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Zuma arms deal persecution is weird, says Thuli Madonsela
Former public protector Prof Thuli Madonsela has dropped a bombshell that former president Jacob Zuma's prosecution regarding the controversial arms deal is a mystery. Her remarks came during ...Published: 05 Nov 2024 at 09:30hrs | 1184 | by Staff reporter
ZAA Founder on Diaspora, ZIG, Xenophobia and Julius Malema
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."Aristotle's age-old dictum has been used and sometimes abused to the point of cliché.But whatever truth; b...Published: 26 Oct 2024 at 13:02hrs | 564 | by Staff Reporter
Bosso bombshell
Highlanders Football Club has made sensational claims that their abandoned Chibuku Super Cup quarter-final match against Simba Bhora was rigged, accusing match officials of orchestrating the chaos tha...Published: 06 Oct 2024 at 09:59hrs | 275 | by Staff reporter
Is Justice Chinamora's comeback a bad omen for Zimbabwean justice?
In Zimbabwe, we have become accustomed to those embroiled in controversy and transgression in their professional conduct being somehow rewarded by the ruling establishment. However, the choice...Published: 19 Sep 2024 at 20:54hrs | 1074 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mbeki says foreigners are not the cause of SA's economic crisis
Former president Thabo Mbeki has dropped a bombshell that the deadly 2008 xenophobic attacks in Alexandra, Johannesburg, were part of a planned operation to force Zimbabweans to return to their countr...Published: 11 Sep 2024 at 10:48hrs | 577 | by Staff reporter
Matinyarare in big trouble
Zanu-PF activist Rutendo Benson Matinyarare has been accused of perjury by his former lawyer after he told the Gauteng High Court in South Africa that he was unaware of a gag order issued against him ...Published: 01 Jul 2024 at 16:02hrs | 19 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa bombshell explodes on his face
Zambia has called upon Sadc and the AU to intervene following President Mnangagwa's controversial remarks accusing Zambia of destabilizing the region by collaborating with the United States on securit...Published: 01 Jul 2024 at 04:28hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Doctors calling for Joe Biden to take cognitive test
Doctors are calling for Joe Biden to take a cognitive test and make the results public after a bombshell report laid bare his mental decline. Yesterday, the Wall Street Journal revealed a conc...Published: 06 Jun 2024 at 08:49hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Is Starlink going to accept a questionable license in Zimbabwe?
After stalling for what appeared an eternity in approving satellite internet provider Starlink's application for a license to operate in Zimbabwe, President Emmerson Mnangagwa dropped a bombshell on 2...Published: 27 May 2024 at 19:45hrs | 2 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Money fuels CCC brutal infighting
MONEY has taken centre stage in the deteriorating and now chaotic opposition CCC infighting triggered by recalls of elected legislators, senators, councillors and mayors by the party's self-imposed se...Published: 12 Feb 2024 at 13:48hrs | 6 | 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
Tshabangu and his CCC team to deliberate on Chamisa resignation
The opposition CCC nine-member interim steering committee led by secretary-general Sengezo Tshabangu says it will meet tomorrow to discuss founding party leader Nelson Chamisa's decision to quit the o...Published: 26 Jan 2024 at 06:54hrs | | 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
Chamisa taunts 'sell-outs' within CCC
Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa has launched an indirect reprimand on unnamed party comrades he branded "sell-outs" as he battles one of his most difficult challenges since t...Published: 22 Jan 2024 at 12:40hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Harare water bombshell
Health authorities have identified at least four bacteria that cause water borne diseases such as cholera, typhoid and dysentery in some of Harare's water sources as the cholera outbreak that has grip...Published: 07 Jan 2024 at 17:40hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Highlanders staffer up for fraud
HIGHLANDERS Football Club's financial officer Sihlalisiwe Mnkandla is up for investigation after being accused of fraud.Mnkandla is set to appear for a disciplinary hearing on December 5, in w...Published: 03 Dec 2023 at 10:34hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Tshabangu strikes again
Just as the ink on his last recall letter on Harare mayor and eight other city councillors was still to dry, trigger-happy CCC politician Sengezo Tshabangu has ordered further recalls on former inform...Published: 10 Nov 2023 at 22:46hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Nelson Chamisa panics...plots Emergency Congress to crush internal rivals
Former Zimbabwean Cabinet minister, Professor Jonathan Moyo, has brought to light a meticulous plan by Nelson Chamisa, leader of the Citizens' Coalition for Change (CCC), to orchestrate what Moyo aptl...Published: 30 Oct 2023 at 16:16hrs | 10 | by Nkululeko Nkomo
Zanu-PF denies sponsoring CCC recalls from parliament, councils
Zanu-PF has dismissed claims by CCC leader Nelson Chamisa that the ruling party was sponsoring recalls on opposition legislators and councillors in attempts to both fan division and destroy his party....Published: 12 Oct 2023 at 08:26hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa has no one to blame but wapusa wapusa
Growing up in the country's ghettos, playing plastic balls was commonplace. Young boys stripped to their shorts, sometimes with holes that revealed their nether parts, and ran in the scorching...Published: 12 Oct 2023 at 06:24hrs | | by Fungi Kwaramba
Zimbabwe presidential election bombshell
A Bulawayo-based lawyers human rights organisation, Abammeli, and local attorney Nqobani Sithole have filed an urgent High Court application seeking an order for a compelling interdict against the Zim...Published: 22 Aug 2023 at 19:24hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa tried to kill Chiwenga' - Doctor drops bombshell at court?
