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July 31st protests
This is in response to the article by Dr Masimba Mavaza with regards to the upcoming July 31st national demonstrations. People who have long benefitted from the Zanu pf gravy train and its insti...Published: 6 hrs ago | 2600 | by Lungisani Ndlovu
Zimbabweans smuggling dead bodies from SA
Zimbabweans are reportedly smuggling the dead bodies of their relatives from South Africa to bury them back home.Veteran broadcaster Ezra Tshisa Sibanda said the revelations were disturbing th...Published: 14 hrs ago | 7286 | by Stephen Jakes
Protest at your own risk, says Zanu-PF
THE ruling Zanu-PF party yesterday said it would deal harshly with the planned protests against President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government on July 31, evoking memories of killings by the army of civili...Published: 17 hrs ago | 7402 | by Staff reporter
Smells like November 2017
WHEN harvesting is completed in many parts of rural Zimbabwe, there are many rituals that take place.Villagers hold night vigils, sing and dance, but more importantly for those who love blood ...Published: 17 hrs ago | 1622 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Old and homeless abroad
HUNCHED back pensioners hobble between laden supermarket trollies clutching baskets with a few meagre provisions three or four tomatoes, an onion or two for the usual potato broth for three nights' su...Published: 17 hrs ago | 1001 | by Miriam Tose Majome
2 Zimbabweans killed in Botswana
POLICE in Plumtree have raised concern over the ill-treatment of Zimbabweans in Botswana with two people having been killed in the neighbouring country recently. There have been complaints in ...Published: 17 hrs ago | 1124 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa warns NGOs
President Mnangagwa has warned rogue non-governmental organisations (NGOs), trade unions, churches and some foreign embassies against destabilising prevailing peace, unity and harmony through dabbling...Published: 17 hrs ago | 482 | by Staff reporter
The foreign hand in the 31st July demonstrations uncovered
Zimbabwe is braced for another act of provocation by America. Information and intelligence available shows that the opposition and particularly the organisers of the demonstrations have been given thr...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 17:14hrs | 13251 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Matemadanda savages Chamisa, son of a 'Rhodesian African riffler'
ZANU-PF national commissar and minister Victor Matemadanda has declared MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa will not rule Zimbabwe because of his perceived disdain for First Chimurenga icon Mbuya Nehan...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 16:05hrs | 5779 | by Staff reporter
July 31 mass demonstrators to be paid US$20 each?
Presidential Spokesperson George Charamba has alleged that the United States of America Embassy has bankrolled the much hyped 31st of July mass demonstrations. Writing on Twitter Charamba said...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 12:15hrs | 7174 | by Mandla Ndlovu
MDC youth leader speaks on July 31 protest funding
MDC youth leader Obey Sithole has dismissed funding claims of the July 31 Zimbabwe Anti-Sanction Allied Movement protest.Sithole said anyone who is thinking that he and other leaders received ...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 11:19hrs | 9919 | by Simbarashe Sithole
The owners of Zimswitch revealed
On Wednesday the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe announced that it has designated Zimswitch as a national payment switch with immediate effect.According to the statement, all mobile money transmissio...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 09:39hrs | 12970 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'We're marching against looting'
OPPOSITION politician Jacob Ngarivhume, who is leading the July 31 nationwide protests, says the demonstrations will go ahead as Zimbabweans are reeling under corruption whose impact is more ruinous t...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 07:07hrs | 2323 | by Staff reporter
Tighter lockdown for Harare, Bulawayo
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's government has announced plans to tighten lockdown regulations for Harare and Bulawayo after infections spiked to 885 as of Wednesday, with local infections also rising....Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 07:04hrs | 4263 | by Staff reporter
Fresh push for diaspora vote
INDEPENDENT electoral watchdog, the Electoral Resource Centre (ERC) has challenged the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) to use the postal voting system it administers to allow Zimbabweans in the di...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 07:02hrs | 455 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's promises fast losing steam
IN the run-up to the 2018 polls, President Emmerson Mnangagwa made a plethora of promises which have not been fulfilled and he seems to have lost steam before his tenure has come to an end.On ...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 07:00hrs | 1750 | by Stephen Fari
South Africa Zimbabwe border still closed until further notice
The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) has said it will use the pre-clearance facility to expedite the movement of commercial cargo between Zimbabwe and South Africa when the two countries' border reo...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 06:57hrs | 1172 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Mnangagwa updates the nation on Coronavirus
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has issued a video on social media updating the nation on the measures that his government has taken in dealing with the Coronavirus pandemic. The President said h...Published: 09 Jul 2020 at 18:40hrs | 3958 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe Not Worried About the 31st July Demonstrations.
