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Zimbabweans will always suffer as long as we rely on politicians for change
Over the past two and a half decades, the country has faced unprecedented economic challenges, from record-breaking hyperinflation and extreme poverty to massive deindustrialization and soaring unempl...Published: 19 Dec 2024 at 12:41hrs | 212 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mnangagwa pampers uniformed forces with cars
President Emmerson Mnangagwa, in his capacity as Commander-in-Chief of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF), handed over a fleet of 54 vehicles to the military in a ceremony aimed at bolstering their...Published: 04 Dec 2024 at 10:36hrs | 7165 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe chiefs to receive bonuses raising controversy
In a move that is likely to spark debate, Zimbabwe's traditional chiefs are set to receive bonuses just two months after they were gifted twin-cab vehicles worth millions of dollars. The decision come...Published: 20 Nov 2024 at 06:58hrs | 359 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa pampers military
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has introduced several new initiatives to enhance the welfare of Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) members, emphasizing his administration's commitment to their well-being. Th...Published: 14 Aug 2024 at 08:45hrs | 1183 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa parades broke forces; mums on stipends
Despite pampering uniformed forces with praises during 44th Defence Forces Day celebrations, President Emmerson Mnangagwa, (who is also the Commander In-Chief of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces) deliberat...Published: 13 Aug 2024 at 22:51hrs | 1703 | by Gideon Madzikatidze
Mnangagwa pampers HCC commissioners
The Justice Maphios Cheda-led commission of inquiry into Harare's governance affairs has received high-end Ford Ranger Raptor vehicles, sparking criticism from residents' associations about the burden...Published: 01 Jul 2024 at 11:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Council boss blows thousands on bling
Chiredzi Council, which is struggling to deliver standard services to its 300 000plus residents, is in the eye of a storm following revelations that the local authority could be pampering its executiv...Published: 16 Apr 2024 at 17:56hrs | 92 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt splashes on luxury cars for MPs
THE government has started the process of buying top-of-the-range cars for legislators at a time Zimbabwe is looking for donations from humanitarian agencies to feed millions of people that are facing...Published: 07 Apr 2024 at 10:34hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe seeks US$2b to avert famine
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa on Wednesday extended the begging bowl to raise over US$2 billion to avert starvation in Zimbabwe after declaring the El Niño-induced drought a state of disaster....Published: 04 Apr 2024 at 06:02hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe teachers get paltry US$20 wage hike
Teachers unions have declared a three-day strike starting this Wednesday in a bid to press for better wages after government recently offered a paltry US$20 increase on monthly salaries for civil serv...Published: 20 Mar 2024 at 14:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Storm over public toilets commercialisation
HUMAN rights watchdog, Matabeleland Institute for Human Rights (MIHR), has criticised government's plans to commercialise public toilets as a measure to promote sanitisation and hygiene.The Lo...Published: 20 Mar 2024 at 06:32hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa outburst over bad national anthem recording
A VISIBLY angry President Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday publicly castigated his lieutenants for allegedly playing a "bad" recording of the national anthem.He later banned them from playin...Published: 01 Mar 2024 at 19:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
How Mzila's family suffered during Gukurahundi genocide
IN 1982, I was assaulted by five Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) uniformed young men donning red berets at my Luveve house number 4136 where I lived, while I taught at St Bernards High School in Pumula, ...Published: 12 Feb 2024 at 13:52hrs | 119 | by Moses Mzila Nkalange
Wicknell Chivayo's US$5 million spending binge
FOR Wicknell Chivayo, money seems to grow on trees.Never the one to be shy to ostentatiously display his wealth, Chivayo, who likes to call himself Sir Wicknell, has of late been on an unrelen...Published: 04 Feb 2024 at 17:36hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa Gukurahundi genocide project illegal, futile without truth telling'
President Emmerson Mnangagwa maintains his government is leading and bankrolling the entire process of "bringing finality" to the Gukurahundi atrocities cognisant of potential external interference se...Published: 29 Jan 2024 at 06:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa pampers cronies with borehole drilling contracts
Zanu-PF legislator and gold dealer Scott Sakupwanya's firm Better Brands is one of the eight firms that was granted lucrative contracts to sink boreholes across the country under President Emmerson Mn...Published: 22 Dec 2023 at 18:23hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Mthuli gives in to MPs' demands
FINANCE minister, Mthuli Ncube, has been forced to increase the budget allocation for Parliament to curry favour with legislators after they threatened not to pass his 'anti-poor' budget.Membe...Published: 20 Dec 2023 at 06:13hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt awards chiefs hefty bonuses
The government has awarded traditional leaders a 100% bonus this year as a "performance reward" after they played a key role in mobilising their subjects to vote for Zanu-PF during the August election...Published: 12 Nov 2023 at 11:52hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean soldiers' morale hits rock bottom
MORALE among members of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) is at its lowest due to lack of funding, which has pushed some members to engage in corrupt activities, a government official has revealed....Published: 06 Nov 2023 at 05:01hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
'We (povo) lacked strategic thinking for electoral victory.' Quick burning grass fire passion will never bring change.
