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Mnangagwa fortifies his political power
President Emmerson Mnangagwa moved to consolidate his power yesterday when he appointed his longtime confidante and loyalist Owen "Mudha" Ncube as the country's new State Security minister.He ...Published: 6 hrs ago | 4305 | by Staff reporter
'MDC Alliance walkout on Mnangagwa backfired spectacularly,' says Charamba
IN a show of political immaturity, MDC Alliance legislators yesterday blew more than $200 000 in accommodation, fuel, meals and sitting allowances to play political games by walking out during the off...Published: 19 Sep 2018 at 06:46hrs | 4560 | by Staff reporter
MDC-Alliance's infantile stunt self-defeating
ON our equivalent of 9/11, that is September 11, 1999, the MDC was launched in Harare by a combination of Western powers, white commercial farmers and industrialists opposed to Zanu-PF's decision to a...Published: 19 Sep 2018 at 06:33hrs | 285 | by Staff reporter
Cops in high-speed chase with Grace Mugabe's sister
THE arrest of former First Lady Grace Mugabe's elder sister, Shuvai Junior Gumbochuma last Friday, was not without drama as police had to engage in a 24km high-speed chase with her son, Moses, behind ...Published: 17 Sep 2018 at 07:16hrs | 3871 | by Staff reporter
Beyond the fiscal policies, long term national vision is required
The political drama and the rituals that come after elections have come and gone. It is time to hit the ground running and get the country back to normalcy. The new Cabinet is well aware of the challe...Published: 17 Sep 2018 at 07:00hrs | 67 | by Tapiwa Gomo
Mugabe's minister fights default judgment in $500K litigation
Former Labour and Social Welfare minister Petronella Kagonye has petitioned the High Court seeking rescission of a default judgment entered against her in a matter where war veteran Oswell Gwanzura is...Published: 15 Sep 2018 at 09:22hrs | 573 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa, Mwonzora trading blows in an unpredictable, bruising fight
WITH just five months to go to a crucial congress, MDC leader Nelson Chamisa and his main internal rival, secretary-general Douglas Mwonzora, are trading blows in an unpredictable, bruising fight to w...Published: 14 Sep 2018 at 16:30hrs | 14532 | by Staff reporter
Challenges facing Mnangagwa's govt
THE general elections have come and gone, so has the Constitutional Court (ConCourt) process of dealing with the disputed outcome. What is imperative now is how the nation moves forward.The ke...Published: 14 Sep 2018 at 16:18hrs | 673 | by Dumisani Nkomo
Zimnat launches innovative billboard campaign
Zimnat has launched an innovative advertising campaign to let people know some of the ways in which it can make their life better, through the customer friendly insurance and finance services it offer...Published: 13 Sep 2018 at 13:09hrs | 934 | by Agencies
Mnangagwa has changed Zanu-PF into a fresh new-look organisation
Political analysts say President Emmerson Mnangagwa's new Cabinet - in which he dumped both friends and foes alike on Friday last week - demonstrates that he is determined to reset the government's co...Published: 12 Sep 2018 at 20:01hrs | 5067 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MPs heckle shaken Malaba, Chigumba
THERE was drama in the National Assembly yesterday as opposition MDC Alliance legislators heckled and booed Chief Justice Luke Malaba, calling him a "thief" after he entered the House to swear in retu...Published: 12 Sep 2018 at 07:14hrs | 4909 | by Staff reporter
Wicknell's marriage shaken as wife calls hubby psychopath
Controversial businessman Wicknell Chivayo's marriage has shaken with the wife and in-laws taking the marital woes to social media.Chivayo's wife Sonja Madzikanda took to her Instagram to vent...Published: 11 Sep 2018 at 15:52hrs | 5255 | by Staff reporter
Chivayo wife explodes on social media
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. It has become a trend for women to blast their spouses on social media to let the world know about their haggling. Joining the list of controversial Oli...Published: 11 Sep 2018 at 06:36hrs | 3439 | by Staff reporter
Matabeleland has been captured
Mzukulu Chamisa, listen to this noble advise: pick up your toys, call all your friends and go back to Harare before tribal fires that you are stocking in Bulawayo consume you. Bulawayo is not a play g...Published: 10 Sep 2018 at 15:13hrs | 4467 | by Israel Dube
Air Zimbabwe should up its game, says Chiwenga
VICE President Dr Constantino Chiwenga has said the national flag carrier, Air Zimbabwe, needs to up its game by quickly transforming its operations to be able to compete with international players an...Published: 10 Sep 2018 at 06:39hrs | 382 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's new Cabinet raises Zimbabwe hopes
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's new Cabinet has raised fresh hopes among long-suffering Zimbabweans that his administration could finally end the misery and despondency that characterised life under fo...Published: 09 Sep 2018 at 17:19hrs | 5839 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa has his cake, can he eat it?
