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Zanu-PF factions hold key to ending Zimbabwe problems
FORTHRIGHT former Cabinet minister, Tshinga Dube, says the push by South Africa President Cyril Ramaphosa and his ruling African National Congress (ANC) to end Zimbabwe's decades-long political and ec...Published: 20 Sep 2020 at 17:28hrs | 3876 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe bodies repatriation crisis
Zimbabweans dying in South Africa have been caught up in an industrial dispute that has already stopped the repatriation of Zimbabwean bodies.An average of 70 bodies are sent home by road each...Published: 16 Sep 2020 at 22:08hrs | 1571 | by Staff reporter
ANC bullish on Zimbabwe crisis
SOUTH Africa's ruling African National Congress (ANC) said yesterday that it was hopeful that it could help end Zimbabwe's decades-long political and economic crises. In addition, the ANC heap...Published: 16 Sep 2020 at 22:07hrs | 2343 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF happy to engage opposition'
THE ruling Zanu-PF says contrary to claims by its opponents, it is happy to engage with the opposition in a bid to find solutions for Zimbabwe's decades-old political and economic crises. In a...Published: 14 Sep 2020 at 20:06hrs | 3384 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF bigwigs opposed to national dialogue
SHARP differences have emerged in Zanu-PF over the push by South Africa and its ruling African National Congress (ANC) to help end Zimbabwe's decades-long myriad crises. At the same time, poli...Published: 14 Sep 2020 at 20:03hrs | 2530 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe in its own league
Readers had a lot to chew last week. So much to chew that if one was not perceptive, he or she could have ended up in a maze. Let's dissect events of last week one by one and assess their impa...Published: 14 Sep 2020 at 06:31hrs | 370 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF at risk of incurring 'white controlledr' SA's wrath
ZANU-PF yesterday risked creating an unexpected diplomatic tiff between Harare and Pretoria after it accused South Africa - the regional power and Zimbabwe's biggest trading partner - of being under t...Published: 12 Sep 2020 at 20:39hrs | 4021 | by Staff reporter
MDC MPs push govt to allow GMOs
LEGISLATORS are pushing for the government to allow genetically modified foods (GMOs) and crops imports saying despite the ban, people are getting them from neighbouring countries. MDC MP for ...Published: 12 Sep 2020 at 20:37hrs | 1319 | by Staff reporter
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 v...Published: 12 Sep 2020 at 13:03hrs | 1933 | by Sikhululekile Mashingaidze
Opposition, civil society groups embrace ANC's Zimbabwe mediation
THE continued push by Pretoria to help Zimbabwe overcome its decades-long political and economic crises has created an air of optimism among opposition parties, civil society groups and the Church....Published: 12 Sep 2020 at 13:02hrs | 859 | by Staff reporter
Chinese Hwange blitz a minister's directive
THE shock decision by the Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority (Zimparks) to grant two Chinese mining firms the greenlight to drill and explore for coal in the giant Hwange National Park w...Published: 11 Sep 2020 at 07:17hrs | 2775 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance trio turns to prophets
MDC-Alliance activists who faked abduction in May this year have now turned to apostolic prophets in what appears to be a desperate bid, wrapped in superstition and mythology, to have the State's case...Published: 11 Sep 2020 at 07:07hrs | 2544 | by Staff reporter
Mutsvangwa pledges transparency in broadcasting licensing
INFORMATION, Publicity and Broadcasting Services minister Monica Mutsvangwa yesterday promised Parliament that issuance of the broadcasting licences would be transparent.This was after opposit...Published: 10 Sep 2020 at 07:12hrs | 547 | by Stff reporter
Mutsvangwa speaks on TV licences
The selection of six free-to-air national commercial television licences will be transparent and aboveboard, as the best applicant will carry the day, Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services ...Published: 10 Sep 2020 at 06:47hrs | 1234 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to launch Africa Factbook
President Mnangagwa is expected to officially launch the Africa Factbook in Harare today. In July, the President endorsed the production of the Africa Factbook, which captures the liberation s...Published: 09 Sep 2020 at 06:18hrs | 256 | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi: MPs insist on truth-telling
OPPOSITION legislators have urged government to allow for truth-telling as a conflict resolution mechanism to address the emotive Gukurahundi issue. The MPs made the demand in Parliament on Th...Published: 05 Sep 2020 at 09:33hrs | 1822 | by Staff reporter
Charamba dead right, South Africa is saddled by many problems
PRESIDENTIAL spokesperson George Charamba is dead right that Zimbabwe cannot farm out for solutions to its myriad of problems and that it will be expecting too much from South Africa to resolve our ch...Published: 03 Sep 2020 at 18:43hrs | 2471 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's spokesperson says SA is beset with its own problems
