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There's nothing visionary about a president who only acts after public pressure
It is hardly praiseworthy for a father to feed his family only after their cries of hunger grow too loud to ignore.I was watching a news report on the state broadcaster this evening, and by th...Published: 01 Jul 2025 at 11:05hrs | 332 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
EU poll observer mission boss says stunned by claims of Zimbabwe poll interference
EU Chief Observer Fabio Massimo Castaldo says he is amazed by state media claims his observer mission was keen to interfere with Zimbabwe's electoral processes to try and discredit next Wednesday's po...Published: 20 Aug 2023 at 09:46hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa tightens noose on foreign observers
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa says election observers from countries that have in the past invited Zimbabwe to their own plebiscites will be the only ones allowed to witness the country's 2023 polls....Published: 03 Apr 2023 at 06:31hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
UBH says nothing amiss with mattresses on the floor
United Bulawayo Hospitals (UBH) acting chief executive officer, Narcisius Dzvanga has rubbished claims that the referral hospital is subjecting patients to inhumane conditions.This is after a ...Published: 03 Oct 2022 at 20:09hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Matabeles not interested in Zimbabwe independence celebrations in Bulawayo
From on set, let us set the record straight. Matabeleland is not Zimbabwe and Zimbabwe is not Matabeleland. Zimbabwe/ Mashonaland, which voluntarily gave away its independence to the BSA Co on 13 Sept...Published: 15 Apr 2022 at 08:32hrs | 9 | by Israel Dube
Zanu-PF caught pants down
The Editor,This talk about an opposition sweep in Zimbabwe is misguided. Let us not waste time talking about oppression, changing people's votes, killing, closure, arresting, torture, ce...Published: 25 Aug 2021 at 19:42hrs | 1 | by Thembani Maphosa
'Zimbabwe's media landscape remains treacherous'
FORTY-ONE years after independence, Zimbabwe's media landscape remains treacherous with independent journalists being subjected to harassment by State security agents, poorly paid and denied the freed...Published: 20 Apr 2021 at 07:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
EU Ambassador fumes at The Herald's 'freedom of speech'
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government appeared determined to commit diplomatic hara-kiri - ritual suicide by disembowelment with a sword, which used to be practised in Japan - with its officials a...Published: 03 Sep 2019 at 08:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe clansmen threaten to occupy Great Zimbabwe
Scores of people who settled at Zero Farm at the onset of the Land Reform Programme over 18 years ago have threatened to occupy the adjacent Great Zimbabwe monuments as they do not have anywhere else ...Published: 02 Feb 2019 at 06:20hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
China printing new Zimbabwe currency in exchange for oil and diamonds
COLOGNE - China has intensified it's grip, control and access to Zimbabwe's mineral wealth by reportedly demanding diamonds and oil drilling rights from President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government, as p...Published: 14 Dec 2018 at 07:48hrs | 32 | by Itai Mushekwe
'Army warns Mnangagwa' - Exclusive Report
COLOGNE – Hardline securocrats have reportedly warned President Emmerson Mnangagwa to urgently put the country's economic house in order, as they fear a possible popular uprising over his admini...Published: 17 Oct 2018 at 05:16hrs | 5 | by Itai Mushekwe
Chamisa will not be tricked into a GNU with Mnangagwa
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa says he will not be "tricked" into a government of national unity (GNU) like what happened with the party's founding president, Morgan Tsvangirai, in 2008.Chamisa pou...Published: 10 Oct 2018 at 15:57hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa must engage Chamisa to stem an economic 'Armageddon'
With the country's economy continuing to haemorrhage badly despite the government's best efforts, analysts and ordinary citizens are urging President Emmerson Mnangagwa to engage opposition leader Nel...Published: 08 Oct 2018 at 18:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa 'out-stretch' his arms to Chamisa
President Emmerson Mnangagwa, has delayed announcing his Cabinet to give talks with youthful MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa a chance, highly-placed sources told the Daily News yesterday.Zi...Published: 03 Sep 2018 at 17:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Like it or not Mr president they shall be electoral reforms
People's Rainbow Coalition (PRC) led by Dr J. R. Mujuru notes with serious concern that despite writing to Mr E. D. Mnangagwa a plea for political and electoral reforms on the 23rd of February 2018, a...Published: 06 Apr 2018 at 14:02hrs | 1 | by Adv Gift Nyandoro
Mnangagwa controlled media turns on Grace Mugabe
State media in Zimbabwe on Sunday rounded on former president Robert Mugabe and his wife Grace, suggesting in one editorial that the military operation that removed Mugabe from power be extended to hi...Published: 12 Mar 2018 at 07:45hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe stripped of his revolutionary title
