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Trump, Ramaphosa war of words escalates
The South African government has hit back at United States President Donald Trump after his administration froze aid worth over $400 million, accusing Washington of engaging in a "campaign of misinfor...Published: 08 Feb 2025 at 19:45hrs | 1367 | by Staff reporter
Zambia takes Mnangagwa to AU, Sadc over diplomatic row
Zambia has called for the African Union (AU) and Southern African Development Community (SADC) to intervene in a diplomatic dispute with Zimbabwe sparked by President Emmerson Mnangagwa's recent comme...Published: 22 Jun 2024 at 11:46hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Sadc urged to trash Mumba's biased report
ZIMBABWE is consolidating a national response to the Preliminary Report of the SADC Elections Observer Mission (SEOM) which is fraught with irregularities, hearsay and pure hyperbolic nonsense imputed...Published: 29 Aug 2023 at 07:01hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Julius Malema would supply weapons to Russia
The leader of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), South Africa's third-largest political party, has said he would "supply weapons to Russia" because Moscow is "in a war with imperialism".In a...Published: 24 May 2023 at 17:21hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
SA refuses to let go the blazing diplomatic row with the US
South Africa has refused to let go the blazing diplomatic row with the United States over an alleged sale of arms to Russia - which hasn't been proven by evidence - without putting Washington's ...Published: 13 May 2023 at 19:01hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe among Dubai's target tourism source markets
ZIMBABWE is among the key African tourism source markets being targeted by the United Arab Emirates' (UAE) Dubai province, which has recently been named the world's leading travel destination....Published: 14 Apr 2023 at 07:33hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Regime-change agenda continues to cripple Zimbabwe, says Fikile Mbalula
The migration of Zimbabweans to South Africa in search of a better life is the fault of "regime change agenda" pushed by the US and UK to see Zanu-PF out of power.This is according to ANC secr...Published: 11 Mar 2023 at 06:41hrs | 9 | 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 | 1 | by Jamwanda
Violence mars Zanu-PF polls
Zimbabwe, US in fresh diplomatic rowA FRESH diplomatic row is brewing between President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government and the United States embassy in Harare over allegations that Joe Biden's ad...Published: 27 Sep 2021 at 06:19hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Charamba sparks a diplomatic tiff labels Hichilema a 'sellout'
PRESIDENTIAL spokesperson George Charamba yesterday sparked a diplomatic tiff with the new government of Zambia after calling President Hakainde Hichilema, who was inaugurated yesterday, a "sellout" o...Published: 25 Aug 2021 at 06:51hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa must sleep with one eye open
So Bishop Lazi heard that his treatise on the proposed Patriot Bill, which is premised on giving sellouts and other quislings of hostile forces their just desserts, had riled the runaway fugitive Prof...Published: 28 Mar 2021 at 06:42hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Storm saves stranded travellers at Beitbridge
A VIOLENT thunderstorm that lashed Beitbridge put smiles on hundreds of travellers stuck at the South African border after officials hurriedly cleared them fearing a disaster.Most Zimbabweans ...Published: 08 Jan 2021 at 07:37hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
South Africa issues arrest warrant for Prophet Bushiri
South Africa has issued an arrest warrant for controversial millionaire pastor Shepard Bushiri, who skipped bail and returned home to Malawi.On Saturday he told his social media followers that...Published: 16 Nov 2020 at 13:56hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
'Keep your EU Brexit and I will keep my Zimbabwe'
HISTORY has a tendency to repeat itself, but in Zimbabwe, the frequency is just phenomenal. The country has twice in a decade suffered hyperinflation as a result of bad governance.For the seco...Published: 29 Aug 2019 at 07:48hrs | 3 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
US supports Zimbabwe despite diplomatic row
Despite fresh diplomatic clashes between the United States and Zimbabwe, the global giant has committed to support HIV programmes for women girls and vulnerable children in the Southern Africa country...Published: 27 Aug 2019 at 18:08hrs | 9 | by Staff Reporter
Motsepe's money trail, Botswana security company accounts frozen
The Botswana Financial Intelligence Agency (FIA) has frozen Avante Security Services bank accounts in Gaborone on suspicions that the company was used by South African businesswoman Bridgette Motsepe ...Published: 09 Apr 2019 at 08:39hrs | 21 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe on brink of diplomatic row with US, Germany
A fresh diplomatic row could erupt between Zimbabwe and western governments after Harare threatened to expel envoys from the United States and Germany for allegedly funding protests across the country...Published: 20 Jan 2019 at 16:57hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
South Africa lashes Trump over land 'seizures' tweet
South Africa accused US President Donald Trump of fuelling racial tensions yesterday after he said farmers were being forced off their land and many of them killed.Trump's tweet touched on the...Published: 24 Aug 2018 at 05:41hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mbalula in fresh Zimbabweans attack
SOUTH African Police Minister Fikile Mbalula has claimed that undocumented Zimbabwean farm workers are behind a spate of robberies among other crimes committed in the neighbouring country, drawing reb...Published: 26 Oct 2017 at 06:24hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe condemned after SA extends Zimbabweans' permits
The decision by the South African government to extend the permits of Zimbabweans working, studying and operating businesses in the country has come as a huge relief to thousands of the foreign nation...Published: 15 Sep 2017 at 08:53hrs | 3 | by Savious-Parker Kwinika
Grace Mugabe demonstration in the Senate
THERE was drama in the Senate on Tuesday during the official opening of Parliament when opposition MDC-T Senators smuggled in placards and demonstrated against First Lady Grace Mugabe's alleged violen...Published: 14 Sep 2017 at 16:03hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
South Africa has been faithful Mr Mugabe!
