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Zimbabwe under siege once again
IT'S like deja vu - we have been here before! Zimbabwe is once again in the spotlight with the West, its local quislings in the opposition Movement for Democratic Change fronted by Mr Nelson Cha...Published: 24 Aug 2019 at 09:08hrs | 566 | by Editorial - chronicle
Outrage over unqualified Chunga, silence over Luphahla
There has been outrage over Zifa's decision to bar Moses Chunga from coaching Premiership side TelOne because they say he isn't qualified for the job. Joel Luphahla who guided the team into the Premie...Published: 22 Aug 2019 at 08:08hrs | 1973 | by Staff reporter
The right man to convene Mnangagwa-Chamisa dialogue revealed
As I was reflecting upon the Republic of Zimbabwe and the news headlines about Zimbabwe a Bible verse came into mind :John 1:46 - King James BibleAnd Nathanael said unto him, Can the...Published: 22 Aug 2019 at 07:17hrs | 7036 | by Nicholas Ncube
Army chef sidelined over nasty fallout with Mnangagwa's wife
THE commander of One Presidential Guard Infantry Battalion at State House, Lieutenant-Colonel Samson Murombo, was sidelined from commanding the parade at the Defence Forces Day commemorations on Tuesd...Published: 19 Aug 2019 at 11:57hrs | 4777 | by Staff reporter
Bad news for Mnangagwa faction
Vice President, Rtd General Constantino Chiwenga, has reportedly started to fully recover from his health woes at a top notch Beijing military hospital and is bouncing back, Spotlight Zimbabwe, has be...Published: 18 Aug 2019 at 14:43hrs | 28563 | by Mary-Kate Kahari
Zimbabwe readies for introduction of electric cars
THE Government is putting in place modalities to introduce electric cars in the country as a stop gap measure aimed at reducing over reliance on traditional fuel in powering automobiles, a Cabinet Min...Published: 18 Aug 2019 at 09:35hrs | 221 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt readies for introduction of electric cars
THE Government is putting in place modalities to introduce electric cars in the country as a stop gap measure aimed at reducing over reliance on traditional fuel in powering automobiles, a Cabinet Min...Published: 18 Aug 2019 at 08:38hrs | 3071 | by Staff Reporter
Chiwenga bounces back
Vice President, Rtd General Constantino Chiwenga, has reportedly started to fully recover from his health woes at a top notch Beijing military hospital and is bouncing back, Spotlight Zimbabwe reporte...Published: 16 Aug 2019 at 07:40hrs | 8203 | by Mary-Kate Kahari
'Zimbabwe opposition must revisit campaign strategies'
POLITICAL think-tank, Local Solutions Council (LSC), has urged the opposition to re-look its electioneering strategies in rural areas to avoid continuous thumping by the ruling Zanu-PF party.L...Published: 12 Aug 2019 at 08:04hrs | 181 | by Staff reporter
Lupane East by-election and the need for political reforms
ZIMBABWE staged three by-elections in Matabeleland North last weekend, an opposition stronghold since the formation of the MDC in 1999, but all three were won by Zanu-PF, bringing under the spotlight ...Published: 10 Aug 2019 at 11:48hrs | 991 | by Staff reporter
ZCTU urges Zanu-PF to respect people's rights
The ZIMBABWE Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) has implored the Zanu-PF-led government to respect people's rights and stop using intimidation tactics and abductions ahead of next week's planned demonstr...Published: 10 Aug 2019 at 11:38hrs | 347 | by Staff reporter
BCC councillors bribed by Harare parking company, under probe
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) is investigating councillors implicated in a recent bribery junket in the capital to influence the tender process of the city's parking management.Mayor Solomon Mgu...Published: 09 Aug 2019 at 15:15hrs | 759 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Army to declare martial law to crush Mnangagwa and MDC protests
