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Kembo Mohadi signals retirement amid health struggles
Vice President Kembo Mohadi has informed President Emmerson Mnangagwa of his intention to retire from government, citing ongoing health problems that have severely limited his ability to carry out off...Published: 09 Apr 2025 at 22:02hrs | 2367 | by Staff reporter
Sithembiso Nyoni to become next VP?
The sudden removal of Sithembiso Gile Gladys Nyoni from her position as Minister of Environment, Climate, and Wildlife has fueled speculation that she may be in line for a bigger role - possibly as Zi...Published: 03 Apr 2025 at 20:17hrs | 6841 | by Ndou Paul
Mnangagwa missed one fact: Unlike Mugabe, he has never been genuinely respected within ZANU-PF
Who can deny that ZANU-PF is teetering on the brink? As factional fighting within the ruling ZANU-PF intensifies - and even threatens to get ugly with the so-called "uprising" slated for 31st ...Published: 26 Mar 2025 at 22:52hrs | 984 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Emmerson Mnangagwa and the 26 criminals around him
In November 2017, former President Robert Mugabe was removed from office and his crime, according to the putschists who ousted him in a coup, was that he had allowed himself to be surrounded by crimin...Published: 08 Mar 2025 at 15:51hrs | 1724 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF purges old guard
ZANU-PF has announced a controversial directive to retire members of the "old guard" within the ruling party who are 65 years of age and above, effective April 1, 2025. The decision, which targets key...Published: 11 Feb 2025 at 08:03hrs | 1887 | by Staff reporter
Makwinji Soma-Phiri enters ZIFA race
Benjani Mwaruwari and Makwinji Soma-Phiri have officially confirmed their candidacy for the Zimbabwe Football Association (ZIFA) presidency, marking their intent to lead a sport in desperate need of r...Published: 14 Dec 2024 at 18:29hrs | 6340 | by Staff reporter
John Landa Nkomo Trust mourns National Hero Mphoko
BULAWAYO - The John Landa Nkomo Memorial Trust would like to convey it's most sincere condolences to the family of the late former Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko, His Excellency Preside...Published: 14 Dec 2024 at 10:13hrs | 302 | by John Landa Nkomo Trust
Stampede for Zifa board positions
The Zimbabwe Football Association (ZIFA) elections scheduled for January 25, 2025, are poised to be among the most hotly contested in the organization's history. With an impressive lineup of candidate...Published: 12 Dec 2024 at 06:44hrs | 198 | by Staff reporter
Mohadi's reappointment met with dismay
The reappointment of Kembo Mohadi as vice president of Zimbabwe has been met with dismay by many observers, who say it is a sign that President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration is not serious about...Published: 09 Sep 2023 at 12:29hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Karangas crush Zezuru-Korekore Alliance again
To Zezurus, politics of tribalism has become the Frankenstein's monster that destroys its own creator. Unless Zezurus find allies outside their small Zezuru- Korekore clan, it may take many years if n...Published: 19 Aug 2023 at 17:17hrs | 66 | by Israel Dube
Siphosami Malunga meets Kamala Harris in Zambia
Siphosami Malunga, a human rights activist and the executive director of the Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa (OSISA) was a guest speaker at a convening by Kamala Devi Harris in Lusaka to d...Published: 02 Apr 2023 at 17:15hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF and CCC pursuing the 4th Chimurenga agenda: Is it mere coincidence?
Barbara Tanyanyiwa, a woman representative at CCC was on 19th January 2022 interviewed by Studio 7 on the arrests of 25 CCC members in Budiriro in Harare. In her 2 minutes, 15 seconds inte...Published: 22 Jan 2023 at 17:55hrs | 3 | by Mqondisi Moyo
Mnangagwa seeks new mandate as Zanu-PF president
President Emmerson Mnangagwa is seeking re-election as Zanu-PF leader and party presidential candidate for elections next year amid signs of discomfort within the former liberation movement over his c...Published: 22 Aug 2022 at 19:51hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa to name General PV Sibanda as deputy president'?
