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Dembare players back at work
After two-and-a-half days of strike action, Dynamos players returned to training yesterday in preparation for their highly anticipated Chibuku Super Cup semi-final clash against Manica Diamonds at Ruf...Published: 26 Oct 2024 at 12:41hrs | 28 | by Staff reporter
ANC of Ramaphosa must brace itself for a messy implosion
For over six months, everyone argued about whether there would be consequences for former state president Jacob Zuma's action to support the Umkhonto WeSizwe Party (MKP) in the last national and provi...Published: 02 Aug 2024 at 07:00hrs | 176 | by Nkosikhulule Nyembezi
'Western double standards are flagrant, Israel occupation the highest level of terrorism'
THE ruling party in the Republic of Zimbabwe, ZANU-PF, condemned the successive statements of the occupation state leadership during the temporary truce period regarding its intention to complete the ...Published: 03 Dec 2023 at 10:40hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Thomas Mapfumo retires in exile
OF all my records by Zimbabwean musicians, the one I treasure the most is Thomas Mapfumo's crackly 7-inch single with "Kuyaura" on side A and "Zvanyadza" on the flip side.Released in 1979, tow...Published: 17 Jul 2023 at 06:50hrs | 14 | by Percy Zvomuya
Chaos in Bulawayo as Chamisa tries to calm angry party members
CCC leader Nelson Chamisa on Sunday sent a delegation to Bulawayo to calm growing anger over his handling of the candidate selection process for the August 23 election.The in...Published: 03 Jul 2023 at 11:06hrs | 10 | by Nkululeko Nkomo
Zimbabwe says Sudan rebel attack on ambassador's home 'sheer criminality'
Zimbabwe's foreign affairs ministry has described as sheer criminality, the attack on the country's ambassador to Sudan, Emmanuel Runganga Gumbo's home by rebels in the war-torn African country's capi...Published: 20 Jun 2023 at 18:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Sudanese rebels attack, ransack Zimbabwe ambassador's home
Sudanese rebels ransacked the office and home of Zimbabwe's ambassador to Sudan Hilda Mafudze and stole valuables belonging to the envoy.In a statement, Sudan's foreign ministry condemned the ...Published: 19 Jun 2023 at 20:24hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Plumtree pilot defies racial attitudes to pursue dream
FORTY years and still counting years of flying different aircraft types, heads of States, the late Prince Philip; husband to the late Queen Elizabeth II, and roles spanning basic flying, advanced flyi...Published: 21 Nov 2022 at 04:57hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa, Mnangagwa parties smoke peace pipe
ZIMBABWE'S three political parties in Parliament, Zanu-PF, the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) and MDC Alliance (MDC-A) have called for a truce ahead of the 2023 general elections.In a rar...Published: 11 Oct 2022 at 06:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Is it too late for Mnangagwa to reverse course?
All reasonable men know that the people of the Rainbird are the "wisest" among the Bantu. I was made aware, quite recently that they also have a weird sense of humour. When a bad character meets his f...Published: 16 Jan 2022 at 08:59hrs | 10 | by Kenneth Mufuka
Zanu-PF calls for truce
WARRING Zanu-PF factions have been urged to bury the hatchet and stop dropping names of party bigwigs during campaigns.The call was made by party secretary for commissariat Mike Bimha in a sta...Published: 10 Jan 2022 at 06:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe opposition politics needs radical paradigm shift
A RADICAL paradigm shift is necessary to extricate opposition politics of this country from the doldrums of extinction and annihilation as the status quo is fraught with "owngoals" that gift the rulin...Published: 19 May 2021 at 06:45hrs | | by Canisio Mudzimu
Giving Mthuli Ncube's mono-currency a fighting chance
It is July 1, 1916, World War 1, the Battle of the Somme. The British Army had been planning for weeks and months for a massive assault on German positions dug in around Somme, to relieve pressure on ...Published: 04 Jul 2019 at 18:46hrs | 2 | by Joseph Mverecha
Zanu-PF MPs' conduct appalling
Dumiso Dabengwa (DD) is a national hero. That is beyond doubt, whether we agree with his politics or not. That the ruling party legislators could not spare a minute to honour one of the country's most...Published: 30 May 2019 at 07:50hrs | | by Editorial - Newsday
Dabengwa: Zimbabwe's intelligence Czar
On the night of August 15, 2011, I attended the launch of Wilfred Mhanda's (nom de guerre Dzinashe Machingura) memoir, Dzino: Memories of a Freedom Fighter in Harare. Mhanda was an important figure in...Published: 29 May 2019 at 08:00hrs | | by Blessing Miles-Tendi
Charumbira calls for truce in boundary row
Zimbabwe Chiefs' Council president Chief Fortune Charumbira has called for an end to a long-standing boundary dispute between himself and newly-installed Chief Bere of Mashava. This follows th...Published: 22 Apr 2019 at 07:48hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Khama, Venson-Moitoi's South African handlers calling for Masisi's ouster
A team of South African experts who recommended that Pelonomi Venson Moitoi should withdraw her challenge against President Mokgweetsi Masisi for the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) presidency have al...Published: 09 Apr 2019 at 08:42hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Building national confidence
