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Zanu-PF conference kicks off, spotlight on ED2030
Zanu-PF's annual conference has commenced today in Bulawayo, focusing on the contentious push by President Emmerson Mnangagwa's supporters for a resolution to extend his term in office. The gathering ...Published: 25 Oct 2024 at 08:51hrs | 558 | by Staff reporter
Colonialists to give sovereignty of Chagos Islands to Mauritius
The UK has announced it is giving up sovereignty of a remote but strategically important cluster of islands in the Indian Ocean after more than half a century.The deal – reached after years ...Published: 03 Oct 2024 at 12:39hrs | 219 | by Andrew Harding
Mnangagwa rejects third term
President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Monday insisted that he would handover power in 2028 when his second and final term expires, seeking to put a stop to growing speculation that he intends to amend the c...Published: 03 Sep 2024 at 14:38hrs | 1414 | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi genocide survivor cannot forgive Mugabe's foot soldiers
An astounding number of mass graves surround Thabani Dhlamini's home in south-western Zimbabwe.One pointed out to the BBC lies near the ablution block at a primary school in the village of Sal...Published: 17 Jul 2024 at 07:26hrs | 1161 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF exploits churches
A HUSH fell over a crowd outside the church as heads tilted skyward after the unmistakable thrum of a helicopter cut through the Sunday morning air.A white and blue speck materialised in the d...Published: 08 Apr 2024 at 10:46hrs | 6 | 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
Mutambara says Mnangagwa is 'dull and dumb'
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa lost an opportunity to unite a fractious Zimbabwe after a military-assisted coup in 2017, failing to chart a new trajectory for the country.In his recent assessmen...Published: 01 Aug 2023 at 06:34hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Ezekiel Guti tried to bring Chamisa, Mnangagwa together
This rings true to the late clergyman Ezekiel Guti whose grey hair symbolised the wisdom that the revered Apostle had amassed in his 100 years.Guti, credited for founding the biggest independe...Published: 17 Jul 2023 at 07:01hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Thomas Mapfumo retires in exile
OF all my records by Zimbabwean musicians, the one I treasure the most is Thomas Mapfumo's crackly 7-inch single with "Kuyaura" on side A and "Zvanyadza" on the flip side.Released in 1979, tow...Published: 17 Jul 2023 at 06:50hrs | 14 | by Percy Zvomuya
Zimbabwe ready to shake off global 'bad press'
Zimbabwe coach Dave Houghton says the country is ready to shake off the "bad press" it still receives globally as it prepares to host the Cricket World Cup qualifiers which begin on Sunday.Wes...Published: 16 Jun 2023 at 17:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere: Red herring, Chamisa's double
Becoming a political clichéGustave Flaubert of the 19th Century licentious novel, Madame Bovary, said this of language: "Language is indeed a machine that continually amplifies emotion."...Published: 10 Jun 2023 at 17:46hrs | 1 | by @Jamwanda2 0n Saturday
Mthuli Ncube set to retain post after election
Zimbabwean Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube secured the ruling party's endorsement to stand as a lawmaker in upcoming elections, a possible precursor to his reappointment in the next administration....Published: 30 Mar 2023 at 06:47hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
The many political lives of Mohadi
WHEN the "Ides of March" devoured Kembo Mohadi as he stepped down as country Vice-President (VP) late February last year, many thought the epitaph on his political grave had been inscribed for eternit...Published: 05 Dec 2022 at 05:11hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
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: 27 Nov 2022 at 18:55hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe headed for a political dead heat in 2023
ZIMBABWE'S marginalised and poor communities, which have traditionally voted for the ruling Zanu-PF party and often abused as political fodder in the fractious politics of the country, are turning aga...Published: 29 Jun 2022 at 07:46hrs | 8 | by Rashweat Mukundu
Zanu-PF wrestles seats from Chamisa
Zanu-PF snatched two parliamentary seats from the opposition in the by-elections held on Saturday, winning in Epworth and Mutasa South and also getting a foothold in urban local authorities.Ah...Published: 28 Mar 2022 at 06:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe, ex-coloniser diplomatic rift set to widen
THE latest outbreak of political violence in Zimbabwe threatens to widen the diplomatic rift with the United Kingdom (UK).Relations between the African country and former coloniser have been s...Published: 11 Mar 2022 at 06:25hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's blank politics backfiring!
