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Over 1,000 national youth service graduates offered govt jobs
The Zimbabwean government has confirmed that over a thousand graduates from the controversial National Youth Service programme are set to be absorbed into public institutions, sparking fresh debate ov...Published: 09 Apr 2025 at 22:02hrs | 409 | by Staff reporter
Let's promote patriotism and not a personality cult in Zimbabwe
The Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) has increasingly alienated its audience by subjecting the few remaining viewers and listeners to relentless propaganda promoting President Emmerson Mnangagw...Published: 14 Dec 2024 at 10:17hrs | 59 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
CCC MP says ZBC license fees should be scrapped
Prince Dubeko Sibanda, the Binga North legislator representing the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC), has called for the abolishment of Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) license fees. Sibanda ...Published: 30 Sep 2023 at 20:54hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
ANC engaged in 'delicate' talks with Zanu-PF after disputed poll
South Africa's ruling party, the African National Congress (ANC), is engaged in "delicate" talks with Zanu-PF in Zimbabwe following disputed elections, secretary general Fikile Mbalula has said....Published: 05 Sep 2023 at 22:04hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
ZBC claims it is giving open and fair coverage to different political parties
Under fire state-controlled Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) - which has since 1980 been a partisan Zanu-PF propaganda mouthpiece - claims it is giving open and fair coverage to different polit...Published: 26 Jul 2023 at 19:39hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's CCC slams Information Deputy minister's lies
OPPOSITION Citizens Coalition for Change has described the coverage of this year's elections by State media as unconstitutional, biased, manipulated and unjustifiably skewed in favor of the ruling par...Published: 26 Jul 2023 at 06:44hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Al Jazeera exposé signals doom for Zimbabwe
GOOD day President Emmerson Mnangagwa,Your Excellency, it is my fervent conviction that the Al Jazeera four-part documentary, whose first edition Gold Mafia: The Laundry Service was premiered ...Published: 29 Mar 2023 at 06:58hrs | | by Cyprian M Ndawana
Our football needs a facelift
The current political environment in the country coupled with poor socio-economic performance have adversely affected the most watched beautiful game of football.Football is art and business. ...Published: 03 Nov 2022 at 14:47hrs | 1 | by Leonard Koni
Uproar over directive forcing Grade 7s to continue reporting to school after exams
PARENTS and teachers are livid over the Ministry of Secondary and Primary Education's directive compelling Grade Seven pupils to continue coming to school after completing writing their final examinat...Published: 18 Oct 2022 at 06:13hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF influence in ZBC programming, coverage is a myth, claims Information ministry
THE ministry of information has disputed claims the ruling Zanu-PF has a direct hand in programming at State broadcaster, ZBC, and said opposition parties invited by the institution do not respond pos...Published: 13 Jul 2022 at 07:25hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Reports of Zanu-PF defeat in 2023 polls are tad premature
SEVERAL Zimbabwe commentators have interpreted recent by-elections as raising the possibility that Zanu-PF's 42-year-long grip on power is loosening and, come the 2023 general elections, opposition le...Published: 16 Apr 2022 at 08:34hrs | 12 | by Derek Matyszak
Social media - A vehicle for change
The social media has made it easy to connect to our family members, political leaders, friends and relatives on a real-time basis....Published: 03 Mar 2022 at 23:03hrs | 12 | by Leonard Koni
'Ngaapinde hake mukomana' slogan has caused panic in Zanu-PF
Those who may not be aware of this slogan, must be living under a rock somewhere out of Earth. Well, the phrase is ngaapinde hake mukomana (NHM), a slogan recently introduced by the MDC Alliance led b...Published: 23 Dec 2021 at 05:44hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa UK trip meets with protests
SCORES of Zimbabweans based in Glasgow, Scotland yesterday demonstrated against President Emmerson Mnangagwa who is currently attending the United Nations (UN) COP26 Climate Summit in that country, ac...Published: 02 Nov 2021 at 18:29hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
UN envoy flies into Zanu-PF, MDC Alliance war
UNITED Nations (UN) special rapporteur, Alena Douhan, who arrives in the country today to assess the impact of sanctions on Zimbabwe, flies into a storm with the ruling Zanu-PF party and the oppositio...Published: 18 Oct 2021 at 06:32hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Opposition must remove fear in rural voters
THE 2023 polls, which both Zanu-PF and MDC Alliance desperately need to win, will be determined by the rural vote.With the majority of people generally resident in rural areas, Zanu-PF has dev...Published: 13 Oct 2021 at 06:13hrs | 3 | by Taneta Fambai
'More Zimbabweans face deportation from UK'
