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Germans don't have enough paper for new elections
German's Electoral commission boss says carrying out 'printing orders' is a 'great challenge' amid collapse of Olaf Scholz's governmentEarly elections in Germany may not be possible because of...Published: 10 Nov 2024 at 13:22hrs | 477 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa spokesman says Commonwealth is a 'needless albatross'
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's spokesman George Charamba says he would rather Zimbabwe quits the Commonwealth forever, even as the ruling Zanu PF party has been lobbying some members of the club of fo...Published: 26 Oct 2024 at 16:19hrs | 965 | by Staff reporter
South Africa is ruled by individuals who happen to wear robes
Apartheid was "legal". Jim Crow laws in the US were "legal". Colonialism was "legal". Even the Nazis were "legal". So, what does it mean to have the rule of law? And whose law is it anyway?In ...Published: 22 Oct 2024 at 10:38hrs | 642 | by Lindiwe Sisulu
Zimbabwe government's continued web of lies on ZiG gold-backing exposed!
Yesterday's statement, in a ZBC interview, by Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Governor John Mushayavanhu has sparked confusion regarding the country's new currency, the Zimbabwean Gold (ZiG). The gov...Published: 11 Oct 2024 at 08:32hrs | 2294 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
The power crisis farce: Unpacking Mnangagwa's broken promise to Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe's power crisis has been a perennial problem, plaguing the country for decades.In August 2023, President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa proudly declared that the commissioning of the new ...Published: 08 Oct 2024 at 17:30hrs | 512 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Lithuania donates Zimbabwe fire engines to Ukraine
Lithuania's recent decision to donate 17 fire engines, originally destined for Zimbabwe, to Ukraine has sparked outrage, with political analysts condemning the move as unlawful and discriminatory....Published: 25 Sep 2024 at 09:33hrs | 1275 | by Staff reporter
SA Home Affairs told to unblock Zimbabwean man's ID
A Man who was more than three years ago suddenly stripped of his South African citizenship by Home Affairs, and who had in the meantime lost his job as a result, turned to the court for a final interd...Published: 10 Jul 2024 at 07:58hrs | 20 | by Staff reporter
Chivayo has Mnangagwa in his pocket?
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's association with controversial figures continues to raise concerns, with recent revelations highlighting his ties to convicted tenderpreneur Wicknell Chivayo. This devel...Published: 02 Jul 2024 at 10:12hrs | 77 | by Staff reporter
So I can also attend a meeting between Mnangagwa and a visiting head of state?
I honestly had no idea that President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa afforded ordinary citizens what are termed ‘participatory interactive platforms’.According to Information Minister Jenfan ...Published: 01 Jul 2024 at 21:09hrs | 3 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zanu-PF rages at name-dropping Chivayo
Wicknell Chivayo, a controversial businessman, has recently come under scrutiny for leaked audio recordings in which he claims to have secured government tenders through his close relationship with Pr...Published: 13 Jun 2024 at 15:01hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Open Letter to President Mnangagwa to Commission an Inquiry into Redcliff Municipality
Dear President Mnangagwa, It was with such great pleasure and a long overdue move that we learned of Your Excellency's instituting a Commission of Inquiry into the affairs of the City of Harar...Published: 17 May 2024 at 14:09hrs | 7 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
'Gappah needs mental help,' says Judge
Zimbabwean High Court Justice Joseph Mafusire says local lawyer Petina Gappah needs "psychological intervention" - mental assistance - amid her unrestrained scandalous attacks on the judge and the jud...Published: 22 Mar 2024 at 11:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Redcliff council defrauding residents!
It never rains but pours for residents of the small town of Redcliff.We face the dilemma of the proverbial smoking pipe – burnt on one en...Published: 12 Mar 2024 at 07:13hrs | 5 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
More trouble brewing for Rutendo Matinyarare
Legal trouble is brewing against Rutendo Matinyarare as the chickens come home to roost over unfounded and defamatory allegations leveled against grain millers. In a recent development that has stirre...Published: 08 Mar 2024 at 13:38hrs | 7 | by Nkululeko Nkomo
Lobengula denigrating presenter, ZBC board fired
Zimbabwe's Minister of Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services Jenfan Muswere has dismissed the state-owned Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) board, while getting two television present...Published: 10 Jan 2024 at 13:04hrs | 20 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa protects judge facing a series of corruption scandals
SOMETIME in February The NewsHawks reported that the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) had recommended that President Emmerson Mnangagwa must set up tribunals to investigate High Court Justices Webste...Published: 13 Nov 2023 at 21:25hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Sexual harassment rampant in the Zimbabwean media
Sexual harassment is rampant in the Zimbabwean media and continues largely because the media ecosystem itself - the journalists, editors, media managers, Human Resources Departments and proprietors - ...Published: 10 Oct 2023 at 06:31hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Legalizing looting shows Zimbabwe is led by dunderheads!
