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Zimbabwe to pursue 'fugitive' US diplomat
Presidential spokesperson George Charamba has vowed the country will use all available diplomatic channels to pursue a United States embassy official who fled the country last month after he ran over ...Published: 30 Jul 2024 at 17:16hrs | 981 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe won't tolerate meddling in internal affairs'
Minister of Information, Publicity, and Broadcasting Services of Zimbabwe, Dr. Jenfan Muswere, emphasized the nation's commitment to sovereignty in governance and electoral processes, rejecting extern...Published: 21 Jul 2024 at 10:15hrs | 233 | by Staff reporter
Zapu criticises Mnangagwa's plea for protection from Putin
Opposition Zapu leader Sibangilizwe Nkomo criticized President Emmerson Mnangagwa for seeking protection from Russian President Vladimir Putin during a recent visit to St Petersburg, as shown in a wid...Published: 19 Jun 2024 at 07:39hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa escalates Zimbabwe, Zambia tiff
Zimbabwe has intensified its diplomatic rift with Zambia, with President Emmerson Mnangagwa's spokesperson, George Charamba, accusing Zambian authorities of collaborating with the United States govern...Published: 11 Jun 2024 at 05:58hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Transcript of 'Russia-Zimbabwe talks' between Putin and Mnangagwa
The penchant for frivolous bluster in Zimbabwe's public discourse has once again reared its ugly trappings after the widespread circulation on social media platforms of a 2.42-minutes video clip poste...Published: 10 Jun 2024 at 08:37hrs | 18 | by Jonathan Moyo
Zimbabwe is in hands of callous ruling elite
GOOD day, President Emmerson Mnangagwa.Your Excellency, methinks Zimbabwe is in the hands of a callous ruling elite. It is my conviction that the country is not governed according to rule of t...Published: 21 Feb 2024 at 07:16hrs | 8 | by Cyprian Muketiwa Ndawana
Mnangagwa has nowhere to play 'stolen village drum'
GOOD day, President Emmerson Mnangagwa. Your Excellency, an African proverb that says it is easier to steal the village drum than to find where to play it, came to mind as the presidential election re...Published: 30 Aug 2023 at 06:46hrs | | by Cyprian Muketiwa Ndawana
Uebert Angel finally returns to Britain
PRESIDENTIAL Envoy and Ambassador-at-Large Uebert Angel - who fears being thrown under the bus should he return to Zimbabwe, because of the starring role he played in Al Jazeera's investigative Gold M...Published: 15 May 2023 at 19:29hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Uebert Angel holed up in Dubai
PRESIDENTIAL Envoy and Ambassador-at-Large Uebert Angel is currently holed up in Dubai alongside several prominent members of rival gangs exposed in Al Jazeera's Gold Mafia investigative documentary a...Published: 23 Apr 2023 at 17:44hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's Ambassador-at-large on a property-buying spree
PRESIDENTIAL Envoy and Ambassador-at-Large Uebert Angel, who is holed up in Dubai after being exposed as a player in gold smuggling and money laundering activities, has been on a property-buying spree...Published: 23 Apr 2023 at 17:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Is Zimbabwe a nation of liars and thieves?
When I was attentively watching the last episode of the Al Jazeera 'Gold Mafia' exposé yesterday - there were expectedly some more troubling revelations made pertaining to the acts of corruption root...Published: 16 Apr 2023 at 18:45hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe chefs attempt to sneak to UN
SENIOR government officials reportedly secretly contacted the United Nations (UN) secretariat seeking to attend the UN General Assembly and other routine meetings, a leaked memo from Agriculture perma...Published: 13 Sep 2022 at 06:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere: To be or not to be!
Widening Russian War Aims What a week we have had! War works largely on laws of the unforeseen and the unintended. The Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, has ominously hinted at ...Published: 23 Jul 2022 at 07:27hrs | | by Jamwanda
PROPHECY: Zimbabwe to have diplomatic conflict with neighbouring country
Zimbabwe might soon have a diplomatic conflict with one of its sister countries in the region, Pastor Ian Ndlovu has prophesied. In a video that has gone viral on the internet, Pastor Ndlovu s...Published: 02 May 2022 at 11:11hrs | 3 | by Mandla Ndlovu
ZANU PF regime's uncivilized and undiplomatic savage diatribes main impediment to international re-engagement
In any relationship and encounter on this planet, there are bound to be some disagreements and misunderstandings.Even in the animal kingdom, there is always conflict to be expected - whether i...Published: 26 Nov 2021 at 09:41hrs | 8 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Bill set to scuttle MDC Alliance election plans
THE recently gazetted Private Voluntary Organisation Amendment Bill has sent the Western-funded MDC-Alliance into panic mode and is set to scuttle the United States' plans to bankroll the opposition a...Published: 10 Nov 2021 at 05:32hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa rubbishes UN envoy report
THE Nelson Chamisa-led MDC Alliance has rubbished United Nations special rapporteur Alena Douhan's report on the outcome of her findings on the impact of Western sanctions on Zimbabwe, describing it a...Published: 30 Oct 2021 at 15:03hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Charamba sparks a diplomatic tiff labels Hichilema a 'sellout'
PRESIDENTIAL spokesperson George Charamba yesterday sparked a diplomatic tiff with the new government of Zambia after calling President Hakainde Hichilema, who was inaugurated yesterday, a "sellout" o...Published: 25 Aug 2021 at 06:51hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa says 'we're in a crisis', 'MDC stuck with unregistered COVID-19 vaccines'
OPPOSITION MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa says information on the ground, particularly in rural areas, was pointing to a dire situation in the country, hence the need for government to stop politi...Published: 21 Jul 2021 at 08:15hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance stuck with unregistered COVID-19 vaccines from US embassy
Deputy chief secretary George Charamba, Presidential spokesperson has claimed that the opposition MDC Alliance received half a million COVID-19 vaccines f...Published: 20 Jul 2021 at 18:39hrs | | by Shelton Muchena
Chamisa's MDC stuck with over half a million 'unregistered COVID19 vaccines'?