FOR the first time in decades, state newspapers are no longer referring to Robert Mugabe as "comrade" after the 94-year-old former president reportedly expressed support for the country's newest oppos...Published: 08 Mar 2018 at 15:39hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
PRC reaffirms Mujuru as Presidential Candidate of Choice for 2018 elections
PEOPLE'S RAINBOW COALITION (PRC) RESOLUTIONS OF THE 1st JOINT COORDINATING COMMITTEE HELD ON 15 DEC 2017.We are in it to win itThe First...Published: 18 Dec 2017 at 12:35hrs | 5 | by Dr Gorden Moyo
Mugabe's exit to pave way for interim unity government led by Mr Mnangagwa, intelligence documents show
Political sources and intelligence documents seen by Reuters said Mr Mugabe's exit was likely to pave the way for an interim unity government led by Mr Mnangagwa, a life-long Mugabe aide and former se...Published: 19 Nov 2017 at 08:36hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Mugabe digs in
Zimbabwe's ruling ZANU-PF party called on Friday for President Robert Mugabe to resign, the main state newspaper The Herald reported, the latest sign that the aging leader's authority has collapsed af...Published: 18 Nov 2017 at 04:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Skeletons tumbling out - Dumisani Muleya - a rebuttal
I wrote an article entitled 'Dirty Cops and Corrupt journalists hired to smear Mnangagwa', I published it on my blog -...Published: 13 Nov 2017 at 07:43hrs | 1 | by Lloyd Msipa
Analysing Mugabe’s Cabinet reshuffle - The Grace effect
After a week of tension in his party and government, Mugabe has reshuffled his cabinet. Mugabe has dealt with the succession tension Machiavellian style. If there is anything Mugabe is known for, it's...Published: 10 Oct 2017 at 07:03hrs | 1 | by Lloyd Msipa
'Mugabe keeps options open'
The twists and turns around President Robert Mugabe's succession have come at a huge cost to the country's economy because of its disruptive effects on government business. It's a subject that has als...Published: 15 Aug 2017 at 10:07hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe playing dangerous political game
Gift Phiri talks to Stephen Chan, a professor of world politics at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London, about the vexing developments in Zanu-PF's convoluted line of...Published: 06 Aug 2017 at 14:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
George Charamba must behave like a civil servant not a party cadre
Our country has really gone to dogs and it is an embarrassment to have people like George Charamba the presidential spokesperson for President Mugabe to masquerade as a civil servant yet he goes to Za...Published: 01 Aug 2017 at 13:17hrs | | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
Grace Mugabe conflating party and State
President Robert Mugabe's spin-doctor - George Charamba - is a British-trained Chevening scholar, who has admirably shaped the president's public image and runs the Munhumutapa Building communications...Published: 31 Jul 2017 at 12:52hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF stealing from all celebration days
Yesterday the world celebrated Press Freedom day, in Zimbabwe ZANUPF stole the celebration as they do with Christmas, Independence, Workers day among other commemorations.A few days ago the wo...Published: 04 May 2017 at 13:42hrs | 1 | by Jacob Mafume
Mugabe to decide on Kasukuwere this week
THE committee tasked to probe allegations against Zanu-PF National Political Commissar Saviour Kasukuwere is compiling its report and expects to hand it over to the appointing authority, President Mug...Published: 01 May 2017 at 21:58hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Corruption will not fall until Mugabe the godfather of corruption has fallen
Former Hong Kong anti-corruption administrator Bertrand de Speville in his book Overcoming Corruption says, political will is the key driver in fighting corruption. I could not agree more with this st...Published: 06 Feb 2017 at 18:28hrs | | by Whitlaw Mugwiji
True Revolutionaries don't go on holiday
MLO Supreme Council urges Matabeles in their diversity to "remain awake through this great revolution." At this time of the holidays we cannot afford to abuse alcohol, drugs or party through the night...Published: 23 Dec 2016 at 11:19hrs | 1 | by Israel Dube
Zimbabwe government inciting violent struggle in Matabeleland
MLO Supreme Council condemns in all strongest terms the arrest of MRP leaders including their President Mqondisi Moyo in Lupane on 14 December 2016. We demand their immediate release.The conti...Published: 16 Dec 2016 at 07:04hrs | 1 | by Israel Dube
Cowardly Manheru weeps after seeing 'Mthwakazi Shadows' in Zanu-PF
Last year after Christmas holidays, vociferous Nathaniel Manheru aka George Charamba took to the column allocated to him by the state newspaper, The Herald, and insulted the people of Matabeleland and...Published: 14 Dec 2016 at 11:10hrs | | by Israel Dube
Jonathan Moyo scandal, employers engage Zacc over Zimdef scam
EMPLOYERS have resolved to engage both the Zimbabwe Anti -Corruption Commission (Zacc) and Higher Education minister Jonathan Moyo in seeking clarity on the allegations levelled against the minist...Published: 05 Nov 2016 at 17:56hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mliswa delivered a deathly blow to Mugabe's Zanu-PF
