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Zimbabwean opposition's history of election fraud exposed
Each time Zimbabwe prepares for elections, the opposition prepares a case for a stolen vote.By now, the trend is abundantly clear: no matter the election, no matter the evidence and sometimes ...Published: 03 Jul 2022 at 09:13hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Auxillia Mnangagwa's business partners listed on Covid-19 fund for the poor
FIRST lady Auxillia Mnangagwa's business partners, among them a ruling Zanu-PF senator, are on the list of people meant to benefit from a $600 million (US$25 million) fund to cushion vulnerable popula...Published: 11 Oct 2020 at 10:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Auxillia Mnangagwa's business partners listed on multi-million Covid-19 fund for the poor
FIRST lady Auxillia Mnangagwa's business partners, among them a ruling Zanu PF senator, are on the list of people meant to benefit from a $600 million (US$25 million) fund to cushion vulnerable popula...Published: 11 Oct 2020 at 08:26hrs | 1 | by Staffg Reporter
ConCourt outlaws ban on demos in Zimbabwe
ZIMBABWE'S Constitutional Court (ConCourt) has outlawed section 27 of the Public Order and Security Act (Posa), which prohibits demonstrations without clearance from the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP)...Published: 18 Oct 2018 at 07:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
When a Government turns back of its Vendors
The Zanu-PF government's obsession and decision to evict vendors from the city centre is barbaric contemptuous and disrespectful at all costs. Chasing away vendors will not yield any success while hid...Published: 28 Sep 2018 at 07:31hrs | | by Knowledge Hakata
Chamisa and Gutu show us maturity
One wonders whether Obert Gutu has ever been a politician. Zimbabweans knew it that this guy and his party of detractors don't deserve a vote. It's not surprising that you lost the election. His comme...Published: 28 Sep 2018 at 06:45hrs | | by Nkomah Isaac
Cops, vendors clash
VIOLENCE rocked Harare yesterday as police and vendors fought running battles as informal traders resisted efforts by government and council to remove them from the central business district as part o...Published: 21 Sep 2018 at 07:10hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance led Harare City Council raids vendors
Harare City Council and the national police yesterday launched raids against vendors in the central business district after pleas for the informal traders to leave the streets due to a cholera outbrea...Published: 16 Sep 2018 at 08:57hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Harare vendors get 24-hr ultimatum to vacate
The National Vendors Union of Zimbabwe (Navuz) yesterday started mobilising its members to leave undesignated vending sites in Harare's central business district today in order to contain the cholera ...Published: 15 Sep 2018 at 09:00hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Vendors stalls demolished at night
Vendors at the congested Copacabana termini in Harare arrived early in the morning on Saturday to find their market stalls destroyed with only heaps of rubble left.The demolishment was carried...Published: 07 Aug 2018 at 07:59hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora must show political maturity
Actions by Douglas Mwonzora shows that he is immature in politics. He is quick to blame his comrades in a way that may cause division. He quickly finds audience with the state media that shows...Published: 06 Aug 2018 at 09:47hrs | 1 | by Isaac Nkomah
'Forex dealers backbone of economy'
PARASTATALS yesterday made a beeline at President Emmerson Mnangagwa's scheduled meeting with Harare vendors, dangling sweeteners, including flexible cash-lending facilities to the small-scale traders...Published: 28 Jul 2018 at 09:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa name-dropping saves Zvorwadza
National Vendors Union of Zimbabwe (Navuz) president Sten Zvorwadza was yesterday told to prioritise court business after he sought a postponement of his attempted arson trial to go and meet with Pres...Published: 27 Jul 2018 at 13:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zvorwadza should stop dragging vendors into ED's dirty hands
Stan Zvorwadza's utterances are stupid. He needs a psychiatrist especially when he claims that Chamisa and the late President Morgan Tsvangirai see Mnangagwa as a double hero.Stan Zvorwadza ca...Published: 26 Jul 2018 at 13:58hrs | 8 | by Fanuel Chinowaita
Mnangagwa meets vendors today
President Mnangagwa is today expected to meet vendors at Harare International Conference Centre to discuss issues affecting informal workers. The event is being organised by the National Vendo...Published: 26 Jul 2018 at 07:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Nobody wins spiteful wars
TWO separate news items from the past few days have been most instructive in their own way.The first was about MDC Alliance presidential spokesperson Nkululeko Sibanda walking into Herald Hous...Published: 29 Jun 2018 at 08:01hrs | | by Conway Nkumbuzo Tutani
'Talibanisation' of Zimbabwe politics!