Government needs to restrain itself from being pushed into a messy relationship with South Africa.Events of the last two weeks or so have raised real fears of plunging Zimbabwe into dangerous ...Published: 11 Sep 2017 at 13:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's attacks on SA dangerous
Zimbabwe remains unique to the rest of the world in so many ways.It is a country whose citizenry soldiers on even in some of the harshest environments.Here people spent endless hours i...Published: 10 Sep 2017 at 15:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe should be very thankful to us, says Mantashe
Gwede Mantashe, the secretary-general of South Africa's ruling African National Congress (ANC), has hit back at President Robert Mugabe for his recent attacks on him and the late Nelson Mandela as the...Published: 10 Sep 2017 at 13:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kenya grants South African visitors 90-day visa free stay
Nairobi has granted South Africans additional time to visit Kenya without visas, pointing to a thawing of diplomatic relations between the two nations, ...Published: 17 Jun 2017 at 23:09hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Outrage over Mbalula remarks escalates
Scores of Zimbabweans have reacted angrily to South Africa (SA)'s Police minister Fikile Mbalula's statement that Zimbabwean soldiers were the ones perpetrating most crimes in his country.Poli...Published: 28 Apr 2017 at 15:50hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe, French President to hold talks over 'diplomatic tiff'
President Robert Mugabe is expected to come face-to-face with his French counterpart Francois Hollande in Mali on Saturday to discuss the diplomatic tiff that emerged following anti-Mugabe protest...Published: 13 Jan 2017 at 19:08hrs | | by new24.com
Mugabe's CIOs fingered in plot to out SA's Zuma
State Security minister Kembo Mohadi has refuted allegations of Zimbabwean involvement in a plot against South African President Jacob Zuma and some of his top lieutenants.In what could tr...Published: 15 Dec 2016 at 05:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Thousands face eviction from farms
THE Ministry of Lands and Rural Resettlement has issued a statement directing all people illegally settled on farms to move off immediately or face eviction.In the warning, publicised last wee...Published: 01 Sep 2016 at 09:29hrs | 2 | by Shame Makoshoriand Idah Mhetu
Statutory Instrument 64 of 2016 meant to protect local industry
Statutory Instrument 64 of 2016 (SI 64/2016) gazetted by the Zimbabwe Government has a prime effect of stirring domestic productivity and encouraging consumption of locally produced products. This wou...Published: 26 Jul 2016 at 11:31hrs | | by Sparkleford Masiyambiri
Diplomatic row erupts between Harare and Pretoria
Zimbabwe has dispatched a team of legal experts to South Africa to lodge a complaint against the auctioning of a property in Cape Town owned by the Harare authorities by lawyers representing former wh...Published: 11 Oct 2015 at 16:54hrs | | by APA
Botswana sliding into a monocracy that is punishing the media
Africa's model democracy is sliding into a monocracy that is punishing the media a ...Published: 18 Jun 2015 at 14:47hrs | 2 | by Joel Konopo
Mbeki equates Mugabe to Nkurunzinza
Moeletsi Mbeki, a renowed South African political analyst yesterday said that President Robert Mugabe has been described as one of Africa's worst leaders and equated to Burundi's leader Pierre Nk...Published: 21 May 2015 at 10:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Is the Mugabe regime smuggling diamonds via diplomatic bags?