Protesters may organize a protest as a way of publicly making their opinions heard in an attempt to influence public opinion or government policy, or they may undertake direct action in an attempt to ...Published: 09 Jul 2020 at 17:37hrs | 3016 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Zimbabweans should refuse to be abused, and used as sacrificial lambs for a self-serving ruling elite opportunist clique
Whenever any government resorts to habitually and incessantly using the 'national interests' tag, then a wise nation should immediately know that their leaders have reached record lows in their parasi...Published: 09 Jul 2020 at 15:32hrs | 823 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Gayz and Lesbians mobilise Zimbabweans to snub Capitalk FM
Gays and Lesbians of Zimbabwe have thrown its weight behind the move by some section of Human Rights organization to mobilise Zimbabweans to snub Harare based Capitalk 100.4 FM for suspending its mana...Published: 09 Jul 2020 at 15:11hrs | 1838 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'Zimbabwe has been marking time and going nowhere' - 40 years and still at it, insane
Dear Leonard Koni, "Zimbabwe is a like a soldier marking time and not going anywhere," you wrote in Bulawayo24."Our government has been so dysfunctional for a very long time, but the m...Published: 09 Jul 2020 at 07:58hrs | 1137 | by Wilbert Mukori
Musina businesses face collapse without Zimbabwean customers
The economic sustainability of cross-border feeder towns to neighbouring countries such as Zimbabwe has taken a massive beating during the Covid-19 coronavirus lockdown.In Musina, which is loc...Published: 09 Jul 2020 at 07:52hrs | 5966 | by City Press
Chamisa rescues Khupe at his mother's funeral
MDC-Alliance hooligans allegedly manhandled and temporarily blocked MDC-T leader Dr Thokozani Khupe from attending the burial of Gogo Alice Chamisa, the mother to MDC-Alliance faction leader Mr Nelson...Published: 09 Jul 2020 at 07:03hrs | 4467 | by Staff reporter
The Unfollow Mnangagwa charade and plots of violence
THE past weeks have witnessed efforts by known opposition elements and their sponsored phantom characters taking part in the "Unfollow ED" campaign on microblogging site Twitter to create a false impr...Published: 09 Jul 2020 at 07:03hrs | 2086 | by Nduduzo Tshuma
SA to reopen border post within 24 hours
South Africa will reopen its side of Beitbridge Border Post within 24 hours after completing the necessary disinfection in the wake of finding a customs officer infected with Covid-19. South A...Published: 09 Jul 2020 at 07:00hrs | 2947 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa will have no sacred cows
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa will have no sacred cows in the fight against corruption with the Tuesday sacking of a Cabinet minister testimony of his stance to uproot the cancerous vice, a senior Government of...Published: 09 Jul 2020 at 06:59hrs | 3571 | by Staff reporter
Ngarivhume confident demo will attract multitudes
The organisers of the July 31 protests are confident that they will garner large crowds in the planned mass actions.Transform Zimbabwe leader, Jacob Ngarivhume who is main organiser of the pla...Published: 08 Jul 2020 at 18:29hrs | 1735 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF frets over planned protests
ZANU-PF says the planned July 31 protests presented a threat to its hegemony and accused the opposition MDC Alliance of leading an "unholy alliance" to remove President Emmerson Mnangagwa unconstituti...Published: 08 Jul 2020 at 18:00hrs | 873 | by Staff reporter
'100 000 Zimbabweans could die from Coronavirus'
About 50 000 t0 100 000 Zimbabweans will die of Coronavirus in the next months, Mpilo Clinical Director Solwayo Ngwenya has foretold. In a Twitter post on Wednesday Ngwenya said, "Corona virus...Published: 08 Jul 2020 at 17:57hrs | 4036 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe records 34 local COVID-19 cases in 24 hours
Fifty-three people tested positive for COVID-19 this Tuesday bringing the total number of positive cases to 787.In a COVID-19 daily update, the Ministry of Health and Child Care said the peopl...Published: 08 Jul 2020 at 17:12hrs | 1879 | by Staff Reporter
Nehanda's bones not yet risen - as she didn't die for White Rhodesia to be replaced by Black Rhodesia!
Yesterday, the 7th July 2020, I took time to watch the usual post-Cabinet media briefing, beamed live on state television - whereby, several government ministers update the nation on their deliberatio...Published: 08 Jul 2020 at 15:51hrs | 762 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Don't blame Chamisa for addressing rally in Shona, blame yourselves
Matabele people must not blame Chamisa for addressing a rally in Shona, instead they must blame themselves for voting the little tribalist and fool who does not care about them.The sooner the ...Published: 08 Jul 2020 at 15:48hrs | 2690 | by Israel Dube
31 July a defining moment for Zimbabweans
Zimbabwe is a like a soldier marking time and not going anywhere.Our government has been so dysfunctional for a very long time, but the majority of the people feel in the air the winds of chan...Published: 08 Jul 2020 at 07:41hrs | 4150 | by Leonard Koni
Covid-19 plunges Zimbabwe into wildlife management crisis - What can be done before vaccine?