ZIMBABWEANS in general can take things in their stride. They can calmly deal with something unpleasant and not let it have a crushing effect on them.So it's good that some strong, principled v...Published: 15 Jun 2018 at 13:47hrs | 1 | by Conway Tutani
Zvorwadza urges vendors to embrace new dispensation
Informal traders in the Midlands Province have been urged to support the new dispensation and spurn attempts by some political parties to influence them against participating in the economic developme...Published: 04 Jun 2018 at 07:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Wolves in sheep's skins
Sometimes the world is left shocked when a very small country like Zimbabwe registers 133 opposition parties to contest in a general election. Interestingly, most of these cropping up parties ...Published: 01 Jun 2018 at 09:00hrs | 1 | by Nkomah Isaac
'Khupe and Gutu must go hang'
MDC Youth Assembly vice president Shakespeare Mukoyi said he will not testify against party leader, Nelson Chamisa, in his battle against Thokozani Khupe for the control of the country's biggest oppos...Published: 30 May 2018 at 16:06hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Zvorwadza anti-Mphoko protest trial date set
NATIONAL Vendors' Union leader, Sten Zvorwadza, has been summoned to appear in court on June 1 for trial in a case where he stands accused of threatening to burn Rainbow Towers Hotel in protest over f...Published: 22 May 2018 at 06:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo's false hope from Malaysia
I have just been reading Deluze and Guattari's Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia. It's a big book, one quite opaque and thus requiring stout intellect and a liberal outlook to digest it....Published: 19 May 2018 at 14:40hrs | 1 | by Igomombe
Zvorwadza slates 'selfish opposition'
The National Vendors Union of Zimbabwe (Navuz) yesterday savaged opposition political parties, branding them hypocrites of the highest order fighting Government for personal benefit.Navuz pres...Published: 18 May 2018 at 07:10hrs | | by Staff rpeorter
Zvorwadza praises ED 'for new dispensation' - how naïve, mamba with new coat is still deadly
There is always a problem when zeal is not tempered by reason, Sten Zvorwadza is one example. "The controversial political activist heaped praises on President Emmerson Mnangagwa for "ushering...Published: 17 May 2018 at 19:04hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
'Give Mnangagwa admin a chance,' says Zvorwadza
National Vendors Union chairman Stendrick Zvorwadza has broken ranks with opposition political parties accusing them of political hypocrisy and commended the new administration for reforms which are a...Published: 17 May 2018 at 14:10hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mujuru visits police shooting victims
NATIONAL People's Party (NPP) leader Joice Mujuru yesterday visited victims of police shooting, where she lambasted the Zimbabwe Republic Police over its heavy-handedness, which she said had created u...Published: 02 Mar 2018 at 10:33hrs | | by GIFT Nyandoro, PRC spokesperson
Mujuru visits police shooting victims
NATIONAL People's Party (NPP) leader Joice Mujuru yesterday visited victims of police shooting, where she lambasted the Zimbabwe Republic Police over its heavy-handedness, which she said had created u...Published: 02 Mar 2018 at 06:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Police shooting victims buried
Government donated $200 and a coffin to the families of victims whose lives were tragically ended by Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) on Thursday night.Three unarmed civilians were fatally shot ...Published: 27 Feb 2018 at 05:56hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
New police chief faces tough task
He is a career cop who walked the beat over the past 23 years before assuming the post of police commissioner-general.He graduated as a patrol officer in October 1982, and is a police veteran ...Published: 25 Feb 2018 at 10:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Job hopes fading as Mnangagwa govt about to clock 100
As President Emmerson Mnangagwa's first 100 days in power beckon, Thomas Charumbira has little hope of leaving Julius Nyerere way where he has been operating as a vendor for the past two years....Published: 25 Feb 2018 at 10:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Embrace G40 to unseat Zanu-PF
OPPOSITION parties have been challenged to unite and invite into their ranks members of the vanquished G40 faction in Zanu-PF if they are to entertain any chances of unseating President Emmerson Mnang...Published: 28 Jan 2018 at 08:21hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Vendors vow to defy government
A vendor representative union yesterday vowed informal traders would defy a decree to leave street pavements across Zimbabwe's towns and cities until municipalities build alternative vending sites, de...Published: 23 Jan 2018 at 08:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Call for Mnangagwa to be president to white farmer & vendor too
When Mnangagwa was sworn into office, he promised to be the president for all "regardless of colour, creed, religion, tribe or political affiliation". I should also urge...Published: 22 Jan 2018 at 07:35hrs | | by Memory Chatambudza
No to ruthless eviction of illegal traders from the streets - NPP