GOVERNMENT yesterday sensationally claimed that the opposition MDC Alliance was stuck with over half a million "unregistered COVID19 vaccines" which it allegedly received from the United States embass...Published: 20 Jul 2021 at 08:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe summons 'meddlesome' UK envoy
BRITISH ambassador to Zimbabwe Melanie Robinson (pictured) was last week reportedly summoned and reprimanded by Foreign Affairs minister Fredrick Shava on allegations of deviating from her diplomatic ...Published: 19 May 2021 at 06:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF slates US envoy
United States of America's envoy to Zimbabwe Ambassador Brian Nichols' failure to denounce the violent insurrection that happened at Capitol Hill in Washington DC on January 6 - killing five people an...Published: 17 Jan 2021 at 09:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere, Mzembi tell Chinamasa to 'stop throwing sewage at us'
FORMER Zanu-PF top officials have accused the ruling party's acting national spokesperson Patrick Chinamasa of using undiplomatic language to fight his opponents.Chinamasa is holding weekly pr...Published: 22 Sep 2020 at 06:39hrs | | by newzimbabwe
Zanu-PF tells ANC to 'rein in your talkative officials'
ZANU-PF has told South Africa's governing African National Congress (ANC) to restrain some of its officials from communicating inaccurate information on what the sister parties had agreed during their...Published: 19 Sep 2020 at 06:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
'ANC should not abuse its fraternal relations with Zanu-PF'
THE South African ruling party, the ANC, should not abuse its fraternal relations with Zanu-PF to poke its nose in the country's internal affairs, but should focus on multiple problems affecting that ...Published: 16 Sep 2020 at 06:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
The West's hypocrisy exposed as pregnant journalist gets arrested for incitement in Australia
The world was shocked as an Australian woman was arrested in her pyjamas and very pregnant on camera in front of her two minor children and her partner. Australian police in Ballarat Victoria arrested...Published: 07 Sep 2020 at 19:52hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Zimbabwe threatens to expel US envoy
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's spokesperson says United States ambassador to Zimbabwe Brian Nichols has created a basis to "expel himself" after the envoy urged the region to be more proactive in hand...Published: 06 Sep 2020 at 09:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa and the cult of mediocrity in Zimbabwe politics
ZIMBABWE has finally arrived at its Idi Amin moment in history.This is a moment where the vulgar, obscene and grotesque performances of leaders get tragically normalised. It is a true "gods mu...Published: 28 Aug 2020 at 07:23hrs | 1 | by Dinizulu Macaphulana
US ambassador dodges Mnangagwa govt
United States Ambassador to Zimbabwe Brian Nichols flew to Washington this week amid reports that he evaded reprimand by Zimbabwean authorities over his role in MDC-Alliance's illegal demonstrations l...Published: 23 Aug 2019 at 07:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
A partisan military: The most potent weapon against democracy
That Zimbabwe has become the proverbial cursed nation, which simply can't unshackle itself from an economic abyss and political crisis that has rankled for decades, is beyond doubt.The highly-...Published: 06 Feb 2019 at 08:32hrs | | by Learnmore Zuze
UK in Zimbabwe: From tragedy to farce
A poetic cliché by Karl Marx which claims that in the life of nations "history repeats itself, first as a tragedy, second as a farce" does not only keep gaining new meanings for all countries but at ...Published: 28 May 2018 at 16:05hrs | | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
MDC Alliance holds Zimbabweans at ransom
In any democracy, every political party or any individual has the right to make checks and balances in as far as the implementation and non-implementation of reforms are concerned. Likewise, t...Published: 21 May 2018 at 09:23hrs | | by Bruce Zvandasara
US seeking a 'soft-landing' in Zimbabwe?