Zanu-PF is still reeling from the Norton by-election loss to independent candidate Temba Mliswa with a witch-hunt involving the ruling party's warring factions amid reports that bigwigs in the par...Published: 03 Nov 2016 at 12:28hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Italian spies sneak into Zimbabwe
FIVE Italians, known for operating in political hotbeds such as Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq and Libya recently sneaked into the country pretending to be eye specialists on a mission to provide eye sp...Published: 25 Sep 2016 at 09:37hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
They Don't Deserve To Be Called Dogs, They Are Worse Than Dogs
Leaders of the so called placard gate can be likened to a foolish man who soils the well that he also drinks from and later cries foul when the whole well smells of his sh***t.The same state n...Published: 22 Sep 2016 at 06:58hrs | 2 | by Israel Dube
Zimbabwe 'white farmer's arms cache' exaplained
The Mike Campbell Foundation has defended the white commercial farmer Geofrey Kelly McKinnon (66) after state media accused him of keeping firearms at his farm.According to the foundation, the...Published: 01 Sep 2016 at 20:55hrs | 3 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe govt sets up media Dragnet ZiPRESS
In a desperate bid to make an omnipresence clampdown on private media in the country, and independent website publications, President Robert Mugabe's administration, has reportedly set up what governm...Published: 29 Apr 2016 at 06:38hrs | 1 | by Spotlight Zimbabwe
State media publishes fictitious interview with MDC-T Secretary-General
Over the past two days the state-owned Herald newspaper has been running with a false story that Western governments had summoned the MDC-T to arrange funding for the ...Published: 29 Jul 2015 at 08:54hrs | | by Obert Gutu, MDC-T National Spokesperson
Be careful with state newspapers - Job Sikhala
The MDC-T senior official Job Sikhala have urged members of the public and commentators to be careful when talking to the state newspapers which he accused of manipulating issues to suit their ow...Published: 11 May 2015 at 08:54hrs | 2 | by Stephen Jakes
'I'm not a liar,' says Mphoko
Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko has denied persistent charges by his critics that he participated in the massacre of an estimated 20 000 innocent civilians in the early 1980s, mainly in Matabelelan...Published: 27 Jan 2015 at 09:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Everything Grace Mugabe touches turns to maggots
Surpassing all its audacity so far, the Zimbabwean Dictator Family, which is holidaying in Singapore, has instructed the Governor of Mashonaland West, Martin Dinha, to confirm that Grace Mugabe has gr...Published: 17 Jan 2015 at 22:33hrs | | by Makusha Mugabe
Mutasa move rattles Zanu-PF
Zanu-PF appears rattled by this week's unexpected move by a group of disaffected party members who are taking President Robert Mugabe head-on over his increasingly contested control of the former lib...Published: 15 Jan 2015 at 15:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe under fire for shunning Zimbabwe, Africa
President Robert Mugabe and his family have as usual gone to the Far East for his annual holiday amid growing criticism that he is a double-faced leader who loves to talk a tough pan-African language ...Published: 16 Dec 2014 at 12:51hrs | | by Staff Writer
Mujuru risks arrest, as Muchinguri and Madzongwe brace for presidium appointments
Vanquished Vice President, Joice Mujuru, is allegedly on the verge of being arrested for an array of serious charges, largely believed to be trumped-up, which include treason, espionage and corruptio...Published: 03 Dec 2014 at 08:47hrs | | by Itai Mushekwe/ Nancy Mabaya/ Mary-Kate Kahari
'Bloodbath in Zanu-PF'
At least 10 Cabinet ministers and more than 100 Zanu-PF legislators face the political wilderness as the mindless bloodletting in the divided party reaches alarming levels ahead of its crucial "electi...Published: 25 Nov 2014 at 12:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mujuru faces arrest
A Zanu-PF faction led by Emmerson Mnangagwa is allegedly pushing for the prosecution of their bitter rival, Joice Mujuru, ahead of next month's congress, The Zimbabwean newspaper has reported....Published: 06 Nov 2014 at 13:43hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
'Jonathan Moyo is the inventor of Zanu-PF confusion'
Jealousy Mawarire, the journalist who was mired in controversy ahead of last year's disputed elections, has fingered Information minister Jonathan Moyo as "the architect and inventor of confusion"...Published: 23 Oct 2014 at 13:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo, Kasukuwere sue Daily News for $40 million
Information Minister Jonathan Moyo, and his Environment counterpart, Saviour Kasukuwere, have issued similar summonses against the Daily News for $20 million each for reporting on the Harare media co...Published: 17 Oct 2014 at 12:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Miss Zimbabwe stepped down due to leaked indecent photos
Miss Zimbabwe Thabiso Phiri, who stepped down from the prestigious position last Friday, is said to have resigned after photographs she took of herself undressed went viral over the last three days....Published: 03 Aug 2014 at 07:09hrs | | by Staff Reporter
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