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Xenophobic attacks simmer up in South Africa
What started up as a mere smear on "foreign" truck drivers in Kwazulu-natal South Africa a few weeks ago has now turned into a national attack on foreigners.Yesterday a fire mysteriously set a...Published: 02 Sep 2019 at 21:02hrs | | by Daniel Itai, Johannesburg South Africa
Go home Nero! The demons are with you
We are told sister Piri, as Prisca Mupfumira was known in her close circles, is demanding too much luxury behind bars. Yes, she has not yet been convicted, but it could be her insatiable quest for swa...Published: 17 Aug 2019 at 07:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dumiso Dabengwa defended
There is debate raging here on social media about what former Zipra commander and intelligence chief Dumiso Dabengwa has said. In short, Dabengwa said Mugabe and Zanu did not help the ANC and MK much ...Published: 01 Apr 2019 at 13:04hrs | | by Dimisani Muleya
Komichi sucked in MDC Mayors Saga
The fight over suspension of mayors by the Chamisa faction of MDC has got more uglier with Co-Vice President Morgan Komichi entering the fray.Speaking to our correspondent in Harare today, Kom...Published: 02 Nov 2018 at 15:26hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Jockeying for Mnangagwa Cabinet posts gets nasty
Jockeying for Cabinet posts is turning nasty, with some of those eyeing positions in President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration resorting to a vicious propaganda campaign to undermine other contend...Published: 01 Sep 2018 at 21:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
'We're going to fight this,' says Biti
"We're going to fight this," Tendai Biti said grimly after the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) announced a landslide victory for the ruling Zanu-PF in last Monday's elections."The fascists...Published: 07 Aug 2018 at 13:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
The fascists are trying to steal this election - says Tendai Biti
"We're going to fight this," Tendai Biti said grimly after the Zimbabwe Election Commission (ZEC) announced a landslide victory for the ruling Zanu-PF in Monday's parliamentary elections."The ...Published: 02 Aug 2018 at 11:23hrs | | by Tendai Biti
Tsvangirai succession battle gets uglier
There are growing worries within the MDC-T that the the party is close to scuttling its electoral prospects in this year's crunch national elections - amid revelations that the camp loyal to Vice Pres...Published: 11 Mar 2018 at 09:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe political return muddies waters
Politics in this country is getting murkier, uglier, funnier and very interesting. There have never been such interesting times since the meteoric rise of a strong opposition at the turn of the new mi...Published: 07 Mar 2018 at 05:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe to demand Electoral Reforms
Politics in the country are getting murkier, uglier, funnier and very interesting. There have never been such interesting times since the meteoric rise of a strong opposition at the turn of the new mi...Published: 06 Mar 2018 at 09:49hrs | | by Robert Sigauke, Political Analyst, Johannesburg
Beyond November 2017 coup, what is best for Zimbabwe: The army, president Mnangagwa or the people of Zimbabwe?
It is naturally a divisive question to show the integral component of what makes up nation building. In a nation and at any rate after the coup, the way forward is crucial to pull together until when ...Published: 18 Dec 2017 at 06:37hrs | | by Andrew M Manyevere
When ugliness becomes a source of livelihood
After being crowned Mr Ugly for two consecutive years, William Masvinu went into comfort zone. Despite the prize money being as little as $100, Masvinu landed some deals with some local companies - a ...Published: 10 Dec 2017 at 06:04hrs | | by Jairos Saunyama
Mr Ugly banned from future contests
Mr Ugly director David "Apama Styles" Machowa's has revealed plans to stop repeat-winner William Masvinu from contesting in future pageants."We are going to stop Masvinu as we cannot continue ...Published: 09 Dec 2017 at 18:10hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Cowardice, stubbornness behind Zimbabwe's demise
I have always believed that part of the fundamental duties or responsibilities of any leader - be it in the corporate, political and even social sphere - is to be able to speak the truth and accept it...Published: 31 Oct 2017 at 13:52hrs | | by Eric Chiriga
Mr Ugly will walk away with a bull
The winner of this year's edition of Mr Ugly, set to take place at Mtangaz Hide Out in Ruwa, will walk away with a bull, the pageant founder has said.Pageant founder and organiser David "Apama...Published: 28 Oct 2017 at 16:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe succession is a Mnangagwa, Sekeramayi race
The race to succeed President Robert Mugabe as leader of Zanu-PF has narrowed to two major contenders namely Defence minister Sydney Sekeramayi and Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa who, despite the i...Published: 15 Sep 2017 at 15:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Obert Mpofu, chief tiff gets uglier
RELATIONS between Macro-Economic Planning minister and MP for Umguza Obert Mpofu and Ntabazinduna chief Nhlanhlayemangwe Ndiweni have become so strained that they have now attracted the attention of b...Published: 06 Sep 2017 at 13:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
International law and diplomatic immunity
Following the public display of hooliganism in a foreign land by our beloved First Lady, Dr Grace Mugabe, debate has been raging on whether First ladies are included in the "diplomatic immunity doctri...Published: 26 Aug 2017 at 19:43hrs | | by Wilton Nyasha Machimbira
Mutsvangwa now pressing for regime change
