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Ian Khama ratchets pressure on Mnangagwa
FORMER Botswana president Ian Khama says the region must step in to resolve the Zimbabwe crisis as pressure mounts on President Emmerson Mnangagwa to hold talks with his rivals.Khama, who was ...Published: 15 hrs ago | 2308 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe teachers vote with their feet
HUNDREDS of teachers are leaving the country or preparing to do so to escape worsening economic problems amid deteriorating working conditions, a new report says.Over the past couple of weeks,...Published: 16 hrs ago | 447 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa tells critics that they won't get help from region
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday claimed that regional leaders were laughing off claims that there was a crisis in the country.Addressing a Zanu-PF central committee meeting in Harare ye...Published: 19 Sep 2020 at 06:28hrs | 4402 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF's age-old factionalism burns hot
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has deployed Zanu-PF bigwigs in three provinces that are being ravaged by ugly infighting ahead of the party's District Co-ordinating Committee (DCC) elections.Zan...Published: 18 Sep 2020 at 21:09hrs | 1534 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa assigns allies to on fire regions
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has deployed Zanu-PF bigwigs to three provinces that are being ravaged by ugly infighting ahead of the party’s DCC elections. Factionalism is said to be rife in ...Published: 18 Sep 2020 at 08:09hrs | 3218 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt abuses critics, allege rights groups
GODFREY Kurauone, a Zimbabwean opposition official, sang a protest song at the funeral of a party member in July. For that, and other political charges, he spent 42 days in jail before the prosecution...Published: 18 Sep 2020 at 06:50hrs | 385 | by Staff reporter
ANC defiantly tells Zanu-PF that it will be back to meet MDC
THE South African ruling African National Congress (ANC) party yesterday defiantly told Zanu-PF that its delegation would soon head back to Harare to meet other stakeholders as part of efforts to init...Published: 16 Sep 2020 at 06:29hrs | 4879 | by Staff reporter
9 students arrested after protest in solidarity with ZINASU leader
Nine students were arrested on Monday while protesting outside a Harare court where their leader was freed on Z$2,000 bail after being charged with participating in a demonstration with intent to prom...Published: 15 Sep 2020 at 07:18hrs | 890 | by Staff reporter
Matemadanda in major climbdown, calls for dialogue
IN an unprecedented development, the Defence deputy minister and Zanu-PF national commissar Victor Matemadanda has been forced to make a major climbdown from a threat that Zanu-PF would use any means ...Published: 15 Sep 2020 at 06:18hrs | 5794 | by Election Resource Centre
Nigerian youths to petition Mnangagwa over rights abuses
NIGERIAN youths have vowed to mobilise civic organisations in Africa's most populous nation to picket the Zimbabwean embassy in Abuja over human rights abuses by President Emmerson Mnangagwa's governm...Published: 14 Sep 2020 at 06:38hrs | 1772 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa's ANC delegation to Zimbabwe, violated Covid-19 rules
THE Democratic Alliance (DA) says it now wants President Cyril Ramaphosa not just to request a report from Defence and Military Veterans Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula but to act against her and oth...Published: 14 Sep 2020 at 06:34hrs | 840 | by Staff reporter
Fact finding mission that never was
We are back to square one... It took six months for Zimbabwe Election Commission (ZEC) to release the official 2008 election results with Patrick Chinamasa then Legal and Justice Minister insi...Published: 13 Sep 2020 at 23:23hrs | 1168 | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
Ramaphosa's ANC piles pressure on Mnangagwa
South Africa's ruling African National Congress (ANC) has vowed to keep the Zimbabwe crisis on the table despite a spirited campaign by Zanu-PF to shrug it off.Lindiwe Zulu, the head of the AN...Published: 13 Sep 2020 at 07:29hrs | 5426 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa hunts for G40 rivals in SA
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday said government will seek the extradition of his G40 rivals that sought refuge in South Africa after escaping the 2017 coup.Several loyalists of the late...Published: 13 Sep 2020 at 07:29hrs | 1774 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF at risk of incurring 'white controlledr' SA's wrath
