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Mr President, tell them that 'NO'!
WE all heard it.For the third time, President Emmerson Mnangagwa told the world that he will not seek to extend his stay in power.He has said it twice on home soil and said it again th...Published: 07 Sep 2024 at 10:11hrs | 263 | by newsday
Professor Stephen Rupange, Zimbabweans do not deserve insults. Stop it!
The least that the so-called learned people should do is to insult Zimbabweans for politics that has failed. The professor to tell us that Zimbabweans are cowards and selfish. This is below the pale: ...Published: 21 Aug 2024 at 16:39hrs | 1101 | by Nomazulu Thata
Zimbabwe steps up new city efforts
ZIMBABWE is stepping up efforts to build a new city in Mount Hampden by working on the requisite infrastructure, with President Mnangagwa having led a delegation to Switzerland last week on a familiar...Published: 07 Feb 2024 at 04:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Wicknell Chivayo's US$5 million spending binge
FOR Wicknell Chivayo, money seems to grow on trees.Never the one to be shy to ostentatiously display his wealth, Chivayo, who likes to call himself Sir Wicknell, has of late been on an unrelen...Published: 04 Feb 2024 at 17:36hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Residents raise concern over councillors' stands
In the face of worsening basic service delivery in many local authorities, including Bulawayo, ratepayers have raised concerns about certain privileges granted to serving councillors. Specific...Published: 31 Jan 2024 at 04:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
SA, UK and USA passport centres to open this year
ZIMBABWEANS living in South Africa (SA) will begin applying and receiving passports in Johannesburg and Cape Town in March, while those living in the United Kingdom (UK) and the United States (US) wil...Published: 07 Jan 2024 at 13:56hrs | 15 | by Staff Reporter
$10 trillion kitty to complete high-impact projects in Zimbabwe
SEVEN high-impact projects - spanning energy, information and communication technology, transport, water and sanitation, agriculture, health, education and housing, among other sectors - are expected ...Published: 31 Dec 2023 at 08:48hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe claims to be up to date with payments
Zimbabwe has successfully settled its subscriptions to international organizations and significantly reduced salary arrears for diplomats. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Trade p...Published: 26 Oct 2023 at 06:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe political parties, citizens geared for poll
ZIMBABWEANS in their millions will today cast their votes across the country to determine their future in an election that has largely been peaceful.Yesterday, political parties from across th...Published: 23 Aug 2023 at 06:32hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: 'Kasukuwere is a chancer,' says Passion Java
Controversial religious leader Passion Java has said Presidential candidate Saviour Kasukuwere is a chancer.Speaking to Bulawayo24.com Java said Kasukuwere is seeking relevance since he has be...Published: 10 Jul 2023 at 17:24hrs | 6 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Kasukuwere: Popular delusions or realpolitik?
THE nomination court has sat and registered aspiring candidates for the upcoming polls. The process was marred with drama generally, but it was the presumptive presidential candidates that provided th...Published: 04 Jul 2023 at 19:43hrs | 1 | by Ntando Dumani
Zimbabwe says Sudan rebel attack on ambassador's home 'sheer criminality'
Zimbabwe's foreign affairs ministry has described as sheer criminality, the attack on the country's ambassador to Sudan, Emmanuel Runganga Gumbo's home by rebels in the war-torn African country's capi...Published: 20 Jun 2023 at 18:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
CCC struggling to raise candidate nomination fees
The Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) election preparations are in jeopardy as that party is failing to raise the gazetted Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) nomination fees for its presidential, p...Published: 30 May 2023 at 11:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai's son vows to floor 'Bhuru' Mliswa
Richard Tsvangirai, son to late founding MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai, has vowed to upstage sitting Norton legislator Temba Mliswa in the race for the seat during harmonised elections due this year....Published: 21 Mar 2023 at 19:36hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa invited to King Charles III coronation
Zimbabwe plans to double down on its foreign policy thrust, which has so far managed to establish rewarding transactional partnerships across the world, with President Mnangagwa expected to attend the...Published: 19 Mar 2023 at 07:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZANU PF youth boss causes chaos
ZANU PF national youth political commissar Tsungai Makumbe has been accused of causing unnecessary confusion in his political district Mazowe.Sources who spoke to Bulawayo24.com said Makumbe c...Published: 17 Feb 2023 at 14:42hrs | 3 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Zimbabwe refurbishes embassies abroad
The Zimbabwean government refurbished chanceries and embassy buildings in seven countries last year as part of its program to improve the country's image abroad.The refurbished buildings are i...Published: 08 Feb 2023 at 20:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa makes senior appointments
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday made three senior Government appointments with Mr Willard Manungo being appointed Deputy Chief Secretary for Policy Analysis, Co-ordination and Development Planning in th...Published: 14 Oct 2022 at 05:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Omega Sibanda rubbishes SRC's road map for Zimbabwe football
FORMER Zifa vice-president and Vungu Member of Parliament Omega Sibanda has rubbished the Sports and Recreation Commission (SRC) road map for football as debate on the suspension of Zimbabwe from the ...Published: 13 Oct 2022 at 05:57hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'AU, EU must intervene on Zimbabwe crisis'
PEOPLE's Progressive Party Zimbabwe (PPPZ) president Timothy Chiguvare says the country needs mediators to address the question on electoral reforms."We need mediators such as the African Unio...Published: 18 Sep 2022 at 18:24hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zec's 2023 general election nomination fees: Contributing to the narratives.
