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Chiwenga's appointment cynical
MY Dear People,The continued hardships that Zimbabweans have experienced since 1980 have sent them into a permanent state of stupor and numbness.As a result, the leadership, especially...Published: 2 mins ago | | by Dr Amai
Why US$3.5bn deal for farmers is problematic
PATRICK Chinamasa, acting spokesperson in President Emmerson Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF government, has announced that, through the signing of the government's "Global Compensation Agreement" on July 29, 202...Published: 11 mins ago | 19 | by Ben Freeth
Tony Blair courts Mnangagwa
FORMER British Prime Minister Tony Blair is prepared to meet President Mnangagwa to lend support to Harare's political and economic reform programme.Relations between Zimbabwe and its former c...Published: 37 mins ago | 55 | by Staff reporter
America slaps notorious African army General with stiff sanctions
United States of America has responded to a global call by the United Nations for all UN member states to implement sanctions on Bi Sidi Souleman who leads the Central African Republic (CAR)-based mil...Published: 15 hrs ago | 2696 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Venezuela condemns US sanctions against Zimbabwe
Venezuela's Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza condemned on Thursday the US punitive actions against Zimbabwe.On Twitter, the head of Venezuelan diplomacy also expressed his solidarity with that n...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 17:44hrs | 574 | by Staff reporter
Hopewell Chin'ono unmasked, as America slaps Tagwirei with sanctions
Kudakwashe Regimond Tagwirei was born on the 19th February 1969 in SHURUGWI, his father the late Phineas Tagwirei was a modest man ND A MEMBER OF THE Seventh Day Adventist church.Kudakwashe Re...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 15:12hrs | 4588 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
PHOTO: Mnangagwa dumps expensive jet...uses Air Zimbabwe
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has resorted to using the national Airline Air Zimbabwe with reports from ZANU PF saying the expensive jet that he usually charters terminated the contract it had with ZAN...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 13:18hrs | 6286 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Tagwirei business empire faces tough times
ZIMBABWEAN business tycoon Kudakwashe Regimond Tagwirei, accused of capturing the state for personal gain alongside with the Presidium, has been slapped with sanctions by the United States government,...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 09:11hrs | 7240 | by Staff reporter
Fresh details emerge in Noic pipeline saga
FRESH details have emerged that Treasury directed the state-owned National Oil and Infrastructure Company (Noic) to handpick only one firm to supply 720 million litres of fuel over 24 months, in a pro...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 09:03hrs | 1266 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's tone-deaf speech: A tutorial on 'how not to lead'
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa on Tuesday morning had yet another chance to show leadership in a national address. But, as he has done countless times, he squandered it in a tone-deaf statement that onl...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 08:55hrs | 694 | by newZWire
Charamba freaks out over 'racist' US sanctions
PRESIDENTIAL spokesman George Charamba has accused the US government of racism after the superpower Tuesday slapped targeted sanctions on fuel mogul Kuda Tagwirei for allegedly propping up a corrupt Z...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 08:53hrs | 807 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF squeals over Tagwirei sanctions
GOVERNMENT yesterday reacted angrily to the decision by the United States government to slap businessman and President Emmerson Mnangagwa ally's Kudakwashe Tagwirei with sanctions, claiming the move w...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 08:52hrs | 1329 | by Staff reporter
'Air Force of Zimbabwe survived sanctions through research, development'
The Air Force of Zimbabwe (AFZ) has managed to survive under illegal sanctions by reducing its import bill through research and development with local companies that are manufacturing essential equipm...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 08:46hrs | 962 | by Staff reporter
G40 fugitives in anti-Zimbabwe crusade
FUGITIVE G40 members, who are hiding in South Africa, are behind the recent anti-Zimbabwe campaign responsible for inventing a non-existent crisis and have been engaging various regional players in a ...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 08:44hrs | 562 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans reject political party regulation
MOST participants at a recent Zimbabwe Election Support Network (ZESN) hosted virtual public meeting to discuss the topic Political Parties Regulation – Considerations for Zimbabwe did not support p...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 17:46hrs | 2530 | by Staff reporter
Dead Zanu-PF funder removed from US sanctions list
THE US government has removed from its targeted sanctions list, late Zimbabwe businessman and Zanu-PF benefactor, John Bredenkamp and 20 of his companies.Bredenkamp died 20 June this year aged...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 13:13hrs | 4937 | by newzimbabwe
Mnangagwa tightens noose on opposition
PRESDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is seeking to suffocate opposition parties in the country by crafting tough laws that will regulate their operations.Mnangagwa's government is also drafting laws to...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 09:31hrs | 5043 | by Staff reporter
Ongoing 'keyboard war' against Mnangagwa's Govt doomed to fail
The ongoing attack on Zimbabwe by racist elements and their local puppets is betrayed by its timing. The attacks which were supposed to climax in the failed July 31 protests, have now been turned into...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 09:05hrs | 666 | by Staff reporter
'US sanctions on Tagwirei wrong and devoid of logic'
The imposition of sanctions on Sakunda Holdings and its chief executive, Mr Kuda Tagwirei, by the United States yesterday is wrong and devoid of logic, but will not affect the ongoing re-engagement dr...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 09:02hrs | 1264 | by Staff reporter
Law on anti-Zimbabwe lobbying on cards
Political parties should be placed under a uniform code of conduct, hate speech should be banned and campaigning against Zimbabwe criminalised, the Cabinet Committee on National Peace and Reconciliati...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 08:57hrs | 353 | by Staff reporter
'As elected leader, I will bring prosperity' insist Mnangagwa - failed precisely because you rigged and are illegitimate
"Muromo hauzarirwi nerwizi!" (There is no flooded river that big mouth cannot cross!) so goes the Shona adage. President Mnangagwa, big mouth, told the nation in his State of Nation Address there is n...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 07:56hrs | 1176 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Zim signs US$3.5bn White Settler Farmer Deal! Betrayal of Chimurenga!
