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'Release regime change suspects!' Zimbabwe Communist Party demands
The arrest of four people; Tatenda Mombeyarara, George Makoni, Gamuchirai Mukura, and Frank Mphalo upon arrival at the Harare International Airport on Monday 20th April 2019 is clearly an attack on th...Published: 22 May 2019 at 11:15hrs | 2214 | by ZCP
Mnangagwa's maize stolen
POLICE have arrested three men - two drivers and a suspected buyer - who were in the habit of stealing part of President Mnangagwa's maize deliveries to the Grain Marketing Board depot in Chegutu. ...Published: 22 May 2019 at 10:39hrs | 2537 | by Staff reporter
Ncube, super-duper PAC member, blame povo for fuel price hike - how arrogant
"Presidential Advisory Council member Trevor Ncube has blamed ordinary Zimbabweans for the step taken by the central bank to liberalise the price of fuel by removing the 1:1 exchange rate," reported B...Published: 22 May 2019 at 07:19hrs | 1645 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Soldier, taxi driver fined for stealing Cyclone Idai aid
A CHIPINGE soldier and a taxi driver who were accused of stealing Cyclone Idai relief aid escaped jail, but were fined $500 after their charges were amended by the State.Bigbrain Sithole (23) ...Published: 22 May 2019 at 06:23hrs | 650 | by Staff reporter
'West must listen to Mnangagwa, not Chamisa'
This past weekend, Zimbabwe took a dramatic step towards national reconciliation. In an effort to improve the country's difficult economic situation and bring about unity among its confrontational pol...Published: 21 May 2019 at 23:25hrs | 1160 | by Martin Banks
Trevor Ncube blames Zimbabweans for fuel price increase
Presidential Advisory Council member Trevor Ncube has blamed ordinary Zimbabweans for the step taken by the central bank to liberalise the price of fuel by removing the 1:1 exchange rate. The ...Published: 21 May 2019 at 18:04hrs | 8347 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Patriotic Union of MaNdebeleland
While I was going through my archives I came across the Election Manifesto below. Quite interesting.PATRIOTIC UNION OF MANDEBELELAND (PUMA)ELECTION MANIFES...Published: 21 May 2019 at 12:35hrs | 3507 | by PUMA
Mnangagwa must heed voices from South Africa
There are press reports that the South African Ambassador to Zimbabwe,Mr. Mbete,said that Mnangagwa must have an External Credible Dialogue Facilitator.Elsewhere, a senior ANC member Fikile Mbalula is...Published: 21 May 2019 at 10:34hrs | 8524 | by Mkhululi Zulu
EXTRACT: The men who helped Chiwenga to execute the coup
Two Weeks in November by Douglas Rodgers is the thrilling story of a high ranking politician, an exiled human rights lawyer, a dangerous spy and a low-key white businessman turned political fixe...Published: 20 May 2019 at 14:48hrs | 15570 | by Douglas Rodgers
Load shedding and the long fuel queues
Zimbabwe has been gripped by the shortage of food stuffs unprecedented price hikes of two hundred percent and fuel drought. Each and every Zimbabwean feels the sharp impact of the economic chaos and s...Published: 20 May 2019 at 10:57hrs | 2902 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Trevor Ncube sings Fortune Chasi praises
Alpha Media Holdings Boss and Presidential Advisor Trevor Ncube says the new Minister of Energy and Power Development Advocate Fortune Chasi has the correct energy needed to turn around the energy sec...Published: 20 May 2019 at 10:21hrs | 3849 | by Mandla Ndlovu
ANC (South Africa) and Gukurahundi
Amhlophe to the African National Congress for resoundingly winning another term under President Cyril Ramaphosa. There is an obligation for South Africa to avoid the tribal and racist path of ot...Published: 19 May 2019 at 09:47hrs | 1529 | by Sihle Ndlovu
Zanu-PF councillor bashes police officer
Zanu-PF Chinhoyi ward 10 councillor, Voster Mashevedzanwa, has been arrested on charges of assaulting a police officer and resisting arrest.Mashevedzanwa (41), together with Njabulo Ndlovu and...Published: 19 May 2019 at 09:28hrs | 647 | by Staff reporter
'RBZ paid Jonathan Moyo US$ 300 000 for ZANU PF campaign'
Former cabinet minister Professor Jonathan Moyo was allegedly paid US$300 000 by the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Governor Dr Gideon Gono to create a ZANU PF manifesto for the 2008 runoff it has emerged....Published: 19 May 2019 at 08:47hrs | 7311 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Bambanani Association stands with Chief Ndiweni
There is little doubt that the recent garbled, inane vitriol against Chief Ndiweni, emanated from the office of the Zimbabwean President. Rarely does one find such a match between messenger and messag...Published: 18 May 2019 at 18:23hrs | 597 | by Dr Ralph Mguni
Cops rob farmer at gunpoint
THREE police officers who used a service pistol to rob a Chipinge farmer of his household property following a failed macadamia nuts deal have been hauled before the courts on robbery charges....Published: 18 May 2019 at 10:36hrs | 1397 | by Staff reporter
Cop 'kidnaps, brutally assaults' teen suspect
A POLICE officer allegedly kidnapped and brutally assaulted a 16-year-old boy who was suspected to have stolen a mobile cell phone at his uncle's car wash premises to force him to admit he had taken t...Published: 18 May 2019 at 08:04hrs | 149 | by Staff reporter
