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Chamisa battles open rebellion
A REBELLION in the MDC-Alliance led councils over imposition of mayoral candidates has gone out of hand forcing the party's leader Mr Nelson Chamisa, who is being labelled a dictator, to summon all co...Published: 2 hrs ago | 268 | by Staff reporter
Dabengwa ditches Chamisa, endorses Mnangagwa?
ZAPU president Dr Dumiso Dabengwa has endorsed President Emmerson Mnangagwa and called on Zimbabweans to accept his Government which he said was on the right path by implementing devolution. T...Published: 2 hrs ago | 468 | by Staff reporter
Deal decisively with Parly delinquents
Mr Speaker, SirIt is high time that Parliament's Committee on Rules and Standing Orders asserts its authority in ensuring that legislators respect State institutions and the Constitution, whic...Published: 3 hrs ago | 98 | by Zvamaida Murwira
Chipanga appeal thrown out
EFFORTS by expelled former Zanu-PF youth leader Kudzai Chipanga to be readmitted into the party suffered a blow on Sunday after the Manicaland provincial executive committee (PEC) threw out his appeal...Published: 3 hrs ago | 271 | by Staff reporter
'Chamisa must not waste time fighting Mnangagwa'
Newly-appointed Minister of State for Masvingo Provincial Affairs Ezra Chadzamira has called for unity in the province, saying there was need to end "political dogfights" and focus on development. ...Published: 3 hrs ago | 701 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's party rejoins Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF
The Ambrose Mutinhiri-led National Patriotic Front has disbanded and its officials are rejoining Zanu-PF after realising that the events that led to the removal of the Robert Mugabe-led government in ...Published: 3 hrs ago | 1047 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa fortifies his political power
President Emmerson Mnangagwa moved to consolidate his power yesterday when he appointed his longtime confidante and loyalist Owen "Mudha" Ncube as the country's new State Security minister.He ...Published: 20 hrs ago | 5279 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF Manicaland supporters demand Madiro ouster
SCORES of Zanu PF supporters in Manicaland yesterday stormed the provincial party headquarters in Mutare, demanding the election of a new executive to replace the current one led by Mike Madiro....Published: 20 Sep 2018 at 06:52hrs | 382 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa in embarrassing climbdown
MDC-Alliance leader Mr Nelson Chamisa has reportedly been forced to reverse his decision to fire newly-elected Masvingo mayor Advocate Collins Maboke from his post after residents in the country's old...Published: 20 Sep 2018 at 06:42hrs | 13696 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: Minister of Foreign Affairs SB Moyo ‘hospitalised’
There are unconfirmed reports that Minister of Foreign Affairs SB Moyo has been hospitalised at the Avenues Clinic in Harare.According to some social media claims, Moyo is allegedly suffering ...Published: 20 Sep 2018 at 05:57hrs | 10420 | by Stephen Jakes
Court defers ruling on Nduna's Chegutu West win
The verdict in the Electoral Court challenge to newly-sworn-in legislator Dexter Nduna (Zanu-PF) accused by MDC Alliance rival Gift Konjana of stealing the Chegutu West National Assembly seat was post...Published: 19 Sep 2018 at 13:05hrs | 1909 | by Staff reporter
Pomp and fanfare as new Parly opens
THE official opening of the First Session of the Ninth Parliament saw President Mnangagwa delivering his maiden State of the Nation Address following his election on July 30. It was pomp and f...Published: 19 Sep 2018 at 07:04hrs | 194 | by Staff reporter
'MDC Alliance walkout on Mnangagwa backfired spectacularly,' says Charamba
IN a show of political immaturity, MDC Alliance legislators yesterday blew more than $200 000 in accommodation, fuel, meals and sitting allowances to play political games by walking out during the off...Published: 19 Sep 2018 at 06:46hrs | 4672 | by Staff reporter
Trial date for 27 Chamisa backers set
The trial of 27 MDC-Alliance supporters - who reportedly went on a rampage, destroying property, torching vehicles, blocking roads and attacking people in Harare's central business district (CBD) - is...Published: 19 Sep 2018 at 06:39hrs | 251 | by Staff reporter
Mnanagwa's turning point
PRAGMATISM. That could be the word we were looking for to describe President Mnangagwa's approach and philosophy as he conducts business as leader of both Zanu-PF - the ruling party - and Government. ...Published: 19 Sep 2018 at 06:34hrs | 2647 | by Tichaona Zindoga
MDC-Alliance's infantile stunt self-defeating
ON our equivalent of 9/11, that is September 11, 1999, the MDC was launched in Harare by a combination of Western powers, white commercial farmers and industrialists opposed to Zanu-PF's decision to a...Published: 19 Sep 2018 at 06:33hrs | 287 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa says no to return of Zimdollar
According to Zimbabwe's new president, conditions are not yet right for foreign currencies to be replaced by the Zimbabwean dollar.Zimbabwe's new president on Tuesday ruled out an early return...Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 19:37hrs | 10733 | by AFP
Zanu-PF expels 'rogue' party member
