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Is Zimbabwe headed for another coup?
This season we are living in, it's not a time for a hairdo. People are perching on the edge of the cliff. There is a loud whisper drifting around, almost like a wish among many. These chaps wi...Published: 01 Sep 2024 at 10:25hrs | 2479 | by Tawanda Majoni
SADC condems in the strongest terms failed attempted coup in DRC
BREAKING: The SADC - Southern African Development Community, which HE President Dr ED Mnangagwa will soon assume the role of Summit Chair released a presser this morning condemning in its strongest te...Published: 20 May 2024 at 10:55hrs | 19 | by Maxwell Haitengeswinyika Teedzai
Government up to its usual shenanigans, again
In the latest act of the ongoing drama which I dub "Governmental Promises: A Comedy of Errors," our esteemed government has once again shocked and dismayed the nation with their predictable flair for ...Published: 07 Apr 2024 at 21:40hrs | 2 | by Kumbirai Thierry Nhamo
Mnangagwa's US re-engagement failure complete
ONE of the biggest ambitions that President Emmerson Mnangagwa haboured when he took over power following a military coup in 2017 was to re-engage the United States and end its embargo on Harare....Published: 21 Mar 2024 at 19:45hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
'US should release evidence of corruption and venality by Harare leaders'
Zimbabwean public intellectual Professor Ibbo Mandaza says the United States should release evidence of corruption and venality by Harare leaders so that people appreciate the sanctions explanation an...Published: 07 Mar 2024 at 18:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF gate-crashes US's sanctions Press briefing
Zanu-PF yesterday accused the United States of shutting the door for engagement after its members were barred from gate-crashing a Press conference where US embassy officials were explaining the new s...Published: 07 Mar 2024 at 05:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugano quits commenting on Zimbabwe economic issues
Economist Professor Gift Mugano has declared his decision to refrain from providing comments on Zimbabwean economic matters, following repeated accusations from Zanu-PF labeling him as an "anti-econom...Published: 13 Jan 2024 at 07:38hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Grade 7 results set for next Friday
THE Zimbabwe Schools Examination (Zimsec) Grade Seven examination results will be released on Friday next week, Chronicle Online has learnt.In a press conference invitation letter sent t...Published: 25 Nov 2023 at 07:44hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's CCC 'faction' cancels press conference on recalled MPs
The Nelson Chamisa led faction of the Opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) has canceled its highly anticipated press conference, which was initially scheduled to be addressed by the party's ...Published: 10 Oct 2023 at 11:14hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe security details don't behave like anything on the video
SOMEONE WANNA START SOMETHING IN HARARE: FALSE FLAG, PSEUDO OPERATION OR WHAT?Time will tell. Very short time. The electoral numbers, the votes, are beginning to come in hard and fast, a...Published: 26 Aug 2023 at 20:11hrs | | by Jonathan Moyo
CCC press conference disruption stage-managed?
President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s supporters have accused the opposition of staging-managing a Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) press conference disruption.A Twitter account which is believe...Published: 26 Aug 2023 at 11:20hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Uebert Angel's PR disaster
Uebert Angel is, easily, the man of the moment, for all the wrong reasons.He was recently outed by the Al Jazeera undercover investigative team for trying to aid gold and money laundering usin...Published: 23 Apr 2023 at 07:48hrs | | by Tawanda Majoni
Chamisa's CCC candidate selection hits turbulence
THE Citizens' Coalition for Change nomination process degenerated into chaotic scenes of violence and disruption in some constituencies amid fears of imposition of candidates, although the party says ...Published: 08 Apr 2023 at 16:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dog eat dog in Zanu-PF primaries
It will be a dog eat dog scenario in Zanu-PF primary elections initially set for Saturday (March 18) but have been postponed to a later date, with big wigs and some completely new faces set to clash i...Published: 18 Mar 2023 at 08:32hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Mnangangwa dashes to gazette delimitation report
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is expected to gazette this afternoon the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec)'s delimitation report, Zec deputy chairperson Rodney Simukai Kiwa has said.Speaking a...Published: 21 Feb 2023 at 05:52hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF must stop spreading violence
The political tension in the country has reached another level and this has been proved by the acts of alleged Zanu-PF members who recently disturbed a Citizens Coalition for Change election watch pre...Published: 14 Nov 2022 at 10:29hrs | | by Leonard Koni
CCC presser anarchy a result of opposition infighting?
