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Mnangagwa salutes private sector
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday saluted the country's private sector which has risen to the occasion through the production of the majority of goods found in local supermarkets.This is testimony...Published: 11 Mar 2023 at 06:33hrs | 181 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe security forces stifling dissent'
THE ruling Zanu-PF party is expected to win the forthcoming general elections while the opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) will reject the results setting Zimbabwe on another disputed poll...Published: 12 Feb 2023 at 07:24hrs | 257 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: ZANU-PF returnees have role in nation-building, says Mnangagwa
The President and First Secretary of ZANU PF, Emmerson Mnangagwa says the returnees from opposition political parties have a role in building our nation and the party as a whole must welcome the...Published: 11 Feb 2023 at 21:12hrs | 709 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe in 2023: There is great disorder, chaos under the heavens
GEORGE Orwell wrote so much and so well that one day it became cause for a whole essay to explain to himself and the world why he wrote as such.In the essay of 1946, Why I Write, Orwell recoun...Published: 17 Jan 2023 at 05:49hrs | 1113 | by Dr William Jethro Mpofu
Zimbabwe is about to do the Zambia - One last chance to save democracy and bury Mnangagwa
Happy new year to all. 2023 is finally here after 5 long years. Zimbabwe is about to do the Zambia. It is time to bury Zanu pf for good. It is time to make the dinosaurs of the last Chimur...Published: 10 Jan 2023 at 10:54hrs | 1539 | by Nobukhosi Moyo
The alternative Sona by Trevor Ncube
DEAR compatriots, comrades, and friends.Since independence in 1980, our nation has experienced moments of joy punctuated with anguish and trauma.The dream of our liberation struggle of...Published: 01 Dec 2022 at 04:58hrs | 285 | by Trevor Ncube
Ramaphosa-Malema handshake impossible in Zimbabwe as EFF no threat to ANC rule!
As much as this may shock many - the African continent is full of 'democratic leaders' - but, there is always one catch......their tolerance and good-heartedness towards the opposition is on t...Published: 29 Oct 2022 at 18:57hrs | 2502 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mashonalanders and Mnangagwa takes over Gukurahundi genocide resolution
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has launched a manual on the Gukurahundi community engagement processes by chiefs including a report on their consultative meetings as the Second Republic takes a bold step towards...Published: 18 Oct 2022 at 05:56hrs | 267 | by Staff reporter
Teacher unions blast free service move
TEACHERS unions say they will not succumb to government's attempt to pressure public workers to offer free services.Recently, about 400 teachers reportedly offered to "teach for free" in schoo...Published: 10 Oct 2022 at 06:08hrs | 341 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga congratulates Mnangagwa on 80th birthday
VICE President Constantino Chiwenga yesterday joined the nation in congratulating President Mnangagwa on his 80th birthday.In a statement, VP Chiwenga said: "Your Excellency Sir, I wish to joi...Published: 16 Sep 2022 at 06:04hrs | 161 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa's govt taking country back to Ian Smith era'
Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition (CiZC) says the current Zanu-PF led government was taking the country back to the dark pre-independence period when the black majority was subjected to tough security laws...Published: 09 Aug 2022 at 08:29hrs | 2071 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans commemorates Heroes Day
Zimbabweans from across the political divide, joined by Ministers, mayors and senior service officers, converged at venues across the country to commemorate Heroes Day and salute the fallen and living...Published: 09 Aug 2022 at 08:19hrs | 122 | by Staff reporter
Crisis in Zimbabwe coalition bemoans heroes
Crisis in Zimbabwe coalition bemoans the strides made by the heroes during the liberation struggle and what has been attained since independence as we cel...Published: 08 Aug 2022 at 13:48hrs | 455 | by Tarisai Mudahondo
'Mnangagwa fighting for his political life'
President Emmerson Mnangagwa is fighting for his political life ahead of a Zanu-PF congress slated for October, according to political analyst Ibbo Mandaza.Mandaza believes the Zanu-PF leader,...Published: 20 Jul 2022 at 18:23hrs | 7525 | by Staff reporter
CCC, Zapu speak on Nkomo's persecution by Zanu-PF
OPPOSITION political parties yesterday accused the ruling Zanu-PF party of persecuting the late Vice-President and former PF Zapu leader Joshua Nkomo after independence despite his selfless sacrifice ...Published: 03 Jul 2022 at 09:20hrs | 190 | by Staff reporter
South Africa making efforts to tackle xenophobia
SOUTH Africa has adopted multi-pronged approaches to tackle the scourge of xenophobia through community dialogues and soccer matches between foreigners and locals, among other interventions, a governm...Published: 22 Jun 2022 at 07:44hrs | 1481 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa expected at national languages conference
THE three-day National Languages Conference opens today in Victoria Falls with President Mnangagwa expected to give the keynote address tomorrow.The theme is: "Redefining the role of Zimbabwea...Published: 14 Jun 2022 at 06:32hrs | 102 | by Staff reporter
ZBC must stop marginalising Ndebele
THE Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation is now the chief architect of tribalism and regionalism, through the airwaves.All its stations have now been turned into de facto Shona and English channe...Published: 30 Apr 2022 at 16:21hrs | 424 | by Martin Stobart
Polad exhibiting at ZITF
