion moved by MDC-T chief whip in the National Assembly, I...Published: 30 Nov 2016 at 05:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gideon Gono missed Vice Presidency in 2014
COLOGNE - Former Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) Governor, Gideon Gono, missed the golden opportunity to become Vice President of the country in 2014, following the dismissal of Zimbabwe People First (...Published: 14 Jul 2016 at 05:31hrs | | by Itai Mushekwe
Zanu-PF MP tells people to go to n'angas
A Zanu-PF lawmaker has arrogantly advocated for people who cannot afford medical care to consult traditional healers.During Parliament's Wednesday question and answer time, Zanu-PF Member ...Published: 26 Jun 2016 at 13:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's young Turks plots to shipwreck Mujuru project
ZANU-PF's young Turks group around the Generation 40 (G40) faction, which has laid siege on Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his backers, has moved to counter the threat posed by former vice...Published: 11 Mar 2016 at 08:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe MPs living like paupers
PARLIAMENTARIANS say they are now living like paupers and have lost their dignity in the eyes of the public. They said while the Constitution provided that the three arms of the State - the Ex...Published: 08 Mar 2016 at 05:25hrs | | by Lloyd Gumbo
Mujuru rattles Mugabe's Zanu-PF
A panicky post-congress Zanu-PF is making frantic preparations for yet more Parliamentary by-elections after it emerged earlier this week that dozens of the party's legislators are holding meetings wi...Published: 02 Jan 2016 at 15:34hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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