In Zimbabwe political parties do not have to pay fees to participate in elections neither are they registered by the Zimbabwe Election Commission (Zec) as is the case in countries which include Ghana,...Published: 29 Aug 2022 at 21:27hrs | | by Farai Chirimumimba
'Zimbabwe poll fees too costly'
THE cost of contesting elections in Zimbabwe is now the highest in Africa, a data analysis of the new candidate nomination fees set by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has shown.Zec's n...Published: 24 Aug 2022 at 06:44hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Egypt Dzinemunenzva issues 72-hour ZEC ultimatum to reverse hefty nomination fees
Opposition leader Egypt Dzinemunhenzwa has given the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) and government a 72-hour ultimatum to withdraw its "exorbitant" electoral nomination fees or be sued.Ac...Published: 23 Aug 2022 at 19:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Zanu-PF banks on corrupt businesses to pay nomination fees for own candidates'
National Constitutional Assembly (NCA) leader Lovemore Madhuku says the Zanu-PF-led government has intentionally set steep nomination fees for prospective election candidates next year well knowing it...Published: 23 Aug 2022 at 19:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa regime now agrees with Smith when he said, 'democracy isn't the counting of heads like sheep'!
As I was studying ZEC spokesperson, Jasper Mangwana, struggle and stutter in his faltered attempts at justifying the exorbitant and extortionary fees recently announced by the country's electoral comm...Published: 22 Aug 2022 at 15:52hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe starts rebuilding UN official residence destroyed by fire in the US
The Zimbabwe government is planning to rebuild its official residence in Rye, to be used by the head of its United Nations Mission.The previous home was lost in a multi-alarm fire in the...Published: 14 Aug 2022 at 07:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's New York chancery and residency face demolition
ZIMBABWE'S Permanent Mission to the United Nations (UN) in the United States (US) is set to demolish its chancery building in New York City to pave way for construction of a new structure.The ...Published: 18 Jul 2022 at 08:41hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Challenging election results
ELECTIONS are prone to be disputed. Electoral petitions to challenge any part of the election process are allowed in terms of the Electoral Act. There are also criminal remedies if there has been a br...Published: 08 Apr 2022 at 06:47hrs | | by Miriam Tose Majome
Zanu-PF candidate defies the odds to win Epworth seat
WHEN she became a member of Parliament following the 2015 by-elections, many people thought she was a chancer. Little did they know that Zalerah Makari's journey to becoming one of the most competitiv...Published: 02 Apr 2022 at 07:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa has the mass' back
LAST week, former Zanu-PF national youth commissar Godfrey Tsenengamu was quoted by the media telling MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa to join Political Actors Dialogue (Polad) or else suffer isolat...Published: 07 Aug 2021 at 07:10hrs | | by Pardon Makunike
Mass UK deportations exposes MDC's double standards
The news which has gripped the Zimbabwean community in the UK about the chartered flights of loads of Zimbabwean criminals has shaken the community with mixed feelings. But the most surprising wailers...Published: 20 Jul 2021 at 06:16hrs | 1 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Where is Comrade Albert Matapo?
We always realize extremely late that we the general populace is taken for a ride by people without any conscience, unscrupulous chancers in politics who masquerade as genuine revolutionaries and yet ...Published: 31 Jan 2021 at 08:20hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
Struggling millionaires
HIS nickname, which I find a bit harsh, is Poor Millionaire. I prefer calling him just SP - for Struggling Peter.He shares a small cabin with his younger brother at an illegal settlement adjac...Published: 22 Nov 2020 at 19:02hrs | | by Black Edward
Jacob Mudenda's scandals unpacked?
