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'Mnangagwa is corrupt because he is still in liberation war mode.' True still shaming him will not end kleptocracy
There is an audio of "Retired Army officer speaks" complaining about Zanu PF's corrupt leaders and how their insatiable greed is the root cause of Zimbabwe's economic melt down. Corruption started soo...Published: 13 Mar 2024 at 19:39hrs | 2 | by Wilbert Mukori
Nyarota's latest book takes aim at opposition
Journalist Geoffrey Nyarota has released his latest book, 'The Journalist as an Outcast: Perils of Investigative Reporting in Zimbabwe.'Alpha Media Holdings chairman, Trevor Ncube was the gues...Published: 25 Feb 2024 at 09:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Geoff Nyarota to launch his fourth book
Award-winning veteran Zimbabwean journalist Geoff Nyarota, one of the best local scribes, will tomorrow launch his fourth book, The Journalist as an Outcast: Perils of Investigative Reporting in Zimba...Published: 09 Feb 2024 at 07:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dembare awarded abandoned match with Highlanders
The Premier Soccer League (PSL) has taken action regarding the abandoned match between Dynamos and Highlanders at Barbourfields Stadium on September 10, due to crowd trouble. Dynamos has been ...Published: 12 Oct 2023 at 08:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Another school under makorokoza threat
FIXED infrastructure and movable property at Kwekwe's Camelot Group of Schools is under threat from illegal mining activities that are taking place within the premises and outside.Worryingly, ...Published: 26 Jul 2023 at 06:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa looks the other way on Job Sikhala petition
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration has ignored a petition by Zimbabweans over the incarceration of Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) interim vice-chairperson and Zengeza West legislator J...Published: 16 Sep 2022 at 19:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa won't intervene in Sikhala case'
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa will not intervene in the opposition legislators Job Sikhala and Godfrey Sithole's case, a government official has said.Information ministry secretary Ndavaningi M...Published: 14 Sep 2022 at 05:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Is Auxillia Mnangagwa following in 'Gucci' Grace's path?
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa was sworn in as interim leader during a colourful ceremony at the National Sports Stadium in Harare, after the ouster of the late former President Robert Mugabe in a coup ...Published: 02 Sep 2022 at 06:52hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
3 Zimbabweans die in SA crash
A YOUNG Zimbabwean couple based in Cape Town, South Africa, and a friend died last week in an accident which occurred just outside Polokwane in South Africa's Limpopo province.The couple, Wend...Published: 30 May 2022 at 07:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Trevor Ncube's dalliances with Mnangagwa run much deeper
This article on the mysterious and controversial relations between President Emmerson Mnangagwa and local publisher Trevor Ncube is a summary based on an extract from...Published: 08 Apr 2022 at 09:22hrs | 6 | by Jonathan Mbiriyamveka
Zimbabwe moves to adopt virtual courts
CABINET yesterday approved the Judicial Laws Amendment Bill that will provide for virtual court sittings.The Bill was presented by the Justice minister Ziyambi Ziyambi, who is the chairperson ...Published: 17 Mar 2022 at 05:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Forex backlog dents machinery imports
ZIMBABWE'S industries are still battling to access millions of United States dollars allocated through the foreign currency auction system, Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries (CZI) president, Kurai ...Published: 17 Mar 2022 at 05:52hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Nyarota launches book tonight
VETERAN journalist Geoffrey Nyarota will this evening launch his latest book titled The Honourable Minister, An Anatomy of Endemic Corruption at Royal Harare Golf Club.Nyarota's book is presen...Published: 17 Mar 2022 at 05:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mounting concerns over breach of ethical journalism
The names of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, the two Washington Post reporters who gained international eminence as premier investigative journalists, following their investigation and exposure of th...Published: 07 Nov 2021 at 07:51hrs | 17 | by Geoffrey Nyarota
Let's compile register of the dead in all our conflicts
January 1977 was the worst of the several months when I personally endured the ravages of the war for the emancipation of Zimbabwe from the toxic grip of rebel leader Ian Douglas Smith's Rhodesian Fro...Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:15hrs | | by Geoffrey Nyarota
Stop this ageism jibe
Those talking about ageism and maturity in politics must revisit an interview where the late President Robert Mugabe who was only 31 years old in 1961 where he was talking about inequality and e...Published: 26 Sep 2021 at 20:08hrs | 8 | by Leonard Koni
Journalistic tenets lost to 'hits' and the quest for followers
One of the greatest problems currently confronting journalists on the Zimbabwean media landscape is the emergence of social media, with the attendant proliferation of platforms populated by content pr...Published: 26 Sep 2021 at 19:50hrs | 1 | by Geoffrey Nyarota
