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ZANU-PF casts death on sickness than finding permanent solution
We have just come out of a military coup six month ago when all human rights activists spoke well of coup drivers General C Chiwenga inclusive. It was difficult then, clouded in the harsh reality of M...Published: 29 mins ago | 108 | by Andrew M Manyevere
Wounded soldier gets world's first penis transplant
A soldier wounded by an improvised explosive device in Afghanistan has received the world's first complete penis and scrotum transplant, officials at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore said on Monday...Published: 48 mins ago | 429 | by Reuters
Chiwenga 'posing a security threat' in Zimbabwe
Political opponents in Zimbabwe have reportedly said that Vice President Constantino Chiwenga is posing a "security threat" in the country "as his hand in often dictatorial government decisions has be...Published: 6 hrs ago | 2088 | by Staff reporter
'Zim needs political will to realise democracy'
Zimbabwe needs the political will, and has a long way to go to achieve the requirements and guidelines for creating a democratic society as set out in the African Charter on Democracy, Elections and G...Published: 11 hrs ago | 442 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe to appear in court
FORMER President Robert Mugabe is tomorrow expected to appear at the Harare Magistrates' Court to personally testify against a senior army officer accused of stealing his computers at Zimbabwe House....Published: 12 hrs ago | 3619 | by Staff reporter
Junta, spooks, scribes enter Zanu-PF primaries
THE upcoming Zanu-PF primary elections have set a new record with over 100 former soldiers, State spies, police officers, business executives and journalists from the private and State media on the pa...Published: 12 hrs ago | 1041 | by Staff reporter
Chitembwe happy with his project
LLOYD CHITEMBWE, who ended CAPS United's lengthy wait for the league title two years ago, says he is beginning to see his team taking the shape he wants to challenge for honours again this season. The...Published: 12 hrs ago | 184 | by Staff reporter
2 bulls in the new dispensation kraal
A potential conflict and possibly a constitutional crisis might emerge if President Emmerson Mnangagwa does not deal with overlapping responsibilities between him and his equally powerful deputy, Vice...Published: 23 Apr 2018 at 14:32hrs | 3437 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF bigwigs face axe
A number of senior Zanu-PF officials risk losing their parliamentary seats after they failed to avoid primary elections in their constituencies.Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa, Information ...Published: 23 Apr 2018 at 14:13hrs | 3930 | by Staff reporter
WATCH:Marange diamond fields demonstration
Soldiers and police with guns and dogs are at the Marange protest and are blocking peaceful protestors from proceeding. Police have already fired warning shots and tear gas canisters. https://...Published: 23 Apr 2018 at 11:05hrs | 2011 | by Staff reporter
Matebeleland a patriarchal society Mr MDC-T president always remember
Tsvangirai was a chauvinist and no one dared to challenge him. Not even Thabitha khumalo. Not even Misihairambwi. Not even the women's league. Yet it was ok for him to emasculate Ndebeles.If T...Published: 23 Apr 2018 at 07:23hrs | 2105 | by Thabetha Mangena
Chamisa unearth Zanu-PF rigging plot
MDC Alliance presidential candidate, Nelson Chamisa yesterday claimed that the opposition group had unearthed Zanu-PF's election rigging machinery and were now confident of an outright victory in the ...Published: 23 Apr 2018 at 07:16hrs | 4539 | by Staff reporter
Commonwealth to save Zimbabwe?
The Commonwealth is reported to have agreed to a rescue mission for Zimbabwe at its meeting in London this week during the visit by Zimbabwe's Foreign Affairs and International Trade Minister Lieutena...Published: 23 Apr 2018 at 07:04hrs | 1075 | by Zimbabwe Vigil Diary
Mutasa has no regrets about losing Denver Mukamba
DYNAMOS coach Lloyd Mutasa insisted he had no regrets about losing Denver Mukamba to old foes CAPS United after the midfielder yesterday plotted the Glamour Boys' downfall with a solitary strike that ...Published: 23 Apr 2018 at 06:50hrs | 733 | by Staff reporter
LIVE: Highlanders vs Shabanie
Highlanders 3* - 1 Shabanie Mine*Goal AlertFulltimeCAPS United 1-0 DynamosChapungu 1-0 Herentals90+...Published: 22 Apr 2018 at 14:44hrs | 3611 | by Staff reporter
CIO boss tortured by military during coup contesting Zanu-PF primaries
ZANU-PF'S primary elections will provide a few spectacles for political watchers as the ruling party readies for a crunch national ballot set for this July.The ruling party released its list o...Published: 22 Apr 2018 at 12:23hrs | 2672 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga fast-gaining a reputation as a no-nonsense politician
VICE-president Constantino Chiwenga is fast-gaining a reputation as a no-nonsense politician after summarily dismissing 15 000 striking nurses, but analysts have warned his leadership style is not con...Published: 22 Apr 2018 at 10:32hrs | 2543 | by Staff reporter
Nurses scandal reveals new govt's smart authoritarianism
When Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga dramatically "expelled" striking nurses last Tuesday, the responses from different quarters were somewhat predictable. Understandably so. Because the move was ...Published: 22 Apr 2018 at 10:30hrs | 733 | by Tawanda Majoni
Ex-bodyguard bares all on Nikita Mangena
THE late Zipra commander, Rogers Alfred Nikita Mangena, was recently honoured by the Government of President Emmerson Mnangagwa by naming a cantonment area which houses Zimbabwe National Defence Unive...Published: 22 Apr 2018 at 10:05hrs | 1980 | by Staff rpeorter
'Elections are free if in compliance with constitution,' says Minister - so was 2013, why did we need coup!
