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Zimbabwe govt chefs scramble to save cement project
Senior government officials have stepped in to rescue a multi-million-dollar Chinese-run cement plant in Magunje, Mashonaland West, as mounting community resistance and environmental concerns threaten...Published: 30 Jul 2025 at 09:38hrs | 259 | by Staff reporter
Fake promises anger Zimbabwe army, police
DESPITE efforts by President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government to create the impression that it is supportive and taking good care of the uniformed forces, morale remains low in the military barracks an...Published: 13 Aug 2022 at 14:23hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo calls Trevor Ncube an 'intellectual coward'
Exiled former government minister Jonathan Moyo has called Alpha Media Holdings (AMH) chairman Trevor Ncube an intellectual coward and a fake champion of freedom of expression. AMH publishes NewsDay, ...Published: 17 Nov 2021 at 07:56hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, Sadc leaders in crucial Moza indaba
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa will tomorrow join other Southern African Development Community (Sadc) leaders in a crucial regional meeting to map a strategy to fight Islamist militants in Mozambique's ...Published: 07 Apr 2021 at 06:56hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe is one giant crime scene!
Presently, a newspaper headline reports a ticketing scam by over a hundred Zupco conductors which prejudiced the company of thousands of dollars; fast-tracking the demise of a public transport project...Published: 21 Jun 2019 at 22:29hrs | 7 | by Washington Nyasha Gwarada
Zimbabwe is not ready for a new currency
Zimbabwe Economic Freedom Fighters ("ZIM EFF") have noted with great concern, the recent commentary by President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his Minister of Finance regarding plans to introduce a NEW Zimba...Published: 11 Jun 2019 at 09:25hrs | 1 | by Innocent Ndibali
Chatunga, Riky Rick mock Zimbabwe crackdown on camouflage
President Robert Mugabe's last-born son and South African hip hop star Riky Rick dared Zimbabwean authorities on Saturday after flying into Harare from Johannesburg dressed in camouflage.Chatu...Published: 25 Feb 2019 at 08:21hrs | | by ZimLive
How Trevor Ncube lied about Jonathan Moyo
Exiled former G40 Kingpin Professor Jonathan Moyo has exposed how Alpha Media Holding Boss Trevor Ncube misled the nation in November 2017 claiming that Prof Jonathan Moyo, Saviour Kasukuwere were...Published: 16 Nov 2018 at 09:56hrs | 2 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Voting day basics
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission has provided some publications with basic voter and polling station procedure for election day, but not all aspects can be covered. First time and repeat prospective ...Published: 28 Jul 2018 at 09:34hrs | | by Miriam T Majome
Coltart lashes out at ZEC
Senator David Coltart has expressed concerns over the manner how the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission has tried to argue over the legality of postal voting not being observed by both observers and politi...Published: 16 Jul 2018 at 07:43hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Zimbabwe through the eyes of Ghana
On December 31, 1981, when Fte./Lte. Jerry John Rawlings seized power in a military coup in Ghana, it was the second time he had burst onto the political scene; the first was in June 1979. Back then, ...Published: 05 Jun 2018 at 14:53hrs | 1 | by Dr Ayittey
Claims and counter claims to power in MDC-T
Morgan Tsvangirai remains the president of Zimbabwe’s Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T). I have checked and his current term ends in 2019.Some medical reports indicate he is not too wel...Published: 22 Jan 2018 at 06:51hrs | 1 | by Dr Phillan Zamchiya
I am ready to lead MDC-T, Cdes
MY former Comrades. Things are going from bad to worse back home, I am told. They are going so bad that some prominent figures in the opposition MDC-T party, who are convinced that Morgan has effectiv...Published: 12 Jan 2018 at 06:04hrs | | by CZ
The day Mnangagwa visited Tsvangirai - Is it a noble gesture or cheap political points scoring?
