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Sydney Gata is no hero
When US president Abraham Lincoln said that one can fool some people sometime, but one cannot fool all the people all the time, he forgot to add that Zanu-PF, as a stalwart, disciplined and principled...Published: 13 Jul 2025 at 11:38hrs | 418 | by Kenneth Mufuka
Major pension boost for Zimbabwe civil servants
Public sector workers in Zimbabwe are set to benefit from enhanced retirement packages under the proposed State Service Pension Fund, which aims to boost both financial and social security for civil s...Published: 13 Oct 2024 at 12:22hrs | 1422 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa keeping Zim dollar to oppress Zimbabweans!
Why is the Zimbabwe government so adamant in holding on to a useless currency?On what logic would anyone believe that it is a good idea to continue using money that loses its value nearly on a...Published: 06 Mar 2024 at 23:33hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
CCC councillors hire retired Zanu-PF apologist as chamber secretary
CITIZENS' Coalition for Change (CCC) councillors in Chinhoyi have curiously enlisted the services of retired chamber secretary, Abel Gotora, despite battling for years to fire him in a protracted boar...Published: 18 Jan 2024 at 17:49hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe cops refuse to retire
THE Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has reportedly tightened screws on officers who wish to extend their service post retirement after an unprecedented number of retiring officers applied for extension...Published: 05 Jan 2024 at 05:55hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt urged to dollarise pensions
THE Zimbabwe National Union of School Heads (Zinush) has pleaded for the dollarisation of pensions as inflation continues to eat away the life savings of educators, condemning many to poverty after ye...Published: 27 Dec 2023 at 07:32hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Shingi Munyeza threatens Mutemererwa's lawyer
The debt row pitying Marjorie Mutemererwa and Shingi Munyeza escalated this week with the ex SeedCo public relations manager's lawyer filing a police report against the businessman for allegedly swear...Published: 11 Aug 2023 at 18:54hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
I refuse to be a delusional idiot
I lOVE our languages and culture because they teach us so much about life.One of the Shona language's wise adage says: "Totenda maruva tadya chakata," which literally means ‘don't count your...Published: 14 Oct 2022 at 05:50hrs | 5 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Before celebrating 'flowers' Zimbabweans should first interrogate why previous 'fruits' were destroyed!
I love our language and culture - since they teach us so much about life.There is a wise adage - 'totenda maruva tadya chakata', in oth...Published: 13 Oct 2022 at 00:23hrs | 5 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
CCC's winning the March by-elections: a trap for 2023 general elections
The by-elections that were handsomely achieved in favour of CCC must bamboozle young kids in the political play to think the elections were free and fair....Published: 29 Mar 2022 at 06:17hrs | 1 | by Nomazulu Thata
The godfather of Matebeleland politics, Abednico Ncube
The creation of empires and dynasties through the Zanu-PF structures continue to gain thrust and traction within Zanu-PF in Matebeleland South as noted with the continuous personalization of the vast ...Published: 10 Sep 2021 at 18:48hrs | 47 | by Jerry Zinodla
Kaseke refuses ZTA package
CORRESPONDENCE between former Zimbabwe Tourism Authority (ZTA) former board chairperson Chipo Mtasa and former Tourism minister Walter Mzembi has exposed how the ZTA board has over the years failed to...Published: 14 Aug 2021 at 18:26hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
The militarisation of Zimbabwean politics bad for democracy, freedoms
The military remains a decisive power-bloc in transition politics of Zimbabwe.Its decisive role has been highlighted in four interrelated ways.First, the military elite captured Zanu-P...Published: 04 Oct 2020 at 10:11hrs | 10 | by Zimbabwe Democracy Institute
US community raising money to send Zimbabwe 'agent of change' home
Williamson Chitiyo was over 9,000 miles from home when he died in July.A nurturer, educator and member of his country's main political opposition party, Chitiyo came to the US from his native ...Published: 11 Aug 2019 at 21:48hrs | | by Kayla Henson Forum News Service
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
PR seats a retirement package, says Charumbira
PROPORTIONAL Representation (PR) seats in Parliament are not delivering their intended objectives and are being abused by political parties to curry favours and reward loyalists, Chiefs Council presid...Published: 13 Apr 2019 at 13:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe sells Hong Kong villa at a loss?
A luxury villa previously occupied by the wife and daughter of Zimbabwe's former strongman Robert Mugabe - itself the subject of a dispute in the Hong Kong courts - has been sold for a 15% loss, accor...Published: 09 Jan 2019 at 11:41hrs | 2 | by South China Morning Post
'Zimbabwe is doomed because of failure of speech' schizophrenic Jonathan Moyo now concede.