President Emmerson Mnangagwa is poised to name Zimbabwe Defence Forces commander General Phillip Valerio Sibanda as his second vice president, former minister Jonathan Moyo claimed on Thursday....Published: 03 Jun 2022 at 09:04hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Khupe, Chamisa rekindle political romance
Seemingly forgetting her near-death experience at the hands of Nelson Chamisa's violent supporters at the funeral of Morgan Tsvangirai in February 2018, Thokozani Khupe has endorsed the Citizen's Coal...Published: 22 Mar 2022 at 05:43hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Gift Banda set for Zifa rebound as boss
SUSPENDED Zifa vice-president and Bulawayo based businessman Gift Banda could make a sensational return to mainstream football administration as acting association president.Banda was controve...Published: 24 Jan 2022 at 05:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Khaya Moyo was troubled and conflicted by sad events of November 2017
Moro Sahwira wangu, you know I've lots of time and respect for you and your views. Clearly, we have profound differences of opinion on this issue, sparked by the personal tributes that some of us, so-...Published: 17 Nov 2021 at 08:03hrs | 12 | by Jonathan Moyo
Chadzamira drags Chiwenga in the mud
Chickens have come home to roost for ZANU PF Masvingo Provincial Chairperson, Ezra Ruvai Chadzamira as he drags Vice President Constantine Chiwenga into t...Published: 12 Sep 2021 at 00:36hrs | 11 | by Paul Ndou
Chris Mutsvangwa's Presidential ambitions exposed
Norton member of Parliament Temba Mliswa has sensationally claimed that War Veterans leader Christopher Mutsvangwa tried to convince the former Zimbabwe National Army General Edzai Chimonyo to support...Published: 30 Aug 2021 at 10:14hrs | 2 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Obert Mpofu: Mnangagwa's most reliable lieutenant
President Emmerson Mnangagwa deployed Dr. Obert Mpofu to serve at party Headquarters on a full-time basis. This deployment was similar to the Robert Mugabe deployment of Didymus Mutasa one of ZANU PF'...Published: 09 Aug 2021 at 14:32hrs | 5 | by Nicholas Ncube
Zanu-PF female politicians not interested in VP's post
Zanu-PF's Women's League national political commissar, Maybe Mbowa says senior female politicians in the ruling party are not interested in being appointed to the powerful post of the country's vice p...Published: 03 Aug 2021 at 08:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Sithembiso Nyoni not fit for the Vice Presidency
Matebeleland North is a hive of activity as ZANU PF prepares for its Annual National People's Conference. There are people on the ground and rumours on the ground , as well as social media articles an...Published: 16 Jul 2021 at 06:41hrs | 3 | by Terror Ngwenya
If ED truly listened to the citizenry's cries, complaints, and criticisms, he would have been the people's hero
At times I look back, in amazement, at the events of November 2017 - when thousands upon thousands of Zimbabweans flooded the streets of the capital Harare, in overwhelming jubilant support of the mil...Published: 19 Jun 2021 at 19:58hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Abednico Ncube for Vice Presidency
Gone are the days when leadership was based on qualities, qualifications and to some extent anointing. Leadership came with a responsibility of protecting the interests of those being led. The recent ...Published: 17 Apr 2021 at 10:06hrs | 5 | by Mthabisi Mathuthu
SK Moyo too junior to be Vice president
In November 2017 Zapu Harare provincial secretary-general Elphacy Dube said the province was throwing its weight behind Khaya Moyo. Zapu Harare province jumped the gun and suggested SK Moyo without co...Published: 30 Mar 2021 at 16:26hrs | 2 | by Colin Khumalo
Magwizi eyes Zapu vice presidency
ZPRA Veterans Association secretary-general Buster Magwizi has been suggested to contest for the vacant Zapu vice presidency post at the opposition party's elective congress next month.The par...Published: 30 Mar 2021 at 08:08hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa likely violated Constitution and must face the consequences
A major public controversy has erupted over the recent resignation of Vice President Kembo Mohadi over sexual impropriety scandals and President Mnangagwa not giving a public notice of the resignation...Published: 11 Mar 2021 at 15:58hrs | 11 | by Munyaradzi Gwisai
Loyalty or defection: The path of a female politician
Its midday, and Lillian Timveous, a former Midlands senator, arranges her pot plants placed on a table next to her home entrance in Zvishavane. She sells them for a dollar each. There's constr...Published: 06 Mar 2021 at 06:13hrs | 7 | by Nyaradzo Ruwisi
Women organisations call for female VP
ZIMBABWEAN women have urged President Emmerson Mnangagwa to appoint a female candidate to the vice presidency post to replace his former deputy, Kembo Mohadi, who resigned on Monday. Mohadi wa...Published: 05 Mar 2021 at 17:39hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Obert Mpofu is seen as a front-runner for VP post, but.....
Zanu-PF stalwarts from Matabeleland region are angling to take up the Vice-Presidency left vacant after the disgraceful fall of Kembo Mohadi, who was entangled in an embarrassing sex scandal.P...Published: 05 Mar 2021 at 07:05hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
ZANU PF's eagerness to dissipate MDC might return to haunt them, as could be spur needed to finally urge Zimbabweans to stand up
Yesterday's ruling ZANU PF party Politburo (supreme body) meeting was interesting in two ways - firstly, the apparent strange continuation of the shamed Kembo Mohadi as the organization's vice preside...Published: 04 Mar 2021 at 10:23hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Kembo Mohadi's replacement as Vice-President of Zimbabwe found?