The much-vaunted harmonised elections have come and gone. President Emmerson Mnangagwa, in many respects, clearly set out to deconstruct and reconstruct, if not the ultimate purpose, certainly the und...Published: 09 Sep 2018 at 08:52hrs | 2054 | by Zii Masiye
Mnangagwa silences critics with new Cabinet
A developmental Cabinet I would call it. Brilliant balance between old and trusted hands, technocrats and youthfulness. A well thought out Cabinet that balances the competing demands of the economy an...Published: 07 Sep 2018 at 19:23hrs | 15342 | by Lloyd Msipa
Trevor Ncube gets online TV, radio licence
THE Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe (BAZ) has awarded leading diversified media group Alpha Media Holdings (AMH) a licence for online television and radio channels, in terms of Section 10 of the Br...Published: 07 Sep 2018 at 13:04hrs | 2290 | by Staff reporter
Residents slam Chamisa's MDC for candidates imposition
THERE was chaos at the Victoria Falls Council offices on Wednesday evening as residents revolted against the alleged imposition of mayoral candidates and interference in balloting by coalition represe...Published: 07 Sep 2018 at 07:06hrs | 414 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe doomed as May, Merkel back Mnangagwa
On August 28, British Prime Minister Theresa May arrived in Cape Town, South Africa, for a one-day working visit. This visit was part of a three-nation tour of South Africa, Kenya and Nigeria designed...Published: 07 Sep 2018 at 07:04hrs | 1021 | by Tafi Mhaka
Villagers could soon use mobile phones to track cattle
Villagers from Murewa and Uzumba burst into laughter as a Cabinet minister told them that government anticipated the use of latest digital technology in herding cattle and doing some household chores ...Published: 07 Sep 2018 at 06:56hrs | 665 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa holds keys to economy, says Biti
FORMER Finance minister and opposition MDC Alliance co-principal, Tendai Biti yesterday called on President Emmerson Mnangagwa to swallow his pride and engage his rival Nelson Chamisa for dialogue to ...Published: 06 Sep 2018 at 07:02hrs | 3149 | by Staff reporter
Is Chamisa losing grip?
THE revolt by councillors against MDC Alliance leader, Mr Nelson Chamisa, over his alleged attempts to impose candidates in the coalition-controlled councils is significant in showing his loose grip o...Published: 06 Sep 2018 at 06:37hrs | 800 | by Nduduzo Tshuma
Zimbabwe economy skids
Analysts have raised fears that the country's troubled economy could soon plunge into another full blown crisis akin to the ugly 2008 hyper-inflationary era — unless the government acts urgently to ...Published: 05 Sep 2018 at 15:46hrs | 1908 | by Staff reporter
Macheso disowns Shona drama
SUNGURA ace Alick Macheso has denied either playing a role or penning a Shona drama titled "Dzatisvitsa Kure", which is being sold in street corners.And with the drama awash in the street corn...Published: 04 Sep 2018 at 19:44hrs | 3197 | by Staff reporter
'Cheated' Bulawayo councillor bares soul
…As Saga Around The Election of Cllr Batsirai Deepens BULAWAYO - Losing Council candidate who is also a former city father, Gideon Mangena, says he is...Published: 04 Sep 2018 at 16:17hrs | 4757 | by Divine Dube
Mnangagwa flies Grace Mugabe home from Singapore
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa moved facilitated the return home from Singapore of former first lady Grace Mugabe whose mother died last week, NewZimbawbe.com has reported.Grace was in the south...Published: 04 Sep 2018 at 15:15hrs | 11761 | by Staff reporter
MultiChoice adds new DStv channel
MultiChoice has launched Star Life, a new broad-range entertainment channel on DStv featuring Indian-themed content that will have broad appeal to audiences across the African continent.MultiC...Published: 02 Sep 2018 at 09:30hrs | 3479 | by Staff reporter
Biti lawyers accuse magistrate of incompetence
OPPOSITION MDC Alliance principal Tendai Biti will next week approach the High Court challenging a Harare magistrate's ruling dismissing his application for permanent stay of prosecution.Biti ...Published: 01 Sep 2018 at 09:44hrs | 965 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa rally ban a déjà vu moment
ZIMBABWE has turned the corner, or has it? The decision by President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government to ban an opposition "feedback rally" that was set to be addressed by MDC Alliance leader and losin...Published: 01 Sep 2018 at 09:38hrs | 902 | by Editorial - newsday
Simba Makoni, Nkosana Moyo emerged from defeat far, far better than Chamisa
I HOPE Chamisa's simmering and smarting hordes are now settled, after what by now should be a long enough cooling period. He is himself showing signs of recovering from zealous political Pentecostalis...Published: 01 Sep 2018 at 09:03hrs | 1413 | by Igomombe
Poll results dash young people's hopes
IT is just after 6pm in the city centre and human traffic is at its peak as pedestrians race to conclude a gruesome day of socio-economic activities.Zimbabwean youths, many of whom threw their...Published: 01 Sep 2018 at 09:00hrs | 128 | by Staff reporter
Give Zimbabwe time - Not sanctions, nor negativity