ZANU-PF yesterday risked creating an unexpected diplomatic tiff between Harare and Pretoria after it accused South Africa - the regional power and Zimbabwe's biggest trading partner - of being under t...Published: 12 Sep 2020 at 20:39hrs | 4008 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa needs more diplomatic muscle to crack Zimbabwe's defiant government
Amid a spiralling economic and political crisis, Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa addressed the people of his country on August 4. His speech, though sudden - four days after his government's v...Published: 12 Sep 2020 at 13:03hrs | 1932 | by Sikhululekile Mashingaidze
Opposition, civil society groups embrace ANC's Zimbabwe mediation
THE continued push by Pretoria to help Zimbabwe overcome its decades-long political and economic crises has created an air of optimism among opposition parties, civil society groups and the Church....Published: 12 Sep 2020 at 13:02hrs | 859 | by Staff reporter
ANC: Things are not fine in Zimbabwe
Lindiwe Zulu, Chair of the ANC's Subcommittee on International Relations has conceded that things are not fine in Zimbabwe.Zulu was part of a 10 ANC member delegate that met with the ZANU-PF P...Published: 12 Sep 2020 at 09:18hrs | 1942 | by Daniel Itai, Johannesburg, South Africa
I miss Smith's Rhodesia
SINCE the attainment of our independence in 1980, the people of Zimbabwe have never tasted true freedom under the ruling Zanu-PF elite.The late former Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith's regi...Published: 12 Sep 2020 at 07:39hrs | 1595 | by Concerned
No to megaphone diplomacy Zimbabwe, US agree
Zimbabwe and the United States have agreed to cooperate and resolve their differences diplomatically as opposed to the public spats that had characterised their relations since the turn of the millenn...Published: 12 Sep 2020 at 07:36hrs | 419 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe crisis impacts SA,' says Mugabe's 'street woman'
African National Congress (ANC) national executive committee member and Social Development Minister Lindiwe Zulu said the Zimbabwean crisis was a case of national importance - which warranted party me...Published: 11 Sep 2020 at 19:32hrs | 4110 | by Staff reporter
Gono bitter and lonely outside Government
After a lengthy period of hibernating from the media spotlight, Gideon Gono, the former Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor resurfaced in a twitter interview with Alpha Media Holdings' Trevor Ncub...Published: 11 Sep 2020 at 09:45hrs | 6688 | by John Mhazo
Beyond the Zanu-PF/ ANC communique
THE vagueness of the joint Zanu-PF/ African National Congress (ANC) communique on the bilateral meeting co...Published: 11 Sep 2020 at 07:21hrs | 1917 | by Phillan Zamchiya
Mugabe striking terribly hard in death
LAST week marked the first anniversary of the death of Robert Gabriel Mugabe, independent Zimbabwe's first president. Arguably one of the world's most shrewd and controversial politicians, the "larger...Published: 11 Sep 2020 at 07:18hrs | 1693 | by Staff reporter
ANC calls for Zimbabwe unity
THE talks between Zanu-PF and a delegation of the top brass of South Africa's ruling African National Congress (ANC) yesterday were described as "friendly but frank" last night.Sources who spo...Published: 10 Sep 2020 at 15:47hrs | 1226 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans must not pin hope on ANC
THE African National Congress (ANC) has dispatched a six-member delegation of its national executive committee to have bilateral discussions with the leadership of Zanu-PF. The world of former liberat...Published: 10 Sep 2020 at 07:10hrs | 504 | by Phillan Zamchiya
ZIST welcomes SA Envoy
Zimbabwe Institute of Strategic Thinking (ZIST) has welcomed the move by South Africa President Cyril Ramaphosa to send ANC delegation to 'politically problematic' Zimbabwe following a spate of allege...Published: 09 Sep 2020 at 14:00hrs | 2089 | by Staff reporter
ANC determined to dump camaraderie approach and reprimand Zanu-PF
Analyst Phillan Zamchiya yesterday said while liberation parties operate secretively, the actors and nature of the delegation dispatched by Ramaphosa showed that South Africa was now more determined t...Published: 09 Sep 2020 at 08:29hrs | 3043 | by Staff reporter
All eyes on Ramaphosa delegation's trip
MANY Zimbabweans and outsiders alike will be watching closely, and waiting to see what happens during and after this week's visit to Harare by a delegation of the top brass of South Africa's ruling Af...Published: 08 Sep 2020 at 19:11hrs | 1560 | by Staff reporter
Gomba, six councillors challenge recall
SUSPENDED Harare Mayor Herbert Gomba and six councillors have petitioned the High Court to nullify their recall by MDC-T led by Dr Thokozani Khupe, claiming she has no authority to do so in terms of t...Published: 08 Sep 2020 at 06:22hrs | 626 | by Staff reporter
South Africa has no capacity to make demands on Zimbabwean internal affairs.
