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Zanu-PF hijacks food aid in Insiza
In Insiza district, members of the ruling party Zanu-PF are accused of manipulating the food aid distribution process. Villagers have pointed fingers at Zanu-PF councillor Sindiso Ndlovu of Ward 17 fo...Published: 23 Jun 2024 at 11:19hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Chivayo hijacks US$40m corrupt ZEC deal
CONTROVERSIAL businessman Wicknell Chivayo, who is close to President Emmerson Mnangagwa and other high-profile government officials, corruptly got a windfall from a murky Zimbabwe Election Commission...Published: 28 May 2024 at 12:47hrs | 19 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF 'hijacks' govt recruitment
Zanu-PF has reportedly hijacked the recruitment of government workers as it ostensibly intensifies its third term campaign bid for President Emmerson Mnangagwa, NewsDay has established.The rul...Published: 19 Mar 2024 at 12:58hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Dembare lash out at Khama Billiat
DYNAMOS vice-chairperson Vincent Chawonza is outraged over what he termed unprofessionalism by Khama Billiat's handlers after Yadah successfully snatched the former Warriors talisman transfer on Tuesd...Published: 24 Feb 2024 at 15:13hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
FAZ hijacks Pfumvudza inputs programme
Forever Associates Zimbabwe (FAZ), an alleged shadowy affiliate of Zanu-PF, is reportedly withholding Pfumvudza agricultural inputs from suspected Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) supporters. A con...Published: 14 Nov 2023 at 04:49hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF hijacks voters roll inspection
Zanu-PF affiliate, Forever Associates Zimbabwe (Faz) has reportedly hijacked the voters roll inspection exercise by demanding proof of ruling party membership from those trying to check for their name...Published: 29 May 2023 at 06:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's supporters 'hijacks' Zanu-PF campaign platforms
OPPOSITION Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) supporters have allegedly hijacked the ruling Zanu-PF party's constituency WhatsApp groups to campaign for their leader Nelson Chamisa.As a resul...Published: 19 Apr 2023 at 06:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF hijacks trainee nurses recruitment
THE Zanu-PF Youth League (YL) has ordered all government hospitals offering general nurse training courses across the country to only enrol candidates it has vetted and approved.All party prov...Published: 13 Aug 2022 at 07:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF 'hijacks' IDs registration
Zanu-PF has reportedly hijacked the mobile national identity registration blitz and commandeered the services to the party's perceived strongholds to make sure its supporters obtain identity documents...Published: 20 Jul 2022 at 06:44hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF hijacks National IDs, birth certificates programme
Zanu-PF members Saturday commandered officials from the Registrar-General (RG)'s office to serve only ruling party members seeking birth and death certificates as well as national identity cards in Mh...Published: 12 Jun 2022 at 08:34hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Musarara hijacks independence day celebrations
Thousands of people thronged Nzvimbo High School in Chiweshe for independence day celebrations where Mark Ngwazi of Njanja Express was performing af...Published: 19 Apr 2022 at 00:45hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole in Chiweshe
Zanu-PF 'hijacks' 2022 census
Zanu-PF youths have allegedly been hired as enumerators for the forthcoming national census, raising fears that the party may tamper with census figures ahead of the delimitation exercise as the count...Published: 08 Apr 2022 at 06:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
US hijacks European allies on Russian energy ban
Russia and the US showed no signs of stopping biting each other's head off despite progress to a certain extent in Russia-Ukraine talks, with a Russian official announcing Moscow's readiness to respon...Published: 10 Mar 2022 at 05:48hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF MP 'hijacks' Buhlungu Sikhosana's private event
Villagers in Matabeleland North province have accused Zanu-PF legislator for Nkayi South Stars Mathe of hijacking the official opening of maskandi musician Cleopas Buhlungu Sikhosana's homestead for p...Published: 08 Mar 2022 at 05:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF hijacks Gweru terminus commissioning
THE ruling Zanu-PF party yesterday turned the commissioning of the refurbished Kudzanayi Bus Terminus in Gweru into a campaign rally with hundreds of supporters attending the event clad in party regal...Published: 14 Dec 2021 at 05:56hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Man (29) hijacks loaded pirate taxi
POLICE in Marondera on Monday arrested a 29-year-old man who hijacked a vehicle he was a passenger after the driver went to relieve himself in the bush, leaving the keys on the ignition.Tapuwa...Published: 12 Dec 2021 at 19:12hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Passenger hijacks Zupco bus
Suspected drug dealer Sylvester Phiri who was a passenger in the Zimbabwe United Passengers company (Zupco) bus attempted to flee away with the vehicle af...Published: 24 Nov 2021 at 06:50hrs | 6 | by Tarisai Mudahondo
Kazembe hijacks Dokora's function
