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Mnangagwa sons 'grab' local showbiz

THE ruling Zanu-PF has intensified its capture of the creative arts industry, which plays a pivotal role of social commentary, by placing many artistes under the party wings.This comes after President Emmerson Mnangagwa's sons Sean and Emm…

Published: 20 Aug 2023 at 09:29hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter

Burna Boy refused Zanu-PF offers of money to wear scarf

NIGERIAN superstar Burna Boy Friday refused offers of money to wear the Zanu-PF scarf as an endorsement of the party, it has emerged.The Grammy award winning Burna Boy was to perform for an hour at a filled-to-capacity Belgravia sports clu…

Published: 04 Jun 2022 at 19:59hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

Yellow Skies Rally took many by storm

Speculations had predicted a low turn up of supporters at the Citizen's Coalition for Change Rally that was held in Bulawayo on the 5th of March 2022. There was a talk about a general political detachment and reluctance that seemed to have…

Published: 21 Mar 2022 at 10:24hrs | 2 | by Nontokozo Malaba Ncube

Zanu-PF thugs turned yellow Kwekwe rally bloody red

On Sunday the 27th of February 2022, Zimbabwe's main opposition party Citizens' Coalition for Change held a rally in Kwekwe town which saw a huge attendance by thousands of ecstatically cheering supporters. CCC's resounding stature has gro…

Published: 05 Mar 2022 at 17:08hrs | 14 | by Nontokozo Malaba Ncube

Citizens' new hope for a New Great Zimbabwe

In the last quarter of 2021, it seemed as though the political arena of Zimbabwe was hopeless due to the enemy-fuelled split in the main opposition party. The turning of the tables was hatched overnight, and none could see it coming, not e…

Published: 28 Feb 2022 at 08:51hrs | 7 | by Nontokozo Malaba Ncube

Years of teacher tears

Over the years, the Zanu PF regime's response to teachers' grievances has been lip service from a place of lack of concern and a mere want to get the impoverished teachers back to work. Beginning of this year, we saw teachers facing brutal…

Published: 12 Feb 2022 at 08:31hrs | 3 | by Nontokozo Malaba Ncube

MDC Alliance ladies charm Thandie Newton

Veteran English actress Melanie Thandiwe Newton has hailed the MDC Alliance Youth leaders Joana Mamombe and Cecilia Chimbiri for reaching out to rural areas to mobilise young people to register to vote in the coming 2023 elections. Poastin…

Published: 05 Oct 2021 at 15:07hrs | 13 | by Mandla Ndlovu

$60 million windfall to Mwonzora gives away Mnangagwa's game plan

THE swift allocation of funds under the Political Parties Finance Act to the Douglas Mwonzora-led MDC- T by the government clearly reveals the aim by President Emmerson Mnangagwa's ruling Zanu-PF to decimate the MDC Alliance led by Nelson …

Published: 06 Sep 2021 at 06:52hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter

Ngarivhume petitions Parliament over electoral reforms

TRANSFORM Zimbabwe president Jacob Ngarivhume, who organised the world famous #31July Movement last year, has petitioned the parliament to expeditiously implement  electoral reforms and address the issue of human rights violation urge…

Published: 20 Aug 2021 at 07:06hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwean heroes died for nothing, says SA white party experiment

SOUTH African opposition politician Mmusi Maimane yesterday said Zimbabwean heroes who sacrificed their lives during and after the liberation struggle, should be turning in their graves over the way the country was being destroyed by corru…

Published: 11 Aug 2021 at 06:38hrs | | by Staff reporter

Ramaphosa's SA remains concerned over Zimbabwe's worsening political situation

ZIMBABWE'S new foreign minister arrived in South Africa on Friday, his first official visit to the country since taking up his position.Frederick Shava met with International Relations and Cooperation Minister Naledi Pandor in Cape Town."I…

Published: 22 May 2021 at 07:58hrs | | by Staff reporter

Mangwana fumes as Zanu-PF youth leader shows up 'inappropriately dressed' to meet Mnangagwa

INFORMATION Ministry secretary Nick Mangwana has warned people coming to State House to meet President Emmerson Mnangagwa to be respectful and sharply dressed.His counsel follows a recent photo that shows Zanu-PF Mashonaland West youth lea…

Published: 10 May 2021 at 08:14hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

Mamombe deserves justice, not mercy

BRITISH actress Melanie Thandiwe Newton Parker has found her voice. For more than 30 years, she has been known as Thandie Newton, an anglicised version of her name. The missing "w" was dropped carelessly from her first acting credit, she s…

Published: 30 Apr 2021 at 06:45hrs | | by Staff reporter

Top MDC Alliance leader left for dead

MDC Alliance national chairperson Thabitha Khumalo was attacked by two armed men who brazenly broke into her Bulawayo home yesterday and severely assaulted her using a knobkerrie before stabbing her.Khumalo, a former Bulawayo East legislat…

Published: 07 Mar 2021 at 07:51hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter

Thabitha Khumalo attacked at her home

MDC Alliance National Chairperson, Thabitha Khumalo, was, Saturday morning,  attacked by two armed men who brazenly broke into Saurcestown home in Bulawayo, severely beat her knees, head using a knobkerrie and stabbed her right hand.T…

Published: 06 Mar 2021 at 13:56hrs | | by Staff reporter

Who will replace SB Moyo?