Campaigning in Zimbabwe for 2018 elections has begun, at Tsvangirai's bedside, ZANU PF using his painful situation for image building, campaigning at the expense of MDC T /Alliance. This is for public...Published: 05 Jan 2018 at 18:30hrs | | by Sikhumbuzo SK Ndiweni
Youth activists 'tortured' at military barracks, suffer severe fractures - CZC
The Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition notes with great concern the arrest, detention and torture of youth activists in Bulawayo who demanded that President Mnangagwa comes clean on his role in Gukurahundi ...Published: 02 Jan 2018 at 11:20hrs | 11 | by Tabani Moyo, Memory P. Kadau
Arrested Bulawayo protesters moved from military barracks to Central Police Station
Mthwakazi Republic Party youths have been moved from the Brad Military barracks to Bulawayo Central Police Station, but they are badly injured. The police insists that they are detaining them ...Published: 31 Dec 2017 at 22:56hrs | | by Staff Reporter
New #Zimbabwe army barracks names in full
GOVERNMENT has renamed various military barracks in honour of veterans of the armed struggle and military gurus. In a Government Gazette issued yesterday, Defence minister Sydney Sekeramayi sa...Published: 18 Nov 2017 at 06:20hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo arrested at Mugabe residency, taken to KGVI barracks
Cabinet Ministers Jonathan Moyo and Saviour Kasukuwere have been picked up from President Mugabe's "Blue Roof residence to KGV1 Military Barracks....Published: 15 Nov 2017 at 20:11hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga accused of 'treasonable conduct'
Zimbabwe's ruling party has accused the country's army chief of "treasonable conduct" after he warned of a possible military intervention in politics.Gen...Published: 14 Nov 2017 at 20:23hrs | | by BBC
Mugabe allies hit out at Gen Chiwenga
Allies of Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe have warned the military chief against meddling in politics.Gen Constantino Chiwenga had said the army was prepared to intervene to end purges with...Published: 14 Nov 2017 at 15:48hrs | | by BBC
30 Army generals attend anti-Mugabe press conference
OVER 30 generals from the Zimbabwe Defence Forces packed the fortified KGIV army barracks in Harare as their boss issued a rare rebuke to President Robert Mugabe, leaving the country on the cusp of a ...Published: 14 Nov 2017 at 06:29hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga angered by Mugabe over Mnangagwa sacking
Emmerson Mnangagwa's firing came amid growing tensions before elections next year when Mugabe's ruling party may face a 7-party opposition coalition that's capitalizing on public anger.Zimbabw...Published: 14 Nov 2017 at 06:01hrs | | by Agencies
'Fit again' Tsvangirai belts Chiwenga
Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai's MDC has laid into the commander of the Defence Forces, General Constantino Chiwenga - telling him to stop barking from the sidelines and daring him to remove his ...Published: 05 May 2017 at 07:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe springs Kasukuwere surprise
President Robert Mugabe has refused to be swayed by the wave of protests against Zanu-PF commissar Saviour Kasukuwere and launched his own investigations into allegations that there is a new p...Published: 23 Apr 2017 at 14:16hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Send Warriors to army barracks for national service, says Zanu-PF MP (Video)
ZANU-PF MP for Harare East, Terrence Mukupe, asked if the Government had a policy like some West African nations of detaining a team, which would have failed the nation, at some military barracks....Published: 27 Jan 2017 at 18:19hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Warriors' pathetic show spills into Parliament
THE Warriors' doomed 2017 Nations Cup finals campaign spilled into Parliament yesterday with one legislator questioning whether it was possible for the team to be detained at some barracks as puni...Published: 26 Jan 2017 at 05:48hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Mutsvangwa stole underwear of female comrades'
There are growing fears within Zanu-PF that the ruling party's escalating factional and succession wars could soon witness body bags, with the tone of the infighting getting nastier and uglier by the ...Published: 04 Feb 2016 at 07:42hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo describes Charamba as blithering idiot
