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'MDCs, Zanu-PF fuelling political tension
THE ruling Zanu-PF and opposition MDC parties have been accused of fanning violence through hate speech, thus entrenching fear in the electorate.This was revealed in a 2020 Hate Speech Report ...Published: 10 hrs ago | 924 | by Staff reporter
Marvelous Nakamba Is Becoming a Fan Favourite at Villa Park
Generally speaking, it takes a while for local fans in the English Premier League to be convinced of any new players that arrive at a club. That's not to say that there isn't a murmur of excitement wh...Published: 11 hrs ago | 512 | by Staff Writer
Zanu-PF hijacked Soul Jah Love's funeral
Zimbabwe's ruling party Zanu PF has been for time immemorial leading in hijacking funerals, especially of celebrities.The party was shamelessly at it again this time around when they declared ...Published: 23 hrs ago | 2064 | by Leonard Koni
'Independent body must confer hero status'
POLITICAL analysts have called on Zanu-PF to step aside and allow an independent body to confer hero status to deserving individuals to avoid contestations around the selection criteria and monopolisa...Published: 24 Feb 2021 at 05:51hrs | 1030 | by Staff reporter
Bid to bring Chelsea Legends to Zimbabwe
THE Zimbabwe Chapter of registered fans of English Premiership giants, Chelsea, have embarked on an audacious bid to bring the London club's legends to come and play in this country. The suppo...Published: 24 Feb 2021 at 05:45hrs | 780 | by Staff reporter
Stampede for ZANU PF cards at Kwekwe offices
Hundreds of Zanu PF members defied Covid 19 lockdown regulations by scrambling for party cards at Zanu PF Kwekwe district offices today....Published: 21 Feb 2021 at 21:17hrs | 1109 | by Simbarashe Sithole/Tarisai Mudahondo
Why the colonial UK sanctioned Zimbabwe security chiefs
UNITED Kingdom ambassador to Zimbabwe Melanie Robinson says the British government is not happy with President Emmerson Mnangagwa government's pace of reforms.Robinson (MR) told Alpha Media Ho...Published: 21 Feb 2021 at 07:13hrs | 540 | by Ken Mufuka
A White City bomb victim's cry for help
LIKE many Zanu-PF youths, 34-year-old Coreen Mazokera felt duty-bound to provide ushering services during the ill-fated ruling party campaign rally addressed by President Emmerson Mnangagwa in Bulaway...Published: 21 Feb 2021 at 07:02hrs | 873 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF primes for Harare comeback
ZANU-PF Harare Province has devised strategies to help wrestle back control of Harare City Council through securing council seats left vacant by opposition councillors who have left Town House....Published: 21 Feb 2021 at 06:57hrs | 183 | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi genocide initiative goes cold
TRADITIONAL leaders have lamented that the Covid-19 restrictions on public gatherings have prevented them from spearheading Gukurahundi exhumations and reburials, among other peace-building efforts ai...Published: 20 Feb 2021 at 19:07hrs | 732 | by Staff reporter
Pocock backs Sables World Cup 2023 bid
FORMER Australian rugby captain, David Pocock has donated a signed Wallabies shirt to Zimbabwe Rugby's fundraising initiatives for the country's senior national rugby team's bid to qualify for the 202...Published: 19 Feb 2021 at 07:09hrs | 131 | by Staff reporter
Litmus test for Zanu-PF
THE ruling Zanu-PF party is likely to face a litmus test in the looming Murewa South by-election if Noah Mangondo, who was an independent candidate in the 2018 general elections, decides to contest....Published: 18 Feb 2021 at 05:55hrs | 2480 | by Staff reporter
A 'Tsvangirai' needed in the opposition
ON SUNDAY, Zimbabwe marked the third anniversary since MDC founding president and former Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai died from colon cancer at a private hospital in South Africa.Tsvangira...Published: 17 Feb 2021 at 15:05hrs | 865 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa to be barred from using MDC Alliance name?