The Zimbabwe electorate’s political activism is like a grass fire, it will flares up but very quickly die down because there was not much to burn. Similarly there is not much in-depth knowledge of a...Published: 27 Sep 2023 at 20:04hrs | 1 | by Wilbert Mukori
2 Mutsvangwas, 6 women and 3 Mnangagwas
With former television personality Tatenda Mavetera thrown into the mix, one needs very little imagination to describe Zimbabwe's Cabinet that was sworn into office early this week following a sham el...Published: 15 Sep 2023 at 22:09hrs | 5 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
Knives out for Faz after election disaster
The shadowy Forever Associate Zimbabwe (Faz), which is at the centre of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's controversial re-election, says it is now being used as a scapegoat by its critics, including Zan...Published: 03 Sep 2023 at 07:29hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF 'supporters' walk out on Mnangagwa
BY 8AM on Wednesday last week, Harare's usually bustling Mupendanhamo flea market was quiet and deserted.Hundreds of its mostly youthful informal entrepreneurs had been directed to shut down a...Published: 11 Aug 2023 at 18:36hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa honours wife with govt award
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has pampered his wife Auxillia by awarding her philanthropic work with a Jairos Jiri Humanitarian Gold Award.The honouring of Auxillia's Angel of Hope Foundation c...Published: 08 Aug 2023 at 06:50hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF pampers rapist with house, cash
THE ruling Zanu-PF party rewarded convicted rapist Bobby Makaza with a house and a substantial amount of cash during a presidential rally in Mutawatawa, Mashonaland East province, on Saturday....Published: 07 Aug 2023 at 06:42hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF hounds traditional leaders
Zanu-PF has ordered chiefs to strip village heads and headmen who entertain opposition parties ahead of the August 23 election of their titles.President Emmerson Mnangagwa recently rewarded vi...Published: 03 Aug 2023 at 06:46hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa chases Kasukuwere's shadow
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa Saturday took his campaign to Saviour Kasukuwere's Mashonaland Central home province urging supporters not to entertain the ex-Zanu-PF commissar's political ambitions....Published: 23 Jul 2023 at 08:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Public wage bill balloons 3 times ahead of key Zimbabwe elections
ELECTION-related spending by the Zimbabwean government is going through the roof as President Emmerson Mnangagwa goes for broke, spending public funds like confetti at a wedding to retain his position...Published: 02 Jul 2023 at 17:30hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa takes campaign trail to Anglican Church
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa Saturday pampered the Anglican Church with funds ostensibly channelled to rehabilitate its shrine in Mashonaland East before pleading with the church to support the ruling...Published: 18 Jun 2023 at 09:00hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa rallies Zanu-PF storm troopers
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday rallied the Zanu-PF election machinery, including liberation war veterans and youths, to take charge of the ruling party's campaign ahead of the August 23 polls....Published: 14 Jun 2023 at 06:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
US$400 000 windfall to judges is electoral gambit
THE recent gifting of US$400 000 housing loans to judges has underlined the executive's keenness to extend favours to the judiciary, particularly during elections, as they play a key role in mediating...Published: 12 Jun 2023 at 06:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu PF candidates got new car, judges US$ 400k @, etc. - vote rigging juggernaut has hit overdrive
Emmerson Mnangagwa and his Zanu PF colleagues and their cronies are loaded and they are using some of their ill-got loot to bankroll the regime's many vote rigging schemes!"The judiciary plays...Published: 11 Jun 2023 at 19:24hrs | 1 | by Wilbert Mukori
Kasukuwere: Red herring, Chamisa's double
Becoming a political clichéGustave Flaubert of the 19th Century licentious novel, Madame Bovary, said this of language: "Language is indeed a machine that continually amplifies emotion."...Published: 10 Jun 2023 at 17:46hrs | 1 | by @Jamwanda2 0n Saturday
Zanu-PF buys its 2023 election candidates 4x4s
Zanu-PF is holding a winter school for its heavily pampered election candidates, while the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) is still in the process of selecting candidates ahead of the 23 August ge...Published: 08 Jun 2023 at 09:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa awards US$400k loans to judges 3 months before elections
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government has controversially awarded US$400 000 housing loans to all judges in the country, three months before elections, Nehanda Radio reported.The President...Published: 06 Jun 2023 at 19:27hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Govt has neglected us,' says war vets
