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Mtukudzi's last words to daughter Selmor
THE late music icon and national hero Oliver "Tuku" Mtukudzi's daughter Selmor said she received words of encouragement as the last words from her father when she visited him at his Norton residence a...Published: 9 mins ago | 17 | by Staff reporter
EU diplomat crossed the line, says Ziyambi
JUSTICE minister Ziyambi Ziyambi speaks to our senior reporter Blessed Mhlanga on electoral reforms, diplomatic relations and the late former President Robert Mugabe.ND: Mugabe was a child fro...Published: 20 mins ago | 26 | by Staff reporter
The new dispensation is following footsteps of the previous regime
IN the next six weeks, it will be two years since the nation went into a frenzy celebrating the departure of the late former President Robert Mugabe. He had stayed in power for more than 37 years. His...Published: 29 mins ago | 14 | by Tapiwa Gomo
Mnangagwa, wife travel separately to New York with bloated delegations
President Emmerson Mnangagwa and the first lady flew to the United States separately with bloated delegations, even as the government calls for belt tightening by Zimbabweans.Auxillia Mnangagw...Published: 2 hrs ago | 838 | by ZimLive
Independent candidate beat Zanu-PF and MDC in Insiza
An independent candidate upstaged both Zanu-PF and MDC to win the Insiza Rural District Council ward 15 by-election.Shepherd Juta took 287 votes to claim victory. Zanu-PF's Zenzo Moyo placed s...Published: 2 hrs ago | 1130 | by ZimLive
Declare Mnangagwa a terrorist
THE opposition MDC will submit a petition to the United Nations (UN) and international community asking them to designate President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his Zanu-PF party as terrorists for the killi...Published: 2 hrs ago | 1419 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance abduction 'movies' sickening
Ever since suffering electoral defeat during the July 2018 general elections, opposition Movement for Democratic Change-Alliance has dumped liberalism for anarchism, in fulfilment of party leader Mr N...Published: 3 hrs ago | 329 | by Lawson Mabhena
Paranoia and self-delusion
The longer dictatorships last the more paranoid they become as they resist the pressures of reality bearing ever more heavily upon them. They eventually come to the state of self-delusion shown in an ...Published: 17 hrs ago | 911 | by Zimbabwe Vigil Diary
Mbeki's praise for Mugabe deeper than what meets the eye
The research by Mthwakazi Institute of Research (MIOR) has shown that people of the same philosophy tend to support each other. This becomes more pronounced if the people under scrutiny once have a ch...Published: 18 hrs ago | 2458 | by Mthwakazi Research Institute
'Bhora Mugedhi Versus Bhora Musango' : The interface between football discourse and Zimbabwean politics
Football is the most popular sport in Zimbabwe and across the globe. It has been asserted elsewhere that the game is not limited to scoring goals on the pitch but that this also occurs in politics and...Published: 18 hrs ago | 930 | by Lyton Ncube Siya
Mnangagwa and Chamisa urged to emulate Tsvangirai and Mugabe
ZIMBABWE'S two main political actors Zanu PF's President Emmerson Mnangagwa and MDC leader Nelson Chamisa could easily resolve the country's political impasse if they take a leaf from the legacy of th...Published: 18 hrs ago | 1697 | by newzimbabwe
African Religion and Governance in a changing world. Where thou goest native Africa!
It is my humble intention to speak to this paper in response to my learned brother Kenyan Professor Patrick Loch Otieno Lumumba's presentation to The All-Africa Religious Liberty 3rd Congress in...Published: 18 hrs ago | 273 | by Reginald Nyathi
Fresh scandal brews at NSSA
A fresh scandal is brewing at the National Social Security Authority (NSSA) after revelations that another former minister meddled in the compulsory pensions body's affairs resulting in heavy financia...Published: 23 hrs ago | 2199 | by Staff reporter
Remembering Dr Mzee: Soul of the nation
CDE SIMON Muzenda, who had his last breath on September 20, 2003 at Parirenyatwa Hospital, was declared a national hero and buried at the National Heroes Acre in Harare. On Friday, the nation commemor...Published: 23 hrs ago | 256 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF in landslide Zaka East election victory
Zanu-PF has retained the Zaka East parliamentary seat after its candidate Clemence Chiduwa polled 7 119 votes to romp to a landslide victory in a by election held on Saturday.Chiduwa's victory...Published: 24 hrs ago | 609 | by Staff reporter
Zacc probes vote-buying claims
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) has spread its tentacles to include a probe into vote-buying allegations raised by the opposition MDC in the just-ended parliamentary by-elections....Published: 21 Sep 2019 at 17:34hrs | 1368 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's legacy now source of competing narratives, polemics
FOLLOWING the death of former president Robert Mugabe in Singapore, competing and contradicting narratives around his divisive legacy have emerged, reflective of the enigmatic and complex personality ...Published: 21 Sep 2019 at 08:31hrs | 565 | by Staff reporter
Nemanwa chieftainship revival a threat to 'Chief' Charumbira?