The ruling Zanu-PF has expelled Talent Kadzima who stood as an independent candidate in the Nyanga South National Assembly elections.Kadzima, defied the party and stood as an independent candi...Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 16:34hrs | 1800 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa weighs option to contest Mutoko North by-election
The Nelson Chamisa-led MDC, which alleged electoral fraud in the July 30 general election, said yesterday it would consult its rank-and-file membership over a decision to contest in the upcoming Mutok...Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 16:34hrs | 3993 | by Staff reporter
Outrage over govt spending
Zimbabweans have expressed outrage over the government's poor planning and unnecessary expenditure at the expense of preventing medieval diseases like cholera, which has so far claimed the lives of at...Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 16:30hrs | 542 | by Staff reporter
The truth behind Team Pachedu
Once upon a time, there was a source with credible information online. It started as a mysterious micro-blog, but their simple numbers were objectively verifiable. Even though no one really knew who t...Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 11:56hrs | 3204 | by Anthony Mkondo
38 years of Zanu PF tyranny has sucked all marrow out of life - We are living dead
"Insanity," said the great Physicist Albert Einstein "in doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result" Talk of insanity and one immediately thinks of the mental patien...Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 08:28hrs | 2898 | by Wilbert Mukori
'Mnangagwa is a dog' man set free by court
A BULAWAYO magistrate on Monday freed commuter omnibus driver David Ndlovu who had been arrested for insulting President Emmerson Mnangagwa.Ndlovu was arrested on earlier this year for calling...Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 07:33hrs | 3255 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe economy on the mend
Zimbabweans have entered the most anxious week. The new cabinet flew into a cholera crisis and from nowhere prices sky rocketed and rates came to obnoxious stinking levels. Mthuli Ncube's first week i...Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 07:32hrs | 2691 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
MDC plans to embarrass Mnangagwa today
Opposition legislators are planning to humiliate President Emmerson Mnangagwa when he presents SONA in Parliament today, as the Nelson Chamisa led MDC Alliance continues to refuse to accept his July 3...Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 07:15hrs | 1924 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF structures making Mnangagwa unpopular in Manicaland
WAR veterans in Manicaland are up in arms against the Zanu-PF provincial leadership, accusing the executive of making party leader President Emmerson Mnangagwa unpopular in the province.Alread...Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 07:11hrs | 698 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa alliance victory leaves Zanu-PF divided in Chiredzi
The election of an MDC Alliance councillor and an independent as chairman and deputy chair of Chiredzi Town Council has left the ruling Zanu-PF party deeply divided.Zanu-PF won resoundingly al...Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 07:08hrs | 1110 | by Staff reporter
Driving policies towards Vision 2030
Zimbabwe has a new socio-political order. This has been dubbed the Second Republic, which is under the new dispensation. A new national policy is being crafted and hopefully will soon be unveiled. ...Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 06:29hrs | 190 | by Nick Mangwana
Mnangagwa to deliver SONA, set agenda
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa is today expected to deliver his first State of the National Address (SONA) and officially open the first session of the Ninth Parliament during which he will set the legislative a...Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 06:20hrs | 206 | by Staff reporter
'MDC council, govt should work together'
MDC Alliance-controlled local authorities are not autonomous to government and pushing for absolute independence would place them on collision course with the ministry of Local Government, an official...Published: 17 Sep 2018 at 14:15hrs | 1184 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa and his VPs urged to declare assets
President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his two deputies - Constantino Chiwenga and Kembo Mohadi - have been urged to publicly declare their assets in order to demonstrate their commitment to fighting corrup...Published: 17 Sep 2018 at 14:11hrs | 1753 | by Staff reporter
Raj Modi lobbies govt to work from Bulawayo instead of Harare
Zimbabwe's new deputy minister of Industry and Commerce, Raj Modi has requested government to allow him to work from Bulawayo instead of Harare.Bulawayo businessperson and Sai Enterprises...Published: 17 Sep 2018 at 10:54hrs | 4996 | by Staff writer
Mnangagwa side-lines Ncube
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's recent cabinet and party appointments featured curious inclusions and exclusions.After taking over power late last year following a military backed intervention ...Published: 17 Sep 2018 at 08:35hrs | 15898 | by Staff reporter
Chombo's trial postponed
