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Mnangagwa not worried about Ramaphosa speech in Tanzania
The president of South Africa Mr C Ramaphosa paid tribute to the countries he said helped and fought with ANC to remove Apartheid in South Africa. Mr Ramaphosa thanked Tanzania for being the centre an...Published: 29 Mar 2021 at 10:24hrs | 12007 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Spies block Susan Mutami, son from boarding plane to Dubai
SUSAN Mutami claims she has been held "hostage" together with her 4-year-old son by some state agents at the Robert Gabriel Mugabe airport where she wants to take a flight to Dubai.Mutami cras...Published: 20 Feb 2021 at 09:23hrs | 4325 | by Staff reporter
Kembo Mohadi embarrasses the presidium
The vice president's power to lead comes from a ceremonial reverence Zimbabweans grant their presidents. To deserve the reverence, a vice president must act as a steward of the dignity and stature of ...Published: 20 Feb 2021 at 08:30hrs | 2639 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Chamisa movie on 'rigged' 2018 elections released
AMERICA just scraped through an election where the President of the United States and a radical sect of his colleagues and constituents incorrectly claimed that there was fraud that resulted in the Re...Published: 31 Jan 2021 at 06:46hrs | 1893 | by Slash Film
White former farmers blame Zuma, Sadc for loss of farms in Zimbabwe
Last month the Gauteng High Court in Pretoria handed down judgement in a R2 billion damages claim against South Africa by 25 dispossessed Zimbabwean farmers, some of whom were South African citizens, ...Published: 17 Jan 2021 at 09:29hrs | 831 | by Ben Freeth
Judgment: Zimbabwean farmers Luke Tembani and 24 others v the President of the Republic of South Africa and others
Last month the Gauteng High Court in Pretoria handed down judgment in a R2-billion damages claim against South Africa by 25 dispossessed Zimbabwean farmers, some of whom were South African citizens, a...Published: 14 Jan 2021 at 14:20hrs | 2316 | by Agencies
SA's budget deficit worsens under Ramaphosa
By the end of November, South Africa's main budget balance had a deficit not far under R440 billion, new figures published on Wednesday show – an increase of 77% over the year-to-date deficit at the...Published: 30 Dec 2020 at 17:10hrs | 664 | by Staff reporter
2020: A year of political drama
IN a few weeks' time, we will all be saying good bye to the year 2020, a year that was pregnant with lots of political drama that left citizens in awe.It is the year that the over confident Ne...Published: 13 Dec 2020 at 14:16hrs | 687 | by Khumbulani Vodloza
Zimbabwe judges confirm judiciary capture
ZIMBABWE'S High Court and Supreme Court judges have confirmed the existence of the capture of the judiciary by politicians as they hit out at "manipulative" Chief Justice Luke Malaba in a stinging let...Published: 28 Oct 2020 at 20:09hrs | 4303 | by Staff reporter
Job Sikhala bail judge Erica Ndewere suspended, accused of 'misconduct'
A judge who recently granted bail to MDC vice chairman Job Sikhala has been suspended by the Judicial Service Commission headed by Chief Justice Luke Malaba.Justice Erica Ndewere of the Harare...Published: 13 Oct 2020 at 08:10hrs | 6550 | by Staff reporter
Professorships must be earned
Professor Jonathan Jansen thinks that South Africa is suffering from some kind of professor fraud. It is about the way in which people are running about in South Africa calling themselves "professors"...Published: 20 Sep 2020 at 08:02hrs | 664 | by Ken Mufuka
Ramaphosa's ANC piles pressure on Mnangagwa
South Africa's ruling African National Congress (ANC) has vowed to keep the Zimbabwe crisis on the table despite a spirited campaign by Zanu-PF to shrug it off.Lindiwe Zulu, the head of the AN...Published: 13 Sep 2020 at 07:29hrs | 5486 | by Staff reporter
Thambolenyoka speaks about war experiences
THE mere mention of the name, Thambolenyoka, who operated as a dissident in the districts of Matabeleland South in the 80s during the post-independence disturbances used to send shivers down the spine...Published: 13 Sep 2020 at 07:07hrs | 1889 | by Staff reporter