For someone who had become hooked on absolute power and the attendant influence and wealth it brought; sudden loss of all that was a hammer blow to anyone. A few months after the November 2017 coup, M...Published: 02 Dec 2018 at 19:19hrs | 1 | by Nomusa Garikai
Mthuli Ncube makes U-turn on retrenchments
Finance minister Mthuli Ncube has now said there would be no mass layoffs of public sector workers because government has no money to bankroll retrenchment packages.He said government will now...Published: 01 Dec 2018 at 11:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
War vets terrorise Mphoko's wife
Former Vice President Mphoko's daughter Siduduzo has alleged that her mother Laurinda Mphoko is living in perpetual harassment from who veterans who are in a mission to deal with former Vi...Published: 20 Nov 2018 at 13:29hrs | 2 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa sucked into missing $6,4m mess
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa and Mines minister Winston Chitando were yesterday dragged into a case in which $6,4 million pumped into Hwange Colliery Company for exploration, allegedly disappeared, wh...Published: 02 Nov 2018 at 06:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's Singapore perks payback time for Mnangagwa
CROSS continental medical errands for the former First Family are not a justifiable cost to the taxpayer.They must be stopped immediately.As I see it, if deposed former President Rober...Published: 26 Sep 2018 at 11:30hrs | 2 | by Cyprian M Ndawana
Chamisa taunts Mnangagwa
OPPOSITION MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday ordered his political nemesis President-elect Emmerson Mnangagwa to do the "most gracious and revolutionary thing" by conceding defeat and start...Published: 20 Aug 2018 at 06:11hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
2018 elections: The lies, promises and the drama
ZANU PF party supporters gathered and waited for long before their leaders arrived to address them in Marondera Central recently.With the DJ now being the centre of attraction playing the famo...Published: 30 Jul 2018 at 07:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa is just like Mugabe
IT has long been a public secret that Zimbabwe was open for socioeconomic policy change. Although President Emmerson Mnangagwa was inaugurated in November last year, the voice of the people is unanimo...Published: 18 Jul 2018 at 08:42hrs | 2 | by Cyprian Muketiwa Ndawana
Chiwenga must shed army culture
Inherent in the dismissal of striking public service nurses is a hangover from a military mindset drilled to a regimented environment. As I see it, Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga might no longer ...Published: 27 Apr 2018 at 19:55hrs | 1 | by Cyprian Ndawana
Mugabe playing a dangerous game, goes after Mnangagwa
The country's sulking former leader, Robert Mugabe - together with his restless wife, Grace - is said to be stepping up his efforts to get back at his successor, President Emmerson Mnangagwa, despite ...Published: 12 Mar 2018 at 11:43hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa trimming civil service
At least $39 million has been availed by Government as severance packages for civil servants as the State moves to trim its workforce and reduce staff costs.About $12 million will go towards r...Published: 11 Mar 2018 at 09:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa takes fight to Mugabe
Former president Robert Mugabe's aides at his Borrowdale mansion in Harare were on Wednesday questioned by State security agents who are trying to unravel the despot's political manoeuvres that have t...Published: 09 Mar 2018 at 06:45hrs | | by Staf reporter
'Mugabe tasting his own medicine'
FORMER President Robert Mugabe should be the last person to complain about being ill-treated and being denied a retirement package commensurate with his position as former Head of State, the family of...Published: 08 Mar 2018 at 05:35hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe hosts lavish private birthday party
"Don’t party and tell," might be the new Blue Roof motto.Organisers remained tight-lipped on a private 94th birthday party held at former president Robert Mugabe’s plush palace, dubbed "Bl...Published: 25 Feb 2018 at 10:21hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe keeps Zim1 Mercedes-Benz limo
FORMER president Robert Mugabe has been given the iconic Mercedes-Benz S600 Pullman Guard limousine he was using for official duties as part of his exit package following his dramatic ouster last Nove...Published: 02 Feb 2018 at 16:01hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
'Betrayed and abandoned' Mugabe says sorry to sacked Mujuru
President Robert Mugabe has met with Joice Mujuru, the deputy president he sacked four years ago, and apologised for chasing her out of the ruling party, reports said on Friday.The soon-to-be ...Published: 02 Feb 2018 at 10:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dr Mandaza, 'a SADC shadow ZEC' will not stop coup Zanu PF rig elections - just implement the reforms
One of the reasons Zimbabwe is this political and economic mess is because we do not like dealing with our unpleasant and tough problems decisively, even when we get the golden opportunity to do so. W...Published: 27 Jan 2018 at 06:34hrs | 1 | by Wilbert Mukori