FORMER Finance minister Ignatius Chombo's fraud trial was last week postponed pending a High Court's decision on an application challenging his arrest.Through his lawyer, Chombo applied for a ...Published: 17 Sep 2018 at 08:33hrs | 1238 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa courts fired Zanu-PF rebels
Zanu-PF has extended an olive branch to former party cadres who were sacked between 2014 and last year. Among those invited back into the party are Rugare Gumbo, Didymus Mutasa, Ray Kaukonde, ...Published: 17 Sep 2018 at 07:48hrs | 13392 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa now talking dialogue
OPPOSITION MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has called on President Emmerson Mnangagwa to "come to the negotiating table" or face the real prospect of driving the country down the abyss.In a...Published: 17 Sep 2018 at 07:19hrs | 7730 | by Staff reporter
Obert Mpofu offered to step down
ZANU-PF Secretary for Administration Dr Obert Mpofu yesterday said he volunteered to relinquish his Senatorial position to pave way for Cain Mathema following his appointment as Minister of Home Affai...Published: 17 Sep 2018 at 07:18hrs | 5643 | by Staff reporter
Govt implored to ratify African laws on democracy
HUMAN rights lawyers have implored government to ratify and domesticate provisions of the African Charter that deals with democracy, elections and good governance in order to end the trauma of dispute...Published: 17 Sep 2018 at 07:17hrs | 261 | by Staff reporter
'Zanu-PF committed to human rights'
JUSTICE minister Ziyambi Ziyambi, who served as President Emmerson Mnangagwa's chief elections agent in the July 30 poll, last week met with NewsDay reporter Blessed Mhlanga for an interview where he ...Published: 17 Sep 2018 at 07:15hrs | 489 | by Staff reporter
I regret joining Tendai Biti
FORMER vice-president of the Joice Mujuru-led National People's Party Samuel Sipepa Nkomo says his political career, spanning nearly six decades, had so many ups and downs, but the lowest dip was when...Published: 17 Sep 2018 at 07:13hrs | 5883 | by Staff reporter
Zivhu calls for probe into cash vending
CHIVI SOUTH legislator Killer Zivhu (Zanu-PF) feels the government and the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) must investigate circumstances resulting in the current cash crisis in the formal banking syst...Published: 17 Sep 2018 at 07:10hrs | 1359 | by Staff reporter
Residents attack MDC Alliance mayor over cholera remarks
THE Zimbabwe Combined Residents and Ratepayers' Association has chided newly-appointed Harare mayor Herbert Gomba for making "inflammatory and reckless statements" after the latter blamed central gove...Published: 17 Sep 2018 at 07:08hrs | 751 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa' Alliance welcomes devolution amendments
NELSON Chamisa's opposition MDC Alliance party yesterday warmed up to government plans to amend the Constitution to allow for easier implementation of devolution.The party's shadow local gover...Published: 17 Sep 2018 at 07:06hrs | 704 | by Staff reporter
Letter to Nelson 'Mischief' Chamisa
Dear Mr Chamisa First, greetings from the cotton tuft-haired elders in the land of milk, honey and dust or Guruve. Admittedly, this is the first time that the council of Karitundundu, the agel...Published: 17 Sep 2018 at 06:53hrs | 3274 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF Youth League compiles national skills data base for jobless youths
THE Zanu-PF Youth League has started compiling a national database for youths containing qualifications or acquired skills to help them get employment. The project is outlined in the league's ...Published: 17 Sep 2018 at 06:50hrs | 150 | by Staff reporter
War vets cry foul over 'purge'
Mashonaland East Provincial War Veterans chairperson Daniel Sigauke has expressed concern over the ouster of their members from key positions in the ruling party's provincial structures. Membe...Published: 17 Sep 2018 at 06:45hrs | 428 | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai's MDC relives the spirit of 1999
The Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) is for the first time celebrating its anniversary in the absence of its charismatic founding leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, who died in February this year and effo...Published: 16 Sep 2018 at 13:39hrs | 2679 | by Staff reporter
Hefty perks for Obert Mpofu and other fired old gurad
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has thrown a lifeline to his fellow comrades-in-arms whom he dropped from his Cabinet more than a week ago by giving them plum jobs at the Zanu-PF headquarters, complete w...Published: 16 Sep 2018 at 13:37hrs | 6447 | by Staff reporter
Small political parties likely to collapse before the next polls in 2023
A number of opposition political parties are likely to collapse before the next polls in 2023 primarily as a result of lack of funding and their failure to gain traction at the just-ended polls....Published: 16 Sep 2018 at 13:36hrs | 907 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube's mission impossible?
While everyone in President Emmerson Mnangagwa's Cabinet is expected to hit the ground running, it is Finance minister Mthuli Ncube who has the most difficult mission to accomplish.Mnangagwa r...Published: 16 Sep 2018 at 13:34hrs | 2315 | by Staff reporter
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