MDC says it has started a process to stop the Nelson Chamisa-led camp from using the MDC Alliance name.This comes amid serious divisions in the MDC emanating from the nasty battle to succeed t...Published: 16 Feb 2021 at 17:58hrs | 7206 | by Staff reporter
MDC-T attacks Chamisa, temperamental Biti
THE Douglas Mwonzora-led MDC-T's virtual memorial for Tsvangirai yesterday turned into a verbal attack on MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa.MDC-T chairman Morgen Komichi alleged that all the ...Published: 16 Feb 2021 at 07:34hrs | 4683 | by Staff reporter
'Chamisa's MDC affected by greed, selfishness'
MDC Alliance secretary for rural strategies Happymore Chidziva yesterday said the opposition camp was severely affected by greediness, selfish and egos of some of its top leaders, hence the sharp divi...Published: 16 Feb 2021 at 07:32hrs | 2687 | by Staff reporter
'Avoid partisan distribution of COVID-19 vaccine'
A PRESSURE group, the Citizens COVID-19 Monitoring Mechanism, has warned the government against partisan distribution of the vaccine for the coronavirus, whose vaccination programme will start this we...Published: 16 Feb 2021 at 07:31hrs | 450 | by Staff reporter
Social media and the spread of fake news in Zimbabwe
IT is not often uncommon that a new phenomenon dramatically rises up with so much clout and influence that it breaks and reshapes established African norms and beliefs.Africans are traditionally a...Published: 15 Feb 2021 at 18:12hrs | 237 | by Staff reporter
Trump's 'Make America Great Again' movement has only just begun
Former US president Donald Trump has been found not guilty in his impeachment trial.In a statement after the trial, Mr Trump said it was "a sad commentary on our times" that the Democrats had ...Published: 14 Feb 2021 at 13:17hrs | 2714 | by Staff reporter
Fred Shava's criminal past clouds future
NEWLY-appointed Zimbabwean Foreign Affairs and International Trade minister Frederick Shava, who has an unsavoury dark and criminal past, has his work cut out for him.Shava replaced retired Lieute...Published: 13 Feb 2021 at 14:53hrs | 680 | by Staff reporter
The weaponisation of Covid-19 in Zanu-PF factional wars
A new deadly political threatTHERE is a new and dangerous security threat in Zimbabwe's politically dysfunctional post-November 2017 military state, under an increasingly factionalised Zanu-PF...Published: 13 Feb 2021 at 14:50hrs | 326 | by Jonathan Moyo
Chamisa's supporters stage protest at ZEC offices demanding by-elections
Suspected MDC Alliance youths staged a flash protest outside the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) premises on Friday demanding the holding of by-elections.A few dozen opposition activists p...Published: 13 Feb 2021 at 07:35hrs | 1349 | by Staff reporter
Trump's madness a reflection of American hypocrisy
Today people on Central African Time (CAT), like this writer, woke up to news that the madman from New York, Donald John Trump, will actually have to defend himself in an impeachment trial that seeks ...Published: 10 Feb 2021 at 12:16hrs | 686 | by Charles Motsi
Zanu-PF takes a dig at Chamisa's MPs
ZANU-PF chief whip Pupurai Togarepi, has accused opposition MPs of sleeping on the job as they only raise issues to do with electoral reforms when elections are just around the corner or over....Published: 09 Feb 2021 at 14:53hrs | 2448 | by Staff reporter
MDC-A must act on food security
Zimbabwe has been talking about Minister Sekai Nzenza's crude oil remarks. MDCA National Spokesperson joined the discussion and dragged mealie meal into the conversation on twitter.Fadzayi Mah...Published: 09 Feb 2021 at 12:35hrs | 740 | by Nicholas Ncube
Nyikayaramba death leaves Chiwenga 'isolated'?
Major General (Rtd) Douglas Nyikayaramba, one of the generals who led a military coup that ousted former President Robert Mugabe in 2017 has died.He was 64.Nyikayaramba, who was in 201...Published: 09 Feb 2021 at 11:34hrs | 8097 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC mum on UK based supporter's terrorism charges
MDC Alliance activist based in the United Kingdom, Martin William Chinyanga, will next year be tried by a British court on four charges of terrorism.Chinyanga was arrested by the British polic...Published: 09 Feb 2021 at 06:56hrs | 2314 | by Staff reporter
Land for votes haunts Zanu-PF
FORMER Labour and Social Welfare minister and ex-Zanu-PF Member of Parliament for Goromonzi, Petronella Kagonye (pictured) was yesterday arrested over alleged illegal land dealings.Kagonye ser...Published: 07 Feb 2021 at 19:56hrs | 2107 | by Staff reporter
No more grandstanding for Chamisa, Mwonzora and Mnangagwa
THIS time the politicians have been honest about our crises. Their recent speeches emphasised substituting discord for dialogue as a way of tackling our country's unstable political and economic envir...Published: 07 Feb 2021 at 18:30hrs | 3856 | by Black Edward
Mnangagwa moving to tighten his dead man's grip on power
AFTER his initial daring purges of military commanders who propelled him to power through a military coup in November 2017, President Emmerson Mnangagwa is now capitalising on political contingency an...Published: 06 Feb 2021 at 16:26hrs | 2560 | by Staff reporter
Colonialist UK pushes to further isolate the Mnangagwa government
THE United Kingdom's unexpected move this week to impose sanctions on four Zimbabwean security chiefs for human rights violations - following a series of critical pronouncements in recent months - sig...Published: 06 Feb 2021 at 16:22hrs | 576 | by Staff reporter
Musanhi speaks on 'defying lockdown' video
Under fire ZANU PF politburo member and Bindura North legislator Kenneth Musanhi has spoken on defying Covid-19 regulations after his video went viral on social media.Through an email, Musanhi...Published: 05 Feb 2021 at 14:36hrs | 1149 | by Staff Reporter
Police predict violent 2023 poll
THE Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) is anticipating increased political tensions and contestations ahead of the 2023 harmonised election following the continued political instability in the country sin...Published: 05 Feb 2021 at 06:46hrs | 1116 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa birthday message caller catches Power FM DJ off-guard
State media in Zimbabwe is a notorious gatekeeper for the ruling Zanu-PF party.President Emmerson Mnangagwa's main rival Nelson Chamisa - the leader of the MDC Alliance - is rarely mentioned b...Published: 03 Feb 2021 at 18:51hrs | 2995 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF's oppressive politics has cowed the populace
IT is time to put in place a new and different way of doing politics in Zimbabwe because Zanu-PF has failed and brought us to the brink of ruin. Zanu PE's oppressive, exploitative and manipula...Published: 03 Feb 2021 at 06:23hrs | 374 | by Tapson Muchena
Zanu-PF must not politic amid disaster
WHILE touring houses affected by flash floods in Chitungwiza last week, Local Government minister July Moyo said government was in the process of scouting for alternative land to resettle people who b...Published: 02 Feb 2021 at 06:32hrs | 921 | by Mutiusinazita
'Zanu PF is trapped and demanding negotiations at gun point' - how naive, it's povo that's trapped and dying like flies
There are some very confused people out there who are calling for political dialogue as the way forward but have no idea who should be demanding change much less what that change should be. All the ar...Published: 02 Feb 2021 at 00:21hrs | 2827 | by Nomusa Garikai
Can South Africa come to Zimbabwe's rescue by ending 'quiet diplomacy'?
