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SB Moyo wasn't in Zipra high command, State media apologises for the spin
Former Zipra commanders and critics have pointed out misleading claims in the state-controlled media that retired Lieutenant-General and Foreign minister Sibusiso Moyo, who died of Covid-19 yesterday,...Published: 10 hrs ago | 4621 | by Staff reporter
How to kill a country
Nearly forty years ago Ian Smith, the Prime Minister of Rhodesia, became the first and only white colonial ruler to break away from the British Crown. He had tired of London's nagging about the subjug...Published: 13 Jan 2021 at 16:49hrs | 2511 | by Samantha Power
'Shun tribalism & regionalism'
ZANU-PF leadership in Bulawayo yesterday joined the rest of the nation in commemorating Unity Day amid calls for Zimbabweans to shun tribalism and regionalism. Speakers, in their solidarity me...Published: 23 Dec 2020 at 06:45hrs | 228 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga and the decolonisation of the field of political science
WHILE the repository of African political philosophy is awash with contributions from intellectual doyens like Marcus Garvey, Senghor Toure, Walter Rodney, Archie Mafeje, Ali Mazrui, Thabo Mbeki, Asan...Published: 20 Dec 2020 at 06:42hrs | 167 | by Richard Runyararo Mahomva
Chiwenga triggers important political science debate
Black Epistemologies and the Non-Writing PoliticianWhile the repository of African political philosophy is awash with contributions from intellectual doyens like Marcus Garvey, Senghor Toure, Walter R...Published: 19 Dec 2020 at 05:41hrs | 1520 | by Richard Mahomva
Chiwenga solidly behind Mnangagwa?
WAR veterans say talk of a rift between President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his deputy, Constantino Chiwenga, ahead of Zanu-PF's district co-ordinating committee (DCC) elections and the national 2023 pol...Published: 28 Oct 2020 at 16:25hrs | 3338 | by Staff reporter
'Bigwigs causing mayhem in Zanu-PF'
ZANU-PF stalwart and ex-secretary for administration, Didymus Mutasa, says very senior party officials are behind the dog-eat dog mayhem ravaging the former liberation movement ahead of its divisive d...Published: 25 Oct 2020 at 14:22hrs | 4887 | by Staff reporter
Tshinga Dube says Mnangagwa can't fix country
ZANU-PF stalwart Tshinga Dube has warned that the ugly factionalism and succession wars plaguing the ruling party are derailing President Emmerson Mnangagwa's efforts to resolve the country's decades-...Published: 21 Oct 2020 at 22:20hrs | 12949 | by Staff reporter
Obert Mpofu argues that Gukurahundi genocide was dealt with by 1987 Unity Accord
IN VIEWS that are set to be a major talking point in the coming days and weeks, former Cabinet minister Obert Mpofu, says it is time to forgive and move on from the Gukurahundi killings of the 1...Published: 16 Oct 2020 at 20:31hrs | 1952 | by Staff reporter
Obert Mpofu's Gukurahundi proposal trigger storm
ZANU-PF secretary for administration Obert Mpofu's call for Zimbabweans to simply wish away the Gukurahundi atrocities as bygones has drawn fire, with activists accusing the former Cabinet minister of...Published: 08 Oct 2020 at 06:45hrs | 2653 | by Staff reporter
'G40 money' stokes Zanu-PF bloodletting
FISSURES are widening in the ruling Zanu-PF, amid damaging allegations of "dirty money" exchanging hands to influence the outcome of the party's district co-ordinating committee (DCC) elections....Published: 04 Oct 2020 at 17:14hrs | 2388 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's Zanu PF wary of G40 resurgence
ZANU PF has once again had to rope in the party's security department to deal with the unabating ructions in the former liberation movement, which are threatening elections to choose members of its re...Published: 25 Sep 2020 at 19:55hrs | 4825 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa implored to unite Zanu-PF
