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What value systems, dignity and integrity does Mnangagwa know? Stuff and nonsense!
In Shona, I would have said: Ndiko kunonzi kujairira Vahnu uku! This man can just open his mouth wotanga kubukura, ogo bukura ogo bukura! A Portuguese adage says: even a small ass can do it if a stoma...Published: 29 May 2025 at 21:32hrs | 775 | by Nomazulu Thata
Auxillia Mnangagwa's business partners listed on Covid-19 fund for the poor
FIRST lady Auxillia Mnangagwa's business partners, among them a ruling Zanu-PF senator, are on the list of people meant to benefit from a $600 million (US$25 million) fund to cushion vulnerable popula...Published: 11 Oct 2020 at 10:41hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Auxillia Mnangagwa's business partners listed on multi-million Covid-19 fund for the poor
FIRST lady Auxillia Mnangagwa's business partners, among them a ruling Zanu PF senator, are on the list of people meant to benefit from a $600 million (US$25 million) fund to cushion vulnerable popula...Published: 11 Oct 2020 at 08:26hrs | 3 | by Staffg Reporter
Cops, vendors clash
VIOLENCE rocked Harare yesterday as police and vendors fought running battles as informal traders resisted efforts by government and council to remove them from the central business district as part o...Published: 21 Sep 2018 at 07:10hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance led Harare City Council raids vendors
Harare City Council and the national police yesterday launched raids against vendors in the central business district after pleas for the informal traders to leave the streets due to a cholera outbrea...Published: 16 Sep 2018 at 08:57hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Harare vendors get 24-hr ultimatum to vacate
The National Vendors Union of Zimbabwe (Navuz) yesterday started mobilising its members to leave undesignated vending sites in Harare's central business district today in order to contain the cholera ...Published: 15 Sep 2018 at 09:00hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Vendors stalls demolished at night
Vendors at the congested Copacabana termini in Harare arrived early in the morning on Saturday to find their market stalls destroyed with only heaps of rubble left.The demolishment was carried...Published: 07 Aug 2018 at 07:59hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Forex dealers backbone of economy'
PARASTATALS yesterday made a beeline at President Emmerson Mnangagwa's scheduled meeting with Harare vendors, dangling sweeteners, including flexible cash-lending facilities to the small-scale traders...Published: 28 Jul 2018 at 09:40hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa name-dropping saves Zvorwadza
National Vendors Union of Zimbabwe (Navuz) president Sten Zvorwadza was yesterday told to prioritise court business after he sought a postponement of his attempted arson trial to go and meet with Pres...Published: 27 Jul 2018 at 13:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Nobody wins spiteful wars
TWO separate news items from the past few days have been most instructive in their own way.The first was about MDC Alliance presidential spokesperson Nkululeko Sibanda walking into Herald Hous...Published: 29 Jun 2018 at 08:01hrs | 2 | by Conway Nkumbuzo Tutani
'Talibanisation' of Zimbabwe politics!
ZIMBABWEANS in general can take things in their stride. They can calmly deal with something unpleasant and not let it have a crushing effect on them.So it's good that some strong, principled v...Published: 15 Jun 2018 at 13:47hrs | 2 | by Conway Tutani
Zvorwadza urges vendors to embrace new dispensation
Informal traders in the Midlands Province have been urged to support the new dispensation and spurn attempts by some political parties to influence them against participating in the economic developme...Published: 04 Jun 2018 at 07:24hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
'Khupe and Gutu must go hang'
MDC Youth Assembly vice president Shakespeare Mukoyi said he will not testify against party leader, Nelson Chamisa, in his battle against Thokozani Khupe for the control of the country's biggest oppos...Published: 30 May 2018 at 16:06hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Zvorwadza anti-Mphoko protest trial date set
NATIONAL Vendors' Union leader, Sten Zvorwadza, has been summoned to appear in court on June 1 for trial in a case where he stands accused of threatening to burn Rainbow Towers Hotel in protest over f...Published: 22 May 2018 at 06:34hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zvorwadza praises ED 'for new dispensation' - how naïve, mamba with new coat is still deadly
There is always a problem when zeal is not tempered by reason, Sten Zvorwadza is one example. "The controversial political activist heaped praises on President Emmerson Mnangagwa for "ushering...Published: 17 May 2018 at 19:04hrs | 1 | by Nomusa Garikai
Mujuru visits police shooting victims
NATIONAL People's Party (NPP) leader Joice Mujuru yesterday visited victims of police shooting, where she lambasted the Zimbabwe Republic Police over its heavy-handedness, which she said had created u...Published: 02 Mar 2018 at 10:33hrs | | by GIFT Nyandoro, PRC spokesperson
Mujuru visits police shooting victims
