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Chamisa betrayed as Biti throws his name for presidency 2023
The year 2020 has not been a good year for Nelson Chamisa the leader of a heavily fractured MDC A as he presides over a breaking up party. Nelson Chamisa had rode on the lightning of firm and glory as...Published: 12 Aug 2020 at 00:32hrs | 14299 | by Masimba Mavaza
Chamisa says they are denied freedom to honour heroes
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday said his administration had consolidated democracy, constitutionalism and rule of law in the pursuit of social justice, but main opposition MDC Alliance and othe...Published: 11 Aug 2020 at 08:23hrs | 1206 | by Staff reporter
ZEC declares 15 formerly MDC Alliance seats vacant
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) has declared 15 seats in the National Assembly and Senate vacant after the MDC-T recalled the legislators. In a gazetted notice recently, ZEC chairperso...Published: 11 Aug 2020 at 08:10hrs | 1087 | by Staff reporter
'I have consolidated democracy and rule of law' insist Mnangagwa - dog claiming to put out furnace fire with its puny fart
"Muromo hauzarirwi nerwizi!" is a Shona adage highlighting the disparity between what one says they can do and actually doing it. "What kind of power was it if everybody knew that it would nev...Published: 11 Aug 2020 at 05:58hrs | 3443 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
South Africa is in no position to help Zimbabwe
This week President Cyril Ramaphosa appointed former Speaker of Parliament Baleka Mbete and former Safety and Security Minister Sydney Mufamadi as special envoys to Zimbabwe. Their reported br...Published: 10 Aug 2020 at 18:23hrs | 1302 | by Tafi Mhaka
An MDC Government Around 2025
Whilst the ruling party's nationalist project is by all means still holding forte, the centre is gradually disintegrating. On the other hand, the centre-left MDC's democratic project has been bashed a...Published: 10 Aug 2020 at 15:46hrs | 1446 | by Robert Sigauke
People must free themselves from ZANU-PF chains
To say our situation in Zimbabwe is not so different from the one Guatemala experienced is very wrong and lacks factual points.The Zimbabwean government led by President Emmerson Mnangagwa mus...Published: 10 Aug 2020 at 15:44hrs | 479 | by Leonard Koni
Zanu PF are obsessed with power retention, 'Chinhu chedu!' ranted Biti - hypocrite's own actions speak louder than ranting
Tendai Biti and his fellow MDC leaders are hypocrites the same Lord Jesus warned against. "The teachers of the law and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat. So you must obey them and do everything...Published: 09 Aug 2020 at 17:21hrs | 3258 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Zimbabwe heroes' shrine sends clear message to the world - the country and people are not yet free!
Most people - both locally and globally - have always associated the National Heroes Acre in the Zimbabwe capital Harare, with largely being merely an impressive cemetery for those deemed outstanding ...Published: 09 Aug 2020 at 14:33hrs | 2058 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
It is very much in SA's interest to ‘interfere' in Zimbabwe
For about 20 years South Africa has watched, rarely exerted pressure, and in some instances aided and abetted, the tragedy Zimbabwe has become.South Africa is now home to millions of Zimbabwea...Published: 09 Aug 2020 at 10:20hrs | 419 | by Elizabeth Sidiropoulos
Why US$3.5bn deal for farmers is problematic
PATRICK Chinamasa, acting spokesperson in President Emmerson Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF government, has announced that, through the signing of the government's "Global Compensation Agreement" on July 29, 202...Published: 09 Aug 2020 at 10:07hrs | 921 | by Ben Freeth
MDC led Bulawayo Council in fire-fighting mode
THE Bulawayo City Council has adopted a draft communications policy as it seeks to improve its image after attracting the anger of ratepayers over alleged corruption involving city fathers and local g...Published: 09 Aug 2020 at 09:50hrs | 684 | by Staff reporter
Chief Maduna and the liberation struggle
ONE of the country's longest serving traditional leaders, Chief Vezi Maduna Mafu, is recovering from a stroke he suffered in August last year, but when one mentions the Heroes Day, which the country w...Published: 09 Aug 2020 at 09:48hrs | 602 | by Staff reporter
Beyonce won't vote in Zimbabwe
The Bishop laughed his lungs out last week when he saw the desperate efforts of some activists who were trying to foist their latest hashtag movement on US singer Beyonce.There was a lot of eu...Published: 09 Aug 2020 at 09:43hrs | 385 | by Bishop Lazarus
'We want Zanu PF led GNU' ZCC doggedly insist - it's the curse we should never tolerate ever again
One of the most enduring legacy of Mugabe's Zanu PF dictatorship is that it has sired hundreds of thousands of copycat corrupt and incompetent dictators, all with trademark Mugabe mentality that they ...Published: 09 Aug 2020 at 08:57hrs | 491 | by Wilbert Mukori
Zesn presses for electoral reforms
THE Zimbabwe Election Support Network (Zesn) has urged political actors not to abandon the push for electoral reforms in the face of COVID-19 that has forced the country's electoral body, Zimbabwe Ele...Published: 08 Aug 2020 at 09:39hrs | 239 | by Staff reporter
The price of tribal politics in Zimbabwe is dangerous and costly: A warning to the people of Mashonaland once more!
