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Zimbabwe's cash-rich govt suppliers fuel currency volatility
GOVERNMENT procurement and service providers - who include public works contractors and suppliers of goods and services - are destabilising the foreign exchange market by offloading part of their stag...Published: 3 hrs ago | 219 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa vows decent pay and adequate resources for uniformed forces
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa has promised uniformed forces that his administration will work well with them when he takes over power should he win elections due next year....Published: 5 hrs ago | 368 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa says partisan politics toxifying army
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday spoke out against the "partisan political toxification" of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) and urged security forces to serve nati...Published: 5 hrs ago | 224 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa told walk the talk
THE Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) yesterday called on President Emmerson Mnangagwa to "walk the talk" on improving the welfare of civil servants.Mnangagwa made a pledge to improve c...Published: 5 hrs ago | 161 | by Staff reporter
The defence forces are a citizens force
Yesterday was an important day, a historic day, one penned in the history of the birth of our nation Zimbabwe by the sacrifices and toil of many men, women and children who paid the ultimate price to ...Published: 5 hrs ago | 23 | by Nelson Chamisa
Is this the Zimbabwe our Heroes and Heroines fought for?
From The 1964 Zidube farm battle in Kezi & The 1966 Senoia Battle in Chinhoyi, though others may beg to differ, the muzzle of a gun sounded its arriva...Published: 12 hrs ago | 296 | by Nontokozo Malaba Ncube
Point of correction: Chiwenga not son in law of Matabeleland
We know that having a husband who holds a high position in Zimbabwe or any other country can be exciting for others. And having a better half of your choice from any country or nation is any woman or ...Published: 09 Aug 2022 at 08:46hrs | 6417 | by Israel Dube
'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 | 1979 | by Staff reporter
Don't abuse our heroes, says Chamisa
MAIN opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa has criticised government for conferring hero statuses to Zanu-PF party members only, saying national heroes should not bear a...Published: 09 Aug 2022 at 08:24hrs | 835 | 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 | 67 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa charts new inclusive path
THE Government will give a holistic account of the country's liberation struggle by honouring forgotten heroes such as the late Reverend Ndabaningi Sithole and James Chikerema among others for their c...Published: 09 Aug 2022 at 08:17hrs | 376 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe a friend to all, an enemy to none'
Address by the President of the Republic 0f Zimbabwe His Excellency, ED Mnangagwa at the 42nd Heroes Day Commemorations. It is my singular honour and privilege to be addressing you all, at thi...Published: 09 Aug 2022 at 08:16hrs | 72 | by ED Mnangagwa
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 | 439 | by Tarisai Mudahondo
Mliswa blasts July Moyo for Harare's worsening water problems
INDEPENDENT Norton legislator Temba Mliswa has teared into Minister of Local Government, July Moyo for plunging Harare into debilitating water shortages.Most areas in the capital experienced w...Published: 08 Aug 2022 at 05:52hrs | 1841 | by Staff reporter
Obert Mpofu sucked into mine dispute
Zanu-PF secretary for administration Obert Mpofu has been implicated in a mining dispute at Doyana, Umzingwane in Matabeleland South province where locals allege that his sons-in-law were mining again...Published: 08 Aug 2022 at 05:49hrs | 558 | by Staff reporter
Fake Chamisa intel: riot cops in heavy Kuwadzana deployment
ZIMBABWE Republic Police's (ZRP) anti-riot officers Saturday besieged Kuwadzana community hall, thwarting a Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) and residents interface after getting ‘false intellige...Published: 07 Aug 2022 at 08:44hrs | 2324 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa marches expose Zanu-PF fights
President Emmerson Mnangagwa is increasingly using parallel structures after some Zanu-PF organs resisted the imposition of his allies ahead of the ruling party's congress, insiders say.Mnanga...Published: 07 Aug 2022 at 08:28hrs | 932 | by Staff reporter
As long as Zimbabweans are such unmitigated cowards - Chamisa will grow old, and go into the grave without ever tasting power!