DISGRUNTLED veterans of Zimbabwe's liberation struggle are clamouring for President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration to improve their measly monthly allowances and pay-outs to surviving spouses and...Published: 05 Jun 2023 at 06:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
CIO-linked outfit takes over ahead of Zimbabwe's watershed elections
THE shadowy Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO)-run Forever Associates Zimbabwe (Faz), which has unconstitutionally seized control of the running of the 2023 elections to retain President Emmerson...Published: 04 Jun 2023 at 13:18hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Pray for Mnangagwa to live long'
CHIEF Sikombingo of Lower Gweru in the Midlands province says traditional leaders should pray for long life for President Emmerson Mnangagwa, adding that the country needed him to fulfil his vision....Published: 05 May 2023 at 06:19hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Bona Mugabe alone got 21 farms peasants, supposedly beneficiaries of Land Redistribution, got nothing
If you asked most Zimbabweans out there today what the war of independence was about; most of them will say, "Land!" Before independence the major would have said "One man, one vote!" but all ...Published: 04 May 2023 at 10:13hrs | 1 | by Wilbert Mukori
Epworth title deed scheme Zanu-PF vote-buying stunt
THE regularisation of Epworth settlements after President Emmerson Mnangagwa last week started distributing so-called title deeds has come under the spotlight as it has since emerged that the document...Published: 29 Apr 2023 at 19:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chief tells govt to 'pamper us some more'
ONE of the country's traditional leaders has told government to give them more freebies for them to earn respect from their subjects.The new demands come hardly a month after President Emerson...Published: 26 Apr 2023 at 06:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa should thank us, says Polad
PRINCIPALS under the Political Actors Dialogue (Polad) have claimed that they rescued the country from total economic collapse after President Emmerson Mnangagwa, after the finance ministry and the Re...Published: 17 Apr 2023 at 06:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
'CIO, army seal off rural areas'
ZIMBABWE's security agencies have been accused of conniving with traditional leaders to turn rural areas into ‘no-go zones' for the opposition ahead of elections expected later this year.Acc...Published: 14 Apr 2023 at 07:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe chiefs now a political appendage of the ruling party
TRADITIONAL leaders in Zimbabwe have become extensions of the ruling Zanu-PF party, if latest utterances by the party are anything to go by.Zimbabweans who live in areas controlled by traditio...Published: 08 Apr 2023 at 08:18hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe chiefs, headmen get a windfall
CHIEFS and village heads are set to receive a one-off Covid-19 allowance backdated to May 2022 which is essentially yet another vote-buying exercise by the Zanu-PF government to win the support of 26 ...Published: 07 Apr 2023 at 20:11hrs | 30 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo firms shed 32 000 jobs
THE number of workers in the Bulawayo industrial area have massively declined from 40 112 that were employed in 1989 to 8 000 employed now, a 2022 survey by the local authority has revealed.It...Published: 31 Mar 2023 at 17:57hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Zanu PF primaries were utter fiasco for ED thx Mafia' said Mliswa. ED's turn to sleep with one eye open
If one, Right Honourable Temba P Mliswa, MP for Norton, is to be believed, then the Gold Mafia is certainly bigger then Zanu PF and they are the ones behind President Mnangagwa's humiliating defeats i...Published: 28 Mar 2023 at 11:12hrs | 3 | by Wilbert Mukori
Zanu-PF perfects vote-buying tactics
Zanu-PF has resorted to its traditional vote-buying tactics ahead of the next elections with the latest move being the pampering of traditional chiefs with all-terrain vehicles in a development that s...Published: 20 Mar 2023 at 15:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa pampers the newly installed chiefs
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has pampered the newly installed chiefs with new cars and promised to improve their living conditions while urging them to defend their land ahead of the general elections...Published: 15 Mar 2023 at 19:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Adultery: mistress to pay US$13 000
High Court Judge Justice Sunsley Zisengwe has defended the delict of adultery and said it must remain in the statutes to protect the institution of marriage.He said this when he handed down pr...Published: 25 Feb 2023 at 11:41hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
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