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President Lukashenko, be warned, Zimbabwe will never be a colony again!
Amongst all the hullabaloo, with the pomp and fanfare, surrounding the so-called 'historic' state visit by Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko to Zimbabwe - some of us are more wary of a leader ...Published: 31 Jan 2023 at 08:51hrs | 1519 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mnangagwa breaks leave to attend the Africa food and nutrition summit
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa, who is on his annual leave, Tuesday broke the vacation to attend the Africa food and nutrition summit in Senegal.African heads of states are gathering to strategi...Published: 24 Jan 2023 at 16:33hrs | 572 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa a 'Mthwakazi agent'
Like a busy bee in the process of pollination, Mnangagwa is now a Mthwakazi agent. Albeit death threats and intimidation, he is spreading the gospel of Matabeleland restoration in Mashonaland. The rev...Published: 15 Jan 2023 at 09:10hrs | 735 | by Israel Dube
Mnangagwa goes on annual leave
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has commenced his annual leave after a busy year that saw his government implementing various developmental programmes.The man who is known for leading from the fr...Published: 25 Dec 2022 at 07:53hrs | 1426 | by Staff Reporter
Globetrotting Mnangagwa walking in Mugabe's footsteps
IN June 2017, the late former president Robert Mugabe attracted an angry backlash following his trip to a United Nations (UN) conference in Mexico on oceans even though the country is a landlocked sta...Published: 25 Sep 2022 at 16:49hrs | 1190 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga cancels road deal while Mnangagwa is on leave
VICE-PRESIDENT Constantino Chiwenga allegedly pushed for the unilateral termination of a US$2 billion tender awarded to South African firm Khato Holdings for the dualisation of the Beitbridge-Victoria...Published: 11 Feb 2022 at 16:37hrs | 4114 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa under pressure to reshuffle
PRESSURE is mounting on President Emmerson Mnangagwa to reshuffle his cabinet within the fractious ruling Zanu-PF ahead of upcoming 2023 harmonised elections.The anticipated reshuffle, accordi...Published: 04 Feb 2022 at 21:32hrs | 4450 | by Staff reporter
'Bosso set low bar for CEO vacancy'
THE Highlanders executive has been criticised for setting a diploma as the minimum qualification for the club's chief executive post that was left vacant following the departure of Nhlanhla Dube...Published: 20 Jan 2022 at 05:34hrs | 212 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga left in charge
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has resumed his traditional annual leave Thursday, his office has announced.According to a statement released on Friday, Vice President Constantino Chiwenga will b...Published: 15 Jan 2022 at 00:21hrs | 1253 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF politburo meets
THE Zanu-PF politburo meets in Harare today as factionalism and indiscipline threaten to tear apart the already-fractured party.The party is still reeling from the effects of its recent divisi...Published: 15 Jan 2022 at 00:16hrs | 405 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa spends leave at home
President Mnangagwa is now on his annual leave, taking a break after implementing crucial activities at both Government and party level.In a statement yesterday, Chief Secretary to the Office ...Published: 15 Jan 2022 at 00:13hrs | 259 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa goes on vacation
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has gone on annual leave....Published: 14 Jan 2022 at 14:47hrs | 1257 | by Staff Reporter
Investors shunning Zimbabwe, says Mnangagwa
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday bemoaned lack of funding for various infrastructural projects, admitting that investors were shunning his administration.In a speech at the ground-breaki...Published: 24 Dec 2021 at 07:28hrs | 774 | by Staff reporter
Bosso camp in turmoil
Highlanders have been thrown into an administrative crisis which has seen chief executive officer Nhlanhla Dube going on forced leave. His contract with the club expires on December 31 and clu...Published: 06 Oct 2021 at 05:47hrs | 18 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga's underlying conditions exposes him to Covid-19
AT least three security details assigned to Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga tested Covid-19 positive ahead of his trip to Beijing, China, while another was later struck by the virus in the far-flu...Published: 02 Aug 2021 at 08:39hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's cabinet hiatus highlights Zimbabwe leadership crisis
AT a time when the surge in Covid-19-related deaths is dramatic, amid new rampant cases of the pandemic, the Zimbabwean government's primary policy-making body – cabinet – has not been meeting, Th...Published: 06 Feb 2021 at 16:26hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe will not be deterred from pursuing its goals by 'sideshows'
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday said Zimbabwe had faced many challenges, including the economic crisis, cyclones and the ravaging COVID-19 pandemic, but would not be deterred from pursuing its ...Published: 05 Feb 2021 at 06:47hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa in a fix