The country's military is reportedly preparing to declare martial law in the event of planned opposition protests becoming violent insurrections and grinding the nation to a halt, Spotlight Zimbabwe, ...Published: 09 Aug 2019 at 08:47hrs | 21100 | by Itai Mushekwe
Zimbabwean man pops up in SA state capture inquiry
You will find Zimbabweans in the most unlikely of places.As South Africans embark on a bruising inquiry into allegations of whether the state was captured by a corrupt clique that milked gover...Published: 04 Aug 2019 at 10:10hrs | 2940 | by staff reporter
General Sibusiso Moyo speaks out
A year has passed since Zimbabwe elected President Emmerson Mnangagwa in late July 2018. This is an important milestone for our new administration, one that has made reform a key priority, as we sweep...Published: 03 Aug 2019 at 09:23hrs | 2507 | by Sibusis Moyo
Mnangagwa to go into UAE exile bolthole
VANCOUVER/HARARE - President Emmerson Mnangagwa, is allegedly plotting to disappear from the country into exile once toppled from power by the military or his own ruling Zanu PF party by June 2020, Sp...Published: 02 Aug 2019 at 11:41hrs | 13307 | by Nancy Mabaya/Mary-Kate Kahari
Unions clash with Mnangagwa's govt
AS the nation plunges deeper into economic turmoil, trade unions have come under the spotlight as they clash with government and business over the working conditions of the country's ever-dwindling wo...Published: 02 Aug 2019 at 08:18hrs | 5915 | by Staff reporter
Icsaz lecturer's resignation opens can of worms
The Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators of Zimbabwe (Icasz) is under the spotlight after a former lecturer, Last Mapuranga, quit his job alleging exam fraud and poor corporate govern...Published: 29 Jul 2019 at 07:50hrs | 1599 | by Staff reporter
Madzibaba helps drug abusers
The founder of the Johanne the Fifth of Africa Apostolic Church, Johanne Masowe Chishanu leader Madzibaba Andby Makururu, is attracting scores of people to his shrine in Mutare, who are afflicted by s...Published: 28 Jul 2019 at 18:16hrs | 472 | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi solution is to tackle poverty
GUKURAHUNDI has long been debated as a tribal issue and was presented to the younger generations and the world at large as a battle for tribal supremacy. This was until former Zapu cadre and former Mi...Published: 28 Jul 2019 at 09:57hrs | 292 | by Nicholas Ncube
World body condemns Zimbabwe over poor state of teachers
THE World's biggest sectoral union federation, Education International (EI), has criticised the Zimbabwean government over the deteriorating labour situation and poor welfare of teachers.EI is...Published: 26 Jul 2019 at 08:25hrs | 735 | by Staff reporter
China wants military chiefs to head new interim Zimbabwe government
BERLIN/PRETORIA - China reportedly wants the country's military chiefs to run and head a new interim Zimbabwe government between 2020-2023 when fresh presidential and parliamentary elections are...Published: 26 Jul 2019 at 07:54hrs | 14395 | by Itai Mushekwe/Mary-Kate Kahari
'Intellectually bankrupt' view Gukurahundi as tribal as did Mugabe for same selfish reasons too
"The Great African Afro-Centric philosopher Mwalimu Julius Nyerere said that those that are politically and intellectually bankrupt turn to ethnicity and religion as their major tool for mobilisation....Published: 25 Jul 2019 at 19:21hrs | 455 | by Nomusa Garikai
Gukurahundi and the battle against Shona supremacy
Gukurahundi has long been debated as a tribal issue and was presented to the younger generations and the world at large as a battle for tribal supremacy. This was until former ZAPU cadre and former Mi...Published: 25 Jul 2019 at 11:40hrs | 3686 | by Nicholas Ncube
US demands constitutionalism
United States Ambassador Brian Nichols has called on the Zimbabwean government to uphold the rights civil society as he met Pastor Evan Mawarire at the ES Embassy in Harare on Tuesday. ...Published: 23 Jul 2019 at 18:55hrs | 3156 | by Staff Reporter