ONE of the founders of Zanu-PF and former Cabinet minister, Rugare Gumbo has reiterated that it is in the best interest of Zimbabwe, President Emmerson Mnangagwa and the ruling party for unity to prev...Published: 23 Sep 2020 at 22:28hrs | 1895 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF factions hold key to ending Zimbabwe problems
FORTHRIGHT former Cabinet minister, Tshinga Dube, says the push by South Africa President Cyril Ramaphosa and his ruling African National Congress (ANC) to end Zimbabwe's decades-long political and ec...Published: 20 Sep 2020 at 17:28hrs | 3922 | by Staff reporter
Why Tendai Biti must worry about a negotiated settlement
Zimbabweans have developed certain acumen in the field of politics and economics simply by living through our times.It is undeniable that our nation is in need of fresh thinking in order to mo...Published: 24 Aug 2020 at 10:15hrs | 6629 | by Wezhira Sam
Zanu-PF elects new executive
ZANU-PF Bulawayo Province yesterday elected Obert Msindo as interim chairperson and Mnothisi Nsingo as his deputy. A 15-member interim provincial executive committee that is expected to help t...Published: 24 Aug 2020 at 07:09hrs | 768 | by Staff reporter
Tshinga Dube warns that failure to dialogue will lead to civil strife
FORTHRIGHT Zanu-PF politburo member and former Cabinet minister, Tshinga Dube has once again warned that only dialogue between President Emmerson Mnangagwa and the opposition will save the country fro...Published: 19 Aug 2020 at 21:39hrs | 5380 | by Staff reporter
'Mthuli Ncube cannot revive the economy within a few years'
Zanu-PF Politburo member, Tshinga Dube, has said Finance and Economic Development Minister, Professor Mthuli Ncube, cannot revive Zimbabwe's economy, which has been mismanaged for 40 years in just a f...Published: 28 Jul 2020 at 17:47hrs | 2835 | by Staff reporter
BCC struggles to pay workers
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) says its coffers are running dry and as such it is struggling to pay its workers and deliver services effectively. The council which says its revenue declined by 80...Published: 06 Jul 2020 at 13:06hrs | 503 | by Staff reporter
Joshua Nkomo: A globalist, political negotiator and institution builder
FORMER Vice-President Joshua Nkomo's legacy is prominently embedded in the military and radical polemic side of Zimbabwe's liberation struggle.This historiography bias towards Nkomo's contribu...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 07:21hrs | 201 | by Richard Runyararo Mahomva
ZAPU President Isaac Mabuka speaks
Q1: Thank you Mr. Mabuka for your time. Please introduce yourself to the people. Who is Mabuka?A: I am Isaac Mabuka. I was born in 1953 on 26 April in Gwanda South. I did my primary education ...Published: 24 Jun 2020 at 13:15hrs | 3417 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zanu-PF pays tribute to Nleya
ZANU-PF has paid tribute to national hero, Stanley Nleya as one of the foremost contributors to the liberation struggle. Nleya, who died on Tuesday last week was declared a national hero and w...Published: 24 Jun 2020 at 07:05hrs | 247 | by Staff reporter
Prices go haywire
IN A development which signals the effective and official re-dollarisation of the local economy, under-fire Finance minister Mthuli Ncube, pictured, yesterday awarded restive government workers and pe...Published: 18 Jun 2020 at 17:45hrs | 7469 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa now keen to resolve his political differences with Mnangagwa