THE government reiterated yesterday that only Zimbabweans could resolve the country's myriad challenges, warning that it was futile for anyone to expect outsiders to lift the nation out of its current...Published: 02 Sep 2020 at 16:56hrs | 1951 | by Staff reporter
ARV shortage fears dismissed
Natpharm has assured Zimbabweans on second regimen antiretroviral treatment that the current stocks which are low will be expeditiously replenished. There had been concerns among those who tak...Published: 31 Aug 2020 at 05:59hrs | 230 | by Staff reporter
Zuma accuses Ramaphosa of seeking 'white validation'
Former president Jacob Zuma has written to his successor President Cyril Ramaphosa, taking him to task for the latter's letter to party members condemning corruption. In a letter seen by News2...Published: 28 Aug 2020 at 20:04hrs | 3847 | by Staff reporter
Criminals around President: How Zimbabwe revolution was hijacked (II)
THE first part of this series, which was published last week articulated the unconstitutionality of the military intervention in November 2017, which was a coup d'etat.This week, Part II of th...Published: 28 Aug 2020 at 07:21hrs | 1844 | by Jonathan Chando
Zimbabwe's protest leaders call for dialogue
IN A significant change of tactic - amid the ongoing crackdown on dissenting voices in the country by authorities - two prominent personalities linked to the foiled July 31 mass protests are calling f...Published: 25 Aug 2020 at 18:09hrs | 2731 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe crisis is sapping Zanu-PF's supremacy
ZIMBABWE'S political and economic crises that have gone on for two decades are weakening Zanu-PF's hold on power and could soon have dire consequences on the ruling party, one of the country's leading...Published: 24 Aug 2020 at 07:38hrs | 3441 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa's ANC deeply implicated in corruption
South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa has launched a scathing attack on corruption by some members of the governing African National Congress.In a letter to all its members he referred to r...Published: 23 Aug 2020 at 18:35hrs | 694 | by BBC
Mnangagwa accuses some clerics of pursuing 'nefarious agendas'
POLITICAL tensions continue to escalate in the country, with a bristling President Emmerson Mnangagwa accusing some local churches yesterday of advancing a dangerous agenda against the government, the...Published: 20 Aug 2020 at 16:15hrs | 1756 | by Staff reporter
Tshinga Dube warns that failure to dialogue will lead to civil strife
FORTHRIGHT Zanu-PF politburo member and former Cabinet minister, Tshinga Dube has once again warned that only dialogue between President Emmerson Mnangagwa and the opposition will save the country fro...Published: 19 Aug 2020 at 21:39hrs | 5373 | by Staff reporter
Welshman Ncube to lead engagements with Ramaphosa envoys
THE MDC Alliance is hopeful that South African envoys will be able to nudge President Emmerson Mnangagwa and Zanu-PF to finally hold much-needed dialogue with the opposition and other key stakeholders...Published: 18 Aug 2020 at 17:11hrs | 3092 | by Staff reporter
FULL TEXT: South Africa's new lockdown regulations
Curfew and mask mandateMovement of persons – Every person is confined to his or her place of residence from 22:00 until 04:00 daily, except where a person has been granted a permit, which co...Published: 17 Aug 2020 at 12:48hrs | 4406 | by Presidency
Tall tales of an evil regime in Harare
Life is a tapestry that is woven out of various religious, political, cultural and normative beliefs and persuasions.As is often clichéd, variety is a major spice that leavens and livens life...Published: 16 Aug 2020 at 08:12hrs | 322 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's endemic corruption needs strong institutions
ONE thing that has hurt Zimbabwe is the politics of impunity – that one steals money and still gets away with it.Corruption is fundamentally a problem of governance. It thrives in economies ...Published: 14 Aug 2020 at 09:51hrs | 212 | by Tawanda Zinyama
'SA leaders, including Mandela, toothless to solve Zimbabwe crisis' - Not true, especially of the big man
"So, why is it that Vorster could bring about real change, twisting Smith's arm to engage in negotiations with his liberation movement opponents that eventually led to a settlement and a transition to...Published: 13 Aug 2020 at 23:50hrs | 1434 | by Wilbert Mukori
Cyril Ramphosa ordered to lift alcohol ban
South Africa media has reported that the country's National Coronavirus Command Council (NCCC) and Cabinet have been advised to lift the ban on the sale of cigarettes and alcohol and move the country ...Published: 12 Aug 2020 at 13:52hrs | 1888 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mugabe's 'stupid and idiotic street girl' says there is crisis in Zimbabwe
THE South African ruling party, African National Congress (ANC) has said Zimbabwe is in a crisis and millions of its citizens have lost their dignity hence the need for an immediate solution.L...Published: 12 Aug 2020 at 07:16hrs | 6110 | by Staff reporter
Roll call and the destruction of the Salisbury fuel tanks 1978