Who is Jacob Francis Mudenda? Jacob Francis Mudenda nicknamed "The Headmaster" in parliament and "Scania" in Matebeleland North is the current Speaker of the National Assembly. Born in 1949, M...Published: 23 Aug 2019 at 05:56hrs | | by Nicholas Ncube
World must be patient with Zimbabwe on reforms - SB Moyo
SINCE taking over power from long-time leader Robert Mugabe in a military coup in 2017, President Emmerson Mnangagwa has sought to end Zimbabwe's pariah status through an international re-engagement p...Published: 26 Jul 2019 at 09:26hrs | 7 | by Staff report
Job Sikhala must stop behaving like a teaser bull
MDC-Alliance deputy national chairperson Job Sikhala, who has been arraigned before the courts on allegations of subverting a constitutionally-elected Government, is indeed, not new to controversy. It...Published: 12 Jul 2019 at 07:28hrs | | by Isdore Guvamombe
End of the road Emerson
That's it. Its the end of the road for Emerson Mnangagwa. He should just pack his begs and go back to Zvishavane, or, by the way, is it Zambia. Once a dictator starts changing the constitution to limi...Published: 07 Jun 2019 at 20:07hrs | 2 | by Clemen Moyo
New dispensation turns into a nightmare
What is supposed to be a new dispensation has turned into a nightmare in our society. We were promised a better future which has turned bleak.If only we knew that they are the ones who would l...Published: 28 Apr 2019 at 10:13hrs | | by Silobela Community member
New dispensation turned into nightmare
Dear Editor, What is supposed to be a new dispensation has turned into a nightmare in our society.We were promised a better future, which has turned bleak. If only we knew that they ar...Published: 28 Apr 2019 at 07:54hrs | | by Voice from Silobela
MDC bigwigs sweat over congress
THE heat is on in the MDC where fearful bigwigs have forged alliances with their would-be rivals for posts at the party's looming congress which could usher in a new breed of politicians in the countr...Published: 31 Mar 2019 at 16:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe buys London wigs for judges
THE Judiciary Service Commission has placed orders for 64 wigs made of horsehair from the exclusive and expensive Stanley Ley Legal Outfitters in England, the Zimbabwe Independent has learnt.T...Published: 29 Mar 2019 at 12:10hrs | 23 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa confronts James Gumbo?
MDC Masvingo provincial chairperson James Gumbi confirmed MDC leader Nelson Chamisa's impending visit today, but declined to shed more light on the purpose of the visit."The president is going...Published: 16 Mar 2019 at 14:13hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa won't split MDC
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa has dismissed warnings that the party's May elective congress was divisive that it could lead to another split.Chamisa, who cancelled a rally scheduled for Bulawayo a...Published: 16 Mar 2019 at 13:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
'I am Mutumwa Mawere! the hypocrite'
Mutumwa Mawere, an ex-business magnate, has a rosy educational story with stints in Zimbabwe, Swaziland, the UK and the U.S. (George Washington University) where he obtained a Master of Science (Manag...Published: 09 Jan 2019 at 22:45hrs | | by Sam Wezhira
'Zimbabwe diplomats live in dilapidated houses'
Zimbabwe diplomats in various countries are living in dilapidated houses, Parliamentary portfolio committee on Foreign Affairs and International Trade has revealed.In a report presented in the...Published: 02 Jan 2019 at 14:09hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
US to open $292m Harare embassy in January
The United States of America will officially open its $292 million embassy campus on January 10 and start operating from the site on January 21. It sits on 116-acre site in Bluffhill and will ...Published: 17 Dec 2018 at 20:10hrs | | by Satff reporter
Robert Sigauke remembers Robert Mugabe ouster: A year on
The streets of Harare reminisced the scenes of independence celebrations close to four decades ago. While the incidence of tribal, character and colour differentiation cannot be undone, it is the real...Published: 06 Dec 2018 at 12:07hrs | | by Robert Sigauke
Electoral petitions
I join the nation in passing condolences to the families of the people who lost their lives needlessly in the violent demonstrations that disgraced Harare on Wednesday afternoon.The ensuing sh...Published: 04 Aug 2018 at 09:28hrs | | by Miriam T Majome
An inherited crisis of imagination: A Long Essay concerning the understanding of Zimbabwe - Pt2
Continuing from here...Truth be said, this is a great opportunity for Mnangagwa. And truth be repeated, the...Published: 27 Jul 2018 at 19:03hrs | | by Tshepo Mabalane Mabalane
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 | 6 | by Fanuel Chinowaita
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