The Covid-19 pandemic has led to an almost three-month ban on international and domestic travel to Zimbabwe's prime tourist resorts. This has plunged the country into a wildlife management crisis char...Published: 08 Jul 2020 at 07:34hrs | 1604 | by Emmanuel Koro
Panicking Zanu PF hunting 'detractors' to stop protests - then hunt all 34% living in abject poverty
"Our party detractors continue with their anti-establishment agendas. The party is aware of the plan for mass protests (on July 31) being organised by the MDC Alliance renegades: Tajamuka, the Front f...Published: 08 Jul 2020 at 07:23hrs | 2282 | by Nomusa Garikai
Was Chamisa punished for belittling Mbuya Nehanda? stranger than fiction
Last week the disputed president of the MDC A belittled Mbuya Nehanda. In his response the erection of a statute in honour of Mbuya Nehanda Chmisa said Mbuya Nehanda was not an important person and as...Published: 07 Jul 2020 at 21:55hrs | 11581 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Fresh push for Mnangagwa, Chamisa dialogue
Zimbabwe's clergy is on a fresh drive to bring political parties to the negotiating table aimed at coming up with lasting solutions to the country's worsening economic challenges, CITE reported....Published: 07 Jul 2020 at 19:08hrs | 2969 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: Mnangagwa finally fires Minister Obadiah Moyo
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has finally expelled the Minister of Health and Child Care Dr Obadiah Moyo from cabinet. Moyo's latest firing comes barely a month after Zimbabweans were given a w...Published: 07 Jul 2020 at 18:37hrs | 6180 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Van Choga key to Zimbabwe's true liberation from Mnangagwa
There comes a time in a revolution when an unlikely figure is called to lead his/her people out of the cycle of oppression. Valentine Simbarashe Choga, aka Van Choga is one such hero. Unknowingly, the...Published: 07 Jul 2020 at 18:25hrs | 8688 | by Edzai Zvobwo
'Chamisa doesn't have the right to use MDC Alliance name'
THE Thokozani Khupe-led MDC has demanded Nelson Chamisa to stop using the name MDC Alliance saying they are the rightful owners of the name. This comes after the Supreme Court annulled Chamisa...Published: 07 Jul 2020 at 18:17hrs | 6986 | by Staff reporter
The greatest threat to Zimbabwe's peace and security are not foreign entities, or their 'stooges', but it's ZANU PF itself!
Reading the media in Zimbabwe, even since the November 2017 military coup d'etat - which toppled long-time tyrant Robert Gabriel Mugabe, replacing him with his decades-long right-hand man and protĂ©gĂ...Published: 07 Jul 2020 at 14:46hrs | 2039 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
APA mourns Chamisa's mother
Dr Nkosana Moyo led Alliance for People's Agenda has mourned the passing on of MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa's mother.In a condolence message posted on its Facebook Wall, APA said "Fellow...Published: 07 Jul 2020 at 12:27hrs | 4216 | by Stephen Jakes
Zimbabweans are capable of developing their country: APA
The Dr Nkosana Moyo led Alliance for People's Agenda has expressed confidence over the Zimbabweans capability to work for the development of the country if the environment is con...Published: 07 Jul 2020 at 12:23hrs | 1260 | by Stephen Jakes
'Mnangagwa fails to honour promises'
ZIMBABWE is currently going through political and economic crises that have caused untold suffering to citizens. At the same time, factionalism appears to be devouring both the ruling Zanu-PF and oppo...Published: 06 Jul 2020 at 18:00hrs | 5751 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala waiting for a signal from Chamisa
COMBATIVE MDC Alliance vice-chairperson, Job "Wiwa" Sikhala, has once again warned that the country is on the edge - adding that frustrated Zimbabweans could soon rise against the government.I...Published: 06 Jul 2020 at 18:00hrs | 9284 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa calls for unity of purpose
MDC Alliance president Nelson Chamisa has threatened to boycott the 2023 elections, saying there is need for electoral reforms before participating, while also hinting that the opposition party will s...Published: 06 Jul 2020 at 17:59hrs | 2769 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa says he is still in charge
OPPOSITION MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has assured his followers that he is still in charge of the main opposition political party in Zimbabwe, and dismissed what MDC-T leaders Thokozani Khupe,...Published: 06 Jul 2020 at 13:11hrs | 4890 | by Staff reporter
Who is in control of Zimbabwe's crashing economy?
LAST month, in an unprecedented Press conference, military generals said they didn't plan to topple President Emmerson Mnangagwa. Yet weeks later, security leaders sidelined his administration to forc...Published: 06 Jul 2020 at 13:08hrs | 2794 | by Bloomberg
Why is State media giving 5-star coverage to Khupe faction?
I HAD a discussion with a member of the Thokozani Khupe-led faction who was concerned that activists from the MDC Alliance accuse them of being Zanu-PF agents.It is very unfortunate if people ...Published: 06 Jul 2020 at 13:07hrs | 1914 | by Kennedy Kaitano
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