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Telecel denies corporate rescue proceedings
EMBATTLED telco, Telecel Zimbabwe (Pvt) Ltd (Telecel) has dismissed its placement under "corporate rescue proceedings" first announced in a notice in the Government Gazette dated May 12, 2023....Published: 24 May 2023 at 06:02hrs | 101 | by Staff reporter
Drug lord in Zanu-PF primary election contest
VIOLENCE mongers, drug lords, and shoddy characters were disqualified from standing for the ruling party in the forthcoming elections as Zanu-PF maintains high ethical standards with rerun polls set t...Published: 04 Apr 2023 at 06:30hrs | 515 | by Mbuso Ndlovu
12 Zanu-PF MPs bite the dust in Mashonaland Central
PRELIMINARY results for the just-ended Zanu-PF primary elections in Mashonaland Central indicate that 12 National House of Assembly candidates fell by the wayside in the primary elections held over th...Published: 28 Mar 2023 at 06:45hrs | 628 | by Staff reporter
'Mugabe did not actively push for his family's primitive accumulation of wealth'
THE late president Robert Mugabe stopped his son-in-law Simba Chikore and daughter Bona from joining the scramble to take over the country's third-largest mobile network operator, Telecel Zimbabwe....Published: 13 Mar 2023 at 08:13hrs | 2693 | by Staff reporter
Anglican Bishop acquitted
ANGLICAN Diocese of Manicaland Bishop Eric Ruwona has been acquitted of in a case where he faced charges of intimidating a witness who had reported him for corruption.Ruwona appeared in court ...Published: 25 Feb 2023 at 07:04hrs | 177 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's wife lands top post in Zanu-PF Politburo
THE Politburo that was appointed by President Mnangagwa on Friday blends the old guard and youth and also catapults women to influential positions in the party.This new team that will steer th...Published: 26 Dec 2022 at 18:55hrs | 679 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube makes Zanu-PF politburo
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday announced a 55-member politburo for his Zanu-PF party, with his wife, Auxillia being reappointed as party secretary for environment and tourism.Auxillia ...Published: 25 Dec 2022 at 14:14hrs | 347 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa recycles deadwood
Some forgotten Zanu-PF stalwarts had their political careers resurrected at the ruling party's just ended congress after spending years in the cold following the creation of a council of elders and ap...Published: 30 Oct 2022 at 06:57hrs | 1016 | by Staff rporter
Resurrection of G40 rocks Zanu-PF
Around 2016, serious ructions opened up in the ruling Zanu-PF then led by veteran Machiavellian politician Robert Mugabe with two factions wrestling to control the party in the event that Mugabe disen...Published: 24 Oct 2022 at 18:34hrs | 3810 | by Staff reporter
Mliswa heaps praise on govt for awarding Mnangagwa's ally a gold refining licence
INDEPENDENT Norton legislator, Temba Mliswa has heaped praise on government for awarding President Emmerson Mnangagwa's ally, Pedzisai 'Scott' Sakupwanya a gold refining licence.The mining mag...Published: 12 Oct 2022 at 05:44hrs | 4975 | by Staff reporter
Telecel set for corporate rescue
Telecel Zimbabwe, the smallest of the three mobile phone operators in the country, is set to be placed under corporate rescue, a form of bankruptcy protection, due to serious financial distress....Published: 11 Oct 2022 at 06:03hrs | 311 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF stalwarts and ex-ministers troop back
Zanu-PF stalwarts and ex-ministers in the current administration and late former President Robert Mugabe's government are plotting a political comeback after they were cleared by the politburo to cont...Published: 08 Oct 2022 at 21:06hrs | 2401 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa son-in-law linked to attempt to seize CSC cold chain facility
Cold Storage Company (CSC) management in Harare is battling to ward off attempts by a close friend of President Mnangagwa's son-in-law Gerald Mlotshwa to seize control of a refurbished cold-chain faci...Published: 14 Sep 2022 at 06:05hrs | 8347 | by Staff reporter
Strike paralyses major hospitals
WORKERS from other sectors have started joining a tools down job action by health personnel and teachers who are demanding United States dollar salaries.The strike entered its third day yester...Published: 23 Jun 2022 at 06:46hrs | 402 | by Staff reporter
ZANU PF internal challenges a blessing for Chamisa in Mashonaland Central
Mashonaland Central is home to Madzibaba veShanduko real name Godfrey Karembera who hails from Guruve. Madzibaba veShanduko and several Citizens for Change have descended upon Mashonaland Central as C...Published: 06 Jun 2022 at 10:36hrs | 5823 | by Hector Muringani
Makamba chucked out of ZANU-PF meeting
Former Mashonaland Central province ZANU-PF chairperson James Makamba was on Sunday chucked out of the party's Provincial Co-ordinating Committee (PCC) meeting by politburo member Kenneth Musanhi....Published: 17 May 2022 at 08:43hrs | 7286 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Chamisa aide convicted over fake number plates
