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Sparks fly as councillors grab stands in leafy suburbs
Harare city councillors are embroiled in corruption allegations following reports that they allocated themselves residential stands in affluent suburbs, contrary to Government policy. The scandal has ...Published: 07 Dec 2024 at 10:24hrs | 212 | by Staff reporter
Farewell Chairman VK: Reflections of a dear friend
The late Vimbai Kamoyo (VK) was quite a character.They buried him last week in Chiunye village, Mt Darwin, Mashonaland Central. Between him and I, the title of "Chairman" took tu...Published: 18 Jun 2024 at 14:54hrs | 40 | by Josiah Mucharowana in Pretoria
'Stopped Zanu PF getting 2/3 majority!' was CCC's excuse for participating in flawed 2023 election. What now Zanu PF has 2/3?
"Zanu PF now has the two thirds majority it craved in parliament after the party won all six by-elections held Saturday, triggered by the recalls on CCC MPs by Sengezo Tshabangu. Zanu PF needed to win...Published: 06 Feb 2024 at 14:13hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Zimbabwe excluded from list of IMF's world's poorest nations
Retired Major Dr Anywhere Mutambudzi, Chief Director of Strategic Communications in the Presidential Communications Office of the President and Cabinet in Zimbabwe sparked a social media controversy b...Published: 07 Sep 2023 at 06:34hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Hustler nation: among the fragments, a new Zimbabwe takes shape
The world has forgotten about Zimbabwe. Few outsiders know, or would care, that the country is due to hold elections this month. And that's among those who could point to it on a map. For decades, Zim...Published: 03 Aug 2023 at 06:45hrs | 10 | by The Strategist
Bulawayo's street 'shops' flood city by night
FILLED to the brim with groceries ranging from foodstuffs, toiletry to skin care products, a pushcart — commonly known as iScania in the streets of Bulawayo — is strategically positioned at a busy...Published: 21 Jan 2023 at 08:23hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
CCC presser anarchy a result of opposition infighting?
Zanu-PF information director Tafadzwa Magwadi has made startling claims Tuesday's invasion of a CCC press conference in Harare by yobs was a culmination of an internal feud by rival factions within th...Published: 11 Nov 2022 at 05:30hrs | | 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
Public procurement loopholes enable looting of Covid-19 goods
THE absence of statutes aimed at managing the procurement of goods and services and their issuance in times of emergency in Zimbabwe led to the country not getting value for the funds it invested towa...Published: 19 Sep 2022 at 20:02hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Inflation is now eating into our salaries
WE are all aware that the cost of living is rising and that people are struggling financially. Not everyone is able to define the word inflation properly but they understand that rising prices are no ...Published: 14 Jun 2022 at 06:40hrs | 1 | by Emmanuel Zvada
Cry, the beloved country Zimbabwe
THE average salary of a Zimbabwean teacher is now only able to buy just 20 loaves of bread. But the majority of the teachers' take home can no longer even buy half a dozen loaves given that many of th...Published: 10 Jun 2022 at 07:56hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Factional battles split MDC again
FACTIONAL fights in the troubled MDC peaked yesterday with the suspension of Dr Thokozani Khupe from a faction led by Mr Douglas Mwonzora over allegations of working with Mr Nelson Chamisa, resulting ...Published: 21 Jan 2022 at 05:30hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa condemns 'chicanery' in Zanu PF elections - hypocrite orchestrated wanton violence in national elections
"Irregularities and political chicanery across party structures must be decisively dealt with and expunged from the party," said President Emmerson Mnanga...Published: 06 Jan 2022 at 23:25hrs | 8 | by Nomusa Garikai
'Zanu PF 2017 coup coalition has collapsed' hyenas are fighting fiercely - it's no place for timid MDC jackals
Zanu PF is a party of thugs who got into politics for the sake of securing political power, absolute power, and the influence and wealth it brings. They don't care about anything or anyone else. ...Published: 24 Nov 2021 at 10:32hrs | 10 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Air Zimbabwe resuscitation scandal explodes
EFFORTS to resuscitate the troubled national flag carrier, Air Zimbabwe (AirZim), are effectively dead in the water after the exposition by the Office of the President and Cabinet (OPC) of a systemati...Published: 07 Jul 2021 at 10:55hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe opposition politics needs radical paradigm shift
A RADICAL paradigm shift is necessary to extricate opposition politics of this country from the doldrums of extinction and annihilation as the status quo is fraught with "owngoals" that gift the rulin...Published: 19 May 2021 at 06:45hrs | | by Canisio Mudzimu
'What good is strong party in fraying economy' - for once, Heads, povo win Tails, Zanu PF lose
Much has been said about the endless factional wars in the country's main opposition MDC ever since the party's launch in 1999. Zanu PF has suffered similar factional war with the booting out of the V...Published: 27 Apr 2021 at 06:21hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
'MDC A will boycott 2023 elections' - why now, participated in all since ignoring 2013 SADC boycott plea