A South African medical doctor on Friday claimed that Vice President Constantino Chiwenga's former wife Mary Mubaiwa told him that President Emmerson Mnangagwa tried to kill his deputy in 2018....Published: 13 Aug 2023 at 09:26hrs | 16 | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa hiding behind a finger
IT is puzzling that President Emmerson Mnangagwa recently offered judges and the secretariat in the judicial sector US$400 000 each while the rest of the civil servants are languishing in poverty....Published: 12 Jun 2023 at 06:36hrs | | by MDJ
Mutambara lets cat out of the bag
FORMER Deputy Prime Minister in the Government of National Unity (GNU), whose life expired in 2013 after being birthed in 2009, Arthur Mutambara, has dropped a bombshell after making stunning revealat...Published: 06 Jun 2023 at 06:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Professor Moyo dismiss Al Jazeera Gold Mafia as 'disjointed thesis'. He too is feeling fallout heat
When the story first broke that Al Jazeera was going to air a documentary of the gold smuggling and money laundering in Zimbabwe, Zanu PF regime and its apologists dismissed the whole thing s inconseq...Published: 13 Apr 2023 at 23:36hrs | 1 | by Wilbert Mukori
FULL TEXT: Jonathan Moyo statement on Gold Mafia
Now that three of its four episodes have been – and notwithstanding the fact that the fourth episode might have bombshells in the form of controversial or shocking utterances by its main interlocuto...Published: 13 Apr 2023 at 08:56hrs | 2 | by Jonathan Moyo
Convicted gold smuggler Ewan Macmillan claims Mnangagwa is his partner
Convicted gold smuggler Ewan Macmillan has told Al Jazeera that President Emmerson Mnangagwa is his business partner, according to bombshell new revelations.Macmillan made the sensational clai...Published: 29 Mar 2023 at 06:59hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Cell-phones, fuel coupons, US$ cash and trinkets gifted on eve of key Zanu-PF polls
INTENSE political gamesmanship has characterised Zanu-PF Central Committee (CC) elections set for this weekend amid reports of massive vote buying involving top party officials vying for seats in the ...Published: 07 Oct 2022 at 06:01hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
The dangers of a long colonialism
Walking the last mileBY the time you read this piece, Queen Elizabeth II, late sovereign of the United Kingdom and titular head of the pizza-like Commonwealth, will be two days away from her f...Published: 17 Sep 2022 at 06:41hrs | | by Jamwanda
Ex-England star to make a bombshell international switch to Zimbabwe
Gary Ballance could turn his back on England by making a bombshell international comeback for Zimbabwe, Sportsmail revealed.Paperwork regarding the 32-year-old switching his allegiance from En...Published: 03 Aug 2022 at 18:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa remains mute amid damaging accusations
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa should address the nation on the sensational rape allegations levelled against him by controversial young Zimbabwean woman Susan Mutami, who is based in Australia, analyst...Published: 31 Jul 2022 at 17:56hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Susan Mutami spills beans in tell-all sexual abuse scandal
A CONTROVERSIAL young Zimbabwean woman Susan Mutami, based in Australia, with high-level Zanu-PF and government links, has dropped a bombshell: she has accused President Emmerson Mnangagwa of raping a...Published: 25 Jul 2022 at 07:57hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
'End of an era': Joyce Kazembe retire from Zec
Kazembe is the giant of modern Zimbabwe electoral landscape. For many Zimbabweans, her retirement today after 27 years of uninterrupted service at Electoral Supervisory Commission now, Zimbabwe Electo...Published: 06 Jul 2022 at 11:21hrs | 10 | by Farai Chirimumimba
Ramapho$a Dollar Gate: The truth and the lie$
'Rumours are carried by haters, spread by fools and accepted by idiots' - Ziad K. Abdelnour.I am not in the habit of arguing with idiots because I know they will drag me to their level and bea...Published: 12 Jun 2022 at 18:44hrs | 12 | by Mzilikazi Wa Afrika
US$1,6bn Command Agriculture bombshell
A DAMNING parliamentary report on Command Agriculture has exposed how former Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa (pictured) and the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe superintended over a murky and illegal proce...Published: 05 Mar 2022 at 17:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagnwa's son-in law needs to resolve Zifa suspension urgently