There has been a lot of confusion on the role ZPRA played during the liberation struggle and a lot of twisting of facts related to certain operations that are perceived to have changed the course of t...Published: 10 Aug 2020 at 18:53hrs | 5266 | by Barbatone Irvine Sibhona
Mnangagwa's govt welcomes Ramaphosa's envoys
THE government says it will co-operate fully with the special envoys that South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has appointed as the regional power tries to help resolve the country's challenges....Published: 08 Aug 2020 at 19:37hrs | 1661 | by Staff reporter
Another long weekend for Chin'ono, Ngarivhume
Zimbabwe 'crisis': UN steps inTHE United Nations says it is following the Zimbabwean crisis with concern, urging Harare to respect human rights amid pressure for the matter to be tabled at the glo...Published: 08 Aug 2020 at 09:45hrs | 1775 | by Staff reporter
Credibility of Ramaphosa's Zimbabwe envoys under scrutiny
The credibility of the South African envoys appointed by President Cyril Ramaphosa to engage the Zimbabwe government and other stakeholders following the unfolding humanitarian crisis in the country h...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 17:19hrs | 1430 | by Staff reporter
'Malema struggling for significance,' says ZANU-PF Youth League
THE ZANU-PF Youth League says the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema is struggling for significance in his native South Africa and he cannot authoritatively comment on Zimbabwe...Published: 05 Aug 2020 at 18:34hrs | 2851 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa staves off threat to his rule for now
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has staved off national demonstrations that could potentially have loosened a few screws anchoring his faltering rule as there were no reported acts of any significant pub...Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 18:58hrs | 9873 | by Staff reporter
Protests: Army takes charge
MEMBERS of the Zimbabwe National Army and the police yesterday shut down the central business districts (CBDs) of major cities and towns, kicking out civilians and barricading all roads into city cent...Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 07:33hrs | 4434 | by Staff reporter
Let us sing songs in honour of Arikana Chihombori
My dear brother Fabian Mabaya, I have examined with some thoroughness the story of Arikana Chihombori, former African Union (AU) ambassador to the United States.Before I enter into the controv...Published: 19 Jul 2020 at 09:26hrs | 2256 | by Kenneth Mufuka
'Mnangagwa's govt has no plans to abandon Zimdollar'
JUSTICE minister Ziyambi Ziyambi yesterday told Parliament that government had no immediate plans to abandon the Zimbabwe dollar, totally crashing any hopes by civil servants of having their salaries ...Published: 16 Jul 2020 at 07:50hrs | 3378 | by Staff reporter
The land isn't ours
A few years ago while visiting the city of Jos, which is located in north-east Nigeria, a person pointed to a vast neatly kept area behind a fence. "This ranch belongs to the Queen of England," he rem...Published: 19 Jun 2020 at 17:10hrs | 1775 | by Hadebe Hadebe
Kazembe dodges questions on 'coup plot'
HOME Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe yesterday appeared in Parliament but dodged questions to do with the alleged coup plot fears, saying "these are sensitive State security matters."This was...Published: 18 Jun 2020 at 08:38hrs | 4104 | by Staff reporter
Tagwirei's business empire comes under scrutiny
WHEN Kudakwashe Tagwirei's father passed away in May 2018, the government came to a standstill.Cabinet was postponed, President Emmerson Mnangagwa, Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga, ministe...Published: 29 May 2020 at 08:31hrs | 2393 | by Staff reporter
Alcohol timetable for South Africa announced
South Africa's Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs Nkosazana Clarice Dlamini-Zuma has announced the new timetable for the sale of alcohol in South Africa as the nation enters Le...Published: 28 May 2020 at 14:05hrs | 2966 | by Mandla Ndlovu
South Africans to start drinking alcohol only at Level 1
South Africa media have reported that the country's Cooperative Governance Minister Nkosazana Clarice Dlamini-Zuma has told the National Coronavirus Command Council (NCCC) that the sale of tobacco and...Published: 22 May 2020 at 14:35hrs | 2601 | by Mandla Ndlovu
PHOTO: Zuma readies for Arms Deal court case
South African former President Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Mhlanganyelwa Zuma is ready to stand trial on the long-standing arms deal court case. Zuma recently told South African media that he is read...Published: 15 May 2020 at 18:35hrs | 1616 | by Mandla Ndlovu
We always get a govt we deserve
"EVERY nation gets the government it deserves."These words by philosopher Joseph de Maistre might be sarcastic, but are a sober reminder for introspection today.Zimbabwe is touted as o...Published: 15 May 2020 at 07:44hrs | 886 | by Cliff Chiduku
Harare MDC MPs show Mwonzora the middle finger
Warren Park legislator Shakespear Hamauswa says all Harare members of parliament have pledged undying loyalty to MDC leader Nelson Chamisa. In a statement issued on Monday, Hamauswa said, "Tod...Published: 11 May 2020 at 17:46hrs | 4710 | by Mandla Ndlovu
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