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'Gappah needs mental help,' says Judge
Zimbabwean High Court Justice Joseph Mafusire says local lawyer Petina Gappah needs "psychological intervention" - mental assistance - amid her unrestrained scandalous attacks on the judge and the jud...Published: 22 Mar 2024 at 11:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe: A nation at crossroads
Good day, President Emmerson Mnangagwa. Your Excellency, Zimbabwe is dogged by reputational and socio-economic challenges. Consequently, the citizenry is despondent, crying out for commitment to uphol...Published: 20 Sep 2023 at 06:41hrs | | by Cyprian Muketiwa Ndawana
Mnangagwa says, 'Victory is imminent, certain'
AHEAD of next Wednesday's harmonised elections, President Mnangagwa has said victory is not only imminent but certain for Zanu-PF as the party continues to deliver development that leaves no one and n...Published: 17 Aug 2023 at 06:49hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe politics: Lineaments of stock characters
What are stock characters?LET me be basic so I am accessible to many of my readers, whatever level of education, and from whichever discipline they hail.In literature we have what are ...Published: 22 Apr 2023 at 19:00hrs | 9 | by @Jamwanda2 on Saturday
WATCH: Shock as Ramaphosa tears Thabo Mbeki speech apart
South African President Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa shocked South Africans during his 2023 State Of the Nation Address when he began hi opening remarks by tearing apart the "I Am an African" speech that ...Published: 10 Feb 2023 at 10:45hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Judge tosses CCC MPs' yellow neckties challenge against speaker
HIGH Court judge, David Mangota has dismissed a challenge by Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) lawmakers who had sued the Speaker of Parliament, Jacob Mudenda for throwing them out of the august hou...Published: 14 Jan 2023 at 07:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi genocide closure needs sincerity, maturity and solemnity
DEAR President Emmerson Mnangagwa,Your Excellency, as I see it, it is not conscionable for you to rope in tribal chiefs in the process of bringing closure to the Gukurahundi atrocities. Common...Published: 09 Nov 2022 at 05:11hrs | | by Cyprian Ndawana
Lawyer risks censor for unprofessional conduct
A LOCAL company Quicklink Investments has lodged a complaint with the Law Society of Zimbabwe against lawyer Norman Mugiya over allegations of unprofessional conduct.Quicklink claim that Mugiy...Published: 30 Apr 2022 at 16:23hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Soldier jailed 5 years over armed robbery
A soldier has been jailed for five years by a Zimbabwe Defence Forces general court martial and discharged from the army dishonourably for supplying information to the armed robbers who hit Surrey Far...Published: 03 Mar 2022 at 05:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Judge berated for 'incompetent order'
IN an unprecedented move, Supreme Court judges have berated High Court Justice Tawanda Chitapi (pictured) for alleged incompetence and passing an irregular default judgement in a long-standing land ow...Published: 19 Feb 2022 at 18:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
UZ students call for SRC fraud scandal to be further investigated
University of Zimbabwe students have called for an audit and intervention of Zimbabwe Anti Corruption Committee (ZACC) and Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) following the recently expelled St...Published: 21 Dec 2021 at 07:44hrs | 6 | by Shelton Muchena/Simbarashe Sithole
Zanu-PF exposes thousands to Covid-19
THOUSANDS of Zanu-PF supporters yesterday thronged the National Heroes Acre in Harare to witness the burial of national hero and Zanu-PF spokesperson Simon Khaya Moyo in defiance of COVID-19 protocols...Published: 23 Nov 2021 at 05:59hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Letter to my people: You're paying heavy price for coup
My Dear People, THIS week is a painful one for me, I almost didn't write to you because I feel so much pain.I know what you are thinking. You think it was painful because it marks four...Published: 21 Nov 2021 at 09:16hrs | 9 | by Dr Amai Stop it
Mounting concerns over breach of ethical journalism
The names of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, the two Washington Post reporters who gained international eminence as premier investigative journalists, following their investigation and exposure of th...Published: 07 Nov 2021 at 07:51hrs | 17 | by Geoffrey Nyarota
It's a cruel world for black people
So the world decided to gather in Glasgow, Scotland, last week to try and save the planet from what we are told could be an imminent apocalypse caused by rising global temperatures.Well, Bisho...Published: 07 Nov 2021 at 07:08hrs | 6 | by Bishop Lazarus
Zanu-PF MP assaults party youth as tempers flare ahead of elections
ZVIMBA East Member of Parliament, Tawanda Tungamirai punched and verbally assaulted a fellow Zanu-PF youth member Saturday just before the party's decisive meeting to pass a resolution to hold distric...Published: 17 Oct 2021 at 08:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa will fall with a thud
As I prepared to leave Sydney and its congestion and retreat to a quieter place this past Sunday morning, my curiously inquisitive eye caught a disturbing news report in one of the weekend newspapers ...Published: 07 Sep 2021 at 07:36hrs | 1 | by Mutsa Murenje in Alice Springs, Australia
We need new heroes!
