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ED receives hero's welcome at UNGA
When a new baby is born in a family, everyone wants to see, hold and shower it with gifts. It is normal for family members to even suggest that that the baby should be named after them. So stiff...Published: 5 hrs ago | 2818 | by Elijah Chihota
Chiwenga launches African Dream boat
Vice President Retired General Constantino Chiwenga has inaugurated the French-owned and Zimbabwe assembled luxury boat, the African Dream, built at a cost of $2,5 million dollars.The luxury c...Published: 23 Sep 2018 at 14:34hrs | 6904 | by Staff reporter
ZCTU honours 2006 torture victims
THE Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) has honoured its members who were brutally tortured by police on September 13 2006 after spearheading countrywide protests against social injustices by for...Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 07:48hrs | 329 | by Staff reporter
Hefty perks for Obert Mpofu and other fired old gurad
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has thrown a lifeline to his fellow comrades-in-arms whom he dropped from his Cabinet more than a week ago by giving them plum jobs at the Zanu-PF headquarters, complete w...Published: 16 Sep 2018 at 13:37hrs | 6465 | by Staff reporter
Zesa to take over Kariba in 2 years
The Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC) will take over full control of the newly completed Kariba South Power Station after two years when the defects liability period agreed with Chinese contractor Sinohydr...Published: 16 Sep 2018 at 08:49hrs | 405 | by Staff reporter
Open Letter to my Mother - My heroine
Dear Mom, I'm not sure where to actually start this letter, because I have so much to say.I think it's difficult as a child to express a lot of things to their mother especially if its...Published: 16 Sep 2018 at 07:04hrs | 353 | by Mberi Prince
Let's give Mnangagwa a chance to turnaround Zimbabwe
For a long time, Zimbabwe was a country in the wilderness with little taking place, but since November 24, 2017 when President Mnangagwa took over the levers of powers, things started to tick. He emba...Published: 15 Sep 2018 at 09:16hrs | 196 | by Elijah Chihota
Zimbabwe's 'enemy of the people' returns home
In our series of letters from Africa, Zimbabwean journalist Wilf Mbanga reflects on his return home after 15 years in exile - and 10 months after long-time leader Robert Mugabe was ousted from office....Published: 12 Sep 2018 at 10:43hrs | 3813 | by BBC News
Mudenda retains Speaker of Parliament post
Zanu-PF Politburo member Advocate Jacob Mudenda was yesterday voted as the Speaker of the National Assembly to retain the post he held in the previous Parliament, after beating MDC Alliance's Ms Pauri...Published: 12 Sep 2018 at 06:59hrs | 243 | by Staff reporter
Let's give Mnangagwa a chance to turn Zimbabwe around
For a long time, Zimbabwe was a country in the wilderness with virtually nothing taking place, but since 24 November 2017 when President Emmerson Mnangagwa took over the levers of powers things starte...Published: 11 Sep 2018 at 16:16hrs | 2443 | by Elijah Chihota
Sessel Zvidzai's garden boy now Gweru Ward 3 councillor
In a notable tale of grace to grass, former MDC-T Gweru Urban MP and senior official in the MDC Alliance, Sessel Zvidzai's gardener is now City of Gweru Ward 3 councillor.Doubt Ncube, who is 3...Published: 08 Sep 2018 at 11:30hrs | 2888 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa, Mnangagwa lawyers join hand, fight in Wicknell's corner
INTRATREK Zimbabwe, founded by businessman Wicknell Chivayo, has filed a lawsuit at the High Court demanding $25 million from Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC) in damages for alleged repudiation of a multi...Published: 07 Sep 2018 at 07:22hrs | 10080 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance youth leader granted $100 bail
MDC-T youth leader and Highfield West MP-elect Happymore Chidziva yesterday appeared before a Gweru magistrate facing charges of inciting violence after he allegedly threatened President Emmerson Mnan...Published: 05 Sep 2018 at 07:14hrs | 1259 | by Staff reporter
Court to hold inspection-in-loco in Pambuka, Maziwisa fraud trial
A HARARE court is set to go for an inspection-in-loco at the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) on September 18 in a case where former Zanu PF MP for Highfield, Psychology Maziwisa, and televisio...Published: 05 Sep 2018 at 07:01hrs | 495 | by Staff reporter
IDBZ gets $150m capital injection
The Government has injected $150 million equity capital into the Infrastructure Development Bank of Zimbabwe to help the institution discharge its mandate of providing long and medium term funding for...Published: 05 Sep 2018 at 06:28hrs | 195 | by Staff reporter
Massive drop in poll petitions
The number of challenges against National Assembly and local authority poll outcomes brought to Electoral Courts fell significantly this year as compared to 2013.In all, 28 petitions were file...Published: 02 Sep 2018 at 08:50hrs | 151 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa can do without Chamisa