DESPITE the ructions tearing the MDC apart, Nelson Chamisa says he remains ready to engage with President Emmerson Mnangagwa, in a bid to try and end the country's worsening political and economic cri...Published: 17 Jun 2020 at 17:57hrs | 6527 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa now keen to talk with Mnangagwa
DESPITE the ructions tearing the MDC apart, Nelson Chamisa says he remains ready to engage with President Emmerson Mnangagwa, in a bid to try and end the country's worsening political and economic cri...Published: 17 Jun 2020 at 07:12hrs | 15823 | by Staff reporter
Tshinga Dube blasts Mnangagwa, Chiwenga
FORMER War Veterans minister Tshinga Dube has blasted President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his two deputies Kembo Mohadi and Contanstino Chiwenga for allegedly dumping fellow freedom fighters soon after l...Published: 17 Jun 2020 at 07:09hrs | 16999 | by Staff reporter
Tshinga Dube issues a stinging response to hardliners in Zanu-PF
Former Cabinet minister Tshinga Dube has issued a stinging response to some hardliners in the ruling Zanu-PF who have questioned his loyalty to President Emmerson Mnangagwa's leadership following his ...Published: 15 Jun 2020 at 15:10hrs | 8963 | by Staff reporter
Tshinga Dube lays into Charamba
FORMER War Veterans minister Tshinga Dube has accused presidential spokesperson George Charamba of ‘'living in the past" and exhibiting a condescending attitude after the former suggested a governme...Published: 15 Jun 2020 at 07:57hrs | 3832 | by Staff reporter
'Chamisa is hindering talks with Mnangagwa'
NELSON Chamisa's alleged "big-headedness" and refusal to join the Political Actors Dialogue (Polad) has hampered much-needed national dialogue to help resolve Zimbabwe's myriad challenges, presidentia...Published: 14 Jun 2020 at 11:21hrs | 10159 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, hostage to various Zanu-PF factions
ZIMBABWE's deepening political and economic crises can now only be resolved through decisive action and sincere national dialogue if imminent civil unrest is to be avoided, analysts have warned....Published: 10 Jun 2020 at 16:50hrs | 3068 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa now has few options left
ZIMBABWE's deepening political and economic crises can now only be resolved through decisive action and sincere national dialogue if imminent civil unrest is to be avoided, analysts have warned....Published: 10 Jun 2020 at 08:08hrs | 8216 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa vetoes call for GNU, talks
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has rejected the growing calls for political dialogue in the country, including the formation of a new government of national unity (GNU) to help end Zimbabwe's myriad cha...Published: 28 May 2020 at 19:21hrs | 10687 | by Staff reporter
Tshinga Dube calls for GNU to rescue economy
FORMER War Veterans minister Tshinga Dube is known for his straight talk and fearless character. A long-time serving Zanu-PF member and a liberation stalwart, Tshinga always speaks out his mind when g...Published: 27 May 2020 at 20:25hrs | 2304 | by Staff reporter
Tshinga Dube challenges Mnangagwa
FORTHRIGHT Zanu-PF politburo member and former Cabinet minister, Tshinga Dube has thrown the cat among the pigeons within the ruling party by calling on President Emmerson Mnangagwa to form a governme...Published: 27 May 2020 at 20:23hrs | 11337 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa told to form a GNU by Zanu-PF stalwart
Former Cabinet minister Tshinga Dube has called on Emmerson Mnangagwa to form a government of national unity with the opposition to end the country's challenges. Dube said a GNU would benefit ...Published: 27 May 2020 at 08:06hrs | 5382 | by Staff reporter
Is Chamisa part of the plan?