I was expecting US observers to acknowledge good changes brought to Zimbabwe by the new president.1. It is a fact that the exit of the former president done by Zimbabweans opened doors for a b...Published: 29 Aug 2018 at 12:22hrs | 1228 | by Bernard Sibanda
Grace Mugabe's property invaded
Suspected Zanu-PF thugs laid siege to Grace Mugabe's gold mine in Mazowe mid last week before they were chased from the property two days later.Eye witnesses told the Daily News that the invad...Published: 29 Aug 2018 at 07:08hrs | 6121 | by Staff reporter
Challenges facing Mnangagwa
The elections have come and gone, so has the Constitutional Court (ConCourt) process of dealing with the disputed election outcome. What is imperative now is how the nation moves forward.The k...Published: 29 Aug 2018 at 06:48hrs | 468 | by Dumisani O Nkomo
Con-Court ruling ends the silly season
The recent judgment handed down by the Constitutional Court put an end to a season of jest fronted by the MDC-Alliance's Nelson Chamisa and his supporting cast of pseudo-democrats and Twitter revoluti...Published: 29 Aug 2018 at 06:28hrs | 83 | by Staff reporter
ED must now manage the economy, Pfee to prosperity
In every country, the government takes steps to help the economy achieve the goals of growth, full employment, and price stability. the government must influence economic activity through two approach...Published: 28 Aug 2018 at 23:08hrs | 951 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Zimbabwe needs a rebirth; women must play a central part
The situation of women in Zimbabwe has been gradually deteriorating since the country gained its independence from Britain in 1980. As one who grew up in the country at a time when things were still r...Published: 28 Aug 2018 at 06:53hrs | 159 | by Makho Precious
Mnangagwa's greatest test, camel through needle's eye, was to hold free elections - he failed miserably
The greatest test If Zimbabwe's 2018 elections were free, fair and credible would President Mnangagwa and his Zanu PF junta have won the elections? The answer must be an emphatic YES. ...Published: 26 Aug 2018 at 20:19hrs | 2051 | by Wilbert Mukori
Nelson Chamisa mulls rolling demos
HARARE - Opposition leader Nelson Chamisa was yesterday weighing up all his options - including mounting demos - in the wake of Friday's decision by the Constitutional Court (Con-Court) to uphold Pres...Published: 26 Aug 2018 at 16:38hrs | 4263 | by Staff Reporter
Man murdered over lover
A ZIMBABWEAN man based in South Africa was viciously stabbed before being stoned to death in broad daylight over a woman.The vicious murder happened last week on Wednesday in Hillbrow South Af...Published: 24 Aug 2018 at 05:30hrs | 514 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa in early setback
In an early setback for opposition leader Nelson Chamisa, the Constitutional Court (Con-Court) yesterday completely removed submissions by losing presidential candidates in the July 30 elections who h...Published: 23 Aug 2018 at 14:34hrs | 12272 | by Staff reporter
Old Mutual repositions its brand and readies for growth
Following its primary listing on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE), and secondary relisting on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange in June 2018, Old Mutual has unveiled a vibrant new brand identity, to re...Published: 21 Aug 2018 at 15:52hrs | 335 | by Agencies
Chamisa issues out a warning, 'it's me, myself and I only'
Opposition leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday warned that if he fails to win his case against President Emmerson Mnangagwa at the Constitutional Court (Con-Court) this week, he will turn to the people to...Published: 21 Aug 2018 at 12:57hrs | 13202 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa anxious
Opposition leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday warned that if he fails to win his case against President Emmerson Mnangagwa at the Constitutional Court (Con-Court) this week, he will turn to the people to...Published: 21 Aug 2018 at 07:10hrs | 7666 | by Staff reporter
Court of public opinion is real
Tomorrow Zimbabwe is going to experience a reality show as the Constitutional Court presides over the election petition against President Mnangagwa's electoral victory. Lawyers are going to turn into ...Published: 21 Aug 2018 at 06:31hrs | 164 | by Nick Mangwana
Chamisa, show some leadership, and stop the incitement
The season of press conferences is upon us. It seems like it never ends, and each one has its own little piece of drama or soundbite of stupidity that makes one forget that rarely something is being s...Published: 20 Aug 2018 at 15:30hrs | 1858 | by Anthony Mkondo
Mnangagwa looks beyond Chamisa challenge
PRESIDENT-ELECT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday appeared unfazed by opposition MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa's Constitutional Court (ConCourt) petition challenging the results of last month's presid...Published: 20 Aug 2018 at 06:13hrs | 3072 | by Staff reporter
Democracy, elections bad for collective cause
SOMETHING is going wrong with democracy. Something has gone wrong with democracy. It was the most successful political idea of the 21st century, but increasingly democracy is running into trouble, not...Published: 20 Aug 2018 at 05:53hrs | 112 | by Reason Wafawarova
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