Mugabe family 'left in peace', says Mnangagwa
Zimbabwe's long-time leader Robert Mugabe will be "left in peace" with a "lucrative" retirement package, his successor Emmerson Mnangagwa has said.However, Mr Mnangagwa also told the BBC's Mis...Published: 25 Jan 2018 at 05:55hrs | | by BBC
Mnangagwa says no immunity for Grace Mugabe
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday opened up on former President Robert Mugabe's retirement package and the immunity status of the ex-First Lady in an interview in Davos, Switzerland, where he is attending...Published: 25 Jan 2018 at 05:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa speaks on Mugabe package, immunity
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday opened up on former President Robert Mugabe's retirement package and the immunity status of the ex-First Lady in an interview in Davos, Switzerland, where he is attending...Published: 25 Jan 2018 at 05:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Is 7c per litre fuel cut a bribe as trucks for Chiefs - absolutely not, they are a world apart
No government on earth would increase the price of goods or services just before elections, that is a universally accepted rule of thumb. The Zimbabwe government is no exception. "The Ministry of Fina...Published: 23 Jan 2018 at 07:11hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
MDC-T fumes over Mugabe's hefty exit package
Morgan Tsvangirai's MDC-T party has criticised the "obscene" exit package given to former President Robert Mugabe, saying the country cannot sustain it.MDC-T spokesperson Obert Gutu said the h...Published: 29 Dec 2017 at 07:50hrs | 3 | by Staff Reporter
Zipra War Vets, a disappointment! General Dumiso Dabengwa disappoints!
Zipra armed forces were once known for their political correctness, a disciplined army that was even admired the enemy of racist Smith. Peter Walls spoke highly of them: their training was outstanding...Published: 17 Dec 2017 at 17:25hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
Be an active citizen: know your rights
Today is International Human Rights Day. Zimbabwe is on record for being one of the countries that violate human rights to settle political scores. Very little is done to educate Zimbabwean citizens o...Published: 10 Dec 2017 at 11:19hrs | | by Linda Tsungirirai Masarira
A clean break with Mugabe's past will have to wait
Who would have thought that this year would end with Robert Mugabe having lost the presidency of both the governing Zanu-PF and Zimbabwe? None could have foreseen such a development being the work of ...Published: 04 Dec 2017 at 11:38hrs | | by Siphamandla Zondi, University of Pretoria
Mugabe, is yet to receive his retirement package
ZIMBABWE'S immediate-past President, Robert Mugabe, is yet to receive his retirement package as the Civil Service Commission is determining the sum.Secretary for Information, Media and Broadca...Published: 03 Dec 2017 at 08:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe granted immunity from prosecution
Harare - Zimbabwe's former president Robert Mugabe was granted immunity from prosecution and assured that his safety would be protected in his home country as part of a deal that led to his resignatio...Published: 23 Nov 2017 at 13:07hrs | | by Reuters
Details on BCC top officials outrageous perks emerge
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC)'s senior officials who last week made outrageous demands to the local authority did not want the perks as part of the retirement packages but wanted to start benefiting for...Published: 12 Nov 2017 at 09:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chitungwiza workers resist retrenchment
Chitungwiza Municipality has resorted to targeting workers who are experiencing health problems and those nearing retirement in its efforts to right-size the organisation.The local authority i...Published: 01 Aug 2017 at 06:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Prove them wrong: Fadzayi Mahere
In a nation baffled by the laughable actions of the former Teflon Don of Manicaland, Didymus Mutasa, who believes Zimbabwe owes him a few luxury vehicles, a multimillion dollar mansion, a blank cheque...Published: 19 Jul 2017 at 11:28hrs | 3 | by Tafi Mhaka
Zimbabwe bans golden handshakes for executives
THE Government has, with immediate effect, banned all local authorities countrywide from paying gratuities and golden handshakes to executives and senior employees following outrageous demands in exit...Published: 02 Jun 2017 at 06:52hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Woman demands womaniser hubby’s retirement package
GET AWAY!An "overstepping" wife was sent packing after she demanded to be given half of her husband's retirement package.Nicholas Kampila (60) of How Mine ordered his wife Anna Mulonda...Published: 19 May 2017 at 15:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's tender board boss murderd mafia-style
FORMER State Procurement Board (SPB) executive chairman and senior professional bureaucrat Charles Kuwaza could have been murdered, contrary to the narrative he committed suicide by jumping to his dea...Published: 21 Apr 2017 at 12:23hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
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