NATIONAL People's Party (NPP) leader Joice Mujuru yesterday visited victims of police shooting, where she lambasted the Zimbabwe Republic Police over its heavy-handedness, which she said had created u...Published: 02 Mar 2018 at 06:34hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Police shooting victims buried
Government donated $200 and a coffin to the families of victims whose lives were tragically ended by Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) on Thursday night.Three unarmed civilians were fatally shot ...Published: 27 Feb 2018 at 05:56hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
New police chief faces tough task
He is a career cop who walked the beat over the past 23 years before assuming the post of police commissioner-general.He graduated as a patrol officer in October 1982, and is a police veteran ...Published: 25 Feb 2018 at 10:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Job hopes fading as Mnangagwa govt about to clock 100
As President Emmerson Mnangagwa's first 100 days in power beckon, Thomas Charumbira has little hope of leaving Julius Nyerere way where he has been operating as a vendor for the past two years....Published: 25 Feb 2018 at 10:00hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Embrace G40 to unseat Zanu-PF
OPPOSITION parties have been challenged to unite and invite into their ranks members of the vanquished G40 faction in Zanu-PF if they are to entertain any chances of unseating President Emmerson Mnang...Published: 28 Jan 2018 at 08:21hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Vendors vow to defy government
A vendor representative union yesterday vowed informal traders would defy a decree to leave street pavements across Zimbabwe's towns and cities until municipalities build alternative vending sites, de...Published: 23 Jan 2018 at 08:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Call for Mnangagwa to be president to white farmer & vendor too
When Mnangagwa was sworn into office, he promised to be the president for all "regardless of colour, creed, religion, tribe or political affiliation". I should also urge...Published: 22 Jan 2018 at 07:35hrs | 1 | by Memory Chatambudza
No to ruthless eviction of illegal traders from the streets - NPP
Revolutionary greetings comrades. The blame for the Zimbabwean economic meltdown must be placed where it belongs, at the door steps of Zanu Pf. The blame must rest squarely on the shoulders of Zanu Pf...Published: 22 Jan 2018 at 06:28hrs | 1 | by Khulani David Ndhlovu
Vendors give govt 48-hour ultimatum to create jobs
Vendors have given government a 48-hour ultimatum to create jobs for them so that they are able to leave the streets. The ultimatum comes barely a day after government also gave the vendors the same o...Published: 21 Jan 2018 at 10:46hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabweans celebrate Chihuri departure
ORDINARY citizens, human rights activists and opposition parties yesterday hailed outgoing Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) Commissioner-General Augustine Chihuri's move to step down, with some describi...Published: 20 Dec 2017 at 04:56hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Chihuri humiliated
POLICE Commissioner-General Augustine Chihuri was yesterday booed by thousands of Zimbabweans as he pledged allegiance to President Emmerson Mnangagwa.Chihuri was firstly booed as he arrived a...Published: 25 Nov 2017 at 06:09hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Forex dealers back in town
Government seems to have lost the war against vendors and illegal foreign currency dealers, as most of the informal traders are trickling back into the Harare CBD, despite a massive joint police and c...Published: 14 Nov 2017 at 12:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zvorwadza cornered, assaulted in Mbare
NATIONAL Vendors' Union of Zimbabwe (Navuz) leader Sten Zvorwadza has claimed that he was assaulted by Zanu-PF youths in Mbare on Saturday, on accusations of disrespecting President Robert Mugabe....Published: 13 Nov 2017 at 05:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
What Mugabe is doing is 'Satanic and devilish'
A Zimbabwean students leader, Zvikomborero Haruzivishe, has compared President Robert Mugabe to "Satan" over the recently launched campaign to clear Harare’s streets of illegal vendors, says a repor...Published: 10 Nov 2017 at 09:38hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe given a two-week ultimatum
NATIONAL Vendors' Union of Zimbabwe (Navuz) leader Sten Zvorwadza yesterday gave President Robert Mugabe a two-week ultimatum to clear his name over the harassment of vendors in the central business d...Published: 01 Nov 2017 at 06:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Thieving vendors' denied bail
Four vendors who were arrested during Operation Restore Order after looting 48 cellphones were denied bail when they appeared in court yesterday.David Mazibiye, 41, Tinashe Mbofana, 24, Maxwel...Published: 18 Oct 2017 at 12:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zvorwadza spends second night in detention
PRO-democracy campaigner and the leader of the National Vendors Union Zimbabwe (NAVUZ) Sten Zvorwadza was on Wednesday condemned to spend a second night in police custody as Zimbabwe Republic Police (...Published: 13 Oct 2017 at 13:47hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Duo tormented over Mugabe old age comments