After the unceremonious resignation of the vice president Kembo Mohadi from the office of the vice president, it has become incumbent to discuss the esteemed office of the Vice President. Cde Kembo Mo...Published: 02 Mar 2021 at 16:38hrs | 5 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Kembo Mohadi embarrasses the presidium
The vice president's power to lead comes from a ceremonial reverence Zimbabweans grant their presidents. To deserve the reverence, a vice president must act as a steward of the dignity and stature of ...Published: 20 Feb 2021 at 08:30hrs | 3 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Chief Maduna must be declared a national hero
Chief Vezi Maduna Mafu of Filabusi who died this Saturday morning at the age of 86 should be declared a national hero, for his role in fighting the colonial Rhodesian government and principled stance ...Published: 13 Feb 2021 at 10:54hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
4 reasons why General Solomon Mujuru didn't want Mnangagwa to be President
Academic and Biographer Miles Tendi has written four reasons why the late General Solomon Mujuru did not want President Emmerson Mnangagwa to assume the post of Presidency. Tendi was respondin...Published: 08 Oct 2020 at 12:16hrs | 4 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Robert Mugabe: A leader loved and hated in equal measure by Zimbabweans
Longtime Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe has died. He was 95.Loved and hated in almost equal measure by Zimbabweans, the former teacher was best known for leading Zimbabwe to independence, ...Published: 06 Sep 2019 at 08:38hrs | 3 | by Compiled by Alet Janse van Rensburg
Muchinguri, Mutsvangwa front runners to succeed Chiwenga
As Vice President Constantino Chiwenga battles for his life in Singapore, it is being reported that senior Zanu-PF officials are now engaged in a battle to succeed him.The Zimbabwe Independent...Published: 10 Aug 2019 at 11:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF bigwigs plot against Mnangagwa
Defence and War Veterans minister, Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri has confirmed that the ugly Zanu-PF factional and succession wars - which led to the stunning ouster from power of former president Robert M...Published: 06 Aug 2019 at 08:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
No vacancy in presidium, says Muchinguri-Kashiri
THERE is no vacancy in the Presidium and elements covertly jostling for the top positions must stand guided, Defence and War Veterans Affairs Minister who is also Zanu-PF chairperson, Oppah Muchinguri...Published: 05 Aug 2019 at 07:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
China wants military chiefs to head new interim Zimbabwe government
BERLIN/PRETORIA - China reportedly wants the country's military chiefs to run and head a new interim Zimbabwe government between 2020-2023 when fresh presidential and parliamentary elections are...Published: 26 Jul 2019 at 07:54hrs | 1 | by Itai Mushekwe/Mary-Kate Kahari
Sibusiso Moyo takes Chiwenga succession plot to UK
Foreign Affairs and International Trade Minister General Sibusiso Busi Moyo's recent round trip across the United Kingdom is part of his elaborate plan to sell himself as a likeable candidate for repl...Published: 15 Jul 2019 at 12:14hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Biti on the rise
The ascendance of Biti to the position of MDC co-vice presidency has generated a lot of interest locally and abroad.Sources within the MDC have suggested that the rise of Biti was made possibl...Published: 03 Jul 2019 at 12:55hrs | | by Tendai Chimunda
Applying lipstick on a pig will not work Mnangagwa
EACH American election cycle produces a phrase or word that either becomes controversial or defines the election.In 2008, then Senator Barack Obama found himself in the eye of a storm when he ...Published: 27 Jun 2019 at 06:54hrs | 4 | by Nqaba Matshazi
Chamisa to introduce term limits for all key positions
Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) Alliance president Nelson Chamisa will introduce term limits for all key positions in the party including trimming the three vice presidential seats to remain with...Published: 20 Jun 2019 at 20:30hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
MDC: Beyond Congress politics
The Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) 2019 National Elective Congress has come and gone. Amongst many other things, the key achievements of the congress were uniting the party to as nearest to its ...Published: 06 Jun 2019 at 09:46hrs | | by Dadirai Chivimbiso Bvute
Komichi speaks on losing Vice Presidency
Former MDC Vice President Morgan Komichi says he is not bitter about losing in the Vice Presidency role. Komichi was speaking on Monday after the party announced the full list of elected Vice ...Published: 27 May 2019 at 14:00hrs | 14 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Biti raises ballot stuffing fears at MDC Congress
The race for MDC vice presidency at a party congress currently underway in Gweru will likely come down to one bruising political fight for the job between Tendai Biti and Morgen Komichi.Top pa...Published: 26 May 2019 at 19:47hrs | 9 | by newzimbabwe
Chamisa's MDC promises more demos after congress
The MDC Alliance has warned the government that it will organise demonstrations after its elective congress scheduled for May 24 in Gweru.Addressing party supporters in the faction-ridden Chir...Published: 25 May 2019 at 15:32hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Special Message from Prof Welshman Ncube
Fellow MDC members, in the next twenty four (24) hours we will gather at Ascot Stadium in my hometown of Gweru for a historic, momentous occasion in the history of our party and our nation.For...Published: 23 May 2019 at 21:42hrs | | by Welshman Ncube
Complications of the congress season
WELCOME to the MDC Congress season. The circus has just dropped right down at Harvest House. All the actors have already donned their stage costumes, save for Vimbai Tsvangirai-Java, whose congress ap...Published: 18 May 2019 at 10:37hrs | 1 | by Chenai Mutasa
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