Home Affairs Minister Kazembe Kazembe's efforts to keep ZANU PF Mashonaland Central Province under his belt are under threat amid fierce competition from former Minister of Education, Lazarus Dokora....Published: 09 Oct 2021 at 08:43hrs | | by Shelton Muchena In Bindura
Zanu-PF candidates hijacks Council-ZINARA project
The Ministry has started the construction of Destiny road to Hob House tarred road.The construction of Hob House road was initiat...Published: 22 Sep 2021 at 06:25hrs | | by Fanuel Chinowaita
Zanu-PF 'hijacks' Chamisa project
OPPOSITION MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday accused "jittery" Zanu-PF and State security agents of hijacking his party's Citizens Convergence for Change (CCC) project and registering it at...Published: 21 Sep 2021 at 06:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF hijacks internet service providers for its virtual conference
Zanu-PF has commandeered several internet services providers to provide free internet services during the ruling party's annual conference to be held virtually in October.Due to the Covid-19 p...Published: 23 Aug 2021 at 06:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Zanu-PF hijacks war vets vetting'
THE Zipra War Veterans Association has accused the ruling Zanu-PF party of manipulating the ongoing war veterans vetting exercise amid allegations that some undeserving party activists were being regi...Published: 24 Jun 2021 at 11:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF hijacks govt's pfumvudza programme
GOVERNMENT'S input scheme, pfumvudza has brought its own package of rights violations in the country's provinces with the Zimbabwe Peace Project (ZPP) claiming the process was being managed along part...Published: 08 Dec 2020 at 06:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Criminal gang hijacks Kudzanayi rank
Six alleged criminals yesterday set up an illegal cash office at Kudzanayi rank in Gweru, chased away council police and cashiers before collecting toll fees from commuter omnibus and bus operators. ...Published: 11 Jan 2019 at 09:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu PF hijacks ZWMB
HARARE - There are fears that Zanu PF is hijacking the Zimbabwe Women's Microfinance Bank (ZWMB), after several women were recently turned away from a meeting which took place at a Bulawayo hotel on t...Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 13:45hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Zanu-PF old guard hijacks youth rally
The old guard in Zanu-PF has all but hijacked President Robert Mugabe's youth interface rally set for Masvingo tomorrow, amid indications that the event could be used as a platform to assert factional...Published: 29 Jun 2017 at 07:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's brazen attempt to steal 2018 polls
A fortnight ago, the nation was startled to hear that the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC), a supposedly independent commission, had allowed the Zanu-PF government to hijack the Biometric Voter...Published: 12 Mar 2017 at 09:23hrs | | by Morgan Tsvangirai
President Morgan Tsvangirai’s statement to the press
MDC-T Leader Morgan Tsvangirai has issued a winding statement on the worsening economic crisis of the country condemning the ruling Zanu PF for failing to rescue the nation from the spiraling economic...Published: 12 Mar 2017 at 06:01hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Tsvangirai to give Mugabe immunity
Opposition leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, says he will give President Robert Mugabe and security chiefs immunity from persecution when he forms the country's next government. Speaking in Harare ye...Published: 10 Mar 2017 at 06:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai panics
SENSING election defeat, MDC-T leader Mr Morgan Tsvangirai yesterday pressed the panic button by alleging Government was already planning to rig the 2018 general elections by its decision to go it...Published: 10 Mar 2017 at 06:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai's statement to the press, calls for March 22 protests
Introduction The party's national executive has just met, amid the context of a worsening national crisis and Zanu PF's attempt to steal the next election, ...Published: 09 Mar 2017 at 13:02hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Zanu PF hijacks medical outreach programme
Beitbridge residents are up in arms against officials from Zanu-PF who are allegedly trying to hijack and politicise a humanitarian gesture by 100 doctors coming to the district to offer free medi...Published: 25 Sep 2016 at 10:28hrs | | by staff reporter
Civil Society Organisations are Indispensible Elements of National Development
In ideal situations civil society organisations (CSOs) are critically indispensible agents of societal development for national good, contrary to vested interests which are at variance with normative ...Published: 30 Aug 2016 at 11:09hrs | | by Sparkleford Masiyambiri
Mugabe's office hijacks project
The Office of the President and Cabinet has seized control from the Energy and Power Development ministry of the controversial $83 million Dema Diesel Power Plant in a move aimed at ring fencing a...Published: 26 Aug 2016 at 08:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC-T ditches #ThisFlag, hijacks #MyZimbabwe
The MDC Youth Assembly National Executive today held a special Executive meeting which also brought in Chairpersons and secretaries of Provinces from all over the country to deliberate on the developm...Published: 25 Jul 2016 at 12:31hrs | 1 | by MDC Youth Assembly
MDC-T hijacks #ThisFlag?
