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Trouble in paradise: Zanu-PF Youth League faces internal strife
Tensions have erupted within the ruling Zanu-PF party following allegations of an unconstitutional reshuffle of elected executives within the influential Youth League. Youth Affairs Minister Tino Mach...Published: 11 Dec 2024 at 06:42hrs | 979 | by Staff reporter
Ghana's ruling party falls
Ghana's vice president and ruling party candidate, Mahamudu Bawumia, conceded defeat Sunday to opposition candidate and former President John Dramani Mahama in the West African nation's presidential e...Published: 08 Dec 2024 at 17:43hrs | 4123 | by Staff reporter
We need Zacc in the Zifa elections
With the 2024 soccer season gone, the Zifa elections are dominating headlines everywhere with all sorts of names being thrown around as possible successors to Felton Kamambo.Since nominations ...Published: 08 Dec 2024 at 09:26hrs | 45 | by Michael Kariati
Billionaire Ramaphosa gets a pay rise
Parliament on Tuesday approved a salary increase for President Cyril Ramaphosa despite opposition from his ardent critics, the EFF and MK Party.This after ANC chief whip Mdumiseni Ntuli tabled...Published: 04 Dec 2024 at 07:25hrs | 1286 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Namibia opposition has a responsibility from sponsors to challenge the results
Namibia's main opposition party has said it will not recognise results from this week's general election, where there have been logistical problems and voting was extended in several places.In...Published: 02 Dec 2024 at 15:07hrs | 472 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt sinks in deep financial hole
The recent 43% devaluation of Zimbabwe's Zimbabwe Gold (ZiG) currency has exacerbated the government's financial crisis, leaving it struggling to meet its obligations while civil servants and other pu...Published: 19 Nov 2024 at 13:38hrs | 7666 | by Staff reporter
Why Kamala Harris Lost and How Donald Trump Won: A Deep Analysis of the 2024 US Election
Today I am mourning, but this too shall favour me - Donald Trump's victory and Kamala Harris's loss carry lessons for us all. She joined the race just 107 days ago, facing a former president who began...Published: 06 Nov 2024 at 12:43hrs | 1722 | by Ifeanyi Abraham
The criticism of the Bosso supporters boycott by Jaravaza is myopic
The recent discourse surrounding the Highlanders Football Club supporters' boycott of games has engendered a cacophony of opinions, yet none are as misguided as the assertion that this boycott is orch...Published: 05 Nov 2024 at 14:41hrs | 610 | by Ezra Tshisa
The criticism of the Bosso supporters boycott is myopic
The recent discourse surrounding the Highlanders Football Club supporters' boycott of games has engendered a cacophony of opinions, yet none are as misguided as the assertion that this boycott is orch...Published: 05 Nov 2024 at 10:35hrs | 990 | by Ezra Tshisa Sibanda
ED2030 campaign suffers setback
An ambitious campaign to extend President Emmerson Mnangagwa's term beyond 2028 has suffered a significant setback, with a key faction of the ruling Zanu-PF party failing to endorse the move in resolu...Published: 22 Oct 2024 at 08:05hrs | 1750 | by Staff reporter
John Landa Nkomo's son banished from Zanu-PF conference
Jabulani Nkomo, son of the late Vice-President John Landa Nkomo, has been barred from attending the upcoming Zanu-PF annual conference after his name was mysteriously removed from the accreditation li...Published: 17 Oct 2024 at 09:04hrs | 1142 | by Staff reporter
Tito Mboweni dies
PRESIDENT Cyril Ramaphosa has expressed he was deeply saddened by the death of former Governor of the South African Reserve Bank and Labour and Finance Minister Dr Tito Mboweni.He died on Satu...Published: 13 Oct 2024 at 12:31hrs | 569 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe decentralises teachers' recruitment
The government has announced a significant decentralization of the teacher recruitment process to district levels, aiming to address the pressing need for more qualified educators in the country. This...Published: 08 Oct 2024 at 07:30hrs | 607 | by Staff reporter
Tshabangu has not fired Welshman Ncube and others
Citizens' Coalition for Change (CCC) party interim Secretary General, Senator Sengezo Tshabangu, has clarified that there has been no dismissal of Professor Welshman Ncube or any other party leaders. ...Published: 16 Sep 2024 at 15:55hrs | 1719 | by Staff reporter
Pros, cons of registration of political parties
FOR many years, there have been calls for political parties in Zimbabwe to be registered, and the calls have become louder after divisions in the opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) party r...Published: 14 Sep 2024 at 12:20hrs | 67 | by Veritas
Shops dump ZiG official rate for two-tier pricing system
Just like other Zimbabwean currencies introduced since the year 2000, the Zimbabwe Gold (ZiG) currency is already showing signs of instability barely half a year after its introduction, with many shop...Published: 08 Sep 2024 at 13:51hrs | 9582 | by Staff reporter
A city at risk of collapsing: The cost of the search for gold in Zimbabwe
DOROTHY Moyo says a prayer every time she walks, runs, or drives around her neighbourhood in central Zimbabwe - afraid that the earth will give away from beneath her feet, dragging her underground....Published: 07 Sep 2024 at 10:21hrs | 1882 | by Staff reporter
Decoloniality - a necessity in Zimbabwean Universities
Colonialism in Africa is not over, rather it is all over. One of the things that has given colonialism this staying power is the education system in Africa that largely mirrors the virtues of imperial...Published: 17 Aug 2024 at 12:54hrs | 304 | by Dr Aribino Nicholas
MK Party forming trade unions and labour federation
President of labour federation Cosatu, Zingiswa Losi, on Wednesday said the African National Congress-aligned labour movements are suffering huge losses as the uMkhonto weSizwe Party (MKP) is forming ...Published: 17 Jul 2024 at 16:13hrs | 890 | by Staff reporter
Sanyatwe effectively confirmed ZANU PF can't win free and fair elections!