DID I not tell you that the yellow fever is fast turning into despair? Did I not tell you that nothing has really changed because Chamisa's CCC is nothing but the fractious MDC now dressed in yellow?...Published: 06 Mar 2022 at 08:16hrs | | by Major Action Mandingo (Rtd)
Khupe goes to court over MDC-T funds
EXPELLED Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T) deputy president Dr Thokozani Khupe has approached the High Court seeking an order barring Government from disbursing funds to her rival Mr Douglas Mwon...Published: 26 Feb 2022 at 18:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
SRC, Parliament clash
SPORTS and Recreation Commission (SRC) chairperson Gerald Mlotshwa has come under fire from Members of Parliament who are demanding the reinstatement of the suspended Zifa executive board to avert a F...Published: 23 Feb 2022 at 05:50hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Yellow ‘fever' fast turning into despair
Just a few weeks down the line, the euphoria is fast dying down.The yellow fever is fast turning into despair.Zimbabweans being the creative lot that they are have turned CCC into "Cha...Published: 13 Feb 2022 at 20:40hrs | 2 | by Major Action Mandingo (Retired)
Mnangagwa under pressure to reshuffle
PRESSURE is mounting on President Emmerson Mnangagwa to reshuffle his cabinet within the fractious ruling Zanu-PF ahead of upcoming 2023 harmonised elections.The anticipated reshuffle, accordi...Published: 04 Feb 2022 at 21:32hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
CCC project exposes Chamisa's poor political pedigree
For the past week the adherence of the MDC faction led by Nelson Chamisa, some interested distant watchers and anti-Government elements have been head over heels in excitement.This follows Cha...Published: 03 Feb 2022 at 05:35hrs | 1 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Mwonzora, Mnangagwa share $500 million
Zanu-PF is set to receive $350 million, while the MDC-T led by Mr Douglas Mwonzora will get $149 million of the $500 million allocated in this year's annual national Budget under the Political Parties...Published: 28 Jan 2022 at 05:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) - Nothing new to behold
ON Monday, Mr Nelson Chamisa, the former MDC-Alliance leader formed a "new" party the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) after throwing in the towel in the battle for the control of the MDC-T party, ...Published: 27 Jan 2022 at 04:38hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
MDC circus continues
THE political circus in the MDC continues with the party's vice president Dr Thokozani Khupe announcing yesterday that she had broken ranks with former president Mr Douglas Mwonzora to form a splinter...Published: 22 Jan 2022 at 05:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
March by-elections inconsequential
IMMEDIATELY after President Emmerson Mnangagwa proclaimed the March 2022 by-elections, he started the week by firing his State Security minister Owen Ncube in dramatic fashion. The decision stole the ...Published: 15 Jan 2022 at 00:15hrs | | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
When First Lady beneficiaries are coached to express gratitude for donations
DEAR President Emmerson Mnangagwa.Your Excellency, you ought to have known that true beatitude comes not from earthly riches, but from the milk of human kindness. You should have intuited. All...Published: 01 Sep 2021 at 06:28hrs | | by Cyprian Ndawana
West's Zimbabwean political project crumbling
There is an interesting quotation from the Old Man in Charles Mungoshi's "Waiting for the Rain" (1975). It is a quotation that epitomises his lament about the alienation that has afflicted Lucifer, hi...Published: 29 Mar 2021 at 06:13hrs | | by Ranga Mataire
Fresh disorder rocks Zanu-PF
Zanu-PF has been hit by fresh chaos, with the party's highly divisive and recently restored District Co-ordinating Committees (DCCs) at the centre of the latest commotion.The DCCs - which were...Published: 25 Mar 2021 at 16:09hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Govt food aid diverted to Zanu-PF DCC election campaigns
SOME Zanu-PF MPs vying to be chairpersons in the party's district coordinating committees (DCCs) are reported to be diverting government food aid meant for vulnerable families and selectively donating...Published: 24 Oct 2020 at 08:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe striking terribly hard in death
LAST week marked the first anniversary of the death of Robert Gabriel Mugabe, independent Zimbabwe's first president. Arguably one of the world's most shrewd and controversial politicians, the "larger...Published: 11 Sep 2020 at 07:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Facilitate Gukurahundi apology, Mudenda urges NPRC
Speaker of Parliament Advocate Jacob Mudenda has urged the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) to advocate a national apology for past conflicts, including Gukurahundi. He said...Published: 20 Aug 2019 at 08:10hrs | 5 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe's reform agenda - One year on
