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Chief Justice threatened
There was a report in the media in particular the Newsday Zimbabwe alleging that the suspended judge Ndewere had told off the Chief Justice. The reporter went on to say she refused instructions and th...Published: 15 Oct 2020 at 12:00hrs | 7933 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Justice Ndewere' suspension exposes the opposition
High Court judge Justice Erica Ndewere will be facing a tribunal after the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) recommended to President Mnangagwa to set one up to look into her suitability to hold offic...Published: 14 Oct 2020 at 08:10hrs | 6718 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Job Sikhala bail judge Erica Ndewere suspended, accused of 'misconduct'
A judge who recently granted bail to MDC vice chairman Job Sikhala has been suspended by the Judicial Service Commission headed by Chief Justice Luke Malaba.Justice Erica Ndewere of the Harare...Published: 13 Oct 2020 at 08:10hrs | 6505 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa and Biti suffer a heart attack at the same time?
Our flag does not fly because the wind moves it, it flies with the last breath of each soldier who died protecting it. The pole which carries this flag is watered by the blood of our sons and daughter...Published: 13 Oct 2020 at 07:57hrs | 25033 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Zimbabwe's health system in ICU
IN Zimbabwe, pregnant women are left alone in hospitals to give birth, taps have run dry in major urban centres, infrastructure has all but collapsed and more than half the population needs food aid....Published: 11 Oct 2020 at 10:38hrs | 130 | by Bloomberg
Advocate Thabani Mpofu takes Tabani Mpofu head on
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa's lawyer Advocate Thabani Mpofu has dared Presidential anti-corruption special prosecution unit head Tabani Mpofu to produce his law degree to prove that he is qualified to h...Published: 07 Oct 2020 at 19:43hrs | 7342 | by Mandla Ndlovu
The dictator's handbook
President Mnangagwa appears to have launched the final stage of his plan to eliminate the opposition. This is the obvious inference from the wild accusations made by State Security Minister Owen Ncube...Published: 05 Oct 2020 at 08:14hrs | 2019 | by ZimVigil
Sanctions were fashioned to kill Zimbabwe - Academic
THE sanctions imposed by the West on Zimbabwe, are no longer about inculcating good governance and freedoms but a tactless, miscalculated economic warfare, fashioned to ‘kill' Zimbabwe.Curio...Published: 05 Oct 2020 at 06:39hrs | 239 | by David Matsanga in London United Kingdom
Khupe sneaks into Parly, by-elections banned
VICE-PRESIDENT Constantino Chiwenga yesterday suspended holding of by-elections to fill in seats for recalled MDC Alliance MPs and councillors, as the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) confirmed in ...Published: 03 Oct 2020 at 08:36hrs | 3435 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa moving towards establishing a one-party State
After casting his vote two years ago for Zimbabwe's Movement for Democratic Change Alliance (MDC), now Benard Mhere has grown bitter, accusing the ruling party of trying to destroy the MDC.Mhe...Published: 02 Oct 2020 at 18:02hrs | 5918 | by Anadolu Agency
Pressure mounts on Nelson Chamisa
A SECTION of the Mr Nelson Chamisa-led MDC-Alliance had urged the party to abandon its contested name as an identity crisis rocks the opposition movement. The Mr Chamisa-led group continues to...Published: 23 Sep 2020 at 06:01hrs | 5912 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe coming apart at the seams
In Zimbabwe, pregnant women are left alone in hospitals to give birth, taps have run dry in major urban centers, infrastructure has all but collapsed and more than half the population needs food aid....Published: 15 Sep 2020 at 07:18hrs | 1199 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Chamisa prays at the grave of Miriam Mushayi
MDC Alliance President Nelson Chamisa has pleaded with God to comfort the family of the late MDC founding member Miriam Mushayi who was buried in Maumbe Hurungwe. Praying at her graveside, Cha...Published: 12 Sep 2020 at 05:32hrs | 2324 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chamisa's MDC just playing to gallery
It is laughable that a political party that was always opposed to the Land Reform Programme now claims rather incredulously that the Zanu-PF Government which restored stolen land to black Zimbabweans ...Published: 07 Sep 2020 at 06:26hrs | 1409 | by Staff reporter
U-turn on white farmers: Mugabe turning in his grave
GOVERNMENT's dramatic turnaround to offer farms to former white farms is indicative of the Zanu-PF government's policy inconsistency, which has decimated the once flourishing agriculture sector, and i...Published: 04 Sep 2020 at 06:22hrs | 7467 | by Tinashe Kairiza
Uproar as Mnangagwa promises to give back land to white farmers
Zimbabweans on social media have accused President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government of reversing the gains of Independence promising to give some white farmers land. Finance Minister Mthuli Ncu...Published: 01 Sep 2020 at 10:31hrs | 11059 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'We want Zanu PF led GNU' ZCC doggedly insist - it's the curse we should never tolerate ever again