AfriForum wants Public Protector to probe ANC's use of military jet for Zimbabwe trip
Lobby group AfriForum has written to Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane, asking her to investigate the ANC's use of a military jet in its trip to Harare, Zimbabwe. In a letter to Mkhwebane, A...Published: 10 Sep 2020 at 18:08hrs | 1101 | by Staff reporter
Partnerships in lies, historical distortions and corruption now an ANC/ZanuPF game
I remember vividly in one of the last Zapu rallies held at White City Stadium in 1982 the ex Zipra choir singing, "Siyamkhalel`uMandela omunye wezinkhokeli zase Africa ezavalelwayo. Ngoba silobudlelwa...Published: 12 Aug 2020 at 08:14hrs | 722 | by Mkhululi Zulu
A selfish proliteriate, a voracious educated elite and a rapacious ruling class - The opiate numbing Zimbabwe
Wrote in 1943, Karl Marx's celebrated dictum, "religion is the opium of the people," entered popular lexicon and according to Rosie Blau ,still resonates with 4,5 billion people the world over who ide...Published: 26 Jul 2020 at 23:10hrs | 1795 | by Evangelist Sendekai W.T
MDC sanctions treachery exposed
ALTHOUGH the MDC Alliance vainly attempts to create the impression of being a saviour of the people of Zimbabwe from its opponent, ZANU-PF, it is increasingly coming to the fore that it is against the...Published: 05 Jul 2020 at 11:06hrs | 662 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Before his downfall, a man's heart is proud, but Humility comes before Honour - The MDC Supreme Court Judgment
It's been 3 weeks and the Supreme Court judgment on the MDC case has come and gone, but questions remain in people's minds. Was the judgment just and fair, given the material facts and evidence presen...Published: 23 Apr 2020 at 14:23hrs | 3096 | by Jonathan Chando
Ex-CIO Boss Happyton Bonyongwe urged to write a book
Former Director General of the dreaded Central Intelligence Organisation Happyton Bonyongwe has been urged to write a tell all book that will expose the real story of Zimbabwe's history since his assu...Published: 23 Mar 2020 at 12:02hrs | 4709 | by Mandla Ndlovu
UK's double standards exposed
The British government has exposed its hypocrisy and insincerity following a proposal to enact new laws that seek to outlaw foreign spies, yet it has its own spies in almost every country. The...Published: 31 Jan 2020 at 19:02hrs | 1232 | by Staff reporter
'Mwonzora assisted Chiwenga to do the November coup'
Former MDC Secretary General Douglas Mwonzora offered legal advice to Vice President Rt General Constantino Chiwenga during the November 2017 coup that ended 37 years of President Robert Mugabe's rule...Published: 18 Nov 2019 at 15:09hrs | 12524 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'We had informers within the Rhodesian security services'
WE continue our interview with Tapson Ncube pseudonym Makhula Thebe who in the past instalments has spoken about how dissenting voices were treated within the Zipra ranks. Viewed as a rebel, N...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 05:24hrs | 805 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's CIO agent in court for robbery
A suspected member of the dreaded Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) who was part of President Emerson Mnangagwa's advance security team ahead of the Zanu-PF leader's visit in M...Published: 05 Nov 2019 at 06:56hrs | 3082 | by newzimbabwe
It should always be for God and country
"For God and country - Geronimo, Geronimo, Geronimo."We are told these were the words triumphantly pronounced by a US special forces serviceman in a moment of ecstatic fealty after fatally pum...Published: 27 Oct 2019 at 09:49hrs | 144 | by Bishop Lazi
Chamisa warned against spies
Respected human rights lawyer Dr Pedzisai Ruhanya has advised MDC Alliance president Advocate Nelson Chamisa to be wary of surrounding himself with Zanu-PF spies and vigorously vet those that he appoi...Published: 21 Oct 2019 at 16:05hrs | 6764 | by Ndou Paul
African Religion and Governance in a changing world. Where thou goest native Africa!