AS had been expected, the decision by the Sports and Recreation Commission (SRC), the sports regulating body in Zimbabwe to meddle in the affairs of the Zimbabwe Football Association (Zifa) has come a...Published: 03 Mar 2022 at 05:46hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa bans 'Zanu-PF' journalists from rallies
DESPITE claiming to be a democrat, Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Mr Nelson Chamisa yesterday dropped a bombshell when he banned journalists perceived to be working with the ruling Zanu-PF...Published: 01 Mar 2022 at 05:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
SRC, Parliament clash
SPORTS and Recreation Commission (SRC) chairperson Gerald Mlotshwa has come under fire from Members of Parliament who are demanding the reinstatement of the suspended Zifa executive board to avert a F...Published: 23 Feb 2022 at 05:50hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans' unquestioning belief in their leaders a retrogressive weakness that prevents accountability and development
One would be forgiven for believing that questioning one's leaders, and holding them accountable would be a given - a normal part of everyday life, whereby a country's citizens, or city's residents, a...Published: 24 Jan 2022 at 20:27hrs | 7 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Rebranding is a matter of life and death for MDC-Alliance
WILLIAM Shakespeare, the 16th century English playwright who once prominently featured on the Zimbabwean Ordinary Level and Advanced Level English literature school curriculum, once rhetorically asked...Published: 16 Jan 2022 at 18:16hrs | 10 | by Taona T. Denhere
Zec drops registration bombshell
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) yesterday revealed that new voter registrants, who were given voter registration slips after registering to vote this year would not be automatically added onto...Published: 14 Jan 2022 at 05:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Only 2 000 registered to vote, claims Zec
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) yesterday revealed that it registered only 2 000 new voters in 2021, a drop in the ocean in the face of various campaigns by political parties and civic groups ...Published: 30 Dec 2021 at 07:53hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Carl Joshua drops marriage bombshell?
Comedian Carl Joshua Ncube yesterday morning dropped a bombshell on his fans when he posted on Facebook, his decision to separate with his wife of close to 10 years, Nelsy Ncube.This announcem...Published: 21 Oct 2021 at 06:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
My desperate plea to billionaire Masiyiwa
Last Sunday I dwelt on the depressing theme of the hardship that journalists often endure for failing to toe the ill-defined line drawn by intolerant politicians.Newspaper editors must be the ...Published: 05 Sep 2021 at 07:10hrs | 10 | by Geoffrey Nyarota
Sally Mugabe hospital in baby swap storm
An astonishing spectacle is unfolding at Sally Mugabe Hospital after an expecting mother, Blessing Kachembere, gave birth on 17 August. In a bizarre chain of events, the midwife told her she h...Published: 25 Aug 2021 at 07:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe will not intervene in SA political fights, says Zanu-PF
THE ruling Zanu-PF party yesterday said Zimbabwe will not intervene in South Africa's violent protests which were triggered by the jailing of the country's former President Jacob Zuma.South Af...Published: 14 Jul 2021 at 09:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mourinho sacked
Tottenham have sacked Jose Mourinho with the club on course to miss out on Champions League football this season.Mourinho, 58, replaced Mauricio Pochettino in November 2019 but has now been di...Published: 19 Apr 2021 at 18:01hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Of power and our intrinsic failings
Like so many of you, I too could never quite wrap it around my head. Just how does arguably the world's most developed nation connive to vote into the most important leadership position an unabashed b...Published: 28 Feb 2021 at 08:56hrs | | by Zifiso Masiye
Govt axes WHO, Unicef from Zimbabwe Covid activities
GOVERNMENT has suspended the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef) from participating in Covid-19 programmes, in an unprecedented move that may have farreachi...Published: 26 Feb 2021 at 06:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
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