CCC leader, Mr Nelson Chamisa's security aide was recently convicted and fined for driving a Toyota Fortuner that was displaying a Mercedes Benz registration plate as well as a third number plate belo...Published: 09 Apr 2022 at 08:34hrs | 477 | by Staff reporter
Debunking mischief about Tagwirei, Sakunda
There has been a sustained casting of aspersions over the success of businessman Mr Kudakwashe Tagwirei, whom I will simply call Kuda, from anti-Zimbabwe media and activists both locally and outside t...Published: 25 Mar 2022 at 05:54hrs | 191 | by Rutendo Bereza Matinyarare
ZRU releases Sables provisional squad
THE Zimbabwe Rugby Union (ZRU) has released an enlarged provisional Sables' squad, which also incorporates the Goshawks squad, that will do battle in the Currie Cup tournament in South Africa next mon...Published: 09 Mar 2022 at 06:55hrs | 65 | by Staff reporter
Former Poly lecturer missing
Former Harare Polytechnic lecturer, Kudakwashe Gonese has gone missing, his family said this morning.Popularly known as KK, Gonese, who is in his 70s, went missing on Saturday after catching a...Published: 15 Feb 2022 at 05:35hrs | 905 | by Staff reporter
Telecel's monumental collapse
TELECEL Zimbabwe's troubles have continued to mount with indications that the telecoms firm is now recruiting graduate trainees to plug the staff exodus necessitated by the company's unsustainable deb...Published: 04 Feb 2022 at 21:30hrs | 1613 | by Staff reporter
Blood and thunder as Zanu-PF polls kick-off
FIREWORKS are expected as Zanu-PF provincial elections kick- off Tuesday, with officials and big wigs involved in heavy campaigning often spilling overnight MondayAhead of the internal polls, ...Published: 28 Dec 2021 at 07:13hrs | 148 | by Staff reporter
Rigging fears grip Mash Central
ZANU PF supporters in Mashonaland Central province have expressed concern over rigging attempts on the Provincial elections being orchestrated by incumben...Published: 28 Dec 2021 at 00:18hrs | 1012 | by Roy Moyo
Kazembe leaks Politiburo secrets
Minister of Home Affairs who is also ZANU PF Mashonaland Central provincial chairperson Kazembe Kazembe reportedly leaked Politiburo deliberations to vill...Published: 25 Dec 2021 at 07:16hrs | 7211 | by Roy Moyo
Fireworks expected as Zanu-PF slides into provincial elections
THE ruling Zanu-PF party is preparing for provincial party elections with candidates backed by politburo members seeking to solidify their control of grassroots structures clashing in the internal pol...Published: 24 Dec 2021 at 16:42hrs | 710 | by Staff reporter
Angry Makamba exits ZANU PF group
Former ZANU PF Chairperson James Makamba has reportedly exited the party provincial group after the party Politburo disqualified him from contesting...Published: 22 Dec 2021 at 07:07hrs | 7021 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Zanu-PF bans members from using cellphones
Zanu-PF has banned its members from using of cell phones during its meetings saying they would be used to leak confidential information.This was revealed in a confidential Memorandum by the pa...Published: 22 Dec 2021 at 04:44hrs | 350 | by Staff reporter
Makamba disqualified from Zanu-PF Chairmanship race
THE Zanu-PF Politburo has disqualified tycoon James Makamba from contesting the party's Mashonaland Central provincial chairman post after security chiefs gave a damning verdict on his candidature, de...Published: 22 Dec 2021 at 04:43hrs | 632 | by Staff reporter
Makamba candidature worries security chiefs
THE country's security chiefs are sweating over the possibility of tycoon James Makamba becoming Mashonaland Central provincial chairman for Zanu-PF after he reportedly submitted his CV for the positi...Published: 20 Dec 2021 at 19:12hrs | 2105 | by Staff reporter
Nakamba eyes strong comeback
HIS injury has been topical in the Midlands region of England.Marvelous Nakamba is dominating football headlines on both his club website and the Birmingham Mail, a publication that carries ex...Published: 19 Dec 2021 at 06:52hrs | 267 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF Mash Central members fight over Mnangagwa regalia
THERE was drama in Nzvimbo at a Zanu-PF-organised sports gala at the weekend when two senior party officials fought over regalia, as factionalism came to a head in Mashonaland Central province....Published: 12 Dec 2021 at 19:18hrs | 52 | by Staff reporter
Kazembe ignores PCC meetings
ZANU PF Mashonaland Central Provincial chairperson Kazembe Kazembe is reportedly not conducting Provincial Coordinating Committee meetings as mandated by the party for fear of losing more support ahea...Published: 12 Dec 2021 at 04:11hrs | 350 | by Paul Ndou
Church loses bid to dismiss school head, deputy
The Mutare High Court has ruled against the Anglican Church's Manicaland Diocese decision to remove St Faith's High School headmaster Mr Arnold Makamba and his deputy from their positions.Mr M...Published: 01 Dec 2021 at 05:36hrs | 23 | by Staff reporter
Dynamos coach drags team in ZANU PF fights
