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Tagwirei emerges as political dark horse in Zanu-PF succession storm
Business mogul Kudakwashe Tagwirei, long known for his powerful behind-the-scenes role in Zimbabwe's political economy, has stepped firmly into the national spotlight with signs increasingly pointing ...Published: 11 Jun 2025 at 11:27hrs | 1745 | by Staff reporyter
Zimbabwe's new politics of fraud
IN Zimbabwe, politics is no longer just the art of the possible.It has become the science of the scam.From boreholes to buses, roads to resettlement deeds, today's governance is not me...Published: 29 May 2025 at 10:23hrs | 548 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF survives on donations
Zanu-PF has been mainly surviving on donations, with little contributions from membership fees and subscriptions as well as government grants and investments, a central committee report presented at t...Published: 06 Nov 2022 at 12:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF mobilisation drive in top gear
THE reintroduction of District Co-ordinating Committees (DCCs) in Zanu-PF structures has injected renewed impetus into the ruling party's mobilisation activities, with the party now on a strong footin...Published: 30 Oct 2022 at 06:41hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Police block CCC conference
POLICE are in the eye of the storm over allegations of selective application of the law after they cancelled a Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) youth conference scheduled for last Saturday, claimin...Published: 12 Sep 2022 at 06:05hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF nullifies Youth League reshuffle
MASHONALAND West provincial affairs minister, Mary Mliswa-Chikoka's wings have been clipped after the party nullified recent illegal co-options of her loyalists into the youth league provincial execut...Published: 24 Jun 2022 at 07:44hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zec engages Bulawayo youths
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has embarked on an extensive youth-training programme to encourage young people in Bulawayo to register to vote.In Harare, Zec held a similar exercise t...Published: 17 Jun 2022 at 08:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Fight rocks Zanu-PF Youth League
A camp opposed to Zanu-PF Mashonaland West Youth League chairman, Tapiwa Masenda, is circulating a vote of no confidence petition to have him removed from the influential post.As factionalism ...Published: 11 May 2022 at 09:17hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF organises youth indoctrination classes
Zanu-PF yesterday said its newly-elected youth leaders will be sent to the party's Chitepo School of Ideology to prepare them for a "vigorous" campaign ahead of the 2023 polls.The leaders were...Published: 11 May 2022 at 09:14hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF Conference exposes Mnangagwa, Chiwenga rift
The rivalry between President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his deputy Constantino Chiwenga came to the fore at the just ended Zanu-PF youth conference where the party avoided elections for the league's seco...Published: 09 May 2022 at 07:17hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF moves to counter demos
THE Zanu-PF youth league has resolved to lobby the public service to only recruit party card-carrying members and graduates of the infamous Border Gezi programme as part of measures to counter demonst...Published: 07 May 2022 at 06:22hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Meet the new ZANU PF Youth leadership
The ruling ZANU PF party has elected a new leadership in the recently held youth conference. The Conference saw all your familiar figures like Tendai Chirau and Mabutho Moyo stepping down at the expir...Published: 06 May 2022 at 12:50hrs | 48 | by Mandla Ndlovu
CCC, Zanu-PF trade accusations
TENSION is rising ahead of the Chitungwiza ward 7, Zengeza West by-election with Zanu-PF and the opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) accusing each other of perpetrating political violence....Published: 05 May 2022 at 07:13hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Showdown looms at Zanu-PF youth conference
DAGGERS have been drawn ahead of the Zanu-PF national youth congress slated for tomorrow in Harare amid allegations of vote-buying and jostling for leadership positions.Over 2 000 delegates fr...Published: 03 May 2022 at 06:50hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF youths trade blows during elections
THERE was pandemonium during Zanu PF Mashonaland West youth league elections in Chinhoyi as party youths traded blows and threatened to kill each on Sunday.The elections, which had to be aband...Published: 26 Apr 2022 at 08:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's son pulls out of Zanu-PF youth race
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's son, Kudakwashe, has pulled out of the race for Zanu-PF top youth leadership posts at an elective party youth conference slated for next month in the capital.The...Published: 26 Apr 2022 at 08:30hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF youth conference fuels Mnangagwa, Chiwenga feud