I have written extensively on how our appalling cowardice as Zimbabweans is the greatest single most outstanding factor holding us back as a nation - preventing us from pushing for the change we despe...Published: 06 Aug 2022 at 21:39hrs | 1116 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Armed anti-riot police officers bar CCC - residents engagement
ARMED anti-riot police officers Saturday shutdown a Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) residents engagement in Kuwadzana where party secretary general Charlton Hwende had sought to also celebrate his...Published: 06 Aug 2022 at 17:18hrs | 279 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo gets a key dam
A $42-million dam a century in the making could end water shortages for more than half a million Zimbabweans — and win votes for the ruling party in an opposition stronghold that may decide next yea...Published: 05 Aug 2022 at 06:43hrs | 3607 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa says Zimbabwe will win economic war
ZIMBABWE will attain a prosperous future and overcome the economic challenges being engineered by its detractors bent on making the economy "scream" through asymmetrical warfare targeting ordinary cit...Published: 04 Aug 2022 at 06:37hrs | 323 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala case attracts international attention
ANTI-RIOT police were deployed at the Harare Magistrates' Court yesterday where Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) legislator and top party member, Job Sikhala was challenging his placement on remand...Published: 03 Aug 2022 at 06:47hrs | 3812 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa mourns Brig-Gen Mabenge
President Mnangagwa has described national hero Brigadier-General Benjamin Mabenge (Retired) as an intelligent and principled cadre who never deviated from the cause of the revolution from the time of...Published: 03 Aug 2022 at 06:41hrs | 262 | by Staff reporter
New political party launched in Zimbabwe
A NEW political party, the Progressive People's Party (PPP) was launched in Harare yesterday as political temperatures continue to heat up towards the 2023 general election.The party is led by...Published: 02 Aug 2022 at 19:51hrs | 1450 | by Staff reporter
Biti urges international intervention in 'abnormal' Zimbabwe situation
ON Monday, Zimbabwe marked the fourth anniversary of the August 1, 2018 tragedy when the military was unleashed to forcefully put down post-election violent post-election demonstrations resultin...Published: 02 Aug 2022 at 06:54hrs | 2644 | by Staff reporter
2018 shootings still haunt victims
VICTIMS of the August 1, 2018 post-election shootings are still struggling to come to terms with the loss of their loved ones, four years on.None of them have received any form of government s...Published: 02 Aug 2022 at 06:48hrs | 210 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's CCC remembers August 1 shooting victims
ON this day four years ago, security forces fired on Harare residents in the central business district (CBD) following post-election protests after delays by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) in...Published: 01 Aug 2022 at 19:08hrs | 430 | by Staff reporter
Thousands evicted from Crest Breeders Farm
THOUSANDS of Zanu-PF supporters were left stranded, and are now sleeping in the open, after they were evicted from Crest Breeders Farm in Harare South last Friday.Caught up in the eviction ema...Published: 01 Aug 2022 at 06:38hrs | 1389 | by Staff reporter
Dangers of Arab Spring in South Africa
Former South African President Thabo Mbeki recently launched a sharp critique of the governing African National Congress (ANC) for failure to address what it has labelled the triple challenge of pover...Published: 31 Jul 2022 at 08:15hrs | 696 | by Sandy Africa
Zimbabwe prisoners cry foul
OVERCROWDING, failure to access health services and poor living conditions continue to stalk inmates at Harare remand prison where they share few toilets and showers.The exact number of inmate...Published: 31 Jul 2022 at 08:13hrs | 350 | by Staff reporter
'We're not far from Rwanda in 1994,' warned Biti. Because we're cursed with great man who're easily corrupted by power
"He (John Kumalo) is a big man, in this place, your brother. His shop always full of men, talking as you have heard. But they say you must hear him at a meeting, he and Dubula and a brown man named To...Published: 30 Jul 2022 at 17:56hrs | 403 | by Nomusa Garikai
Western countries trying all tricks to remove Zanu-PF from power
AS the clock ticks towards the 2023 harmonised elections, which some have described as "crunch" (interestingly all polls since 2008 have been dubbed as such!), Zimbabweans should brace for more shocks...Published: 29 Jul 2022 at 06:49hrs | 731 | by Staff reporter
Report Mphoko never deserted Zapu to join Zanu
The former members of the Rhodesian special branch are the ones who claimed that I deserted the struggle in 1976, to join ZANU.They forget that ZANU was banned in Zambia, Tanzania, and Mozambi...Published: 27 Jul 2022 at 19:54hrs | 1595 | by Phelekezela Mphoko
Zimbabwe civil servants strike flops