Political party leaders preach peace, unity
POLITICAL parties taking part in the Political Actors Dialogue (Polad) that was launched yesterday said the platform afforded Zimbabweans an opportunity to discuss issues affecting the country. The pa...Published: 18 May 2019 at 08:02hrs | 178 | by Staff reporter
The birth of tribal domination in Zimbabwean politics
On 8 November 1978, at the age of 61 years Chief Khayisa Ndiweni, formed the United National Federal Party (UNFP), as a break away from the Zimbabwe United Peoples Organization (ZUPO), a political par...Published: 17 May 2019 at 20:42hrs | 4387 | by Jonathan Maphenduka
Fuel crisis has nothing to do with MDC unconstitutionalism
Some of the problems Zimbabwe is facing today are clearly due to faulty thinking resulting in people mixing issues —and not knowing what the idiom "fair game" means.For starters, if Presiden...Published: 17 May 2019 at 17:32hrs | 3386 | by Conway Tutani
Mnangagwa reels over security sector reform
AS the European Union (EU) and Zimbabwe prepare to resume formal re-engagement talks, with Brussels insisting on sweeping reforms, including security sector overhaul, President Emmerson Mnangagwa is b...Published: 17 May 2019 at 07:22hrs | 3273 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to officially launch Polad today
ALL is set for the launch of the Political Actors Dialogue (Polad) at Harare International Conference Centre (HICC) today, with at least 5 000 delegates expected to attend. An official within the secr...Published: 17 May 2019 at 06:24hrs | 681 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to launch POLAD tomorrow
President Mnangagwa is tomorrow expected to officially launch the Political Actors Dialogue (polad) at the Harare International Conference Centre, which seeks to bring unity among political players an...Published: 15 May 2019 at 23:46hrs | 2103 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Chief Ndiweni finds his voice...as ZANU PF plots to take him to court
Chief Nhlanhlayamangwe Ndiweni has spoken out for the first after he was attacked by ZANU PF thugs posing as members of the dreaded Central Intelligence Organisation on Wednesday morning. In a...Published: 15 May 2019 at 21:22hrs | 4432 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa in trouble over land compensation
National Patriotic Front Jealousy Mawarire is blowing his top over revelations that former white commercial farmers might get back land as compensation than agree to take money. Commercial Far...Published: 15 May 2019 at 20:49hrs | 4158 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Khupe deserves Respect
The rabidly tribal and sexist letter by Eric Muzamhindo reflects that the MDC is a poor imitation of ZANU( PF). It is the citadel of intolerance and the epitome of the devilish Gukurahundi spirit that...Published: 14 May 2019 at 20:38hrs | 5436 | by Nkosenhle Ndlovu
R470 000 fraudster arrested
POLICE in Bulawayo have arrested a 52-year-old man who had been on their wanted list since October last year for allegedly defrauding a teacher of R470 000 in cash. Everight Ncube of Plot 2 Po...Published: 14 May 2019 at 07:24hrs | 403 | by Staff reporter
China refuses to give Mnangagwa US$5 Billion
National Patriotic Front Spokesperson Jealousy Mawarire has refused to honour a USD$5 Billion loan that was requested by President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government. He further...Published: 13 May 2019 at 13:24hrs | 9885 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Velaphi Ncube's unheralded journey
ON Thursday, Misheck Ntunduzakovelaphi Velaphi Ncube was laid to rest at the National Heroes Acre in Harare following his declaration as a national hero.Born on 25 July 1937 in Matobo District...Published: 12 May 2019 at 06:36hrs | 561 | by Pathisa Nyathi
Sacked UK Minister reflects inherent imperial hangovers
Speaking on 16 February 2001 on the need for European Unity, then President of the European Commission, Romani Prodi exclusively told Britain's The Guardian newspaper something that anyone interested ...Published: 12 May 2019 at 06:33hrs | 221 | by Ranga Mataire
South African election results brings painful memories to MDC
General elections were held in South Africa on 8 May 2019 to elect a new National Assembly and provincial legislatures in each province. These were the sixth elections held since the end of apartheid ...Published: 11 May 2019 at 19:11hrs | 5211 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Of corruption and political will
THE latest Zinara graft scandal is the freshest in a series of corruption scandals which routinely grab the headlines for a short while before they fade into oblivion.The finer details of each...Published: 11 May 2019 at 14:58hrs | 342 | by Miriam Tose Majome
Chief Ndiweni calls for more sanctions on Zimbabwe
POLITICIANS and analysts have slammed outspoken Ntabazinduna traditional leader, Chief Nhlanhla Ndiweni, for his unrelenting call for the United States of America and the European Union to add more il...Published: 11 May 2019 at 14:50hrs | 2406 | by Staff reporter
Iyasa dancer Soso dies