It is one year since the election of President Emmerson Mnangagwa to the helm of the State. This marks an important milestone for a new administration which has made reform a key priority, seeking to ...Published: 01 Aug 2019 at 09:14hrs | | by Lt-Gen (Rtd) Sibusiso B. Moyo
Mohadi meets Midlands chiefs over Gukurahundi
Vice President Kembo Mohadi yesterday met chiefs from the Midlands Province to consult on national healing, peace and reconciliation mechanisms as part of efforts to address issues of Zimbabwe's fract...Published: 18 Jul 2019 at 07:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dabengwa: Zimbabwe's intelligence Czar
On the night of August 15, 2011, I attended the launch of Wilfred Mhanda's (nom de guerre Dzinashe Machingura) memoir, Dzino: Memories of a Freedom Fighter in Harare. Mhanda was an important figure in...Published: 29 May 2019 at 08:00hrs | | by Blessing Miles-Tendi
Mnangagwa's mixed messages
It is ironic that Information Minister Monica Mutsvangwa happened to be in London spreading the 'Zimbabwe open for business' message when it was announced in Harare that draconian power cuts are being...Published: 12 May 2019 at 23:13hrs | | by Zimbabwe Vigil Diary
Riot police called in to restore order during Zanu-PF's elections
RIOT police were called in to restore order during Zanu-PF's chaotic internal elections on Sunday after drunk and angry supporters accused the party's chefs of holding sham elections ahead of next wee...Published: 07 May 2019 at 20:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa reaches out to Mnangagwa
AN increasingly flippant MDC-Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday desperately reached out to President Emmerson Mnangagwa by calling for dialogue between his beleagured party and Zanu-PF.H...Published: 05 May 2019 at 08:14hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Zanu-PF bigwigs savaged
ERRANT Zanu-PF bigwigs aspiring to lead the party's fractious Bulawayo province have received a severe tongue-lashing from the former liberation movement's secretary for administration Obert Mpofu - w...Published: 09 Apr 2019 at 14:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Unruly Bulawayo bigwigs savaged
ERRANT Zanu-PF bigwigs aspiring to lead the party's fractious Bulawayo province have received a severe tongue-lashing from the former liberation movement's secretary for administration Obert Mpofu - w...Published: 09 Apr 2019 at 07:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance planned to win 2018 with 4.5m votes - failed, plan lacked even common sense
MDC Alliance leaders want to cast themselves as democrats who have embraced the democratic ethos of open and meaningful debate and democratic competition. They are not democrats and there is nothing l...Published: 05 Mar 2019 at 23:05hrs | 1 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Chamisa - A case of paranoia
MDC leader Mr Nelson Chamisa's claim of an abduction attempt on his person by alleged State agents last Saturday as he made his way from a rally in Marondera is a diversionary tactic to shift from the...Published: 14 Nov 2018 at 05:51hrs | | by Nduduzo Tshuma
Chamisa must call the midwife for a proper re-birth
After the opposition MDC Alliance commemorated its 19th anniversary last Saturday, one hopes that there will be a lot of introspection on the part of its leadership and supporters about their perpetua...Published: 01 Nov 2018 at 05:33hrs | | by Kuda Bwititi
Mnangagwa should prove his mantle
From his first coming as President - in November last year - Emmerson Mnangagwa has sought to portray himself as a Statesman, a man who would put the needs of the nation first and rise above the poiso...Published: 07 Sep 2018 at 07:05hrs | | by Editorial - newsday
'Zimbabwe polls were meant to start new era'
Emmerson Mnangagwa has been declared president of Zimbabwe amid protests and violence.But Zimbabweans are now in a post-political, economy-first mood.Before Zimbabwe's general election...Published: 18 Aug 2018 at 13:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa is not a factor in parliament, which is good
Since there are so many impious hands on Zimbabwe's internal affairs, so many hands challenging its sovereignty, I thought my opening paragraphs should address those meddlesome, self-righteous foreign...Published: 18 Aug 2018 at 07:53hrs | | by Igomombe
Bullet-train pledge, splits cost Chamisa
As Zimbabwean opposition leader Nelson Chamisa considers mounting a legal challenge to last week's election results, he's also counting the cost of fissures within his alliance and campaign pledges th...Published: 08 Aug 2018 at 06:13hrs | | by Bloomberg
NPF: Possessed by a retrogressive agenda?
Mark Duncan, writing from Moscow, felt compelled to advise The Economist [Letters - A party of the people, April 14, 2018], that its belief that Russian youth post Gorbachev generation offered optimis...Published: 04 Jul 2018 at 08:22hrs | | by Tapiwa Nyandoro
Chamisa opts to Jameson Timba as his election agent
What an incongruous title to use in describing politics of the Savannah! Yet such is the beauty of communication: yoking together things that are violently dissimilar, all to drive home a key point. A...Published: 16 Jun 2018 at 21:42hrs | | by Igomombe
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