IN the next few days, most likely next week, President Mnangagwa will announce his new Cabinet. This will follow the swearing-in of members of the National Assembly on Wednesday. Advice has be...Published: 01 Sep 2018 at 08:48hrs | 623 | by Editorial - The Herald
Chamisa: Different democrat with many 'shades of grey'
"In a democracy, someone who fails to get elected to office can always console himself with the thought that there was something not quite fair about it," remarked Thucydides, a respected Athenian his...Published: 31 Aug 2018 at 06:39hrs | 990 | by Gibson Nyikadzino
Judge blasts police in Chivayo case
The High Court has blasted the police over the arrest of businessman and Intratrek (Private) Limited director Wicknell Chivayo on weak charges of allegedly swindling Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC) of ov...Published: 29 Aug 2018 at 06:31hrs | 537 | by Staff reporter
Trump under fire over South Africa land reform
SOUTH Africa's land reform policy was long overdue and attempts by United States President Mr Donald Trump to muddy the programme is clear testimony of his administration's defiance to black self-dete...Published: 24 Aug 2018 at 05:43hrs | 490 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's constitutionalism moves notch up
Today is a momentous day for Zimbabweans as constitutionalism moves a notch up with the Constitutional Court sitting to consider submissions by MDC-Alliance presidential contestant Nelson Chamisa in c...Published: 22 Aug 2018 at 06:02hrs | 158 | by Elliot Ziwira
Zimbabwe military not involved in Biti arrest
THE Zimbabwe National Army has nothing to do with the arrest of MDC-Alliance principal Tendai Biti, a senior police officer said yesterday.Chief Superintendent Jealous Nyabasa made the remarks...Published: 21 Aug 2018 at 15:56hrs | 1013 | by Staff reporter
US sanctions on Zimbabwe - truths, history and lies
A new regime of US sanctions has just been signed into law, opening a fresh front in the increasingly polarised political debate in Zimbabwe.Critics say they hurt the economy, while supporters...Published: 20 Aug 2018 at 19:01hrs | 5653 | by newsZWire
Did the MDC really call for Zimbabwe sanctions?
ZANU-PF often makes the claim that it is the opposition that has called for sanctions. The opposition's stance on sanctions has shifted according to its proximity to power.In 2012, Tendai Biti...Published: 20 Aug 2018 at 18:52hrs | 2167 | by newsZWire
Prophet Magaya injured
PROPHETIC Healing and Deliverance Ministries canteen was gutted by fired, which nearly destroyed the church's headquarters in Waterfalls on Friday night.The fire believed to have been caused b...Published: 20 Aug 2018 at 15:09hrs | 4955 | by Staff reporter
Democracy, elections bad for collective cause
SOMETHING is going wrong with democracy. Something has gone wrong with democracy. It was the most successful political idea of the 21st century, but increasingly democracy is running into trouble, not...Published: 20 Aug 2018 at 05:53hrs | 112 | by Reason Wafawarova
UK Zimbabweans die of HIV after being fooled by faith healers
A number of Zimbabweans in London with HIV have died after they stopped taking lifesaving drugs on the advice of their Evangelical Christian pastors. Pastors have taken advantage of the respect they g...Published: 19 Aug 2018 at 11:44hrs | 3954 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Bon voyage Evangelist Mathias Z. Jawa
This week members of Guta Ra Mwari religion across the globe are dipping their heads as they pay their last respects to a fallen hero. Those of us who were fortunate enough to have lived in the life a...Published: 16 Aug 2018 at 21:01hrs | 1478 | by Mpumelelo Ncube
Biti's lawyers acted in bad faith
THE Investigating Officer (IO) in the matter in which MDC-Alliance principal Tendai Biti is challenging his court appearance in Zimbabwe instead of Zambia yesterday said he felt let down by the accuse...Published: 16 Aug 2018 at 16:45hrs | 6892 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF to file opposing papers
ZANU-PF says it will today file opposing papers against an election petition filed by MDC Alliance leader, Mr Nelson Chamisa, at the Constitutional Court challenging President Emmerson Mnangagwa's vic...Published: 13 Aug 2018 at 07:27hrs | 1172 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa missed recount deadline
Mr Nelson Chamisa and his MDC-Alliance cannot prove to the Constitutional Court that presidential election results announced by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) were wrong as they did not make ...Published: 13 Aug 2018 at 06:39hrs | 1164 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF readies opposing papers to poll petition
Zanu-PF says it will tomorrow file opposing papers against an election petition filed by MDC Alliance leader, Nelson Chamisa at the Constitutional Court challenging President Emmerson Mnangagwa's vict...Published: 12 Aug 2018 at 15:30hrs | 5943 | by Staff reporter
If Mnangagwa is truly chosen by God, he should first confess his sins against Zimbabweans
Zimbabwean president Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa has sought to justify his military-coup assisted ascendency to power by repeatedly claiming that he was chosen by Jehovah God to lead this nation - thr...Published: 12 Aug 2018 at 11:00hrs | 2121 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Chamisa should respect people's voice