THE Zanu-PF national youth conference slated for next month has reportedly renewed rivalry between factions aligned to President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his deputy, Constantino Chiwenga.The two...Published: 12 Apr 2022 at 06:33hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's son eyes top Zanu PF post
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's son, Kudakwashe David, has reportedly submitted his curriculum vitae to contest for a top post at the Zanu PF youth nationa...Published: 08 Apr 2022 at 00:20hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Zanu-PF bigwigs, securocrats line children up for Youth league posts
FOLLOWING speculation that the late former president Robert Mugabe's son, Robert Jnr, is set to contest for a position in the highly influential Zany PF youth league, party heavyweights and service ch...Published: 07 Apr 2022 at 06:42hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Robert Mugabe Jnr eyeing top Zanu-PF post'
THE Zanu-PF national youth leadership has extended the deadline for the submission of curriculum vitaes (CVs) to contest for its national youth executive to allegedly accommodate Robert Mugabe Jnr....Published: 07 Apr 2022 at 06:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa sucked into AFM factional fights
AFM in Zimbabwe president Bishop Amon Madawo has refuted claims he ordered Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa to leave the church and focus on politics.Madawo told NewZi...Published: 06 Apr 2022 at 20:40hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF resurrects youth conferences
THE ruling Zanu-PF party has announced plans to resume its national youth conferences eight years after the last indaba was held.Party youth secretary Tendai Chirau confirmed the development y...Published: 31 Mar 2022 at 08:54hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's party confident of victory
Zanu-PF is confident of snatching a number of seats from opposition political parties tomorrow when the country goes for by-elections in 28 constituencies and 122 wards.The by-elections are be...Published: 25 Mar 2022 at 05:53hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF Youth League to elect new leadership
Zanu-PF Youth league will hold the 7th National elective Youth Conference in May this year to elect its new leadership.The last youth conference was held in 2014.Speaking at a press co...Published: 18 Mar 2022 at 05:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
New power struggle rocks Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF
THE stage is set for a bruising turf war between Zanu-PF leader Emmerson Mnangagwa (pictured) and his ambitious deputy Constantino Chiwenga at the ruling party's annual conference to be held in Esigod...Published: 23 Nov 2018 at 06:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa turns to spiritual intervention as polls beckon
AS an old adage goes, when life turns tough, people turn to social scientists to get relief; and politicians are not spared in this regard. The impending elections have increased the tra...Published: 04 Jul 2018 at 07:10hrs | | by Elijah Chihota
Chamisa turns to spiritual intervention as elections beckons
The old adage states that when life goes tough people turn to social scientists to get relief. Politicians are not spared in this regard. The impending elections have increased the traffic of po...Published: 03 Jul 2018 at 12:10hrs | 3 | by Elijah Chihota
The Big Interview With Patson Dzamara
Tell me about Patson Dzamara the man from a village in Mutoko, how u grew up and relate with your family?I was born fouth in a family of six at All Soul...Published: 16 Oct 2017 at 19:07hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Activista Zimbabwe hold Inaugural Youth Conference
In line with Section 20 of the Zimbabwe Constitution and the Zimbabwe Youth Policy; that young people should participate in political, social, economic and cultural development of our country, ActionA...Published: 08 Jun 2017 at 18:34hrs | 2 | by Alfred Towo
Pair in sex during Walter Magaya service
LOVEBIRDS who engaged in sex during the PHD Youth Conference along Mukuvisi River were exposed by Prophet Walter Magaya on Friday.Blessing Madhingo, 24, of Borrowdale an...Published: 13 Mar 2017 at 15:46hrs | 4 | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa told to man up or sink
As Zanu-PF's seemingly intractable tribal, factional and succession wars approach a deadly climax, worried allies of under fire Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa have warned that the VP now risks ...Published: 15 Jan 2017 at 14:54hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Norman Mabhena: The honour and price of principle in Zimbabwe
After more than three decades since we attained independence from colonial rule in 1980, there is a steady depletion of the ranks of those who stood up to be counted without counting the cost to thems...Published: 09 Jul 2016 at 06:31hrs | 5 | by Dr. Strike Mkandla
Plot to expel Supa Mandiwanzira & Chinamasa from Zanu-PF fails
A PLOT to pass a vote-of-no confidence on minister of Information, Communication and Technology Supa Mandiwanzira and Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa during the Manicaland inter-youth district conf...Published: 15 Apr 2016 at 17:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Way into disgruntled Zanu PF member's head is through his stomach - Mugabe knows that too well!