Simple recipe for Zanu-PF or MDC victory
A good number of those outstanding Zimbabweans who have chosen to serve their country as doctors, accountants, teachers, clergymen, lawyers, journalists, businessmen, politicians, documentary film-mak...Published: 19 Sep 2021 at 08:54hrs | | by Geoffrey Nyarota
How Nick Mangwana tweet invoked my memories of old
As a good percentage of Harare's social media community exploded in anger following the reintroduction last Tuesday, by Local Government minister July Moyo, of the former Rhodesia Railways coaches, no...Published: 12 Sep 2021 at 09:01hrs | 9 | by Geoffrey Nyarota
My desperate plea to billionaire Masiyiwa
Last Sunday I dwelt on the depressing theme of the hardship that journalists often endure for failing to toe the ill-defined line drawn by intolerant politicians.Newspaper editors must be the ...Published: 05 Sep 2021 at 07:10hrs | 9 | by Geoffrey Nyarota
HH finally president after five losses, Chamisa will rise to become the next president of Zimbabwe
The victory of Hakainde Hichilema, or HH as he is popularly known among his fellow countrymen, as the seventh president of Zambia, our sister republic across the Zambezi, has been variously viewed by ...Published: 22 Aug 2021 at 08:07hrs | | by Geoffrey Nyarota
Penchant for luxury in midst of abject poverty
Back in 2000 the BMW people in Harare, along Samora Machel Avenue invited a selection of business executives and motoring journalists to test-drive the first-generation BMW X5 luxury Sport Utility Veh...Published: 15 Aug 2021 at 08:58hrs | 9 | by Geoffrey Nyarota
'I remained with Zuma to end state capture' says Ramaphosa vs Mnangagwa colluded with Mugabe to loot
History will show just how close the late Nelson Mandela's "Rainbow democratic South Africa" came to collapse and become just another African Banana Republic like Zimbabwe during former President Jaco...Published: 11 Aug 2021 at 20:40hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
How MDC-T lost a safe constituency
One of the most sensational stories of the 2013 harmonised elections the MDC-T primary election fraud at Mutungagore never saw the light of day in Zimbabwe's media.Zanu-PF secured victory as a...Published: 08 Aug 2021 at 07:37hrs | 7 | by Geoffrey Nyarota
Tutani was a rare breed, says Masunda
THE late veteran Alpha Media Holdings (AMH) journalist Conway Tutani's family yesterday said a post-mortem to ascertain the cause of the scribe's death would be done today, while burial arrangements w...Published: 05 Aug 2021 at 06:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
How committed is Mnangagwa to eradication of corruption?
PreSIdenT emmerson dambudzo Mnangagwa addressed the nation on the auspicious occasion of the fifth edition of the African Anti-Corruption day on July 12, 2021.I listened to the president with ...Published: 01 Aug 2021 at 06:56hrs | 1 | by Geoffrey Nyarota
'Villagers displaced by diamond mines should fight for their rights'
A legal expert with Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights has urged communities in resource rich areas where they are sometimes displaced from, to actively defend their basic rights. Speaking duri...Published: 22 Jul 2021 at 11:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Geoff Nyarota revisits Willowgate scandal
I WAS at the time two months short of 38 years of age and a little-known editor of The Chronicle, the Bulawayo-based daily newspaper.In a building in our neighbourhood in central Bulawayo was ...Published: 13 Feb 2021 at 14:49hrs | | by Geoff Nyarota
Mystery of the Mberengwa 'ambula-cart'
AS Zimbabweans wallowed over the weekend in the boredom induced by the second coronavirus lockdown, an unusual but interesting picture went viral on social media.The image featured an ordinary...Published: 13 Jan 2021 at 07:57hrs | 9 | by Geoffrey Nyarota
Mnangagwa's govt fails to fill gaps in compensation debate
THERE are issues in the compensation debate to which government has closed its mind and, therefore, has miserably failed to justify the decision. They include government's failure to justify compensat...Published: 06 Sep 2020 at 08:55hrs | 1 | by Jonathan Maphenduka
Power outages affect medical drugs storage
Many Zimbabweans who are on self-administered medical drugs requiring refrigerated storage are going through a torrid time as crippling power outages continue unabated.Drugs that require stora...Published: 13 Aug 2019 at 07:20hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
ZACC aspirants chopped down to 35
NEARLY 100 individuals, who applied to sit on the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc), have been chopped from the nomination list after failing to meet expected attributes, The Sunday Mail has ...Published: 27 May 2019 at 07:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
The Graceless Fall of Robert Mugabe, the end of a Dictator's Reign
The title for this book is an attempt at a clever link between Robert Mugabe's dramatic and rapid fall from power in November 2017 and the political activities of his second wife, Grace, whose actions...Published: 10 May 2019 at 14:44hrs | 2 | by Paul Hubbard
Uproar over Mnangagwa's pick for new Zacc chair
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has chosen High Court judge, Justice Loice Matanda-Moyo (pictured), who is also Foreign Affairs minister Sibusiso Moyo's wife, to be the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commissio...Published: 29 Mar 2019 at 12:11hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Did Britain back Mnangagwa?