Many independent observers were shocked when the United States recently renewed economic sanctions on Zimbabwe at a time when it appeared Harare and Washington were warming up to each other following ...Published: 16 Apr 2018 at 07:16hrs | 1 | by Ranga Mataire
Chinese rubbishes Mnangagwa's forex list
Chinese businesspeople have described the government's list of businesses that allegedly externalised foreign currency as flawed after many of them were named.On Monday, President Emmerson Mna...Published: 25 Mar 2018 at 09:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
President, VP, must 'Live and Leave' together
Mbeki-Zuma, Zuma-Motlanthe, Zuma-Ramaphosa, Mugabe-Mujuru, Mugabe-Mnangagwa, Chiluba-Mwanawasa. History is littered with episodes of back-biting, catfights and political Russian-roulettes between the ...Published: 07 Feb 2018 at 08:42hrs | | by Robert Sigauke - Political Analyst, Johannesburg
Was the army intervention party politics or national interest?
In the 1960s AFRICA Tested independence and many states gained freedom. This was followed by military coups to change the demi gods created by the military and bootlickers. The 2000s saw a comparative...Published: 27 Dec 2017 at 14:29hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Political vultures circling over Mugabe's throne
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe now firmly agrees that there are vultures circling over his throne.President-Robert-Mugabe-gives-a-speech-upon-arrival-at-the-Harare-International-Airport-from-United-N...Published: 04 Oct 2017 at 06:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
President Trump a threat to world peace
US President Donald Trump's inaugural address of the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday shocked many political players the world over due to the American government's intransigence and threat ...Published: 21 Sep 2017 at 06:19hrs | | by Tererai Danga
Contradictions between Mugabe, Grace?
When the First Lady Grace Mugabe was dealing mercilessly with former vice president Joice Mujuru in 2014, many thought the powerful Zanu-PF women's league secretary did not have the blessing of her hu...Published: 18 Sep 2017 at 06:57hrs | | by Blessings Mashaya
MDC-T condemns Grace Mugabe's disgraceful conduct
The MDC has learnt with utter shock and disbelief the news to that Grace Mugabe, Zimbabwe's First Lady,violently attacked and severely assualted a young South African woman, Gabriella Engels,last Sund...Published: 15 Aug 2017 at 13:32hrs | | by Obert Chaurura Gutu - MDC-T National Spokesperson
Western envoys fail to denounce MDC-T violence
European Union ambassador to Zimbabwe Mr Philippe van Damme and the UK envoy to Harare Ms Catriona Laing could not openly denounce the MDC-T violence that saw one of its vice presidents Ms Thokozani K...Published: 08 Aug 2017 at 08:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mliswa must Go! - Norton residents in demo
A united front consisting of apolitical Norton residents demonstrated at the end of last week in a direct tete a tete protest against Hon Peter Temba Mliswa and went on to surrender petitioning one to...Published: 22 Jul 2017 at 19:31hrs | | by Agencies
'Mugabe creating family dynasty'
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe has been accused of clandestinely setting up a Mugabe dynasty following the appointment of his daughter, Bona Mugabe-Chikore, to the Censorship Board, with opposition activists...Published: 25 May 2017 at 07:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Mugabe loose mouth killed Zimbabwe'
Joice Mujuru yesterday said the Zanu-PF government was now bankrupt of ideas to turn around the country, which she said has been isolated from the rest of the world by President Robert Mugabe's undipl...Published: 21 May 2017 at 16:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mbalula's big mouth is devil's postbag
The issue of criminality in South Africa is historical just as the issue of poverty. Black South Africans are poor in a country of plenty and that is the source of criminality not the Zimbabwean army....Published: 30 Apr 2017 at 14:08hrs | | by Bishop Lazarus
Shame on you Harry Thomson
US Ambassador to Zimbabwe Mr Harry Thomson (Jnr ) made headlines for the wrong reason when he openly supported the rogue pastor Evan Mawarire who is charged for trying to remove a constitutionally ele...Published: 08 Feb 2017 at 12:02hrs | | by Herbert Marufu
Hillary Clinton Presidential bid Swot analysis
The race for the White house has intensified as Democratic Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton faced the Republican Presidential candidate in a debate. The debate has been received with a mixed bag...Published: 24 Oct 2016 at 11:26hrs | 87 | by Wilton Nyasha Machimbira
Mugabe accuse US newspaper of attempting to 'contrive conflict' between Zimbabwe and Kenya
PRESIDENT Mugabe's Office has accused a top American newspaper of attempting to "contrive conflict" between Zimbabwe and Kenya by publishing made-up quotes in which the Zimbabwean leader is shown sayi...Published: 07 Nov 2015 at 07:01hrs | | by Mduduzi Mathuthu
Sikhanyiso Ndlovu: The loyalist who was poorly rewarded
Zimbabweans and the rest of the world on Tuesday woke up to the sad news of the passing on of Sikhanyiso Ndlovu, who was 78. He had been admitted in the Mater Dei hospital intensive care unit in Bulaw...Published: 16 Sep 2015 at 13:59hrs | | by Tawanda Majoni
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