"Parties went into the 2018 elections after they had already been rigged as Zanu-PF had implemented cosmetic electoral reforms," wrote Chief Chiduku. He was spot on there.Parties did go into t...Published: 10 Apr 2021 at 06:50hrs | 4 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Why I decided to join Zanu-PF
MY political activism dates back to the late 1970s when I actively participated in the armed liberation struggle as a young mujibha attending pungwes in my rural area in Gutu district, Masvingo provin...Published: 21 Mar 2021 at 08:23hrs | | by Obert Gutu
Mnangagwa's straitjacket has no wriggle room, especially now coups are 'legal' - off with his head with crown upon it
"Zanu-PF has a constitution and under that constitution, we sit as a congress to elect our president," said Zanu PF acting national spokes-person Patrick Chinamasa."In 1977, a lot of the leade...Published: 21 Nov 2020 at 08:31hrs | 1 | by Wilbert Mukori
Zanu-PF centralises printing of ballot papers
ZANU-PF has centralised the printing of ballot papers for its forthcoming district co-ordinating committee (DCC) elections, to avert cases of fraud and rigging which have previously blighted its inter...Published: 12 Nov 2020 at 18:34hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF infighting continues to mar run-up to divisive DCC polls
So bad is the political climate within Zanu-PF at the moment that its secretary for security in pictured, readily admitted to the Daily News yesterday that senior the deepening infighting within the r...Published: 01 Nov 2020 at 08:30hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
'Every anointed will fight resistance (Zanu PF) and betrayal (Khupe)' said Chamisa - 'Memento mori!'
Chamisa's arrogance knows no bounds!"Every chosen person under assignment will fight these seven battles; accusation, frustration, criticism, rejection, disappointment, resistance and rebellio...Published: 08 Oct 2020 at 21:59hrs | 1 | by Wilbert Mukori
It's dog-eat-dog in Zanu PF elections
Titanic battles are looming in Zanu-PF's upcoming district coordinating committee elections as Cabinet ministers and legislators join ordinary party members in the critical race for seats. The...Published: 08 Oct 2020 at 07:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Leeroy Gopal speaks on acting career
SOUTH AFRICA-BASED Zimbabwean actor Lerroy Gopal has disclosed that he had two breakthroughs in his career and learning from his mistakes made him a better actor.The renowned actor, who is now...Published: 12 Sep 2020 at 07:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Economy as the superstructure in Zimbabwe
There were a number of by-elections in Zimbabwe over the last month.One was for the local government in my rural home district of Bikita East in Masvingo province. The others were for the parl...Published: 08 Aug 2019 at 07:57hrs | 1 | by Takura Zhangazha
Dishonesty now biggest threat to democracy
Two inter-related issues - highlighted in two feedbacks I have received over the past six months - should be addressed as a matter of priority and urgency.The first one is do with what one mob...Published: 07 Jun 2019 at 06:54hrs | | by Conway Tutani
Chiefs reject Mnangagwa's Gukurahundi plan
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's cocktail of measures to pacify the south-western parts of the country that bore the brunt of the 1980s massacres by the army have been greeted by strident opposition fro...Published: 29 Apr 2019 at 07:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa has failed to revive economy and Gono to take over in 2020 - he too will fail, guaranteed
Zanu-PF hardliners are in panic mode and for good reasons, the economic meltdown is in overdrive! The country's de fact local currency the Real Time Gross Settlement Dollar (RTGS$) has been losing mor...Published: 17 Apr 2019 at 09:04hrs | 10 | by Wilbert Mukori
MDC-Alliance congress exposes log in party's eye
Time has an uncanny habit of exposing hypocrisy, and often times, vindicating formally perceived villains. It is a double-edged sword. In Zimbabwe, time has helped us unravel the duplicitous behaviour...Published: 02 Apr 2019 at 07:59hrs | | by Philemon Mutedzi
10 vie for MDC vice-presidency
JOSTLING for positions in the MDC has heightened with many high-ranking officials vying for senior positions ahead of the congress coming in two months' time.Almost 10 names have been thrown i...Published: 26 Mar 2019 at 06:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa changes tact
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa says the Church must lead the way in initiating dialogue between him and President Emmerson Mnangagwa so as to rescue long-suffering Zimbabweans who are staring at a bleak fu...Published: 12 Mar 2019 at 10:12hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance restructures
The MDC led by Nelson Chamisa has merged Harare province with Chitungwiza while Midlands North and South have been collapsed into one as part of preparations for its elective congress slated for May....Published: 05 Mar 2019 at 14:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dog-eat-dog affair ensues in MDC ahead of congress
Jostling for positions has intensified in the MDC ahead of its elective congress in May.Party bigwigs are likely to take each other head-on at the congress as they battle for supremacy in the ...Published: 27 Feb 2019 at 14:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
The evil hand of civil society, MDC-Alliance