HARARE Magistrate Josephine Sande on Thursday ended the detention of two Zimbabweans who were arrested early this week for allegedly passing some comments over President Robert Mugabe's advanced age, ...Published: 13 Oct 2017 at 13:46hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Activist in court for insulting 'day dreaming' Mugabe
National Vendors' Union of Zimbabwe chairperson Stendrick Zvorwadza yesterday appeared in court facing charges of insulting or undermining the authority of the President after he described President R...Published: 13 Oct 2017 at 09:41hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Mugabe is daydreaming, says vendors
National Vendors Union Zimbabwe chairperson Sten Zvorwadza (pictured) has said President Robert Mugabe is "daydreaming" in his bid to ban street vending.Zvorwadza told the Daily News yesterday...Published: 09 Oct 2017 at 16:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's dying economy a 'ticking bomb'
Long-suffering Zimbabweans have laid into President Robert Mugabe's misfiring government, warning that the country's dying economy, worsening cash shortages and rising poverty levels are "a ticking ti...Published: 30 Apr 2017 at 14:19hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
National stutdown protest next week
Protest movements led by Tajamuka/Sesijikile have vowed to to join and bolster civil servants planned next week's strike to pile pressure on the government to address the social and economic pro...Published: 01 Mar 2017 at 03:41hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Vendors support Mujuru
Vendors came out guns blazing criticising expelled Zimbabwe People First (ZimPF) founding member, Rugare Gumbo, for denigrating them, while attacking ZimPF president, Joice Mujuru.In an un...Published: 16 Feb 2017 at 06:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Shoddy police work blamed for acquittals
Human rights lawyers have squarely blamed investigators for their faulty police work, accusing them of investigative amnesia and guilty omissions, which led to the absence of solid cases in the co...Published: 22 Jan 2017 at 14:24hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zanu PF can't steal Christmas
A state media columnist has said it is absurd for people to claim that the ruling Zanu PF has the ability to steal Jesus and Christmas.The columnist, Bishop Lazarus said Zanu PF should not be ...Published: 25 Dec 2016 at 06:17hrs | 2 | by Alice Dube
Trial of activists who 'torched' a police car fails to kick off
The trial of 20 Tajamuka group members, who are facing public violence charges after they allegedly torched Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation and Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) vehicles during a p...Published: 09 Dec 2016 at 06:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Fuzwayo leads Matabeleland into Human Rights Awards
Prominent Gwanda bases activist Bekezela Maduma Fuzwayo on Friday night led the hopes of the people of Matabeleland in the presumed highly polarised Zimrights Community Human Rights Award. Wit...Published: 28 Nov 2016 at 18:03hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe's 'pro-democracy' groups fight over demo funding
Zimbabwe's pro-democracy groups have started to fracture, with anti-President Robert Mugabe civic groups crossing swords with an opposition political party over last week's failed anti-bond notes ...Published: 23 Nov 2016 at 13:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Naive docile - Morgan Tsvangirai should resign
It's sad that I have come to this conclusion. It was in 1999 when the MDC party was formed, Zimbabwe a country we all love had suddenly derailed and was heading towards nowhere, I was young then a...Published: 23 Nov 2016 at 08:39hrs | | by Umzukulu Ka Sitsha
Zvorwadza surprises Harare magistrate Vongai Muchuchuti
National Vendors Union (Navuz) leader Sten Zvorwadza staged a dramatic plea for a postponement of his cases when he stormed the courtroom with his luggage and an air ticket for a flight that...Published: 22 Nov 2016 at 14:09hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Naïve and docile - Morgan Tsvangirai should resign
It's sad that I have come to this conclusion. It was in 1999 when the MDC party was formed, Zimbabwe a country we all love had suddenly derailed and was heading towards nowhere, I was young then a...Published: 21 Nov 2016 at 10:04hrs | 2 | by Umzukulu Ka Sitsha
Mugabe promised war vets $500k and/or prosperity only to deliver poverty
Financial Gazette columnist CZ's (satirizing he who must not be named, the satanic satyr Robert Gabriel Mugabe, totem Gushungo) latest contribution "I never promised any war vet US$500k Cdes" Bulawayo...Published: 18 Nov 2016 at 19:28hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
Anti-Mugabe protestors chicken out, change strategy
Activists under the banner "This Constitution Our Constitution" have changed their strategy after police in Bulawayo sealed their starting point which was at the Bulawayo City Hall. Police...Published: 18 Nov 2016 at 08:59hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: Dzamara found at a local hospital
Reports coming in say that Patson Dzamara who was reported to have been abducted has been found in a local hospital. Details are still sketchy as to his state of health.Earlier we had reports ...Published: 18 Nov 2016 at 08:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
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