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Professor Mugano's meeting with RBZ Governor raises eyebrows
Outspoken economist and long-time government critic Professor Gift Mugano has surprised many after expressing praise for the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) and its team following a meeting with the ce...Published: 24 Jul 2025 at 15:31hrs | 1663 | by Staff reporter
Eddie Cross fails to provide evidence of Mnangagwa corruption
Unconfirmed reports claim that President Emmerson Mnangagwa and First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa launched a blistering attack on prominent economist and former presidential adviser Eddie Cross following ...Published: 05 Apr 2025 at 20:35hrs | 1057 | by Staff reporter
Nyarota the Gukurahundi Cheerleader
Geoff Nyarota, that Gukurahundi cheerleader and genocide supporter is no more. He died in a country with hospitals without medicine. Yet he died better than the thousands who were bayoneted in the kil...Published: 25 Mar 2025 at 21:53hrs | 537 | by Victim of Nyarota Gukurahundi Editorials
Latest on alleged ZANU PF meddling in Namibia elections
Namibia's ruling party, Swapo, has strongly denied allegations of interference by Zimbabwe's Zanu-PF in the country's recent elections, calling the accusations a baseless conspiracy aimed at undermini...Published: 11 Dec 2024 at 09:04hrs | 1249 | by Nkululeko Nkomo
Wildlife cave paintings - Namibia's strongest argument for International Hunting
In Namibia's centuries-old wildlife cave paintings messages lies the Southern African country's strongest argument for international hunting."We co-existed with wildlife and hunted it for meat...Published: 08 Nov 2023 at 09:29hrs | 42 | by Emmanuel Koro
Watchers wait on Chamisa's next move
Zimbabweans and those around the world who have been watching the recently ended elections are wondering what Citizens Coalition for Change leader, Nelson Chamisa will do next after he rejected Emmers...Published: 03 Sep 2023 at 22:25hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
SADC loses iconic conservationist as WhatsApp gives hunting communities 'permanent' voice in the media
The director of Zimbabwe CAMPFIRE Association, Mr Charles Jonga's death on 6 May 2023, signaled SADC's loss of an important wildlife conservation voice in the media.In an interview this week f...Published: 08 May 2023 at 15:51hrs | 5 | by Emmanuel Koro
Kasukuwere lives in fear in Joburg as Harare steps up pressure
SELF-EXILED former Zimbabwean minister and Zanu-PF political heavyweight Saviour Kasukuwere is living in fear in Johannesburg, South Africa, as the Harare government steps up pressure behind the scene...Published: 13 Nov 2022 at 17:47hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's hectic schedule
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa will today lead key proceedings in a double hectic schedule in the resort city of Victoria Falls where he is set to officially open the End of Term Judges Symposium this morning an...Published: 12 Aug 2022 at 06:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
British officials owe Zimbabwean people an apology, says Moss
A FORMER United States State Department official says the British government should consider apologising to Zimbabwean people for supporting a failed bid to back Harare's debt arrears plan which under...Published: 13 Feb 2021 at 14:55hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Zacc probes pharmacies in Covid-19 drug scam
SOME pharmacies are allegedly diverting onto the black market drugs bought using foreign currency allotted on the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe auction facility and then resold for much higher prices in fo...Published: 01 Feb 2021 at 05:32hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Kereke seeks audience with judge president
Jailed politician and businessman Munyaradzi Kereke has written an urgent petition seeking audience with judge president Justice George Chiweshe over the alleged criminal abuse of office by judicial o...Published: 13 Jun 2019 at 17:29hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Board members are to blame for company failure
The Zimbabwean government is battling to contain the never ending problem of company shutdowns which is now prevalent in Zimbabwe. Some of the companies have either folded or are in intensive care the...Published: 09 Apr 2019 at 11:40hrs | 3 | by Engineer Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi
Rhodesia was 'successful' because essentially it was a province of SA
This week, I am going to start by doing something that we journalists don't normally do. Often we think our duty is to criticise or point out wrongdoing but never to praise even when praise is due. Bu...Published: 18 Mar 2019 at 09:26hrs | 2 | by Baffour Ankomah
Why did Ian Smith give in so easily and abruptly?
