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'Mnangagwa to be guided by Sadc decisions'
Vice President Kembo Mohadi has affirmed that President Mnangagwa, in his role as Chairperson of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), will be guided by the resolutions of the 44th SADC S...Published: 19 Sep 2024 at 07:28hrs | 530 | by Staff reporter
Road rehabilitation should spread to other Zimbabwe cities
Bishop Eric Ruwona of the Anglican Diocese of Manicaland praised President Emmerson Mnangagwa for the extensive road infrastructure improvements in Harare, expressing hope that similar developments wi...Published: 21 Aug 2024 at 07:13hrs | 5749 | by Staff reporter
Stampede to congratulate Mnangagwa
Government's loss-making entities and departments have peppered newspaper pages with fawning congratulatory messages to President Emmerson Mnangagwa on his assuming of the rotational chairmanship of S...Published: 20 Aug 2024 at 10:55hrs | 925 | by Staff reporter
Mutsvangwa cuts a lone figure at Sadc summit
During the Sadc Heads of State and Government summit, President Emmerson Mnangagwa took over the chairmanship from Angolan President Joao Manuel Goncalves Lourenco. The summit, a key regio...Published: 19 Aug 2024 at 07:22hrs | 4748 | by Staff reporter
President Masisi to participate at Sadc Sjummit in Zimbabwe
The President of Botswana, Dr Mokgweetsi Eric Keabetswe Masisi, will participate at the 44th Ordinary SADC Summit of Heads of States and Government, on 17 August 2024.The 44th SADC Summit will...Published: 15 Aug 2024 at 17:01hrs | 436 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa plots divisive constitutional coup
ZIMBABWEAN President Emmerson Mnangagwa's strategy for a third term - practically a constitutional coup - is now gathering momentum and going full steam ahead after a brief retreat as the military reg...Published: 04 Mar 2024 at 18:43hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa scared of gukurahundi, plots divisive constitutional coup
ZIMBABWEAN President Emmerson Mnangagwa's strategy for a third term - practically a constitutional coup - is now gathering momentum and going full steam ahead after a brief retreat as the military reg...Published: 29 Feb 2024 at 20:34hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Sadc anti-sanctions crusade a lost cause
GOOD day, President Emmerson Mnangagwa. Your Excellency, the Southern Africa Development Community (Sadc) annual Anti-Sanctions Day commemoration held last week was a sham vigil.It was misdire...Published: 02 Nov 2023 at 05:46hrs | 9 | by Cyprian Muketiwa Ndawana
Zimbabwe polls a done deal?
The recently held election in Zimbabwe received a resounding endorsement from the Extraordinary SADC Summit, signifying the regional body's full satisfaction with the outcome, according to diplomatic ...Published: 02 Nov 2023 at 05:37hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
SADC convenes extraordinary summit on Zimbabwe over elections
THE Southern African Development (Sadc) will hold an extraordinary summit of heads of state and government on Zimbabwe on Wednesday under the auspices of its current chairperson, Angolan President JoÃ...Published: 23 Oct 2023 at 10:53hrs | 21 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa back home from United Nations summit
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has returned to Zimbabwe from New York, USA, where he attended the 78th Session of the United Nations General Assembly (#UNGA78). During the UN General Assembly conference...Published: 25 Sep 2023 at 08:35hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mbeki says Mnangagwa must do 'what's in the best interests of Zimbabweans'
Former South African president Thabo Mbeki has suggested that President Emmerson Mnangagwa should consider the best interests of the Zimbabwean people in order to navigate the country's challenges fol...Published: 21 Sep 2023 at 20:47hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe on the Sadc radar?