The recent utterances by ZNA (Zimbabwe National Army) Commander General Anselem Sanyatwe were quite troubling on many fronts.The most obvious, of course, was the flagrant disregard for the sup...Published: 04 Jul 2024 at 20:29hrs | 15 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe constitutional changes loom
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has made surprise changes in the Zanu-PF politburo - the party's supreme decision-making body - amid reports that he wants to move to amend the constitution to facilitate ...Published: 21 May 2024 at 17:01hrs | 30 | by Staff reporter
Mtukudzi's 'love child' tears family apart
After recent revelations that the late music superstar Oliver "Tuku" Mtukudzi might have fathered another child, Aaron Chaka, his widow, Daisy Mtukudzi, has publicly accused some of her in-laws of con...Published: 19 May 2024 at 10:32hrs | 1838 | by Staff reporter
US economist mocks Zimbabwe's new currency
United States economist Steve Hanke has derided Zimbabwe's latest currency introduction, the ZiG, asserting that the country's monetary policies resemble a merry-go-round. The ZiG, purportedly backed ...Published: 11 Apr 2024 at 08:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Lithium haulage trucks chaos in Zimbabwe
Heavy trucks transporting lithium ore from Sandawana to the Gwanda lithium mine (plant) in Mandiwongola are leaving a perilous trail of boulders along the Causeway/Ntalale road, posing significant ris...Published: 09 Apr 2024 at 20:52hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's new currency chaos
ZIMBABWEAN consumers were yesterday left stranded after businesses suspended trading using the Zimbabwe dollar following the introduction of a new currency on Friday.Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (...Published: 07 Apr 2024 at 10:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
ZiG is putting lipstick on a pig, says Biti
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) on Friday introduced a new currency to be known as the ZiG, which stands for Zimbabwe Gold.RBZ governor John Mushayavanhu said the ZiG would be structured an...Published: 07 Apr 2024 at 10:31hrs | 19 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe central bank summons Bank CEOs
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has summoned chief executives of key financial institutions, specifically banks, for a meeting tomorrow morning ahead of the much-anticipated launch of a new currenc...Published: 04 Apr 2024 at 10:29hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's structured currency launch on Friday
IN a bid to address currency volatility and exchange rate-driven inflation badly battering the economy amid arbitrage, the Zimbabwean government will next week launch a "structured currency" which the...Published: 31 Mar 2024 at 20:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa desecrates constitution
ZICOMO operates as a grassroots citizens' initiative, uniting diverse stakeholders across all 10 provinces of Zimbabwe.The Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition, through its Zimbabwe Constitutional Mov...Published: 15 Mar 2024 at 19:50hrs | 12 | by Tapiwa Zivira
Mnangagwa, elected officials renege on election pledge
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa together with hundreds of elected officials have reneged on their pledge to enhance the provision of basic amenities to the public, a few months after they were voted into...Published: 04 Mar 2024 at 04:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF commissar seeks DCC polls postponement
THE Zanu-PF commissariat department led by former cabinet minister Mike Bimha has sought permission from the party to freeze impending district coordinating committee (DCC) elections amid fears that t...Published: 03 Mar 2024 at 09:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's power retention moves face tricky constitutional hurdles
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's bid to seek a third term in office, which he has set in motion, faces legal hurdles because the constitution bars incumbents from benefiting from an amendment allowing a...Published: 29 Feb 2024 at 20:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bosso executive members 'no longer feel safe'
FEARING for the safety of Bosso executive members following a fight at the Highlanders clubhouse on 3 February, a concerned member has written to the club calling for punitive action to be taken again...Published: 16 Feb 2024 at 15:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mount Pleasant and Harare East constituencies declared vacabt
The Speaker of Parliament, Advocate Jacob Mudenda, announced in the National Assembly that vacancies exist in the membership of Parliament in respect of Mount Pleasant and Harare East constituencies, ...Published: 16 Feb 2024 at 15:07hrs | 1 | by Jonathan Moyo
Blue train is doomed
The promised version of an opposition party touted around as the Blue something is not a political project but a lucrative business enterprise where Nelson Chamisa will be the sole director....Published: 13 Feb 2024 at 19:21hrs | 592 | by Gugugu Magorira