Let's look abroad before coming home. We all know Donald John Trump, the 45th and current President of the USA. If Trump were African, they would say Africans are daft to have elected him president. B...Published: 08 Mar 2019 at 13:36hrs | 4 | by Baffour Ankomah
1893 MHRRM condemns Human Rights violations in Zimbabwe
The 1893 Mthwakazi Human Rights Restoration Movement (1893 MHRRM), after receiving an avalanche of credible information and hard evidence of mass and indiscriminate human rights violations by the army...Published: 28 Jan 2019 at 21:38hrs | 1 | by Thembani Dube, 1893 MHRRM Secretary for Information and Publicity
Chamisa's hands are clean
Opposition leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday told the Commission of Inquiry probing the deadly August 1 post-election violence in Harare - which left at least six people dead after the military joined p...Published: 27 Nov 2018 at 16:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Angry Chamisa throw the gauntlet at Mnangagwa and Chiwenga
An angry opposition leader, Nelson Chamisa, yesterday threw the gauntlet at both President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his deputy Constantino Chiwenga — challenging them to also testify at the official p...Published: 16 Nov 2018 at 12:28hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa accuses Mnangagwa of trying to engineer his arrest
Opposition leader Nelson Chamisa and his lieutenants are living in fear of an imminent government crackdown, after army and police chiefs suggested this week that a militant wing in the MDC was respo...Published: 14 Nov 2018 at 15:40hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa distances self from deadly August 1 demonstrations
Opposition leader Nelson Chamisa has said that he was not aware of the demonstrations which took place on August 1 in Harare which led to the killing of six civilians. The deaths occurred afte...Published: 14 Nov 2018 at 06:22hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa fears army backlash
Opposition leader Nelson Chamisa and his lieutenants are living in fear of an imminent government crackdown, after army and police chiefs suggested this week that a militant wing in the MDC was respon...Published: 14 Nov 2018 at 06:11hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
August 1 victims dead before soldiers arrived
On an extraordinary and defining day in the quest for the truth over the August 1 military massacre on the streets of Harare, the men who made the key decisions on that day all totally denied they had...Published: 13 Nov 2018 at 09:48hrs | | by zimlive
Lessons learnt: Constitutional Court election petition
Following the Movement for Democratic Change Alliance (MDC Alliance) leader Nelson Chamisa's election petition that was heard yesterday at the Constitutional Court, where he sought nullification of th...Published: 23 Aug 2018 at 15:40hrs | 2 | by Prosperity Mzila
Chamisa, Mnangagwa battleground shifts to ConCourt
AS Zimbabweans anxiously await the outcome of the presidential election petition by MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa at the Constitutional Court (ConCourt), which is set for next Wednesday, the two ...Published: 17 Aug 2018 at 15:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe not white man's burden
We are on the edge of an epoch in Zimbabwe.The nation could experience a new normal, so to speak, as the Constitutional Court (ConCourt) has only a matter of days to validate President-elect E...Published: 17 Aug 2018 at 06:21hrs | | by Conway Tutani
Chamisa or Mnangagwa: It's the economy stupid
TOMORROW, standing in the small voting booth, with pen in hand, looking down at the 23 names of presidential aspirants on the ballot paper, there's little doubt the voter will be making a crucial deci...Published: 29 Jul 2018 at 10:25hrs | 3 | by Tartira Zwinoira
Chigumba's sex life and the pitfalls of social media
I am not sure if Priscilla Chigumba, the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) chair, bleached to be such a yellow-bone. But I am not rushing to make her pigmentation any of my business because it's not...Published: 22 Jul 2018 at 10:32hrs | 3 | by Tawanda Majoni
Chamisa should stop spreading 'fake news'
As we get nearer to the elections, the lies get stronger and more outlandish.One example is Nelson Chamisa's recent pronouncement that his opposition was making attempts on his life."I...Published: 22 Jun 2018 at 16:57hrs | 1 | by Knowledge Moyo
Why Mnangagwa won't prosecute Kasukuwere for graft
A week before the military intervention that toppled ex-president Robert Mugabe in mid-November last year, Saviour Kasukuwere was addressing a Zanu-PF crowd in Harare, and yelled: "Down with Emmerson ...Published: 03 Jun 2018 at 19:46hrs | 2 | by Tawanda Majoni
Chamisa takes Mnangagwa to task
MDC-T leader Nelson Chamisa has written to President Emmerson Mnangagwa, registering his displeasure at the slow pace at which electoral reforms are being implemented, a few months before the crucial ...Published: 16 Mar 2018 at 06:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
No 'hard evidence' to prove 2013 elections were rigged, say Mavhinga - denier's mind-set