Zimbabwe's worsening economic and political crises seem to be never-ending and still getting worse. The misplaced expectations that the "new dispensation" would provide an escape route following the 2...Published: 01 Feb 2021 at 19:03hrs | 433 | by Ian Scoones
Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF warms to Zimbabwe talks
AS THE country's politics continues to mature, a powerful Zanu-PF bigwig says he is open to the ruling party meeting leading opposition figures outside the Political Actors Dialogue (Polad), if that w...Published: 31 Jan 2021 at 18:52hrs | 6736 | by Staff reporter
Lawyers distance themselves from Bosso board decision
HIGHLANDERS Football Club lawyers, Ncube and Partners Legal Practitioners have distanced themselves from the decision by the club's board to allow three members of the executive committee to continue ...Published: 31 Jan 2021 at 06:56hrs | 400 | by Vusumuzi Dube
Social media driving us to doomsday
Bishop Lazi is convinced that nostalgia is a timeless disease.It is normally associated with selective amnesia and the romanticisation of cherished memories.This is why it is unsurpris...Published: 31 Jan 2021 at 06:51hrs | 113 | by Bishop Lazarue
'2023 elections must be transparent, free, fair and credible or will be declared null and void!' ZSD draw battle lines nice and
Zimbabwe Social Democrats Press release 29 January 2021 We in the Zimbabwe Social Democrats demand the implementation of democratic reforms necessary for transparent, free, fair and credible e...Published: 30 Jan 2021 at 20:40hrs | 955 | by Zimbabwe Social Democrats
Let us desists from peddling falsehoods
Zimbabweans need to be warned over propagating malicious falsehoods. Members of the opposition party MDC Alliance have perfected this diabolical propaganda technique in pursuit of their "Kudira Jecha"...Published: 30 Jan 2021 at 20:35hrs | 616 | by Grace Chekai
Chamisa continues to reach out to Mnangagwa
THE ruling Zanu-PF and opposition parties continue to reach out to each other, raising further hope that the necessary and much-talked about formal national dialogue involving all key stakeholders wil...Published: 29 Jan 2021 at 19:44hrs | 3163 | by Staff reporter
Opposition still alive in Zimbabwe
The man made frictions within the opposition circles are too far from killing the opposition in Zimbabwe.The ructions have been badly misinterpreted to mean demise of the opposition in the Southern Af...Published: 29 Jan 2021 at 08:38hrs | 2650 | by Kurauone Chihwayi
VIPs bromance gathering steam
Zimbabwe political parties continue to reach out to each other. This comes after MDC - Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa called for national unity in fighting against coronavirus. In his Facebook...Published: 29 Jan 2021 at 07:24hrs | 3879 | by Staff reporter
A new, ugly breed of politicians
Recently, I was appalled to wake up to the realisation that our social media streets have reared a new and ugly breed of politicians that lack tolerance and patriotism. The country is headed f...Published: 29 Jan 2021 at 06:44hrs | 802 | by Prosperity Mzila
Chamisa's MDC set to investigate Mutare mayoral polls
THE MDC Alliance party is investigating the outcome of the Mutare City Council elections that saw councillor Farai Bhiza aligned to the MDC-T led by Douglas Mwonzora winning the deputy mayoral post....Published: 27 Jan 2021 at 06:09hrs | 2155 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF supporters disrupt Mutare council meeting
ZANU-PF supporters reportedly disrupted a Pungwe Breweries meeting in Mutare last week in what is believed to be politically-motivated move.It is alleged that Zanu-PF activists, who included O...Published: 26 Jan 2021 at 07:12hrs | 936 | by Staff reporter
Tendai Biti's letter to World Bank on Zimbabwe COVID-19 aid
In May 2020, the World Bank dipped into a special health fund to provide US$7 million to Zimbabwe to help the country fight the spread of coronavirus.The US$7...Published: 24 Jan 2021 at 09:09hrs | 4091 | by Staff reporter
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