UNITED KINGDOM-BASED human rights organisation, the Zimbabwe Community Appeal Group (ZCAG), says more Zimbabweans are set to be deported from that country, some of them without criminal history....Published: 28 Jul 2021 at 07:52hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Varakashi: New agents of terrorism
THERE'S a big, big omen of nasty things to come. The Zanu-PF government wants to revive the Green Bombers.You will remember the youth training programme at the turn of the new millennium....Published: 18 Apr 2021 at 09:25hrs | 2 | by Tawanda Majoni
Mnangagwa's govt approves return of 'green bombers'
CABINET Tuesday agreed to the reintroduction of the suspended National Youth Service Training Programme, whose graduates have been linked to acts of terror on mostly opposition supporters at the behes...Published: 13 Apr 2021 at 19:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Zanu-PF printing MDC cards, regalia'
THE MDC Alliance has sensationally accused the ruling Zanu-PF party of printing opposition party membership cards and regalia and parading defectors before "rented crowds" as part of a wider plot to a...Published: 29 Mar 2021 at 06:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's lawyer charged over tweet critical of Zanu-PF propaganda video
Prominent Harare lawyer Advocate Thabani Mpofu was arrested on Tuesday accused of obstructing the course of justice over a tweet published in September.Mpofu attended Harare Central Police sta...Published: 29 Dec 2020 at 17:31hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
US raises concern over Biti arrest
THE United States embassy in Harare has expressed concern over the arrest of MDC Alliance vice-president Tendai Biti in connection with an alleged assault of a Russian woman.Biti was arrested ...Published: 06 Dec 2020 at 23:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF emerges biggest winner in major scandal
THE ruling Zanu-PF, which thrives on a chokehold grip on airwaves to win elections by hook or crook, has emerged as the biggest winner in the controversial awarding of six new free-to-air licences to ...Published: 29 Nov 2020 at 19:28hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
'I'm Christian, we're all fallen people' said Coltart - feeble excuse for 20 years of betrayal, Judas repented
"The one central tenet of the Christian faith is that we are all fallen people," said David Coltart, MDC treasurer general."We have our weaknesses, but it also helped me understand some of my ...Published: 19 Aug 2019 at 15:53hrs | 1 | by Nomusa Garikai
Anger over Sadc, AU silence on Zimbabwe
The silence by the African Union (AU) and the Southern African Development Community (Sadc) on the on-going human rights abuses in Zimbabwe has drawn widespread condemnation from critics and neutrals ...Published: 13 Feb 2019 at 09:13hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa blasts Charamba
MDC Alliance presidential candidate Nelson Chamisa has slammed Information, Media and Broadcasting Services permanent secretary George Charamba for allegedly converting public media into a Zanu-PF pro...Published: 24 Jul 2018 at 10:08hrs | | by Staff repprter
MDC Alliance breaking election rules
A top opposition party official has just equated rival party members to cockroaches that must be crushed and exterminated. The party's leader and presidential candidate has openly declared that he wil...Published: 13 Jul 2018 at 06:59hrs | 1 | by Tichaona Zindoga
Propaganda won't affect Chamisa, says Carter
MDC senator Michael Carter has said he is optimistic that MDC Alliance president Nelson Chamisa will rise above all the negative machinations by his opponents.According to NewZimbabwe.com, Car...Published: 07 Jun 2018 at 15:16hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Born Free Crew dumps Mugabe
IF there is anything that the State broadcaster, Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC), has always been disliked for by many, it is the way it is often used as a channel for Zanu-PF propaganda and h...Published: 14 Apr 2018 at 12:09hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
2018 elections: ZBC under spotlight
As the 2018 harmonised elections loom, the public media and in particular ZBC has come under the spotlight as it is being called to be fair when covering political parties contesting in the poll....Published: 12 Feb 2018 at 09:44hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa scoffs at Zanu-PF sanctions propaganda
MDC-T deputy president, Nelson Chamisa has dismissed as Zanu-PF propaganda reports that the MDC Alliance was in the United States to beg for an extension of sanctions, saying as the alternative and go...Published: 17 Dec 2017 at 07:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
OpenView HD a hit in Zimbabwe
MORE television viewers who were used to MultiChoice's DStv service appear to have found solace in the OpenView HD, a free-to-air satellite TV service meant for the South African market that provides ...Published: 15 Sep 2017 at 06:44hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi Origins: Myth and reality, part 1 - 'war' in Bulawayo, 1980-1
The so-called Entumbane disturbances of November 1980 and February 1981, during which Robert Mugabe's guerrilla army fought that of his nationalist rival, Joshua Nkomo, are typically cited as among th...Published: 02 Aug 2017 at 08:00hrs | 1 | by Stuart Doran
Zanu-PF captures State
