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Mnangagwa appointments scandal
Transmedia Corporation's new board approved by President Emmerson Mnangagwa has integrity issues around its chairperson Phillipa Magnify Phillips-Sadza and Jonathan Gandari, comprising its credi...Published: 12 Jan 2024 at 08:15hrs | 1820 | by Staff reporter
G40 and Gamartox embrace Mnangagwa re-election
Former First Lady Grace Mugabe, the widow of Zimbabwe's late founding leader, Robert Mugabe, was in attendance at President Emmerson Mnangagwa's inauguration ceremony held at the National Sports Stadi...Published: 06 Sep 2023 at 06:44hrs | 1686 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Presidential candidates concede defeat
SOME of the presidential candidates in Wednesday's harmonised elections last night conceded defeat, following the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission's pronouncement of President Mnangagwa as winner of the ...Published: 27 Aug 2023 at 09:55hrs | 695 | by Staff reporter
6,6 million Zimbabweans eligible to cast ballots
ZIMBABWEANS go to the polls today with at least 6,6 million registered voters expected to decide the next leadership that will steer the country forward for five years.The Zimbabwe Electoral C...Published: 23 Aug 2023 at 06:32hrs | 18 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe political parties, citizens geared for poll
ZIMBABWEANS in their millions will today cast their votes across the country to determine their future in an election that has largely been peaceful.Yesterday, political parties from across th...Published: 23 Aug 2023 at 06:32hrs | 19 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe ballot printing back on track
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) has started printing ballot papers for the presidential election and for more than a dozen National Assembly constituencies that had been affected by poll-relat...Published: 13 Aug 2023 at 21:59hrs | 75 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora's name to remain on the presidential ballot
MDC leader Douglas Mwonzora's name will remain on the presidential ballot despite his withdrawal from the race, the Zimbabwe Elections Commission has said.A candidate ca...Published: 09 Aug 2023 at 23:36hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora withdraws from presidential race
MDC-T leader Douglas Mwonzora on Tuesday announced he was withdrawing from the race to become Zimbabwe's next president, describing the August 23 election as a "sham and a farce."Mwonzora said...Published: 08 Aug 2023 at 22:27hrs | 19 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's supporter murdered as violence flares
A CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) activist was yesterday stoned to death by a suspected Zanu-PF member near Tanaka grounds in Glen View, Harare, as political temperatures rise ahead of the August ...Published: 04 Aug 2023 at 06:44hrs | 186 | by Staff reporter
Supreme Court to rule on Kasukuwere appeal
The Supreme Court will rule tomorrow whether the appeal by independent presidential aspirant Saviour Kasukuwere challenging a High Court ruling disqualifying him from contesting the August 23 election...Published: 19 Jul 2023 at 06:37hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's 'fringe' presidential candidates still in hibernation
The 2023 presidential election is shaping out as a three-horse race between President Emmerson Mnangagwa, opposition leader Nelson Chamisa and independent Saviour Kasukuwere while the other eight cand...Published: 16 Jul 2023 at 09:20hrs | 20 | by Staff reporter
Malema wants Zimbabweans living in South Africa to go home and vote
Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema has strongly urged Zimbabweans living in South Africa to make the trip back home and participate in the presidential and parliamentary elections se...Published: 09 Jul 2023 at 10:49hrs | 19 | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere dangles title deeds
INDEPENDENT presidential candidate Saviour Kasukuwere has pledged to dole out title deeds to house owners in urban areas if he wins the August 23 plebiscite.President Emmerson Mnangagwa has al...Published: 05 Jul 2023 at 07:48hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
VIEW: Full Zimbabwe poll candidate list
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) yesterday gazetted the final list of candidates who successfully submitted their papers during the sitting of the Nomination Court for the August 23 harmonised ...Published: 01 Jul 2023 at 08:12hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Muzorewa says 'vote 'sanctions-cursed' Zanu-PF out'
Presidential aspirant and United African National Council (UANC) leader Reverend Gwinyai Muzorewa says Zimbabweans should vote Zanu-PF out of power if they hope to put a stop to the western sanctions ...Published: 01 Jul 2023 at 08:11hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Presidential candidate banks luck on 'spiritual intelligence'
WHILE Zanu-PF and the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) have ramped up their public campaign activities ahead of the August 23 elections, presidential candidate Blessing Kasiyamhuru says he is banki...Published: 01 Jul 2023 at 08:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF activist bids to stop Tyson