ONE of the founding members of award-winning dance group Iyasa, Sonia "Soso" Mbaya, has died. Soso died yesterday afternoon at Mpilo Central Hospital in Bulawayo following a severe asthma atta...Published: 11 May 2019 at 14:49hrs | 839 | by Staff reporter
The Graceless Fall of Robert Mugabe, the end of a Dictator's Reign
The title for this book is an attempt at a clever link between Robert Mugabe's dramatic and rapid fall from power in November 2017 and the political activities of his second wife, Grace, whose actions...Published: 10 May 2019 at 14:44hrs | 3524 | by Paul Hubbard
Mnangagwa calls on Zimbabwe to desist from dividing country
President Mnangagwa has called on Zimbabwe to desist from practices and attitudes that divide the country. The Head of State and Government said dialogue was a central plank in the Second Republic. ...Published: 10 May 2019 at 06:55hrs | 467 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa says 'Let's dream, think Zimbabwe'
Address by His Excellency, the President and Commander-in-Chief of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces, E.D. Mnangagwa, at the burial of the late Mishack Ntundu Velaphi, National Heroes' Acre, May 9, 2019 ...Published: 10 May 2019 at 06:46hrs | 540 | by ED Mnangagwa
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 | 3246 | by Staff Reporter
National Hero Ncube gets huge send-off
HUNDREDS of people from all walks of life yesterday converged at Lobengula Hall in Bulawayo to bid farewell to the late national hero Velaphi Misheck Ncube. Ncube (82), who was also Zanu-PF's ...Published: 09 May 2019 at 07:34hrs | 2129 | by Staff Reporter
Mawarire exposes Strive Masiyiwa
National Patriotic Front Spokesperson Jealousy Mawarire has alleged that Econet boss Strive Masiyiwa is a beneficiary of government tenders courtesy of the late General Solomon Mujuru and his wife Joi...Published: 08 May 2019 at 09:31hrs | 17059 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa pleads with Chamisa
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has dropped his Zanu-PF hardline stance and once again invited his political nemesis, opposition MDC leader Nelson Chamisa, for talks to tame the country's runaway inflati...Published: 06 May 2019 at 21:41hrs | 5895 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa 'screaming and kicking' appeals to Chamisa's conscience
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has once again appealed to opposition leader Nelson Chamisa to join his dialogue platform in order to move the country forward.The Zanu-PF leader on Sunday, took t...Published: 06 May 2019 at 21:37hrs | 1559 | by newzimbabwe
Prolific VP Trio to see MDC score freely in 2023 and beyond!
It is imperative and inescapable for any objective coach to field the best team for the match regardless of affection or disaffection thereof, for individual players at his or her disposal. In that re...Published: 06 May 2019 at 19:29hrs | 1861 | by Nhlanhla Moses
British minister worked with Matabeleland leaders to recolonise Zimbabwe?
Theresa May's former Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson allegedly held meetings with Ambassador Catriona Laing's husband Clive Bates in a bid to recolonise Zimbabwe.Williamson was sacked last ...Published: 06 May 2019 at 17:31hrs | 5167 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Bulawayo's love letter
To trade fair or trade foul, that is the question.In the past week, Bulawayo woke up to that roving, rattling helicopter sound, hovering low, above her rusty rooftops…the harbinger of the ci...Published: 05 May 2019 at 10:33hrs | 223 | by Zifiso Masiye
'If we fail to adapt, we are doomed,' says Mutsvangwa
SalutationsLadies and gentlemen,It is my great pleasure to join you today, at a moment we are marking the 2019 World Press Freedom Day commemorations under the international theme "Med...Published: 05 May 2019 at 09:39hrs | 5863 | by Monica Mutsvangwa
Mnangagwa crack unit probes Zinara
THE Special Anti-Corruption Unit in President Emmerson Mnangagwa's office has opened a fresh probe into Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) senior managers over multi-million dollar vehicle...Published: 03 May 2019 at 20:57hrs | 2103 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt clueless on economy
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration looks increasingly clueless on how to contain consequences of its disastrous economic policies introduced by Finance minister Mthuli Ncube through the Tra...Published: 03 May 2019 at 20:47hrs | 2517 | by Staff reporter
Let us be proactive in addressing challenges facing our country
Lack of patriotism and political polarisation are the leading factors hampering progress and development in the country. Sanctions may have a contributory factor to our challenges but the fact that Zi...Published: 03 May 2019 at 14:26hrs | 688 | by Brightface Mutema
Woman storms hubby's wedding reception
TONGUES were left wagging at a wedding in Cowdray Park after a Pumula woman stormed a wedding reception to claim back "her husband".The woman stormed the event claiming the groom was also her ...Published: 03 May 2019 at 07:11hrs | 2566 | by Staff reporter
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