Mnangagwa's gamble faces legal hurdles
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's long-standing bid to seek a third term in office faces legal hurdles amid revelations by constitutional law experts that any constitutional amendment for an extension of...Published: 12 Feb 2024 at 13:55hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Johnfat Sibanda pummels Tavengwa Zidya
NOW you see it, now you don't . . .Then you feel it!That could be a way to describe how local businessman Tavengwa Zidya, popularly known as Mafridge, was punched by - of all people - ...Published: 09 Feb 2024 at 06:51hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
CCC splits into three warring factions
THE Citizens' Coalition for Change (CCC) has disintegrated into three distinct yet fluid factions following last week's resignation of Nelson Chamisa which took some legislators and party officials by...Published: 06 Feb 2024 at 15:36hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
State opposes bail for Mbudzi fraud accused transport director
THE deputy director in the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructural Development, Enerst Shenje, who allegedly made a US$1 million fraudulent claim for compensation of a property affected by the const...Published: 31 Jan 2024 at 04:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Chamisa must introspect, map the way forward'
POLITICAL analysts and opinion leaders have expressed mixed views on Zimbabwe's main opposition leader Nelson Chamisa's decision to dump his two-year-old Citizens' Coalition for Change (CCC), with som...Published: 29 Jan 2024 at 06:25hrs | 26 | by Staff reporter
CCC MPs left in limbo after Chamisa bombshell
OPPOSITION leader Nelson Chamisa's shocking decision to quit the CCC caught the party's parliamentarians, councillors and mayors flat-footed while causing widespread confusion and panic within the ran...Published: 29 Jan 2024 at 06:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa surrenders hard-won political and democratic space
"THIS is to officially, and under my hand, inform you fellow citizens of Zimbabwe and the world, that, with immediate effect, I no longer have anything to do with CCC."With these words, Zimbab...Published: 29 Jan 2024 at 06:22hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa ends weeks of speculation
ZIMBABWE'S main opposition leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday finally abandoned the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) saying the party had been hijacked by Zanu-PF. Chamisa formed the CCC in 2022 after...Published: 26 Jan 2024 at 04:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa drops a political bombshell
Zimbabwe's main opposition CCC leader Nelson Chamisa, who has given President Emmerson Mnangagwa a good run for his money in two tightly-contested and disputed presidential elections, has abandoned hi...Published: 25 Jan 2024 at 19:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Violence deters youths from politics'
Violence has lowered the percentage of youth voters in the country, a study by a local non-government organisation has revealed.Project Vote 263, in a study titled Youth Participation in Elections, re...Published: 22 Jan 2024 at 10:00hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zuma prohibited from seeking re-election as president: electoral commission
It's official, former president Jacob Zuma cannot be the president of the country after this year's general elections because of his criminal record.This was clarified by the Independent Elect...Published: 18 Jan 2024 at 17:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bosso fans question wisdom of an 'absentee' chairman
DEBATE has been raging on social media about the wisdom of electing office bearers based out of the country as Highlanders Election Day draws closer.Highlanders paid-up members will on 4 Febru...Published: 12 Jan 2024 at 09:45hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Bosso AGM, elections dates set
HIGHLANDERS Football Club has announced dates for its annual general meeting with the much-awaited elections expected to usher in a new chairman, secretary, and a committee member.The three po...Published: 08 Jan 2024 at 05:32hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Lawyer hits prison officer with lawsuit over partisan conduct
A LAWYER has approached the High Court seeking an order for the dismissal of a prison officer, who is vigorously involved in partisan politics, in contravention of constitutional provisions that bar c...Published: 18 Dec 2023 at 20:15hrs | 11 | by Stephen Jakes
CCC banked on ZRP blocking the Chitungwiza rally?
CCC'S MIDNIGHT POSTPONEMENT OF NELSON CHAMISA'S RALLY DUBBED, "PATHWAY TO LEGITIMACY", which had been slated for today in Chitungwiza has raised eyebrows and set tongues wagging in and outside the two...Published: 17 Dec 2023 at 20:53hrs | | by Jonathan Moyo
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