Higher Education minister Jonathan Moyo yesterday reacted with venom to the Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association (ZNLWVA) to deal with him. The ZNLWVA is linked to Vice- President...Published: 02 Feb 2016 at 06:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Obasanjo's son shot by Boko Haram, 24 soldiers dead
MAIDUGURI - Son of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, Lt Col Adeboye Obasanjo, an army engineer at the 3rd Division in Jos, Plateau State was shot yesterday by Boko Haram terrorists as he led soldier...Published: 09 Sep 2014 at 17:57hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
MDC Zimbabwe calls for urgent SADC intervention in Lesotho
The Movement for Democratic Change Mdc in Zimbabwe is calling upon the Southern African Development Community SADC to swiftly attend to the military take over of civilian institutions in Lesoth...Published: 31 Aug 2014 at 19:05hrs | 1 | by Kurauone Chihwayi, MDC Secretary for International Relations
63 abducted girls, women escape Boko Haram
More than 60 girls and women abducted by Islamic extremists in Nigeria two weeks ago have escaped.Reports say 63 managed to flee while their captors were engaged in a battle with soldiers as ...Published: 07 Jul 2014 at 15:47hrs | | by Staff Reporter
20 Boko Haram Islamists killed in Nigeria
Nigeria's military says it killed 20 Boko Haram Islamists while repelling an attack by the extremist group in the embattled northeastern state of Borno."Boko Haram terrorists attempted to atta...Published: 03 Mar 2013 at 12:31hrs | | by Staff Reporter
MDC Youth Assembly Condemns Mukono detention
The Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) Youth Assembly condemns the continued detention of Zimbabwe National Students Union Zimbabwe (ZINASU) President Mr. Pride Mukono....Published: 08 Nov 2012 at 21:12hrs | 1 | by Discent Collins Bajila | MDC Youth Assembly Secretary General
Zanu-PF is inseparable from former guerrillas
For the past few weeks there has been an outcry from the western backed parties and their supporters claiming that elections in Zimbabwe would not be free and fair because the military is campaigning ...Published: 31 Oct 2012 at 13:07hrs | | by Mukachana Hanyani, a Harare-based social and political commentator
A commentary on Zimbabwe
News that securocrats have recruited manpower without Treasury approval is frightening ahead of what looks set to be a bloody sham election if Mugabe gets his way. Despite announcing last year...Published: 14 Jun 2012 at 12:19hrs | | by Clifford Chitupa Mashiri | Political Analyst, London
Gaddafi is welcome, deserves all the respect
Bissau - Guinea Bissau Prime Minister Carlos Gomes Junior said on Saturday Libya's ousted leader Muammar Gaddafi would be welcomed "with open arms" if he seeks exile in the West African country....Published: 11 Sep 2011 at 10:26hrs | | by Sapa
International media lied (propaganda) as Gaddafi's son re-emerges
The son and heir apparent of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, Saif al-Islam, resurfaced free and defiant early today a day after rebels claimed to have captured him, boasting in a bizarre reappearance...Published: 23 Aug 2011 at 04:43hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Nyikayaramba: Teaching the MDC what the soil refuses
The mighty argument between our death-wishing Prime Minister and Brigadier-General (Douglas) Nyikayaramba is just too sumptuous for cantankerous Manheru to let pass. I have to dip into the pot, mould...Published: 03 Jul 2011 at 05:22hrs | 1 | by Nathaniel Manheru
Gaddafi to stay out of AU peace talks
Libya's leader, Muammar Gaddafi, has agreed to stay out of negotiations to end the four-month old conflict in his country, African Union (AU) leaders said.AU leaders announced the agreement in...Published: 26 Jun 2011 at 21:54hrs | 1 | by Moyo Roy
Libyans form human shield to protect Gaddaffi
Tripoli - Thousands of Libyans packed into Muammar Gaddafi's heavily fortified Tripoli compound on Saturday to form a human shield against possible air strikes...Published: 19 Mar 2011 at 19:34hrs | 1 | by Byo24NEWS
BBC team detained and beat up in Libya
Libyan leader Col Muammar Gaddafi's security forces detained and beat up a BBC news team who were trying to reach the strife-torn western city of Zawiya.The three were beaten with fists, knees...Published: 09 Mar 2011 at 22:06hrs | 2 | by BBC
Zimbabwe is not Tunisia or Egypt
GIVEN the political turmoil which has engulfed North Africa, the Middle East and the Gulf (NAMEG) region in recent weeks, can a twitter-driven Facebook revolution in the style of what has happene...Published: 28 Feb 2011 at 06:04hrs | 7 | by Prof Jonathan Moyo
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