Sometimes, Bishop Lazi is glad that his uncle is dead.The man was never the same ever since returning from the war.He was no longer the bubbly and chatty young man who revelled in the ...Published: 08 Aug 2021 at 07:16hrs | | by Bishop Lazarus
Things fall apart when senior officer challenges the authority
The police are expected to be in the fore front of fighting corruption. Ironically but not surprisingly corruption suspect POLICE Commissioner Douglas Jabulani Nyakutsikwa, who is facing charges relat...Published: 01 Jul 2021 at 06:52hrs | 1 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
'Zanu PF has caused a constitutional crisis' says Mutambara - who is giving junta legitimacy
"As we have explained before, both Constitutional Amendments (No 1 and 2) Acts are unconstitutional and illegal," wrote Professor Arthur Mutambara. "The three arms of the state (Executive, Jud...Published: 27 May 2021 at 14:20hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Legal challenge to amendment Acts
As we have explained before, both Constitutional Amendments (No 1 and 2) Acts are unconstitutional and illegal.These two Acts have now been legally challenged in the Constitutional Court by th...Published: 27 May 2021 at 07:20hrs | 6 | by Arthur Mutambara
Govt, MPs clash over unserviced legislators' housing stands
THE government and lawmakers are at loggerheads after the state indicated to the legislators it had no funds to service housing stands allocated to the legislators recently with the MPs saying it was ...Published: 19 May 2021 at 06:27hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Peter Hain's heinous plot against Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe's justice system is under siege from foreign powers and their opposition proxies. The dishonourable Peter Hain, a member of the House of Lords in Britain, on April 27 2021, under the misguide...Published: 04 May 2021 at 06:17hrs | | by Charlene Shumba
Constitution changes: Understanding the history and motivation
There are extensive deliberations back and forth in May, June and July 2012, resulting in Copac (Constitution Parliamentary Committee) formally adopting a draft national constitution on July 21....Published: 25 Apr 2021 at 07:56hrs | | by Arthur Mutambara
LSZ deregisters Bulawayo lawyer for double-dipping
THE Law Society of Zimbabwe (LSZ) has deregistered Bulawayo lawyer Llyod Manokore, who is also the founder of Manokore Attorneys DLA Piper Africa Zimbabwe, for double-dipping after representing two pa...Published: 19 Apr 2021 at 06:24hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimra engulfed in corruption storm over whistle-blowers
THE Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra), which operates a whistleblower facility in a bid to eradicate tax fraud and duty evasion, is caught in a damaging storm of corruption in which its senior office...Published: 17 Apr 2021 at 16:24hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
LSZ deregisters 'double-dipping' lawyer
FOUNDER and managing partner of Manokore Attorneys DLA Piper Africa Zimbabwe, Lloyd Manokore, has been deregistered by the Law Society of Zimbabwe (LSZ) for unethical conduct after representing two pa...Published: 29 Mar 2021 at 06:28hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
De-campaigning Zimbabwe through falsehoods
With special thanks to cde Bwoni. For the past twenty years Zimbabwe has been groaning under great satanic sanctions which have destroyed our livelihood. To ma'ke it worse the opposition...Published: 17 Nov 2020 at 12:11hrs | 7 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Non-monetary incentives the way to go
The face-off between government and its workers over salaries has protracted to a magnitude that it's now threatening the realisation of the national vision.The new political dispensation comm...Published: 10 Nov 2020 at 15:20hrs | | by Petros Manyuchwa
Mnangagwa's bad friends
In its short years as the Zimbabwean first family, the Mnangagwas have fared quite sorely in one area: Choosing good friends.You will naturally remember Draxgate, the scandal that rocked the r...Published: 25 Oct 2020 at 08:03hrs | 1 | by Tawanda Majoni
Govt adopts quarterly salary reviews
FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube yesterday said government had now resolved to review civil servants' salaries after every three months to hedge against runaway inflation rate.Ncube announced the...Published: 11 Sep 2020 at 07:32hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa mourns passing of Mugabe
President Cyril Ramaphosa has on behalf of the government and people of South Africa expressed his sincere condolences to the people and government of the Republic of Zimbabwe following the passing of...Published: 06 Sep 2019 at 09:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
The Christian attack against the native family and The Native Religion Beyond Jerusalem! Rome and London
"I have travelled across the length and breath of africa and I have not seen one person who is a beggar, who is a thief such wealth I have seen in this country such high moral values, people of ...Published: 25 Aug 2019 at 22:36hrs | | by Reginald Thabani Gola
Zamco debt recovery at 23%
