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Grace Mugabe finally shakes Mnangagwa's hand
THE late former President Robert Mugabe was yesterday honoured as one of Southern Africa's founding fathers at the ongoing Southern Africa Development Community (Sadc) summit being held in the Democra...Published: 6 hrs ago | 1229 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa 'bumps' into Grace Mugabe
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa Wednesday met former first lady Grace Mugabe in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), three years after their last known interaction at late predecessor Robert Mugabe's ...Published: 17 hrs ago | 3430 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, credibility crisis has dogged your leadership
DEAR President Emmerson Mnangagwa,Your Excellency, it is my fervent conviction that your conferring the national hero status on Rev Ndabaningi Sithole was motivated primarily by ulterior motiv...Published: 17 Aug 2022 at 06:38hrs | 296 | by Cyprian M Ndawana
Chamisa rules out protests over jailed Sikhala
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa has said his party is not a violent and will never engage in any mayhem activities for the release of jailed party members.The opposit...Published: 15 Aug 2022 at 06:45hrs | 3650 | by Staff reporter
Prominent businessman goes berserk, torches relatives' houses
Prominent Masvingo business person who hails from Chivi's Sese area allegedly went berserk on Friday night (August 12) and torched his relatives' houses over allegations that they are bewitching his f...Published: 13 Aug 2022 at 14:15hrs | 1478 | by Staff reporter
Judith Ncube offside, says Bulawayo mayor
BULAWAYO mayor Solomon Mguni says Provincial Affairs minister Judith Ncube was unfair to lodge a complaint against city fathers to Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga at a public gathering.Ncu...Published: 13 Aug 2022 at 07:24hrs | 490 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala spends 59th night behind bars; renews freedom bid
JAILED Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) law makers, Job Sikhala and Godfrey Sithole will, through their lawyers, file a fresh bail application at the Magistrates Court Friday after spending 59 nigh...Published: 12 Aug 2022 at 06:44hrs | 2193 | by Staff reporter
Mutare's first executive mayor dies
MUTARE's first executive mayor, Alderman Lawrence Dambudzo Mudehwe has died.Pro-democracy campaigner Lynnette Mudehwe told NewsDay that her grandfather passed away at West End Hospital in Hara...Published: 12 Aug 2022 at 06:37hrs | 608 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa targeting African churches
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is reportedly leaving no stone unturned as he targets churches with African roots as part of his wider presidential re-election campaign ahead of the 2023 elections....Published: 10 Aug 2022 at 06:35hrs | 355 | by Staff reporter
Omalayitsha: Matebeleland's unsung heroes
OMALAYITSHA (cross border transporters) are among the unsung heroes to most communities particularly in Matabeleland region where most families have relatives based in South Africa who send them money...Published: 08 Aug 2022 at 05:45hrs | 1897 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's councillors join gravy train
After the 26 March by-elections in which the then newly formed political party Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) romped to victory in Masvingo Urban which had four vacant wards, the social media was...Published: 07 Aug 2022 at 19:00hrs | 1946 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa marches expose Zanu-PF fights
President Emmerson Mnangagwa is increasingly using parallel structures after some Zanu-PF organs resisted the imposition of his allies ahead of the ruling party's congress, insiders say.Mnanga...Published: 07 Aug 2022 at 08:28hrs | 962 | by Staff reporter
National hero Cont Mhlanga buried on ancestral lands
THE urban and rural worlds collided yesterday in Lupane District, Matabeleland North Province as villagers, artistes and high-profile dignitaries from various fields came to bid a spectacular farewell...Published: 07 Aug 2022 at 08:27hrs | 539 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa exhibited traits of tribalism on Cont Mhlanga's national hero status
Observers have accused President Emmerson Mnangagwa of exhibiting traits of tribalism by failing to accord national hero status to the late legendary Zimbabwean playwright, actor and theatre director ...Published: 06 Aug 2022 at 17:56hrs | 1161 | by Staff reporter
Killer T attacked for advertising show while bouncer's funeral still on
Zimdancehall artiste Killer T has been attacked by his fans on his Facebook page after he advertised his Harare show before the burial of his bounce...Published: 05 Aug 2022 at 23:26hrs | 1632 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Chamisa's CCC will not continue 'whining' over electoral malpractices
OPPOSITION Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) yesterday said it was now a lot wiser as an opposition and was busy plugging loopholes for possible vote rigging going into the 2023 elections.Ad...Published: 05 Aug 2022 at 06:42hrs | 826 | by Staff reporter
Huge send-off for gukurahundi linked Brig Gen Mabenge
GOVERNMENT officials, services chiefs, Zanu-PF supporters and church congregants yesterday thronged the revered National Heroes Acre to pay their last respects to Brigadier General (Rtd) Benjamin Mabe...Published: 04 Aug 2022 at 06:38hrs | 697 | by Staff reporter
National Hero Cont Mhlanga memorial set for tomorrow
THE memorial service for the late arts doyen Cont Mhlanga will be held tomorrow at the Amphitheatre in Bulawayo, before a drive through the city in his honour ahead of his burial in Lupane, Matabelela...Published: 04 Aug 2022 at 06:37hrs | 427 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa mourns Cont
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has accorded late playwright Cont Mhlanga a State-assisted funeral and has given the family $2,5 million for funeral expenses.This was revealed by Bulawayo Minister of Stat...Published: 03 Aug 2022 at 06:44hrs | 716 | by Staff reporter
National hero Cont Mhlanga gets State assisted funeral
President Mnangagwa has accorded the late playwright Cont Mhlanga a State-assisted funeral and has given the family $2.5 million.This was announced by Bulawayo Minister of State for Provincial...Published: 02 Aug 2022 at 19:55hrs | 896 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Who will Continue your work?