The Southern African Development Community (Sadc) is currently deeply involved in addressing the post-election crisis in Zimbabwe, which has caused divisions within the nation and the region, while al...Published: 17 Sep 2023 at 22:13hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe pushes to change Sadc laws following Mumba controversies
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration is seeking to change the regional bloc's statutes and guidelines following Southern Africa Development Community (Sadc) election observer mission (SEOM)'s...Published: 10 Sep 2023 at 10:51hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Sadc must probe Dr Mumba'
SADC must immediately investigate the conduct of the head of its election observer mission to Zimbabwe, Dr Nevers Mumba, for attempting to aid illegal regime change in the country through fomenting a ...Published: 03 Sep 2023 at 07:26hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police move to raid Tetrad Bank directors
THE Criminal Investigation Department (CID) Asset Forfeiture Unit has obtained a warrant of search and seizure against Tetrad Investment Bank (TIB) management and directors in a case of fraud and mone...Published: 09 Dec 2022 at 17:53hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa still isolated after 47 global trips
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has travelled 47 foreign trips since coming to power, in a re-engagement drive that has been bogged down by human rights abuses and failure to implement key political refo...Published: 06 Nov 2022 at 11:50hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa now 80 years old
ON what was his 80th birthday, President Mnangagwa chose to put in a full day shift on duty as he joined other Heads of State at the inauguration of Angolan President Joao Lourenco in Luanda yesterday...Published: 16 Sep 2022 at 06:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
African opposition leaders should learn to lose with grace
Elections for either presidential or parliamentary positions will birth two people – a loser and winner, so it is important that political parties and their leaders always bear this in mind the mome...Published: 15 Sep 2022 at 05:50hrs | | by Mukachana Hanyani
Mnangagwa leaves for Angola
President Mnangagwa has left Harare to attend the inauguration of re-elected Angola President, Joao Lourenco. The President was seen off at the Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport by V...Published: 14 Sep 2022 at 17:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa in Luanda for Dos Santos funeral
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa will today join other Heads of State and Government here for the funeral service of former Angolan President Jose Eduardo Dos Santos, who died at a private clinic in Barcelona, Spa...Published: 28 Aug 2022 at 08:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Fortune Charumbira calls for peaceful general elections in Angola
Pan African Parliament President Chief Fortune Charumbira has appealed to the Angolan authorities to ensure that general elections are free and fair. Millions of Angolans will head to the polls ...Published: 22 Aug 2022 at 20:23hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
More heavy downpours expected
FARMERS in the South of Matabeleland are steeling themselves for more heavy downpours of rain today. The flooding has hit Portuguese areas of the upper and lower Limpopo particularly hard. ...Published: 31 Jan 2022 at 05:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa addresses COP26 today
President Mnangagwa, who had a busy schedule yesterday, meeting a number of leaders in a major boost to the engagement and re-engagement drive and to build up joint action on climate change, is expect...Published: 02 Nov 2021 at 05:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa meets Ramaphosa again
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa paid a courtesy call on President Emmerson Mnangagwa here yesterday, during which the two leaders had a wide-ranging tete-a-tete to share "successes and challen...Published: 19 Aug 2019 at 07:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Failure to deal with currency crisis proving costly for dictators
For autocratic leaders seeking lessons from the toppling of Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, avoiding a currency crisis may be key to survival.It's the same problem that ravaged long-standin...Published: 16 Apr 2019 at 06:54hrs | | by Bloomberg
Currency chaos toppled Sudan's al-Bashir
FOR autocratic leaders seeking lessons from the toppling of Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, avoiding a currency crisis may be the key to survival.It's the same problem that did for long-sta...Published: 13 Apr 2019 at 13:19hrs | | by Bloomberg
30 heads of State console Mnangagwa
More than 30 Heads of State and Government from across the world have sent messages of sympathy to President Mnangagwa following the Cyclone Idai disaster, a development seen as a sign that Zimbabwe's...Published: 04 Apr 2019 at 06:50hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Top SADC chief flies into Zimbabwe
SADC Executive Secretary Dr Stergomena Lawrence Tax is expected in Zimbabwe tomorrow for a three-day working visit in which she will interact with representatives of regional organs based in the count...Published: 28 Nov 2018 at 12:41hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Africa's richest woman
No it's not Grace Mugabe, though Grace is not short of money or farms or houses or cars or diamonds. It's someone rather younger - 45-year-old Isobel dos Santos who apparently accumulated a fortune of...Published: 25 Nov 2018 at 18:59hrs | | by Zimbabwe Vigil Diary
Kabila congratulates Mnangagwa, advocates for peace in the country
Democratic Republic of Congo President Joseph Kabila and the Vice President of Angola Mr Bornito de Sousa have congratulated President Emmerson Mnangagwa, the government and the people of Zimbabwe on ...Published: 27 Aug 2018 at 12:01hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe's constitutionalism moves notch up
Today is a momentous day for Zimbabweans as constitutionalism moves a notch up with the Constitutional Court sitting to consider submissions by MDC-Alliance presidential contestant Nelson Chamisa in c...Published: 22 Aug 2018 at 06:02hrs | | by Elliot Ziwira
Chamisa hails Sadc for not congratulating Mnangagwa
Opposition leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday hailed southern African leaders for not congratulating President-elect Emmerson Mnangagwa at a summit in Namibia held last week.Heads of State from t...Published: 21 Aug 2018 at 12:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
If Mnangagwa gets away with it, then Kabila can too
WE knew, even before the first vote was cast, that Zimbabwe's election was marred by serious irregularities. These included, but were certainly not limited to: a partisan electoral commission; 250 000...Published: 18 Aug 2018 at 08:10hrs | | by Simon Allison
Putin sees a Mnangagwa victory?