A SPECIAL purpose vehicle set to take up banks' accrued debts, the Zimbabwe Asset Management Company (Zamco), has so far recovered only 23,2% of the $1,13 billion toxic money, the minister of Finance ...Published: 05 Aug 2019 at 07:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe MPs demand Land Cruisers, houses in Harare
Members of Parliament have demanded to be issued with Toyota Land Cruiser V8 vehicles, houses in Harare, security and five-digit salaries, accusing Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube of prioritising the ot...Published: 20 Jul 2019 at 14:25hrs | | by ZimlIve
Corruption is the elephant in the room
No rocket science is needed to appreciate that, coupled with the debilitating effects of sanctions, corruption is one of the major drivers of the political and socio-economic decay in Zimbabwe today. ...Published: 03 May 2019 at 07:10hrs | 1 | by Obert Gutu
The Gukurahundi roll of dishonour
Had the brave and forthright Bulawayo24News existed at the time of Gukurahundi so many lives could have been saved. Indeed the latter-day revisionists who are shouting that it was a war are being trut...Published: 16 Apr 2019 at 16:49hrs | 1 | by L. Dube
The case for the compensations of former white farmers
Last week Government announced the commencement of the process of identifying and registering the former white farmers, who lost land during the land reform programme, in an exercise which is being co...Published: 15 Apr 2019 at 11:33hrs | | by Nobleman Runyanga
Repent now and fix our ailing economy
Editor,That Zimbabwe is on a downward trajectory is no secret. In fact we have been in descent mode for many a year. It is a tragedy. And the fact that the powers that be spend a considerable ...Published: 14 Mar 2019 at 14:28hrs | | by NM
Mliswa claims $2m from Zimpapers for defamation
NORTON legislator Temba Mliswa (independent) has sued the Zimbabwe Newspapers Limited, the publishers of The Herald and The Sunday Mail, among others, for $2 million for defamation.The legisla...Published: 12 Mar 2019 at 06:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Unparliamentary language Nduna and Temba must be sanctioned
Parliaments and legislative bodies around the world impose certain rules and standards during any parliamentary business Tradition has evolved that there are words or phrases that are deemed inappropr...Published: 14 Feb 2019 at 12:30hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Fresh cracks emerge in Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF
Fresh fissures have emerged in the ruling Zanu-PF, with disgruntled members of its youth league passing a vote of no confidence on their leader Pupurai Togarepi and four other members of his executive...Published: 07 Feb 2019 at 15:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mliswa invites lawsuit by 'godfather of smuggling' Mohadi
Kembo Mohadi has "a litany of corruption allegations trailing him", Norton MP Temba Mliswa (Independent) said on Saturday as he invited a lawsuit from the Vice President.Mohadi has served Mlis...Published: 04 Feb 2019 at 09:18hrs | | by ZimLive
Mohadi takes Mliswa to task over 'defamatory' tweet
VICE President Kembo Mohadi has ordered Norton legislator Mr Temba Mliswa to within 24 hours retract allegations he posted on his Twitter account alleging that the former is corrupt and President Mnan...Published: 02 Feb 2019 at 06:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
The day MDC legislators were paid in own coin
Since the beginning of the ninth Parliament of Zimbabwe, MDC legislators have displayed a sickeningly childish behaviour which is unbecoming of an opposition partyanywhere. The lawmakers have sought t...Published: 13 Dec 2018 at 13:48hrs | | by Nobleman Runyanga
Former Zimbabwe army boss blames Motlanthe for his abduction
Retired army colonel Elliot Piki has blamed Commission of Inquiry chairperson Kgalema Motlanthe for his abduction, suggesting that he should help the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) with information th...Published: 08 Dec 2018 at 14:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe army dismiss Piki's abduction claims
The Zimbabwe Defence Forces has dismissed a story being peddled by some privately-owned publications alleging that Elliot Piki, a senior officer dishonourably discharged from the army for having an af...Published: 03 Dec 2018 at 07:15hrs | | by Staf reporter
ZNA claims abducted soldier was fired from army over sex scandal
The Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) has said Elliot Piki - who was allegedly abducted from his home last Sunday afternoon and suddenly pitched up at the official probe looking into the August 1 killings ...Published: 02 Dec 2018 at 12:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Opposition Parly antics a betrayal of the electorate
On Tuesday, this week, Parliament had to adjourn prematurely following ZANU legislators' objection to the MDC-T Chamisa faction Dangamvura-Chikanga legislator, Prosper Mutseyami's mischievous claim th...Published: 15 Nov 2018 at 13:44hrs | 2 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Madiro rubbishes $15 billion diamond saga
HOME Affairs deputy minister Mike Madiro on Thursday described the $15 billion diamond issue as frivolous after MDC Alliance senators grilled him in Parliament over whether there had been any arrests ...Published: 15 Oct 2018 at 06:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
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