INTABA enkulu idilikile sums up the impact of the death of one of the country's icons of the arts, Cont Mhlanga.Cont (64) died yesterday morning at the United Bulawayo Hospitals (UBH) after be...Published: 02 Aug 2022 at 06:46hrs | 517 | by Staff reporter
Cont Mhlanga mourned
One of the country's icons of the arts, Cont Mhlanga, died yesterday morning at the United Bulawayo Hospitals (UBH) after being admitted 10 days ago.He was 64.His family said he succum...Published: 02 Aug 2022 at 06:43hrs | 454 | by Staff reporter
Ximex mall dealer a ZANU PF activist
The late Ximex mall dealer Tafadzwa Murengwa who fatally shot his girlfriend in a love triangle was identified on social media in ZANU PF regalia....Published: 30 Jul 2022 at 20:43hrs | 2784 | by Paul Ndou
Zanu-PF disowns official who called for Nelson Chamisa to be killed
Zanu-PF has disowned a party official filmed telling a rally in Mberengwa that Citizens Coalition for Change leader Nelson Chamisa, his supporters and their children should be murdered.Zanu-PF...Published: 30 Jul 2022 at 19:17hrs | 2141 | by Staff reporter
Western countries trying all tricks to remove Zanu-PF from power
AS the clock ticks towards the 2023 harmonised elections, which some have described as "crunch" (interestingly all polls since 2008 have been dubbed as such!), Zimbabweans should brace for more shocks...Published: 29 Jul 2022 at 06:49hrs | 733 | by Staff reporter
Africanise the law and land
In Mzansi, most citizens can only own real estate when they are dead - their graves and tombstones if they can afford one. From the living majority, they become the silent majority.Throughout ...Published: 27 Jul 2022 at 19:29hrs | 378 | by Lindiwe Sisulu
CCC Beitbridge district chair case postponed
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) Beitbridge district chairperson Elliot Mabeza, who is accused of convening an unlawful gathering in Beitbridge border town, had his case postponed to August 17....Published: 27 Jul 2022 at 06:32hrs | 171 | by Staff reporter
Job Sikhala bail denied again
HARARE regional magistrate Mr Stanford Mambanje today denied CCC legislator Job Sikhala's bail application saying he was not a proper candidate to be released on bond.In his ruling read on his...Published: 26 Jul 2022 at 20:43hrs | 629 | by Staff reporter
American lawyers join Sikhala legal team
A LEADING international law firm based in the United Kingdom (UK) and the United States (US) has joined the legal team representing incarcerated Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) member of parliamen...Published: 26 Jul 2022 at 06:43hrs | 8738 | by Staff reporter
Slain Moreblessing Ali's family goes into hiding
THE family of slain Citizens' Coalition for Change (CCC) activist Moreblessing Ali have been hounded out of their Chitungwiza house by Zanu-PF activists while suspected state security agents are perio...Published: 25 Jul 2022 at 07:59hrs | 2077 | by Staff reporter
'Judiciary credibility under test in Sikhala case'
LAWYERS representing incarcerated Zengeza West MP Job Sikhala (Citizens Coalition for Change) yesterday said the credibility of the country's Judiciary could only be restored if the opposition politic...Published: 23 Jul 2022 at 07:30hrs | 365 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala being persecuted, claims lawyer
PROMINENT human rights lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa yesterday said the endless arrests, without conviction, of Zengeza West MP Job Sikhala (Citizens Coalition for Change, CCC) was a clear case of political ...Published: 22 Jul 2022 at 06:44hrs | 683 | by Staff reporter
Chidawu burial date set
National hero and Minister of State for Harare Provincial Affairs and Devolution Engineer Oliver Chidawu, who collapsed and died at his home in Harare on Tuesday, will be buried on Monday next week at...Published: 22 Jul 2022 at 06:39hrs | 389 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe farm-grab doctor sanctioned by UK Medical Tribunal
A MEDICAL doctor originally from Zimbabwe has been sanctioned after his fitness to practice was found to have been impaired during a recent hearing by the Medical Practitioners' Tribunal (MPTS)....Published: 18 Jul 2022 at 08:40hrs | 1236 | by Staff reporter
New details of 'Passion Java accident' emerge
FIFTY-seven-year-old Tangai Tandi gazes into the sky with tear-filled eyes as if to ask the heavens why."Nature has it that children bury their parents. It's painful and difficult for a parent...Published: 17 Jul 2022 at 09:13hrs | 783 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala ask for prayers
JAILED Zengeza West MP, Job Sikhala has dropped an epistle from Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison pleading with Zimbabweans to make today a national day of prayer for him, and other incarcerated oppos...Published: 17 Jul 2022 at 09:12hrs | 115 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police persecutes Chamisa's CCC, shields Zanu-PF rogue elements