The recent spate of deaths of top government officials, including ministers who succumbed to Covid-19, have left President Emmerson Mnangagwa in a predicament.Well-placed sources yesterday sai...Published: 31 Jan 2021 at 10:12hrs | 18 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe COVID-19 deaths raising our eyebrows
THE devastating effects of the COVID-19 pandemic in the country is now worrying, especially among the Executive. We all get worried because of the magnitude and frequency of the death of high-profile ...Published: 27 Jan 2021 at 06:06hrs | 18 | by Kurauone Chihwayi
'Chiwenga has not been flown to China,' says Charamba
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has cut short his annual leave after ordering his deputy and Acting President Constantino Chiwenga to take a rest, an official said.Chiwenga, who has undergone ext...Published: 25 Jan 2021 at 06:50hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Mr President, We Deserve Better
On 24 August 2018, the Supreme Court of Zimbabwe ruled that Zanu PF leader Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa had been legitimately elected as President of Zimbabwe, effectively ending the challenge by the t...Published: 24 Jan 2021 at 12:52hrs | 5 | by Fungai Chiposi
Zanu-PF bigwigs retreat to farms as Covid-19 bites
SEVERAL government and Zanu-PF bigwigs have retreated to their farms and villages as the Covid-19 pandemic bares its teeth with four Cabinet ministers having died so far and President Emmerson Mnangag...Published: 23 Jan 2021 at 22:56hrs | 19 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa not in COVID-19 quarantine
George Charamba, the interim Chief Secretary to the President, has rubbish allegations that President Emmerson Mnangagwa was under 14-day quarantine after being in contact with one of his aides who pu...Published: 23 Jan 2021 at 17:55hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Ministers Covid-19 deaths strike fear into the hearts of Zimbabwe's VIPs
This comes as Transport minister Joel Biggie Matiza died of Covid-19 today. Four ministers, including Matiza, have so far died. Others are Perrance Shiri, Ellen Gwaradzimba and Moyo. Former minister A...Published: 23 Jan 2021 at 17:12hrs | 26 | by Staff reporter
About 600 die while Mnangagwa holidays
Just as Covid-19 was bouncing back at the beginning of the new year with ferocity after a relatively mild and contained first wave in Zimbabwe, Mnangagwa was going on leave.He left co-Vice-Pre...Published: 23 Jan 2021 at 17:11hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa says Covid knows no 'Supermen' calls for unity
Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa said there are no action heroes after four of his cabinet ministers succumbed to Covid-19 within a week.In his state of the nation address on Saturday, ...Published: 23 Jan 2021 at 16:04hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to receive Covid-19 vaccine 'soon'
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa says the country will receive its Covid-19 vaccine soon, adding that frontline staff in the fight against the pandemic shall be prioritised.Mnangagwa said this in ...Published: 23 Jan 2021 at 16:01hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga airlifted to China? - Highly unlikely
There are unconfirmed reports that Zimbabwe Vice President Rtd Gen Chiwenga has been airlifted to China this evening as his condition deteriorated.This was revealed by the usually reliable Chi...Published: 23 Jan 2021 at 06:52hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa orders Chiwenga to rest
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa this week ordered Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga to take a rest after the former army general appeared overwhelmed due to overworking and losing relatives to COVID-19...Published: 23 Jan 2021 at 06:30hrs | 152 | by Staff reporter
Covid strikes Mnangagwa's VPs, cabinet ministers
THE Covid-19 pandemic has paralysed government amid reports that Vice-Presidents Constantino Chiwenga and Kembo Mohadi are unwell, while President Emmerson Mnangagwa spent 14 days in self-isolation in...Published: 22 Jan 2021 at 06:52hrs | 25 | by Staff reporter
Army-linked Anjin grabs richest diamond claim
AN army-linked miner, Anjin Investments (Pvt) Ltd, grabbed the most lucrative diamond claim in Marange from a firm owned by the government after being relicensed under unclear circumstances, it has em...Published: 15 Jan 2021 at 07:47hrs | 22 | by Kenneth Matimaire
Mnangagwa's govt under fire over misplaced priorities
ANALYSTS yesterday accused the President Emmerson Mnangagwa-led administration of misplaced priorities and dismally failing to prepare the country for the second wave of COVID-19 which has claimed 483...Published: 10 Jan 2021 at 21:03hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's security personnel test positive of COVID-19
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa, currently on annual leave at a time Zimbabwe is battling the intensifying Covid-19 pandemic, including attendant deaths, was last week forced to abandon a trip to his She...Published: 09 Jan 2021 at 18:41hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Storm helps stranded travellers at Beitbridge