Zimbabwe's 2018 harmonised elections have come and gone. While this was a tightly-contested plebiscite, it was Emmerson Mnangagwa and Zanu-PF who emerged victorious. Let me take this moment to humbly ...Published: 09 Aug 2018 at 07:38hrs | 537 | by Cuthbert Mavheko
China, Russia congratulate Mnangagwa
THE Communist Party of China (CPC) has congratulated President-elect Emmerson Mnangagwa and Zanu-PF for winning the recently held harmonised elections saying the victory is testimony of the overwhelmi...Published: 09 Aug 2018 at 07:36hrs | 316 | by Staff reporter
'Rapist' father acquitted
A Chitungwiza man who allegedly raped his three-year-old child after he chased away his wife over a misunderstanding was yesterday acquitted after the State failed to prove its case. The accus...Published: 07 Aug 2018 at 07:07hrs | 321 | by Staff reporter
Social media transforms political ground
Twitter, Whatsapp and Facebook have transformed the way political figures interact with their constituencies.Fifteen years ago, campaigns were drastically different.Reflect back to the...Published: 05 Aug 2018 at 09:48hrs | 346 | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi has lost value as a political currency
Now that the 2018 plebiscite has emphatically placed my party ZAPU in its rightful political space, it is time for members to sober up to reality. Let me begin by congratulating all those who stood in...Published: 04 Aug 2018 at 09:43hrs | 1657 | by Mso Ndlovu
Bob was in it, God wasn't
IN the run-up to Monday's harmonised elections, the MDC Alliance ran with the catch line "God Is in It" in what was, in their minds, an assumption that since God was supporting their aspirations, they...Published: 04 Aug 2018 at 09:23hrs | 362 | by Nduduzo Tshuma
Not My President - I am an Urbanite
Our hearts bleed with those who were slain by the trigger-happy military on Wednesday. What is more flabbergasting is the lack of sensitivity by those responsible of arming the soldiers with live bull...Published: 04 Aug 2018 at 06:51hrs | 12566 | by Dr Gus Manatsa
Whither ZAPU: The morning after
Now that the 2018 plebiscite has emphatically placed my party ZAPU in its rightful political space, it is time for members to sober up to reality. Let me begin by congratulating all those who stood in...Published: 03 Aug 2018 at 11:35hrs | 2348 | by Mso Ndlovu
Zanu-PF hails Modi victory
PROMINENT businessman Raj Modi is the first in 18 years to win a parliamentary seat in Bulawayo in an election involving the opposition MDC.The city has been an MDC stronghold and the oppositi...Published: 02 Aug 2018 at 07:33hrs | 1166 | by Staff reporter
Zec chair declares Mashonaland provinces as having highest voters
ZEC chairperson Priscilla Chigumba has indicated that Mashonaland Provinces are recording the Highest Voter turn out. She specifically mentioned "Uzumba". Through investigations we have manage...Published: 30 Jul 2018 at 18:15hrs | 6243 | by Stephen Jakes
Chamisa fanning anarchy
This weekend marks the end of the campaigning period for Zimbabwe's watershed harmonized elections to be held on Monday the 30th of July 2018. Two of the major and arguably the contesting parties ZANU...Published: 28 Jul 2018 at 19:47hrs | 2767 | by Tendai Jongwe
Zanu-PF wins ruling against teachers' union
THE Supreme Court has quashed a High Court judgment barring Zanu-PF from "forcing pupils and teachers to attend political rallies" saying the lower court had erred.Chief Justice Luke Malaba si...Published: 28 Jul 2018 at 09:24hrs | 518 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa launches hightech ferrochrome plant
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday launched one of the country's most advanced technological chrome processing plants as the new administration continues to launch multi-million dollar projects to...Published: 26 Jul 2018 at 07:17hrs | 401 | by Staff reporter
France Radio Journalist meet MRP President over Gukurahundi
Mthwakazi Republic Party President Mqondisi Moyo today met France radio journalist to discuss Gukurahundi issues and elections.MRP spokesperson Mbonisi Gumbo said today marked the long awaited...Published: 25 Jul 2018 at 09:43hrs | 1161 | by Stephen Jakes
Platinum project to create 90 000 jobs
President Mnangagwa yesterday officially launched the $4,2 billion Karo Resources consolidated platinum project in Mhondoro-Mubaira, which is set to create a combined 90 000 jobs as Government steps u...Published: 25 Jul 2018 at 07:06hrs | 510 | by Staff reporter
Justice Chigumba's position as ZEC Chairperson is untenable
The recent revelations of Justice Chigumba's ongoing love affair with a senior Zanu PF cabinet minister who is known to be a very close friend of Zanu PF presidential candidate, Emmerson Mnangagwa, le...Published: 23 Jul 2018 at 19:06hrs | 5066 | by Frazer Muzondo
Mnangagwa charmed by 'mega' Sakubva crowd
President Mnangagwa was yesterday "mesmerised and charmed" by a mega crowd at a ruling party campaign rally here, before challenging any other province that had the prowess to draw such a mmmoth crowd...Published: 21 Jul 2018 at 11:15hrs | 296 | by Staff reporter
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