It is my humble intention to speak to this paper in response to my learned brother Kenyan Professor Patrick Loch Otieno Lumumba's presentation to The All-Africa Religious Liberty 3rd Congress in...Published: 22 Sep 2019 at 15:00hrs | 956 | by Reginald Nyathi
How Mnangagwa helped ANC comrades during Apartheid
Less than a month into Zimbabwe's independence in 1980, then African National Congress leader Oliver Tambo met with then Prime Minister Robert Mugabe over how the new nation would help the liberation ...Published: 21 Sep 2019 at 06:50hrs | 738 | by Isdore Guvamombe
'Apartheid spy' sues Zuma for R500,000
Former Cabinet minister and prominent ANC member Derek Hanekom is taking former president Jacob Zuma to court to the tune of R500 000 for defamation, Business Day reported. This follows a twee...Published: 13 Aug 2019 at 09:01hrs | 1399 | by Staff reporter
17 CIA spies sentenced to death
(CNN)Iran has detained 17 Iranian citizens accused of acting as spies for the United States Central Intelligence Agency, according to the country's Ministry of Intelligence.An Intelligence Min...Published: 22 Jul 2019 at 18:53hrs | 3168 | by CNN
'Kill Mnangagwa and spare me, I've kids,' says his wife
An unhinged Auxillia Mnangagwa ranted at a top army commander, at one point telling him to SHOOT President Emmerson Mnangagwa and spare her because she has children, she is heard on a sensational leak...Published: 16 Jul 2019 at 07:50hrs | 8962 | by ZimLive
Mnangagwa developing algorithmic surveillance system to spy on Zimbabweans
In a bid to attain political omnipresence and omniscience against unsuspecting citizens, the Zimbabwe government is reportedly working on a sophisticated algorithmic super surveillance system, said to...Published: 28 Jun 2019 at 08:37hrs | 8587 | by Itai Mushekwe/Mary-Kate Kahari
Civil society activists on Zimbabwe military watch list
THE Zimbabwe National Army's Military Intelligence (MI) unit has placed on its watchlist several civil society activists it claims are conniving with United States to unseat President Emmerson Mnangag...Published: 14 Jun 2019 at 08:26hrs | 2261 | by Staff reporter
Reflections on the life of Dr Dumiso Dabengwa: highs and lows
Chief spies are not famous for mingling easily with the public: they tend to be aloof; secretive and in glamorised Western films have notoriety for keeping everyone guessing about everything in the wo...Published: 09 Jun 2019 at 09:36hrs | 380 | by Dr Mandla Nyathi
Mnangagwa scared to face his own sins at Dabengwa's funeral
The lame excuse given by presidential spokesman George Charamba for Mnangagwa's failure to attend Dabengwa's funeral is that "it is in the spirit of respecting the bereaved family's request for privac...Published: 02 Jun 2019 at 14:08hrs | 6022 | by Israel Dube
CIOs spy on Zimbabweans in South Africa
A network of Central Intelligence Organisation details exist in South Africa to monitor the daily movements of the millions of Zimbabwe who are in the neighbouring country. In his book Two Wee...Published: 20 May 2019 at 09:17hrs | 16713 | by Mandla Ndlovu
How Col Tshinga Dube, Gen PV Sibanda were almost blown up by Rhodies
TODAY we conclude our series of interviews with Retired Colonel Tshinga Dube, the last Zipra chief of communications, former Cabinet Minister and chief executive officer of the Zimbabwe Industries (ZD...Published: 19 May 2019 at 09:09hrs | 1175 | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi was planned by Zanu and the West
FORMER Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (Zipra) combatants have denied that some of their colleagues were dissidents who were deployed to topple then Prime Minister Robert Mugabe's government afte...Published: 10 May 2019 at 06:41hrs | 3337 | by Staff Reporter
How a pistol sold Tshinga Dube out
IN our last edition our Assistant Editor Mkhululi Sibanda (MS) spoke to one of the pioneer guerillas, Retired Colonel Tshinga Dube about the first operations. Retired Col Dube whose pseudo name was ca...Published: 05 May 2019 at 12:18hrs | 5122 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean white farmers lodge a R1.9bn compensation claim against South Africa