CIVIL servants' planned two-day national strike failed to kickoff Wednesday, with union leaders coy on sharing numbers of those who had decided to stay at home in line with what they had promised....Published: 27 Jul 2022 at 19:39hrs | 5943 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe cops threaten protest vote
GROWING discontent over measly salaries paid to government workers has forced police officers, one of the least paid sectors in the civil service to threaten bhora musango, a protest vote for the oppo...Published: 26 Jul 2022 at 06:41hrs | 3734 | by Staff reporter
Police brutality victims challenge Police Act
SOME victims of the 2018 police shootings have challenged the constitutionality of discriminatory provisions in the country's Police Act.Tomorrow, High Court judge Justice Siyabona Musithu wil...Published: 26 Jul 2022 at 06:38hrs | 240 | by Staff reporter
'Puppets will never rule Zimbabwe'
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday said time has come to vote out corrupt opposition councillors whose parties have not only run down local authorities but are puppets of Western countries that want to rem...Published: 26 Jul 2022 at 06:37hrs | 850 | by Staff reporter
Diaspora vote a logistical nightmare
Over the past four years, the Government has instituted high-impact legislative reforms to help strengthen the country's democracy and promote personal freedoms. Ahead of next year's harmonised electi...Published: 24 Jul 2022 at 09:58hrs | 235 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa talks tough on illegal mining
THE Government will not tolerate timber poaching, illegal mining, settlements in plantations, and deforestation as that will impede the rural industrialisation agenda being driven by the Second Republ...Published: 23 Jul 2022 at 07:25hrs | 147 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe independence, freedom not for sale'
ZIMBABWE'S independence, freedom, democracy, sovereignty, patriotism, dignity and heritage are not for sale, President Mnangagwa has said.Addressing thousands of ruling Zanu-PF party supporter...Published: 23 Jul 2022 at 07:25hrs | 92 | by Staff reporter
Does 'telling the Zimbabwe story' also mean 'telling lies about our country'?
What exactly is this "Zimbabwe story", of which we are daily implored to tell by the ruling elitist clique?What did President Emmerson ...Published: 20 Jul 2022 at 21:29hrs | 477 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zanu-PF mourns Chidawu
Zanu-PF has expressed shock following the death of Minister of State for Harare Metropolitan Provincial Affairs and Devolution Oliver Chidawu.Chidawu collapsed and died this morning at his hom...Published: 19 Jul 2022 at 18:40hrs | 558 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF threatens 'renegade' group 'with tragic consequences'
Zanu-PF has threatened 'with tragic consequences' a dissident group claiming to be part of them which recently claimed President Emmerson Mnangagwa no longer served interests of the party.The ...Published: 19 Jul 2022 at 06:15hrs | 2170 | by Staff reporter
Maguwu fears for his life
Zanu-PF functionaries are reportedly baying for Farai Maguwu's blood, with the human rights activist claiming that he recently received death threats for exposing gold looting ostensibly orchestrated ...Published: 18 Jul 2022 at 08:30hrs | 713 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala ask for prayers
JAILED Zengeza West MP, Job Sikhala has dropped an epistle from Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison pleading with Zimbabweans to make today a national day of prayer for him, and other incarcerated oppos...Published: 17 Jul 2022 at 09:12hrs | 111 | by Staff reporter
The return of border gezi militia
The government's plans to rescuscitate the green bombers ahead of 2023 harmonised elections is another Zanu PF strategy of trying to intimidate the voters.This governing Zanu PF has been prove...Published: 16 Jul 2022 at 20:25hrs | 772 | by Leonard Koni
Mnangagwa laments banking sector rot
GOVERNMENT's recent adoption of tough economic measures is in response to mischievous behaviour by some economic players and syndicates who are bent on sabotaging the economic transformation achieved ...Published: 16 Jul 2022 at 10:29hrs | 387 | by Staff reporter
Jailed and abandoned Sikhala pens an emotional letter to Zimbabweans
INCARCERATED Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) lawmaker Job Sikhala has penned an emotional letter to Zimbabweans, expressing gratitude for their solidarity and asked them to turn Sunday a National ...Published: 15 Jul 2022 at 19:22hrs | 2861 | by Staff reporter
CCC dumps Sikhala
The Citizens for Coalition Change has allegedly dumped Job Sikhala who is in custody for inciting violence in the Nyatsime Saga.Writing on his Twitter handle, renowned and corruption fighter j...Published: 15 Jul 2022 at 11:52hrs | 8086 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Whose agenda is Jacob Mudenda serving?
Jacob Mudenda has been an interesting political figure who has occupied the Speaker of parliament post under a ZANU PF ticket.Recently Jacob Mudenda was quoted by the Newsday publication where...Published: 15 Jul 2022 at 10:03hrs | 4255 | by Paul Mtimkhulu
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