POLICE are once again on the spotlight over allegations of selective application of the law where they stand accused of moving at lightning speed to arrest and lock up opposition members suspected of ...Published: 17 Jul 2022 at 09:11hrs | 221 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala wants magistrate recusal
CCC Member of Parliament for Zengeza West Job Sikhala wants another magistrate to preside over his case where he is charged with allegedly telling mourners at Moreblessing Ali's funeral in Nyatsime th...Published: 15 Jul 2022 at 09:03hrs | 115 | by Staff reporter
Dr Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo through the eyes of his bodyguard
THE late Vice-President Dr Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo was an open -minded and friendly person who freely interacted with everyone throughout his entire political life regardless of social standing, one of h...Published: 14 Jul 2022 at 07:31hrs | 591 | by Staff reporter
CCC is an autocracy masquerading as a democracy, 'it is not a dirty tactic to point out this fact!'
"It is a confirmed fact that CCC is a brand new party with no founding process, no constitution, no structures, and no elected leadership. This fact means CCC is operating illegally, like a secret soc...Published: 06 Jul 2022 at 11:15hrs | 1477 | by Nomusa Garikai
Sikhala now sick, claims CCC spokesperson
SLAIN Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) activist Moreblessing Ali's family lawyer Job Sikhala who was arrested over two weeks ago is reportedly sick amid claims that he is being denied access to hea...Published: 04 Jul 2022 at 19:17hrs | 2509 | by Staff reporter
Police caution politicians over hate speech ahead of 2023 polls
The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has cautioned politicians against using inflammatory language or hate speech that incite violence and polarize the country ahead of the 2023 elections, The Standard ...Published: 03 Jul 2022 at 09:29hrs | 347 | by Staff reporter
State assisted funeral for MDC T vice-chairperson
President Mnangagwa has granted a State assisted funeral to the late MDC-T vice-chairperson and former co-Minister of Home Affairs in the Government of National Unity, Mr Giles Mutseyekwa.Mr M...Published: 03 Jul 2022 at 09:25hrs | 496 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa mourns former MDC-T vice chairperson Mutseyekwa
President Mnangagwa says he was "greatly saddened" by the death of former MDC-T vice chairperson and former co-Minister of Home Affairs in the Government of National Unity, Giles Mutseyekwa.Mu...Published: 03 Jul 2022 at 09:15hrs | 125 | by Staff reporter
Post mortems conducted on Zanu-PF officials
POST mortems have been conducted to ascertain the cause of death of two senior Zanu-PF officials in Nyatsime area of Chitungwiza with one of them alleged to have been poisoned, while the other reporte...Published: 29 Jun 2022 at 07:40hrs | 607 | by Staff reporter
Alex Magaisa buried at rural Njanja home
LATE law expert and former advisor to the Prime Minister, Alex Magaisa, who died earlier this month was Tuesday laid to rest at his rural home in Njanja.Magaisa, an ardent but respected critic...Published: 28 Jun 2022 at 18:37hrs | 3183 | by Staff reporter
DD Mabuza says 'You flush me, you also flush Cyril Ramaphosa out'
Deputy President David Mabuza has dispelled rumours that he might be gunning for the ANC presidency in December and has affirmed his support for President Cyril Ramaphosa.Mabuza, who was in Ph...Published: 28 Jun 2022 at 09:43hrs | 3022 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala, Sithole appeal set for Wednesday at High Court
OPPOSITION Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) lawmakers Job Sikhala and Godfrey Sithole's bail appeal will be heard this Wednesday at the High Court according to their lawyers.Sikhala and Sit...Published: 28 Jun 2022 at 07:30hrs | 496 | by Staff reporter
2 Zanu-PF members die in Nyatsime after CCC skirmishes
TWO Zanu-PF members have died in succession in the Nyatsime area since the murder of Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) activist Moreblessing Ali early this month.Ali was allegedly murdered b...Published: 28 Jun 2022 at 07:24hrs | 498 | by Staff reporter
Gweru City Council grinding to a halt
A DIRE financial situation threatens to ground Gweru City Council (GCC)'s operations by September, unless drastic action is taken, Southern Eye has learnt.Speaking at a breakfast meeting hoste...Published: 28 Jun 2022 at 07:23hrs | 366 | by Staff reporter
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