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Mnangagwa's CCC coalition gambit mirrors Smith's failed Muzorewa pact
Zimbabwe's ruling Zanu PF party appears to be revisiting the script of colonial Rhodesia's failed 1978 internal settlement as it courts Sengezo Tshabangu's faction of the Citizens Coalition for Change...Published: 17 May 2025 at 14:05hrs | 327 | by Staff reporter
ZAPU launches new grassroots engagement plan
ZAPU has announced a renewed political strategy focused on direct engagement with people at the grassroots level, emphasizing the importance of collective action in addressing Zimbabwe's current socio...Published: 20 Jan 2025 at 10:25hrs | 165 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe opposition parties must unite against Zanu-PF
Leader of the United African National Council (UANC), Reverend Dr. Gwinyai Muzorewa, has called on opposition parties to unite and confront the Zanu-PF-led government over the country's socio-economic...Published: 06 Jun 2024 at 17:30hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
LEADERSHIP IN CRISIS: Chamisa's accountability problem and the erosion of trust in Zimbabwean politics
The political tapestry of Zimbabwe is once again in the spotlight, but this time, for reasons that shake the very core of public trust. A now-debunked press statement announced the expulsion of ...Published: 12 Oct 2023 at 19:19hrs | 3 | by Sandra Mverera
Chamisa aligned pastors blast Jacob Mudenda's partisan conduct
THE Evangelical Fellowship of Zimbabwe (EFZ) has blasted Speaker of Parliament Jacob Mudenda's partisan conduct allowing unconstitutional recalls of elected opposition legislators saying the move scut...Published: 12 Oct 2023 at 06:46hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe will only change when you change
EVERYDAY I reflect on what it would take for Zimbabwe to change. Much of what I look at during my daily commute screams: "Change me!" As I reflect on what my surroundings are asking of me, I have chan...Published: 03 Aug 2023 at 06:45hrs | 13 | by Trevor Ncube
Kasukuwere wants Mnangagwa's govt to release all political prisoners
EXILED independent presidential candidate Saviour Kasukuwere has demanded that the Zanu-PF government must release all political prisoners, and pledged to act on the issue if elected...Published: 26 Jul 2023 at 06:44hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF, MDC-T, CCC make pledge for peaceful election campaigns
Representatives of the country's three main political parties have pledged their parties' commitment to observing peace ahead and beyond the country's harmonised elections due August 23 this year....Published: 17 Jul 2023 at 21:42hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
The political leaders we want in Zimbabwe
WHEN a system is not producing the results we want, we must change the system to get different results.That system can only change when those in leadership realise and acknowledge that the old...Published: 04 Jul 2023 at 07:08hrs | 2 | by Vince Musewe
Use your voice: Use your vote
As the elections in Zimbabwe draw near, there is a sense of excitement and anticipation that grips the nation. For many, this is a chance to choose a leader who will steer Zimbabwe into the future. It...Published: 28 Jun 2023 at 14:16hrs | 5 | by Kumbirai Thierry Nhamo
Our country's Disregard for Proper Waste Management
As a nation, we are notorious for our lack of proper waste management. It's as if we have accepted the garbage-filled streets and overflowing landfills as a normal part of our daily lives. We have bec...Published: 22 Jun 2023 at 13:12hrs | | by Kumbirai Thierry Nhamo
Chamisa's lightning rod
God's emissariesI have nothing against clerics or pastors; in fact my reverence for them is a euphemism for the abject fear I hold of being denied the side and place of comfort in the world yo...Published: 25 Jun 2022 at 08:33hrs | | by Jamwanda
Court sets worshippers free
A Harare magistrate yesterday granted bail to 10 worshippers who were arrested on charges of disorderly conduct on Friday during a prayer meeting in the capital.The 10, who were granted $5 000...Published: 12 Jun 2022 at 09:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Stop suppressing citizens' freedoms
The arrest on Friday of 34 people who were attending a prayer meeting in Harare was another demonstration of the government's lack of respect for freedom of assembly, which is a right that is enshrine...Published: 12 Jun 2022 at 09:21hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Police break up 'political' prayer meeting... arrest 36 worshippers
POLICE yesterday stormed into a prayer meeting in Harare and arrested at-least 36 church members, claiming the gathering was political.They were arrested at the Dutch Reformed Church building ...Published: 11 Jun 2022 at 09:10hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa blames Mnangagwa
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is being haunted by the 2018 legitimacy crisis that has seen the economy imploding and plunging the country into chaos, opposition Citizens' Coalition for Change leader Ne...Published: 13 May 2022 at 19:11hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe currently lacks caliber of leadership required to take nation to the next level