The impending resuscitation of the Nemanwa chieftainship should not cause friction with the Charumbira chieftainship because each will exist within its own boundaries, Masvingo Provincial Development ...Published: 21 Sep 2019 at 08:17hrs | 632 | by Staff reporter
ZEC backtracks on decision to charge accreditation in US$
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has backtracked on its decision to charge journalists, civil society and election observers who want to cover elections and by-elections in US dollars after Tel...Published: 21 Sep 2019 at 08:16hrs | 138 | by Staff reporter
Zaka East by-election on today
All is set for the Zaka East parliamentary by-election today, with the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission(ZEC) yesterday saying it was all systems go for the plebiscite. The by-election will be held to fil...Published: 21 Sep 2019 at 07:51hrs | 131 | by Staff reporter
When the government chooses to be the third force
The reports by the government that there is a third force operating in Zimbabwe are just fat lies and can be dismissed with all costs.Doctors in Zimbabwe have been going on industrial action f...Published: 20 Sep 2019 at 14:59hrs | 1437 | by Leonard Koni
Barriers to ZAPU's successful revival.
Zimbabwe's political landscape is complicated and unforgiving, but more so for ZAPU. ZAPU is viewed in two prisms, one perspective is that ZAPU is a national party and the other is that ZAPU is a trib...Published: 20 Sep 2019 at 14:56hrs | 1002 | by Thulani Nkala
MDC vow anti-Mnangagwa demos at UN GA - why bother, all know you are ones keeping him in power
Next week world leaders will be in New York, USA, for the annual UN General Assembly talk-shop. Yes, Zimbabwe's leader Emerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa will be there with the usual large entourage of hanger...Published: 20 Sep 2019 at 09:50hrs | 2605 | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
Mugabe praises shows stupidity of hating each
JUST when you think the funeral saga surrounding the late former President Robert Mugabe is finally over, new twists and turns emerge.Not to mention that everyone - virtually everyone - wants ...Published: 20 Sep 2019 at 08:41hrs | 2024 | by Conway Tutani
Zesn urges parties to invest in campaigns
INDEPENDENT election watchdog, Zimbabwe Election Support Network (Zesn) has urged political parties to invest in campaign processes to ensure a large voter turnout during polling elections.Zes...Published: 20 Sep 2019 at 08:38hrs | 149 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo poor voter registration a wake-up call to Chamisa's MDC
THE poor voter registration turnout that has been recorded in Bulawayo, with less than five residents taking part in the ongoing exercise each month according to the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec...Published: 20 Sep 2019 at 08:32hrs | 856 | by Editorial - Newsday
UN probes Zimbabwe amid 'abductions'
UNITED Nations (UN) special rapporteur on the Rights of Freedom of Peaceful Assembly Clement Voule this week flew into a storm as his visit coincided with the reported abduction of the acting presiden...Published: 20 Sep 2019 at 08:30hrs | 855 | by Staff reporter
Where is full judgment on 2018 electoral case?
ON August 24, the Constitutional Court (ConCourt) handed down its abridged judgment in the electoral challenge case brought by the opposition candidate, Nelson Chamisa, against the ruling Zanu-PF's Em...Published: 20 Sep 2019 at 08:24hrs | 1813 | by Swikani Ncube
Mugabe is dead, but old men still run southern Africa
THE death of former President Robert Gabriel Mugabe (95) saw another of the first-generation leaders of newly independent southern African states leave the world stage.Southern Africa was the ...Published: 20 Sep 2019 at 07:56hrs | 555 | by Henning Melber
Of human rights demands and regime change in ZImbabwe
Chapter 4 of Zimbabwe's Constitution adopted in 2013 outlines various rights which are supposed to be enjoyed by Zimbabwean citizens as they go about their business. A few bad apples among us are busy...Published: 20 Sep 2019 at 07:39hrs | 162 | by Elijah Chihota
Kamambo to have the last laugh
ZIFA president Felton Kamambo insists he remains the right man to take Zimbabwean football forward and the fierce criticism he has received will only transform him into a better leader of the game. He...Published: 20 Sep 2019 at 07:36hrs | 361 | by Staff reporter
'Blanket ban on demos, unconstitutional'
A blanket ban on demonstrations violates citizens' rights to protest as provided for in the Constitution of Zimbabwe, a lawyer has said.Esau Mandipa, a legal practitioner and law lecturer at M...Published: 19 Sep 2019 at 19:50hrs | 2402 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC takes police head-on
THE MDC has confronted the police demanding an explanation on why Police Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga has allegedly issued an illegal ban on the party's internal meetings across the country....Published: 19 Sep 2019 at 15:34hrs | 4558 | by Staff reporter
When a government starts abducting its own doctors…
While the President of the Republic is busy trying to be endorsed by a dead man called Robert Mugabe, all the country's referral hospitals are without doctors, after the Doctors Association called for...Published: 19 Sep 2019 at 09:15hrs | 4396 | by Knowledge Hakata