INDEPENDENT presidential aspirant Saviour Kasukuwere says nothing will stop him from running for the top office in the land after a Zanu-PF activist threatened to approach the courts seeking an order ...Published: 29 Jun 2023 at 06:30hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Characteristics of good presidential candidates for Zimbabwe's 2023 elections
EVERY five years, Zimbabweans go to the polls in general elections - including the presidential race - to elect their representatives at various levels of government.However, the most high-pro...Published: 26 Jun 2023 at 19:39hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Full Zimbabwe election candidate list out Friday
The final list of successful candidates for the August 23 harmonised elections, who submitted their nomination papers during the sitting of the Nomination Court last Wednesday, will be gazetted on Fri...Published: 25 Jun 2023 at 09:32hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Obama of Zimbabwe politics bows out of Presidential race due to financial challenges
OPPOSITION Democratic Union of Zimbabwe (DUZ) party leader Robert Chapman has withdrawn from the August 23 polls Presidential race citing financial constraints.This comes after DUZ Bulawayo pr...Published: 24 Jun 2023 at 06:15hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
ZEC says 10 presidential candidates rejected
Eleven candidates will contest Zimbabwe's presidential election on August 23, the commission running the elections announced on Thursday.The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) said 21 candida...Published: 23 Jun 2023 at 06:42hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, Chamisa headline provisional list of 11 presidential candidates
A provisional list of 11 candidates headlined by incumbent President Emmerson Mnangagwa and arch-rival Citizens Coalitions for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa's return into the ring will be vying f...Published: 22 Jun 2023 at 17:35hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Teenage bus driver runs over, kills minor
A 17-year-old Mbare boy who was driving a bus with one passenger on Monday struck and killed a 7-year-old minor who was playing football with friends along a street in the high density suburb....Published: 07 Dec 2022 at 05:23hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Harare family clashes with cops over arrest
A Harare man and his two nephews were over the weekend arrested on allegations of assaulting and apprehending two thieves they had caught stealing at their orchard/nursery in Braeside area, a move whi...Published: 29 Aug 2022 at 20:58hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
UANC on the move to revive Zimbabwe
United African National Council women's league last week, Thursday held their first meeting in Harare with all women representatives drawn from 10 provinc...Published: 06 Apr 2022 at 06:04hrs | 7 | by Desire Tshuma
Fierce contest for Harare Central seat
MURISI Zwizwai of the Citizens' Coalition for Change (CCC) party, Norest Marara of the MDC-Alliance, Loice Magweba of Zanu PF, Linda Tsungirirai Masarira of the Labour Economists and Afrikan Democrats...Published: 11 Mar 2022 at 18:13hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Time to close Gukurahundi genocide chapter, says Muzorewa
THE United African National Council (UANC) leader Gwinyai Muzorewa has called for closure of the Gukurahundi chapter in order for healing, reconciliation and unity to take root in the country....Published: 07 Mar 2022 at 05:36hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's Davis Cup team relegated
ZIMBABWE were yesterday relegated to the Davis Cup World Group III after a 3-1 loss to EL Salvador at Harare Sports Club.A general lack of mental strength proved to be the Davis Cup team's und...Published: 06 Mar 2022 at 08:14hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe brace for El Salvador in Davis Cup
THE Zimbabwe Davis Cup tennis team player Benjamin Lock has said they have to take it one match at a time when they take on El Salvador in the World Group II play-offs at Harare Sports Club this weeke...Published: 02 Mar 2022 at 05:34hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe still at war, says Muzorewa
THE United African National Council (UANC), one of the oldest political parties in Zimbabwe, says the country remains at war long after winning majority rule because it struggling under a dictatorship...Published: 22 Feb 2022 at 05:36hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Gwinyai Chingoka dies
FORMER Zimbabwe Davis Cup tennis team player, Gwinyai Chingoka, has died.Chingoka, the son of the late former Tennis Zimbabwe president and ex-president of the Zimbabwe Olympic Committee, Paul...Published: 28 Jan 2022 at 05:55hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chaos hits Chamisa Chete Chete
CHAOS rocked the newly formed Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) Wednesday after the opposition party fielded double candidates to contest in the local council by-elections.The Zimbabwe Elect...Published: 26 Jan 2022 at 21:02hrs | 19 | by Staff reporter
Shock as council allocates stands on tarred streets
THE corruption-riddled Harare City Council has torched yet another storm after facilitating and allocating several residential stands on tarred streets in Harare, plus converting recreation areas and ...Published: 20 Dec 2021 at 05:38hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
4 eye Zanu-PF Manicaland provincial chairmanship