One of the most enduring legacy of Mugabe's Zanu PF dictatorship is that it has sired hundreds of thousands of copycat corrupt and incompetent dictators, all with trademark Mugabe mentality that they ...Published: 09 Aug 2020 at 08:57hrs | 495 | by Wilbert Mukori
Biti's Civic society demands answers over US$18 billion debt
CIVIC society groups have amplified their voices seeking to know how the country's debt ballooned to US$18 billion.The lobby groups are demanding debt transparency after taxpayers have been fo...Published: 08 Aug 2020 at 09:40hrs | 4074 | by Staff reporter
Credibility of Ramaphosa's Zimbabwe envoys under scrutiny
The credibility of the South African envoys appointed by President Cyril Ramaphosa to engage the Zimbabwe government and other stakeholders following the unfolding humanitarian crisis in the country h...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 17:19hrs | 1430 | by Staff reporter
GNU best way out of Zimbabwe crisis
UNITED Kingdom-based lawyer and blogger Alex Magaisa last month published a list of beneficiaries of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) farm mechanisation programme, that included cabinet ministers, Z...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 09:06hrs | 2316 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean state capture
In my weekly political review show on the Gambakwe media platform two Sunday ago, we discussed about the planned demonstration on the 31st of July 2020. During the interview I invok...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 22:59hrs | 4235 | by Terence. T. Simbi
Politburo Bulletin: We are under attack comrades
The candid truth is that we are now hanging by a thread; we are on our own now. It is no longer a matter of if, but when, and when that happens will we be ready to face the tide, or even the Hague? Th...Published: 05 Aug 2020 at 08:22hrs | 11059 | by Robert Sigauke
Chin'ono and Ngarivhume to wait a few more days before learning their fate
Zimbabwean investigative journalist, Hopewell Chin'ono and opposition party leader, Jacob Ngarivhume, are set to remain behind bars after the High Court delayed delivering its judgment.The pai...Published: 03 Aug 2020 at 21:39hrs | 1386 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa advisers must resign, says Mpofu
Former MDC legislator Norman Mpofu has challenged the opposition leader Nelson Chamisa advisers to resign for advising him to take leave when the nation needs him the most."Can Chamisa advisor...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 12:17hrs | 7084 | by Stephen Jakes
Kasukuwere says his hands are clean
FORMER Local Government minister Saviour Kasukuwere has challenged ex-Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe governor Gideon Gono and presented evidence that he settled his debt under the Farm Mechanisation Program...Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 07:46hrs | 1031 | by Staff reporter
'Kasukuwere didn't pay for farm equipment'
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe's former subsidiary, Fiscorp, which handled the Farm Mechanisation Programme between 2007 and 2008, has challenged former legislator, Mr Kudakwashe Bhasikiti and self-exil...Published: 29 Jul 2020 at 09:12hrs | 1728 | by Staff reporter
Saved from the bad boys by bad boys
On Thursday 23 July prominent lawyer Alex Magaisa had an expose on the farm mechanisation scandal of 2007 of farm equipment that was meant to benefit the then newly resettled farmers in the government...Published: 27 Jul 2020 at 20:04hrs | 1414 | by Sandra Bvungidzire
'Gono must be arrested'
ZAPU has called for the arrest of former Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor Gideon Gono and the simultaneous setting up of a commission of inquiry into the extravagant Farm Mechanisation Programm...Published: 27 Jul 2020 at 19:44hrs | 2815 | by newzimbabwe
Full list of Army and CIO bosses who benefitted from the Farm Mechanization scandal
Political Analyst Alex Magaisa has published a list of Army, police and dreaded Central intelligence officers who benefited from the controversial RBZ Farm Mechanisation Scheme.Magaisa said hi...Published: 25 Jul 2020 at 17:12hrs | 8609 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Gono defends 'RBZ looting' on TV debate
THE farm mechanisation programme spearheaded by the Government between 2007 and 2008 was not corrupt but legal with the costs taken care of by the State through the central bank's internal operations,...Published: 24 Jul 2020 at 07:40hrs | 1948 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF slams Magaisa's hypocrisy
ZIMBABWE survived under the yoke of illegal sanctions that were imposed by the West following the land reform programme because of regular interventions by the Zanu-PF Government that include the Farm...Published: 23 Jul 2020 at 20:18hrs | 302 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF will not apologise for 'looting RBZ'
THE ruling Zanu-PF party has dismissed allegations by Dr Alex Magaisa rubbishing State interventions to subsidise the new farmers through the Farm Mechanisation programme stating that his sentiments a...Published: 22 Jul 2020 at 21:21hrs | 7379 | by Staff reporter
Gono trips self in farm mechanisation looting saga?