Nyathi said that in the meeting, Laing "sounded to be really forcing a line that Mnangagwa is the person to work with, and she wanted our opinions around that".Zanu-PF's opponents have alleged...Published: 29 Mar 2019 at 12:08hrs | | by Rahul Nagvekar
ZACC objections window closed
Parliament yesterday closed the window for members of the public to raise objections against candidates nominated for the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) commissioners posts. At lea...Published: 27 Mar 2019 at 06:48hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Candidates nominated for ZACC - full-list
ANNOUNCEMENT OF NAMES OF CANDIDATES NOMINATED FOR THE ZIMBABWE ANTI-CORRUPTION COMMISSION (ZACC) The Standing Rules and Orders Committee of the Parliament of Zimbabwe is mandated in terms of Secti...Published: 20 Mar 2019 at 08:33hrs | 6 | by Parliement
Heavyweights vie for ZACC posts
High-profile figures are among the list of 133 people who have been nominated for interviews to become commissioners of the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC). Following the resignatio...Published: 20 Mar 2019 at 07:23hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Parliament releases list of 133 applicants for 9 ZACC posts
Former Zimpapers board chairman Tommy Sithole and former Chronicle editor Geoffrey Nyarota are among a list of 133 people who have applied to become commissioner of the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commis...Published: 19 Mar 2019 at 09:44hrs | 6 | by ZimLive
Nyarota's lawyer fined for negligence
Harare lawyer Doreen Vimbai Gapare was recently fined $500 by the Law Society of Zimbabwe (LSZ) after she was convicted of unprofessional and compromised conduct in handling a case involving senior jo...Published: 21 Feb 2019 at 07:22hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
'Government does not own Zimpapers'
Former Minister of Information Professor Jonathan Moyo says government does not have any shareholding in the Zimbabwe Newspapers (Zimpapers) a company that publishes The Herald, The Chronicle, Sunday ...Published: 19 Feb 2019 at 13:15hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Nyarota's lawyer fined for unprofessional conduct
A former partner at Scanlen and Holderness, Doreen Vimbai Gapare, was last week fined $500 by the Law Society of Zimbabwe (LSZ) after she was convicted of unprofessional conduct in handling the case o...Published: 14 Feb 2019 at 07:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Robert Mugabe writing a book?
Former President of Zimbabwe Robert Mugabe might be writing a book to record his memoirs after being ousted from power in a bloody coup that ended 37 years of his rule.The revelations were mad...Published: 11 Jan 2019 at 16:55hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
'Go to hell Strive Masiyiwa' Jonathan Moyo says as he spills more beans
...Published: 10 Jan 2019 at 18:45hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Professor Jonathan Moyo, a failed project
Self-exiled Professor Jonathan Moyo is nothing but a failure whose political fate is sealed. I am struck by the fact that a man of such high academic astute could allow his sense of reason to be e...Published: 10 Jan 2019 at 16:44hrs | 8 | by Ashley Kondo
Jonathan Moyo exposes Strive Masiyiwa's Zanu-PF links?
Exiled former G40 Kingpin and Robert Mugabe's spin doctor Professor Jonathan Moyo who had threatened to expose embattled telecoms guru Strive Masiyiwa of being a two-timer who played double standards ...Published: 07 Jan 2019 at 16:15hrs | 1 | by Ndou Paul
BREAKING: Jonathan Moyo spills the beans on Strive Masiyiwa
Exiled former G40 Kingpin Jonathan Moyo has come out guns blazing against telecoms guru Strive Masiyiwa. In a series of Twitter thread Moyo revealed how Masiyiwa has always been a staunch supporter of...Published: 07 Jan 2019 at 15:53hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Nyarota lands top journalism training post
VETERAN journalist and founding editor of the Daily News, Geoffrey Nyarota, has been appointed head of journalism and communication training at the Christian College of Southern Africa (CCOSA)....Published: 05 Jan 2019 at 11:10hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Our journalists must up their game
Many have asked me why our media is as bad as it is today. It is not a question that can be answered with one magic sentence. It is true that we have a crisis in journalism; today's reporters ...Published: 31 Dec 2018 at 17:00hrs | | by Hopewell Chin'ono
Strategy changes needed to push Zimbabwe media forward
IN this instalment, I will try to discuss, albeit briefly, strategic issues of the media in Zimbabwe, going forward. I am not sure how far forward we should look, but I would assume that so long we lo...Published: 03 Nov 2018 at 08:55hrs | | by Takura Zhangazha
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