All 17 Political Actors Dialogue (POLAD) parties are equal members and claims that the grouping is a Zanu-PF project meant to silence opposition parties in the country are bent on perpetuating politic...Published: 28 Apr 2022 at 08:58hrs | 213 | by Staff reporter
Another TV station opened
In its efforts to take everyone aboard, the Second Republic has resolved contradictions that characterised relations between privately-owned media and the Government in the past by taking a transforma...Published: 26 Feb 2022 at 18:20hrs | 181 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF rams on brickwall in Zambia
RATTLED by the rise of Zimbabwe's main opposition leader Nelson Chamisa's Citizens' Coalition for Change (CC) and its close relations with Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema's ruling United Party fo...Published: 19 Feb 2022 at 18:41hrs | 3157 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF touts UPND meeting
Zanu-PF has embarked on a diplomatic offensive visiting neighbouring Zambia as it frets over opposition leader Nelson Chamisa's cosy relationship with President Hikainde Hichilema.Hichilema, p...Published: 18 Feb 2022 at 05:38hrs | 2391 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF meets Hichilema's party
Zanu-PF and Zambia's ruling party, the United Party for National Development (UPND) led by President Hakainde Hichilema, met this week to exchange notes, and disowned renegades within their rank and f...Published: 18 Feb 2022 at 05:31hrs | 547 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa implores church to promote unity
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday implored churches and citizens to be instrumental in promoting unity to ensure there is peace and stability during the by-elections slated for the first quarter of next y...Published: 28 Dec 2021 at 07:10hrs | 65 | by Staff reporter
Legislators give SONA thumbs up
Parliamentarians from across the political divide yesterday commended President Mnangagwa for addressing issues affecting the country when he presented the State of the Nation Address and opened the F...Published: 08 Oct 2021 at 06:25hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa assures business
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has assured business of his Government's unwavering support in ensuring private sector-led economic growth while at the same time promoting the establishment of brands that can com...Published: 30 Sep 2021 at 07:09hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
President E D Mnangagwa @ 79 and overcoming the struggle in transition
The surfeit of one's proximity to a hero has a tendency of dissuading them from appreciating their rarely accorded access to greatness — such is the descriptive parable of the privilege I have to se...Published: 19 Sep 2021 at 08:16hrs | 8 | by Dr Obert Moses Mpofu
Zanu-PF regime treating citizens like rubbish
IF the ever-bungling Zimbabwe regime had been a roving circus act, it would have been a huge hit, guaranteed my undying devotion and following — as it has proven to be thoroughly amusing, with its c...Published: 14 Sep 2021 at 06:07hrs | 6 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Peace and reconciliation in the Second Republic
The inherent Western footprints in the ontology and epistemology of African nationalism in the past has stagnated the dream of realising how we can reconstruct the past and re-imagine the future....Published: 12 Sep 2021 at 08:45hrs | 14 | by Richard Runyararo Mahomva
Mnangagwa's new biography confirms political brinkmanship with Chiwenga
THE political war of attrition between President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his deputy Constantino Chiwenga has found expression in the President's controversial new biography as internecine unresolved le...Published: 06 Sep 2021 at 06:52hrs | 40 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's 'charade' does not promote truth-telling, reparations and justice
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's plan to address the Gukurahundi massacres has been dismissed as a "charade" as it does not promote truth-telling, reparations and justice.Mnangagwa - who was sta...Published: 23 Aug 2021 at 08:00hrs | 6 | by Tarisai Mudahondo in Guruve
Gukurahundi packages imminent
GOVERNMENT will provide social security benefits, among a host of other forms of assistance, to victims of Gukurahundi as part of President Mnangagwa's pledge to find a lasting solution to address pro...Published: 22 Aug 2021 at 07:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, chiefs to deal with Gukurahundi exhumations on a case by case basis
President Emmerson Mnangagwa, Saturday, met with Matabeleland chiefs in Bulawayo over the emotive Gukurahundi issue and resolved to allow a victim-centred process and case by case exhumations and rebu...Published: 21 Aug 2021 at 18:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Students must stand up against tyranny'
ZIMBABWEAN students have been urged to "stir a revolution" by fighting for their political and academic freedoms, instead of relying only on the courts of law to solve their problems, which include po...Published: 12 Aug 2021 at 06:43hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Polad car beneficiary lashes Chamisa
LEADER of a fringe political party, New Innovative Modernisation Front (NIMF), Tendai Peter Munyanduri has defended his decision to accept an Isuzu D-Max vehicle from the government, arguing it was hi...Published: 02 Aug 2021 at 07:30hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
2023 election and the reconfiguration of Zanu-PF
THE re-assignment of Zanu-PF Second Secretary Kembo Mohadi to run party affairs on a full time basis, signals a massive operational turnaround to the revolutionary function of the ruling Zanu-PF....Published: 20 Jun 2021 at 07:19hrs | 6 | by Dr Obert Moses Mpofu,
If Mbuya Nehanda is a Heroine, why is Comrade Thenjwe Lesabe not one?