White Colonial Settlers are going to be compensated by Zimbabweans for land developments they made on the land prior to Land reform exercise. Poor peasants with no land rights to their own pieces of l...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 07:49hrs | 369 | by Ms Tendayi Lynnette Mudehwe
Pretoria rebuffs Malema's pleas
SOUTH Africa yesterday rejected calls for it to deal robustly with Zimbabwe, adding that relations between Pretoria and Harare were governed by international laws.In addition, the regional pow...Published: 05 Aug 2020 at 18:28hrs | 3537 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: Kuda Tagwirei added on America sanctions list
Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated Kudakwashe Regimond Tagwirei (Tagwirei) for providing support to the leadership of the Government of Zim...Published: 05 Aug 2020 at 16:14hrs | 4072 | by US Treasury
Enough is enough, says Mnangagwa
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday threw down the gauntlet and declared he had had "enough of the machinations" of opposition political parties and hostile countries plotting his downfall and frus...Published: 05 Aug 2020 at 08:20hrs | 8771 | by Staff reporter
'Detractors, rogues will not stop us,' says Mnangagwa
My Fellow Zimbabweans, The world is in crisis. Borders have been closed, trade has ceased and businesses negatively impacted by the deadly Covid-19 pandemic. The virus breaches borders, and kn...Published: 05 Aug 2020 at 08:10hrs | 436 | by ED Mnangagwa
Defections hit Chamisa's MDC in Zaka
MDC Alliance led by Mr Nelson Chamisa has suffered a heavy blow in Zaka after scores of its members, led by its parliamentary candidate for Zaka West in the 2018 polls, Mr William Zivenge, recently de...Published: 05 Aug 2020 at 08:07hrs | 1302 | by Staff reporter
Malema, Zimbabwe's SA Embassy cross swords
THE Zimbabwean Embassy in South Africa has expressed its displeasure with the utterances made by South African opposition party Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema, which sought to ca...Published: 05 Aug 2020 at 08:07hrs | 785 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF claims to respect constitutional provisions
THE Global Compensation Agreement (GCA) on payment of improvements on land acquired under the land reform redistribution programme is a milestone and a significant phase in the trajectory of the natio...Published: 05 Aug 2020 at 08:05hrs | 297 | by Staff reporter
We'll triumph, says Mnangagwa
Despite several hurdles on the country's economic revival path in the form of natural disasters, successive droughts, divisive opposition politics and foreign economic aggression, the country will ult...Published: 05 Aug 2020 at 08:04hrs | 344 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa is back
Opposition MDC Alliance president Nelson Chamisa, accompanied by his lawyer Thabani Mpofu, on Tuesday visited incarcerated journalist Hopewell Chin'ono at Harare Remand Prison."Clearly we must...Published: 04 Aug 2020 at 21:46hrs | 13905 | by Staff reporter
Dangarembga decries state 'chokehold'
A prize-winning Zimbabwean novelist and filmmaker arrested at recent protests accused President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government on Tuesday of holding its people in a repressive "chokehold" as they end...Published: 04 Aug 2020 at 18:08hrs | 1454 | by Reuter
#ZimbabweanLivesMatter trends on Twitter
PRESSURE on President Emmerson Mnangagwa escalated yesterday, with politicians and rights groups from the southern African region flagging the deepening crisis in Zimbabwe and worsening rights abuses ...Published: 04 Aug 2020 at 08:28hrs | 6339 | by Staff reporter
FULL TEXT: Showdown between Malema and Zimbabwe Embassy in South Africa
1. The Embassy of the Republic of Zimbabwe to the Republic of South Africa read with consternation and utter disbelief the "EFF Statement on the Announcement by the President of Zimbabwe on Compensati...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 17:51hrs | 10890 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chamisa's MDC, an American Trojan horse
It's categorically correct to say the MDC-Alliance, which has assumed many appellations over the year is not a political party, but a representative of the United States and its Western allies....Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 09:11hrs | 414 | by Khumbulani Vodloza Sibanda
British MP calls for more sanctions against Mnangagwa
BRITISH MP and former anti-apartheid campaigner Peter Hain has urged the British government to extend sanctions against President Emmerson Mnangagwa's regime because of "escalating human rights violat...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 09:03hrs | 1144 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe election system free and fair and adopted by the world.