War veterans executives ousted from Zanu-PF are now pressing for regime change under the façade of succession politics in revenge for their expulsion, analysts have said. They said antipathy was now ...Published: 12 Aug 2017 at 12:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Wrangling chrome miners seek Mugabe intervention
WRANGLING over chrome mining claims by artisanal miners in the Midlands Province is continuing unabated, with the Zimbabwe Small Miners Confederation (ZSMC) now threatening to appeal to President Robe...Published: 09 Aug 2017 at 12:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe succession battles becoming uglier
Political Scientist and Sapes director, Ibbo Mandaza (IM) says President Robert Mugabe has thwarted an "attempted coup" within his party. Mandaza spoke to Violet Gonda (VG) on her Hot Seat programme w...Published: 30 Apr 2017 at 14:19hrs | | by Violet Gonda
Grace Mugabe flexes muscles
Powerful First Lady Grace Mugabe is at the centre of the warring Zanu-PF's latest factional and succession inferno, which is threatening anew the future of the troubled former liberation movement....Published: 26 Mar 2017 at 14:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
War vets threaten revenge mission on Mugabe nephew
In an ominous threat, angry war veterans have warned President Robert Mugabe's nephew, Patrick Zhuwao - who is also Indigenisation minister - that they will haul him over the coals over his wither...Published: 04 Feb 2017 at 14:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Mess with Mugabe and we'll go to war'
As Zanu-PF's deadly tribal ,factional successional wars get uglier ,the party's youths have warned disgruntled former freedom fighter and other allies of vice president Emerson Mnangag...Published: 20 Jan 2017 at 05:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Team Lacoste comes face to face with G40
Feathers are expected to fly when Team Lacoste, the Zanu PF faction rallying behind Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa's mooted presidential aspirations, comes face to face with the under-fire Gene...Published: 08 Nov 2016 at 19:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
'We are not fazed by army threats,' says G40
The battle of attrition within Zanu-PF is getting uglier by day with the ruling party faction against Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa claiming that those rallying behind Mnangagwa were bei...Published: 12 Aug 2016 at 09:15hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF splits again
Warring Zanu-PF bigwigs come face at what promises to be explosivecentralcommittee meeting in Harare today, ahead of the ruling as insiders say the strife -torn formerliberation movement split aga...Published: 09 Jun 2016 at 08:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
The hellhole that Zimbabwe has become
As Zanu PF bigwigs continue to bludgeon each other politically, while the stampede to succeed President Robert Mugabe gets ever uglier, the lot of the majority of Zimbabweans is getting worse by the d...Published: 30 Apr 2016 at 20:37hrs | | by Ndakaziva Majaka and Mugove Tafirenyika
Mnangagwa faction courts Mujuru
As the ugly factional and succession wars devouring President Robert Mugabe's Zanu-PF get uglier and ever more fluid, the party faction rallying behind embattled Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa's mo...Published: 29 Mar 2016 at 07:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's Zanu-PF has now reached 'a point of no return'
Zanu-PF insiders and observers alike agree that the party has now reached "a point of no return" as its deadly factional and succession wars get uglier by the day - with a senior party official graphi...Published: 21 Mar 2016 at 12:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe tears into Mnangagwa faction
In yet another ominous warning to the Zanu-PF faction that is rallying behind embattled Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa, President Robert Mugabe yesterday tore into the VP's followers who have been ...Published: 29 Feb 2016 at 07:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe fed up with Mutsvangwa
An angry President Robert Mugabe - thoroughly fed up with his ruling Zanu-PF's indisciplined and warring underlings - savaged ousted war veterans leader Christopher Mutsvangwa sometime this week, virt...Published: 21 Feb 2016 at 11:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Mutsvangwa stole underwear of female comrades'
There are growing fears within Zanu-PF that the ruling party's escalating factional and succession wars could soon witness body bags, with the tone of the infighting getting nastier and uglier by the ...Published: 04 Feb 2016 at 07:42hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe feels the heat
With Zanu-PF's deadly factional and succession wars reaching what insiders say is "a tipping point", and Zimbabwe continuing on its precipitous economic decline that is blamed on the ruling party, all...Published: 26 Jan 2016 at 07:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF awaits Mugabe's return
Zanu-PF bigwigs are anxiously waiting for the return of President Robert Mugabe from his annual holiday in the Far East, as the seemingly unstoppable factional and succession wars ravaging the ruling ...Published: 17 Jan 2016 at 09:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Al-Shabaab terror group hunts Mugabe's ministers
A Kwekwe-based terror group going by the sick moniker "Al-Shabaab" and said to be aligned to one of the factions contesting for power in the warring post-congress Zanu-PF has gone berserk, tormenting ...Published: 14 Jan 2016 at 13:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe strikes again
The deadly factional and succession wars that are devouring President Robert Mugabe's post-congress Zanu PF hit new lows yesterday when the women's league moved to banish under-fire Macro-Economic Pla...Published: 09 Dec 2015 at 12:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Debate over Mr Ugly 2015 winner, can someone enhance his ugliness?
