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Zifa stooges battling a rebellion from association's members
ZIFA interim president Gift Banda is battling a rebellion from some of the association's members who have refused to recognise his executive board.The association's Central and Southern region...Published: 9 hrs ago | 230 | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere to challenge Mnangagwa for Zimbabwe presidency?
Saviour Kasukuwere has declared he is ready to challenge President Emmerson Mnangagwa for the Zimbabwe presidency during a virtual meeting with supporters.In his first public comments about hi...Published: 12 hrs ago | 921 | by Staff reporter
Kazembe's visit to UAE surveillance expo ahead of 2023 raises eyebrows
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa recently dispatched Home Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe (pictured) to attend a digital surveillance event in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) amid indications that the Zim...Published: 13 hrs ago | 583 | by Staff reporter
Another probe into AK-47 arms saga
GOVERNMENT has launched yet another investigation — the third one so far in as many weeks — into the controversial AK-47s arms import saga through Beitbridge Border Post which is now entangled in ...Published: 13 hrs ago | 707 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt hard-pressed to appease restless public sector workers
FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube has proposed to increase the proportion of employment costs on state expenditure to 52.4% from 42.3% as the desperate government makes frantic efforts to appease the 300 ...Published: 13 hrs ago | 163 | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere in apparent jibe at G40 colleagues, Jonathan Moyo hits back
FORMER Zanu-PF political commissar, Saviour Kasukuwere says he will not grovel before party leaders, including President Emmerson Mnangagwa, seeking forgiveness and re-admission into the revolutionary...Published: 13 hrs ago | 473 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe opposition party threatens to boycott 2023 polls
OPPOSITION Peoples Unity Party (PUP) has threatened to boycott 2023 elections citing lack of reforms amid heightened political intolerance.PUP becomes the second opposition party to hint at sn...Published: 13 hrs ago | 157 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe now a banana republic, mafia State'
NewsDay (ND) reporter Lorraine Muromo recently had an interview with Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition (CiCZ) chairperson Peter Mutasa (PM) on the country's human rights situation and the controversial Pri...Published: 13 hrs ago | 96 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF Youth League targets 1,5m votes in Harare
The Zanu-PF Harare Province Youth League plans to mobilise people in a bid to secure 1,5 million votes as its contribution to the ruling party's target of drumming up 5 million for next year's harmoni...Published: 13 hrs ago | 25 | by Staff reporter
Ncube's 2023 budget will take 150 years to deliver upper middle income, forget Vision 2030. The maths do not lie!
The Zimbabwe economy has been in decline for the last 42 years, it shrunk staggering 50% in the period 2000 to 2008 alone fuelled by the hyperinflation, that soared to dizzying heights of 500 billion ...Published: 26 Nov 2022 at 21:28hrs | 665 | by Wilbert Mukori
Opposition 4ED crumbles like a deck of cards
It never rains but pours for MDC-T leader Mr Douglas Mwonzora. The centre is not holding at his party which he unconstitutionally grabbed from Nelson Chamisa with the help of President Emmerson Mnanga...Published: 25 Nov 2022 at 13:25hrs | 2638 | by Leonard Koni
Mthuli Ncube raises VAT, restores duty on basics
Finance minister Mthuli Ncube unveiled his 2023 budget on Thursday, raising value added tax (VAT) in a move the main opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) described as "an attack on working p...Published: 25 Nov 2022 at 05:21hrs | 9023 | by Staff reporter
Biti dismisses Mthuli Ncube's budget as 'power retention project'
HARARE East Member of Parliament (MP), Tendai Biti has said Finance Prof. Minister Mthuli Ncube should have dollarized the economy as the opposition politician condemned the 2023 budget as "cruel and ...Published: 25 Nov 2022 at 05:17hrs | 575 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube pampers security sector
THE security sector, which includes the Office of the President and Cabinet (OPC), Defence and War Veterans Affairs and the Home Affairs ministries were some of the departments that got the largest ch...Published: 25 Nov 2022 at 05:15hrs | 921 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MP sues Zec over voters roll
HARARE North legislator Allan Markham (CCC) has filed a High Court challenge against the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) seeking to compel it to provide the national voters roll in electronic form...Published: 25 Nov 2022 at 05:14hrs | 385 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt turns to Treasury bills, bonds
THE cash-strapped government is likely to print money to finance its $575,5 billion budget deficit, economic analysts warned yesterday after Finance minister Mthuli Ncube announced next year's $4,5 tr...Published: 25 Nov 2022 at 05:12hrs | 213 | by Staff reporter
Does Zimbabwe need the Commonwealth?