Some corrections at national level must be done because what is happening in Zimbabwe does not add up to full total. There are discrepancies openly done to provoke tribalism. Who does Nehanda represen...Published: 06 Jun 2021 at 21:48hrs | 23 | by Nomazulu Thata
Heroes Acre without Mugabe: incomplete history of Zimbabwe
Robert Gabriel Mugabe ruled Zimbabwe for 37 years from 1980-2017 and despite being shunned by many, the nonagenarian had managed to protect the country's legacy. The late President fast tracked ...Published: 29 May 2021 at 14:05hrs | 5 | by Tatenda Murenjekwa
'Mnangagwa trying to coup-proof himself'
FORMER Deputy Prime Minister in the inclusive government, Arthur Mutambara has claimed that President Emmerson Mnangagwa's "coup-based government" was not yet ready to surrender power to civilians....Published: 17 May 2021 at 06:53hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Let's mend Zimbabwe's battered image together, says Shava
FOREIGN Affairs minister Frederick Shava has rallied the media to play a critical role in the country's quest to improve its "battered image".In a first of its kind engagement between the Fore...Published: 15 May 2021 at 09:51hrs | 23 | by Staff rpeorter
Zimbabwe needs 'young and vibrant leaders' - great minds discuss ideas idiots are obsessed with age
There are many, many reasons one can give why Zimbabwe is a Banana Republic, a pariah state, ruled by corrupt and tyrannical thugs and in a serious economic mess. And, most despairing of all, at compl...Published: 01 May 2021 at 09:26hrs | 1 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Rare introspection on Chamisa's leadership
Since its formation, the MDC generally identifies itself as fighters for democracy and democratic changeIts, however, critical to interrogate whether the main opposition under the leadership o...Published: 30 Apr 2021 at 18:06hrs | 7 | by Tadiwanashe Mawunganidze & Colleen Rinemhota
Kembo Mohadi removal was necessary for 'nation building'
Since Kembo Mohadi is on record saying Matabeleland genocide was necessary for nation-building, we also put it on record that his sacking by Mnangagwa following his sexual romps was good for nation bu...Published: 29 Apr 2021 at 08:12hrs | 8 | by Israel Dube
National Youth Service (Zimbabwe) a disservice!
The re-establishment of the National Youth Service in Zimbabwe is uncalled for and an unnecessary disservice. It is totally against ubuntu and the rule of law. The youth militia, infamously known as t...Published: 24 Apr 2021 at 09:24hrs | 65 | by Inhokomo Yesizwe SikaMthwakazi
Mnangagwa's govt resurrects youth militia
GOVERNMENT yesterday announced the return of its infamous National Youth Service programme for its youth militia, also known as "Border Gezi graduates", with analysts saying the move was meant to inst...Published: 14 Apr 2021 at 06:40hrs | 56 | by Staff reporter
Mutsvangwa fights to open Zimbabwe airwaves more
THE government said yesterday that it planned to open up the country's airwaves further by issuing more television and radio licences to independent players.Speaking during a well-supported Da...Published: 09 Apr 2021 at 23:00hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's office did not get Chamisa's talks letters
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's office says it never got any letters from Nelson Chamisa regarding the mooted national talks, and neither was it aware of emissaries that the MDC Alliance leader sent to...Published: 17 Mar 2021 at 11:08hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa, allies consult on talks
MOMENTUM towards national dialogue is gathering pace, with the opposition set to hold nationwide consultations with key stakeholders this weekend on the mooted talks.Speaking to the Daily News...Published: 13 Mar 2021 at 20:41hrs | 19 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa and the deconstruction of the anecdote of Matabeleland marginalisation
History is replete with many memories of pre and post-independence pains endured by our people. Against this backdrop, even with the Lancaster Conference right up to the Unity Accord of 1987 the natio...Published: 28 Feb 2021 at 08:44hrs | 10 | by Richard Runyararo Mahomva
Zimbabwe in quandary due to a leadership that has no idea what leadership entails
If ever there is one sure thing to expect from Zimbabwe's leadership, it is that they will never accept any responsibility for anything that goes wrong in the country, nor will they apologize and allo...Published: 27 Feb 2021 at 10:28hrs | 17 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
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