Despite the negative publicity Zimbabwe receives from only the west its electoral system has actually been adopted by so many countries and this model is now used worldwide. The concept of election ob...Published: 01 Aug 2020 at 21:23hrs | 3231 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
1893 MHRRM on Perence Smallboy Chikerema Shiri's death
The most evil and barbaric man who led the Matebeleland Gukurahundi Genocide accompanied with mass beatings, mass rapes, mass disappearances and mass starvation of the Matebele through curfews in the ...Published: 01 Aug 2020 at 08:52hrs | 10832 | by 1893 MHRRM Bayethe Board of Directors
Zimbabwean protesters in Cape Town dispersed by police
About 150 people protesting outside the Zimbabwean Consulate in Cape Town were told to disperse by the police on Friday.When they refused, the police went to their cars to fetch their equipmen...Published: 01 Aug 2020 at 07:54hrs | 4007 | by Staff reporter
Noic, Sakunda sucked in US$17m loan scandal
EXPLOSIVE details show that the state-owned National Oil and Infrastructure Company (Noic) was advanced by Sakunda Holdings US$17,5 million of a US$22,75 million loan agreement to buy out Lonmin's 50%...Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 08:00hrs | 3848 | by Staff reporter
Global financiers shut out Zimbabwe
GOVERNMENT says it is failing to access international financial aid necessary in mitigating the social and economic effects of the Covid-19 pandemic because of sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe by Western...Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 07:58hrs | 2524 | by Staff reporter
Fresh farm seizures soiling Zimbabwe's image?
THE ongoing seizures of mainly white-owned productive farms severely dent Zimbabwe's international image and cast aspersions on the country's reputation as an investment destination, Commercial Farmer...Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 07:57hrs | 877 | by Rejoice Ngwenya, Comaliso
Government should stop crying wolf
THE more things change, the more they remain the same. Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Demagogues throughout history have perpetuated the idea of an us vs them.It...Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 07:34hrs | 144 | by Maverick Maphosa
Shiri died in his car while trying to get help
LANDS, Agriculture, Water and Rural Resettlement minister Perrance Shiri, pictured, died in the wee hours of yesterday, days after his driver succumbed to the lethal coronavirus that is fast getting o...Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 07:31hrs | 821 | by Staff reporter
Will Shiri's demise force Mnangagwa govt to act?
ZIMBABWEANS yesterday woke up to news of the death of Agriculture minister Perrance Shiri, who reports suggest was the latest victim of COVID-19.He was no angel, but we hope his passing on may...Published: 30 Jul 2020 at 08:59hrs | 1089 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to pay US$3.5 billion compensation to white farmers
Zimbabwe agreed on Wednesday to pay US$3.5 billion in compensation to white farmers whose land was expropriated by the government to resettle black families, moving a step closer to resolving one the ...Published: 29 Jul 2020 at 17:10hrs | 687 | by Reuters
Muchinguri's daughter says was 'scared' after catching virus
The daughter of Covid-19 denier Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri has revealed that she was "scared" after catching the virus.Zimbabwe's defence minister claimed in March – as the disease brought dea...Published: 29 Jul 2020 at 13:35hrs | 3929 | by Staff reporter
In defence of the July 31, 2020 protests
IN life there is only one constant; that is change. But for Zimbabweans of different generations from that of Father Zimbabwe, through to the born "frees" and the millenniums the common constant is th...Published: 29 Jul 2020 at 13:06hrs | 508 | by Danmore Sithole
WATCH: Armed ZANU PF Youths threaten Donald Trump and Chamisa
ZANU PF Youths have threatened unspecified to United States of America President Donald Trump, MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa, Transform Zimbabwe President Jacob Ngarivhume, and former cabinet Min...Published: 28 Jul 2020 at 16:55hrs | 3575 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zanu-PF to beat up protesters?
ZANU PF yesterday urged its supporters to beat up protesters who will take to the street on July 31 and threatened to kick out United States ambassador to Zimbabwe, Brian Nichols for allegedly support...Published: 28 Jul 2020 at 09:40hrs | 2004 | by Staff reporter
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