The Editor,There is something particularly unusual about Mamombe etl story. Torture is a standard investigative technique of most African countries' intelligence services and police, as the hu...Published: 17 May 2020 at 17:09hrs | 6219 | by Sam Wezhira
Zanu-PF Politburo member blasts abductions on MDC MP, activists
OUTSPOKEN Zanu-PF politburo member and ex-war veterans minister Tshinga Dube has condemned the alleged abduction and torture on three opposition activists saying the acts unnecessarily gave the countr...Published: 17 May 2020 at 09:36hrs | 4356 | by Staff reporter
No date for Ekusileni Medical Centre opening
EVEN the threat of coronavirus might fail to finally see the doors of Ekusileni Hospital in Bulawayo opened.The hospital, a brainchild of late Vice-President Dr Joshua Nkomo, has experienced a...Published: 26 Apr 2020 at 12:08hrs | 218 | by Staff reporter
ZANU PF refuses to grant Clark Mpofu national hero status
May Clark Mpofu's soul rest in eternal peace and may his gallant deeds be forever etched in the hearts and minds of those who care to know the truth about his sterling contribution which is a painful ...Published: 02 Apr 2020 at 15:33hrs | 4296 | by Moses Mzila Ndlovu
Clark Mpofu: Zanu-PF had no reason to declare him a national hero
May Clark Mpofu's soul rest in eternal peace and may his gallant deeds be forever etched in the hearts and minds of those who care to know the truth about his sterling contribution which is a painful ...Published: 01 Apr 2020 at 18:58hrs | 4237 | by Moses Mzila Ndlovu
Hero status for Clark Mpofu
PIONEER liberation fighter Clark Mpofu has been declared a liberation war hero and his family would be provided with a State assisted burial.Mpofu succumbed to a heart attack on Saturday at Mp...Published: 27 Mar 2020 at 15:26hrs | 942 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF recommends national hero status for Clark Mpofu
ONE of the pioneers of the country's liberation war Clark Mpofu has died and the Zanu-PF leadership in Bulawayo has recommended that he been declared a national hero. He was 81. Mpofu succumbe...Published: 26 Mar 2020 at 06:22hrs | 660 | by Staff reporter
Fresh Gukurahundi burials controversy
CIVIL society leaders and churches in Matabeleland have rejected plans by President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his government to take leading roles in the exhumation and reburial of victims of the 1980s k...Published: 02 Mar 2020 at 09:40hrs | 891 | by Staff reporter
Brave Zipra Commander Rodger Matshimini remembered
The late brave Zipra Commander Rodger Mzila Ncube popularly known as Matshimini was remembered through song and dance by scores of his natives at Mzila Community under Chief Malaba amid calls for the ...Published: 24 Feb 2020 at 06:14hrs | 263 | by Ncube T
Mnangagwa white washing Gukurahundi genocide prosecutions
HOPES of seeing justice in their relatives' death as a result of Gukurahundi atrocities could be fading by the day for many as President Emmerson Mnangagwa has put up a programme to have those who wer...Published: 23 Feb 2020 at 08:24hrs | 344 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa was not a ZPRA founder member'
President Emmerson Mnangagwa was not one of the founding members of Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (ZPRA) as he recently claimed, former high ranking ZPRA and Zapu cadres have revealed.L...Published: 19 Feb 2020 at 16:32hrs | 3948 | by Staff reporter
Tshinga Dube fights in Matutu, Tsenengamu's corner
OUTSPOKEN Zanu-PF Politburo member, Tshinga Dube has described the suspension of Zanu-PF youth leaders, Lewis Matutu and Godfrey Tsenengamu as a perpetuation of a culture of intolerance and would wors...Published: 17 Feb 2020 at 06:01hrs | 1314 | by newzimbabwe
ZANU PF facing another split?
The past few days have been quite interesting with the developments in Zimbabwe's ruling party ZANU PF. The unfolding events have been triggered by a press conference by the now-suspended two&nb...Published: 15 Feb 2020 at 15:01hrs | 11813 | by Blessing Vava
Tshinga Dube slams silencing of youths
FORMER War Veterans minister Tshinga Dube has slammed the suspension and silencing of Zanu-PF youth leaders who spoke out against graft, adding that the named cartels should prove their innocence and ...Published: 13 Feb 2020 at 07:55hrs | 4864 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF youths to protest against cartels
ZANU-PF youths are expected to take to the streets tomorrow in protest over business "cartels" sabotaging the economy.The ruling party's deputy youth league secretary, Lewis Matutu, told the D...Published: 02 Feb 2020 at 20:38hrs | 3317 | by Staff reporter
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