From the time I was a little boy, there was something that always puzzled me.I could never understand how, those who were in top government positions - with all the opportunities availed to th...Published: 02 Oct 2023 at 07:55hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
If peace overshadowed justice, then there wouldn't have been a liberation struggle!
There is a common thread that defines oppressive leaders. They subjugate the population - stripping them of all their rights, whilst unleashing some of the most horrendous injustices - thereaf...Published: 11 Sep 2023 at 20:11hrs | 2 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Sadc urged to trash Mumba's biased report
ZIMBABWE is consolidating a national response to the Preliminary Report of the SADC Elections Observer Mission (SEOM) which is fraught with irregularities, hearsay and pure hyperbolic nonsense imputed...Published: 29 Aug 2023 at 07:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
ANC's Mbalula lashed at for cheering Mnangagwa victory
WESTERN countries should lift illegal sanctions on Zimbabwe and stop interfering in the country's democratic processes as that defeats the free expression of Zimbabweans who overwhelmingly voted for t...Published: 28 Aug 2023 at 06:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zambians came to observe Zimbabwe elections with a axe to grind
There are no matters arising from the preliminary reports by the Commonwealth and the AU election observers, pending the release of their final reports in two or so months.Otherwise, election ...Published: 26 Aug 2023 at 10:41hrs | | by Jonathan Moyo
Chinamasa must be arrested
Election Resource Centre (ERC) and Zimbabwe Election Support Network (ZESN) staff members and volunteers arrested on allegations of attempting to post the general election results have been free...Published: 26 Aug 2023 at 08:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe dismisses false reports on elections
GOVERNMENT has dismissed preliminary reports by some observer missions alleging that Zimbabwe's elections this week were compromised.This comes after the Sadc and European Union observer missi...Published: 25 Aug 2023 at 23:16hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Arrested ERC, ZESN observers ordered to lie on stomachs for three hours'
A Harare magistrate's court was Friday told of how 39 election observers seized Wednesday night by AK assault rifle wielding police officers were made to surrender their phones and passwords and furth...Published: 25 Aug 2023 at 19:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean voters deserve respect
FOR probably the first time in its history, Zimbabwe's ruling Zanu-PF party will go into an election without a manifesto in a clear demonstration of its disdain for voters.Zanu-PF, which has b...Published: 23 Aug 2023 at 06:37hrs | 6 | by Kholwani Nyathi
Zimbabwe presidential election bombshell
A Bulawayo-based lawyers human rights organisation, Abammeli, and local attorney Nqobani Sithole have filed an urgent High Court application seeking an order for a compelling interdict against the Zim...Published: 22 Aug 2023 at 19:24hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Fresh hurdle on Zimbabwe elections
HIGH Court judge Fatima Chakapamambo Maxwell on Friday ruled that Speaker of Parliament Jacob Mudenda be drawn into a case filed by Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) on behalf of the Labour, Ec...Published: 03 Jul 2023 at 09:26hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Mpilo cancer machines have not functioned for 4 years because of spares
In a shocking revelation highlighting the incompetence of the Zanu PF government, radiotherapy cancer treatment machines at Mpilo Hospital - purchased by the taxpayer for US$2 million - have not funct...Published: 12 Jun 2023 at 18:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Cowdray Park's scandalous boundaries favour Zanu-PF
Zanu-PF is likely to unfairly win the Cowdray Park parliamentary seat in Bulawayo province due to the opaque geographical nature of the constituency mapped by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) i...Published: 12 Jun 2023 at 06:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
A critical review of Al Jazeera's Gold Mafia documentary
APRIL, famously characterised as "the cruellest month" by distinguished poet and literary critic TS Eliot in his critically acclaimed essay "The Wasteland" - not because its first day celebrates fools...Published: 28 May 2023 at 17:07hrs | 3 | by Jonathan Moyo
WATCH: Bulawayo streets erupt as cheating hubby faces wife's wrath in public confrontation
In a jaw-dropping scene that has set tongues wagging throughout the streets of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe's vibrant second largest city, an unsuspecting man found himself at the mercy of his enraged wife, whi...Published: 20 May 2023 at 19:49hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Drilling of boreholes by ZANU PF proves regime has no permanent solution to urban water crisis!