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa held a closed door meeting with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of the 10th BRICS Summit in Johannesburg on Friday during which the leader of the Eastern E...Published: 29 Jul 2018 at 10:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa primes Zimbabwe for free, fair elections
President Mnangagwa yesterday said the Government had put in place measures to ensure Monday's harmonised elections are transparent, free, fair and credible. Speaking at the BRICS Africa Outre...Published: 28 Jul 2018 at 09:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Spotlight on poll observers
Zimbabwe heads for elections on July 30, eight months after the removal of Mugabe. The African Union (AU) and the Southern African Development Community (Sadc) have a mandate to ensure that the countr...Published: 27 Jul 2018 at 11:22hrs | | by Siphosami Malunga
'Mnangagwa bomb an inside job,' admits Zanu-PF
ZANU-PF youths and war veterans yesterday sensationally claimed that the fatal explosion that killed two State security agents and injured 47 party members during a campaign rally in Bulawayo on Satur...Published: 27 Jun 2018 at 06:57hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe a 'deeply conflicted zealot'
In 2017, the Daily Maverick published a series of articles based on Stuart Doran's monumental history of Zanu-PF and Robert Mugabe, titled Kingdom, Power, Glory. In this major review of the book, form...Published: 29 Mar 2018 at 13:59hrs | 1 | by David Owen, British politician
Mystery over G40 petition
AFRICAN Union (AU) Commission chairperson, Moussa Faki Mahamat has rubbished claims by former Zanu PF officials that a petition has been forwarded to the continental body detailing military excesses d...Published: 19 Feb 2018 at 06:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe allies petition AU, SADC over Mnangagwa's legitimacy
Zimbabwean ex-president Robert Mugabe's allies, who have since launched a new party, the New Patriotic Front (NPF), have reportedly "formally petitioned" the African Union (AU) and Southern African De...Published: 08 Feb 2018 at 10:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
G40 challenges Mnangagwa legitimacy
MEMBERS of Zanu-PF's G40 faction, who are coalescing to form a new party, New Patriotic Front, have formally petitioned the African Union and Sadc challenging the legitimacy of their arch-rival Presid...Published: 07 Feb 2018 at 06:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa returns
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa returns home today after a successful trip during which he held fruitful high-level meetings with renowned businesspeople, directors of multilateral institutions and polit...Published: 30 Jan 2018 at 05:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa assures AU, Mugabe is well, safe
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has reiterated his pledge to preserve the legacy of former President Robert Mugabe while assuring the 30th African Union Summit underway in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, th...Published: 29 Jan 2018 at 05:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe upbeat on Davos meetings
This week, world leaders, bureaucrats and leading global business people are meeting at the 48th session of the annual World Economic Forum from 23-26 January in the resort town of Davos-Klosters, Swi...Published: 26 Jan 2018 at 05:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's engagement efforts good for Zimbabwe
THE charm offensive by President Emmerson Mnangagwa since his inauguration in November last year promises a positive redirection of the country in its interactions with the international community tha...Published: 17 Jan 2018 at 06:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa on SADC tour, promising free elections - bitten by Mugabe's globe-trotting
It seems globe-trotting is in the blood of Zimbabwean leaders. We all know of Tsvangirai's world tour during his five-year term as Prime Minister. Little wonder the MDC failed to get even one democrat...Published: 15 Jan 2018 at 18:04hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
Mnangagwa visits Namibia
President Emmerson Mnangagwa will today visit Namibia on the third leg of his regional tour to brief his counterparts on the political situation in the country and the forthcoming harmonised elections...Published: 15 Jan 2018 at 05:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa urges chiefs to preach peace
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday presented himself before the country's chiefs where he walked them through last year's transition process that saw him assuming the country's leadership followin...Published: 14 Jan 2018 at 08:06hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa leaves for Angola
The President, Emmerson Mnangagwa has left Harare for Luanda, Angola on an official visit.He is being accompanied by the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Retired Lieutenant...Published: 12 Jan 2018 at 10:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
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