Those who choose to deny the past and often forced to relive the same mistake."In the years and decades after World War II, the German society - while overwhelming rejecting Nazi ideology afte...Published: 07 Aug 2017 at 21:13hrs | 1 | by Wilbert Mukori
Coalition still need the likes of Mujuru and Dabengwa
Former vice president and leader of the fledgling National People's Party Joice Mujuru and other opposition chiefs who stayed away on Saturday from the launch of an electoral alliance which chose MDC ...Published: 07 Aug 2017 at 14:33hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean Politics, Social Media and the bane of fake news
Truth is often subjective. Technology in the form of social media has made truth even more subjective. Judging by recent events, espionage, cyber-attacks, misinformation, conspiracy and fake news have...Published: 22 Feb 2017 at 10:25hrs | | by Richard Mugobo
Drones, the way to go in disaster management
The initiative by the government to introduce drones for border post patrolling is a development long overdue and welcome for different schemes. Recently articles were published on porous bord...Published: 14 Feb 2017 at 19:26hrs | 2 | by Tatenda Gono
Zim's saving grace is accepting failure as gracefully as Darwin accepted chimp as cousin
When Charles Robert Darwin, an English naturalist and geologist, published his book On the Origin of Species in 1859 - a little over 150 years ago - proposing his theory of evolution with compelling e...Published: 02 Aug 2016 at 08:41hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Anti-corruption consultant: My story
THE sporting world is facing an unprecedented crisis. Thanks to globalisation - a phenomenon never previously seen - the sports gambling markets and organised crime have turned football into a cash co...Published: 15 Mar 2016 at 05:57hrs | | by Terry Steans
More men suffer from sexual related illness in prison than women- Labode
MDC-T MP Ruth Labode has said research done in prisons show that more men suffer from sexual related illnesses than women an indication that men are engaging in sex in prison.According to parl...Published: 18 Feb 2016 at 05:27hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Mugabe juggles Zanu-PF succession wars
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe on Wednesday attempted a balancing act to pacify feuding factions in Zanu-PF who are locked in a cut-throat succession battle after he skirted around the contentious issue of f...Published: 12 Feb 2016 at 07:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bring back Itayi Dzamara
The government of Zimbabwe through its spokesperson Jonathan Moyo has surely failed the people of Zimbabwe. If citizens can be abducted and disappear in broad daylight then why do we need a bill o...Published: 21 May 2015 at 09:53hrs | | by Levie Tsongo
Opportunities for truth in Zanu-PF battles
Kufa kwemurume hubuda ura, so goes the Shona proverb. Loosely translated, it means a man is not dead until the intestines are out.It appears the knives are out in Zanu-PF and the battle will n...Published: 25 Jan 2015 at 11:07hrs | 2 | by Dzikamai Bere
Tsvangirai lost elections years ago not just on July 31
The opposition party started losing years ago Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe won a seventh consecutive term of office in last month's national election, defying old age, rumours of ill-health and...Published: 08 Aug 2013 at 09:04hrs | 1 | by Ray Ndlovu I Financial Mail
Why Robert Mugabe scored landslide victory
THERE is a phenomenon in African politics called the preponderance of incumbency. Simply put, it maintains that it is difficult to defeat an incumbent president in an election because they control t...Published: 06 Aug 2013 at 05:20hrs | | by Blessing-Miles Tendi I Guardian.co.uk
Bulawayo activist arrested for questioning chief's ruling
A Bulawayo activist has been languishing in police holding cells for the past five days for allegedly opposing a sentence passed by a Matobo Chief in his court on Saturday.Chief Masuku whose...Published: 19 Apr 2012 at 15:55hrs | | by Nare Msupatsila
Targeted sanctions should stay until key reforms are made
Contrary to recommendations by the International Crisis Group, (Africa Briefing No.86, 6 Feb 2012), targeted sanctions on Mugabe and his inner circle should stay.The travel ban and an asset fr...Published: 07 Feb 2012 at 05:01hrs | 2 | by Clifford Chitupa Mashiri
Mubarak and sons to be tried for deaths of anti-government protesters
Egypt's ousted President Hosni Mubarak and his two sons are to be tried over the deaths of anti-government protesters, judicial officials say.Mr Mubarak, who was ousted in February, is being d...Published: 06 Jun 2011 at 09:04hrs | | by BBC | edited by Bhebhe Madla
Frantic Repairs go on at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station plant, Japan
Japanese engineers battled on Friday to cool spent fuel rods and restore electric power to pumps at the stricken Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station plant as new challenges seemed to accumulate by...Published: 18 Mar 2011 at 07:27hrs | 1 | by Byo24News
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