"Muromo hauzarirwi nerwizi!" (To big mouth, there is no such thing as flooded river he cannot wade cross!) So, goes the Shona adage. Ever since the November 2017 coup President Mnangagwa and h...Published: 22 Apr 2018 at 08:47hrs | 318 | by Wilbert Mukori
Meet the soldier who read Mugabe the riot act
November 15, 2017 is not an ordinary day in Zimbabwe's political history. The day was characterised by action-packed events that culminated in the resignation of former president Mr Robert Mugabe....Published: 21 Apr 2018 at 11:54hrs | 2757 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa says military must be in the barracks
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa has appealed to the military - which played a key role in the ouster of former president Robert Mugabe last November - to withdraw from villages in order to ensure free and c...Published: 20 Apr 2018 at 14:30hrs | 3987 | by Staff reporter
Do not take barracks habits to civilian civil service - War vet tells Chiwenga
An Ex Zipra veteran Max Mkandla has warned Vice President Constantino Chiwenga and the President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration to stop taking the army barracks habits, where command is an elemen...Published: 20 Apr 2018 at 11:02hrs | 10684 | by Stephen Jakes
MDC-T activist assaulted, kidnapped by soldiers
A Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T) activist Stewart Rupiya was reportedly assaulted by members of the Zimbabwe National Army and subsequently kidnapped on Independence Day in Bindura.Eye...Published: 20 Apr 2018 at 10:30hrs | 2034 | by Simbarashe Sithole
'Junta won't win gukurahundi ravaged constituency,' says Jonathan Moyo
Former Tsholotsho North Member of Parliament, now exiled Professor Jonathan Moyo, has said even though war veterans in that constituency have called him a "hard worker" that wont happy #JuntaPF ...Published: 20 Apr 2018 at 09:39hrs | 4647 | by Staff Reporter
'Mugabe's police grabbed army mines Mafia style'
DEFENCE secretary Martin Rushwaya yesterday claimed the Zimbabwe Defence Forces' diamond mining claims in Chiadzwa were grabbed by police in a "Mafia style" after the government ordered all miners to ...Published: 20 Apr 2018 at 07:17hrs | 442 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga passed on Zimbabwe presidency to Mnangagwa
COLOGNE - First Vice President, Rtd General Constantino Chiwenga, all but practised political comradeship by refusing to backstab President Emmerson Mnangagwa, for the country's presidency, after bein...Published: 20 Apr 2018 at 07:13hrs | 6618 | by Itai Mushekwe, Spotlight Zimbabwe
New dispensation rejuvenates Zanu-PF
ZANU-PF's preparedness to part ways with some candidates that served under the ousted regime of Mr Robert Mugabe and take on board new dynamic and progressive players that communities look to for a fr...Published: 20 Apr 2018 at 07:01hrs | 157 | by Staff reporter
ED turn charm offensive on opposition - psyching them into believing they will win rigged elections, an oxymoron
"Opposition parties have- for the first time - extolled President Emmerson Mnangagwa for uniting the people of Zimbabwe," reported Terrence Mawawa in Zimeye.In a statement released today the N...Published: 19 Apr 2018 at 06:41hrs | 1123 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
What changes can Zanu promise after elections?
Elections are soon to be held again in Zimbabwe in 2018 and perhaps for the ninth time opening pages of active democratic choices hopefully without fear of victimization from Zanu or her imagined innu...Published: 18 Apr 2018 at 20:43hrs | 1445 | by Andrew M Manyevere
Cheating Pastor in accident
A local church pastor was involved in road traffic accident fleeing his wife after he was caught in the company of his alleged lover along Leopold Takawira yesterday.Pastor Blessing Saunyama w...Published: 18 Apr 2018 at 16:32hrs | 4131 | by Staff reporter
Global Witness rule out free elections - not as long as ZDF looting in Marange continues
Global Witness add their name to those ruling out any hope of Zimbabwe holding free, fair and credible elections without first implementing the democratic reforms given the military involved in the pr...Published: 18 Apr 2018 at 07:20hrs | 510 | by Nomusa Garikai
'Zanu PF is preaching peace, to say otherwise is mischievous,' says Rugeje - Veteran thug, ever-ready to pounce!