In what we hope is the final phase of a protracted legal struggle for justice in Zimbabwe, Willie Spies, the legal representative of AfriForum, a South African civil rights initiative, lodged papers i...Published: 12 Apr 2019 at 13:55hrs | 2235 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa plans to appoint more MDC official to key govt positions
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa plans to appoint more opposition officials to key government positions notwithstanding his continuing brawl with MDC boss Nelson Chamisa - who has adamantly refused to...Published: 05 Apr 2019 at 16:21hrs | 7659 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa fishes in Chamisa's pond
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa plans to appoint more opposition officials to key government positions notwithstanding his continuing brawl with MDC boss Nelson Chamisa - who has adamantly refused to rec...Published: 05 Apr 2019 at 07:18hrs | 13968 | by Staff reporter
The people will one day demand Mnangagwa's corpse, Mugabe warns
Former President Robert Mugabe has warned his successor Emmerson Mnangagwa that civilians being killed by the military under his command will one day demand his death in the same way.Mugabe, c...Published: 25 Feb 2019 at 08:12hrs | 4636 | by ZimLive
Mnangagwa no-show at rally raises eyebrows
President Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday failed to attend a rally to thank his supporters following his controversial July 2018 election win, raising fresh speculation about alleged fissures in the pres...Published: 03 Feb 2019 at 12:01hrs | 1750 | by Staff reporter
Relatives fear the worst, as activists go missing
JOHANNESBURG - While Zimbabweans and the rest of the world, have been seized with the latest shooting of protesters, who were demonstrating against an unexpected fuel price hike, reports are that doze...Published: 28 Jan 2019 at 07:13hrs | 3564 | by Staff Reporter
Govt should nip MDC, NGOs
The manner in which the violence rocking the nation is being handled by pro-opposition elements simply indicates an unparalleled determination to deliberately stir despondency in Zimbabwe and send neg...Published: 17 Jan 2019 at 10:20hrs | 998 | by Jasper Hloka
JZ Moyo dared Joshua Nkomo
The article gives an insight into the life of Moyo and also projects him as a fearless individual who did not hesitate to challenge his leader, the late Dr Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo when he felt things wer...Published: 06 Jan 2019 at 10:28hrs | 4695 | by Saul Gwakuba Ndlovu
Mnangagwa sets spies on striking doctors
Government is using unorthodox tactics including political intimidation to force striking doctors to abort their industrial action, the Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors Association (ZHDA) has claimed....Published: 05 Jan 2019 at 17:14hrs | 4051 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa purging Mugabe loyal CIO operatives
President Emmerson Mnanagagwa's government is purging senior Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) operatives suspected of having links with former president Robert Mugabe as the Zanu-PF leader cont...Published: 30 Dec 2018 at 10:26hrs | 5604 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe colonial farmers to sue Jacob Zuma
Former South Africa president Jacob Zuma, facing 16 corruption charges and a demand to pay back as much as R32m in legal fees, may soon see his woes deepen from beyond the country's borders.Af...Published: 18 Dec 2018 at 16:54hrs | 3665 | by Staff reporter
'I was there before Dabengwa'
The Sunday Mail's Deputy News Editor Levi Mukarati continues his conversation with Clark Ngiyo Mpofu, one of the first nationalists to undergo military training in China. Mpofu reflects on his time in...Published: 04 Nov 2018 at 09:45hrs | 2781 | by Staff reporter
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