Dynamos gaffer Tonderai Ndiraya was on Saturday dragged to Rushinga by ZANU PF Mashonaland Central chairperson Kazembe Kazembe for a campaign ahead of the...Published: 17 Nov 2021 at 18:58hrs | 362 | by Tarisai Mudahondo
Zanu-PF burns ahead of conference
BATTLES to control Zanu-PF structures raged across Zimbabwe this week, with the party's leadership struggling to complete the setting up of district structures ahead of the national conference slated ...Published: 22 Oct 2021 at 19:12hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Kazembe mischievous - Mnangagwa
EMBATTLED ZANU-PF Mashonaland Central chairperson Kazembe Kazembe forced President Emmerson Mnangagwa to conduct a rally soon after he finished commissioning of Eureka mine in Guruve yesterday....Published: 22 Oct 2021 at 14:01hrs | 20 | by Paul Ndou
Zanu-PF yet to complete Mazowe district polls
Zanu-PF Mazowe district is yet to complete internal elections amid a number of challenges which include improper party cell structures, lack of resources as well as alleged manipulation of the process...Published: 08 Oct 2021 at 06:32hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Dokora steps down in Chairmanship race
FORMER cabinet Minister Lazarus Dokora who was eying ZANU PF Mashonaland Central provincial chairman post to ouster the incumbent Kazembe has stepped down...Published: 28 Sep 2021 at 06:50hrs | 12 | by Paul Ndou
Kazembe Kazembe's rigging plot exposed
FIREWORKS are expected at a potentially explosive Zanu-PF Mashonaland Central provincial executive meeting Monday as the provinces top guns lock horns in a do-or-die pre-election encounter.The...Published: 20 Sep 2021 at 18:58hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Minister in 'vote-buying' storm
ENERGY minister Zhemu Soda allegedly dished out grocery hampers to Zanu-PF women structures in Muzarabani at the weekend in what some party members from the province allege was vote buying for his all...Published: 16 Sep 2021 at 06:08hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF factional firestorm worsens
THE Zanu-PF factional firestorm has continued raging, with officials blatantly defying last week's injunction by the politburo - its highest decision-making organ between congresses - as they continue...Published: 10 Sep 2021 at 18:53hrs | 19 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF factional fights reach boiling point
Zanu-PF ructions in Mashonaland Central province have reached the boiling point, with two distinct camps brawling for key positions amid reports that two cabinet ministers belonging to one camp are mo...Published: 04 Sep 2021 at 19:43hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF official refuses to surrender party vehicle
Zanu-PF Mashonaland Central provincial member Shephard Kararira has allegedly refused to surrender the party's Ford Ranger truck given to him by party chairperson Kazembe Kazembe following his illegal...Published: 27 Aug 2021 at 06:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kazembe grilled over roadblocks, wings clipped
ZANU PF Mashonaland Central Provincial Coordinating Committee (PCC) yesterday grilled Minister of Home Affairs Kazembe Kazembe who is also the party's cha...Published: 16 Aug 2021 at 19:57hrs | 9 | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF in flames
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's ruling Zanu-PF party is battling a raging factional war that threatens to rip it apart.As the fire rages out of control, Patrick Chinamasa, the Zanu-PF acting co...Published: 15 Aug 2021 at 09:04hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Kazembe Kazembe suffers major defeat
ZANU PF Mashonaland Central Provincial Chairman Kazembe Kazembe suffered humiliation after the party's commissariat department reversed his decision to co-opt new members into the Provincial executive...Published: 09 Aug 2021 at 09:25hrs | 14 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Factional kingpin unmasked
UNDER siege Zanu PF Mashonaland Central chairperson Kazembe Kazembe, whose influential position in the party is hanging by a thread has extensively extend...Published: 28 Jul 2021 at 21:31hrs | 88 | by Staff Reporter
Chaos rocks Zanu-PF provinces
THE ruling Zanu-PF party has been rocked by serious infighting ahead of provincial congresses, with clashes being reported in Mashonaland West, Mashonaland Central, Midlands and other provinces....Published: 21 Jun 2021 at 06:14hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF Mashonaland West factions face off
THE fight for the Zanu-PF Mashonaland Central chairmanship has turned nasty, amid reports that the incumbent Kazembe Kazembe's supporters have embarked on a smear campaign against James Makamba who is...Published: 19 Jun 2021 at 14:57hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Home Affairs Minister sends police to arrest political rival
Home Affairs Minister Kazembe Kazembe is reported to have sent police officers to aspiring Mashonaland Central province chairperson James Makamba last wee...Published: 24 May 2021 at 21:31hrs | 16 | by Staff Reporter
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