ZIMBABWE is a landlocked nation which relies heavily on its sisters in the SADC region.To the East Zim has Mozambique. A troubled neighbour who happens to be dealing with a growing insurgency in the north and to the west.Islamic Insurgents…

Published: 03 Feb 2021 at 17:26hrs | 2 | by John Mbizvo

Mahere tests positive for COVID-19

MDC Alliance spokesperson Fadzayi Mahere has confirmed that she tested positive for COVID-19. This comes two days after being released from remand at Chikurubi Maximum Prison on Monday. She announced, "Despite having been in an "isolation …

Published: 20 Jan 2021 at 08:15hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

A bad-bye to a bad year

Arsenal's emphatic win over Chelsea at the Emirates stadium on Boxing day lifted my spirits in a tenuous and gloomy year in which the despondent people of this country were boxed down mainly by the twin evils of a global pandemic and an in…

Published: 01 Jan 2021 at 19:08hrs | 2 | by Luke Tamborinyoka

Is the MDC burying its head in the sand?

The piece by former Zanu-PF elections strategist Jonathan Moyo chronicling the missed opportunities by the opposition in the political history of Zimbabwe has once again raised debate on the state of opposition politics in Zimbabwe.The pie…

Published: 20 Dec 2020 at 07:21hrs | 1 | by Karsten Noko

Zimbabwe's deepening human rights crisis under the cover of lockdown

The outbreak of the coronavirus in Africa has exerted social, economic, political, health and environmental challenges on a continent that was already on its knees.These challenges thus pose a threat to democracy, human rights and rule of …

Published: 20 Dec 2020 at 07:19hrs | 3 | by Sitabile Dewa

'Zim prison, a crime against humanity' twittered Biti, prisoner - true all because selling out on reforms

Tendai Biti, MDC A vice President, has been arrested and will spend Friday night in a Police Prison. He is charged with assault, after calling a Russian woman an idiot.Biti has denied any wrong doing and claims the arrest is to stop him an…

Published: 05 Dec 2020 at 00:04hrs | 2 | by Patrick Guramatunhu

Securocrats scale up surveillance

THE State security establishment is reportedly planning to track and attack perceived opponents of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's regime, with local and foreign based journalists, ex-security officers, ex-Zanu-PF and opposition politicians…

Published: 23 Oct 2020 at 08:39hrs | | by Staff reporter

Zimbabweans on Twitter show Jah Prayzah the middle finger

Award winning superstar Jah prayzah had a rude awakening after Zimbabweans on Twitter snubbed his appeal to vote for him at the African Entertainment Awards USA Entertainer of the year category. "Team JP your support for the works is being…

Published: 08 Oct 2020 at 11:11hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu

Chamisa requests Zimbabweans to pray for Joana Mamombe

MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has urged Zimbabweans to pray for jailed MDC MP Joana Mamombe and other political prisoners who are languishing in prison. In a  Twitter post on Saturday, Chamisa said, "Fellow citizens, Let us stand…

Published: 26 Sep 2020 at 11:06hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu

Mnangagwa slams door on Ramaphosa

PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has ruled out allowing a delegation from South Africa to meet his critics, including opposition parties and civic organisations, slamming the door on efforts by the neighbouring country to negotiate an end to t…

Published: 17 Sep 2020 at 06:14hrs | 5 | 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 initiate dialogue to resolve Zimbabwe's pol…

Published: 16 Sep 2020 at 06:29hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

Fake abductions: New tool for regime change

Politics and the desire for power can be so consuming. The regime change agenda, which dates to two decades ago, has been so vitriolic, stymied the developmental agenda, lately making Zimbabwe a household name on social media platforms thr…

Published: 14 Sep 2020 at 06:33hrs | 3 | by Emmanuel Murema

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 violent clampdown on the July 31 citizen…

Published: 12 Sep 2020 at 13:03hrs | 3 | by Sikhululekile Mashingaidze

Fake abduction: a new tool for regime change

Politics and the desire for power can be so consuming. The regime change ideological rhetoric which dates two decades ago, has been so vitriolic, so illocal and so ominous to the developmental agenda and has made Zimbabwe a household name …

Published: 11 Sep 2020 at 10:58hrs | 1 | by Emmanuel Murema

'Hashtags cannot sustsain a revolution' Jonathan Moyo says

Online hashtags are not an answer to Zimbabweans who want to sustain a revolution former cabinet minister Professor Jonathan Moyo has said. Writing on Twitter Moyo said, "As a student of politics, I must say while I now agree that hashtags…

Published: 08 Sep 2020 at 16:09hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu

ANC piles pressure on Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF

SOUTH Africa's ruling party, the African National Congress (ANC), is reportedly mobilising liberation movements in the Sadc region to pile pressure on Zanu-PF over rampant state-sponsored human rights abuses, which have soiled the country'…

Published: 28 Aug 2020 at 07:27hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

Advocate Fadzayi Mahere your wheelchair joke was offensive

This article first appeared on the Life Through The Disability Lens blog by Colleen Chifamba.Dear Advocate Mahere,Last week Thursday I was tagged in your one of your Facebook posts and whilst I understood what you were saying I was however…

Published: 11 Apr 2017 at 08:56hrs | 2 | by Collen Chifamba

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