ZIMBABWE joined the Commonwealth in 1980 after gaining independence from Britain - in what appeared to be a major victory for the Commonwealth. Twenty-three years down the road, Zimbabwe quit the Comm...Published: 25 Nov 2022 at 05:11hrs | 259 | by Vusi Nyamazana
Civil servants get lion's share
SALARIES for civil servants are set to go up markedly after the Government allocated the biggest chunk of the 2023 National Budget towards the public sector wage bill to cushion workers from the negat...Published: 25 Nov 2022 at 05:05hrs | 501 | by Staff reporter
Key priority projects allocated $1,1 trillion
Key infrastructure projects such as the Harare-Beitbridge highway upgrade and construction of Lake Gwayi-Shangani, have been allocated $1,1 trillion as the Government moves to accelerate their complet...Published: 25 Nov 2022 at 05:04hrs | 132 | by Staff reporter
ZEC gets $74 billion for elections
The Government has set aside $76 billion for the 2023 harmonised elections to cover various activities, with $53 billion earmarked for the actual polling.Presenting the 2023 National Budget ye...Published: 25 Nov 2022 at 05:04hrs | 87 | by Staff reporter
'Rascal Moyo is broke and is licking rogues who tried to kill him' - They're luring him back for a wallop!
Ever since the day Professor Jonathan Moyo and Patrick Zhuwao penned off their letter accusing Mnangagwa and company for the 15 November 2017 military coup; many Zimbabweans have had a good laugh at t...Published: 24 Nov 2022 at 21:52hrs | 1147 | by Nomusa Garikai
Mnangagwa hails 'excellent' China relations
President Emmerson Mnangagwa hailed "excellent" relations with China as he delivered for the first time a State of the Nation address at a new multimillion-dollar parliament building gifted by the Asi...Published: 24 Nov 2022 at 05:02hrs | 475 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's CCC blasts Mnangagwa's 'lame duck' SONA address
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa Wednesday reiterated the need for political players to shun violence as the country prepares for the 2023 general election.Mnangagwa said this during his State of ...Published: 24 Nov 2022 at 05:01hrs | 1419 | by Staff reporter
Mliswa scorns MPs4ED group
INDEPENDENT Norton legislator, Temba Mliswa has blasted Zanu-PF Members of Parliament (MPs) under the MPsforED grouping, arguing some of them could be engaged in these ‘bootlicking' initiatives to h...Published: 24 Nov 2022 at 05:01hrs | 5372 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's SONA raises dust
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday urged legislators to finalise laws relating to elections and the controversial Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) (Amendment) Bill, which has been criticised...Published: 24 Nov 2022 at 05:00hrs | 2357 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa calls for political tolerance
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday called for political tolerance among politicians aspiring to contest in the 2023 harmonised elections.The President also said parliamentarians should swiftly atte...Published: 24 Nov 2022 at 04:57hrs | 151 | by Staff reporter
Mzembi insists he is still a Zanu-PF member and promises 'surprises'
SELF-exiled former Cabinet minister, Walter Mzembi, says he legally and technically remains a member of Zanu-PF.The former G40 faction kingpin is among several former ruling party members, who...Published: 23 Nov 2022 at 05:04hrs | 2240 | by Staff reporter
JSC shoots back at Team Pachedu
The Judicial Service Commission (JSC) has made claims its website was hacked after internet activists using the Twitter handle, Team Pachedu weekend exposed damning revelations the government institut...Published: 22 Nov 2022 at 05:04hrs | 1832 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora outfoxes rivals for MDC presidency
MDC-ALLIANCE leader Douglas Mwonzora appears to have outfoxed his competition ahead of the party congress as he emerged the sole candidate for the presidency the opposition party's national council me...Published: 22 Nov 2022 at 04:56hrs | 3455 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF orders followers to stop campaigns
Zanu-PF national commissar Mike Bimha has called on party members to wait for formal processes to take place before engaging in campaign gear for the 2023 elections.Addressing a Press conferen...Published: 22 Nov 2022 at 04:55hrs | 1482 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF dangles cane plots to youths
THE ruling Zanu-PF party has doled out sugarcane plots to Zanu-PF youths in Chiredzi, Masvingo province, as a vote-buying gimmick ahead of the 2023 polls.In past elections, the ruling party ha...Published: 22 Nov 2022 at 04:55hrs | 473 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to deliver SONA from new Parliament Building
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa is expected to deliver the State of the Nation Address (SONA) tomorrow while officially opening the last session of ninth Parliament ahead of the 2023 national polls.Analys...Published: 22 Nov 2022 at 04:52hrs | 401 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF tells aspiring candidates not to jump the gun
Zanu-PF has warned aspiring candidates intending to represent the party in next year's harmonised elections against jumping the gun saying everyone should wait for the party to make an official statem...Published: 22 Nov 2022 at 04:51hrs | 168 | by Staff reporter
'Jonathan Moyo preparing for life after Mnangagwa'