With the 2018 elections on the horizon, Zanu-PF seems to have captured key institutions like Zimbabwe Election Commission (ZEC), ZBC, police and army among others that can aid it to win the elections....Published: 01 Jun 2017 at 11:42hrs | | by Maxwell Sibanda
Mnangagwa's command agriculture: A ploy for the 2018 elections
ZANU-PF has been successful in exploiting and suppressing Zimbabweans for nearly four decades because the nation has always been blindsided by the ruling party's divide and rule tactics.In ord...Published: 24 May 2017 at 18:02hrs | 2 | by The Solutions Tower Staff
Opposition crowded out
MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai says he will not accept defeat, or will reject it, if he loses next year's harmonised elections. That's his own look out. Recent surveys show that Zanu-PF and President ...Published: 12 May 2017 at 05:59hrs | | by Joram Nyathi
2013 promises haunt Zanu-PF
As the watershed 2018 national polls beckon, President Robert Mugabe's warring ruling Zanu-PF is in a big quandary about what to say on account of its dismal failure to deliver on any of its 2013 ...Published: 26 Mar 2017 at 14:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
I will NOT 'reverse land reform' promises Tsvangirai whilst offering looters more freebies
The land issue is a big issue in Zimbabwe and how competently and quickly the matter is dealt with will determine how efficiently and quickly the national economic recovery will take place. There is a...Published: 07 Dec 2016 at 21:04hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
Tsvangirai vows to fix Mugabe's land reform disaster
Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai says as poorly-executed as the country's fast- track land reforms of 2000 were, he will not reverse them if he wins the eagerly-anticipated 2018 national electi...Published: 07 Dec 2016 at 13:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Without electoral reforms, 2018 elections will be a farce
At the very centre of Zimbabwe's political challenges over the past few decades has been the failure by the country to hold free, fair and credible elections that can successfully pass the test of leg...Published: 15 Aug 2016 at 11:42hrs | | by Obert Gutu
'Frail' Tsvangirai roars back
Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai will lead from the front in the planned Mutare MDC demonstration next week - the party's third major such mass action in as many months - against President Robert M...Published: 16 Jun 2016 at 14:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Jolly Tsvangirai back, raring to go
Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai is back in Zimbabwe itching to get back to work as soon as possible following his medical operation in Johannesburg two weeks ago.Speaking to the Daily ...Published: 05 Jun 2016 at 21:17hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Rallies expose empty Tsvangirai, Mujuru
Rallies held over the weekend by MDC-T and Zimbabwe People First (ZPF) leaders respectively, have done nothing but expose the two opposition parties for shallow entities devoid of any new ideas that t...Published: 23 Mar 2016 at 05:36hrs | 1 | by Nicole Hondo
Mujuru party intensifies campaign
The Zimbabwe People First (ZimPF) yesterday held an incident-free rally in Harare after last weekend's meeting was disrupted by Zanu-PF supporters.ZimPF's rally in Glen View last weekend ended...Published: 20 Mar 2016 at 09:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Cheap media, cheap politics?
Something that appeared on one news website yesterday really got us to ponder: have the media become so cheap to the extent that it has become easy for the exploitation by characters of all colours an...Published: 19 Mar 2016 at 11:09hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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It's Tsvangirai's bed, he lies on it!
We were back this week again to the familiar Morgan Tsvangirai and women story. Some photos circulated on social media in which the opposition leader was pictured with skimpily clad women and in the t...Published: 27 Feb 2016 at 12:45hrs | | by Staff writer
MDC-T to set up its radio, TV stations
THE MDC-T is mulling establishing its own radio and TV stations to counter Zanu-PF hegemony in the public media, officials have claimed.Last week the party relaunched its monthly newsletter Re...Published: 21 Nov 2015 at 16:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Mujuru expulsion marks Zanu-PF's demise'
Former Zanu-PF provincial spokesperson (Masvingo) and Zimbabwe National Liberation Army (Zanla) political commissar - Retired Lt. Colonel Kudzai Sevias Mbudzi believes his former party is headed for d...Published: 16 Nov 2015 at 13:05hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe - From bread basket to beg basket
THOSE of us who grew up in Rhodesia knew from an early age that the foundational pillars of the strength of the Rhodesian economy lay in agriculture, mining and manufacturing.So strong was Rho...Published: 29 Aug 2015 at 13:36hrs | | by Welshman Ncube
Masses at Tsvangirai's rally proves it is not out of ignorance
.... they learnt naught from past mistakes!Someone once said a fool is the person who will try the same thing expecting a different result again and aga...Published: 10 Mar 2015 at 07:15hrs | 2 | by Wilbert Mukori
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