'Bulawayo residents snub voter registration'
A POOR voter registration turnout is haunting Bulawayo, with less than five residents taking part in the ongoing exercise each month, the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has said.If there ...Published: 19 Sep 2019 at 08:08hrs | 888 | by Staff reporter
‘We'll be watching' – a reporter's fraught return to Zimbabwe after 16 years
The immigration officer lifted his stamp to put the visa into my passport and I heaved a sigh of relief. But then my passport was taken by a smiling woman who asked, "Have you been to Zimbabwe before?...Published: 19 Sep 2019 at 07:48hrs | 1303 | by Andrew Meldrum I Associated Press
MDC Alliance behind abductions
The quest for power should never ever replace our humanness and the inherent spirit of Ubuntu that is the hallmark of our people, either in their deeds or spirit. Such virtues that are found in Zimbab...Published: 19 Sep 2019 at 07:35hrs | 1745 | by Pupurai Togarepi
Of human rights demands and regime change
Chapter 4 of Zimbabwe's Constitution adopted in 2013 outlines various rights which are supposed to be enjoyed by Zimbabwean citizens as they go about their business. A few bad apples among us are busy...Published: 18 Sep 2019 at 16:34hrs | 1132 | by Elijah Chihota
Mugabe The Legacy
Born 21 February 1924 in Kutama Zvimba to Bona a catechist and Gabriel a carpenter no one would have thought that such a humble family would raise up an astute Pan-Africanist, Robert Gabriel Mugabe....Published: 18 Sep 2019 at 16:33hrs | 1039 | by Daniel Itai
High Court outlaws Mnangagwa government's illegal tax
In a landmark case argued by MDC Vice President Hon. Tendai Biti, the High Court today outlawed government's two per cent tax on despondent Zimbabweans in a move that vindicated the MDC position that ...Published: 18 Sep 2019 at 12:35hrs | 2810 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
UK, US wanted South Africa to help remove Mugabe from power
Former South African President Thabo Mbeki has used the KwaZulu-Natal African National Congress (ANC)'s memorial service of the late former Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe to recount how the British a...Published: 18 Sep 2019 at 08:40hrs | 1548 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa $720k richer as Mnangagwa's treasury releases $3.4 million to MDC
TREASURY has released $3,4 million to the opposition MDC under the Political Parties Finance Act.The money was released two weeks ago following months of bickering, with the opposition party a...Published: 18 Sep 2019 at 08:37hrs | 11081 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF moves to seal Zivhu's fate
Zanu-PF Masvingo provincial executive is moving to seal the fate of embattled Chivi South MP Killer Zivhu, despite the party's national disciplinary committee, headed by chairperson Oppah Muchinguri s...Published: 18 Sep 2019 at 08:34hrs | 2221 | by Staff reporter
Thabitha Khumalo in trouble
BULAWAYO magistrate Tinashe Tashaya yesterday issued an administrative warrant against MDC chairperson Thabitha Khumalo for failing to show up in court yesterday.Khumalo (58), senator Helen Zi...Published: 18 Sep 2019 at 08:30hrs | 1262 | by Staff reporter
RG's Office urged to stop the habit of going into the rural areas during election periods only
Some traditional and community leaders in Mashonaland East province have called on the Registrar-General's Office to decentralise and stop the habit of going into the rural areas during election perio...Published: 18 Sep 2019 at 08:29hrs | 185 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt to present human rights report to UN, AU for review
ZIMBABWE has made significant strides in promoting and protecting the human rights of citizens since 2007 in line with international agreements and is due to present reports to world and continental b...Published: 18 Sep 2019 at 07:56hrs | 234 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to deliver SONA
President Mnangagwa will deliver the State of the Nation Address on October 1, the same day he will officially open the Second Session of the Ninth Parliament, Clerk of Parliament Mr Kennedy Chokuda h...Published: 18 Sep 2019 at 07:56hrs | 1445 | by Staff reporter
Uncle Sam ups black ops in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe's politics is sick. It is sickening. It is self-defeating. It is toxic. Of late there has been a worrying dangerous trend of Zimbabweans staging abductions and kidnappings, all aimed at false...Published: 18 Sep 2019 at 07:51hrs | 354 | by Philemon Mutedzi
Zimbabwe churches call for independent probe into abductions
The Zimbabwe Council of Churches (ZCC) on Tuesday warned that citizens are facing "the highest level of vulnerability" because of a failure by authorities to investigate and punish crimes against righ...Published: 18 Sep 2019 at 07:49hrs | 99 | by ZimLive
Mnangagwa's Politburo meets today
Zanu-PF will convene an ordinary session of the Politburo today at the party headquarters in Harare, the party's secretary for Information and Publicity, Simon Khaya Moyo confirmed in a statement yest...Published: 18 Sep 2019 at 07:48hrs | 199 | by Staff reporter
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