This week, Zimbabwe's opposition MDC-Alliance, civil society organisations and NGOs fronted a so-called shutdown that was underlined by anarchy, looting and lawlessness. The orgy of violence saw the d...Published: 17 Jan 2019 at 00:03hrs | | by Panganai Kahuni
'Mnangagwa insincere on corruption'
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government is insincere when dealing with corruption, Alliance for the People's Agenda (APA) president Nkosana Moyo has said.This comes after government's fight ...Published: 28 Dec 2018 at 21:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Sanctions on Zanu PF will remain' says Canada - pressure on ED to step down is mounting
President Mnangagwa rigged the recent elections and is therefore illegitimate. It is now four months since the rigged elections and if he thought he was going to get away with it; he was wrong. ...Published: 30 Nov 2018 at 21:55hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
MDC implodes as Chamisa clings to power
Following the death of the MDC founding leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, in February this year and the drubbing the party received at the hands of ZANU PF during the 30 July 2018 harmonised elections, the p...Published: 13 Nov 2018 at 13:32hrs | 1 | by Elijah Chihota
'ED has done nothing wrong' argues Mahiya - he rigged the elections and not for first time but will be last time
"Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans' Association spokesperson Douglas Mahiya yesterday accused the MDC of "conniving" with former colonisers and global capitalists to cause chaos in the country...Published: 09 Oct 2018 at 13:58hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
'West must support ED and no regime change for 20 years' argued Mutsvairo - so why bother
"IF Western governments are sincere about political reforms in Zimbabwe, then they have to support President Emmerson Mnangagwa's new government," wrote Bruce Mutsvairo."There are no two ways ...Published: 21 Sep 2018 at 07:19hrs | 9 | by Nomusa Garikai
Gweru vendors relive running battles with municipal cops
Molleen Makasi (54) runs across a busy street in Gweru's central business district while clutching a bag full of tomatoes, onions, carrots and vegetables. At the corner of the road, she is blocked by ...Published: 08 Sep 2018 at 08:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Jockeying for Mnangagwa Cabinet posts gets nasty
Jockeying for Cabinet posts is turning nasty, with some of those eyeing positions in President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration resorting to a vicious propaganda campaign to undermine other contend...Published: 01 Sep 2018 at 21:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Candidates must shun hate speech
WITH the general elections due in 20 days and political temperatures at their peak, we call on the political actors to exercise extreme restraint and stick to the dictates of the peace pledge which th...Published: 10 Jul 2018 at 08:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe/Chamisa alliance, rehabilitative & desperation politics
Simmering information that the Mugabe-backed National Patriotic Front opposition party was in negotiations with the Nelson Chamisa led MDC-Alliance were all but confirmed by the Zimbabwe Independent n...Published: 29 Jun 2018 at 11:59hrs | 1 | by Bevan Musoko
'Zimbabwe is stable and prosperous!' is ED's interminable gabble as reality emerge from web of lies
"A lie told once remains a lie, but a lie told a thousand times becomes the truth," said Joseph Goebbels, Adolf Hitler's minister of propaganda.Goebbels has had many disciples who have subscri...Published: 28 Jun 2018 at 15:52hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
ZSD Press Statement - appeal to SADC observers to judge Zimbabwe elections truthfully and follow own advice
Executive Summary Our appeal to Zimbabwe election observers is simple: please judge whether these elections are free, fair and credible as you would wis...Published: 21 May 2018 at 21:56hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
'Zanu PF too fractured to win 2018,' Mandaza predicted - yet another feeble excuse for ignoring reforms
"The party of liberation (Zanu PF) lost its mass base in the 90s and it has never been able to recover it and will not recover it. It's a fair conclusion to make, that the party of liberation which is...Published: 18 May 2018 at 22:05hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Distraught refugees pouring into Zimbabwe - austere reminder of our own bad governance problem
Distraught! Here was this woman, probably in her early twenties but she already three times as old, whose hut had just burnt down with all she had in this world. She and her son were lucky to escape t...Published: 03 May 2018 at 18:10hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Chinyande, there is no 'new era of democracy' in Zimbabwe - not when ED is blatantly rigging election
Anyone who thanks President Mnangagwa and his November coup posse for deposing the dictator Mugabe only do so out of short sightedness, foolishness or both! It is the Joint Operation Command (JOC) –...Published: 16 Apr 2018 at 19:33hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Mnangagwa ally shoves out contestants
It is going to be a dog-eat-dog in Zanu-PF primary elections slated for May 05, 2018 amid allegations that the Masvingo provincial executive made some shocking decisions to disqualify at least eight s...Published: 16 Apr 2018 at 14:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
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