A VIOLENT storm that lashed Beitbridge on Tuesday night brought smiles on thousands of stranded Zimbabweans crossing into South Africa as the harsh weather forced immigration officials to hurriedly cl...Published: 08 Jan 2021 at 07:50hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa reiterates call to end American sanctions
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has reiterated his call for an end to the vindictive illegal sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe by Western countries as he congratulated Mr Joe Biden following his confirmation yesterda...Published: 08 Jan 2021 at 07:29hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MP blasts Mnangagwa
OUTSPOKEN MDC Alliance legislator Settlement Chikwinya has hit out at the Emmerson Mnangagwa led government over a patently blind imposition of a national lockdown without close consideration of the c...Published: 06 Jan 2021 at 07:15hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa urges lockdown compliance
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday urged Zimbabweans to comply with the second lockdown, imposed by Government to curb the spread of the deadly Covid-19 pandemic, which he described as the final push again...Published: 06 Jan 2021 at 06:51hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's leave, a pitstop to nowhere
Now that we have seen the edited versions of people's lives across social platforms like Facebook, Twitter and Instagram during Christmas and New Year festivities, its back to the basics, the da...Published: 02 Jan 2021 at 10:21hrs | 8 | by Josiah Mucharowana
Mnangagwa takes annual leave, Chiwenga, Mohadi takes over
President Emmerson Mnangagwa will be taking his annual leave from 1 January 2021 to the 2nd of February 2021, handing over executive authority to his two Vice Presidents.A 31st of December Twe...Published: 31 Dec 2020 at 11:56hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
May Day message: Restating our commitment to the struggles of the working people
The MDC is headed to Buhera to celebrate the life of a veteran Unionist, the face of the struggles of the working people of Zimbabwe. Dr Morgan Tsvangirai, the founding father of the party did battle,...Published: 01 May 2019 at 11:15hrs | 464 | by Jacob Mafume
Woman told to go to Zimbabwe to get her South African-born child's visas
Since 2008, Melody* has been living and working in South Africa. She is legally in the country with a Zimbabwe Exemption Permit (ZEP), but her two children need legal status. The South African authori...Published: 25 Apr 2019 at 19:06hrs | 9191 | by GroundUP
Zimbabweans be wary of Chamisa and Mnangagwa the two lawyers
I write this article with great sadness aiming to draw to your attention some alarming political posturing behavioural trends that I have deduced from analysing the rise, sustenance of political power...Published: 13 Feb 2019 at 12:49hrs | 2950 | by Terence Simbi
Mnangagwa's anti-graft body in turmoil
Back in the days, we had a teacher we nicknamed "Rubbish". That was a bit unflattering and unfair, of course, but he earned that moniker because, at the drop of the hat, he would always exclaim, "Good...Published: 13 Jan 2019 at 22:27hrs | 590 | by Tawanda Majoni
Mnangagwa must stand up and take charge
The rate at which things are falling apart in Zimbabwe calls for serious and urgent action by the government.The fuel situation has deteriorated to unprecedented levels, way deeper than the UD...Published: 13 Jan 2019 at 10:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's wife broke the ice, not the strike - doctors
Zimbabwe government hospital doctors have been on strike for the past 36 days, plunging the public health sector into deep crisis, which has led to the near-collapse of the health delivery system. But...Published: 13 Jan 2019 at 07:56hrs | 235 | by Staff reporter
Growing unrest exposes official posturing
FAILURE by government to address the unrelenting currency crisis has come back to haunt the country as evidenced by widespread unrest triggered by the rising cost of living.Finance minister Mt...Published: 11 Jan 2019 at 10:00hrs | 753 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's Cabinet fails to sit
Cabinet failed to sit on Tuesday despite the fact that President Emmerson Mnangagwa had to cut short his annual leave to attend to a crippling strike by doctors in public hospitals.Cabinet is ...Published: 10 Jan 2019 at 08:16hrs | 1125 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa stresses importance of cleanliness
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has stressed the importance of inculcating a culture of cleanliness.The President who is on his annual leave, joined staff members from State House who were taking...Published: 04 Jan 2019 at 19:35hrs | 551 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa plots opposition clampdown
THE panicky government of President Emmerson Mnangagwa has reportedly put its security arms on high alert as part of measures to clamp down on leaders of opposition parties, non-governmental organisat...Published: 04 Jan 2019 at 09:30hrs | 5165 | by Staff reporter
Mnangangwa panics
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has been forced to cut short his vacation to deal with the crisis in the health sector where junior doctors have been on a month-long industrial action, which is costing l...Published: 03 Jan 2019 at 12:46hrs | 11811 | by Staff reporter
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