Zanu-PF information director Tafadzwa Magwadi has made startling claims Tuesday's invasion of a CCC press conference in Harare by yobs was a culmination of an internal feud by rival factions within th...Published: 11 Nov 2022 at 05:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Rowdy mob disrupts CCC presser
SUSPECTED Zanu-PF youths yesterday cordoned off the Media Centre in the capital to block opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) party leaders from holding a Press conference.CCC spokes...Published: 09 Nov 2022 at 05:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF wins Gokwe Kabuyuni by-election
THE ruling Zanu-PF party has retained the Gokwe Kabuyuni constituency seat after its candidate Spencer Tshuma polled 10 727 votes against Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) Costin Muguti, who garnere...Published: 28 Aug 2022 at 12:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
RBZ summons retailers, manufactures
RETAILERS and manufacturers have been summoned to a no-holds-barred meeting on price hikes by the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU), a unit of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe, especially against the back...Published: 17 Jul 2022 at 09:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa abusing Presidential powers'
THE opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) has castigated President Emmerson Mnangagwa's use of Presidential Powers to legalise the hike in interest rates by 200% and to declare lending and re...Published: 01 Jul 2022 at 07:31hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Biti tells Guvamatanga to 'shut up'
FORMER finance minister, Tendai Biti, has told off current treasury permanent secretary, George Guvamatanga, after he claimed civil servants are better paid now that they were during the government of...Published: 28 Jun 2022 at 07:32hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Grain runs out in Zimbabwe?
MILLIONS of Zimbabweans will go hungry as the country faces a severe grain shortage.A poor rainfall season and hoarding of maize by farmers demanding payment in United States dollars have exac...Published: 01 Jun 2022 at 06:35hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Basic goods disappear from shelves in Zimbabwe
SOME basic commodities such as cooking oil have virtually disappeared from shop shelves as the monthly food basket shot to $120 000.The Consumer Council of Zimbabwe (CCZ) yesterday said a fami...Published: 20 May 2022 at 06:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Retailers dump Zimdollar
RETAILERS in Harare have dumped the Zimbabwe dollar and are demanding payment in United States dollars for a number of basic goods such as cooking oil and dairy products.Some large wholesalers...Published: 28 Apr 2022 at 09:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Air Force of Zimbabwe chopper goes down
AN Air Force of Zimbabwe (AFZ) helicopter reportedly crashed yesterday near Chibhero College in Mhondoro, but police and army officials were coy on details about its passengers and possible casualties...Published: 11 Apr 2022 at 06:38hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe faces cooking oil shortage
Zimbabwe is facing fresh cooking oil shortages following a sharp increase in edible oil prices on the international markets and foreign currency shortages leading to viability challenges f...Published: 08 Apr 2022 at 09:17hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Khupe mocked for dramatic endorsing Chamisa
MDC Alliance spokesperson Witness Dube has described MDC-T president Thokozani Khupe as an old yellow born who fell off King Lobengula's scorch cart, after her decision to throw her weight behind the ...Published: 23 Mar 2022 at 20:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bosso express regret over Lulu statement
HIGHLANDERS have expressed regret over the publication of an article by an online publication quoting head coach Mandla Mpofu calling on the club supporters to beat up the players if they continue pro...Published: 19 Feb 2022 at 18:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bosso 'gag' players
HIGHLANDERS have reportedly gagged their coaches and players from talking to the media without permission from the club.Insiders told Chronicle Sport that the Bosso board also wants the gag ex...Published: 16 Feb 2022 at 05:31hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
PHOTOS: Thousands throng to support Thokozani Khupe
More than a thousand MDC-T supporters thronged to McDonalds Hall in Mzilikazi on Friday to pledge their support to former Deputy Prime Minister Thokozani Khupe who was addressing a presser. ...Published: 21 Jan 2022 at 16:06hrs | 6 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chris Mutsvangwa panics...Temba Mliswa to drop files
ZANU PF Spokesperson Ambassador Christopher Mutsvangwa is reportedly panicking over the meeting between Norton Member of Parliament Temba Mliswa and exiled former ZANU PF Political Commissar Saviour K...Published: 21 Jan 2022 at 13:04hrs | 10 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mwonzora must fight bad governance not Chamisa
There is now glaring evidence that Mr Douglas Mwonzora is now panicking and clutching at his straws because he knows that he is unelectable, unsellable to the electorate and cannot square up with Nels...Published: 12 Jan 2022 at 16:14hrs | | by Leonard Koni