Tsvangirai's MDC-T has been criticised for trying to hijack #ThisFlag. One campaigner today said "I don't like the vibe how political parties will now try to hijack the whole #ThisFlag atmosphere prev...Published: 14 Jul 2016 at 18:47hrs | | by Ndou Paul
Tsvangirai hijacks Dzamara march?
MDC-T president Mr Morgan Tsvangirai yesterday hijacked the march to mark the first anniversary of the alleged disappearance of journalist-cum-political activist Itai Dzamara.Dzamara was alleg...Published: 10 Mar 2016 at 05:41hrs | | by Nyemudzayi Kakore
Zanu PF thugs hijacks food distributrion in Epworth
A group of Zanu PF youth allegedly hijacked food distribution meant for the elderly, orphans and vulnerable members of the community in Epworth"On 19 December 2015 at the Epworth Local Board, ...Published: 31 Jan 2016 at 07:50hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Ousted Zanu-PF provincial head hijacks meeting
OUSTED Matabeleland South Zanu-PF provincial head of security Lungisani Nleya tried to impose himself on party members from his district demanding to be reinstated.Nleya, who is Bulilima West ...Published: 16 Jan 2015 at 09:10hrs | | by Sukulwenkosi Dube
Granvia driver hijacks impounded vehicle in movie style
A Security guard at the Gwanda Vehicle Inspection Depot (VID) is currently admitted at Gwanda hospital following injuries he sustained in a hit and run accident when a kombi driver tried to "hijack" h...Published: 09 Apr 2014 at 15:00hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Gwanda Councillor hijacks SDA meeting
Controversial Gwanda Municipality Councillor for Ward 8 Thulani Moyo on Sunday afternoon took over a School Development Association SDA meeting to make it his own show. The SDA of Senondo Prim...Published: 19 Jan 2014 at 18:31hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Meet the Tuaregs - Expelled from Libya, then hijacked by al-Qaeda in Mali and Niger
Award-winning Al Jazeera filmmaker May Welsh captures the complex conflict and events in Mali and Niger, as seen unfolding from within the Tuareg communityOrphans of The Sahara is a documentar...Published: 09 Jan 2014 at 07:57hrs | | by Kevin Kriedemann & Joy Sapieka
Calvin Dondo Spins Colonial Photography On Its Head
Have you ever driven down a street and had an epiphany that you could be on the right track to witness something spectacular? Its not that you have a particular intuition, but the Phil Collins track...Published: 20 Jun 2013 at 11:53hrs | | by A.A.V. Amasi
Zanu-PF hijacks Joshua Nkomo Day plans
Zanu-PF has hijacked plans by the late vice-president Joshua Nkomo's family and other organisations in Matabeleland to declare July 1 a Joshua Nkomo and Liberators' Day in honour of the late veteran ...Published: 14 Jun 2013 at 06:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Royal Destiny Live Recording Concert: A Roaring Royal Success
Today once again I (Thulani Nkala) had a rare opportunity to talk to Maria Adonis Rusike of Royal Destiny, after a resounding success of their Live Recordi...Published: 11 Jun 2013 at 15:00hrs | 5 | by Thulani Nkala
Zifa hijacks Benjani testimonial match
The Zimbabwe Football Association (ZIFA) says a decision has been made for the Benjani Mwaruwari testimonial match to be conducted under the local soccer mother body's jurisdiction as part of efforts ...Published: 08 May 2012 at 16:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC-T hijacks peace prayers
Peace prayers organised by a group of pastors have been reportedly turned into MDC-T campaign platforms, state media reported.The meetings are now being shunned by other political parties.&nbs...Published: 09 Apr 2012 at 20:40hrs | | by staff reporter
How HIV infection begins
What does HIV do to the CD4 cells?HIV is a devious enemy: It attacks the CD4 cells (or generals of the immune system) directly, which means that the immune ...Published: 20 Jan 2012 at 08:11hrs | | by -
Zanu-PF hijacks Tekere's death, mourners heckle Tsvangirai
MOURNERS at the funeral of Cde Edgar Tekere Wednesday jeered MDC-T leader Mr Morgan Tsvangirai, forcing him to retreat in a huff.Mr Tsvangirai - who was accompanied by among others his secret...Published: 09 Jun 2011 at 07:15hrs | | by Mafu Sithabile
Mubarak's regime 'hijacks' Vodafone network
Mobile operator Vodafone on Thursday accused the Egyptian authorities of using its network to send pro-government text messages to its subscribers, without clear attribution....Published: 03 Feb 2011 at 19:36hrs | | by Byo24News
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