The way to a man's heart is through his stomach! Many people would agree. The way into a disgruntled Zanu PF member's head is through his/her stomach! Anyone remotely familiar with Zimba...Published: 10 Dec 2015 at 19:44hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Chaos in Zanu-PF Youth League
THE Zanu-PF Mashonaland West Youth League has been turned into a theatre of confusion after ousted chairperson Vengai Musengi and his deputy Joseph Nyariri, yesterday turned the tables and passed a co...Published: 18 Nov 2015 at 05:04hrs | | by Tendai Mugabe
Mnangagwa faction in do-or-die campaign
Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa's faction is reported to be in a do-or-die campaign at grassroots level ahead of the conference after realising a faction dubbed Generation 40 (G40) was using First L...Published: 12 Nov 2015 at 05:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
'No to a flawed election,' says Zapu
THE Zimbabwe African Peoples Union (ZAPU) has said it does not fear to participate in any election held under flawed conditions, but will only participated when the polls are held in transparency...Published: 30 Mar 2015 at 14:01hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Mugabe confronts Mutasa over abused funds
Officials involved in corruption or caught abusing Government funds will not be spared jail, as they are depriving Zimbabwe of huge benefits, President Mugabe has said.He said this at the 29th...Published: 01 Mar 2015 at 11:34hrs | | by Levi Mukarati
'Are universities and institutions of learning training thieves?' - Mugabe fumes
91-year-old President Robert Mugabe has said officials involved in corruption or caught abusing Government funds will not be spared jail, as they are depriving the country of huge benefits.Mug...Published: 01 Mar 2015 at 07:41hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Democracy according to St Didymus, Cdes
Dear Cabinet andPolitburo membersCOMRADES, I know most of you cannot not help but laugh at the claim by former presidential affairs minister Cde Didymus Mutasa that he is still ZANU-PF's b...Published: 15 Jan 2015 at 08:30hrs | | by CZ
Prof Jonathan Moyo, Mnangagwa named in the 'Clean Dozen'
EXPELLED former Zanu-PF spokesperson Rugare Gumbo's claims that Zanu-PF has been hijacked by what he called a Gang of 4 mafikizolos (Johnnie-come-latelies) has no basis in reality according to invest...Published: 15 Jan 2015 at 05:23hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF workers to get bonuses
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe's cash-strapped Zanu-PF has pledged to pay all its workers' outstanding salaries and bonuses before year-end.This was revealed by newly-appointed Zanu-PF secretary for ...Published: 18 Dec 2014 at 13:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Draft resolutions of Zanu-PF's 6th National People's Congress
Introduction The Zimbabwe African National Union Patriotic Front (Zanu-PF) held its 6th National People's Congress in Harare, at the Robert Gabriel Muga...Published: 07 Dec 2014 at 08:13hrs | 4 | by Staff Reporter
Broke Zanu-PF owes over $11 million
ZANU PF is broke and owes creditors over $11 million as debts and other financial woes continue to mount for the ruling party, it has emerged.According to the Central Committee Report tabled b...Published: 06 Dec 2014 at 07:27hrs | | by Staff Reporter
'Nigel Chanakira, Kaukonde financing Mujuru's attempt to' topple Mugabe
It never rain but pours for President Mugabe's second in command, the state media on Sunday reported that a clique of businesspersons and companies - including Zanu-PF Mashonaland East provincial c...Published: 16 Nov 2014 at 06:23hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Grace Mugabe's mini 'unity accord' collapses
THE mini 'unity accord' effected by the First Lady, Grace Mugabe, between warring Zanu-PF Harare provincial chairman, Amos Midzi and provincial youth chair, Godwin Gomwe, at her "Meet the People" rall...Published: 31 Oct 2014 at 07:11hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Joice Mujuru is corrupt and incompetent,' says Grace Mugabe
The First Lady Dr Grace Mugabe said because of corrupt tendencies and gross incompetence, Vice President Joice Mujuru was not fit to succeed President Mugabe.Addressing thousands of war vetera...Published: 24 Oct 2014 at 12:22hrs | 1 | by Farirai Machivenyika and Felex Share
Mujuru tried to 'bribe' Grace Mugabe with $10,000
FIRST Lady Grace Mugabe yesterday said Vice President Joice Mujuru did not deserve a day longer in office because she was corrupt and incompetent.Mujuru had risen beyond her capabilities and s...Published: 24 Oct 2014 at 04:32hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa's associates exposed as Grace Mugabe backers
FIRST Lady Grace Mugabe's ongoing countrywide rallies have exposed the group that is behind her comprising high-ranking Zanu-PF party officials aligned to Justice minister Emmerson Mnangagwa's factio...Published: 18 Oct 2014 at 21:48hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Mujuru ouster no answer to Zanu-PF factionalism'
A possible elevation of First Lady Grace Mugabe or Oppah Muchinguri as the new vice-President at the forthcoming Zanu PF congress will not decimate a faction linked to VP Joice Mujuru, nor resolve the...Published: 18 Oct 2014 at 07:03hrs | | by Phillip Chidavaenzi
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