THE open letter of apology by self-exiled former ministers Jonathan Moyo and Patrick Zhuwao - addressed to Zanu-PF members - shows that the two politicians may be preparing for life after Emmerson Mna...Published: 21 Nov 2022 at 18:34hrs | 9364 | by Staff reporter
'SA mass deportation pile pressure on Zimbabwe'
THE scheduled mass deportation of Zimbabweans living in South Africa in June 2023 is anticipated to increase pressure on the infrastructure of this country, including the health care sector, experts s...Published: 21 Nov 2022 at 18:33hrs | 1969 | by Staff reporter
'It's foolish participating in rigged elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy' admitted Biti in 2015 - of course, has known this al
"Look, you can't keep on participating in flawed electoral processes that serve to give big benefits to dictators such as Robert Mugabe. Mugabe has perfected the art of winning elections. So it will b...Published: 21 Nov 2022 at 09:42hrs | 476 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Mnangagwa challenged to control Zanu-PF members
OPPOSITION People's Unity Party (PUP) has challenged President Emmerson Mnangagwa to rein in and control errant members within the ruling party who are threatening to unleash violence in his nam...Published: 21 Nov 2022 at 05:03hrs | 1602 | by Staff reporter
New law bans MPs with criminal conviction from participating in future Zimbabwe elections
MEMBERS of Parliament with a criminal conviction will no longer be allowed to contest future elections.According to the Electoral Act Amendment Bill, 2022 that was gazetted on Friday, legislat...Published: 21 Nov 2022 at 05:02hrs | 939 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa plans to charm Brits into lifting Zimbabwean sanctions
When President Cyril Ramaphosa meets newly appointed UK prime minister Rishi Sunak this week, he will try to persuade him to have the sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe lifted.This is according to ...Published: 21 Nov 2022 at 05:01hrs | 1107 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa attacked
SELF-EXILED former minister Saviour Kasukuwere has accused the ruling Zanu-PF party of failing to abide by its constitution in elevating President Emmerson Mnangagwa as its leader following the oustin...Published: 21 Nov 2022 at 05:00hrs | 4511 | by Staff reporter
Plumtree pilot defies racial attitudes to pursue dream
FORTY years and still counting years of flying different aircraft types, heads of States, the late Prince Philip; husband to the late Queen Elizabeth II, and roles spanning basic flying, advanced flyi...Published: 21 Nov 2022 at 04:57hrs | 790 | by Staff reporter
Driver's licence not official ID for voting
The Electoral Amendment Bill, which seeks to relax registration requirements for voters ahead of next year's harmonised elections and amend several provisions of the main Act to bring it to conformity...Published: 21 Nov 2022 at 04:55hrs | 187 | by Staff reporter
Russian scholarships, language lessons offered
Zimbabweans now have the opportunity to study in Russia and learn Russian as a foreign language under a scholarship programme to be implemented by various partners.The Presidential Office for ...Published: 21 Nov 2022 at 04:54hrs | 212 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's new Parliament ready for business
President Mnangagwa will inaugurate the New Parliament building in Mt Hampden this week, when he delivers a State of the Nation Address (SONA) and officially opens the 5th session of the ninth Parliam...Published: 21 Nov 2022 at 04:54hrs | 288 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF congress maintains 2017 coup hierarchy
"LOBENGULA comes back as secretary for administration," Zanu-PF leader, President Emmerson Mnangagwa announced on 29 October as he appointed the ruling party's top leadership at the recent congress at...Published: 20 Nov 2022 at 15:43hrs | 956 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF rues time wasted on factional fights than voter registration
Zanu-PF Masvingo province is in panic mode over low voter registration in its rural strongholds and is now making frantic efforts to make up for lost ground as the 2023 harmonized elections beckon....Published: 20 Nov 2022 at 15:42hrs | 256 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa issues 2023 poll warning
Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa has hinted that his party will consider boycotting the 2023 elections if its concerns over the voters' roll are not addressed.The Zimb...Published: 20 Nov 2022 at 15:42hrs | 636 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa crafts crude strategy to stay in power
IN December 2014, the late Zanu-PF Women's League national secretary Shuvai Mahofa collapsed after spending two hours singing and dancing in support of the then First Lady Grace Mugabe. Mahofa...Published: 20 Nov 2022 at 15:41hrs | 1051 | by Staff reporter
Why Jonathan Moyo apologised to Zanu-PF
Exiled former ministers Jonathan Moyo and Patrick Zhuwao last week wrote a joint letter apologising to Zanu-PF members for supporting President Emmerson Mnangagwa's rival Nelson Chamisa in the 2018 el...Published: 20 Nov 2022 at 15:41hrs | 2317 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa speaks on 2023 polls prospects, accepting results
A wave of opposition victories in the Sadc region over the past two years has elicited mixed reactions from political parties in Zimbabwe.The opposition says this is a sign that the tide was c...Published: 20 Nov 2022 at 15:40hrs | 433 | by Staff reporter
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