The rumour monger has again started to spin into overdrive against Zimbabwe. There has been a talk of intervention by south Africa in Zimbabwe. This rumour is spread and calculated to make people beli...Published: 07 Sep 2020 at 07:45hrs | 4392 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
The world has lost patience with Zimbabwe's 'Crocodile'
A YEAR ago this week, Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa strained credulity when he declared in a Bloomberg TV interview, "We have rejoined the family of nations."The international commun...Published: 07 Sep 2020 at 06:32hrs | 1472 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF to set up social media teams
ZANU-PF is set to come up with provincial social media teams to defend the party and Government programmes on social media following campaigns by opposition elements fomenting violence while tarnishin...Published: 07 Sep 2020 at 06:30hrs | 435 | by Staff reporter
Ace Magashule to lead Ramaphosa's delegation to Zimbabwe
AS THE local and regional push to end Zimbabwe's decades-long political and economic crises gathers pace, South Africa's ruling African National Congress (ANC) will dispatch a high-powered delegation ...Published: 06 Sep 2020 at 20:11hrs | 3819 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa defends police brutality
RESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday defended State security agents' recent brutal clampdown on protesters, saying they were simply enforcing COVID-19 lock-down regulations. Mnangagwa also di...Published: 05 Sep 2020 at 09:36hrs | 4410 | by Staff reporter
World Council of Churches rallies behind vilified Catholic priests
THE World Council of Churches (WCC) has rallied behind local church leaders being vilified by government for pointing out its heavy handedness on civilians.The WCC urged the clerics to "unite ...Published: 05 Sep 2020 at 09:34hrs | 1436 | by Staff reporter
EU will not renew budget support to Zimbabwe
Ongoing mismanagement and corruption mean it is "out of the question" that the European Union will resume aid directly to the government of Zimbabwe anytime soon, according to the bloc's ambassador to...Published: 04 Sep 2020 at 18:28hrs | 2124 | by Vince Chadwick I Devex
Mnangagwa's spokesperson says SA is beset with its own problems
THE government reiterated yesterday that only Zimbabweans could resolve the country's myriad challenges, warning that it was futile for anyone to expect outsiders to lift the nation out of its current...Published: 02 Sep 2020 at 16:56hrs | 1951 | by Staff reporter
'Ramaphosa being used as a pawn in US diplomacy on Zimbabwe'
President Mnangagwa's spokesman George Charamba has said that only Zimbabweans could resolve the country’s myriad challenges and that it was futile for anyone to expect outsiders to lift the nation ...Published: 02 Sep 2020 at 07:13hrs | 6195 | by Staff reporter
ANC mediation divides Zanu-PF
SHARP divisions have emerged in the ruling Zanu-PF party with hardliners rubbishing South African President Cyril Ramaphosa's efforts to intervene in the Zimbabwean crisis while moderates have welcome...Published: 02 Sep 2020 at 06:44hrs | 9035 | by Staff reporter
Ex-minister petitions UN agency over Gukurahundi genocide
THE United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) must step in to stop a culture of State-sponsored human rights violations as the "price of silence is huge", former National Healing minister Moses Mzil...Published: 02 Sep 2020 at 06:34hrs | 1214 | by Staff reporter
Masvingo evictions: Govt under fire
A MASVINGO-BASED pressure group has raised a red flag over government-backed evictions of desperate villagers in the province, saying the orders flout efforts to slow down the devastating effects of C...Published: 01 Sep 2020 at 07:51hrs | 1673 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe and abductions
Since the beginning of the year, some people, mainly government detractors, and opposition members have claimed to have been abducted and tortured in Zimbabwe, but it is not easy to say who could be b...Published: 31 Aug 2020 at 09:46hrs | 1863 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Mnangagwa making Zimbabwe unsafe for citizens
OUTSPOKEN cleric and adviser to President Emmerson Mnangagwa, Shingi Munyeza, was at it again yesterday, accusing his boss of violating the Constitution and making the country unsafe for its citizens....Published: 31 Aug 2020 at 06:42hrs | 5293 | by Staff reporter
Cyberspace new frontier for US regime change agenda
Just a few days ago, while receiving a donation of personal protective equipment (PPE) from the Chinese government, President Mnangagwa pointed out that Zimbabwe was reeling under a sustained cyber-at...Published: 31 Aug 2020 at 06:01hrs | 276 | by Isdore Guvamombe
Zimbabwean bank escapes US sanctions
CBZ Bank has escaped the US$385 million fine it was facing under the United States' Zimbabwe sanctions regime after the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) decided only to warn the bank.In...Published: 31 Aug 2020 at 05:58hrs | 1064 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC speaks on abduction of Tawanda Muchehiwa
The MDC Alliance is currently investigating the very serious allegations against Ms. Tendai Masotsha, the Bulawayo Women's Assembly Chair, in the events surrounding the abduction and subsequent tortur...Published: 30 Aug 2020 at 19:17hrs | 3442 | by Fadzayi Mahere
Chamisa's MDC comes under fire for corruption in local authorities
ZIMBABWE has once again come under the spotlight over an alleged human rights crisis. Civil society groups, churches, political organisations in and outside the country have slammed President Emmerson...Published: 30 Aug 2020 at 17:19hrs | 2067 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt rattled by Western countries' comments
THE ZIMBABWE government yesterday came out guns blazing, dismissing a statement made by western countries condemning alleged gross human rights violations saying they are being misled by the country's...Published: 30 Aug 2020 at 17:18hrs | 4993 | by Staff reporter
'Talking to Chamisa is Mnangagwa's only viable option'
Renowned political analyst Ibbo Mandaza believes President Emmerson Mnangagwa should swallow his pride and engage MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa to settle the deepening political crisis in the cou...Published: 30 Aug 2020 at 10:48hrs | 1693 | by Staff reporter
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