I am finding it most difficult shaking out of my mind those haunting images of a whole head of state and government, and commander-in-chief of the country...Published: 25 Apr 2022 at 08:42hrs | 2 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
By-election winners, losers must work jointly
Results for most of the by-elections for 28 National Assembly seats and 105 local authority seats, mostly in city councils and municipalities, will be announced today and only 133 candidates are going...Published: 27 Mar 2022 at 07:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Leaders should put Zimbabwe first
ZIMBABWE is reeling under the brunt of political polarisation and electoral hangover.Its ripple effects are hitting the person on the street and scuttling efforts to revive the economy....Published: 28 Feb 2022 at 05:23hrs | 1 | by Mukunda waChitova
Tsvangirai's definition of the word 'change'
It was in 1999 when Morgan Tsvangirai formed the Movement for Democratic Change a political party which many thought was going to remove Robert Mugabe and Zanu PF from power and bring the real change ...Published: 23 Feb 2022 at 19:34hrs | 13 | by Etiwel Mutero
Chamisa's greatest betrayal of Zimbabweans
On the 20th February, leader of the newly formed Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) party, Nelson Chamisa, pronounced that him and his party did not have any ideology or any goals or objectives....Published: 23 Feb 2022 at 16:14hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
57 contest 28 seats
A TOTAL of 157 National Assembly candidates will contest 28 vacant seats in next month's by-elections where 16 political parties will battle it out for Parliament.The forthcoming elections wil...Published: 09 Feb 2022 at 05:23hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Envoy slams Zimbabwe human rights record
HUMAN rights' issues must not be politicised as they remain fundamental to people's wellbeing, Netherlands ambassador to Zimbabwe Margret Verwijk has said.Speaking during an event at her resid...Published: 12 Dec 2021 at 20:12hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga says Zimbabweans are their own economic liberators
VICE-PRESIDENT Constantino Chiwenga has said the COVID-19 pandemic has taught Zimbabweans to be their own economic liberators and that the country would be more secure if it relies on its own producti...Published: 23 Sep 2021 at 06:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe's covid-19 response in the best in Africa' bragged Zanu PF - damned lie and an insult
"Despite Zimbabwe's COVID-19 response being one of the best on the continent as evidenced by fewer deaths and infections as compared to other nations, for government, a single death is one too many," ...Published: 15 Jul 2021 at 15:04hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Mnangagwa has taken us back to 2008
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration is plunging Zimbabwe back into the 2008 era when the regime survived on peddling lies. Let us unpack some of the lies and confront them for answers....Published: 04 May 2021 at 06:23hrs | 3 | by Isaac
Abednico Bhebhe denies joining Chamisa's MDC
THE continued polarisation within the MDC family has long been a cause of concern to many progressive Zimbabweans. My position on this matter is known. I have not only decried the persistent fractiona...Published: 02 Apr 2021 at 12:34hrs | 2 | by Abednico Bhebhe
Mnangagwa rallies Zimbabweans against COVID-19 conspiracies
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa, who received his first Covid-19 jab at a momentous occasion attended by different religious and political leaders yesterday, has called on the nation to shun conspiracy theories a...Published: 25 Mar 2021 at 05:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Economy resuscitation is everyone's responsibility
OUR country is facing economic challenges due to corruption perpetrated by top government officials.President Emmerson Mnangagwa has a mammoth task to deal with this vice. Even though the resu...Published: 06 Jan 2021 at 06:57hrs | 9 | by Masimba Torai
Unity Accord bedrock of nation's stability, says Mnangagwa
We publish here the address by the President of the Republic of Zimbabwe and Commander-in-Chief of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces, his Excellency Dr ED Mnangagwa on the occasion of Unity Day. Tod...Published: 22 Dec 2020 at 06:42hrs | 1 | by Dr ED Mnangagwa
Mnangagwa's vision on the Zimbabwe we want
As the National Unity Day approaches on December 22, it is imperative that we reflect on President Mnangagwa's vision on the concept of "one-nation, one-people". When the President came to the...Published: 18 Dec 2020 at 06:06hrs | 4 | by Elliot Ziwira
Chamisa's MDC scoffs at govt building bomb plot claims
THE MDC Alliance has dismissed State reports Tuesday linking a party official to a plot to burn government buildings.The claims carried by the Herald newspaper were based on a leaked audio lin...Published: 27 Nov 2020 at 07:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC plots to burn Zimbabwe Government buildings?