Zanu-PF Makoni district on Sunday endorsed the candidature of its district co-ordinating committee (DCC) chairperson Albert Nyakuedzwa to contest for the Manicaland provincial chairmanship ahead of th...Published: 04 Aug 2021 at 06:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
DNA results fail to link businessman to rape
THE chief executive officer of African Institute of Biomedical Science and Technology (AiBST) Professor Collen Masimirembwa yesterday told the court that the DNA results from the tests done on toilet ...Published: 02 Apr 2021 at 09:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bouncer up for attempted murder
POPULAR Mutare bouncer Pension Gwinyai appeared in court early this week for attempted murder after knocking down a soldier with his vehicle following a scuffle at a night club.Gwinyai (52), w...Published: 15 Oct 2020 at 06:46hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF chooses candidates for council by-elections
ZANU-PF has selected nine candidates that will represent the ruling party in council by-elections to replace a councillor that passed away and eight others that were recalled by MDC-T leader Dr Thokoz...Published: 11 Oct 2020 at 10:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF not to blame for MDC internal strife
ZANU-PF cannot be blamed for the divisions rocking the MDC, a senior ruling party official has said. The MDC is mired in a vicious internal strife with party leader, Dr Thokozani Khupe recalli...Published: 05 Oct 2020 at 06:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZANU PF eyes Tinashe Kambarami's seat
ZANU PF is reportedly eyeing the Ward 3 seat that was held by ousted former Bulawayo Deputy Mayor Tinashe Kambarami.A ZANU PF Bulawayo Youth League member who spoke to this reporter said...Published: 30 Aug 2019 at 10:37hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Muzorewa party in dual candidates storm
UNITED African National Council (UANC) president Gwinyai Muzorewa (pictured) has rubbished claims that his party fielded two candidates for the forthcoming Glen View South constituency by-election, sa...Published: 03 Aug 2019 at 09:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Jabulani Sibanda keeps rivals guessing
Former war veterans' leader Jabulani Sibanda, recently re-admitted into Zanu-PF following his expulsion in 2014, is keeping his cards close to his chest after dropping out of the Zanu-PF Bulawayo prov...Published: 21 May 2019 at 07:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Jabulani Sibanda barred from running for Zanu-PF Bulawayo chairman
Former war veterans' leader Jabulani Sibanda, recently re-admitted into Zanu-PF following his expulsion in 2014, was barred from running for the position of Zanu-PF chairman for Bulawayo province last...Published: 20 May 2019 at 08:14hrs | 2 | by ZimLive
Dialogue: the panacea to Zimbabwe's economic and political fortunes
When the US Democrat Presidential candidate, Hilary Clinton lost the election in 2016 to Donald Trump she did not lose heart, but she put the United States national interests first and moved on. As an...Published: 02 May 2019 at 11:44hrs | 1717 | by Elijah Chihota
Mnangagwa's dialogue initiatives aren’t genuine, says Muzorewa
Since its formation in the late 1970s, the United African National Council (UANC) led by then Zimbabwe-Rhodesia leader Bishop Abel Muzorewa disappeared, only to resurface in 2018 under the leadership ...Published: 01 May 2019 at 08:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Businessman's death opens can of worms
THE sudden death of Mirirai Driving School proprietor, Washington Jekanyika (35), who died in unclear circumstances last Saturday has been the mainstay of public discourse in Mutare over the past week...Published: 26 Apr 2019 at 17:21hrs | 3355 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe son in-law case: Elusive witness worries investigator
The trial of former president Robert Mugabe's son-in-law Simba Chikore, who is accused of kidnapping his employee - Bertha Zakeyo - at Zimbabwe Airways offices, continued yesterday with the investigat...Published: 09 Mar 2019 at 06:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dialogue process being abused: Muzorewa
OPPOSITION United African National Council (UANC) leader Gwinyai Muzorewa has accused the country's top political leadership of abusing the national dialogue process to pursue their own personal agend...Published: 04 Mar 2019 at 07:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe face potential SA clash
ZIMBABWE will today discover their opponents for the 2019 Davis Cup Europe/Africa Group II, with a clash against neighbours South Africa being possible, as the two sides feature in the same group of t...Published: 06 Feb 2019 at 08:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Death robs Zimbabwe sport
This year has not been so kind to the Zimbabwean sporting fraternity after three of the country's arguably biggest luminaries took their last breaths.Former Tennis Zimbabwe (TZ) president Paul...Published: 30 Dec 2018 at 17:32hrs | 1523 | by Staff reporter
Lawyers fume over release of Zanu-PF activists
HUMAN rights lawyers have petitioned the Officer-in-Charge at Nyanyadzi Police Station over alleged unprocedural release of six Zanu-PF activists arrested for political violence.Lawyer Peggy T...Published: 20 Jul 2018 at 07:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
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