China finds Chiwenga poison cure
PRETORIA - Vice President, Rtd General Constantino Chiwenga, is in China to receive an antidote for his poisoning from Chinese military doctors, as a last ditch effort to help him heal, Spotlight Zimb...Published: 23 Jul 2019 at 07:25hrs | 21599 | by Mary-Kate Kahari
China to help remove Mnangagwa over Zimbabwe diamonds war with Russia
This article first appeared on Spotlight Zimbabwe. LONDON - President Emmerson Mnangagwa's presidential exit is all but sealed amid reports that China ...Published: 22 Jul 2019 at 09:02hrs | 15021 | by Itai Mushekwe
Mnangagwa speaks on ailing Chiwenga
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has revealed that his deputy Constantino Chiwenga, who has been away from spotlight in months, is recovering in a South African hospital. Addressing his Zanu-PF pa...Published: 19 Jul 2019 at 13:31hrs | 25368 | by Staff Reporter
Kambarami's fate has been sealed
THE MDC leadership has summoned its Bulawayo councillors who last week faced protests from ratepayers over poor service delivery and endless infighting among city fathers.The melee at City Hal...Published: 18 Jul 2019 at 08:09hrs | 6032 | by Staff reporter
Patience Zirima travelled to London
Patience Zirima of Media Monitors (Zimbabwe) travelled to London to attend the Global Conference for Media Freedom on July 10 and 11. Here she reflects on what she'll take home from the event, which w...Published: 17 Jul 2019 at 20:40hrs | 283 | by Patience Zirima
Chiri bemoans poor funding
Auditor General Mildred Chiri is back in the spotlight after producing yet another report detailing abuse of funds and inefficiencies in government departments and parastatals.Some of the reve...Published: 07 Jul 2019 at 21:29hrs | 251 | by Staff reporter
Ignatius Chombo case dents Zimbabwe courts' image
THAT it is now more than one-and-a-half years since former Finance minister Ignatius Chombo was arrested in dramatic fashion at the height of a coup that toppled ex-President Robert Mugabe, speaks to ...Published: 06 Jul 2019 at 09:54hrs | 1905 | by Newsday Comment
ZANU PF 2023 Presidential candidate revealed
Spotlight Zimbabwe, has received a leaked list of possible key members of a post-President Emmerson Mnangagwa government, expected to take the reins in Harare within the coming 12 months, after Mnanga...Published: 05 Jul 2019 at 12:45hrs | 20072 | by Nancy Mabaya/Mary-Kate Kahari
More heads to roll at parastatals
PUBLIC officials in State-owned enterprises (SOEs) and Government departments might soon face the music after the Auditor-General, Mrs Mildred Chiri, uncovered continued dereliction of duty and deep-s...Published: 30 Jun 2019 at 09:02hrs | 586 | by Staff reporter
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 | 8498 | by Itai Mushekwe/Mary-Kate Kahari
Chiwenga's health deteriorates
Vice President Constantino Guvheya Dominic Chiwenga's health is failing him and he is now a shadow of his former self.Senior journalist Mduduzi Mathuthu posted on Monday that he has been brief...Published: 27 Jun 2019 at 13:48hrs | 38759 | by Mandla Ndlovu
US firm blacklists Marange diamonds
Washington headquartered Blue Nile has blacklisted diamonds from Zimbabwe due to reported human rights abuses in the Marange diamond district in a major blow to efforts to generate more revenue for th...Published: 27 Jun 2019 at 08:13hrs | 2050 | by Staff reporter
DEMOCRACY - A Citizen's Responsibility
A new publication that puts a spotlight on a fresh outlook on democracy for Zimbabwe has been launched online. The publication, called "Towards an Open and Accountable Government: Context and way forw...Published: 26 Jun 2019 at 13:59hrs | 710 | by Agencies
Matebeleland Collective faces split
MATEBELELAND Collective (MC), a grouping of the clergy and civic society groups in the region, has been rocked by divisions amid counter accusations that some members were State security agents determ...Published: 26 Jun 2019 at 07:28hrs | 837 | by Staff reporter