There has been an outcry by fans over the criteria used by judges to select Mr Ugly 2015 in a contest that was held over the weekend at City Sports Bar. This year's title was grabbed by front ...Published: 25 Nov 2015 at 05:15hrs | | by Bornwise Mtonzi
Mnangagwa, G40 fight turns uglier
The nasty succession brawl between two of the post congress Zanu-PF's factions that are linked to Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa and the party's ambitious Young Turks who are known as the Gener...Published: 24 Sep 2015 at 07:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
War veterans back Mujuru
Veterans of the liberation war are throwing their weight behind former VP Joice Mujuru. Analysts have also said that the infighting within Zanu-PF between VP Emmerson Mnangagwa and the You...Published: 15 Sep 2015 at 07:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Mugabe's Zanu-PF wants to kill me'
As the deadly factional and succession wars within President Robert Mugabe's ruling Zanu-PF get uglier, the defiant former Presidential Affairs minister, Didymus Mutasa, says his political enemies hav...Published: 03 Apr 2015 at 18:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Woman, 4 kids cheat death
THE battle to stay put at her in-laws residence even after being formally divorced is getting uglier for a Chishakwe woman and nearly cost her dearly after she escaped death together with her four chi...Published: 14 Mar 2015 at 16:14hrs | | by Ray Bande
Parly opening thrown into a 'ghetto party'
THE Second Session of the Eighth Parliament yesterday was thrown into a ghetto party as parliamentarians notably Zanu-PF and MDC-T shoved and pushed in a bid to fit into the august House which only ac...Published: 29 Oct 2014 at 06:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe roasts Mnangagwa
Justice Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa's about-turn at the weekend over the senatorial prospects of former Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor Gideon Gono was apparently made at the behest of a miff...Published: 06 Oct 2014 at 12:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Army wields veto power over Zanu-PF succession
Zimbabwe's military will influence the outcome of the forthcoming Zanu-PF congress to ensure their proxies triumph and secure their interests, analysts said yesterday.President Robert Mugabe...Published: 27 Aug 2014 at 12:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe succession battle could turn uglier - analysts
HARARE - Long-suppressed succession ambitions by warring factions in Zanu PF battling to replace President Robert Mugabe have now exploded, igniting a war that could get uglier as the party marc...Published: 26 Aug 2014 at 08:17hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Mugabe succession battles explode
Long-suppressed succession ambitions by warring factions in Zanu-PF battling to replace President Robert Mugabe have now exploded, igniting a war that could get uglier as the party marches towar...Published: 25 Aug 2014 at 14:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Daniel Shumba causing problems for Zanu-PF in Masvingo
THE gloves are off between Member of Parliament for Masvingo Urban Daniel Shumba and the Masvingo provincial leadership with the latter baying for the legislator's blood for not subordinating himself ...Published: 31 Jul 2014 at 11:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Is Tsvangirai going to be deposed?
MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai's star has faded considerably since the height of his popularity in 2008/09.Following defeat in the July 2013 general elections, Roy Bennett, the treasurer-gener...Published: 07 Mar 2014 at 07:05hrs | | by Simukai Tinhu
Prophet swept away by river while baptising a church member
Self-styled prophet Simbarashe Kamupaundi (31) of Dangamvura, who was last Wednesday swept away by strong currents while baptising a church member in Epworth, was found lifeless floating in Ruwa ...Published: 17 Feb 2014 at 21:45hrs | | by Liberty Dube
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