A LEAKED audio recording of a top MDC-Alliance official reveals stunning details of how the opposition party planned a wave of terror that involved burning Government buildings and faking abductions t...Published: 25 Nov 2020 at 04:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
There is still hope for Zimbabwe
With the current situation in Zimbabwe, where almost every aspect of pillars of the state which include the economy, social and political structures are bedridden it is of paramount importance that as...Published: 14 Oct 2020 at 16:34hrs | 4 | by Knowledge Hakata
Let's not be a nation of whiners
THE objective of Vision 2030, to create an upper middle-income economy in 10 years or less, cannot be attained if Zimbabweans do not rally under a common national goal.Zimbabwe's abundant land...Published: 11 Oct 2020 at 10:03hrs | 2 | by Allen Choruma
Man attempts to extort Minister Ziyambi over adultery claims
Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi has survived an extortion attempt by a man who alleges that the Minister is having an affair with his wife.The man who claims to be married to a senior Law officer wit...Published: 06 Oct 2020 at 09:56hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa in fresh talks plea
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday renewed his calls for national dialogue after meeting Catholic bishops and other clerics in Harare, as he bids to end the country's decades-old myriad challenges...Published: 17 Sep 2020 at 15:04hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa speaks about 'My way to State House'
MDC Alliance president Nelson Chamisa has called for tolerance and acceptance among Zimbabweans, adding he would not allow any citizen to die for holding political beliefs that are different from thos...Published: 28 Aug 2020 at 06:43hrs | 2 | by newzimbabwe
Little change one year on from Mnangagwa's inauguration
As Zimbabwe marks the anniversary on Monday of Emmerson Mnangagwa's first year as its elected president, recent developments in the troubled nation suggest it is on the road to disaster rather than re...Published: 25 Aug 2019 at 22:19hrs | 2 | by Bill Corcoran in Cape Town
Gukurahundi offered a subtle entry point for disempowering the USSR's ideological strength
I CONCLUDED the previous article of this series by exploring how Zapu was a victim of neo-colonial treachery which was brazenly targeting its Matabeleland and Midlands strongholds. The aim of this pol...Published: 11 Aug 2019 at 07:32hrs | 1 | by Dr Obert Mpofu
Of Zimbabweans in the UK
The Government has been clear that, while there are problems back home, authorities alone cannot sort them out. It needs all Zimbabweans, including those in the Diaspora to work towards rebuilding the...Published: 26 Jul 2019 at 08:03hrs | 2 | by Isdore Guvamombe
Violence never an option
Zimbabweans are generally renowned as hospitable and peace loving people but the tendency to cause violence that seems to rear its ugly head, particularly by the MDC Alliance and its handlers is a ser...Published: 14 Jul 2019 at 12:22hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Let's embrace the Zimbabwean spirit of Ubuntu
Dear ZimbabweansSo prices of basic commodities are tumbling and the foreign currency dealers are kicking and screaming! Surely that's the Zimbabwe we want not this madness of profiteering and ...Published: 09 Jul 2019 at 10:03hrs | 3 | by Munya Shumba
Mnangagwa promises free education
President Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday opened the 27th session of the Junior Parliament of Zimbabwe as part of commemorations of the Day of the African Child by promising free compulsory basic educati...Published: 16 Jun 2019 at 20:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
The time for 'V11' and 'fulcrum' is now behind us
No one is bigger than Zimbabwe. Political bickering, posturing and grandstanding will only worsen our already precarious situation at the expense of economic growth and real progress. The majo...Published: 16 Jun 2019 at 19:11hrs | 1 | by Thomas Murisa
Zimbabwe police acquire latest surveillance equipment
THE Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has acquired the latest surveillance equipment to aid officers execute their duties in line with international standards. Deputy Commissioner-General Learn N...Published: 06 May 2019 at 08:14hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa meets Advisory Council
President Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday met members of the Presidential Advisory Council (PAC), with discussions on how to move the country forward topping the agenda. Speaking to journalists a...Published: 01 May 2019 at 08:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Be proud of freedoms espouse by 2nd Republic' said navel gazing ED - luxury nation can now ill afford
"Our freedom, independence and the proud heritage left for us by our departed heroes and heroines who paid the supreme sacrifice for the freedom we enjoy today. We have within our blood, the traits of...Published: 20 Apr 2019 at 08:23hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
'No top positions for Zanu-PF returnees'
Expelled Zanu-PF members who are rejoining the revolutionary party are not going to be given positions, President Mnangagwa has said. Several Zanu-PF members, who were expelled for various rea...Published: 18 Apr 2019 at 07:02hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Outcry on Maridadi's appointment: Much ado about nothing
The appointment of former MDC legislator for Mabvuku-Tafara, James Maridadi as one of the 15 ambassadors- designate, has torched a storm which, nonetheless, is much ado about nothing.Section 1...Published: 08 Apr 2019 at 20:06hrs | 3 | by Tafara Shumba
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