With the Mugabe regime owing its diplomats at 47 missions nearly US$7million in salary arrears as at 31st December 2014, could it be smuggling diamonds via diplomatic bags to get them going? A...Published: 30 Mar 2015 at 14:06hrs | 1 | by Clifford Chitupa Mashiri
Phelekezela Mphoko's controversial past exposed
Although not many ordinary people know about the newly-nominated Zanu-PF vice-president, Phelekezela Mphoko, he has been in the news on a number of times - all for the wrong reasons.Mphoko was...Published: 12 Dec 2014 at 16:56hrs | 3 | by Chris Gande
Report: Zec admits it was rocked by corruption during 2013 elections
The country's election management body, the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec), has admitted it was stampeded into last year's harmonised elections unprepared and that it was rocked by corruption i...Published: 04 Sep 2014 at 08:06hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe wants free visa for Chinese
President Robert Mugabe has ordered Tourism Minister Walter Mzembi to work on the modalities of a free visa regime for Asian economic giant China's nationals to boost the country's tourism.In...Published: 28 Aug 2014 at 06:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
EU-Zimbabwe re-engagement Prudent
The EU-Zimbabwe re-engagement effort is the most prudent thing which is envisaged to end one and half decades old conflicts between the two parties. It is anticipated that the existing diplomatic ...Published: 30 Jul 2014 at 14:21hrs | 4 | by Suitable Kajau
Zimbabwe will not be represented at the EU-AU Summit
PRESIDENT Mugabe will not attend this week's Africa-European Union Summit in Brussels, Belgium.Foreign Affairs Secretary Ambassador Joey Bimha, said yesterday that Presi...Published: 30 Mar 2014 at 10:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZEC admits letters fake
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission yesterday pulled down from its website 2 letters purportedly showing communication between the British Embassy and the opposition MDDC-T relating to last year's elect...Published: 27 Mar 2014 at 08:05hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
ZEC in fake letters storm between MDC-T and British envoy
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) has been caught-up in a diplomatic row over a harsh letter purportedly penned by British Ambassador Deborah Bronnert to MDC-T secretary-general Tendai Bit...Published: 27 Mar 2014 at 08:04hrs | 7 | by Richard Chidza
A view from the sideline: More questions than answers on Sikhala's MDC T move
So Job "Wiwa" Sikhala has decided to find his way to the Morgan Tsvangirai led Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) after nine years of continuously bashing of his ex political love.Job Si...Published: 14 Mar 2014 at 06:06hrs | 5 | by Correspondent (Commentry)
UK axes £100m southern Africa aid programme over Zimbabwe
Britain is axing a £100m aid programme to reduce poverty in Africa after accidentally channelling some money through the Zimbabwe government and finding "serious concerns" about financial over...Published: 04 Dec 2013 at 15:25hrs | | by Staff Reporter
'SA courts behaving as if Zimbabwe is a province of South Africa'
PROSECUTOR-GENERAL Johannes Tomana yesterday warned that a recent South African court ruling compelling South Africa to arrest Zimbabwean military chiefs over 2008 rights violations might stoke a dipl...Published: 29 Nov 2013 at 03:12hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF (UK) lobbies for the scrapping of sanctions
The Zanu PF United Kingdom branch is set to meet the Minister of African and Middle East Affairs in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office next Friday in an effort to lobby for the scrapping of the sanc...Published: 02 Nov 2013 at 06:49hrs | | by Staff Reporter
EU Ambassador sparks diplomatic row with Zimbabwe
The European Union Head of Delegation to Zimbabwe, Ambassador Aldo Dell'Ariccia, has sparked a diplomatic row with Harare after he wrote a letter to the Chief Registrar of the Supreme Court requesting...Published: 08 Sep 2013 at 06:28hrs | 7 | by STaff reporter
Mugabe, Lindiwe Zulu kiss and make up
How wonderful it feels to conclude a painstaking assignment with a rare, but deserving Presidential kiss from one of Africa's highly esteemed statesmen such as President Mugabe? Of course, this gestur...Published: 19 Aug 2013 at 05:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
After a Rigging Lesson, Coalition doors are now open Mr Tsvangirai
In Coalition Zimbabwean Forces against tyranny, experience is the only criteria we use to build a strong foundation to free a cheated Nation. Before an election, we could not engage the MDC-T who stro...Published: 03 Aug 2013 at 15:54hrs | 4 | by Ryton Dzimiri
Zuma censures the 'stupid & idiotic' SA woman
SOUTH African president Jacob Zuma yesterday rapped his international relations advisor Ms Lindiwe Zulu's for her utterances on Zimbabwe, describing them as unauthorised, regrettable, unfortunate and...Published: 22 Jul 2013 at 04:30hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
The NCA must delay the formation of a new political party
Wow! What a dramatic week we have just had I tell you! Funny enough, since it was a week encapsulating the workers/labour day commemorations, everyone could have expected the trade unionists t...Published: 03 May 2013 at 17:06hrs | | by Daniel Molokele
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