"Zanu PF is a political party that respects the liberty of the people and respects harmony and peace. Zanu PF has always propagated love for one another and we thrive on unity. This allegation t...Published: 18 Apr 2018 at 07:05hrs | 326 | by Nomusa Garikai
'Mugabe in same league as Mobutu, Bokassa,' says gukurahundi commander
AGRICULTURE minister Perrance Shiri has lumped President Robert Mugabe in the same league with some of Africa's late dictators, Mobutu Sese Seko (Zaire) and Jean Bédel Bokassa of the Central African ...Published: 18 Apr 2018 at 06:56hrs | 902 | by Staff reporter
'Bus operators must scan passengers for arms'
CROSS-BORDER bus operators have been urged to scan passengers for arms as on-board robberies spike on the N1 highway linking Johannesburg and Beitbridge Border Post.It is understood the robber...Published: 18 Apr 2018 at 06:53hrs | 714 | by Staff rpeorter
Our land is for Zimbabweans, says Mnangagwa
Zimbabweans should safeguard the country's independence and never allow foreigners to control their land again, President Mnangagwa has said. The Head of State and Government said a lot of blood was s...Published: 18 Apr 2018 at 06:44hrs | 705 | by Staff reporter
'Army to rescue Mnangagwa'
ZANU-PF leader President Emmerson Mnangagwa is slowly girding himself for his first election, but his opponents claim his apparent confidence could be a sign he has something sinister up his sleeve....Published: 17 Apr 2018 at 07:33hrs | 2298 | by Staff rpeorter
Soldier in court over Mugabe laptops
A SENIOR member of the Presidential Guard allegedly broke into Zimbabwe House early this month and stole over 119 computers and accessories belonging to former President Robert Mugabe.Corporal...Published: 17 Apr 2018 at 07:22hrs | 783 | by Staff reporter
Khupe must swallow her pride and join Chamisa
I once opinied about the growing fissures within the most powerful opposition political party in Zimbabwe the Movement of Democratic Change -T and an immediate split. I was quickly dismissed and label...Published: 16 Apr 2018 at 13:57hrs | 5382 | by Leonard Koni
'Zimbabwe prisons used as slaughter houses for Ndebele people'
MLO President, Cde Paul Siwela saw brutality and agony caused by fractured bones, broken limbs and untreated festering gun shot wounds when he was detained at Khami Maximum Security Prison from 2011 t...Published: 16 Apr 2018 at 13:53hrs | 3757 | by Israel Dube
Soldier jailed 3 years for attempted rape
A 33-YEAR-OLD soldier based at Inkomo Barracks has been jailed to an effective three-year term, for attempting to rape his neighbour's 12-year-old daughter.Albert Nyamapfeni, who was initially cha...Published: 16 Apr 2018 at 07:19hrs | 553 | by Staff reporter
Military man appointed Zimbabwe ambassador to UK
President Mnangagwa has appointed Deputy Chief Secretary in the Office of the President and Cabinet Retired Colonel Christian Katsande Ambassador to the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland.The...Published: 16 Apr 2018 at 06:55hrs | 301 | by Staff reporter
DRC trouble brews for Mugabe, Mnangagwa
Zimbabwe's costly military adventure in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) two decades ago continues to haunt the country, with a group of retired soldiers now accusing ousted former president Rob...Published: 15 Apr 2018 at 11:37hrs | 1733 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF doesn't need soldiers to win polls, says Rugeje
Zanu-PF is preparing for its first elections without former president Robert Mugabe as its torch-bearer after the veteran ruler was toppled in a military coup in November last year.The man cha...Published: 15 Apr 2018 at 11:23hrs | 987 | by staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo ready for Mnangagwa
Exiled former Higher and Tertiary Education minister Jonathan Moyo (pictured) has declared that he is ready to face President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government in international courts if it tries to ext...Published: 15 Apr 2018 at 11:21hrs | 3821 | by Staff reporter
The eye that witnessed Nikita Mangena's death
ON Friday the Government of President Emmerson Mnangagwa officially named the cantonment, which houses the Zimbabwe National Defence University and other institutions the Rogers Alfred Nikita Mangena ...Published: 15 Apr 2018 at 11:17hrs | 1295 | by Staff reporter
Making Zimbabwe Incorporated work
In 1998, Zimbabwe deployed its military to the Democratic Republic of Congo to fight rebels backed primarily by Rwanda and Uganda.Since then, Zimbabwe and Rwanda did their best to ignore each ...Published: 15 Apr 2018 at 11:15hrs | 178 | by Staff reporter
Armed soldiers brutally assault aspiring MDC MP
Aspiring MP for Gutu west, Stanely Manguma was allegedly assaulted by armed soldiers at Nerupiri turnoff whilst travelling to Nyika growth point in Bikita on Friday.Manguma was on his way to a...Published: 15 Apr 2018 at 09:58hrs | 1888 | by Simbarashe Sithole
DRC trouble brews for Mugabe, Mnangagwa
Zimbabwe's costly military adventure in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) two decades ago continues to haunt the country, with a group of retired soldiers now accusing ousted former president Rob...Published: 14 Apr 2018 at 17:43hrs | 3322 | by Staff reporter
Armed forces in drab stalemate
Black Rhinos 0 - 0 ChapunguTHIS was supposed to be a tough battle, a contest for supremacy between two teams owned by the armed forces.But in the end, the few supporters who braved the chi...Published: 14 Apr 2018 at 12:10hrs | 310 | by Staff reporter
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