Revolutionary greetings comrades. The blame for the Zimbabwean economic meltdown must be placed where it belongs, at the door steps of Zanu Pf. The blame must rest squarely on the shoulders of Zanu Pf...Published: 22 Jan 2018 at 06:28hrs | | by Khulani David Ndhlovu
Vendors give govt 48-hour ultimatum to create jobs
Vendors have given government a 48-hour ultimatum to create jobs for them so that they are able to leave the streets. The ultimatum comes barely a day after government also gave the vendors the same o...Published: 21 Jan 2018 at 10:46hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabweans celebrate Chihuri departure
ORDINARY citizens, human rights activists and opposition parties yesterday hailed outgoing Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) Commissioner-General Augustine Chihuri's move to step down, with some describi...Published: 20 Dec 2017 at 04:56hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Zvorwadza to attend Zanu PF congress
The informal traders orgainisation which has been viewed as critical to Zanu PF, the National Vendors Union of Zimbabwe leadership has been lined up to attend the ruling party's National Congress this...Published: 08 Dec 2017 at 10:02hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Chihuri humiliated
POLICE Commissioner-General Augustine Chihuri was yesterday booed by thousands of Zimbabweans as he pledged allegiance to President Emmerson Mnangagwa.Chihuri was firstly booed as he arrived a...Published: 25 Nov 2017 at 06:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Forex dealers back in town
Government seems to have lost the war against vendors and illegal foreign currency dealers, as most of the informal traders are trickling back into the Harare CBD, despite a massive joint police and c...Published: 14 Nov 2017 at 12:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zvorwadza cornered, assaulted in Mbare
NATIONAL Vendors' Union of Zimbabwe (Navuz) leader Sten Zvorwadza has claimed that he was assaulted by Zanu-PF youths in Mbare on Saturday, on accusations of disrespecting President Robert Mugabe....Published: 13 Nov 2017 at 05:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
What Mugabe is doing is 'Satanic and devilish'
A Zimbabwean students leader, Zvikomborero Haruzivishe, has compared President Robert Mugabe to "Satan" over the recently launched campaign to clear Harare’s streets of illegal vendors, says a repor...Published: 10 Nov 2017 at 09:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
'No to a Mugabe dynasty'
President Robert Mugabe has been in power since the country attained independence in 1980 and has been at the helm for 37 years. Grace Mugabe announced on Saturday that there was nothing wrong if her ...Published: 09 Nov 2017 at 10:18hrs | 1 | by Kingstone Jambawo
Mugabe given a two-week ultimatum
NATIONAL Vendors' Union of Zimbabwe (Navuz) leader Sten Zvorwadza yesterday gave President Robert Mugabe a two-week ultimatum to clear his name over the harassment of vendors in the central business d...Published: 01 Nov 2017 at 06:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Thieving vendors' denied bail
Four vendors who were arrested during Operation Restore Order after looting 48 cellphones were denied bail when they appeared in court yesterday.David Mazibiye, 41, Tinashe Mbofana, 24, Maxwel...Published: 18 Oct 2017 at 12:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zvorwadza in court for insulting Mugabe
National Vendors Union of Zimbabwe's chairperson Stendrick Zvorwadza has appeared in court on allegations of insulting President Mugabe after he called for the removal of vendors operating in and arou...Published: 16 Oct 2017 at 06:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Government insists on ill-advised eviction of informal traders
THE Zimbabwean government this week deployed police to chase vendors out of the streets of Harare in an effort to move them to so-called designated areas.The anti-riot police who have been mov...Published: 14 Oct 2017 at 17:35hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Zvorwadza spends second night in detention
PRO-democracy campaigner and the leader of the National Vendors Union Zimbabwe (NAVUZ) Sten Zvorwadza was on Wednesday condemned to spend a second night in police custody as Zimbabwe Republic Police (...Published: 13 Oct 2017 at 13:47hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Duo tormented over Mugabe old age comments
HARARE Magistrate Josephine Sande on Thursday ended the detention of two Zimbabweans who were arrested early this week for allegedly passing some comments over President Robert Mugabe's advanced age, ...Published: 13 Oct 2017 at 13:46hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Activist in court for insulting 'day dreaming' Mugabe
National Vendors' Union of Zimbabwe chairperson Stendrick Zvorwadza yesterday appeared in court facing charges of insulting or undermining the authority of the President after he described President R...Published: 13 Oct 2017 at 09:41hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Protesters #shutdown Zimbabwe Embassy in London AGAIN!
Protesters organised by Zimbabwe Human Rights Organisation (ZHRO) kicked off another Wednesday Vigil at the Zimbabwe Embassy in London.The - ZHRO Wednesday Vigil, which began on Wednesday 27th...Published: 12 Oct 2017 at 07:34hrs | 7 | by Kingtone Jambawo
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