Hätte der Hund nicht geschießen, hätte der Haufen nicht gegeben, this is a German adage it means we regret bitterly the decisions we made in previous times. Indeed if the dog had not shot, th...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 22:22hrs | 4255 | by Nomazulu Thata
'Need new GNU, too polarised for democracy' argue Gono - bull, Zanu PF doesn't want democracy
"The nature of our politics today demands, in my view, greater tolerance, cross-fertilisation of ideas from different corners of political and economic thought and inclusiveness. If I had my way into ...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 21:46hrs | 1694 | by Wilbert Mukori
Credibility of Ramaphosa's Zimbabwe envoys under scrutiny
The credibility of the South African envoys appointed by President Cyril Ramaphosa to engage the Zimbabwe government and other stakeholders following the unfolding humanitarian crisis in the country h...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 17:19hrs | 1427 | by Staff reporter
Temba Mliswa backs General Chiwenga
Norton Member of Parliament Temba Mliswa says the appointment of General Constantino Chiwenga as the Minister of health is commendable as it will bring order to the Ministry. Mliswa, who is re...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 20:27hrs | 8899 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa follows his voters wishes: ZmFirst
ZimFirst leader Maxwell Shumba has said President Emmerson Mnangagwa is following what his voters want him to do hence his recent announcement of compensation for former white commercial farmers....Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 08:35hrs | 2004 | by Stephen Jakes
'As elected leader, I will bring prosperity' insist Mnangagwa - failed precisely because you rigged and are illegitimate
"Muromo hauzarirwi nerwizi!" (There is no flooded river that big mouth cannot cross!) so goes the Shona adage. President Mnangagwa, big mouth, told the nation in his State of Nation Address there is n...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 07:56hrs | 1180 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Zim signs US$3.5bn White Settler Farmer Deal! Betrayal of Chimurenga!
White Colonial Settlers are going to be compensated by Zimbabweans for land developments they made on the land prior to Land reform exercise. Poor peasants with no land rights to their own pieces of l...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 07:49hrs | 376 | by Ms Tendayi Lynnette Mudehwe
Poverty fighting...our generational struggle
Every generation has its own unique Struggle to fight for without shame or apology. Born Free from Colonial rule we are chained by Poverty. We have no jobs and by 2030 when we are in our 50s, unable t...Published: 05 Aug 2020 at 18:00hrs | 327 | by Lynnette Tendayi Mudehwe
Politburo Bulletin: We are under attack comrades
The candid truth is that we are now hanging by a thread; we are on our own now. It is no longer a matter of if, but when, and when that happens will we be ready to face the tide, or even the Hague? Th...Published: 05 Aug 2020 at 08:22hrs | 10958 | by Robert Sigauke
'Bypassing by-elections breaches social contract'
FORMER Justice deputy minister and MDC-T deputy president Obert Gutu has urged the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) to dump proposed plans to bypass by-elections and have vacant parliamentary seats...Published: 05 Aug 2020 at 08:12hrs | 1209 | by Staff reporter
Malema, Zimbabwe's SA Embassy cross swords
THE Zimbabwean Embassy in South Africa has expressed its displeasure with the utterances made by South African opposition party Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema, which sought to ca...Published: 05 Aug 2020 at 08:07hrs | 785 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa values lives of all Zimbabweans'
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa values the lives of all Zimbabweans and has put in place measures to ensure that all citizens come back home during the dark phase spawned by the Covid-19 pandemic and no country s...Published: 05 Aug 2020 at 08:05hrs | 273 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa tests positive for Covid-19
ZANU PF Harare South Member of Parliament Tongai Mnangagwa has become the first prominent person in the country to announce testing positive for Covid-19.Mnangagwa, nephew to President Emmerso...Published: 04 Aug 2020 at 08:17hrs | 5031 | by Staff reporter
Church leaders in renewed drongo call for Mnangagwa and Chamisa dialogue - make rational call or shut up
The drongo, "nhengure" in Shona, is a loud quarrelsome black bird with a shrill loud cry to march. Many of Zimbabwe's church leaders have started behaving like the drongo in their repeated calls...Published: 03 Aug 2020 at 22:19hrs | 2753 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Ziyambi to withdraw delimitation amendment
JUSTICE minister Ziyambi Ziyambi has in principle reportedly agreed to withdraw one of the 27 clauses government was pushing for as part of the Constitution of Zimbabwe Amendment (No. 2) Bill, which i...Published: 03 Aug 2020 at 08:02hrs | 2413 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, Chamisa talks now overdue, says Hlatshwayo
THE much anticipated political talks between President Emmerson Mnangagwa and main opposition MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa are now overdue and remain the only solution to Zimbabwe's socio-econom...Published: 03 Aug 2020 at 07:57hrs | 2505 | by Staff reporter
West lacks moral high ground to lecture us on human rights
There were many lessons from the total failure of the Western instigated July 31 regime change planned demonstration. The first lesson that must have dawned on local opposition, including their Wester...Published: 03 Aug 2020 at 07:48hrs | 138 | by Ranga Mataire