Judging by the manner in which the ZANU PF government is so fond of always castigating the opposition for failing to run urban authorities, one would be excused for believing the party had solutions....Published: 15 May 2023 at 14:02hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwean 'mbingas' flashy lifestyles reflect a corrupt economy
So, another so-called mbinga (wealthy person) in Zimbabwe has been active once again, on social media flaunting his latest acquisitions.This time around, he bought himself the latest Maybach B...Published: 12 May 2023 at 06:22hrs | | by Tendai Mbofana
Latest on Murowa School saga as Provincial Minister flexes his political muscles
Dear ZimbabweansScandalous! That's the only word to sum up the action taken by the Provincial Minister in a case between parents and a teaching couple at Murowa School Zvishavane district. Whi...Published: 09 May 2023 at 12:22hrs | 4 | by Disgruntled parents
Zimbabweans will wake up after elections…well, hopefully!
Yesterday, during a relative's burial, I had a wonderful opportunity to mix and mingle with friends, family, neighbors and people from all walks of life. In these interactions - especially wit...Published: 29 Apr 2023 at 07:00hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
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
Teachers dragged to pro-Mnangagwa workshops
School teachers in Matabeleland say they have been forced to attend what unions feel are Zanu PF indoctrination workshops organised under the partisan #Teachers4ED banner.The workshops, accord...Published: 19 Apr 2023 at 08:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
NSSA pensioners are a forgotten lot
The National Social Security Authority is almost always in the news for the wrong things whilst the poor NSSA pensioners are wallowing in abject poverty. The establishment is riddled with scan...Published: 13 Apr 2023 at 23:30hrs | | by Cde Mutanda Wachingama
What's there to 'investigate' in Al Jazeera lies?
IF the Zanu-PF regime was a soccer player, it would be the top goalscorer.The prolific goalscoring would unfortunately not be into opponents' nets, but into their own net.That is what ...Published: 07 Apr 2023 at 10:19hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe 'Gold Mafia' suspects' assets frozen
THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) has frozen the assets of four officials who are implicated in gold smuggling, money laundering, bribery and other corrupt activities whos...Published: 06 Apr 2023 at 06:41hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
What does Zim govt now want to 'investigate' when they've already dismissed Al Jazeera exposé as lies?
If the Zimbabwe regime were a soccer player, he would be the highest goal scorer!Although, not known for his prolific scoring against opponents - but, into his own net (own goals)!That...Published: 05 Apr 2023 at 12:34hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Analysts' 'grill' Gold Mafia documentary producer
ANALYSTS' on Sunday took AL Jazeera's Gold Mafia documentary producer over hot coals for misinterpreting the country's mining value chain among other inconsistencies with the Qatar based news network ...Published: 28 Mar 2023 at 06:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Are today's 'Pan Africanists' the most colonially-brainwashed?
I am one of those who, at times, receives the fury of those who claim to be 'Pan Africanists' - on accusations of pandering to western interests, and being a victim of a colonial mindset.My cr...Published: 07 Mar 2023 at 10:54hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
RBZ frets over Al Jazeera graft exposé
THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has threatened to sue international news channel Al Jazeera if its much-anticipated documentary, which will potentially expose high-level graft in government, proves...Published: 07 Mar 2023 at 05:27hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Yes indeed, Zimbabwe is led by 'dunderheads'!
It is a fact that in most corrupt dealings, it takes two to tango!There is usually the one who wants to gain fraudulently from a flawed system - and, of course, there has to be someone within ...Published: 04 Mar 2023 at 10:02hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe was colonized through a 'mega deal', and happening again with the Chinese and Belarusians
When people talk of colonization, there are those with the misguided notion that this only occurs via military conquest - usually, by a more powerful nation over a far weaker one.Yet, this cou...Published: 02 Mar 2023 at 07:32hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Chamisa: Hoping for tricks of providence
A belch from a priest has greater valueFor a shiny trinket / Give not away your country / The foreigner is a trafficker / To mind him is no bargain / If you were skilled and artful / You'd sta...Published: 25 Feb 2023 at 06:49hrs | | by Jamwanda
A leader who always gives reasons for his failures is himself an unmitigated failure!
Every one of us is a leader in one form or another! One may be a father or husband, mother or wife, or maybe a supervisor or manager at a company – to a corporate executive, or an entreprene...Published: 11 Feb 2023 at 14:16hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Lukashenko's eagerness for Mnangagwa to win elections casts serious doubts over credibility of deals signed!
Normally, when a national leader visits another country, he is expected - on account of common decency, respect and statesmanship - to keep clear of his hosts' domestic politics. It would have...Published: 01 Feb 2023 at 12:13hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
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