FORMER Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor Gideon Gono has said the farm mechanisation programme he presided over was not part of the debt taken over by government and passed on the taxpayer via t...Published: 21 Jul 2020 at 09:07hrs | 3030 | by Staff reporter
Exposure of corruption by Dr Alex Magaisa justifies Mthwakazi restoration
Mthwakazi Republic Party MRP which happens to be my party of choice has once again been vindicated by Dr Alex T Magaisa's list of corrupt elites and the Political Exposed Persons "PEPs" as he calls th...Published: 20 Jul 2020 at 18:23hrs | 3356 | by Mbonisi Solomon Gumbo
Looting exposé shakes Gideon Gono
THE ruling Zanu-PF party yesterday appeared shaken to the core after names of government fat cats who benefited from the 2007/8 Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ)-funded farm mechanisation scheme were exp...Published: 20 Jul 2020 at 17:58hrs | 9334 | by Staff reporter
'State did not demand repay US$ b RBZ loans, all above board' said Gono - essence of institutionalised corruption
After decades of denying that corruption was rampant is Zimbabwe, Mugabe shocked the nation in his 2016 birthday interview with ZBC TV when he admitted the country was "been swindled out of US$15 bill...Published: 20 Jul 2020 at 11:45hrs | 1500 | by Wilbert Mukori
Welshman Ncube, Khupe also benefitted from RBZ looting programme
SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT: THE 2007/8 Farm Mechanisation Programme was above board: Taxpayers not saddled with the Bill.First of all, I must express my prima-facie disappointment with my bro...Published: 20 Jul 2020 at 08:24hrs | 7404 | by Dr Gideon Gono
RBZ looting talk aimed at whipping public emotions against Zanu-PF?
ZANU-PF has dismissed as baseless, claims that some of its senior officials looted millions of United States dollars in public funds through the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ)'s farm mechanisation sch...Published: 20 Jul 2020 at 08:23hrs | 1568 | by Staff reporter
Gono slams Magaisa for ignorance
The Farm Mechanisation Programme of 2007 was above board, was funded from Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe funds with beneficiaries never expected to repay the sums, and taxpayers were not saddled with the bi...Published: 20 Jul 2020 at 08:20hrs | 779 | by Staff reporter
Munacho Mutezo fired as ZimPF VP
ZIMBABWE People First (ZimPF) Vice President Munacho Mutezo has been fired from the opposition party after failing to repay a US$300 000 loan he got from the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) through the...Published: 20 Jul 2020 at 08:20hrs | 1548 | by newzimbabwe
Gono confronts Tsvangirai's ex-advisor
FORMER Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe governor, Gideon Gono was Saturday forced to defend his controversial Farm Mechanisation Programme, insisting the dishing out of millions of public funds to senior Zanu...Published: 19 Jul 2020 at 09:27hrs | 6147 | by Staff reporter
Outrage after beneficiaries of RBZ millions are exposed
A leaked list of the beneficiaries of a controversial Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) farm mechanisation scheme has sparked fresh demands for the politically-connected to pay back the money after their...Published: 19 Jul 2020 at 09:20hrs | 5046 | by Staff reporter
Gono clarifies farm mechanisation
GOVERNMENT'S Farm Mechanisation Programme undertaken between 2007 and 2008 was not a loan scheme and beneficiaries were not required to pay for the equipment they received, former Reserve Bank of Zimb...Published: 19 Jul 2020 at 09:17hrs | 671 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: General SB Moyo cornered over Tagwirei's buses
Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Rt Major General Sibusiso Busi Moyo was cornered by a DW reporter recently and put to task over the S$54 million from the bus deal that involved con...Published: 18 Jul 2020 at 11:50hrs | 7747 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Full list of Pastors who owe RBZ Farm Mechanisation Scheme funds
Human Rights Activist and Blogger Alex Magaisa has published an exclusive list of beneficiaries of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Farm Mechanisation Programme who have not paid back the money they recei...Published: 18 Jul 2020 at 10:35hrs | 15076 | by Mandla Ndlovu
WATCH: Nurses and doctors arrested in Harare
Police in Harare have arrested 12 nurses and an unknown number of doctors at Sally Mugabe hospital.According to the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights, the arrested are charged with contr...Published: 06 Jul 2020 at 13:01hrs | 7389 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Who is an opportunist between Chamisa and Mwonzora?
Mwonzora has been labelled as an opportunist by Chamisa supporters on Whatsapp, Twitter and Facebook platforms but nobody has ever tried to define or explain what is meant by the word opportunist. In ...Published: 05 Jul 2020 at 11:09hrs | 2586 | by Etiwel Mutero
Chamisa told to dump the name MDC
Constitutional Law Expert and former Advisor to the late Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, Alex Magaisa, has advised the Nelson Chamisa-led MDC Alliance to dump the brand MDC because it was now tainte...Published: 04 Jul 2020 at 08:02hrs | 10056 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa courts unrest
Zimbabweans celebrated in their tens of thousands when the military ousted Robert Mugabe and installed Emmerson Mnangagwa as president. Two-and-a-half years later, the party is over.Mnanga...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 08:13hrs | 785 | by Bloomberg
Shock as Mangudya buys VIP cars for US$400 000 per vehicle
A video that has gone viral on social media reveals that the Ministry of Finance and the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe falsified reports that the two institutions purchased VIP vehicles for US$400 000 inst...Published: 22 Jun 2020 at 14:06hrs | 36818 | by Mandla Ndlovu
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