FULL TEXT: Showdown between Malema and Zimbabwe Embassy in South Africa
1. The Embassy of the Republic of Zimbabwe to the Republic of South Africa read with consternation and utter disbelief the "EFF Statement on the Announcement by the President of Zimbabwe on Compensati...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 17:51hrs | 10905 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe in top 10 best wildlife conservation destinations
ZIMBABWE is one of the 10 countries in the world with the best wildlife conservation methods, according to a research by Oxford University's Wildlife Conservation Research Unit in partnership with Pan...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 08:54hrs | 125 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt tells off Malema
ZIMBABWE will not be lectured by misinformed and misguided regional parties such as the South African Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) on anything as the country is not a province of South Africa. ...Published: 01 Aug 2020 at 07:53hrs | 8825 | by Staff reporter
Israel Dube: Mnangagwa and Mliswa are not Mashonaland: Mashonaland is not mourning the death of Perrance Shiri
Zimbabwe is not divided into two because of the death of Perrance Shiri. Your article of yesterday on Bulawayo24 is wholly unfortunate and misleading. As we speak the people of Mashonaland are out the...Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 11:35hrs | 4148 | by Nomazulu Thata
Zimbabweans labour under Zanu-PF debt concrete slab
ONE thing that makes me smile when I think constitutional democracy an elected government that shows unwavering love for its citizens. In perfect liberal or social democracies, elected governments fea...Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 07:56hrs | 252 | by Rejoice Ngwenya, Comaliso
Go well Gudo Guru
ON Wednesday morning, the nation suffered a great and painful blow. Zimbabwe lost Honourable Perrance Shiri, the Lands, Agriculture and Rural Resettlement minister. He was also a long-serving Air Mars...Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 07:36hrs | 668 | by Monica Mutsvangwa
Shiri died in his car while trying to get help
LANDS, Agriculture, Water and Rural Resettlement minister Perrance Shiri, pictured, died in the wee hours of yesterday, days after his driver succumbed to the lethal coronavirus that is fast getting o...Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 07:31hrs | 823 | by Staff reporter
Court halts $7.5m State funding for MDC formations
Neither MDC Alliance nor MDC-T can receive any of the $7.5 million political funding under the Political Parties Finance Act until a resolution on the ongoing legal battle over which formation is enti...Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 07:29hrs | 3079 | by Staff reporter
'Gukurahundi victims celebrate the death of Perrance Shiri'
Victims of the Gukurahundi genocide that took place in the 1980s are celebrating the death of former 5th Brigade Commander Perrance Shiri, Ibhetshu lika Zulu Secretary-General Mbuso Fuzwayo has said. ...Published: 30 Jul 2020 at 11:50hrs | 1884 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Shiri was poisoned, says his family
THE family of the late Agriculture minister Perrance Shiri said it suspected that he could have succumbed to food poisoning, not COVID-19.Shiri died yesterday morning while being taken to a Ch...Published: 30 Jul 2020 at 09:08hrs | 8185 | by Staff reporter
People emulate leaders behaviour, rotten leaders stir rot in all the nation: APA
Alliance for People's Agenda (APA) has warned that people follow and emulate their leaders adding that rotten leaders bring the rot to the entire nation. The party said when in 1980 Mugabe mad...Published: 30 Jul 2020 at 08:43hrs | 167 | by Stephen Jakes
Mnangagwa mourns Minister Shiri
President Mnangagwa has expressed deep sadness over the death of Lands, Agriculture, Water and Rural Resettlement Minister Air Chief Marshal Perrance Shiri.Minister Shiri died early this...Published: 29 Jul 2020 at 17:13hrs | 782 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe coup plotter dies
Zimbabwe agriculture minister who was a key figure when Robert Mugabe was ousted via a 'bloodless' coup dies aged 65Zimbabwe's Agriculture Minister Perence Shiri has died, according to an anno...Published: 29 Jul 2020 at 13:39hrs | 1347 | by Staff reporter
Perrance Shiri's death: A double loss to Gukurahundi victims
The Matabeleland All-Stakeholders People's Convention (known as Phutheho) has described the passing away of former 5TH Brigade Commander Perrance as a double loss to victims of the Gukurahundi Genocid...Published: 29 Jul 2020 at 13:33hrs | 1461 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Khupe targets MDC Alliance name
ACTING MDC-T president Thokozani Khupe wants to claim ownership of the MDC Alliance name from the Nelson Chamisa-led party, an official confirmed yesterday.Khupe's faction, which seized contro...Published: 29 Jul 2020 at 09:21hrs | 3896 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: Gukurahundi Commander Perrance Shiri dies
Former Commander of the notorious Fifth Brigade, Retrired Air Marshall Perrance Shiri has died. Shiri was admitted to a private hospital on Tuesday battling with Coronavirus symptoms. ...Published: 29 Jul 2020 at 06:45hrs | 8417 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa's regime should not insult Zimbabweans' intelligence
On 25 July 2020, I penned an article to the effect that, most of us who are bravery and nrelentingly standing up, and speaking up (in the process, placing our own lives in grave danger, but for a very...Published: 28 Jul 2020 at 11:21hrs | 2165 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
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