And so the old Indian tale is told. When the country became infested with venomous cobra snakes, government, in its wisdom, reacted with a smart snake stabilisation programme.A dollar for ever...Published: 10 Mar 2019 at 08:38hrs | 1 | by Zifiso Masiye
Chiwenga, doctors in crunch meeting
FEAR gripped government yesterday forcing discussions with striking junior doctors as well as consultants and senior health practitioners, who on Friday issued a 48-hour-ultimatum, NewsDay can reveal....Published: 31 Dec 2018 at 18:08hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Change of currency not ideal to revive Zimbabwe economy
THE country's economic crisis has deepened since the recent fiscal and monetary measures announced by Finance minister Mthuli Ncube and Reserve Bank governor John Mangudya. The economy has plu...Published: 19 Oct 2018 at 08:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa threatens to expel MDC members opposed to his leadership
MDC-T political bigwigs are on a renewed collision course over attempts to oust some senior party members critical of its president Nelson Chamisa's leadership style after a heated National Council me...Published: 01 Sep 2018 at 13:53hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Walter Nqabeni Mthimkhulu, legendary political activist and would-be hero (1940-2018)
This piece is being sent out on 14 August 2018, the last day of the long Heroes Day weekend of the year in Zimbabwe. This is barely two weeks after the country's critical presidential, parliamen...Published: 14 Aug 2018 at 23:04hrs | 13 | by Dr Strike Mkandla
'It took UK 600 years get free elections, Zimbabwe must wait,' argue MP Cross - crap, but music to ED's ears
"It pays in the end to get the best in the beginning!" ran the Eric Davis advert. To those who do not know or have forgotten; Eric Davis was a top-notch man's clothing shop in First Street, Harare. Ye...Published: 19 Jun 2018 at 22:45hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Chamisa's MDC Alliance too unstable to govern
A delusion is defined simply as a belief or impression that is falsely held despite being contradicted by reality and rational argument. There have been many of those around. One of the most prominent...Published: 12 Jun 2018 at 06:41hrs | | by Nick Mangwana
Saharawi leader arrives in Zimbabwe
Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic President Mr Brahim Ghali has arrived in Zimbabwe on a two-day official visit this Tuesday afternoon.Mr Ghali is on a tour of the region on which he has been ...Published: 05 Jun 2018 at 17:58hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
'Zanu PF is the only democratic party,' boast Mnangagwa - nonsense, have yet to hold free elections
The contemptuous arrogance of President Mnangagwa is soaring to new dizzying heights!"Mnangagwa says Zanu-PF is the only democratic party!" screamed the headline in Bulawayo24."PRESIDE...Published: 01 Jun 2018 at 23:20hrs | 3 | by Wilbert Mukori
Ye three Kings of Southern Rhodesia: are we now ready for Mfecane in Mathebeleland?
There are very genuine questions we have to ask the Nguni ethnic group their audacity to revive their Kingdoms here in Mthwakazi: the lands of the San populations from the Zambezi escarpment right dow...Published: 14 Mar 2018 at 23:48hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
Mliswa urges Mnangagwa to bring back 'Gammatox'
Member of Parliament for Norton Temba Mliswa said ZANU-PF should take back the sacked members of the "Gammatox" faction chief among them Jabulani Sibanda and Ray Kaukonde rather than focusing on a tru...Published: 11 Mar 2018 at 11:15hrs | 1 | by Simbarashe Sithole
CAAZ, Air Zimbabwe bury hatchet
Air Zimbabwe passengers will from Thursday February 1, 2018 no longer be required to pay air ticket charge and passenger service fees directly to the Civil Aviation Authority of Zimbabwe (CAAZ) as the...Published: 29 Jan 2018 at 05:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Mugabe was in danger of being lynched like Gaddafi,' admits Charamba - may still prove necessary
"Rene manyanga hariputirwi!" (It does not matter how long it takes, in the end the truth will always come out!) So goes the Shona adage. The truth of Robert Mugabe's corrupt and murderous reign of ter...Published: 16 Jan 2018 at 07:49hrs | 1 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Bulawayo's untapped tourism potential
With dozens of tourist attractions, each having a rich history and remarkable diversity of culture, Bulawayo — Zimbabwe's second largest city — as well as its hinterland should have no problem att...Published: 14 Jan 2018 at 09:24hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa a fool to believe those who have declared truce with him'
A Facebook user claiming to be Grace Mugabe's ex-husband Stanley Goreraza has mocked Zanu PF members saying they do not support individuals in the party but they support powers behind them that is why...Published: 26 Nov 2017 at 07:36hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Khupe led faction to make spirited campaigns to dump Welshman Ncube
Of interest, for the purposes of this article, is not the wishful thinking that Tsvangirai will run this country in 2018 because Ms Khupe was exercising her right to dream but of note is how she silen...Published: 27 Oct 2017 at 06:46hrs | | by Nduduzo Tshuma