Khaya Moyo was troubled and conflicted by sad events of November 2017
Moro Sahwira wangu, you know I've lots of time and respect for you and your views. Clearly, we have profound differences of opinion on this issue, sparked by the personal tributes that some of us, so-...Published: 17 Nov 2021 at 08:03hrs | 8 | by Jonathan Moyo
ZANU PF a terrorist organisation MDC Veterans Activist Association (MDC VAA)
MDC Veterans Activiust Association (MDC VAA) National Spokesperson Mandava Blessing has described the Zanu PF as a terrorist organisation following admission by Zanu PF Commissar Patrick Chinams...Published: 17 Oct 2021 at 14:18hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Inside the cotton value chain
Cotton has been grown in Zimbabwe from as far back as 1940, even though production was enhanced after the establishment of the Cotton Marketing Board (CMB) in 1969. The white Gold is the second most i...Published: 09 Sep 2021 at 19:33hrs | 9 | by Victor Bhoroma
Import Substitution: A case for soya beans
For the past 10 years, Zimbabwe has produced an average of 56 000 metric tonnes (mt) of soya beans per year against national demand of 240 000 mt for food, animal feed and industrial consumption. In t...Published: 01 Sep 2021 at 15:26hrs | 16 | by Victor Bhoroma
Another Air Force of Zimbabwe chopper crashes
AN Air Force of Zimbabwe (AFZ) helicopter crash-landed near oil expresser Surface Wilmar in Chitungwiza on Thursday evening, but details of the accident have been kept under wraps.The chopper ...Published: 10 Jul 2021 at 11:00hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
'Zanu-PF, army inseparable'
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's ruling Zanu-PF party yesterday said it would continue banking on the Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) for political survival because the two are tied together by the liberat...Published: 25 Jun 2021 at 07:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's youths led by Kambarami push for provincial chairperson ouster
The Bulawayo MDC Alliance Youth Assembly has called for the dismissal of the party's provincial chairperson, James Sithole, accusing him of being in bed with the rival MDC-T party.The party yo...Published: 14 Jun 2021 at 18:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Cooking oil shortage looms
Zimbabwe should brace for a shortage in cooking oil following a 60% increase in crude oil prices in the international markets to US$1650 per tonne and the failure by oil expressers to get the bulk of ...Published: 03 Jun 2021 at 08:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Top cop testifies against Mliswa
Norton legislator Temba Mliswa held a media conference at his house without authority from the regulatory officer in violation of Covid-19 regulations, although he had notified the police of his inten...Published: 02 Apr 2021 at 09:12hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
An open letter to Victor Matemadanda
Dear Mr Matemadanda, Hope this letter find you in good health wherever you are and I believe you are enjoying every minute of your heartbeat.I really know that you are a real war veter...Published: 28 Mar 2021 at 13:07hrs | | by Leonard Koni
Civil servants reject 25% salary hike
THE crunch meeting between government and civil servants ended in a deadlock yesterday after the workers rejected a "paltry" 25% offer tabled by their employer.Government on Thursday called fo...Published: 13 Mar 2021 at 06:46hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Biti insinuates that people from Chipinge practise witchcraft
MDC-Alliance vice president Tendai Biti torched a social media storm yesterday after he implied in a post on micro-blogging platform Twitter that people from Chipinge dabble in witchcraft. Alt...Published: 10 Mar 2021 at 05:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mliswa granted bail
Norton legislator Temba Mliswa who was arrested during a live presser yesterday for violating COVID-19 restrictions has been released on $20 000 bail by H...Published: 12 Feb 2021 at 13:57hrs | | by Shelton Muchena
When the undertaker wishes you long life
This time Africans have abjectly disappointed the world.For Pete's sake, why can they not simply die?At least that is what the world expected after the outbreak of the coronavirus....Published: 04 Oct 2020 at 09:57hrs | | by Bishop Lazi
Kasukuwere, Mzembi tell Chinamasa to 'stop throwing sewage at us'
FORMER Zanu-PF top officials have accused the ruling party's acting national spokesperson Patrick Chinamasa of using undiplomatic language to fight his opponents.Chinamasa is holding weekly pr...Published: 22 Sep 2020 at 06:39hrs | | by newzimbabwe
ANC- ZANU- PF bromance in Harare a no show
The entire week, Zimbabweans everywhere had adrenalin pumbing through their beings in great anticipation of the much-hyped ANC- Zanu PF meeting at the very headquarters of the latter in Harare....Published: 12 Sep 2020 at 09:30hrs | | by Josiah Mucharowana in Pretoria
Inflation: Ncube sticks to his guns
Finance minister Mthuli Ncube has rejected calls to reverse the decision to stop reporting year-on-year inflation, saying the move will not impact negatively on the economy as suggested by some econom...Published: 11 Aug 2019 at 11:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
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