Scrapping US$ as legal tender will 'cushion' against US$ pricing – imposing rotten Z$ will stifle trade
Zimbabwe scrapped the Z$ in November 2008 and introduced the basket of multi-foreign currency for one very good reason - it had become impossible to do business in Z$. Because of the hyperinflation, t...Published: 25 Jun 2019 at 16:14hrs | 2939 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Chiwenga and Mnangagwa's fight reaches boiling point
The country's presidency is now reportedly paraplegic thus causing tectonic divisions in government, amid disclosures that President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his second in charge, Vice President, Rtd Ge...Published: 24 Jun 2019 at 12:34hrs | 26036 | by Itai Mushekwe
Why getting a video conferencing room onboard is a milestone
Why getting a video conferencing room onboard is a milestone for your content marketing strategy? Because your digital business, your product or service, has a good story to tell, and valuable knowled...Published: 17 Jun 2019 at 21:10hrs | 765 | by Staff writer
Army faction wants Mnangagwa gone
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's continued stay in power is now allegedly being seen as an unprecedented threat to national security, by an army faction said to be loyal to Vice President, Rtd General ...Published: 17 Jun 2019 at 22:38hrs | 18440 | by Spotlight Zimbabwe
'Will implement fundamentals before scrapping multi-currency' - do in 6 months what fail in 10 years!
"One listener asked how the new currency would be sustained when there is no production. The president (Mnangagwa) said that he would not be cornered into revealing the stages that are to be followed ...Published: 16 Jun 2019 at 20:28hrs | 2775 | by Wilbert Mukori
Chiwenga's health woes linked to Zanu PF's thickening internal assassination plots over Mnangagwa's successor
Vice President, Rtd General Constantino Chiwenga's perennial health problems are reportedly linked to the ruling Zanu PF's thickening internal assassination and counter-assassination plots among it's ...Published: 08 Jun 2019 at 07:07hrs | 9390 | by Itai Mushekwe/Nancy Mabaya/Mary-Kate Kahari
Zanu PF rigged 2018 elections and is, ipso facto, illegitimate - condemn EU backdoor legitimacy
Zimbabwe and the EU have started re-engagement talks which the Zimbabwe government hopes will culminate in the EU, IMF, WB and other international lenders bankrolling Zimbabwe's economic programme, fo...Published: 07 Jun 2019 at 08:55hrs | 2315 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Chombo case dents courts' image
THAT it is now more than one-and-a-half years since former Finance minister Ignatius Chombo was arrested in dramatic fashion at the height of a coup that toppled ex-President Robert Mugabe, speaks to ...Published: 06 Jun 2019 at 07:30hrs | 788 | by Newsday - Editorial
Goat-herder's attack on Chief Ndiweni outrageous, uncivil and un-African!
The daringly outrageous, uncivil, abusive and un-African article of the 28th of May 2019 by The Chronicle, viciously attacking Chief Nhlanhlayamangwe Ndiweni of Ntabazinduna smells goaty and belongs t...Published: 05 Jun 2019 at 11:22hrs | 3959 | by Nhlanhla Moses
From KoBulawayo to Bulawayo @ 125
No sooner had Dr Leander Starr Jameson sauntered into the Maxim Hotel located just west of the Market Square did he pronounce Bulawayo a town. That happened on June 1, 1894, making Bulawayo 125 years ...Published: 31 May 2019 at 07:30hrs | 745 | by Pathisa Nyathi
US foreign policy prefers Kenya
Kenya is "one of our key friends in Africa - nay, in the world," said a confident, pleased United States (US) assistant secretary of State for African Affairs, Tibor P Nagy, at a May 9 briefing in Was...Published: 29 May 2019 at 08:03hrs | 350 | by Pearl Matibe
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