EU hands Spain blank cheque for stepped-up police repression
The day after images of the savage repression of the Catalan independence referendum by Spanish police shocked people around the world, Spain's Congress announced that it did not have time to invite P...Published: 04 Oct 2017 at 06:55hrs | 1 | by Alex Lantier and Alejandro López
Kim Jong Un threatens 'mentally deranged' Trump
SEOUL/NEW YORK - North Korea said on Friday it might test a hydrogen bomb over the Pacific Ocean after US President Donald Trump vowed to destroy the reclusive country, with leader Kim Jong Un promisi...Published: 22 Sep 2017 at 13:03hrs | | by Reuters
Mutsvangwa want povo help 'impeach' Mugabe in return for free elections - middle finger to both
If you see a frog hopping in the midday heat as if its very life depends on each hop; you can be certain something far worse than heat-stroke is after it! Mutsvangwa is hopping mad, the G40 faction is...Published: 10 Aug 2017 at 18:03hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Chimene, war vets talk peace
THE Minister of State for Manicaland Provincial Affairs, Mandi Chimene has brought the two warring factions of war veterans in Manicaland to the round-table to ensure that peace prevails.Manic...Published: 28 Apr 2017 at 11:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Black man leading white party 'wants Madam Zille to quit as premier'
DA leader Mmusi Maimane wants Helen Zille to quit as Western Cape premier but the former Cape Town mayor will not go without a fight, sources say.According to ...Published: 26 Mar 2017 at 11:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi trails: I would have killed Bill Saidi
Our African culture strongly warns against speaking ill of the deceased more so before they are laid to rest but sometimes it really gets unavoidable. I have been following many people speak p...Published: 10 Jan 2017 at 14:23hrs | | by Bekezela Maduma Fuzwayo
A Mthwakazi Zimbabwean President is most dangerous for uMtwakazi's restorationist!
First, there are two misconceptions that need to cleared and gotten out of the way early, now that the cauasable-ness of uMthwakazi's restorationist agenda has taken shape and gained wide acceptance w...Published: 18 Dec 2016 at 16:41hrs | | by Xoxani Ngxoxo
Team Lacoste, G40 leaders sign 'truce'
CO-Vice presidents Emmerson Mnangagwa and Phelekezela Mphoko have been pictured holding hands in public in Masvingo.On the surface, the rare pose indicate unity among President Robert Mugabe's...Published: 11 Dec 2016 at 07:23hrs | | by Mary Chamba
Zanu-PF wars reach a climax
Zanu-PF insiders say last week's dramatic turn of events which saw disaffected war veterans burying the hatchet with powerful First Lady Grace Mugabe and cranking up the heat on under siege minist...Published: 20 Nov 2016 at 13:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
War vets declare war on Jonathan Moyo and Kasukuwere
In an unexpected turn of events within President Robert Mugabe's warring Zanu-PF, disgruntled war veterans buried the hatchet with First Lady Grace Mugabe and Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko yes...Published: 18 Nov 2016 at 20:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ex-Zanu-PF Politburo bigwig warns 'arrogant' Mugabe
FORMER Zanu PF politburo member and Midlands governor, Cephas Msipa (pictured), has warned that President Robert Mugabe risks "being consumed by unrestrained public anger" if he continues using br...Published: 12 Sep 2016 at 08:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Book Review: 'No More Plastic Balls and Other Stories'
The last analysis of the anthology 'No More Plastic Balls and Other Stories' was almost a success to the purpoted audience who received the piece with great enthusiasm.It is a rare thing that ...Published: 26 Jun 2016 at 20:12hrs | 42 | by Wilson Chipangura
Mugabe faces nasty endgame
JUDGING by his unprecedented attacks on war veterans in Harare yesterday, President Robert Mugabe - wobblingly on his 92-year-old legs - is clearly heading towards a nasty clash with the ex-combat...Published: 11 Jun 2016 at 16:07hrs | | by Dumisani Muleya
Fidel Castro proclaim his death, bids party farewell
Fidel Castro has made what is likely to be his final speech to Cuba's Congress, telling the assembled politicians that he would die soon but that the revolution's ideals would live on.The 89-y...Published: 20 Apr 2016 at 14:01hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Peace and Reconciliation Bill another nothing
For the last two weeks I have been studying the Zimbabwe National Peace and Reconciliation Bill. Its so sad to see how some people we put in positions of authority can sit down and spend...Published: 08 Apr 2016 at 17:31hrs | | by Bekezela Maduma Fuzwayo
Zanu-PF Politiburo orders Midlands truce
The Zanu-PF Politburo yesterday ordered national political commissar Saviour Kasukuwere to revisit the prevailing chaotic situation and all disciplinary cases in the Midlands province, and consult wit...Published: 07 Apr 2016 at 06:30hrs | | by Felex Share
Mnangagwa demands Mahoka apology
VICE-PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has reportedly demanded an apology from Zanu-PF Women's League secretary for finance Sarah Mahoka after she savaged him in front of hundreds of party supporters short...Published: 12 Feb 2016 at 07:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
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